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This is a question that everyone first asks when they look at affirmations. They say – how can they work – they’re only words? They say – it’s all just positive thinking for the chattering classes – rubbish! To be honest, I’ve heard them all and more – some too rude to write down here for your tender eyes.

So, let’s start by ascertaining what an Affirmation really is. The Concise Oxford Dictionary says: a statement of fact; a strong assertion. (Note the word “strong”, there). It is also a legal statement for those who do not wish to make a religious declaration in court, but that’s not what I’m talking about here. It seems that ANY statement we make strongly about ourselves as if it were true is an affirmation – and nowhere does the definition mention positive thinking!

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I’m not sure if you buy anything on the internet other than perhaps books and CDs at Amazon but if you do , read on…..

A friend mentioned this online shopping to me and showed me that I could earn money, much like loyalty points at Tesco but instead its real money they send you.

The whole purpose of the online shop is that you use it for self consumption. You don’t have to get anyone else to buy stuff from your shop you just join for free and then whenever you want to buy anything you simply do it through your own Ei42 shop and you earn yourself a commission.

How EASY is that?

The REALLY good news is that we are all able to refer other friends and family to join us. There really is nothing to lose, we all help each other. Click the banner below to see my shop and to find out more click the “Find out more” link at the top right of the page.

Everybody seems to be talking about this and it’s growing really quickly. If you consider how many people joined ‘facebook’ for social networking last year, (in the UK alone it was about 20,000 per day!) imagine how many will join this where we can all earn money?

Click the link above and join now then pass it on to your friends. This is NEW and we are some of the first to know about it so we have an unfair advantage at the moment.

See you at the shops!

This article offers a way of achieving complete freedom from the grind of failing relationships. In fact, what is going to be written here should be taught from the moment we come into the world until the day we leave it.There are many different kinds of relationships – there are friendships, acquaintances, neighbours, colleagues, parents and children; and, of course, the biggie – life partners, whether married, live-in, or even, divorced. Then we have relationships with the people who run our services, such as supermarket cashiers, staff, utility workers, medical practitioners and dentists. We even have relationships with our cats, dogs, horses, rabbits and other pets.  

And in every single one of those relationships described above, we have expectations from them and of them. In other words we expect them to behave in a certain way, and when they don’t, as inevitably they won’t, we are disappointed and blame them. The result being that the relationship becomes an unhappy one. 

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A couple of weeks ago I launched my Mentoring Program and everyone said “eh?” – that’s a direct quote by the way. Then they said – “ooh sounds way too scary – what is it and what will you do to me?”

So, this post is to answer those very British questions. 

And, first of all, I do nothing to you at all. I do very little – it’s you who does the work – I simply mentor. I act as a mirror – that’s what mentor means, by the way – to show.

We all, including me (or even especially me!!) have inner voices that swim beneath the surface in the undertow of our unconscious mind, drip feeding the old self-defeating statements that have been there for what seems like forever. They are designed to keep us less than we could be, helpless and dumb. Such statements always have their roots in childhood – things that the kids at school sniggered at us, out of their own insecurities; things that parents and siblings said, often unthinkingly, though not always. We took them as gospel and believed that they said something about our intrinsic value as individuals. And guess what – they said nothing about who we were then or who we are now. And yet, the voices go on unheard and powerful, keeping us hooked in.

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 There is a move afoot to bring the date of Easter to a regular weekend in April, so that people know exactly when they can book their Spring holidays. This would be a shame because it would be yet another way in which modern society is being disconnected from its relationship with the heavens.

The origins of Easter lie far beyond the present era – far back in pagan times when the relationship between the Sun and Moon were markers for specific annual festivals. From our earliest history mankind has celebrated Easter, the period of highest fertility for all the creatures in the Northern Hemisphere and the strengthening of the Sun’s light. This festival is associated with rebirth, the arising of life after the death of winter. The roots of most Christian festivals can be found to have pagan origins and Easter is no exception.

The culture that eventually grew into the peoples of the Old Testament celebrates Passover at the same period as Easter. In fact, in the New Testament, Jesus is tried and put to death at the beginning of Passover. Therefore, the date of Passover itself is calculated by the same rules that we use to calculate Easter.

These ancient cultures all used a Lunar calendar – and many still do today. This means that the phases of the Moon, both New and Full, form the basis for all dating of events. Passover falls on the first Full Moon in Libra – which means that the Sun has to be in Aries and the Moon in the opposite side of the sky. Lunar phases are not regular and predictable like Solar phases – we always know when the Sun will enter a particular part of the sky, for example, because it visits the same degree of the Ecliptic (or Zodiac) on a specific date of the year. This is why birthdays are important. However, the Moon changes sign every two and a half days and presents her face to the Sun irregularly. 

The Moon’s complete cycle around the Zodiac is 28 days and the Sun’s complete cycle takes a whole year. Therefore the days when the Moon is either New (in the same place as the Sun) or Full (placed in the opposite side of the sky) have to be recalculated for every festival. 

Another thing that’s worth mentioning here, is that many people have tried many times to calculate the exact date of the Crucifixion by the dates of a Solar Eclipse in the early years of our Common Era. The Bible states that “darkness fell over the land” when Jesus died on the cross. This is not possible historically, as a Solar Eclipse can only happen when the New Moon passes over the exact same latitude of the Ecliptic occupied by the Sun, thus extinguishing its light by coming between the Earth and the Sun. And a New Moon at Passover is not possible as it is always celebrated on the Full Moon. A Lunar Eclipse can only be seen at night.

So, each year Easter is celebrated from the first Friday after the Full Moon in Libra – which is a moveable feast that connects us with our most ancient spiritual roots. And that connection must be maintained lest we lose sight of the importance of the Cosmos in our everyday lives.

 I watched the DVD “Elizabeth the Golden Years” yesterday evening -  1st March, 2008  – and saw various news flashes throughout the last few days that were about one of our youngest Royals, Prince Harry.

In my work as an astrologer, I have often written about the British Royal Family – mainly because their birth times are accurately recorded, which makes my life much  more simple as events can be timed more acutely. And no-one fascinates the British Public more than Queen Elizabeth the First – the fiery, brilliant, red-headed “Virgin” Queen.

The term Virgin describes the fact that she was born under the sign of Virgo, rather than being ‘intacta’. However, she did milk the ambiguity somewhat. In an age when astrological symbolism was the lingua franca in court circles at the time, everyone got the joke!!

Elizabeth Tudor was born to be Queen. She was born under the joint influences of Sun in Virgo, Moon in Taurus and Ascendant in Capricorn – all three of them ruled by the element of Earth. Good practical, level-headed stuff, that takes nothing for granted, well able to read the small print on any document and doesn’t get caught up with emotional issues.

That is all I’m going to say on this chart at the moment because I want to get to another Royal personage who has been filling our TV screens and news media these last few days.

And that’s Prince Harry – soldier, hero and all round good egg!!

Another red-headed Royal with Sun in Virgo (only a day different from Elizabeth Tudor’s Sun), with his Moon also in Taurus and Ascendant also in Capricorn. Although he inherits his grandmother, Elizabeth Windsor’s Capricorn Ascendant, it is her Sun that is placed in Taurus – Harry’s Moon sign. Therefore they share very close psycho-genes.

However, his chart is almost identical to that of Elizabeth Tudor. This makes me ask the obvious question – will Harry become King of the United Kingdom?

It is important to realise that Astrology transcends bloodlines – there is no direct physical genetic link between our present day Royal Family and the Tudors. However, in some unseen manner, shared planetary positions between people seem to hint at another hand possibly directing the affairs of humankind. We only have to look at similar planetary links in adoptive families to wonder at the mystery of existence. 

Could his older brother back down from succeeding – in other words could emotional, romantic William follow his mother, Princess Diana and Great-Uncle King Edward the Eighth into a choice between love and duty and let love win?

Wills has a very sensitive Cancer Sun and Moon in the element of Water – born on the day of a  Total Solar Eclipse, which is a highly intense aspect. King Edward’s Sun was in watery Pisces, Diana’s Sun was like Will’s in Cancer – therefore Will’s psycho-genes are very definitely inherited from her. So, to sum up – water signs suggest a life run by feeling values whereas Earth signs suggest the importance of  practical values.

With Pluto the planet of profound changes, transitions and irrevocable endings now entering Capricorn, the sign associated with institutions – it looks as if all collective structures like major oil companies, banks, old universities and old family dynasties are going to suffer massive challenges over the next 15 years.

I do think that the Royal Family will undergo a huge shift through this period and maybe not so far into the future. Prince William’s Sun (the heart of every chart) is now being called on by Pluto through 2008 and 2009.

Like anyone else born around 20-22nd June, he is being challenged to admit his true longings and follow his deepest desires. This aspect, because Pluto falls on the opposite side of the Zodiac to his Sun, would suggest that the arena for this drama is likely to be marriage. In a couple of years along the line Pluto will then call on his Moon which will really change his family life forever and could suggest the birth of children but may not include Kingship!

Please feel free to make a comment on this article – I look forward to hearing your views.

Dawne Kovan
www.dawnekovan.com