I'm a nature lover by design, an avid hiker and naturalist. And I love how the Nature Conservancy handles their business. But what better way to meld your activities with technology than to allow us to watch a mother eagle sitting on her eggs. They've set up a web cam not as an exercise in voyeurism but unobtrusively, to give us an entry point into their world. 

How cool is that! If you want to check it out for yourself, you can find it here: 

http:media1.voce.org/eaglecam1

What amazes me is her focus, how she doesn't let anything bother her, from the pouring rain (yesterday) to sounds of predatory birds around her. We could all take a page from her book there. So she doesn't have to deal with technology, work, relationships or modern malaises like depression. But she's pretty awesome just the same. 

And one more cool thing? That means we'll be seeing chicks before too long. And if you've never seen a baby eagle chick you haven't lived, my friend. 

Friends. The ones I left behind, the ones I've yet to meet. The ones in my life now. Though our culture tends to put a great deal of importance on romance and marriage, having a mate and hooking up, friends are usually around longer (unless you're lucky in love), and are definitely there when you need them, which can't always be said for romantic love. Why do we put our friends second, third or last? What do we do to keep making friends as we get older, so they reflect the changes we move through in our lives? It's something to think about. 

Tomatoes. I adore spring, and since I live in California I'm lucky to have access to fresh flowers, fruits and vegetables for three seasons out of four (during the fourth we import from Mexico, Chile and Ecuador). Tomatoes in particular have changed a great deal since the tasteless beefsteak tomatoes of my youth. I can't wait to bite into the yellow, tangerine and bright red heirloom variety carried at my local farmers' market and the sweet Roma tomatoes that go great in salads and pasta. My mouth is watering just thinking about it! 

Daffodils. I grew up on the East Coast, and the first flowers of spring were either forsythia or daffodils. Often, they would explode from their buds the same week, followed by the scent of honeysuckle on the breeze. I have to go out and find some daffodils each March, to mirror my East Coast upbringing. Every year it brings me hope. 

Spring Training. Don't hate me because I'm a Giants fan! Growing up on Eastern Long Island, I was a Mets fan all the way, cheering for Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Bud Harrelson and Jerry Koosman. When I met and eventually married my husband, who's originally form the Bay Area, I got back into baseball. Spring training always means that it's time to slow down a bit, find the best turkey dogs and fire up the grill! The hardest part is watching Giants games when you live in Los Angeles, since they're mortal rivals. The easiest part is all the great young players coming up from the minors, all of whom look very promising indeed! 

Under an Aquarius Moon, all of us tend to go a trifle batty. That's not to say that it's a bad or negative sign, just one that's so engaged with the processes of the mind that we can get a little lost in our thoughts. Humanitarian pursuits may take up a lot of your thinking, as you ponder where you fit in with the rest of the world. On that note, if you're looking to help the people affected by the recent earthquake in Chile, check out this link to donate:

http://www.americares.org/newsroom/news/help-chile-earthquake-quake-relief-aid.html

Keeping your feet on the ground may be the key for the next few days. You'll read more, give thought to what you want to achieve over the next month or two, and decide how to take the best course of action. The thing to remember is this: though our thoughts determine our reality, and how much we allow ourselves to have, none of us are our thoughts. If we experience something negative, it doesn't mean we're bad people, but may just need to release and re-pattern our world. (More to come on that soon, with a series of teleconferences and Internet workshops on re-patterning and manifestation.) 

Where Aquarius falls in your chart will determine how this Moon will affect the next phase of your life. Check out our Readings page for an astrological  and/or tarot reading, and if you're interested in Matrix Energetics work, that can be added as a stand-alone session or as part of a phone reading. 

Most of us have existed in the psychology of victimhood for close to a century now, due in part to the theories of Sigmund Freud, who blamed most of society's ills on mothers. But as psychology changes -- a recent study found that today's kids have behavioral and emotional problems for a variety of reasons, from divorce and strife to exposure to stress and adversity -- fathers are being blamed, too. Not much in the way of progress. 

As the Cancer Moon opposes Pluto in Capricorn for the next few days, its a great time to look into any mommy or daddy issues we all have. Whether internalized or overt, these can eat at us, unconsciously determine the success or failure of our relationships, and give us ideas about ourselves that we carry around for years. 

The Cancer Moon wants to build a home, get cozy and nest. It wants to take a cooking class, invite people over and show them your matching cutlery. But Pluto is stronger. In Capricorn, it wants to dominate, take control and demonstrate its authority. It wants to make money, be the breadwinner and put some (if not all) of that valuable cash away for future emergencies. 

Let's just say they're not exactly getting along when they oppose one another. 

Most families, whether traditionally structured along gender lines or not, have two partners polarizing in one or the other role. And depending on where these planets are falling in your chart, you may find that you're siding with one parent over the other, whether it's directly, or indirectly, by embodying their ideas. 

So where do your mother or father issue lie? And how can you look into them more deeply, using the power of these planets? 

OK, I'm gonna throw my hat into the ring on this Russian ice dancing pair and their original "aboriginal" dance, as performed at the Olympics last night. I don't even care about ice dancing, and was watching in an attempt to see if there would be any creativity on display at all. Heck, you can learn something new -- about a culture, a sport, every day.  Thankfully, there was a lot of creativity in evidence, in the form of Davis & White's ode to Bollywood and Virtue & Moir's sassy flamenco.

But after hearing about the Russians' costumes for several days, I still wasn't prepared for what I saw -- nude body stockings with white painted-on stripes, leaves sticking out of headbands, random parts of the bodice and even the woman's skates. Oh yeah, and the strings hanging from their waists, for some reason. I'm an avid watcher and reader of National Geographic, and have never seen anything like it. Certainly not elegant, but only part of the story.

Honestly, they would have been better off wearing the lovely blankets that had been given to them by Canadian First Nations tribes, whom the skaters (Domnina and Shabalin) had with in an attempt to quell controversy surrounding the appropriateness of their costumes. They're excellent skaters, but all the mugging, weird gestures and bizarre "tribal" movements were what made the routine racist, not the clothing. In a contest to skate a "country or folk dance," their costumes weren't authentic to any existing country, nor was the dance, apparently. The music wasn't catchy and didn't involve the audience, either. Maybe the choreographer didn't get the memo on sensitivity, which is a shame, after the lovely inclusion of so many traditions in the Opening Ceremonies.

All I can hope is that the dialog that's been opened will lead us somewhere a little more tolerant soon enough.

Pisces is one of those signs we can recognize right off the bat, by the way it feels, tastes and sounds. The energy behind it feels lighter and somehow more diffuse,thanks to its Neptune ruler, and when it's around in our charts, we're more easily able to connect to the divine. It's pastel colors, soft focus, dissolving into what we believe, and it can be so pleasurable we lose ourselves in the process. 

Finding out where Pisces falls in your chart can help figure out which parts of your life you're allowing and which parts have become suppressed. Too often, we can pretend we don't want to achieve something that will set us apart from the pack, making us lonely and vulnerable. But wherever Pisces falls in our charts is the place we can dream, let go, be ourselves. It's what we bring in to being by becoming part of it, not separate and distinct. 

The first house, for example, is conducive to dreaming through personal expression and fashion. Our appearance becomes primary as we search for who we are, trying on different hats along the way. By merging with these guises, we become the divine figure in our own lives, letting other see what they want to see in us. In short, we develop into the kind of people who don't let others determine the paths of their lives, which is pretty sweet indeed. 

I'm happy to help you find out what you're manifesting (and perhaps leaving on the table) with an email or phone reading today!

An Aries Moon today, asking us all to become the warriors we can be when we're pushed. How many of us try to get along, repressing our feelings and acquiescing again and again, only to explode in anger, usually at the wrong person?

For the next few days, try to feel your feelings as you're having them -- not two minutes later, or an hour later, or even several days later. Feel your emotions in your head, your heart, and wherever else they accumulate in your body. Telltale signs are a tense neck, an agitated stomach or a chronic headache, but you may feel it somewhere else entirely.

When you've identified what you're feeling, think about how your Inner Samurai would handle it. According to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, playing to your strengths may not mean attacking but waiting and seeing, while identifying potential weaknesses in your opponent. Once you have this power, you may find that there's nothing left to fight about anyway. A little poetic justice from the universe.

For many of us, the idea of not having a body is an amazing one. No more more eating right and exercising (hello, bacon!), no more maintenance (who needs waxing, right girls?). But for some, the idea of not being physically incarnate in some form is terrifying.

Who are we? Where are we?

But in truth, as humans we're little more than patterns of light and information. Studies done as far back as the 1960s at Stanford revealed that when a strand of DNA was unraveled from its famous double-helix formation, scientists could detect photons. That means, for the layman, that our bodies are literally encoded with light, and unraveling these strands merely reveals what's there all the time.

But why do you need to know that? Because when we truly get that we're not a body, we're freer to get what we want. Sound counter-intuitive? Not really. Because if we can grasp that "we're" not really here, at least not in the form we think we are, a whole, huge world of possibility opens to us. What if we could communicate with other life forms? What if we could time-travel to the future and bring back cures for medical ailments yet to be invented? And what if we could make peace with our bodies while trying to be the fullest and healthiest person we can be at this time?

Pretty powerful stuff indeed. This is where Matrix Energetics picks up from science, and makes possible things your hard-line conscious brain may not be able to allow. But change is possible for everyone. Maybe even you, today.

I've been working on a memoir over the past few months, about the time I worked as a phone psychic in Los Angeles! I'd come out from New York to take on a screenwriting assignment (not to mention recover from a broken heart) but soon ran out of money and lucked into a position at a local line. Though I'd been reading cards and charts for about ten years, I didn't consider myself psychic (hello?) and had to be convinced by the gifted people I worked with that indeed I did have a gift. You have no idea what goes on in places like that! :)

For years, I made one excuse or another whenever a friend would ask when I was going to write about my time there. Other stuff always seemed to come up. But about nine months ago, I ran out of excuses when I found the diary I kept during that time of my life, and sat in the garage for over an hour, reading it, laughing at the crazy stuff we did, the amazing questions we were asked, remembering the people we helped. In this snapshot of my life, I saw a chance to help others see a way to accept the weirdness inside themselves (it certainly took me long enough) and begin to believe in their own special abilities, whatever they may be.

I'm expecting to finish up in about two weeks or so; I'll keep you posted. Then it's out into the world to see what I can do with it. Around summertime, I'll also be offering online classes and downloadable products from this site, on how to develop your intuition, use the Law of Attraction and learn how to read tarot cards and astrological charts. Hope to see you there!

Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, is associated with all things tenacious. Ruling plant Saturn makes these folks seem a little older or wiser than their years, and they just seem to have that elusive money gene some of us lack. Saturn rewards hard work done over a long period of time, and even though that's about as sexy as a root canal, there's no arguing with something that has 1.07 times the gravitational pull of your own planet, right? We bow to your wisdom, mighty Saturn!

When the Moon moves through this sign, it's time to borrow a little of Capricorn's tenacity when it comes to your cash. That goes for all of us. Rather than blowing it on that new pair of Louboutins, or that personal watercraft that's been calling your name (does anyone really need one of those?), how can you invest it? I can already feel your eyes glazing over, but LISTEN! Not all Capricorns come from rich families, and not all of them are self-made millionaires. But most of them understand that putting even a few ducats to the side makes you feel a little more relaxed, if nothing else. And if all else fails, you can blow it on a trip to Cancun when your tax return comes in. Nice!