May 2006 Books
Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards; The Ugly Duckling Goes to Work: Just One More Question
Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards
By Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.; Hay House, Inc.; $15.95;
www.AngelTherapy.com; 760-431-7695
Another goddess card deck? Yes, and beautiful it is. Stunning artwork! Pick a card, any card… the goddesses featured here represent cultural traditions as diverse as Tibetan, Celtic, Mayan, Greek, Egyptian and Buddhist, offering positive guidance for any situation in which you might find yourself.
Each of these gorgeous gilt-edged cards carries the imprint of a goddess, her name and a brief description of her gifts, as well as a short reading to offer immediate insight. The 123-page manual offers a more in-depth interpretation for each card, suggestions for how to apply the gift to your life, and information on the specific goddess represented. |
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Doreen Virtue's goddess deck honors and celebrates the powers and attributes of the goddess within each of us. The Light Connection staff loves this card deck! Of course, we're mostly women, but I must point out, lest you forget, that the goddess energy is not gender-specific. It is alive and well deep within all souls, waiting to be tapped into. And so these gorgeous goddesses come with wisdom appropriate to both men and women. If you came in a male body this lifetime, you may nonetheless find good guidance here.
Still, the cards feel to me like a lovely gift for a woman, one whose divine feminine essence you wish to honor. And with Mother's Day coming this month, that's got to be a good thing. If you give them to your mother, she will enjoy them. If you're a mother, Happy Mother's Day!
—Chiwah
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The Ugly Duckling Goes to Work
Wisdom for the Workplace from the
Classic Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
By Mette Norgaard; AMACOM; 2005; 193 pages; $17.95;
ISBN 0-8144-0871-0 (hdbk); www.amacombooks.org
These days a lot of us work for corporations in which traditional values like commitment, integrity, humility and loyalty have given way to more materialistic standards. Spiritually oriented though we may be, at times it can be sorely tempting to bite our tongue and go along.
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Drawing on six stories from H.C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling addresses issues related to betraying our inner nature in the interest of career advancement. And it does so in a charming way, allowing the child in us to revel stories, which are newly translated in hopes of conveying some of the wit and meaning absent in the translations we read as children.
I found the presentation stimulating to my adult mind as well, offering opportunities for useful reflection.
—Chiwah
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Just One More Question
Answers and Insights from a Psychic Medium
By Yolana; G.P. Putnam’s Sons; 2006; 188 pages; $23.95 (pbk);
ISBN 0-399-15309-8; 212-366-2564
Yolana was born with psychic gifts. So were we all, of course—but hers kept knocking at her door, and she heard the knocks and cultivated the skills he has used them professionally for more than 25 years.
Her clients include some of Hollywood's top celebrities, world leaders, CEOs of major corporations, and law enforcement officials. They come to her with questions they desperately want answered, and she uses her remarkable abilities to offer guidance and hope. But no matter how much she tells them, they always seem to have… you guessed it: just one more question. |
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Isn't that just like us? There's always another question lurking around the corner, isn't there. In Just One More Question Yolana shares her memoirs, offering some delightful peeks behind the scenes, but she also encourages us to look within for the answers to our own questions, and provides some guidance for doing so.
I found the book not only interesting and a fun read, but also abundant in down-to-earth wisdom. Yolana may have her head on the other side much of the time, but her feet are planted right here.
—Chiwah
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