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After a very long winter and a chilly spring marred by an unprecedented assault on the cherished Boston Marathon, this summer is the time for New Englanders to relax their shoulders and let their hair down...

Spirit of Change advertising director Michella Bedrosian, daughter of publisher Carol Bedrosian, married Steven Brudner in Whitinsville, MA on June 30, 2012.

"No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities." — Joseph Campbell

As winter's cold settles across New England, overhead the stars portend change. The precarious state of many governments, institutions, corporations and households confirms life is indeed a delicate proposition.

My article in Spirit of Change holistic magazine (Summer 2011), "EMF Overload: Tempest of the 21st Century" contained an error. The Pericardium meridian, which mediates hormone balance, was incorrectly identified as a yang meridian, when it is in fact a yin meridian.

As loyal readers of this column know, nations as well as individuals — anything with a beginning birth time and place — have horoscopes.

The old year is ending, its daylight hours dwindling until the winter solstice, when once again the life-affirming...

"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring."

During the nearly four decades that I have been studying and interpreting the secret meanings written in the stars...

Dear Carol Bedrosian,After reading your article about the Armenians, I just could not believe the horror of “man’s inhumanity to man!” Makes Hitler seem like a Sunday school teacher! We are afraid of offending military bases and oil interests? Nuts!

Actually, "organic" milk needs a dispensation to be called organic.

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." — Abraham Lincoln, a Sun sign Pisces (February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865)

I'm reading your September issue with great interest — it is a subject dear to my heart, and by and large, I think you've done a great job. I particularly liked "Zero Waste in Your Town", "The Softer Side of Bamboo," and the green ideas articles.

“Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.” — Yoko Ono

“A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.” — Kahlil Gibran

In the wake of the renewed hope much of the world is experiencing following our presidential election...

California State Senator Dean Florez introduced a bill that would end the barbaric...

The Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) in Greenfield, MA

As I sit here writing about the springtime stars, temperatures are hovering in the single digits.

The day that my Yorkshire terrier, Parker, was diagnosed with GME (granulomatous meningoencephalomyelitis), causing rapidly growing brain lesions, was the scariest day of my life.

Maya medicine for many thousands of years has a sort of trinity formed by Mother Ixchel, and the great couple of Citbolontún and Itzamná. These last two worked to discover the medicinal strengths of plants.

Every patient is looking for a good healer. Even the healthy ones are too. But few realize a healer can only do so much for them. Yes, herbs, pills, surgery, acupuncture…these all help.

I received my copy of the Spring edition yesterday afternoon, and as usual, I began at the beginning your "Musings."

Dear Editor, The open letter from Sharon Olds in the December issue touched a cord somewhere deep in me, and brought a tear to my eye.