Moments of Awareness

Today's card: III - The Empress This is a day pregnant with potential. The energy is internal and intuitive, pouring toward future outward expression. Connect with friends and especially lovers and focus on the fruition of currently germinating ideas.

Schools Where the Only Real Test Is Basketball - New York Times

SPACE.com -- NASA Detects 'Totally New' Mystery Explosion Nearby

From: Jennifer J.   … OVERCOMING OBSTACLES "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." -- B. C. Forbes "If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'" -- Ann Landers "All things are possible until they are proved impossible – and even the impossible may only be so as of now." - - Pearl S. Buck "Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them." -- Orison Swett Marden "...in my dreams, your dreams come true...."

Today's card: Page of Wands After yesterday's pause, it's time to step off the cliff, spread our wings, and fly into our next adventure. The young people in our lives today give us direction and energy. Let their enthusiasm be contagious.

Study: Americans' home Net adoption slowing Tech News on ZDNet  [updated link (February 1, 2014):  Study: Americans' home Net adoption slowing ]

Today's card: 7 of Pentacles Today we pause to contemplate what we've accomplished and check our direction as we move forward. There is great opportunity in the air today, but only so long as our pause is used to gather energy and focus effort. Take pride in what's done, and be open to what's coming.

Sects and Violence - New York Times

BBC NEWS Science/Nature 'Pharmed' goats seek drug licence

Murdered "Bog Men" Found With Hair Gel, Manicured Nails

Don't Stop Bugging Me - New York Times

Today's card: 5 of Pentacles This is a day of contemplation. Care must be taken today to seek spiritual direction in interactions, or significant loss may result. It's a good day to spend time alone in introspection, but seek the higher mind rather than risking a fall into despondency.

SPACE.com -- Stellar Sound Waves Set Off Supernovas

SPACE.com -- Milky Way vs. Andromeda: Study Settles Which Is More Massive

BBC NEWS Science/Nature DNA 'could predict your surname'

A Card We Should All Carry - New York Times

Books of The Times - By Michiko Kakutani - 'Rebel in Chief' and 'Impostor' - The New York Times - New York Times

Which Cut Is Older? (It's a Trick Question) - New York Times

U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review - New York Times

Wired News: Earth Hurtles Toward 6.5 Billion

Today's card: 2 of Wands Slow down today. Opportunities, if they are not already abounding, are on the horizon, but it's important right now to seek balance and present our best, most confident faces as we move into new business endeavors. Home, family, and friends are all second today to career and image.

BBC NEWS Science/Nature 'Faster emergence' for diseases

This is of concern for all of us nationwide!! Find out what you can do locally about this! Natalie in TX ~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: CarolAnn@... A Chip in a Fuzzy Ear  [link defunct] Greetings Friends of the Farm, When word reached Aunt Penny and Tootie about the proposed National Animal Identification System, they were mighty confused. First of all, the rhetoric spoke of "mad cows" disease. This ID system would be yet another means of tracking any cow so infected. Well, that sounds prudent, but the hens don't know what a "cow" is; never have they seen one. Oh, they know opossums, raccoons, hawks, cats and dogs, and they are appropriately fearful of all of these animals, but a cow? What does a cow have to do with them? It was explained to them that the NAIS would be a marketing tool for selling deceased animals to Japan. Again, what does all of this have to do with their little farm? No deceased hens on the farm are ever sold to whatever Ja

Go With Your Gut - New York Times

Today's card: Ace of Wands Time to get back to it. Today is all about fresh new beginnings, new ideas, new opportunities. The whole Universe sits before us awaiting our first step on whichever brand new path we choose. Carpe diem!

Promoting religious understanding, tolerance and freedom.

The Wolfe Clinic - The Importance of Your Body's pH Balance  [updated link (February 1, 2014): pH Balance – The Foundation of Health ]

Dreams Deferred - New York Times

A Pop Quiz on Marriage - New York Times

Women's Health Studies Leave Questions in Place of Certainty - New York Times

Today's card: 9 of Pentacles This is a card of achievement. The work is done, we're confident in who we are and what we've created, and now we have a moment to survey our accomplishment and bask in the glow of our own being. Moving forward from here we'll be working from a whole new foundation.