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Ask Phyllis…Astrology and Beyond

Dear Phyllis:

Did something just change astrologically? I feel kind of hopeful and excited. But so many things have fallen apart in the past few months I’m almost afraid to believe life could be moving ahead.

Signed,
Tentatively Excited.

Dear Go ahead and be Excited…

Yes! New possibilities and fresh energies are forming that can help us (finally!) move forward in our relationships, attitudes and goals. Venus the planet of Love, and Mars the planet of Action are both entering the dynamic sign of Aries. They can work wonders to awaken a gutsy empowerment that urges us to initiate something new and exciting in our lives.

Venus in Aries through June 6th can really enliven our relationships! Many will feel more assertive and adventuresome with others. Sexier, too. Since Aries is the ‘Me First’ sign, we’ll also be more likely to speak up for what we really want and need. Done with loving, this can refresh existing relationships and spark compelling new connections.

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Meacham: The End of Christian America

Meacham | Newsweek.com: “It was a small detail, a point of comparison buried in the fifth paragraph on the 17th page of a 24-page summary of the 2009 American Religious Identification Survey. But as R. Albert Mohler Jr.—president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the largest on earth—read over the document after its release in March, he was struck by a single sentence. For a believer like Mohler—a starched, unflinchingly conservative Christian, steeped in the theology of his particular province of the faith, devoted to producing ministers who will preach the inerrancy of the Bible and the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the only means to eternal life—the central news of the survey was troubling enough: the number of Americans who claim no religious affiliation has nearly doubled since 1990, rising from 8 to 15 percent. Then came the point he could not get out of his mind: while the unaffiliated have historically been concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, the report said, ‘this pattern has now changed, and the Northeast emerged in 2008 as the new stronghold of the religiously unidentified.’ As Mohler saw it, the historic foundation of America’s religious culture was cracking.”

(Via Newsweek.)