Laurie Baum – Season’s Greetings! Many heartfelt wishes to you for a peaceful, harmonious, loving & prosperous Season & New Year of 2016!

The Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, arrives on Monday, December 21, 2015. The Winter Solstice is a time to celebrate the return of the light as the days will start to be longer after the solstice arrives.

The days leading up to the Solstice provide an auspicious opportunity to use prayer, meditation, and affirmations to focus on positive outcomes you would like to create. The power of the changing angle of the Sun intensifies the power of your thoughts, which enables you to make much spiritual, mental, emotional, and material progress at this time. It is a law of physics that light is most powerful when it bends, as the Sun’s light does at every Solstice and Equinox. Use this time to make progress in spheres of life that are important to you!

2016 Yearly Forecast

The beginning of every new century, and especially every new millennium (i.e. 2000) gives birth to growing pains that ultimately define a new—and higher—chapter of human history. Like a plant that has outgrown its pot, our collective world has outgrown its present patterns and structures, and is breaking the old form to create a new one. A period of struggle typically ensues at the start of every new century, such as we are in now. In our case, old power structures (government, corporate, economic) are trying to hold on to their forms, just as the pot struggles to retain its shape as the roots and branches break through. This tension between the old and and new can cause struggle, which we see abundantly in our world today. Yet, like a plant that always grows toward the light, we too are growing toward the light, despite temporary appearances to the contrary. Continue reading →