Safe, modern techniques – based on spagyrics (plant alchemy) – for producing distillations, stones, tinctures and elixirs are given, along with their uses in physical healing, spiritual growth, psychic experiments, initiation, consecration, spell-work and more. Each chapter includes meditations, projects and suggested reading as aids to “inner transformation,” an equally important aspect of alchemy. Tools, rituals, lunar and solar stones and the elusive Philosopher’s Stone are all covered in this comprehensive guide to alchemy

There’s still time to make a donation to your favorite non-profit (and write it off for 2010!) If you don’t have a favorite, please follow the links below to my recommendations. I promise you that your New Year will start off grand if you donate to a cause you care about. The Maritime Heritage Project, [...]

I don’t have a lot of money like a lot of people I know, but I am very rich with the love of family and friends.

Dishes in the bathtub?

I had to first decide if I really wanted to try to keep my home, or let it go and try to find something much smaller.

If you plan, odds are you will get where you want to go. If you don’t plan, you may not get anywhere . . . or if you do reach your ideal life situation, you may not even know you are there!

Change your home, transform your life. We all know that when we walk into a lovely home, we enjoy the look and feel of it. Well, feng shui not only applies to the appearance of the home and placement of furniture, but, where it is placed, in what position, the color of each piece of [...]

The Promise of Energy Psychology: Revolutionary Tools for Dramatic Personal Change by Feinstein, Eden, CraigThe approach presented in this book shows how to work with your body’s energies to shift your neurology and actually alter the patterns in your brain that maintain unwanted habits, emotional responses, and self-limiting ways of thinking. This book was written [...]

“Arranging your home for health and happiness, with personalized astrological charts.”

With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.