Self Improvement Site
On The Internet! Take the Self Improvement Tour
On The Internet! Take the Self Improvement Tour
Articles from Peter Brents | Selfgrowth.com
- Does Knowing Your Moon Sign Information Help You Understand Yourself? - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2008 from Peter BrentsIn describing character qualities, pop culture Astrology deals with Sun Sign descriptions as a matter of convenience. Almost everybody knows his birthday, and from that, he can almost always find himself in one of the Sun Sign categories that describe the creative personalities of humankind. ...
Views: 1187 - Why Sun Sign Astrology Sometimes Misses The Mark - by Submitted on Feb 14, 2008 from Peter BrentsSome people think Astrology begins and ends with a Sun Sign description of your personality -- a list of qualities, characteristics, and possible short-comings that may seem assigned to you essentially at random based on the day you were born -- a day when, of course, the Sun was traveling ...
Views: 1095 - Do You Recognize Yourself In Your Sun Sign Description? - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2008 from Peter BrentsThere are some people who, in all sincerity, look at the list of traits and qualities assigned to them by their astrological Sun Sign ... and say the description just doesn't fit them. Sure, some of them are smug and pleased to have confirmed their belief that astrology is a bunch of hokum, ...
Views: 1799(1 vote) - Your Moon Sign -- What Is It And Why Is It Important? - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2008 from Peter BrentsIn Astrology, the Moon represents your emotions, your inner self, your instincts, habits, and reactions. The sign it occupied when you were born is your Moon Sign in your horoscope. Your Moon Sign describes character traits, feelings, and personal responses that are very familiar to you. In ...
Views: 1215 - The Scorpio Character -- The Eighth Sign Of The Zodiac - by Submitted on Jan 05, 2008 from Peter BrentsScorpios have extremely important work to do in life, so I suppose it's only fair to indulge them for being so reserved and solitary. It's not easy being the most powerful sign in the Zodiac. All that potential is a tremendous responsibility. The contributions Scorpio makes, generation after ...
Views: 7395 - The Libra Character -- The Seventh Sign Of The Zodiac - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2008 from Peter BrentsLibras don't do well as "singles." They feel incomplete without "another half" in their life -- meaning another person to whom they feel profoundly connected, with whom they feel intimately "involved." They deeply feel the need for other people in their lives, and so a well-functioning Libra ...
Views: 9509 - The Celestial Event Of the New Moon - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2007 from Peter BrentsIn both astronomy and astrology, the celestial phenomenon known as the New Moon occurs at the exact moment the Sun and the Moon occupy precisely the same point in the sky-map of the Zodiac -- the same degree and minute of arc in a particular sign. In Astrology, this aspect of alignment is known ...
Views: 903 - The Path of the Mystic - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2007 from Peter BrentsThere are reasons why the better writers, teachers, and mystics offer at least a word or two of caution to the novices who toy with the notion of exploring the mystical path through occult studies, dabbling in rituals and magick, and opening their minds through other avenues and interests to ...
Views: 1022 - The Virgo Character -- The Sixth Sign Of The Zodiac - by Submitted on Nov 29, 2007 from Peter BrentsI will try to keep this brief. I know how Virgos like efficiency. Work and service are their passions. They'll find it -- or at least what they define as it -- even if they have to make it up. A Virgo in his heart of hearts wants to be useful. Virgos can be the most selfless, dedicated, ...
Views: 8756 - Can Astrology Tell The Future? - by Submitted on Nov 20, 2007 from Peter BrentsCan Astrology tell the future? Well, yes, actually it can. But not in the cut-and-dried way many people would like to use it. It won't tell you when you're going to win the lottery. (Let's face it. The almost-certain answer to that one is "Never." No, not ever ... put it from your mind, ...
Views: 2273 - The Dark Of The Moon -- A Natural Time Of Magic And Creation - by Submitted on Nov 06, 2007 from Peter BrentsThe Dark of the Moon is considered an especially mysterious, fruitful, and flexible time of "molding" the creative experiences that will come forth in the weeks immediately ahead. It is said that wishes made as the last sliver of the Moon's light fades on the left, and affirmed through the Dark ...
Views: 958 - The Energy Of The Sun -- Interpreting The Symbolism of The Sun In Astrology - by Submitted on Oct 29, 2007 from Peter BrentsThe Sun symbolizes your basic personality. The Zodiac sign it is in describes the "essential qualities" of your character. This sign is also the easiest one to find. You probably already know it. It's what you mean when you tell someone "I'm an Aries," or "I'm a Capricorn," or "I'm a ...
Views: 1090 - What Are Aspects In Astrology? - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2007 from Peter BrentsAspects are the different angles planets form with one another as they move through the sky at their different speeds and in their different orbits. It is the aspects -- these angles -- planets make between themselves, either between planets in the sky or between planet positions in the sky ...
Views: 1158 - Yes, Most Daily Horoscopes Are Junk -- But Daily Horoscopes Are Not Real Astrology - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2007 from Peter BrentsYou may know "astrology" through the pop-culture categories of dime-store booklets or through reading your daily horoscope in the newspaper. These are supposedly the descriptions of who you are and what's going to happen to you today based on some mysterious elements at work in the sky and ...
Views: 987 - More About The Leo Character - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2007 from Peter BrentsLeos! As a group they strut and fret their hours onstage -- for the amusement and bemusement of the rest of us. And they are always uniquely themselves. In everyday life, sometimes you just gotta love 'em. Other times you just want to strangle them. They don't seem able to walk much of a middle ...
Views: 1185 - The Leo Character - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2007 from Peter BrentsA Leo soul is a true showman, celestial royalty, the undeniable star of the Zodiac. He can be a delightful mix of youthful exuberance, playfulness, enthusiasm and joy ... like a real-life Peter Pan, the kid who refuses to grow up. He can be an inspiring leader ... able to rally followers and ...
Views: 9643 - Signs Of The Zodiac -The Building Blocks of Character - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2007 from Peter BrentsLife is about energy. Everything ... living or not, material or not ... contains energy. You, as a living human being, are certainly complex cluster of energy. Everything you know and can possibly comprehend also contains its own special kind of energy ... including the rocks you walk on and the ...
Views: 984(1 vote) - The Cancer Character -- The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac - by Submitted on Jul 18, 2007 from Peter BrentsThe Cancer Character The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac by Rebecca Brents Cancers are spirits of emotions and moods. Their feelings -- and inconsistencies -- the shifting climates of their inner world form the landscape where they live. Cancers have a mood for every occasion. Feelings count with ...
Views: 11139(1 vote) - Mercury Retrograde - by Submitted on Jun 25, 2007 from Peter BrentsMercury Retrograde by Rebecca Brents When Mercury is retrograde (Mercury Rx -- in shorthand), it is a time of rethinking, refocusing and re-communicating. Metaphorically, Mercury represents your use of intellectual energy; your mental focus; the application of your mind's assets; your ability ...
Views: 1152 - The Key to Your Character -- The Code in the Stars -- Part 3 - by Submitted on Jun 24, 2007 from Peter BrentsThe Key to Your Character The Code in the Stars by Rebecca Brents Part 3 Understanding the metaphors of Astrology as they apply to you is one of the best, most efficient, ways I know to accomplish what can almost amount to a miracle of rebirth into being the person you were meant to be. Because ...
Views: 969(1 vote) - The Key to Your Character -- The Code in the Stars -- Part 2 - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Peter BrentsThe Key to Your Character The Code in the Stars Rebecca Brents Astrology uses the positions of the eight known planets, not including the earth, plus the positions of the Sun and the Moon to "describe" the cycles of experience, the stages of evolving energy, that were operating, that had "come ...
Views: 1021(1 vote) - The Gemini Character -- The Third Sign of the Zodiac - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2007 from Peter BrentsGemini is one of the Zodiac's most intellectual signs. Reading, writing, learning, talking, sharing viewpoints and opinions, gathering facts and data, communicating in all the ways you can imagine is what Gemini is all about. Geminis love words ... and jokes, and puns. They love odd pieces of ...
Views: 10913 - The Key to Your Character -- The Code in the Stars -- Part 1 - by Submitted on May 13, 2007 from Peter BrentsWhen people ask why I believe in astrology, I answer, "Because astrology works." Long ago I proved to myself that I could look at a person's horoscope and know without question very explicit and observable things about his or her character. And because I also knew the current planetary ...
Views: 982(1 vote) - The Taurus Character -- The Second Sign of the Zodiac - by Submitted on May 09, 2007 from Peter BrentsThe Taurus Character The Second Sign of the Zodiac By Rebecca Brents Want some words to describe Taurus? How about "laid back" and "easy going?" Taurus likes to mellow out, take life at a measured stride and on its own time schedule. What can I say? Taurus believes in conserving physical ...
Views: 10426(1 vote) - Clearing Your Minerals and Gemstones - by Submitted on May 02, 2007 from Peter BrentsIt is important to purge negative energies and recharge positive ones in your stone and mineral allies if you use these tools in your visualization and inner work. Clearing your stones periodically dispels negativity that has built up either in a stone's history or through past work it has done ...
Views: 1020 - Vitality, Connection, and Change -- The Three Tenets of Chi - by Submitted on May 02, 2007 from Peter BrentsThree central ideas provide the essential platform that support all the rest of feng shui's concepts and principles. These ideas involve Chi, the "stuff," the dynamic energy that flows through and is part of absolutely everything ... animate and inanimate, tangible and intangible. It's like one ...
Views: 972 - Vitality, Connection, and Change -- The Three Tenets of Chi - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2007 from Peter BrentsThree central ideas provide the essential platform that support all the rest of feng shui's concepts and principles. These ideas involve Chi, the "stuff," the dynamic energy that flows through and is part of absolutely everything ... animate and inanimate, tangible and intangible. It's like one ...
Views: 976 - On the One Hand -- And on the Other - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2007 from Peter BrentsOn the One Hand -- And on the Other Making Decisions You Can Live With by Rebecca Brents The consequences of a bad decision can range from inconvenience, wasted time, embarrassment, and wasted money ... to the truly catastrophic -- the loss of something valuable and irreplaceable, even the loss ...
Views: 1060 - Chi - The Energy and Essence of Life - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2007 from Peter BrentsPhysicists have been saying for decades, maybe centuries, and mystics for eons that everything is made of energy. It's one thing to learn that fact as a kid so you can spit it back on a science exam. It's another thing to accept it intellectually. It's something very profound and different, ...
Views: 1326 - Why Take Astrology Seriously? - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2007 from Peter BrentsAstrology provides an interesting roadmap that can help you "decode" some of the mysteries of your life, your relationships, other people, your individual pasts, your unfolding future, and your personal destiny. If you look at that list carefully, you'll see a tremendous wealth of material ...
Views: 1012 - Your Sun Sign -- What is it -- and Why is it Important? - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2007 from Peter BrentsIn Astrology, the Sun represents your basic personality, the central cluster of traits and interests, strengths and personal issues that color and influence the various other parts of your character -- the inner selves and different roles described by the nine other planets in your horoscope. ...
Views: 1017 - Moon Magic - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2007 from Peter BrentsThe Moon has a mystique all its own. It is often associated with secrecy and mystery ... and is associated with strange, uncanny powers. It evokes a peculiar range of responses in cultures everywhere, from curiosity and wonder, to romance and affection, to awe and dread. In legend (and the lore ...
Views: 1194 - What's Your Favorite Colors... Today? - by Submitted on Apr 07, 2007 from Peter BrentsWhat's Your Favorite Color ... Today? Making Color an Ally in Your Life By Rebecca Brents I have known for years that color affected me. If the colors I'm wearing don't fit my mood, life and I are out of synch somehow. Now it seems physicists, mystics, and healers ... strange allies in our ...
Views: 1034 - Your Sun Sign, Moon Sign, and Ascendant Sign -- Just What's Going on Here? - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2007 from Peter BrentsThe short answer is: Your Sun sign describes your basic ego, your Moon sign describes your emotional inner self, and your Ascendant describes the facade you show the rest of the world. Want to know more? Read on. Your Sun Sign From these three components, an astrologer can develop a thumbnail ...
Views: 36262