Today is January 1st 2009 by the calendar used by many Western nations. January 26th will be the beginning of the Chinese New Year of the Ox signifying prosperity through fortitude and hard work, a good year to be born for would-be Chinese entrepreneurs. That used to be the way people became prosperous here. Now of course they do it by cheating, lying and lobbying. But it isn’t the year 2009 for the Chinese. They are not a young country. For them it’s the year 4710.

Now we are at the time of New Year's Resolutions, which almost everyone seems to regard as matters of will power. And most are happy to make them while being sure they won't be able to keep them.

Making New Year's Resolutions that work is NOT a matter of will power. It's a matter of technique, the results of which look like magick. Here's an overview to help those who want to do it again, but this time without failing miserably after a week or so.

Maybe you remember how that fragment of Lakota Sioux language became popular among the hippies after the showing of Dances with Wolves. It means “We are all related,” or “We are all connected,” and threw an interesting side light on the movie that gave some people their first awareness of the inhumanity of the genocide carried out by their army and government on the original native Americans.

Every so often the distant past catches up with us in astonishing ways. This is one of the most astonishing for me and the ramifications from my viewpoint are too slow in spreading throughout the health conscious population. To speed things up a bit for my readers at least, here is a summary of a very important and not widely publicized discovery that could change your life considerably; and for the better.

When the number one cause of family bankruptcies now is medical expenses, and when some people now have to juggle obscene drug costs against the cost of food and rent, that title may raise an eyebrow or two. Take a deep breath and read on. It’s true.

In the last post (sounds ominous), we dealt with what could be called Our First Medicine. The Celt in me loves things that come in threes, and this is the third post for the sake of the would be 2012 survivors. This is another First. The criteria of a First are these:

a. Found only in nature
b. Cannot be made in a laboratory
c. When eaten or drunk has very positive effects on the condition of health, no matter what the problem seems to be.
d. Has cured people considered beyond hope or terminally ill by conventional medicine.

We are approaching the beginning of February, which means about forty days after Yule. The mother of the Celtic Sun god, born again on the 21st of December, the Solstice, has experienced her customary forty days of purification after childbirth and is now entering her cyclical change into maidenhood.