by margaret on September 1, 2010
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…]
by margaret on August 1, 2010
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…]
by margaret on July 1, 2010
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…]
by margaret on June 1, 2010
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…]
by margaret on May 1, 2010
By Sheilaa Hite
THE “MAY FLOWERS” THAT we’ve been waiting for are sprouting. All four of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn) are in competitive relationship to one another. (The Cardinal signs are the initiators, the leaders of the zodiac.) This means that when something major happens with one of the Cardinal signs, something major will happen with ALL of the Cardinal signs. More on that, and the individual May forecasts: [click to continue…]
by margaret on April 1, 2010
By Sheilaa Hite
APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS is an old, down-to-earth aphorism and it’s very apropos for us at this time. We’re on the cusp of something new and exciting. We’re not quite sure what it is yet, but we can feel it coming. Trying to figure out what it is a futile exercise. Our instructions are simple: “Stop looking for the answer, just live in the question.” This month will be best used to check in with ourselves and make sure we’re on the right path to the manifestation of our May flowers. The sign-by-sign readings follow: [click to continue…]
by margaret on March 1, 2010
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…]
by margaret on February 1, 2010
By Sheilaa Hite
THIS ‘3’ YEAR, NUMEROLOGICALLY SPEAKING, is also the Chinese Year of the Tiger, which begins on February 14, Valentine’s Day. Even though it’s a fast-paced year, we’ll all need to plan well and think things through before we act. Being centered and grounded will really help us deal with the drama, intensity and change that come in a Tiger year. We’ll experience rapid and far-reaching transformation in every aspect of our lives during this time of great opportunity. Our key phrase this year is “carpe diem!” Now for the individual forecasts: [click to continue…]
by margaret on January 1, 2010
By Sheilaa Hite
THE FIRST DECADE OF THE 21st Century is at an end, and a dynamic new year and decade have begun. This year brings us dynamic new opportunities to make our hopes, wishes and dreams come true. It is about coming into our own; about attracting and receiving our riches as well as living from our strengths and not our weaknesses. The signature energy for this year is expressed by the dominant planetary aspects of a full moon and a lunar eclipse at the very start of it. Each of these aspects alone foretells a time of deep intensity and high drama. Together, they’ll insist that we get to the core of our own truths and live our lives out loud. [click to continue…]
by margaret on December 31, 2009
By Sheilaa Hite
THESE ARE EXCITING TIMES, both numerologically and astrologically. On January 1, 2010, we’ll be entering a brand new year and a brand new decade. What does this landmark year hold for us? Everything in the Universe has its own unique energy. For the year 2010, that energy is expressed numerologically through the number “3”—which is determined by adding together all of the numbers of 2010—because 2 plus 1 equals 3. This single digit tells us what this year and we are all about, as well as how to get the most out of it. [click to continue…]
by margaret on December 1, 2009
By Sheilaa Hite
IT’S DECEMBER, AND IT HAS BEEN QUITE A YEAR, HASN’T IT? In only a few short weeks, we’ll all witness and participate in the end of this year and the beginning of a new year and a new decade.
Endings and beginnings, opportunities and challenges–they do trigger periods of profound reflection and soul searching, don’t they? Our souls ask us life’s important questions: Am I living authentically? Am I fully experiencing my life and mining the richness of my potential? If I am, how do I keep the magic and miracles flowing? If I’m not, how do I get them started? [click to continue…]
by margaret on November 1, 2009
WHAT GIFTS AND SKILLS have you developed during this very transformational year? This year’s powerful combination of forces have offered us the opportunity to use our natural gifts of courage, stamina, determination and adaptability in order to know that we can manifest whatever we set our hearts and minds to. Your message as you move through this period of assessment comes in the form of a quote or affirmation. Write or print it out, put it on your bathroom mirror, refrigerator and/or the dashboard of your car. Be conscious of and contemplate its message and meaning to you at this very pivotal time of the year. The messages: [click to continue…]
by margaret on October 1, 2009
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…]
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: 
As the suffix of its name suggests, 
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. 
