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A pretty intense day of cosmic happenings
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Night Sky of January is Magical 🤌🏻

🌕 January 3: Wolf Supermoon
The first Full Moon of 2026 is a massive Supermoon. It will appear up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than a micro-moon as it reaches its closest point to Earth.
👀 When and where: Visible globally. Look for it rising in the East just after sunset.

🌍 January 3: Earth at Perihelion
On this day, Earth reaches its maximum speed and closest distance to the Sun for the entire year—about 3 million miles closer than in July.
👀 When and where: This is a geometric event, not visible to the eye. Occurs at 15:15 GMT, but the Sun will look virtually the same size.

🌠 January 3-4: Quadrantids Meteor Shower
Usually one of the year's best showers, producing up to 120 meteors per hour. However, this year the bright light of the Supermoon will wash out fainter meteors.
👀 When and where: Best visibility is in the Northern Hemisphere in the early morning hours of January 4. Look toward the constellation Boötes (near the Big Dipper).

🌌 January 10: Jupiter at Opposition
The King of Planets is at its biggest and brightest for the year! Earth is passing directly between the Sun and Jupiter, making the giant planet fully illuminated.
👀 When and where: Visible all night long. It rises in the East at sunset, climbs highest around midnight, and sets in the West at sunrise.

🌑 January 18: New Moon
The first new moon of 2026: An opportunity to see faint celestial objects such as galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters.
👀 When and where: All night, worldwide

🌒 January 23: Moon Meets Saturn and Neptune
A beautiful celestial trio. The waxing crescent Moon hangs close to the ringed planet Saturn, with the distant ice giant Neptune hiding nearby.
👀 When and where: Look toward the Western horizon immediately after sunset. Saturn and the Moon are visible to the naked eye; you will need binoculars to spot Neptune.

Happy skygazing!

I believe this deeply. I am grateful to have walked through many a dark tunnel. I am glimpsing the light at the end of those tunnels and am walking in the sunshine of possibilities for the light, love, freedom and joy in my life.

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A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures ! #kindpeople #kindness #dubai #qoutes

Incredible celestial hapoening tomorrow!
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On October 14, a “ring of fire” solar eclipse will appear across the western United States, as well as in parts of Central and South America. This celestial phenomenon won’t occur in the continental U.S. again until 2039. Head to the link in bio to learn more and where you can experience it for yourself. Photograph by Visual China Group, Getty Images

Thanks Yoga By Melinda! I needed to reaffirm this today!

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Surrendering to Stillness
 
Feeling frazzled
I escaped to my refuge-
a hidden trail nearby.
 
Engulfed in the comforting canopy
sparkling shafts of light filtering through
a pleasant heaviness enveloped me,
melting me more deeply
into Mother Earths’ embrace.
 
Surrendering to the stillness,
the blessed aloneness
I exhaled the dulling voices of
negativity and judgement.
Ahhhh…
 
But I was not alone!
As if from thin air
A solitary doe appeared
I gasped in awe.
 
I froze, as did she
A silent truce was struck,
our deep brown eyes locked
in unspoken communication.
 
I was as captivated by her
as she was by me.
An unexpected connection
between a maiden deer
and a wizened woman?
Now that doesn’t happen every day!
 
A gentle rustling of footsteps
woke us from our shared trance.
We slowly, reluctantly retreated
from our sweet reverie.
 
Was our chance meeting
a mere coincidence
or was it meant to be?
Heeding my strong urge to
rise early and take that solitary hike
was no accident – it was serendipity.
 
Those magical moments
of unexpected connection
still tug at my heartstrings
when least expected
when most needed
to soothe to my weary soul.

Deb Vaughan Ritter 2022

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As if the lunar eclipse wasn’t spectacular enough, the Universe followed up with this breathtaking “curtain call” 👍🙏✨

I have been a student of Eckhardt Tolle’s teachings for years and have found them to be amazingly life-changing. I highly recommend his book “A New Earth” and this course.

I manifested my book “Moving Free-A Trail Guide for Your Ascending Journey” after embracing his principles for living. I celebrate the that has become a natural and frequent occurrence in my life!

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I adore this tribute to Kahlil Gabran that my dear cousin Kathryn Trusty just posted. It’s time for me to read “The Prophet” again!

He was called "filthy" because his skin was dark, unintelligent because he could barely speak English. When he arrived in this country, he was placed in a special class for immigrants. But, a few of his teachers saw something in the way he expressed himself, through his drawings, through his view of the world. He would soon master his new language.
His mother had made a difficult decision to take him, his two younger sisters and a half-brother to America, seeking a better life for their family. They settled in Boston's South End, at the time the second-largest Syrian-Lebanese-American community. The family would struggle and the young boy would lose one sister and his half-brother to tuberculosis. His mother would die of cancer.

He would write, “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

He was born in poverty on January 6, 1883 in what is now modern day Lebanon.

He believed in love, he believed in peace, and he believed in understanding.

His name was Kahlil Gibran, and he is primarily known for his book, "The Prophet." The book, published in 1923, would sell tens of millions of copies, making him the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi.

Published in 108 languages around the world, passages from "The Prophet" are quoted at weddings, in political speeches and at funerals, inspiring influential figures such as John F. Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and David Bowie.

He was very outspoken, attacking hypocrisy and corruption. His books were burned in Beirut, and in America, he would receive death threats.

Gibran was the only member of his family to pursue scholastic education. His sisters were not allowed to enter school, primarily because of Middle Eastern traditions as well as financial difficulties. Gibran, however, was inspired by the strength of the women in his family, especially his mother. After one sister, his mother, and his half-brother died, his other sister, Mariana would support Gibran and herself by working at a dressmaker's shop.

Of his mother, he would write:

"The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word 'Mother,' and the most beautiful call is the call of 'My mother.' It is a word full of hope and love, a sweet and kind word coming from the depths of the heart. The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness."

Gibran would later champion the cause of women’s emancipation and education.

He believed that “Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”

In a poem to new immigrants, he would write, "I believe you can say to the founders of this great nation. 'Here I am. A youth. A young tree. Whose roots were plucked from the hills of Lebanon. Yet I am deeply rooted here. And I would be fruitful.'"

He would write in "The Prophet":

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”

Some things never change! From 7 to 70ish...I have always found refuge in the “arms” of a tree.

(When I was a child, I often escaped to my favorite willow tree close to our home. During this pandemic, I found comfort in a majestic tree in Loose Park.)