TOP TEN REASONS to CELEBRATE 2017 (Even if “Send in the Clowns” is the inaugural theme song) TO VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER:  CLICK HERE “Don’t you love a farce? My fault, I fear I thought that you’d want what I want Sorry, my dear But where are the clowns? There ought to be clowns Quick,...

2017 COMING ATTRACTIONS: “Greatest Hits of the Kali Yuga* (Darkest Age)” To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE  “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” The plaque at...

MID-FALL 2016: KARMIC DÉJÀ VU: “Remembrance of Things Past” TO VIEW IN YOUR BROWSER:  click here  In the Japanese art form of Kintsukuroi, the philosophy is to mend the cracks in broken things with gold, thus making what has been broken even more valuable than before.   “I’ve seen 50, I’ve seen 60 and, baby,...

JUPITER in LIBRA: “And in the End, the Love You Take Is Equal to the Love You Make”* To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE VENUS and JUPITER   by   Joan Pancoe “In love’s circle there’s another kind of serenity; in love’s wine, another kind of hangover. What you learned in school is one thing, love is...

TRIPLE-ECLIPSE GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH ALERT: “It’s Time for the Witnessing Protection Program!” To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE STRETCHED TO THE LIMIT   by   Joan Pancoe “From the Buddhist point of view, the Chinese officer who is committing the cruel act against the young boy is initiating a new cycle of negative karma.  In the...

SUMMERTIME SADNESS and JOY To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE “The pain later is part of the happiness now.” From the movie Shadowlands For “SUMMERTIME SADNESS” lyrics, click HERE   Dear ONE,         There’s no better time than a lazy summer’s day to meditate on the Buddhist “Eight Worldly Concerns” of which Vedanta and...

YOUR SUMMER 2016 FORECAST: The Crack in Everything Is Getting Bigger All the Time To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE Going with the Flow   by   Joan Pancoe “There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”  Leonard Cohen Dear ONE,         Just as ever increasing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions...

JUPITER DIRECT: Polishing the Mirror  To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE MATERNAL   by   Joan Pancoe  “We are born and reborn countless numbers of times, and it is conceivable that each Being has been our parent at one time or another. In this way all Beings in the Universe share a family relationship.”     The Dalai...

PLUTO and MARS RX Reminder: “We Are Spirits in the Material World” To view in your browser: CLICK HERE In the Garden by the River   by    Joan Pancoe “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When actions come from another section, the feeling disappears.” Rumi For...

SPRING 2016 ECLIPSE ALERT: “Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You!” To view in your browser:  CLICK HERE BREAKING THROUGH   by   Joan Pancoe “Each person gets their karmuppance.  We get everything we want—sooner or later, if not in this incarnation, then in another.  And often when we finally get it, we don’t want it.  As the process...