If you’ve been feeling a bit peculiar since Saturday – no, you’re not nuts. Something has been going on in the heavens. We’ve all felt a shift. Venus stopped being in retrograde on the 29th of January and Mercury will be following her footsteps on the 3rd of February. Although there’s the popular assumption thatContinue reading “What exactly does Venus direct mean?”
Author Archives: Alexandra Tavenier
Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf & Existential Crisis
Steppenwolf is a thought-provoking novel on the spiritual depth of feeling stuck and seeing spirituality and intellect as dreadful hindrances that weigh you down to be an outcasted misfit. Harry Haller, a renounced intellectual who has lost everything, falls into an existential crisis. In an attempt to claw himself out of it, he only digsContinue reading “Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf & Existential Crisis”
Ahimsa and the Power of Reading
Ahimsa is a Sanskrit word that stands for “absence of injury”, an ancient concept that appeared in the Vedas – one of the sacred Hindu stories that has strongly influenced the philosophical school of yoga. It is also a concept mostly known for being part of the first eight limbs of yoga, Yama, which is the limb which focuses on practices related to self-regulation.
Masanobu Fukuoka’s Natural Farming & Climate Change
It doesn’t take much to worry about the future when you live in a climate crisis. The news and the countless documentaries on animal abuse and land exploitation only adds to this “eco-anxiety”. And although activists protest to make the voiceless heard, the government hardly lifts a finger to put a stop to the environmentalContinue reading “Masanobu Fukuoka’s Natural Farming & Climate Change”
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