Jessica Girija Jewell

by Jessica Girija Jewell With electricity at our fingertips, it’s easy to drift out of conversation with the Moon.  We stay up late, wake too early, and lose the wise counsel of the ancient night sky. Let’s pause now for a moment and return to our relationship with Mother Nature — remembering that she has her own moods, her own intelligence, her own sacred potential, and that her currents move through us as well. As I write this, the New Moon in Scorpio has just passed and is now brightening...

by Jessica Girija Jewell After a yoga class one day, a friend said, “ That was some transformational stretching. ”  The phrase made me laugh, and the more I use it, the more I like it. Maybe it’s because it holds a kind of truth — yoga is stretching, but also something far more meaningful. I think of it as a way to approach the practice — where something as ordinary as a stretch can open into something sacred. The Practice Begins Most of us show up for yoga practice a bit scattered. Our lives...

by Jessica Girija Jewell A friend and I were talking recently about how we make plans — and how life so often rearranges them. She joked that it would be nice to know when those surprises were coming, when the clock was quietly moving us into the next hour. I said that astrology is used for just that — to understand the timing of our lives, when the clock is ready to strike and something new is set to unfold. The Science of Time In Jyotish — the astrology of ancient India — timing is central....