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November Book Club: Belong: Find Your People, Create Community & Live a More Connected Life

Meeting: Saturday, November 24, 4:30PM

How is it that the internet connects us to a world of people, yet so many of us feel more isolated than ever? That we have hundreds, even thousands of friends on social media, but not a single person to truly confide in? Radha Agrawal calls this “community confusion,” and in Belong she offers every reader a blueprint to find their people and build and nurture community, because connectedness—as more and more studies show—is our key to happiness, fulfillment, and success.

A book that’s equal parts inspiring and interactive, and packed with prompts, charts, quizzes, and full-color illustrations, Belong takes readers on a two part journey. Part one is Going IN—a gentle but intentional process of self discovery and finding out your true energy levels and VIA (values, interests, and abilities). Part two is Going OUT—building on all that you’ve learned about yourself to find those few special people who feed your soul, and discovering, or creating, the ever-widening groups that align with your aims and desires.

As the Co-founder and CEO of the popular global morning dance community Daybreaker, Radha Agrawal developed an immense offline community with her team of Community Catalysts in 25 cities and on a dozen college campuses around the world by creating a physical space for people to connect, self-express, sweat, and dance. Now, Radha offers the life changing strategies, tips, and tricks for making friends that will light your fire and give you the exhale of “Ahh, I’m home.”

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November 2018 Astrological Awareness: Owning Your Shadow Side

By Tara Cady of Insights Outspoken

There’s a lot going on in the sky this November. A retrograde is happening every day in the 30-day month, but that’s no reason to be wary of the future or halt your positive movement forward.

Until November 16, Venus is retrograde. Starting November 16, Mercury is retrograde. Such celestial happenings encourage us to look within in the areas of relationships (Venus) and communication (Mercury). Of course, some events may happen TO us rather than WITHIN us, but we can circumvent that by being open to change and receptive of the lessons the universe is trying to teach.

Cosmic messages are most powerful at full moons, and the new moon is a time for acting on those messages. Whatever was learned during October’s Taurus Full Moon can certainly be approached on November 7, during the Scorpio New Moon.

Scorpio, where both the Sun and Moon reside on November 7, and where the Sun remains until November 22, is a fixed water sign. It is the power of moving water, harnessed like ice. Think of it as emotion buried deep. Your job during the Scorpio New Moon is to melt a little ice off and reveal, acknowledge and accept the darkness you’ve worked hard to keep hidden. The melting will signify a death to some depths and rebirth as things surface. Scorpio’s nature is secretive, stubborn and deep. Those attributes can help us be protective of our truth, but they can also aid in avoiding it. While it may not be time to share your depths with anyone but yourself, it is time to try healing what you’ve been hiding by bringing it to your conscious awareness.

More messages will come once the Sun leaves Scorpio and enters Sagittarius. The Gemini Full Moon arrives November 23,
bringing to focus elements of communication, including travel. However, our minds may not be focused at all — because the messages from the moon and people, places and things here on Earth can come so fast and frequent that it has a dizzying effect. The Mercury retrograde will not help this, nor will it allow us to deal with the messages until the planet of communication (Mercury) goes direct December 7. Luckily, that’s also the day of the next new moon, when action is more favorable.

For more astrological awareness, follow Insights Outspoken on Facebook.

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Is not this a true autumn day?

“Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”

[Letter to Miss Lewis, Oct. 1, 1841]
― George Eliot, George Eliot’s Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals – Volume 1

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October Book Club: Samhain: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Halloween

Meeting: Saturday, October 27, 2-3PM

Samhain Rituals, Recipes and Lore For Halloween by Diana Rajchel – is a fantastic book part of the Llewellyn Sabbat Essentials Series.

Samhain, pronounced “sah-wain”, is the final spoke in the Wheel of the Year. At this time, the harvest has finished and the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest. Learn about the history, as well as both serious and playful traditions associated with this holiday practiced around the world. This guide shows you how to practice the serious work of divination and honoring the dead along with the more lighthearted activated of Halloween.

Sections within the book: rituals, recipes, lore, spells, divination, crafts, correspondences, invocations, prayers, meditations and more!

Copies of the monthly title are available for purchase in store.

Meetings are free and open to the public. Stop by and get your copy today!