AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AQUARIUS! There’s an abundance of complimentary planetary traffic during your personal new year. This celestial assistance could help you to more easily discover ways to strengthen and secure the material, spiritual or emotional part of your life. Whatever you value most may become the main focus of your thoughts; plans for the future may become larger and more expansive. It appears you are in an extraordinary learning cycle. Classes, seminars, or any fo

A hyena will scavenge graves for food. It is an animal that shows no respect for the dead. Instead, it merely regards the misfortune of once-living carcasses as an opportunity.

In east Nigeria they have a belief that there are people who are capable of turning themselves into hyenas at will. Rush Limbaugh gave credence to that Nigerian superstition last week when he used the tragedy of 100,000 Haitian men, women, and children to promote himself as America’s number one radio thug without a consc

White Sage (Salvia apiana) has been a sacred herb of Native-Americans for centuries.  White sage has played a big part in native purification ceremonies by smudging, the process of burning the leaves to cleanse areas of negative energy. Many tribes throughout southern California, including the tribes north of Santa Barbara, kept small baskets of white sage seeds and other food on hand stored for the winter. The seeds were ground and mixed with flour to make into small biscuits which were a stap

 Due to Expire After April 30, 2010

The fed giveth, and the fed taketh away. If you are dreaming about your first home--or yearning for a new home after having lived in yours awhile--take action soon. Unless you have a binding contract to buy a home by April 30 of this year, you will miss your opportunity to claim either $8,000 as a first-time buyer or $6,500 as a move-up or repeat home buyer.

First-time home buyers purchasing any kind of home--new or resale--are eligible to take advantage of the

The San Luis Obispo Blues Society welcomes Rosie Ledet and the Zydeco Playboys on Saturday, February 20. The show will open with Lenny Blue and the Otter Guys at 8:00pm in the SLO Vets Hall at 801 Grand Avenue. Free dance lessons are offered at 7:30pm. All tickets are sold at the door, 21 and over only; Blues Society members $17; general public $20. For more information or to volunteer, call 805/541-7930 or visit www.sloblues.org.

Rosie Ledet & The Zydeco Playboys
Affectionately known as the Zydec

By Madeleine Perrone

When we are light in spirit, there is an ease and bounce in our walk. When we move with comfort, coordination, and balance, we experience life differently with less stress on our nervous system. We feel and appear younger.

We are capable at any age of making changes in our thinking and moving. It was once believed that as we age, the brain’s networks became fixed. In the last two decades, an enormous amount of research has revealed that the brain never stops changing and adj

For those that were wondering, I am still around. The last minute inspiration that led to the January issue, and this issue that follows, has thrown me deep into a swirl of growth, stimulation, expansion with an urge to let go of the old and grab unto the new.  A perfect example is the face lift on our home that just this minute was completed.  A year long project that began with new ceilings, flooring, and painting indoors and out, turned into new windows and coverings, a new front door, gara