Mid-January marks the beginning of the harvest season on the Lunar Calendar, which is when the Sun moves from the Tropic of Capricorn to the Tropic of Cancer. This is known as Makar Sankranti, a major festival celebrated in various parts of India—one of the few Hindu festivals happening on a fixed date, which is January 14th (a day before…
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Turn Anger Into a Tool For Transformation
From a spiritual perspective, love is the absence of fear, and anger is considered a negative emotion because it emerges from the attachments and fears that block love and separate us from others. The suffering, injustice, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and wars we witness in the world are clear expressions of the excessive need to control of a collective ego fueled by…
Why Self-Love Makes You Truly Free
This month Mercury will be retrograde until the Winter Solstice, passing over the Galactic Center, which is the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Saturn will also be traveling over this energetic point before shifting astrological signs, so a possible meaning for this uncommon alignment is that it is time to begin committing to higher principles and…
Guidelines To Master Your Emotional Resistance
The ego-mind has been your main identity, your point of reference as to who you are in relation to others. This allows you to choose an individualized path and find your own way to navigate life. But because the ego was formed in childhood, and according to the environment you grew up in, it maintains the imprints of that first…
Can You Be Truly Happy Without Self-Knowledge?
You’ve probably heard the expression, Ignorance is bliss from one of Thomas Gray’s poems. Maybe you’ve even wished to go back in time to avoid the pain of certain awareness or during challenging times. But how true are these words taken out of context? The poem refers to the carefree stage of childhood in contrast with the awareness of the…
Why Self-Care Is Essential For Self-Growth
If you’ve read my story you know that at some point I decided to cut off from the world almost completely for three years. That was the time of my spiritual awakening (until then I wanted nothing to do with religion or spirituality). I can honestly say that it changed me forever. But my transformation didn’t happen only on a…
Mastering The Art Of Letting Go
How much would you say you hold on to things and people? Do you try to control where things go in your home or how other people should behave? Do you follow certain routines and patterns (or impulses) you feel anxious or lost without? Are you aware that the impressions of previous conversations or interactions linger forever in your mind?…