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Throughout the centuries, divination has been used to investigate future events. Many methods have been tried and tested in the hope of revealing hidden answers. I have held a fascination for this subject for many years, which was why I eventually put pen to paper with my daughter, Leanna Greenaway, and wrote, Catalog of the Unexplained. PalmistryI have been a working palmist for over forty years and have studied many clients' hands, gaining a great deal of information and knowledge (which I wrote about in one of my other books, Palmistry Out of your Hands). The very first impressions happen when taking the person's hands into yours; there is usually an immediate vibration to into which ...
As a somewhat traditional Appalachian woman, I cooked collard greens, black-eyed peas, and pork roast and cornbread with cracklings for the New Year's Day dinner meal. And because I'm a sign-and omen-reader from way back, I've been reading those subtle and not-so-subtle natural visions since the day after Christmas. It's gotten me thinking about some of the things I want to set up for the new calendar year and I thought to share them with you here. We always feel like the fireworks that scare the dogs on New Year's Eve mark a big shift from one time to another, making it a powerfully liminal time and one to which we should always pay some attention. But we set so much stock on how that ...
Deborah Houlding's The Houses: Temples of the Sky presents us with a bleak picture of the Twelfth House. Holding uses sources from Hellenistic and medieval astrology to inform her interpretations. Of the Twelfth House, she says, "It is a very unfortunate house, associated with sad events, sorrow, anguish of mind, tribulation, captivity, imprisonment, persecution, hard labour, all manner of affliction and self-undoing." She also writes that the Twelfth "represents matters that are hidden, restrained, secret, incapable of action or of being fully understood."1 Modern texts are only slightly more hopeful. In The Astrologer's Handbook, Frances Sakoian and Louis S. Acker write that the people ...
For most of human history, before there was artificial lighting, the amount of daylight determined the course of activities. Our species, by necessity, was attuned to the natural world. Winter energy represented a quieter time of hunkering down. It was a time of respite, solitude, and going inward. However, it is easy to ignore winter energy now. Even during a pandemic, there is a constant virtual pull to be busy, engaged with others, or entertained. If you live in a part of the country not covered by snow, you may feel that winter does not have much to teach you. But even in locations of relative warmth, the nights are long, and days are short, pulling us inward toward contemplation. It ...
