Ruminating about a specific topic can easily become a serious problem for your health, wellness, and feelings of spiritual centeredness.
For many, meditation is the best way to find serenity after a long or difficult day. While sitting alone with your thoughts can …
Saturn, is a colossal celestial body believed to exert a sizable influence on human lives.
For thousands of years, human beings have looked to the skies to understand the world around them and the deeper forces that contribute to its workings. The origins and devel…
Some Find Tarot to be a helpful practice that provides answers to important life questions.
In our contemporary world, tarot cards are frequently regarded with either curiosity or disdain. From religiously fueled fears to superstitions depicted in popular culture, …
The Nine Worlds is an ancient Norse cosmological system.
Throughout history, human civilizations have developed a wide range of beliefs to theorize the universe’s structure and workings. A few examples include the “dome of heaven” concept, found in the book o…
Lesser known religious cults and how they functioned.
Religion can bring out some strong emotions in people. Whether these emotions are positive or negative, the outbursts are usually significant when they come. Since the concept of religion has been around for so …
Smudging involves the burning of herbs or other kinds of plant matter.
Sage smudging is used for a wide variety of purposes by people following traditional Indigenous spiritual paths as well as New Age, Neopagan and various shamanic belief systems. To fully underst…
Feng shui uses an energy flow cycle to determine how to orient rooms and buildings.
While humans have the capacity to extrapolate probable outcomes based on facts and trends, the future contains unknown variables. Our ancestors developed belief systems to explain h…
Diwali is associated with the Hindu New Year, has to do with new beginnings.
When Americans are questioned about holidays involving lights, most are likely to focus on celebrations surrounding Christmas and Chanukah. While lights definitely play a big part in both …
Many flood myth narratives share key similarities across cultures.
If you grew up in one of the three major Abrahamic faiths, you’re probably familiar with the story of Noah that appears in the Hebrew Tanakh, the Old Testament, and several portions of the Quran. …
Ceremonial pipes factored into the religious and social lives of many cultures.
What is a “peace pipe”? When asked this question, some may conjure up mental images of Indigenous people from cartoons, old Western movies, and books who smoked these pipes with Eur…