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Re-blogged rom Kim Falconers’s 11th House Blog

Astro-LOA Flash: Today is the final, exact, Uranus-Pluto square, though this energy doesn’t just go poof tomorrow. To learn more about this contact that’s been around for years now, listen to the January Call on the Free Astro-LOA page at GoodVibeAstrology.com. We’ll be discussing the final contact live on Tue/Wed – on Talkshoe – Free Call for March. But the Ur/Pl square isn’t all that’s happening!

There is also the upcoming solar (new moon) eclipse at the tail end of the zodiac – 29° Pisces 27′. It’s not only conjunct the fixed star Scheat in the constellation of Pegasus, the degree itself is noted as one of ‘expiation.’ Think: endings that release resistance, creating fresh openings to jump back into life in a new way.

If there ever was a let go eclipse, this one is it. You release everything and experience your own, personal renaissance.

Eclipse/New Moon Times for March 20th – 29° Pisces 27′

LA – Friday – 1:37 am
NY – Friday – 4:37 am
LON – Friday – 8:37 am
SYD – Friday – 7:37 pm

Aspects to the Eclipse (the Sun-Moon-Node conjunction) include:

Sesquiquadrate Jupiter – expanded vision
Trine Saturn – focus and grounding
Parallel Chiron – audacity to attempt
Quintile Pluto – transforming ideals
Trine Juno – empowered relatioships
Sextile Ceres – connection to vitality and self-worth
Semi-sextile Vesta – strength to follow your dreams

Eclipses can be activated 30 days before or 30 days after the event. The most enlightening place to look in your chart is the HOUSE that the eclipse is in. Turn your attention to that area of life, release resistance there, and pre-pave your heart’s desires.

Here are some tips, sign by sign.

ARIES: The focus of this eclipse is on the inner world of dreams, spiritual connection and synchronicity. You want to bring awareness here. Initiate projects that hold true value to you, not just opportunities for commerce or survival. Instead of building a big fire and standing back, build a small fire and step close.

TAURUS: Whatever you’ve been brewing in the realm of groups and new associations, move forward now with gentle warmth and confidence. You’re friends are poised to support and nurture you from all sides! If it’s authentic, it will sing. If you need extra funds or ideas, there is a particular other who’s hanging out to be asked.

GEMINI: This is all about you and your career. It’s set to expand in ways you hadn’t dreamed possible so release resistance to success, now. This is your chance to experience the creative genius you are. If trepidation comes up, ie any feelings of unworthiness at the 11th hour, relax. Deep breaths. Above all else, don’t be afraid to bloom.

CANCER: Whatever long distance trip, arrangement or relationship you have going in your life, set clear and precise intentions for what you REALLY want. The theme of the month is expansion and new horizons. This can be literal or metaphorical. The important thing to note is that your world is about to get bigger! Get used to it!

LEO: This is a time to keep a secret and contain a project all while meeting someone eye to eye. A desire is going to go big very soon and right now you need to incubate like a smart mother hen. All this in the midst of intimacy and the need to connect with a deep and penetrating truth. Changes will have lasting effects! For now, tell no one.

VIRGO: Pisces new moon Eclipse is in your relationship sector give you a guardian angel when it comes to business or romantic commitments. There is a magical feeling in the air and you can use this rosy glow to tell a new story when it comes to your love life. Suddenly you are seeing others in their true, spiritual light. Be grounded with desires, and they manifest.

LIBRA: The new moon eclipse in your house of health is perfect for setting intentions about the strength of the body, your power to express your will and the ways and means you accomplish what you want in life – from working for a living to deliberate creation. Feel the energy around you. Tune in and wield your magic! You have the tenacity now to make it work.

SCORPIO: Creativity, romance and wide-eyed enthusiasm well up from your heart making this an eclipse to remember. Put your attention on what makes your feel special, artistic, open and sharing. Identify the ingredient that it takes to ‘make’ your day. There is more where than came from. You just have to realize it, and utilize it. Get out your pens, paints and brushes!

SAGITTARIUS: Attention on your home, family and domestic affairs makes this new moon perfect for starting any repair or maintenance projects, but more than that, it’s a time to notice where you are expanding on an inner level. There is travel a foot. Doors open when you say ‘yes’ BEFORE the question is asked. Optimism abounds, so expand your vision. It’s doable!

CAPRICORN: What is it you want to teach, learn, study or research? Something powerful is stirring along with the opportunity to get involved. It’s not only about reaching for personal goals. It’s about connecting to deeper spiritual links as well. Identify the direction you want to go and settle for nothing less. Write, record, post, proclaim. Express!

AQUARIUS: It’s not always easy to change horses in the middle of the stream but if there is a sudden desire for a course correction, do not hesitate. This new moon eclipse boosts your ability to sense true values and change up where need be. The true secret to a happy life is living authentically. Check in, listen and know. You job is to be you.

PISCES: The new moon eclipse in Pisces is a special time of year where you can feel more connected, more tapped in, more alive. From there you have the ability to add meaning and purpose to your life. There might be a bit of a dreamy quality to how you see yourself and choices seem to be more glamorous than practical. Let your heart be the guide. Set intentions for the upcoming year! Happy solar return!

Have a wonderful Eclipse everyone! xKim

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Sometimes, when you live in the Northern Rivers, particularly in the Byron Bay region, it seems as if everybody has come from ‘somewhere else’, but in nutritionist Janella Purcell’s case, it’s more that she’s travelled back to her roots, writes Candida Baker.

I’m sitting talking to Janella Purcell on the beautiful wide verandah of her Coorabell home, and the author of the recently published Janella’s Super Natural Foods, is in relaxed mode.   She’s been in Sydney for a few weeks seeing clients, and the leaves have got a bit out of control, so she’s been sweeping the verandah of the house she moved to a little over three years ago.

“It was always a dream of mine to eat off the land,” she tells me. “I moved from Sydney and for me, the move back to this area was definitely about achieving a balance in my lifestyle – the kind I recommend to my clients!”

But for Purcell, the area perhaps had more calling than for others. “My mother was born in Casino,” she says. “I actually come from the first Lebanese family in Australia, and our tribe is scattered from Brisbane to Kyogle and beyond, so the idea of land was deeply ingrained in my psyche.”

Purcell, of course, is well-known to television audiences as the Good Chef, in Good Chef, Bad Chef. Her first book was the award-winning Janella Purcell’s Elixir, How To Use Food As Medicine was published in 2004, and her first recipe book, Eating for the Seasons in 2010, followed by the second edition of Elixir. Her first recipe book, Eating for the Seasons was published in 2011, follwed by Janella’s Wholefood Kitchen in 2012. In this latest book, Janella’s Super Natural Foods, she follows and the lead of her first two, taking us further down the path of understanding that food can be medicine for our bodies (and souls) as well as simply fuel.

“I’m not an evangelist however,” she says. “I think it’s very important to understand that families have time constraints and that it’s important to keep things simple and straightforward – and that’s what I’ve tried to do in this book.”

In our family, we have a range of dietary needs. I’m a vegetarian, my daughter is gluten-free, another family member is sensitive to dairy, and so putting that all in the mix, this latest book is a godsend, with every recipe carefully coded so that you can see at a glance if it’s suitable. A dish that’s quickly become a family favourite is the Indonesian Salad which is gluten free, dairy free, vegetarian, vegan and grain free – and yet, I promise you, still tastes delicious. It’s also a dish that has a small lesson in it. Did you know, for instance, that shop-bought peanuts have been heavily treated with chemicals? Making the peanut sauce with organic peanuts is a revelation in terms of taste, and it’s so easy. Egg is optional, but personally I enjoy it.

‘He that takes medicine and neglects diet wastes the skills of the physician.’ – Chinese Proverb

Purcell found her way into organic cooking and natural health because of some health issues of her own as a child. “I was often bloated as a child,” she says, “even though I was really fit and active, and my whole family – having a Lebanese mother – was naturally into healthy food. I also had a constant problem with my weight, and so I started a lot of diets, which led me into trying to work out why I could eat some foods, and not others.” Purcell quickly found out that she found meat indigestible, and that dairy was not so good for her either. “I would have been a chef then really,” she muses, “but if I’d served an apprenticeship I would have had to cut up meat, so that really counted me out!”  She did end up getting her chef’s paper simply by spending so much ‘time on the job’.

After she left school Purcell decided to study fashion, but she remained fascinated with food and cooking, and gradually began to immerse herself in naturopathy, Chinese medicine and Ayuverda. As she learned more and more, she realised that her own emotional state was affected by what she ate, (and vice versa) and she began to minimize the heavier western foods – white flour, bread, rice and dairy, and replaced them with easier to digest eastern foods.

Adrian Richardson and Janella Purcell on the set of Good Chef, Bad Chef.

Diet was always a large part of her work in her private practice, so cooking classes were a natural progression which in turn led to her TV role on Channel 9’s Today Show as their resident nutritionist, and then moved onto her role as the Good Chef on Good Chef, Bad Chef. Her profile has steadily increased, as has her list of private clients, and these days, dividing her time between Sydney and her home near Byron Bay, Purcell has achieved an enviable balance between career and lifestyle, and in Super Natural Foods, her goal is to help people see how easy it can be to create easy, delicious and nutritious food. “It’s just a question of changing your thinking,” she says. “For instance, buying local, buying organic, and buying in season will all improve your diet enormously.”

If you’re wanting more information on Purcell and her approach to holistic health and wellbeing her website is full of information. https://janellapurcell.com/

Her book: Janella’s Super Natural Foods is published by Allen & Unwin.

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Chinese New Year of  the Sheep 2015

Chinese New Year falls on the NEW MOON @29 Aquarius
L.A. – Wednesday – 3:47 pm
NEW YORK – Wednesday – 6:47 pm
LONDON – Wednesday – 11:47 pm
SYDNEY – Thursday – 10:47 am

From Kim Falconer’s 11th House Blog

February 18/19th is Chinese New Year, the first new moon after the Solstice where the Chinese animal sign changes from Horse to the Sheep. Think “mare to ewe’ as all the Chinese animals are female. This is not the fiery ram of Aries in the Western Zodiac.

As the year of the Green Sheep begins, we enter a slower paced, more relaxed and introspective year. It’s a reflective, sensitive energy that brings plenty of opportunity to tune into feelings and leverage them for our own growth and awareness.

Below are the Astro-LOA sign by sign tips. Remember, if you are a Capricorn or Aquarius by the Western Zodiac, check your sign as Chinese New Year begins at a different time each year.

Rat: 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008

The Year of the Sheep is a subtle relief for Rat after the hustle and bustle of 2014 Horse, but you have to dial back a bit to enjoy it. This is the perfect time to re-think ideas, goals and desires for the future and launch them with a renewed and steady enthusiasm. And know, you have what it takes to Knock Their Socks Off as you pitch new projects or apply for a new job. This is a year to discover what you really want when if comes to relationship as well. Prepare to be surprised.

Ox: 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009

The year of the Sheep can bring contrast, challenging you to rise to the occasion and expand your awareness. The key is in knowing Life Is Good, no matter what is happening in the outer environment. This is your training ground, and when you’re asked to “give ’em 20” you’ll find yourself fitter and stronger than you first imagined. Confidence is up, because of this, you’re more empowered, vital and alluring. Travel or moving house brings spectacular results!

Tiger: 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010

In the year of the Sheep, Tiger can feel like there are too many choices that must be made, yesterday. Remember, sheep says relax and find some peace and ease. No need to chase your tail. If you don’t know what to do, trust there will be plenty of time to gain clarity. Romance shines a light as the year warms up so think about activating a Feeling Sexy vibration, of you’ve been to busy with other things. Look after the body with plenty of exercise too!

Rabbit: 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011

In the year of the Sheep, Rabbit will enjoy a more steady pace compared to the whirl of last year. You’ll also be in line for high success, so think about activating an “it’s Happening!” vibration. You don’t want your own reticence to hold you back. This is also a wonderful time for romance with a view to long-term partnership so reflect a bit on what your idea partnership looks like. You’re extra alluring now, and that amps your ability to attract money and finances as well. Awesome!

Dragon: 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012

In the year of the Sheep, Dragon has a burst of creative inspiration. It just pours out. The only hitch might be if you aren’t sure of your path, your purpose in life. If you’re shaky there, not to worry. This is a year for clarity and successful forward motion, though you don’t want to ‘push’ or try and make it happen. You want to relax. The greatest benefits are holidays, meditation, exercise and fitness and a good health regime. Activate the vibe of ‘Dream Vacation‘ for best results.

Snake: 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013

The year of the Sheep can mean snake is on the move. That’s home, business or relationships, you decide. The key is to be flexible, holding ideas lightly – basically Lightening Up. There could be resistance to the changes, great or small, and we know where that leads – to more of what is undesired. So relax, embrace and allow. This can be your Year of the Manfester, a time when thoughts become things at the speed of light. Are you ready to receive?

Horse: 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014

In the year of the Sheep, Horse finds her feet. Whatever hopes you had last year that have yet to materialize, they are rolling in steady now. 2015 is supportive right across the board – Self, relationship, creativity, career, family, health, finances. Basically, the good times really do roll in. You want to pre-pave for that because the freer your vibe, the more expansive the results. Single horses might want to activate New Love Interest. Committed, Get What You Want.

Sheep: 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015

Year of the Sheep brings some interesting contrast if you aren’t setting authentic goals and loving your life right here and now. Think of it as a year of self-discovery, and you might be somewhat surprised! First up, don’t be discouraged if Reality Disagrees with What You Want. It’s a temporary state of affairs. Any feelings of jealousy or competitiveness are only signs of something that is very important to you. Take the information and relax. Allow. Grass roots = Activate Health!

Monkey: 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016

The year of the Sheep holds as much promise for Monkey as you could ever want, but the kick off is a little shaky. Don’t let that stop you! Pre-pave your desired results by troubleshooting your efforts and un-kinking your vibe. It’s all about relaxing, allowing and floating downstream with peace and ease. If you are going at it tooth and nail, take a beat to re-think. The first few months of the year could lack momentum and clarity. That’s okay as it picks up. Make Peace with the Unknown.

Rooster: 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017

The year of the Sheep is going to be fabulous for Rooster, especially in career and creative projects. You’ll want to pitch new ideas and projects with your whole heart, Activating Thriving Business and Filled Up/Sold Out. Business partnership are solid and lead to financial success. For personal relationships, you’ll want to have a clear idea of what you really want. It might be different than you imagined. Health increases with more attention of nutrition.

Dog: 1910, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006

The year of the Sheep brings Dog a new career vibe full of enthusiasm, opportunity a creative advancement. The only hitch is the actual financial backing might be a little slower to arrive than hoped. You can help this along by Activating Money in the Bank. But not all your energy needs to be focused on work. Dog benefits by getting out and playing, afirming that Life is Good. Make sure plenty of exercise and good nutrition is part of the daily routine. You thrive out in nature!

Pig: 1911, 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007

The year of the Sheep brings dazzling romance to the single Pigs and a renewed delight to committed ones. All across the board, think Great Relationships. Career and finances are also looking up. The only area that might be neglected, because you’re so busy swooning in romantic bliss and raking in the money from your fabulous career, is your health. Be sure to Activate a Healthy Body, and enjoy good strong exercise and nutrition (as prescribe by your health care practitioner).

Mem Fox

Happy Chinese New Year, of the Green Sheep, everyone.

Make it your best yet!

If you want to learn more about Astrology and the Law of Attraction, join us at GoodVibeAstrology.com

xxxKim

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Cr Jenny Dowell, Mayor of Lismore City Council – proud of the Move2Change program.

Lismore City Council has just won a national award at the 2014 Heart Foundation Local Government Awards, beating six other finalists with its Move2Change initiave.

Lismore Mayor Jenny Dowell thought the Lismore City Council was in the running to pick up an award when the Council were invited to sit on the head table with the Heart Foundation attendees. “It made me think, yes, we’re in with a chance, and I was thrilled when we won because it really acknowledged the work that we’ve done creating that Move2Change program.”

The program, targeted at people who normally don’t exercise, or eat as healthily as they might, allowed various sections of the community to attend classes for a subsidised amount of $2. “We offered the program to Aboriginal people, people with disabilities, the aged and the unemployed, and it gave them a chance to do classes such as water aerobics, or gym, or nutrition classes for a small amount of money,” says Dowell.

The program was a massive success. “It was very well subscribed,” says Dowell. “Lots of people undertook the program, and a lot of people have continued with the classes at a slightly higher rate. We’ve got community gardens planting and growing fresh food, then harvesting and sharing it at the gardens for people to take home, and I think it’s really proved once more what you can do when a community pulls together.”

Even starting excercise over 60 has a beneficial effect.

The Council has also put its money where its mouth is, quite literally. “We now have a Council Healthy Food Policy which is part of our sporting facilities, and of our own canteens,” Dowell says. “Also we’ve putting a lot more emphasis on the recreational side of family life such as walking paths in the area and bike tracks. Everything that gets people out there and being healthy. A lot of these things have come out of our debate around the design of public spaces, and what we are finding as these programs are self-sustaining. We’ve now trained our own fitness survivors of these course, and the program is reaching out to other areas like Clunes, Dunoon and Nimbin.”

Dowell feels it won’t be long before other councils will approach Lismore. “I believe that this program has the ability create long-lasting change,” she say. “We’ve got to be proud of that.”

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