I used to call myself a 'romantic at heart' until I discovered how holding onto this ideal was making me sick. I got sick of the constant disappointment when my ideals never measured up with reality. I saw how my inflated expectations and a distorted perceptions were causing big problems in my life. All this wishful thinking wasn’t helping me. It was hurting me, and yet I thought that if I gave up my colourful ideals, my life would be boring. I craved emotional highs that

Many years ago I met a woman who was beaming with positivity and gratitude. I thought for sure she was faking it. But after spending some time with her, I realized that her expression was genuine. I marvelled at her character and the sheer contrast to my own fault-finding tendencies. I also wondered how an attitude of gratitude came so easily to her while my mind remained busy noticing everything that was wrong… Unlike me, her mind was filled with pleasant thoughts which

A university professor once boarded a small boat to cross a river. During the journey, he asked the boatman whether he had studied philosophy, literature, or astronomy. The boatman replied no to each question. With each answer, the professor smugly remarked that the man had wasted a portion of his life by remaining uneducated. Halfway across the river, a violent storm arose and the boat began to sink. The boatman calmly turned to the professor and asked, “Sir, have you learne

From April 25th, 2026, Uranus will change signs, moving from Taurus into Gemini. It will remain in Gemini for the next seven years, until May 2033. I felt called to write about Uranus for a number of reasons: First, my Sun sign is Aquarius, of which Uranus is the ruling planet. Second, according to a technique developed by Steven Forrest and his team at Lila Astrology, I discovered that my strongest planet is Uranus 💪. And third, on a collective level, we are said to be in t

The Buddha recollecting his Past Lives "If you have a problem, the good news is that it doesn't exist. The bad news is that you believe it exists."~ Luna Feyth Without realizing it, many of us rely on the force of our personal will to resolve problems in our lives. We try to bend reality to comply with our personal preferences through any number of strategies. We may indeed succeed at resolving certain problems, only for new ones to take their place. So, what’s going on here?

Watch the audio visual version of this article here The word desire has both positive and negative connotations. We hear statements such as “follow your heart's desire,” while also hearing statements that warn us of the perils of being led by our desires. So what's the deal? Should we trust what we are wanting—or is what we are wanting not really what we want? Are our immediate desires in service to our higher desires, and what is the difference? To unpack this, let's first t

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Everyone knows their star sign, just as everyone knows their name “I’m an Aquarius!” All right — but what does that even mean? Most...