Last weekend, Rick and Jeff — Tarot.com’s esteemed astrologer team (and two of the best in the world) — held their annual winter retreat at Breitenbush Hot Springs in the old growth forest of the Cascades mountain range of Oregon, a spectacularly beautiful place with exceptional features.
First of all, there is the largest surface geothermal [...]

Last weekend, I took myself to the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California — probably the most beautiful hot springs spa in the world. While I was there, I sat in on a workshop on Finding True Love by Daphne Rose Kingma, author of the book of the same name. (Rather than going out [...]

The tragedy of the commons refers to a situation in which individuals (or corporations) — representing only their own self-interest — will ultimately deplete or despoil a shared limited resource (”the commons”) even when it is clear that it is not in anyone’s long-term interest for this to happen.
The traditional example is of herders sharing [...]

One of my resolutions is to cast the I Ching oracle once a week, to ask the universe for insight on a wide question or concern and share the results.
I am using the free I Ching reading feature on tarot.com — http://www.tarot.com/oracle. I decided to ask the Oracle about our dismal economy, so I type into [...]

One of several profound lessons I gleaned from Gay Hendrick’s incredible book, Conscious Living, was  how intelligent it is to focus only on things you can change. As for the things you cannot change, we can learn to accept them and learn from them without letting them throw us off track.
How much time and energy do [...]

What a great discussion in the last blog of how we humans can create victimness for ourselves … and thank you to all who made such insightful comments!
Not all victimness is self-made, and even though I focused on “victim consciousness,” I did not state that there are no true victims. Obviously, children can be abused [...]

It’s easy to feel like a victim, especially these days, when the economy is bad and the world seems to have so many big problems. We can always come up with lots of ‘reasons’ to justify feeling like a victim. And, of course, for some people the reasons are legitimate — things they are born [...]

This morning my friends Liz and Mario, who live here on this beautiful isle of Maui, took me to a secret bay where it is possible to swim out to a tribe (is that a ‘pod’?) of spinner dolphins. It’s early mornings when they happen to be there … but on only one of every [...]

Ever been advised to “trust your feelings”? After all, isn’t this the way people make all kinds of decisions — including important ones like who to marry, when to quit your job, etc.? Ah, yes … we’ll jump right in if the feeling is right!
Everyone likes to think that their feelings are trustworthy, but is [...]

We now live with humongous online social networks, but human beings have always had them — in fact, it is one of the very things that defines being “human.” Or so says a book I just finished, which is a must read for understanding the power that social networks have, and actually have had since [...]