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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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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 16 – April 22, 2012

  April 18, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  There’s a scene in an early episode of M*A*S*H that handily sums up the energy of this week. Cross-dressing Corporal Klinger shows up in line one morning with a flowery bonnet on his head. COLONEL BLAKE: “Why the hat, Klinger?” KLINGER: “It’s Spring, sir!” In other words, this week we don’t need much of an excuse to feel good. The Sun is in its last week in the fire sign Aries, which gives the world natural oomph and vitality. In case [...]

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  Adventures of a Film Scholar – Part II

  April 13, 2012 / Adventures of a Film Scholar, Articles, Creator Corner

  So what’s it about? This is a question that I pose to my students. A very short, but – in my opinion – the ultimate make-or-break question as to whether a script (or the resulting film) will actually work. I don’t mean make money, I don’t mean be a critical success (both of those outcomes have many other contributing factors), I mean work on the raw, unadulterated, nuts-and-bolts STORYTELLING level. Most of what I do in academia is to flag [...]

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  STAR POWER! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 9 – April 15, 2012

  April 10, 2012 / Articles, Creator Corner, Star Power!

  Picture if you will—no, not Rod Serling—a trip you’re taking down a river in a small canoe. You’re entering into a series of cataracts and rapids, and the water begins to swirl and pull from several different directions at once. Then you spot a group of large rocks to which you are being pulled. You’ve got only a moment or two to make a good decision that will enable you to avoid a nasty scenario. That’s what the energy is [...]

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  The Spiritual Power of Titanic

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

  “It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns…” –John Keats, On the Sea And you thought it was only a movie. A five-hankie weeper of a love story, certainly. A tragic historical event for sure, unforgettably re-created by a virtuoso film director. Definitely an Oscar-winning, record-breaking monster of a film, which spawned Leo-mania and a backlash to its extensive emotionalism. And it still seems to have enough potency to inspire another [...]

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  After Hours Interview with Christopher Goffard – Part 2

  April 4, 2012 / After Hours, Interviews, Videos

  ContentEngine.tv brings you Part 2 of its After Hours interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, Christopher Goffard. Here, Christopher discuss Father John Kaiser, the paradoxical hero at the heart of Chris’ new work of non-fiction, “You Will See Fire.” Chris is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the author of a novel, “Snitch Jacket,” which was nominated for an Edgar Award.  

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  Star Power! Astrology Unleashed

  Week of April 2 – April 8, 2012

  April 2, 2012 / Articles, Star Power!

  Everybody sing “Hallelujah!” Yes, it’s Easter time, but that’s not the only reason to be joyful this week. There are at least three major planetary events occurring now and several minor ones as well. It makes for a week in which that long red light finally turns green and we can GUN IT! Actually, we might just sit there for a moment while we realize it because Mars doesn’t turn direct until the 14th, but that’s not so bad either. [...]

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  Decoding Deepak

  March 28, 2012 / Stuff We Love, Trailers, Videos

  Check out the trailer to an excellent new documentary that premiered at SXSW this year: DECODING DEEPAK. I encourage you to see the film as chances are you know something about Deepak Chopra or have perhaps quoted one of his inspiring spiritual observations or insights. The film was made by Deepak’s son, Gotham Chopra, a friend and creative collaborator. Gotham is an author, journalist, screenwriter, director and producer. He also runs a comic book company. In short, he’s the epitome [...]

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