Are you ready to manifest positive changes in your life? Are you ready to awaken the divine within? Are you ready to stand in your truth and be your authentic self?

Being fully present allows you to connect to your higher self and manifest positive changes in your life. My intention for this workshop is to create an opportunity for true healing and transformation. This workshop is about Awakening and connecting your Past, Present and Future self to become One. I will create sacred space,lead you through a guided meditation of self-awareness and offer a gift of healing.

I will invite you to experience the joy of spiritual Oneness that begins with a journey to the center of your soul. Unmask your hidden treasures. ...unveil your own authentic self...discover a blissful connection to the divine….tap into your inner wisdom and Awaken!

In this workshop

I will….

* Describe the attributes of Personal Power necessary to sustain your growth over time
* Identify signs that it is time to call in Past-Present-Future self
* Provide techniques that can be used as a ritual to create Oneness
* Create Sacred Space for a Healing Ritual
* Guide you through a Journey to the Center of Your Core
* Channel Reiki Energy Healing to Group

You will….

*Return to your body fully Awake and Present
*Bring journal to write your messages and experience

After the workshop, you will be able to utilize the tools learned and begin a new path of self-discovery and empowerment.

Workshop Logistics:
Day: Thursday, November 13, 2008
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. (2 hours)

Location:
Serpent’sKiss
2015 N. Pacific Ave. (at the clocktower)
Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060

Fee: $50 ($45 if registered by11/01/08) Price includes: $10 Gift Certificate for healing treatment with Luna.
Bring: Journal or Book of Shadows

To register for workshop please call: Serpent’s Kiss at (831) 423-5477(KISS)

As I sit here reading about Mesoamerica Jaguar Folklore, it has occurred to me that I have been connected to Jaguar, before I began to practice ancient ways. I am an Eclectic Witch that acquires wisdom from shamanic journeying, ancient tribes on the other side, ritual and community elders. You can be a believer, or a non-believer. I cannot deny My Truth.

In a sense, it is She that has lead me down this path of unearthing. It is said that the jaguar is the protector of shamans as they journey between the realms. I know in my dream state and shamanic journeying She remains with me. I have bared witness to her strength.

The draw to Jaguar is becoming very clear to me now. I am a Jaguar Shaman for She has chosen Me. It is solid proof that ancestral teachings travel in our genetic code and soul making us in a sense Eternal.

This is the program you want to check out!! I also have great news about this program. Sylvia Brallier has given me the honor of being one of the mentors for the program. The cost is $200 for each individual course. I have been given an opportunity to offer a sliding scale on this fee.

To find out more information on sliding scale you can either send me an email, or go directly to www.anamcara-course.com/course...-info-0 and reference Luna. I will respond with details.

Here is more information on the program direct from website:

The Anamcara Life Empowerment Program
This program is an extra-ordinary opportunity to make significant progress on your spiritual path and experience personal transformation on every level. Learn simple spiritual development methods that will fast forward your personal growth. Leap beyond where you have been before.

Reading books is like reading a medicine bottle. You will only get well if you take the medicine. These courses are for people who want to EXPERIENCE transformation, not just learn about it on an intellectual level. We wish to offer a sacred space dor you to dive in and receive gifts of awakened consciousness and cosmic balance. This program offers the tools to alter your life for the better. We want to help you to make tangible changes so you may live your dreams.

WHAT ASPECTS OF YOUR LIFE WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRANSFORM??

See Mars Now: Red Planet Shines Bright Joe Rao
SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
SPACE.com
Fri Dec 14, 6:15 AM ET

Mars will be closer to Earth this month than any time until the year 2016.

The red planet is now the brightest "star" in the evening sky and is already above the horizon as evening twilight fades away. But give it at least two more hours – until about 8 p.m. – for it to climb above the poor atmospheric seeing that's near the horizon. By then, this brilliant yellow-orange world will be at an altitude of around 30 degrees as seen from mid-northern latitudes.


Your clenched fist held at arm's length is roughly equal to 10 degrees, so by 8 p.m. Mars will be about "three-fists" up from the east-northeast horizon. Mars appears much sharper and steadier when it crosses the southern meridian, about a half hour after local midnight. Its altitude as seen from most mid-northern latitudes is then about 75-degrees (more than "seven fists" up from the southern horizon).


Mars is retrograding (moving westward) through the stars of Gemini and will cross over into Taurus on Dec. 30. It will come closest to the Earth on the night of Dec. 18 (around 6:46 p.m. EST). The planet is then 54,783,381 miles (88,165,305 kilometers) from Earth. It is at opposition – exactly opposite from the sun, with Earth in the middle – six days later, on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24.

It will then gleam at magnitude -1.6, and through Jan. 2, 2008, will outshine Sirius, the brightest star.

Telescope time

Anyone who has a telescope, no matter how modest it may be, will surely be seeing what it can do with Mars right now. No doubt telescopic observers everywhere will be spying out Mars' bright polar areas and dark surface markings. So don't let your scope sit idle, even though the planet will appear small and details might be difficult to discern on nights of less than excellent seeing.


A good 4-inch telescope equipped with an eyepiece magnifying 120-power should show Mars' dwindling north polar cap and at least a few dark features on those nights when the atmosphere is steady.

During January, Mars departs Earth's vicinity as rapidly as it arrived. It will increase its distance from 56.7 to 72.3 million miles (91.2 to 116.3 million kilometers) and in the process will fade almost a full magnitude, from -1.5 to -0.6. But at the same time, Mars will be very well placed for convenient viewing.


Unlike earlier in the fall, you won't have to get up in the early morning hours to see it high in the sky. Mars will be due south just after 11 p.m. on New Year's night, and around 8:45 p.m. at the end of January.


The night that Mars will probably attract the most attention, from even those who don't normally look up at the sky, will be on the night before Christmas Eve: Sunday, Dec. 23. That will be the night of a full moon, and Mars will serve as a companion to it all through that night. In fact, it will result in an exceptionally close approach between the two across much of the United States, while for parts of the Pacific Northwest, southern and western Canada and Europe, the moon will actually occult (hide) Mars.

Online Sky Maps and More Sky Calendar & Moon Phases Astrophotography 101

Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for The New York Times and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York.

Original Story: See Mars Now: Red Planet Shines Bright

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Wed Nov 28, 6:37 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Nearby Venus is looking a bit more Earth-like with frequent bursts of lightning confirmed by a new European space probe.

For nearly three decades, astronomers have said Venus probably had lightning — ever since a 1978 NASA probe showed signs of electrical activity in its atmosphere. But experts weren't sure because of signal interference.

Now a magnetic antenna on the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe proved that the lightning was real.

"We consider this to be the first definitive evidence of abundant lighting on Venus," David Grinspoon of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science told reporters Wednesday at a briefing in Paris.

The finding is significant because lightning affects atmospheric chemistry, so scientists will have to take it into account as they try to understand the atmosphere and climate of Venus, he said.

The lightning is cloud-to-cloud and about 35 miles above the surface, said University of California, Los Angeles geophysics professor C.T. Russell, lead author of a paper on the Venusian fireworks. It is being published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

Bursts of electrical energy from lightning are something that scientists have long theorized could provide the spark of life in primordial ooze.

But not on Venus.

"If life was ever something serious to talk about on Venus, it would be early in its history, not in its current state," said Sean Solomon of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who was not part of the research team. "It's a very unforgiving atmosphere."

The idea of Earth-like lightning is fascinating, Russell said. However, you couldn't see it from Venus' surface, nor would you want to look because the Venusian atmosphere is 100 times more dense than Earth's, is about 900 degrees hotter and has clouds of sulfuric acid, he said.

"It may be Earth's 'evil twin,' but it is in many respects Earth's twin," Russell said.

What excites astronomers most about the lightning discovery is simply the coolness factor.

Venus' weather forecasts have long thought to be "kind of boring ... steady winds for the next 400 years," said Allan Treiman, a senior scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, who isn't affiliated with the research. The idea of lightning, he said, adds a spark to Venus' weather.
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AP science writer Malcolm Ritter in New York contributed to this report.
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On the Net:
Nature: www.nature.com/nature
Venus Express: www.esa.int/venus