In light of the recent United Nations climate report, it's important we all do our part to protect the environment. According to the report, we only have 12 years left to reverse climate change without creating catastrophic damage. If this disturbs you, I do have good news: You can make a difference. The battle has just begun, and we all need to take part in it this time around. Here are 5 ways you can reduce your carbon footprint and put a stop to climate change.

Wellness Wednesday Week 134: Big Toes Pose

Benefits:

Stretches back.

Opens chest.

Improves posture.

Foundation & General Alignment:

Start standing in mountain pose. Bend body forward at hips.

Feet are firmly planted into the ground.

Legs are straight and engaged.

Hips are pressing back .

Back is as straight as body allows.

Shoulders are back.

Arms are reaching forward and fingers are wrapping around big toes.

In the northern hemisphere, we’re coming into the darker time of year when the subconscious likes to make more of an appearance.  Sometimes, this manifests as nightmares.  And, while nightmares can be informative in terms of issues we may need to examine, especially if they’re recurring, sometimes they’re just plain problematic…causing distress and sleep disturbances.

Oh, the illusionary and all too persuasive frequency of worry. I know this one well. I remember walking into the living room when I was eight years old and the news was on. The news channel was reporting on global warming. Here I was 8 years old, born onto a planet that was going to cook itself into a slow and painful death?! I was horrified. I didn’t sleep well for months. My stomach hurt. My thoughts were consumed and thus began my first episode of a lifelong relationship with worry, the all too disempowering frequency of “what if.”

Many people, once they go vegan, can become stuck in a rut of making sweet breakfasts every day, be it through maple syrup-sweetened oatmeal, banana-based green smoothies, or hemp seed

If I were to ask you which foods you eat to stay grounded, it might at first seem like an abstract or rather woo-woo question. But in Ayurveda, seasonal foods like winter squash are thought to do just that.

Circadian rhythms have been long forgotten since technology slipped into our homes. We were once farmers, each one of our ancestors a direct descendant of an agriculturalist. This is not hyperbole; this is how we made it so far on our human journey.

The Full Moon in Cancer on December 22 arrives just hours after the Winter Solstice on December 21 and is the last Full Moon of 2018!

The Karmic Tools Weekly Forecast covers the current planetary transits which affect people in different ways and to various degrees of intensity.  Take notice when it is a Personal planet (Sun / Moon / Mercury / Venus / Mars) interacting with a Social (Jupiter/Saturn) or Collective planet (Uranus / Neptune/Pluto).  And pay extremely close attention when it is a Social planet interacting with a Collective planet because that means something *big* is brewing that will move large groups of people along their evolutionary paths. Tun

Planetary Transits & Cosmic Interplay for the week of Dec 2-8

Finally, this week we have the official end of this Mercury retrograde cycle.  Last week we had Mercury leaving Sagittarius where it was with Sun and Jupiter and bringing its distractions and disruptions.  When Mercury went retrograde into Scorpio it was the first sign of breaking up the distraction cycle that this retrogression period was all about.  Now, with it finally going direct again, we have the official end of this cycle.