Who’s that Judgey Man in the Window? Woof Woof

My opinion of what God might be....from a non-religious perspective.... God, according to most religions, is thought of as the ruler of the world very much like a man or a king on a throne who punishes us when we are bad and rewards us when we are good. He is always watching and judging...

Why The Worshipping of Hard Workers Might Be Dangerous

I've been talking with my friend  who is visiting from Japan. He told me that he works 6-7 days a week at his job. He gets vacation time and he goes either to Germany or the US. This time he's in the US. He told me that even though he has vacation time, he still...

The Codependent Parent-Child Dynamic in Facebook Groups

​In this article I talk about the codependent proverbial "parent-child" dynamic exemplified in a group context and how our current behaviors stifle growth. I have been writing on this topic now for several years after seeing how people behave in online communities. I noticed a perverted  relationship that exists between Facebook admins and their members....

Cognitive Dissonance and How to Handle Controversial Information Online

I provide a couple reasons as to why we become emotionally unstable when we hear information that competes with the information we were brought up to believe about the world.  Nothing should ever be controversial to talk about. Everything should be up for grabs. Any topic. So, why can't we have an emotionally-detached conversation without...

Refusing to be a Victim and Holding My Own

The internet, the media and TV keep telling me that I should be a victim of society and feel oppressed, but I don't and I won't. I choose to hold my own and take responsibility for my own life, my own decisions and my own feelings. I refuse to let anyone take me from me....

Why We Need To Dig Deeper to Understand Child Behavior

Addressing the videos that have gone viral regarding children screaming and crying over not wanting to be forced to eat certain vegetable items. It's sad to see that it is becoming a trend for "parents" to take videos of possibly autistic and/or possibly emotionally wounded children having crying fits to then publish them on the...

How I believe each astrological sign contributes to our growth

This is on how each sign is a student and a teacher and how we are all catalysts to each other's evolution. It might help us appreciate the fact that all signs are here to HELP, not hurt. There is no such thing as a "bad" placement. There are light and dark sides of each...

How much weight do rising signs and house rulerships carry when reading a birth chart?

I think we can understand ourselves much better if we learn house cusps. I'm a Gemini Rising and it isn't a mask for me; it's my identity even when I am alone.  There is so much that goes into my Gemini Ascendent then it being my just my 'go-to personality'. The ascendant is a large...

WHY IT’S OK TO LIKE YOURSELF OUT LOUD

.....and how our culture might be inadvertently contributing to narcissism... In the old paradigm, we were taught that any form of self-flattery is egotistical. And when someone compliments us, we're to contradict their compliment with self-deprecating language. All this under the guise of "modesty". Anything to avoid appearing like we like ourselves. God Forbid! Acknowledging...

The Blessing That Comes From Deception

I do not enjoy people who are dishonest, but at the same time, these charlatans are a blessing in disguise because they are teaching all of us to think for ourselves. How would we ever learn to discern, question authority and think critically if all we ever heard was truth? We need to be fooled...

The Trap of Astrology

"I'm a Scorpio; that's just what we do." To really appreciate astrology, I think it's important to appreciate the difference between understanding behavior and excusing behavior. Often we say things like "I'm a private person because I'm a scorpio. That's just a "scorpio thing." While this trait can describe one who is  a scorpio or...

Can You Prove Me, The Truth? What is Proof of Truth?

Everywhere we go online, we can see one debate after the next. Everyone is emotionally wound up, frustrated, 100% sure they are right, and defending their beliefs which might often be opinions they stole from someone else. We fight, bully, humiliate, and lose friends all over people repeating other's opinions. The world is filled with...

What Might Cause PTSD and How to Move Past it

I am not a doctor and so cannot pretend that I understand your trauma, but I do understand my own and the following is based only on my experience and what I believe to make sense. Having said that, post-traumatic stress might not be so much caused by the event, but rather the suppression of...

Can We Blindly Trust Psychics and Mediums? — A Warning and Some Advice

After several readings from several psychics over the last several months, I am happy to report that I have had transformative, helpful and meaningful experiences from very generous caring humans. However, I would like to say that I got the help I needed due to my ability to filter out information that does not resonate....

Changing Our Minds: A Weakness or a Strength?

Some of us change our minds a lot. Changing minds is considered a weakness in society, but I think it's strength, the mark of intelligence and a form of humility. How can we learn if our minds are made up? How can we become better at listening to new ideas from new people if we...

Could the Best Diet be Love?

​Many of you might know that when I was on a fruitarian diet that I had gone from being 222 pounds down to 90. I kept a lot of important things out of my diet (i.e. veggies, unrefined salt) at the time and following a fast, started binge-eating again after not binge-eating for decades. I...

THE LOVE FOR ATTENTION

I was brought up to believe that the desire to want attention is to be kept suppressed. Our parents were raised to believe that if you say you love your child, give them attention when they are crying, hug and hold them, hear them, compliment them, that - that is spoiling the child. And we...

Normalizing Objectification: Empowering Choices Versus Disempowering Choices and the Underappreciated Difference

Trauma is likely to be repressed or partially repressed from childhood. However, whether the trauma is consciously remembered or not, it is likely to be normalized into adulthood as a means of survival and false empowerment unless there was something in that child's life that taught them what happened to them was wrong and not...

The Comfort in Division

I am not a fan of nations, flags, borders and customs because it creates division. Some of us might find comfort in division and that might be because there is a base need to feel better than others or feel others are better than us. The peacelessness in separation, however, is part of our human...

Are Planetary Retrogrades Just an Illusion?

The experts say that during retrogrades, the planets are not really moving backwards and that is just and illusion. However, if nothing is changing in the sky, then there is no retrograde and there is no animal (human or non) response. Mercury is still doing it's thing just like any other day. If Mercury isn't...

When Science Becomes Religion

The very nature of science is in questioning what we hear and honoring objective personal experience since information is not always knowledge. "Dissent is crucial for the advancement of science. Disagreement is at the heart of peer review and is important for uncovering unjustified assumptions, flawed methodologies, and problematic reasoning." -- I. de Melo-Martin and...