WomanLinks.com - Home
    UncommonGoods Holiday     Think Spring, Shop Pfaltzgraff
Home
About WL
Community
Contests
WL Best Reads
Subscribe
  • WEEKLY NEWS - weekly rundown of articles, poetry and more
  • DAILY AFFIRMATIONS - monday thru friday delivery of inspiring quotes, affirmations and articles
  • BODY & SOUL - weekly cookbook for nurturing the body, mind and spirit
Books We Love

Live a Little
by Kim Green

Devastated by a stage IV breast cancer diagnosis, then shocked to learn her lab results were mistakenly switched with someone else's, Raquel Rose re-examines her priorities, her life and how she wants to spend it.

An insightful and funny look at what can happen when we stop settling and live for ourselves.

Find more books to love at WL Best Reads

Home
8 Totally Easy Steps To Better Fitness
User Rating: / 0
Health and Fitness
Fitness and weight loss truly do not have to be complicated. Picking one specific goal to work on each week is a relatively painless way to get motivated and get moving.
Read more...
Creating Conscious Relationships
User Rating: / 0
Relationships

To create a conscious relationship it´s important to be aware of the feelings that are created between partners, especially for intimate couples, because their combined emotions are greater than the sum of their individual parts.

Read more...
The Real Race for Women
User Rating: / 6
WL Soapbox

Why is it so beyond the realm of possibility to admit that moms can also be articulate, intelligent, driven and uncompromising? Why are we still pigeonholed as SUV-driving, car pooling, smile-while-you-shred-someone makers of apple pie?

Read more...
From Knowing Better to Doing Better
User Rating: / 0
Self

People say and do things and events happen in life that affect us to a certain level of an immediate positive or negative response. But that is not the problem. The real source of negative reactions — that increase our sense of failure, discontentment, unhappiness and turmoil — is the meta-conversations we privately carry on inside our own heads about these things or events.

Read more...
The Missing Ingredient In Your Diet
User Rating: / 0
Self

There is no aspect of ourselves that we judge with a more critical eye than our bodies. We have been taught from the time we were little what we SHOULD look like, how our bodies SHOULD be, what is "acceptable," and what will bring us approval and "love" from others.

Read more...
check out the WomanLinks swicki
Polls
Will you be voting in this year's election?
  
Latest Articles
Syndicate

Search

 
Welcome to WomanLinks.com!!       search      journal       freebies bookmark WL
home  |  wl career center  |  wl designs
articles |  poetry  |  affirmations  |  cards  |  boards |  chat  |  recommend WL |  bse reminders |  shop

THE LATEST FROM STACI

'The Nitty Gritty Tool Kit For Career Transition: A Practical Guide for the Downsized, Outsourced and Displaced.'


Read excerpts and learn more :
click here

join us!!!

Where's Your Hidden Planet?
contributed by : Staci Backauskas of The Fifth Goddess

alone on beach In January, two scientists a half a world apart, discovered the same thing at roughly the same time - that our sky's fifth brightest star, Vega, has always had a planet orbiting it - and we never knew it. Twenty years ago, other astronomers suspected it was there, but they weren't able to prove it.

Vega is bigger and hotter than our sun. But it is twenty-five light years away and the hidden planet that has been in its orbit all of these years still hasn't actually been "seen." Imagine that. These two scientific teams now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that this "hidden planet" exists even though they've never seen it.

The discovery was made not by actually seeing the planet that rotates around Vega. Rather, they located clumps of dust with special equipment that identified the manner in which the dust was structured as possible only through the "gravitational influence of a giant planet in an eccentric orbit."

While I was reading the article (which you can read at http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current/article_310_1.asp) I found myself asking what about the hidden planet keeps it so dark that it cannot reflect the light of Vega, which is 50 times stronger than our sun?

I couldn't help but to see it as a metaphor. So often we live our lives assuming that things are the way they appear, even if we need to convince ourselves of it. We can also allow fear to "blacken" our world, making it impossible for the light of God/dess to make other options known to us.

We stay in jobs, relationships, friendships, living environments that don't honor us because we only allow ourselves to see what is in front of us. So we feel like there are no other choices, no other options.

But there are always "hidden planets." If you can't see the hidden planet in your life right now, can you at least look for the clumps of "dust?" There are signs all around you, presenting you with options - with opportunities to honor yourSelf. The good news is that you don't need expensive equipment to see your hidden planet. All you need is to access your Spirit.

Are you willing to affirm your awareness? Are you willing to see that there may be other solutions, options, choices to the issues in your life? If you're doubting that they exist, remember David Koerner and David Wilner. Their work has proven scientifically that what exists is not necessarily seen with the human eye. But those of us who are on a path of conscious evolution have known that all along.

Copyright 2002

Send your feedback to the editor
Mail this article to a friend
Submitted by: Staci Backauskas, author of The Fifth Goddess. Staci is a writer, teacher and speaker whose articles have appeared in a variety of publlications. She moved on from a 13 year advertising career nearly three years ago to pursue her dream of writing. She also the founder of her own virtual spiritual community The Fifth Goddess.



WomanLinks.com   |   WL Designs   |   WL Career Center
home   |   articles   |   poetry   |   horoscope   |   affirmations   |   resources   |   boards   |   chat   |   newsletters   |  
link to Us   |   shop   |   media kit   |   advertising info   |   cards   |   write for WL   |   reviews   |  
contact us   |   bse reminders

Womanlinks.com © Copyright 1998 - 2006, unless otherwise noted. All Rights Reserved.
Site and graphic design property of WomanLinks.com.
Privacy Statement