Cypress Rosewood is taking a much-needed vacation, so ʞu¡0ɹʞS is taking over the Sunday Morning Music Meditation with a set she’s calling Morning Bowl of Calm. Join us for an hour of quiet meditation music — a great way to start your Sunday!

One of the most difficult challenges that humans face, particularly in the current era where everything feels so fraught, is to maintain equilibrium. This doesn’t mean that one shouldn’t feel emotions — on the contrary, it is unhealthy to suppress them. But finding ways to feel and express emotion while remaining balanced, or being able to return to balance, is how we can address the world around us without losing ourselves. So today we work to achieve equilibrium.

In our part of the world, weather is expected to be sunny and warm, with low humidity. The new seedlings are loving and thriving in the sun. It’s a reminder to us to honor nature, get nourishment where we can, and embrace healing and growth. This doesn’t mean that the darkness isn’t still there, but that focusing our attention on how we can — individually and collectively — work for healing and peace helps set a larger intention. The hard work of growing has started. The world around us is alive with new growth. So let us be.

As Spring settles in across the Northern Hemisphere, the breezes carry scents and sounds of spring…

Hope is power. Even a single light can hold back the dark.

Today is Valentine’s Day. It’s the day we focus on love. And yet different people feel very differently about it. It can be especially difficult for people who feel lonely or unloved, or people for whom the day has been marked by pain or travail. So today, instead of focusing on romantic love, we’re going to focus inward and feel love for ourselves.

There are sacred spaces everywhere — churches and temples, stone circles, forests, oceans, even kitchens and one’s own heart. Let’s explore them together.

The moon in winter seems both closer and colder. This is the weekend of the full “Snow” Moon, so today we contemplate the winter moon.

Something magical happens in the early morning hours, even in the dead of winter, when the sun breaks over the horizon, and the world seems to leap with joy at the return of the light. Today we face the sun in the morning and greet the light with exultation.

With the turn of the year comes new visions for the future. We place our hopes in the changing calendar, giving energy to turning year so that it might be better than the previous year. In the past few years, this has taken on special significance for many of us. So today is about hope and newness. What do you want for the new year?