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Crowd-Sourced Advice for Newlyweds

Crowd-Sourced Advice for Newlyweds

What have you learned in your marriage—or wish you had known beforehand?

By Jayne Ann Boud & Lacey Kniep

CATALYST interns Lacey Kniep and Jayne Ann Boud put out the word that CATALYST was looking for marriage advice from our readers. You responded, and they put together the results!

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Learning in a Post-Digital Age

Learning in a Post-Digital Age

From calligraphy to goat milking, skillsharing lets people teach and learn from each other.

By Katherine Pioli

Spread out on my kitchen counter, a bowl, bag of bread flour, salt, glass of tepid water, and jar of pasta madre (sourdough starter), vie for space among cocktail glasses and half-empty food plates. I shout over the noise of conversation: "Pour in your madre, weigh out 400 grams of flour and 300 grams of water." Only a handful of people in the room gather close to watch my demonstration. It is an informal classroom.

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Rain-Magic Rock Art of the Canyonlands Ancestors

Rain-Magic Rock Art of the Canyonlands Ancestors

Careful observations of an artist reveal new meanings.

By José Knighton

The wilderness art museums of southern Utah's canyonlands offer the best of two worlds: the physical exhilaration of a great hike and the mental stimulation of meeting unusual works of art. No matter how much time one spends in the presence of prehistoric rock art, like any other art, it is never enough to comprehend its complexity. Even studying photographs after a visit, one's attention is dominated by imposing elements of the composition.

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Chakra Series: Chakra Two

Chakra Series: Chakra Two

Exploring human energy and endocrine anatomy, Chakra Two: The skinny on sex hor- mones.

By Todd Mangum

Chakra two, the sacral chakra, is the source of passionate emotions. It embodies our innate inner wildness. When this wildness has been repressed, we will often seek to destroy its external counterpart, wilderness, for it is too painful to have mirrored back to us from nature the freedom and beauty that we have denied within ourselves. Where this wilderness once was we construct strip malls, amusement parks and zoos, so someone else can sell back to us inferior imitations of our intended birthright.

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The Little Co-op That Could—With a Little Cooperation

The Little Co-op That Could—With a Little Cooperation

What is a grocery co-op, and why would you want to participate?

By Benjamin Bombard

You stroll through the sliding glass doors and fumble for the grocery list at the bottom of your reusable bag. Immediately, you have the sense that something's different in this store. Friends told you that would be the case. You can't put a finger on it, but, yeah, something is definitely different here.

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Editor's Notebook: May 2013

Editor's Notebook: May 2013

Garden-variety musings.

By Greta Belanger deJong

Alice Toler's mind is a deep-thought generator. Give her a shadow of an idea and within minutes a compelling, artistically lit reality hovers in 3-D. (I've noticed this skill in art director Polly Plummer Mottonen, too.) What began as a Facebook chat about alternative uses for trampolines last month became "Breaking News—an Attractive Nuisance: Turn off the tube and go clean out the gutters" in this issue.

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Rosicrucian Lectures in Salt Lake City

Catalyst Blogs

  • May 22, 2013
    The Aquarium Age: May 22-28
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    It's a perfect week for data and details, so make sure the apps on your Smartphone are ready to handle the constant streaming and massive downloads of facts and figures. Four planets—the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter—are aggregating in Gemini, the Sign of communication, and that astral assembly has the potential to turn the days and nights of the week into a watershed of information.

    Posted in Aquarium Age
  • May 15, 2013
    The Aquarium Age: May 15-21
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    Monday, May 20, marks the next exact Uranus/Pluto square—the third in a series of seven squares occurring between June 2012 and April 2015. From an astrological perspective, Uranus/Pluto contacts always signal periods of great change; they symbolize cycles of political and social upheaval and upset, revolutionary cycles that seem to activate both an individual as well as a collective desire for transformation. We've been in the matrix of this current cycle since spring 2012.

    Posted in Aquarium Age
  • May 14, 2013
    New arrivals!
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    After months of worry and head-scratching and second- and third-guessing, not to mention a full year of eager anticipation, the day finally arrived last week: a pair of baby goslings hatched at our Windsor Street homestead.

    Posted in Fowl Play
  • May 13, 2013
    Peepers on the way?
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    Don't hold your breath, but we might have some goslings soon. No. Really. Please don’t let us get you excited. We have no idea what we are doing here. There might not be goslings, but we are pretty sure that there are. Two.

    Posted in Fowl Play

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