KarmaLove, Author at Karma Yoga Center

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“Choose Wisely…”

Namaste Friends,
Michael’s 50th birthday was yesterday August 26th! Happy Birthday to my soulmate, my halfside, my dearest friend. Michael is a special breed, in that I know very few people who have his discipline and devotion and discernment. He is a pure Virgo through and through.
We just entered Virgo season on the 22nd of August, which is about the same time that everyone gets back to school and their routines. Summer is ramping down and the steadiness of fall is slowly rolling in. Gladly so.

It gets to be too much to be constantly in social mode or go-go gadget mode-to use the catch phrase of days gone by. Its important to find some down time and quiet the mind.

The wheel is turning toward fall equinox this month. We come into equal days and nights. We start to find some balance and rhythm again after a long exhilarating play in the summer sun.

Its not surprising that in the late summer we transition from Leo, the sun sign, to Virgo, the sign of discernment, discipline, and devotion. Its time to turn our gaze inward toward our spiritual heart (hridyam) to get clear, centered, and connected to our True Self, or our High Self.

Virgo means “One who chooses Themselves”. The symbol depicts a beautiful maiden holding a sheath of wheat with a halo of light around her. The vestal virgin archetype. These young girls were chosen to hold the torch for living a pure and chaste life-in efforts to keep the pure goodness of life alive and well. They were taught discernment around the choices we are given in life. They are able to hold themselves steady and true to their heart while they review their choices.

As we enter the sign of Virgo-the Universe is asking us to look through this lens right now. The Sun is shining in Virgo saying this is the focus people: make good choices and put your health and wellbeing as a high priority.

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Astrology Forecast Aug 27 – Sep 26 2026 | Powerful But Peaceful…Sthiram Sukham

Hello Cosmic Yogis~
There is a principle in yoga called “sthiram sukham” which means steadiness and ease. It can be considered another way to say “Yang/Yin” or perhaps “powerful but peaceful.” This is the way of the spiritual warrior and the initiate on the path to self-realization. One needs strength, steadiness (without tension), and will. This is balanced with grace, ease (without dullness), and flow. This principle applies at all levels of being, from the physical to the mental to the spiritual/astrological. In the Taoist tradition, you can say this is walking the middle way. This is always the dharma for all beings, but it is particularly poignant this lunar cycle.
The Pisces Full Moon arrives on Aug 27, with a partial lunar eclipse at 10:12 pm MST (visible in Colorado), opposed by the Sun and Mercury in Virgo. Here, Pisces is the sukam and peace. We are being asked to be peaceful and to trust our inner world, which is the Moon. Our outer self, the Sun, is being asked to stay determined, take action, be steady, and choose wisely. This is Virgo energy. It is a north node eclipse, so we are letting go of old shame and guilt and stepping into grace.
One of the bigger energies of the Month, Year and Decade is Jupiter Trine Saturn on Aug 31. Jupiter and Saturn have a 20-year cycle of consciousness that measures the decades and the rhythm of society. These two planets cunjucted in February 2020- along with Pluto in Capricorn. This was a challenging start to a cycle of purification for individuals and society. As they evolved, a square in 2025 brought pressure as a result of the last 5 years. Now this cycle has opened to the first trine and is a release, an ease, and an opportunity for change and movement in a harmonious way. Saturn is the energy of steadiness, direction, power, and karma. Jupiter is the ease, the flow, the peace, and the dharma. This is a mystical time of sthiram sukham and walking the middle way. It is also a harmonic and magical time for change, movement and fruition…

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Astrology Forecast Aug 2026 | Life is an Odyssey of the Soul, Stay in Your Heart and The Way Will Unfold

Hello Cosmic Yogis~
July is a transformational month of Truth, Revelation, and Heart Awakening. Let’s start big and then hone in. Many consider — as we do — that we are in the Aquarian Age, nearly through the chaotic shift out of the Piscean Age of the last 2,000+ years. We are also in the cosmic yuga of Ascending Dwapara, which is like the end of winter and the start of spring, but stretched across 4,000 years. The convergence of these two cosmic eons marks incredible shifts in consciousness. From 2012 to 2025 we moved through a crucial passage of these ages, one that presented many of the themes to be resolved in the times ahead. Now, in July, we’ve reached a way-marker point where these shifts move into second gear and become much more real. Starting with the rare alignment of the outer planets, all at 4° of their respective signs, forming the perfect angles of a hexagon. This geometry in the sky is deeply harmonizing, materializing spiritual energies onto the third-dimensional plane — in short, it is like lightning manifesting throughout the field. Received with an open heart, it is revelatory, liberating, and revealing. Received with resistance, it can look like fighting and turmoil. Let’s break it down.
It all begins with the Capricorn Strawberry Full Moon of June 29, complemented by the Cancer New Moon on July 14. The Cancer–Capricorn axis is one of security — the inner child and the inner parent. Many themes are surfacing around whether we are able to self-soothe and calm our own inner waters without projecting or seeking someone else to do it for us. While this may sound mundane, it is truly the key to these great shifts into Aquarian awareness. We must learn to calm the waters within our own hearts and stop blaming or searching outward for others to fix them.

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“Things Are Looking Up!”

Namaste Friends,
We are camping again-4th time out this year. This time we are out for two full weeks! Our campsite is far enough to get away from the noise and hustle of the city, but close enough that we can still drive in to work as needed. I was telling my mom the other day that I can totally feel a difference in my energy when the majority of my day is spent outside in the quiet looking at blue skies, clouds, stars, lakes, hundreds of trees and tons of wildlife; unbridled nature rejuvenates my soul. No sirens, no billboards, no traffic, no technology, no concrete and very few distractions-my nervous system instantly goes into parasympathetic or rest and digest mode. I don’t remember where I read this, but I remember this line distinctly-“One doesn’t go out into nature, we are nature.” When we visit the wild places of earth, we remember a part of ourselves that gets lost in the fray of life.

Its this lost or forgotten part of ourselves that we desperately need to bring back into our awareness. In the Taoist tradition, they call it Wu Wei- pronounced “woo way”. It is where we get the term “wooey” as in “She likes all that spiritual wooey stuff”.

One of my favorite philosophers of all time is Alan Watts-he had an elegantly cheeky style like only a Brit can do, yet he was deeply profound and his insights poked holes into the fabric of some of our misaligned cultural norms-particularly our overzealous, puritanical indoctrination. He often wrote on the“nature” of things-This is a quote from his Three Theories of Nature-Letters from his Collected Works:
“Nature — human nature included — is an organism, and an organism is a system of orderly anarchy. There is no boss in it, but it gets along by being left alone and being allowed to do its stuff. That’s what the Chinese Taoist philosophy calls wu wei (無爲), which means — not ‘doing nothing’ — but ‘not interfering with the course of events.’ Not acting against the grain.”

In other words, Wu Wei is going with the natural flow of things. Take a river for example-the snow melts, it fills the alpine lakes and they overflow and the excess water finds the easiest pathway down the mountain forming the river bed, water falls, etc…ultimately heading toward the oceans. That is the natural flow of things.
When we are wooey, we too follow the natural flow of life-its called following our intuition.

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Astrology Forecast: May 31 –June 30, 2026 | Uranus Reveals & Chiron Heals

Hello Cosmic Yogis~
Welcome to the eye of the storm…this is a time of initiation. The time of change has arrived and we are all standing in the eye of god, the bindu, the center point and the place of creation. Around movement, shift and change, but whether you remember it or not you are the agent of change. Your sacred gift is that your inner still heart is the eternal place of creation and peace. First, find center and allow the geometry of creation to flow from you magical hridyam heart, both silent and sonorous. The Aquarius Age is upon us, and this month of May is a threshold moment.

We begin with the Scorpion Full Moon on May 1, the sign of the Soul. It is the mystical quarter season of Beltane- the shining fire of the sacred feminine and masculine in union- both still and effulgent with life. It is also Vesak or Buddha Purnima- Buddha’s birthday and his death day or Maha Samadhi. Time for an initiation to go deep and resurrect your spiritual heritage and be the light.
May 6 – Oct 15 is Pluto retrograde in Aquarius. A spring, summer, and fall of finding, remembering, and being the Soul of wherever you stand, as the Sufi mystic Rumi guides. This is a cycle of awakening on our planet. A cycle within a cycle. a summer within a great Age of 2000+ years.

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“I AM THAT, THAT I AM”

Namaste Friends!
Summertime is official in just a few weeks. Daytime is extended by a couple hours on each end and I love having the extra light. For some reason, the more light we have in a day, the more energy I have to do things.

Conversely, in the dark season of winter, when the sun goes down at 4:30, I am ready for bed shortly after-I often crawl into my warm bed and am resting my bones by 6pm with a good book and a cup of tea.

But now I am crawling into bed much later, around 11pm and I don’t feel exhausted. The natural world instinctually adjusts to the light. So should we, hence it is very important that we have ample outside time in a day-regardless of what season it is-so that we can attune and align with the natural forces of Spirit. Nature Is Spirit.

The yogis call it Prakriti-its the totality of creation in either its seed form or potential or its physical form or manifestation. Its hard to imagine this, but there are many things in Creation that haven’t been “born” yet, they are energies that are held as potentials that can come into the physical plane, but haven’t been conceived yet. These are TBD-depending on our behavior and collective karmas.
And then there is all that has come into manifestation already-the plant and animal kingdom, the celestial bodies, the world we see and live within-all the inventions, the arts and music, the infrasturctures- everything we see and know as life. Prakriti is the great mother of all life as we know it. Born and unborn. She is Mother Nature.

Prakriti comes from Purusha. Purusha is more challenging to explain because it is the ALL-the yogis actually say it is the unnameable because there isn’t a word that can capture all that it is…but it is similar to what we might call Source, Spirit, Supreme Being, God. It is all-knowing, all-seeing, and ever-present-it has always been-and it will always be-yet it isn’t an entity and it doesn’t have a form. And, it dwells in all creation-every single being carries Purusha within themselves. It does not create or manifest, that is Prakriti-but it is the essence of everything created-including Prakriti. And it is Pure Consciousness itself. In Dr. Frawley’s book, Yoga and Ayurveda he defines Purusha as such:
“Purusha/Pure Consciousness is the ultimate principle behind the universe, which in its marvelous order reflects the workings of a supreme intelligence. Pure consciousness is the source of all subjectivity or sense of self through which we feel alive and can act independently. We all feel ourselves as conscious individuals and not as mere objects or instruments. This is our connection with the Purusha within us, also called the Atman or higher Self” (15).

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Stay in the Eye of the Storm | Astrology Forecast May 1-31, 2026

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Stoke Your Inner Fire…

Beltane Blessings Dear Ones❤️
Beltane, sometimes called May Day marks the exact mid point between spring and summer. Beltane loosely means bright fire. Bel is a Celtic God whose inner fire or Spirit, was so bright and shiny that their Light radiated out like 10,000 suns.
We all have this divine spark of spirit and Beltane reminds us to keep our inner fires bright and use them for creativity, transformation, and healing. In the Gaelic tradition, as with most ancient, earth-centered, wisdom traditions, it was customary to honor the changing of the seasons. Beltane is the peak of spring-when spring is feeling like it pushed all its little Imbolc seeds into full grown teenagers, who then begin to fully blossom open as we come into summer, the next turn of the wheel.

Instead of using the traditional cross of 4 seasons: winter, spring, summer and fall-which is a very linear or masculine approach, The Celtic tradition adds in the quarter seasons too, so instead of a square of four seasons, it becomes a wheel of continuous change, which is very feminine and flowy.

On the opposite side of the seasonal wheel of Beltane, is Samhain- or Halloween. At both of these turning points on the wheel the veil is thin between the two worlds. That means we can more easily receive our cosmic downloads or spiritual attunements, or we may experience a sudden shift in our consciousness or awareness, that feels elevated. The first is the world of Spirit or Light Consciousness, and the second is the world of Matter or dense consciousness.
Beltane welcomes in growth, abundance, fecundity, and purification. Halloween lets go of the old, or is the death of things. Both equally celebrated as important parts of our soul’s evolution.

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April 1 – May 2 | The Shaman & The Mermaid Astrology Report ~ “Know Yourself and Show Good Will”

Hello Cosmic Yogis~
We are back! We had a short hiatus, but our reports have returned with a little combination of Astrology and Karmic Happens. We will unpack the cosmic energies and share about what is unfolding simultaneously at Karma Yoga Center.
This lunar cycle begins with a Libra Full Moon on April 1, which is also the Pink Moon. Libra is an energy of balance, relationship, self-study, and union. So, it can be considered an energy of yoga. Yoga is about balancing the inner and outer worlds, the sun and the moon, and the material and the spiritual. Ultimately, yoga and Libra are processes to help guide a seeker on the path of Self-Realization and harnessing the will to turn inwards to the hridyam heart or inner sun. When realized, we have the capacity to shine goodwill and love upon every being.
Aries energy is very forward in the field this cycle, as it always is seasonally with the start of spring. When the Sun enters Aries on March 20 – April 19, it is the Spring equinox, the astrological month of Aries, and the start of the astrological year. There will be 7 planets and luminaries in the sign of Aries on April 16, and the Aries New Moon is April 17. Mercury, Mars, The Sun, The Moon, Neptune, Saturn and Chiron will also be in the sign of the Aires. Aries, in its highest expression, is a truth seeker, open-hearted, expressing the desires of the Soul, and devoted to the feminine. This could be a time of inspiration, initiation, new beginnings, and revelation of truth for the individual and the planet.

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