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Review: New Moon Life Design
Title: New Moon Life Design: Manifest the Life You Want Using Lunar Cycles, Tarot and Astrology Author: Yesbelt Fernandez Publisher: Weiser Books Date: April 1, 2026 Pages: 256 Yesbelt Fernandez presents a year-long practice incorporating the powers of lunar cycles, astrology, and tarot to take readers from where they are in life to where they want to be. Each twenty-nine-and-a-half days comprise what she calls a “moonth,” during which the moon moves through eight phases and all twelve zodiac signs. Aligning intentions with these ever-changing energies creates a natural rhythm, and using that energy can make life easier. The first three chapters introduce her “Big Three” foundational tools: lunar cycles…
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A Stoic Discourse for Modern Pagans, Polytheists, and Magickal Folks
You have power over your mind-not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Stoicism has gotten its fair share of criticisms throughout history; oft misunderstood as a “stone cold, calculated” philosophy, many believe that Stoics, both ancient and modern, are unfeeling, cold and calculated people. That’s farthest from the truth; Stoics, both now and in the times of Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus, do most certainly feel and process their feelings, just not in the way that current society expects them to do so. Instead of suppressing those emotions, the modern, and thus, Christian, practice of “turning the other cheek”, we instead remove ourselves (how about you look…
