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By Sheilaa Hite
THE UNUSUAL AND INTENSE activities of the New Moons, Full Moons and Lunar and Solar eclipses during the last four weeks have created quite an upheaval in all of our lives. The endings and beginnings that they’ve ushered in have left us standing on new ground and surveying it all from a different set of perspectives. During this fertile Summer season, if you plant the seeds of your dreams, you’ll reap a bountiful harvest this Fall. [click to continue…]
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SISTER SHEILAA SAYS that Marion and her Aires kin are to take some time out this month and “visit a zoo, botanical garden or butterfly reserve.” Now Marion couldn’t be more pleased with this prediction, since guess who will be speaking at such a venue this February? Find out the details.
THIS YEAR ENDS WITH Mercury, the planet of communication, going forward with renewed clarity, vision and strength. It takes us with it as it enters 2011 filled with possibilities and opportunities. In order to make the most of this new year “boost,” make sure you use the period preceding it, the last Mercury Retrograde of the year—December 10 to December 30—to actively and objectively sort through and clear the effects your experiences have had on you during 2010. The clean slate you create as a result of this will be of immeasurable help to you as you move through a very dramatic and dynamic new year. The forecasts by sign follow: [click to continue…]
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IT’S OFFICIAL: ACCORDING TO RETAILERS, Halloween now marks the beginning of the annual end-of-year holiday season. And we all know how emotionally intense we can get during this time of year. From now until the first week in January, we’ll participate in all kinds of ceremonial occasions loaded with memories and expectations. Regardless of whether these occasions cheer us on or bring us down, we need to remember that everyone is going to regress, so it’s best if we keep things in perspective. Host a gathering for other adult survivors of the holiday season and watch the 1995 film, “Home For the Holidays”– you’ll all have a good laugh as you recognize yourselves and your families on the screen. And consider the latest forecasts for your sign and those of your loved ones: [click to continue…]
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MERCURY, THE PLANET THAT RULES PLANS, ideas, communications and roadways is retrograde until September 12. Whenever Mercury is retrograde, we all get a chance for “do overs,” whether we want them or not. Delays, cancellations and misconceptions run rampant during this time. Buying big, expensive or motorized items, such as houses, cars, computers or tools, is not a good idea. Try to avoid having medical procedures and signing contracts, too. It isn’t all bad news, though. Rethinking, researching and re-evaluating on both the inner and outer levels are a great way to use this time. Then, when Mercury does go direct, you can move forward with confidence. The individual forecasts for this time: [click to continue…]
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By Sheilaa Hite
REMEMBER THOSE WONDERFUL summers when you were a child and life was full of possibilities? Then you grew up, became an adult and forgot how magical life and you could be. August is Leo time. Leo rules creative expression, the heart, fun and children. The advice in this month’s column will guide you back to your magical self by encouraging you to take a break from monitoring life’s troubles. Get “eye to eye” with your inner child and rediscover how unique, wise, insightful and innocent you once were (and still are). This is a month of joyful opportunities. Dive in–they’re yours for the taking! The forecasts, sign by sign: [click to continue…]
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By Sheilaa Hite
ON JUNE 26, along with the full moon in Capricorn, there was also a full Lunar eclipse. All full moons and all eclipses–both Solar and Lunar–are intense. Lunar eclipses are all about letting go and their range of influence is about six months. They foretell of a very focused celestial mandate to help you let go of or release what is no longer necessary in your life. What usually gets released is old emotional baggage you may or may not have been aware that you were carrying around. Compounding the intensity of this Lunar eclipse, the full moon in Capricorn was also in the same sign and degree as the planet of intensity, release and letting go–Pluto. Phrases like “free fall” “go with the flow” and “just let go” are the best mantras–guides for this profound, transformational point in time. The individual forecasts follow: [click to continue…]
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By Sheilaa Hite
TO PARAPHRASE Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage and we are but players on it.” In so many ways, life today seems like a play within a play. Even though we’ve played the same part for years, the Universe’s playwright is giving our characters different motivations as it hands us new directions and dialogue every day. This won’t go on forever, but it is going on now, so we’ll need to resist the temptation to balk at the changes and surrender to the vision of Divine Guidance. As we do so, we’ll come to understand our place in the vision and the value of the benefits we derive from it. This month’s forecasts, sign by sign: [click to continue…]
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BETWEEN THE NEW MOON on the 15th (the “Ides of March”), the Vernal Equinox (Spring) on the 20th, and the Full Moon on the 30th, this is one intense beginning of Nature’s 2010 New Year cycle. We’re being given the opportunity to practice trust and exercise faith as the Sun moves into the sign of exploration and discovery–Aries. From this point onward life will present itself as “spontaneously creative,” meaning: “Hang onto your hats–it’s going to be some ride!” [click to continue…]
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By Sheilaa Hite
OCTOBER IS THE FIRST MONTH of the last quarter of the year. The last quarter is a time of harvest and summation. What have you sown and grown this year? What is your “crop’s” value to you and your life’s journey? From your honest, insightful answers to these questions, you can begin choosing what you want your efforts to reflect back to you for next year’s “crop” and what it will take to bring your preferences to fruition. Once that’s done–relax and enjoy the coming season of festivities. [click to continue…]
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By Sheilaa Hite
THEY ARE WORDS TO LIVE BY: This month’s horoscopes each comes in the form of a quote—wise words to accompany and help guide you through this magical year and this magical time of year. [click to continue…]
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TSP astrologer Sheilaa Hite has a great sister story of her own. In case you missed it…By Sheilaa Hite
IHAVE ALWAYS KNOWN that sisters are special, but I’ve only experienced from the outside looking in. You see, I’m the only girl in my family–I have two brothers, and I’m the middle child. My mother tells me that, as a small child, I was relentless in begging her for a baby sister. So relentless, in fact, that she had to consult an astrologer for advice on how to shut me up. [click to continue…]
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IN THE GALLERIES: Wild duet at Mason-Dixon Knitting.
First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
As the suffix of its name suggests, TSP's Sisterpedia
is the reference section, one we’re hoping you’ll help us grow to maturity by adding your knowledge in the comments. Turn us on to new facts and figures, whether for the branch of our ‘library’ called Sistory (history from a sister point of view, from the Muses of ancient Greece to 60s Girl Groups and beyond) or the one called Sibling Science (what makes sisters tick, genetically and behaviorally). Or just click around and have a good read. See you there. 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men.
TSP’s Galleries were created to show off that outpouring of art and craft, poetry and prose. Come see a show or two—no ticket required, no lines to get in—and suggest others whose work we ought to showcase.
