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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of June 25-July 1

  June 26, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  It wasn’t expected, but last week, you found during a routine checkup that you had developed what the doctor called “a small abnormality of the heart.” It wasn’t enough to hospitalize you, just make you think the worst. It was suggested that you change your diet and monitor your stress, returning this week for further tests. Also, that you try to have faith in the process. OMG! Immediately, you started to worry. Everything you had worked for, all your personal [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of June 18-24

  June 19, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  You’ve got a date with destiny and now you’ve got to get there. So you decide to drive rather than take public transportation, because it’s faster and, besides, you like being in the mix of what’s happening on the streets. Well, you’re about to get your wish! You start out casually, taking care of some old business via headset, and pretty soon the traffic opens up and you’re cruising along with impunity. Or so you think. For out from the [...]

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  Adventures of a Film Scholar – Part III

  June 12, 2012 / Adventures of a Film Scholar, Articles, Creator Corner

  OK, so OXV: The Manual. This is a project that I’ll be talking a lot about in future posts. It’s an independent feature that I like to refer to not so much as a “vanity” project as a “sanity” project. (And I’m being deliberately obscure as to what OXV means). Those who know me know that I’ve made no secret of the fact that for various reasons I’ve been unhappy with my first two features. I make no excuses. The mistakes [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of June 4-10

  June 6, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  The river is swirling, a fog is drifting in, you’re in a canoe and attempting to navigate through increasingly rapid waters. You bump against sharp rocks, almost capsize, but right yourself and keep on going. Your vision seems blurry, but you gaze piercingly ahead, maneuver around the obstacles and come out to calmer waters…where you exhale and shake your head at how you managed this feat. And then you laugh and relax. That’s the energy pattern of this week. It’s [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  The Week of May 28 – June 3

  May 30, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  You’re in a long hallway lined with mirrors; everywhere you look you see reflections of yourself. You’re not quite sure what compelled you to open the door that led you here, but it closed and locked behind you. There is only one way to go—forward. Ahead, you see another doorway, open this time, with a beautiful garden beyond it, a sweet fragrance exuding from its bounty. But you slow down, not comprehending quite yet that there is nothing stopping you from [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of May 21-27

  May 22, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  There are moments when we are able to see the horizon clearly. We’ve been in a fog bank, the road ahead seems veiled, we feel hemmed in, more aware of limitations than of possibilities. Then the veil parts, the fog lifts, and our prepared but as-yet-untrodden path stretches clearly out ahead. This week’s energy feels just like that. The New Moon/Solar Eclipse this past Sunday gives this propulsive week a gigantic push toward fresh horizons, in our individual lives and [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of May 14-20

  May 15, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  Think of all the cliffhangers being currently shown on TV: which singer or dancer will be crowned champion by the audience and judges, which series will be renewed or cancelled, what old lover suddenly reappears and screws up a tidy family nest, what unlikely means the hero uses to triumph in the end. Put all these scenarios together and you have the astrological keynote for this week: namely, IT’S COMPLICATED. Two major celestial events occur in the space of five [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of May 7 – 13

  May 7, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  In ancient times, on the isle of Crete, King Minos constructed a legendary labyrinth, in the center of which was a great bull, fierce and potent, the embodiment of raw strength and fertility, which was worshipped by the populace. Appropriately, this was during the Taurean Age (circa 1500 BC), when the Bull was at the center of many cultures’ religious rituals. It was said that those who entered the labyrinth and found their way out through the confusing maze, without [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 30 – May 6, 2012

  May 2, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  This week’s energies remind us of the legend of King Arthur and his utopian kingdom, Camelot. It’s a time for construction of long term projects that have the potential to succeed in a big way. So if you wonder what the King is doing tonight, I suggest you look within yourself to find the idealist who can initiate this change. This week’s keynote: TRUST IN YOUR DREAMS. There’s a scene in the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” that [...]

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  Making it Count

  April 23, 2012 / Stuff We Love, Videos, Virals/Shorts/Music Videos

  I saw TITANIC in 3D this weekend with my daughter and there’s a great scene in the middle where Leo’s penniless Jack Dawson tells the first class company he’s dining with that he’s got everything he needs right there with him: air in his lungs, a blank sheet of paper and a sense of making every day count. Everyone toasts to “making it count.” On the Titanic, the passengers’ days–their hours––were numbered. But so our ours. The only certainty is that our [...]

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 23 – April 29, 2012

  April 23, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  Like a field beginning to sprout new growth after a gale-force wind has passed over it, this week may seem boring when compared to the last few. But—repeat after me: BORING IS GOOD! WE LIKE BORING! BORING MAKES ME EXCITED! Relatively peaceful and harmonious energies interpenetrate the week. It doesn’t mean that nothing tumultuous happens in the world or our individual lives, only that it’s not as unstable an energy pattern as we’ve seen in the last few weeks, so [...]

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  3 Lessons to Learn from Rich Ross’ Disney Departure

  April 23, 2012 / Articles, State of the Biz

  1)    It’s good to be humble. Rich Ross, the short-lived and now departing Walt Disney Chairman, was rumored to have a “touch of arrogance” and a flippancy about the ease of running a studio. Arrogance is a tough proposition when you’re great at your job, which he clearly was at Disney Channel, but when you’re in a new gig outside your area of expertise and facing a learning curve as steep as the climb at K2, a little humble pie can help [...]

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