Category Archives: Human-ness

#14: the Ascendant spiritually understood

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Why is the Ascendant of a birth chart given importance? And, from an esoteric point of view, how are we to embody the energies of the ASC? The Ascendant of the horoscope is also called the Rising Sign because this … Continue reading →

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Meditation: innate, immeasurable, inexhaustible presence

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Tranquility, patience, joy or gladness, sense of harmony and wholeness, kindness, goodness, and understanding are all innate. Meditators around the world additionally  experience luminosity being already present, spaciousness of mind-Awareness as so, and with a little practice one experiences that … Continue reading →

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Meditation: the source of virtue

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Virtue is not in the thing being done but in the intention and attitude of the thing being done. A moment’s contemplation on why something is being enacted or being restrained can turn that moment, for example, from getting rid … Continue reading →

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#11: astrological houses spiritually viewed – the third house

Posted on December 23, 2019 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

This house on the zodiacal wheel corresponds to the third sign, Gemini. It is the sign of the Twins and is a Mutable Cross Air sign. It is on the eastern half and the night of the chart. Each of … Continue reading →

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A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (documentary)

Posted on December 10, 2019 by Donna Mitchell-Moniak

Our world situation invites each of us to look at our lives truly, to muse about our future and the future of the world. Around the world there are numerous experiments in going back to land and simplicity in order … Continue reading →

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