BIG NEW SUNSPOT: A large sunspot group is rotating into view over the sun's northeastern limb. The emergence of this apparently significant active region could herald an increase in solar activity. Solar flare alerts: text, phone.

"SUPER MOON" TONIGHT: Tonight's full Moon is a perigee moon, as much as 14% bigger and 30% brighter than other full moons of 2012. This is a harmless but beautiful astronomical phenomenon. Enjoy the moonlight! [video] [full story] [Moonshots: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5]

The Heart Sends More Information to the Brain Than the Brain Sends to the Heart

3rd May 2012

By heartmath.org

An Appreciative Heart is Good Medicine

Psychologists once maintained that emotions were purely mental expressions generated by the brain alone. We now know this is not true. Emotions have as much to do with the heart and body as they do with the brain. Of all your body’s organs, it is the heart, a growing number of scientists theorize, that plays perhaps the most important role in our emotional experience. What we experience as an emotion is the result of the brain, heart, and body acting in concert.

The Oracle Report

Full Moon Phase

Saturday brings us the super-conjunction of the Sun, the Black Moon, and Jupiter along with the super Full Moon (biggest and brightest of the year).  For the past three days, we've been in a free fall just like the mythical phoenix, burning off whatever needs to be released from our lives.  We've come to the limit of what we can carry that no longer serves us on our journey with Gaia.