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The recent equinox of daylight and dark in equilibrium followed by this week’s full-moon eclipse in the sign of symmetry suggests it’s time to rebalance our personal world. As above, so below…
enthusiastic birthday month brings whatever’s been brewing and stewing to the boil. And with the general atmosphere highly charged, it’s vital to voice thoughts and opinions carefully – to find a balance this week between what you say and what’s better left unsaid.
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TAURUS: The balance currently being asked of Taurans is in the social sphere: putting ideas to work in communal projects, negotiating power struggles, brokering truces. This week supports creative ways of operating, made easier by the fact that communications are now more direct, and the answers you’ve been chasing are more forthcoming.
GEMINI: As Gemini’s power planet Mercury leaves sensitive Pisces for outspoken Aries you’ll be lively and firing, witty and articulate, ready for impulsive pleasures. The challenge is establishing a balance between variability and stability: ie finding sufficient reflective quiet time to process all the stimulating input that’s your favourite mind food.
CANCER: The major planetary ingress into your fellow cardinal sign of movers and doers, action and reactions, marks a Cancerian turning point this week. When midweek full-moon lunar eclipse has you weighing up options, your challenge is to balance the sharing of domestic chores and support, communication and celebration.
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SAGITTARIUS: This week’s fiery influx has you free-spirited mistresses and masters of the fast response revved for adventure and telling it like it is. Your learning curve’s to balance expressing those vivid opinions with equally energetic listening. And when late week Saturn retrogrades in Sagittarius, doing less – but doing it more effectively.
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CAPRICORN: Cardinal sign Capricorns always know best – well, according to them. This week’s interesting tug-of-war over who’s in charge needs you balancing your massive inner control freak with the equally urgent necessity to let go, so you can grow. Not easy, that’s for sure. But worthwhile, that’s for certain.
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LEO: This week’s injection of passionate energy’s best spent (sorry, majesties) low profile and close to home, channelling the urgent emotions it arouses into productive actions with positive results. Aim for balancing the need to do things your way with compromise and cooperation – weigh visionary possibilities against limitations and restrictions.
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VIRGO: This week’s balancing acts? Between the way you want things and the way they are. Between stressful expectations of yourself and others with the way we invariably fall short of them. Balancing criticism with praise: the good, bad and ugly of this week with your adorably Virgoan ideals of a perfect world.
LIBRA: Your signature representation’s the Lady With The Scales, so balance is naturally Librans’ big thing. If midweek Libra full-moon eclipse has you questioning whether your glass is half full or semi-empty, just give thanks for an elegant receptacle with anything in it at all, and pour yourself a balanced refill.
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SCORPIO: If recent weeks seemed long on fantasy and short on facts, this week’s lively networking provides the information you may have felt was being withheld. Your challenge is balancing public and private life, ie scintillating socialising with restorative alone time seeking insight and guidance. Because answers are bubbling to the surface already…
AQUARIUS: You’re a fixed sign, and forays into the deep-feeling zone can press your default setting of getting even more fixed. If this week brings heated exchanges or hurtful words, remember that being real trumps the thin veneer of being nice, which tends to collapse under pressure. Balance forceful feelings with responsible actions.
PISCES: This week’s cycle change strongly suggests balancing your spending with saving, heart with your head, dreams with reality and grand plans with practicality. When people turn to you for understanding, will you be able to explain the difference between something that makes you feel good and something of genuine benefit?
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CULTURE MOONLIGHT MYSTIC FAIR Find yourself at the Bangalow A&I Hall from Friday to Sunday for a three-day celebration of the truly mystical. The Moonlight Mystic Fair will feature psychics, tarot reader, crystal singing bowls, past lives, spirit guide drawings, healers, channels and practitioners. Some of the practitioners include Joanne, with Breath Work. Joanne’s passion lies in using the power of the breath and movement as a tool for healing and empowering your life so you can live in deeper alignment with your heart’s truth. Joanne is a certified professional breathworker with more than 14 years of studying and assisting
in a wide variety of personal transformation trainings across the globe. Originally from South Africa, Joanne has been practising breathwork since 2006 and has studied with a multitude of teachers. Joanne creates a supportive, safe and nurturing space to tune into your heart’s truth, release the struggle from your life and create more harmony and balance in yourself.. I’m here to help you liberate your joy, remember your divine essence and embrace the richness that life is always offering you. Tune into your heart’s truth as you align with the wise eternal part of you that has all the answers.’ There is also Robert Lawlor, who is the author of Sacred Geometry:
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LINDSAY WEBB FEATURES AT BIG GIG COMEDY THURSDAY 31 MARCH Philosophy and Practice, a groundbreaking book that introduces the mythological properties assigned to geometric forms, and covers the Golden Section, gnomonic spirals, music, and the squaring of the circle. The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognised that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Curator of the Moonlight Mystic Fair is Rosie Richards, who says: ‘The Moonlight Mystic fair is about awakening your true potential and starting a journey of learning and remembering your gifts. It’s a space for healing the past so you can embrace the future. The Moonlight also offers workshops for you to take away knowledge and start your own life of awakening.’ Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Bangalow A&I Hall.
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Price: $10 admission. 2-day pass $15. Locals’ 2-for-1 day, Friday. Tickets online or at the door. www.starlightfestival.com.au
BIG WEBB OF COMEDY! ‘Lindsay Webb is more than your average standup. He has an almost mind-reader-like ability to pick faces in the audience and create a show purely on where they come from and what they do. The last time I saw him at The Arkaba half the show was a six-degrees exercise in linking audience members together, it was sheer genius.’ That’s what one reviewer said of him at the Adelaide Fringe last month. Back in 2009 Webb took out the Guinness World Record for the Longest Show by an Individual: 38 hours six minutes. It just shows what a relentless energy Webb has – able to improvise and create unique comedy experiences every time he hits the stage.
and serving in Korea in the 1950s where he played for the troops on the front lines, he nevertheless walked away from a solo career, giving his last public performance at age 50. Since then, he has devoted himself to teaching, writing and composing although, it must be said, he still plays the piano superbly. Ethan Hawke is a veteran of more than 50 appearances onscreen and he’s had a career as a writer and director as well. But he has never made a documentary. He met Seymour Bernstein at a dinner party and was bowled over by the older man’s enthusiasm and love of life. The film is the result of his curiosity. What is Seymour’s secret? What wisdom informs his teaching and his life? Seymour: An Introduction, emceed by Ethan Hawke.
This is the comedy of one who truly perceives human behaviour, breaks it up, puts it all together again in all its ridiculousness, to leave you with your eyes streaming’ (Evening News). ‘Standup comedy at its best!’ (Scotsman). At the Ballina RSL on Friday.
PEDDLE AND HAWK Peddle and Hawk Acacia St Market is a special event that draws upon the riches of Byron’s Arts & Industry Estate and the region’s vibrant creative spirit.
The Kulchajam team are inviting the community to start ‘peddling and hawking’ in a retro-future street market starting this Easter Saturday that will close a section of Acacia St in the Byron Arts & Industry Estate.The market closes a section of Acacia St in collaboration with Lindsay Webb is joined by the surrounding businesses that range superbly funny Ellen Briggs as from performing arts and yoga Sunday at Pighouse Flicks. support and, after two months’ studios to functional art galleries, absence, the long-awaited return of The tickets are $15 at www. fashion and jewellery, composting, pighousefl icks.com.au/buy-ticketsthe undie-flashing talents of Mandy upcycling and organics. A full online or at the door. The money Nolan as MC. Big Gig Comedy at the program from 9am till 3pm includes Ballina RSL on Thursday 31 March will cover the hire of the film and the theatre, and any surplus will be music, yoga, street foods, workshops at 8pm. Free show! donated to the Byron Music Society. and presentations from marketeers and participating galleries and studios. Games, installations and circus toys replace traffic on the ‘It gets no better than this… road, making this an interactive and For anyone involved in music, Hilarious!’ (Time Out). His everdynamic event that enlivens and whether as performer, student evolving live show and the most reclaims our public spaces. or teacher, or simply as devotee, famous eyebrows in comedy. ‘If A range of participating businesses Seymour Bernstein is especially laughter is the best medicine, including the Lume Functional Art interesting. Now in his 80s, he Jimeoin is a course of steroids… Gallery, Heartspace, Jing Organics, has had brushes with fame and Brilliant wit and razor-sharp the Candle Library, Stay at Home adventure. Lavishly praised take on the absurdities of Gypsy, the Juggle Hut and more. when he toured Europe and life… Series of hilarious, often the US as a young pianist, kulchajam.org/peddleandhawk surrealistic climaxes.
BLUES AND BUSKERS SEE MORE OF IN ART SEYMOUR William McManamey’s exhibition at Lone Goat Gallery presents historic images of Blues and Roots Festival musicians photographed over the past twenty years, including a tribute to the buskers who have performed on the streets and public spaces of the Byron Shire. Pop in and check it out.
JIMEOIN IS BACK AT THE BALLINA RSL ON FRIDAY
JIMEOIN IS BACK
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