Astrology Newsletter: Capricorn 2018 – 2019

Enjoy the Capricorn Newsletter for 2018-2019!

The Signs of the Time–The amazing Solar Cycle for Capricorn runs from December 21 through January 19, 2019. There was a New Moon at 15 degrees of Sagittarius on December 6 which is most beneficial to all Sagittarians. The Archers will feel like they are sitting on top of the world. The New Moon also bodes well for all Fire and Air Signs, Aries and Leo as well as Libra and Aquarius. Since Sagittarius is a Mutable Sign, Pisces, Virgo and Gemini will feel the benefit as well.

Uranus continues retrograde at 28 degrees of Aries. This spells a bit of upset and disconcertedness for those born from April 10 – April 18. Forewarned is forearmed.

There is a Solar Eclipse New Moon at 15 degrees of Capricorn on January 5. A solar eclipse is just like a regular new moon where the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun. However, a solar eclipse is more powerful because the Moon darkens the Sun. Solar Eclipse January 2019 is a partial solar eclipse so most of the Sun will still be visible. The new moon represents the end of one cycle and the beginning of a new cycle. A new moon influence lasts for four weeks but a solar eclipse lasts about six months.

The strongest and most important aspect in astrology is Sun conjunct Moon. It means all possibilities are on the table and you can rightly put yourself in the forefront of new plans for the future. It is time to question your old habits and behaviors as you search for new and inventive ways to make progress. This is the ideal time to make a fresh start, so write your new goals on paper. The Solar Eclipse January 2019 astrology will compliment themes found in the January 21 Lunar Eclipse. Together, they make up an eclipse phase which lasts until the July 2, 2019 solar eclipse.

Since it is the Holiday Season, we decided to give each Astrological Sign a gift congruent with what the Stars say.

Fire Signs

ARIES (March 20 – April 18)–Our Holiday Treat for you Rams is a giant jigsaw puzzle with no time limits to putting it together. You are the most inquisitive hardworking and “never say die” of all the Signs of the Zodiac. And added bonus for you is also time-out to enjoy the people and things that make Holidays very enjoyable. We are at that time of year to reflect. Happy Holidays mes Amis!

LEO (July 22 – August 21)–We wish Happy Holidays to all you lions and lionesses. Our gift to you is anything that costs nothing. When you consider a present for family or a friend, make it. There are tons of online methods for making a Christmas wish come true for those on your list. Keep your eyes peeled for complimentary parties and events that require nothing but your attendance. We are trying to give you the chance to see that the best things in life are free–love and kindness to the ones you love and care about.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 – December 20)–We wish Happy Holidays to all our friends who were born under the Sign of the Archer. Your present is permission to go away as long as you like and to do anything that aligns with God’s Will for your life. And when you get back home do exactly what has been your passion and mission for as long as you can remember. Sag is the only sign that has a manifest destiny that depends on him or her alone and no one else. May this be your best Holiday ever!

Earth Signs

TAURUS (April 19 – May 19)–Our gift to you is so valuable that money can’t buy it nor would you want it to. We are presenting you with all the love you can muster from all those you have always adored and cared for. Beginning today, we would like for you to see your family and friends and frenemies as being exactly as they are meant to be in your life. Never forget that your enemy teaches you more than your friend. May you have the best Holiday that you ever have experienced!

VIRGO (August 22 – September 21)–Our present to you Virgos this Holiday Season is a keener intuition as a way to motor through life. Your nature of being picky and analytical only makes you and only those who have to listen to you a bit daffier. A bonus in your stocking hung by the chimney with care is the open minded capacity to see all in your life as opportunities and not obstacles that keep you from a life worth living. Merry Christmas, Virgos everywhere you are.

CAPRICORN (December 21 – January 19)–To all you Goats our Gift to you this Season is success for all your hard work in whatever was the endeavor. You are the one sign that always looks to see how to make some project or effort better. So our added present to you is to take the month off and enjoy yourself. Take a cruise or stay home and relax. Happy Holidays to each and every one of you!

Air Signs

GEMINI (May 20 – June 20)–Our present to you astrological Twins is to make it okay to be with yourself. If you have kids, it gives them more time with the one they will always love most. Having tweaked you a bit, there is a romance that is strange in that you have never had anyone before without strings attached. Just when you think life could not get any better you’ll open a door and there he or she will be, waiting for the music to start. We wish you the Merriest Christmas ever, Geminis.

LIBRA (September 22 – October 22)–Don’t forget to stand under the mistletoe with someone that tickles your fancy. Now that you have cleaned out your closet of old relationship that ceased to work for you or them, get ready to unwrap our present of finding the perfect mate in 2019. Some of us are better off alone but not lonely. Not you. You are at your best when you are with the one you love and cherish. The wait is almost over.

AQUARIUS (January 20 – February 17)–Our Christmas gift to you Water Bearers is whatever is your heart’s desire. You are known to help others–do for others–and oftentimes neglect yourself. If you are ready for a mate, he or she will show up just when the time is right. Want to take a class to improve you or to make it a career? Check your stocking for the money to do so. You are about to see how it feels to get what you’ve always wanted. Merry Christmas!

Water Signs

CANCER (June 21 – July 21)–Mama or Papa we have an exciting Gift for you this Holiday Season. Since you seem to live to cook and entertain family and friends our present to you this year is to let someone invite you for as many meals as you can eat. Okay, take a delicious bakery food but do not make any effort to cook and clean up after company. An added bonus is that you get to take all left-overs home with you to enjoy alone or with someone special. This is your time to lay back and enjoy what someone else prepared.

SCORPIO (October 23 – November 21)–We wish all Scorpios a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. There were three packages for you under our tree. Gift One: “Learn to take yes as the right answer.” I know that’s hard for you with all the voices in your head yakking at once. Gift Two: “Your crowd is ready when you are.” You made a lot of commitments many eons ago. Now, show up. Gift Three: “You are good as you are. Accept it.” And be sure to be good to you, you hear?

PISCES (February 18 – March 19)–Since your ruling planet, Neptune, went direct late November our gift for you Fishes is to take advantage of how hard you have had to work for what you got. Our present to you is to enjoy all the music you can appreciate. See a favorite play on television or in person. This is going to be the best Holiday Season you’ve ever had–because you worked hard for it.

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Women of the Month:

Three Jewish Women Plus 1

Cathy Ovson Friedman, Carole Marcus Pizitz, Louise Nagrodzki Abroms and Kathy George Mezrano

If ever I met women who are life-changers and precious and proactive in all ways it is these four. I suggest you Google them. Get to know who they are: as activists as well as wives and mothers and grandmothers.

Cathy Ovson Friedman

I met these wunderkind women about the same time. More than 30 years ago they came back into my life to make me a better person.  Cathy Ovson Friedman and her husband Paul attended a Soul Mate lecture I gave at the now-closed Lodestar Bookstore on Southside in Birmingham, Alabama. The next day she was my first private session which was her 40th birthday. It was love at “hello”. We both felt there were other lives at different times that we had been together. We were convinced one of those times was the French Revolution.

She became my Booking Agent from that day on and introduced my work to what seemed like every one of her Jewish friends. You would be reading until sunup if I recorded everything we have ever done to deepen our love and devotion. I refer to Cathy as Miss Israel because she is so proactive with all aspects of groups and organizations to make Birmingham and the world a better place, particularly all Jewish causes. My particular interest is in Birmingham Holocaust Education Center.

I have often said that if Cathy moved to Israel she would soon follow in the footsteps of former Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, and become the second woman Prime Minister of Israel. There is simply no one like Cathy Ovson Friedman, one of the greatest women I ever met. Did I mention that she is as gorgeous as any movie star? And she is dangerous. Cathy can cut to the quick when you write or speak or throw in with bigotry or liars or anti-Semitism. If there is a cause within the sound of her voice or zip code that she believes in, she’ll be on the front lines of the effort.

I refer to Cathy as Mama Rose from Gypsy. She and Paul are parents to two of my favorite young women, and they are grandparents to four granddaughters and an adorable grandson.

I could go on forever as the song says but let me put a period here after writing in stone and steel that everyone’s life is better because her mother Honey gave birth to her all those years ago. G-d bless Cathy Ovson Friedman as long as she lives on the face of this earth.

Carole Marcus Pizitz

Next is one of Cathy’s best friends and ally in so many causes they work together on. If you ever wanted to know the kindest and most giving woman you could ever meet, say hello to Carole Marcus Pizitz.  I met her ages ago and I must say she has evolved 3,000%. When we would get together and I would be about to deliver the message of the moment she would have the mien of wonderment and surprise on her face.

No one has ever appreciated her life more or embraced the heavy responsibilities of it like she has. Single when we met, she has been married umpteen years to “Big Mike” Pizitz who himself has a heart of gold but can come at you oftentimes with the roar of a lion. When the Jewish Federation wants something done right as well as right now they call Carole–and she delivers like the trouper she is.

But there is a side to her that few know. She is not a whiner or complainer. If you want a ribbon cuter call somebody else. But if you want someone who rolls up her sleeves and goes to work to get a project done right, count on Carole. But she does not suffer fools lightly.

What I loved about her from “hello” was she intuited whether you came with the goods or self-service. Like Cathy, Carole is beautiful as an ageless Conover model but her looks is not her calling card. She is as real as sunshine and lights up a room when she walks into one. One of her brightest lights is her devotion to her children, their husbands as well as her grandchildren.

It is my pleasure to know this one-of-a-kind woman is still in my life and making it better for being there.

Louise Nagrodzki Abroms

I will never forget the morning I met Louise as I was seeing clients across the street from Highlands Bar and Grill at the Pickwick Hotel in 1988.  Louise was quiet and extremely private but with a spiritual depth that allows her to live her life as she desires. But we magically clicked from first words and we have ever since. Louise and I later said how quickly we bonded and I have been known to call her a soul mate.

Cathy and Carole are more outgoing and are known to head up a lot of charities and philanthropies that are very important to them. Louise likes to help behind the scenes. Perhaps some might think she shuns the limelight or maybe she is more effective leading where cameras don’t look. Whatever the case, it impresses me that she is who she is without a lot of folderol.

One of her passions for years was going to hospitals with her dog Brewster to comfort and heal patients. The day I got my Wire Fox Terrier, Mr. Darby, I think our mutual appreciation deepened and widened. Sadly, Brewster made his transition on December 5, 2017.

Several years ago Louise and her husband Dr. Jimmy and her three young children came to Sedona on holiday. We ate outside and I was amazed how intrigued I was with these two girls and a boy since I have never had children of my own. I gave each youngster their own crystal as a memento of their visit here.

When I think of Louise Nagrodzki Abroms–and I do a lot–I revel in her quiet understatement. Her faith is deep as China and her love and compassion for all Mankind know no bounds. If there is one other person who has affected me with laser affect it is this champion from her powerful but quiet corner.

Kathy George Mezrano

I have known Kathy more than 30 years and I have loved her every minute I have known her. When we met in a professional session in Birmingham she was selling pita sandwich to doctors and business men who were too busy or too lazy to go out for lunch. You know the type: less important than they think they are. But this was how Kathy G started out in the Magic City.

Today Kathy is Founder and President of Kathy G & Company. She is a super star and one of the most successful caterers in the Southeast. She wrote a successful cook book, Food, Fun and Fabulous and she also lectures around the country and has frequent appearance on television cooking her concoctions.

Starting with the historical Donnelly House and Gardens, Kathy G & Company served as exclusive food service to the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center and Park Lane in Mountain Brook.

Throughout our 30 year-plus  relationship she has been reluctant to spill the beans about what was bothering her–but I pulled it out of her every time.

“Kathy, keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll keep getting what you are getting:  Success beyond words.”

She gifted me with a catered book signing at her event space in English Village in Mountain Brook, Alabama when my first book, Clearing for the Millennium came out in 1997. Kathy travels the globe and is mother to two children and has three grandsons to whom she is devoted. If there is anyone you want to cater an affair, hold your hand when you are weepy, show up at an event to honor you or simply delight you with her indefatigable energy, Cathy G is your woman for all seasons and reasons.

Birmingham Holocaust Education Center Fund Raiser

Although I am not officially Jewish I am a devotee of the Holocaust Center in Birmingham, Alabama. My dear friend Cathy Ovson Friedman made me aware of BHEC and I decided I wanted to make friends of the Sedona Intensive aware of their unbelievably deep and abiding work for the  Center.

I encourage everyone to support this Center’s efforts to educate everyone about the work being done to make sure that through awareness of the horrors of the Holocaust the world will never have to survive such atrocities again.

The Sedona Intensive is making a donation to BHEC for $1,000.00.  Please join us in making a contribution as well.

Love and Gratitude, Albert Gaulden

More from their website: The Birmingham Holocaust Education Center (BHEC) seeks to educate the people of Alabama about the history of the Holocaust so that new generations will apply the lessons of the Holocaust to the construction of a more just, humane, and tolerant future. By preserving and sharing the stories of local Holocaust survivors and commemorating the events of the Holocaust and the lives of those who perished, the BHEC seeks to promote a moral and ethical response to prejudice, hatred, and indifference for the benefit of all humanity.

More information and Donate: http://bhecinfo.org/

NEW! Stay-at-Home Sedona Intensive™

I now use SKYPE to be able to see and be seen by clients as I counsel them. This allows those who choose to stay at home and work through life issues to use a service we are now offering called Stay-at-Home Intensive™. Inquire now, 928-282-4723 or albert@sedonaintensive.com to find out more about this service. This Intensive is spread out over several weeks right from your home rather than the 5-days in Sedona.

NEW BOOK by Albert Clayton Gaulden
Moments and Windstorms: Take Back Your Power

This ground-breaking book offers an in-depth journey through the author’s eye-opening addiction to alcohol and how he eventually got sober. Gaulden has written a number of books as well as being Founding Director of the Sedona Intensive, one of the country’s most highly regarded alternative personal growth programs.

The author shares all the ways God was leading and guiding him even when he was still drinking. “Most of us look at false paradigms to measure success in our lives. So much of where I went and the jobs I took helped me remember what I was to do as my life’s work.”

Gaulden’s book is divided into five parts. Each section explores different parts of his journey, incorporating all the places he’s been, the studies he’s made and the people he’s met. His point of view is that each client who sought his help made him a better person. At the end of the book, he has some daunting but hopeful words about the conditions of the planet Earth and what we need to do to survive as a race.

Purchase Moments and Windstorms: Take Back Your Power here (Kindle and Print Editions) 

MELT AWAY YOUR ACHES AND PAINS with GAIL BELL

The MELT Method is a breakthrough self-treatment technique that restores the fluid state and the supportiveness of the body’s connective tissue to combat chronic pain, improve performance and decrease the accumulated stress caused by everyday living. People find their sleep and digestion also improves. The method uses props…three small balls on your hands and feet and a soft roller for your body.

For more information contact Gail at gailgalvanibell@gmail.com.

“I have benefitted from Gail Bell’s M.E.L.T. expertise for several years. It is amazing what a few small balls and a roller can do to de-stress and rejuvenate the whole body. Gail is a practitioner for my Sedona Intensive clients. Her breath work is miraculous, especially for performance work and acting. If you’re in New York, call her and sign up for a class or private instruction. You will realize a significant change in your body from the first session.”
–Albert Clayton Gaulden, Founding Director, The Sedona Intensive™

Extended Sessions Get You Where You’re Trying to Go

Albert is offering weekly sessions via SKYPE or phone that can serve as a push in
the right direction with strategies to get you there.

How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali by Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood

The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali is a major work on the practice of yoga and meditation. Learn through these aphorism how to control your mind and achieve inner peace and freedom. Although these methods were taught over 2000 years ago, they are as alive and effective today as they have ever been. This translation draws on the inspired commentary from both Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood.Our flagship title has been completely reset in more readable type, with a new index.

The book is widely used in yoga classes as an important introduction to Raja Yoga. Promoted by George Harrison and featured in his last album.

Purchase How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali at Amazon

“No book ever straightened me out about the Divine and Creator like How to Know God. It is stylized much like a meditation text. You can read a page a day and the sensation of a connection with a Higher Power will grow exponentially. Om. Tat. Sat. Om.“
— Love and Gratitude, Albert

Couples Who Went to the Extreme to Save Their Marriage
An interview with Carl and Joyce Gioia in RedBook Magazine

When Joyce Gioia couldn’t think of anything else to save her marriage and solve the trust issues that were tearing her and her husband, Carl, apart, she decided to make an investment into what she hoped could be a life-long, loving marriage.They packed their bags and headed to the Sedona Intensive: A $16,000 week-long intensive therapy session that helps people release all self-destructive behaviors.

The purpose of this particular therapy was to help them become stronger individuals, and the counseling was never couple-based. In fact, they only saw each other once per morning at 7 a.m. when they attended a 12-step meeting. The meetings addressed addictions—but it had nothing to do with substance abuse—it was focused on things like work addictions and co-dependence issues.

Between the supervised journaling, visits with renowned mental health professionals, and their genuine will to make things work, Carl and Joyce were able to recover their relationship.

“I believed that the nature and the intensity of this self-learning experience would help us move beyond the impasse that was preventing a resolution in our marriage,” Joyce said. And she was right. By looking at each other as total individuals, they were able to discover what was most important to their spouse and cater to those specific needs. Two years have passed and they’re more in love than ever.

Q & A

RedBook – Explain what the Sedona intensive is. 

The Sedona Intensive is a rigorous, weeklong self-exploration. During the week, through concentrated journaling and visits with mental and physical health professionals, we each invested a lot of effort and energy in self-discovery. This self-learning experience is designed and managed by well-respected psychologist Albert Gaulden and includes daily meeting with Albert to monitor progress and ensure results.

RedBook – How did you find out about it?

My brother, who is a nationally acclaimed Emergency Department physician, had gone through this experience with his wife Amber and highly recommended it to us.

RedBook – What did you do at the Sedona intensive? 

Every day, we began by attending a 12-Step Meeting with AA. Then, we had a rotating schedule of appointments with a psychologist, a psychiatrist, a yoga instructor, and/or an energy-balancing professional, and of course, Albert. In our “spare” time, we took independent hikes, though the spectacular Sedona canyons.

RedBook – What made you decide to go to this? 

We decided to do it, because nothing else seemed to be working to resolve our trust issues. I believed that the nature and intensity of this self-learning experience would help us move beyond the impasse that was preventing resolution of our marriage.

RedBook – How did it change your relationship?

We both worked very hard to discover why we engaged in self-destructive behaviors that stood in the way of our sharing the loving relationship we both thought possible. Two years later, we are more in love than ever before.

RedBook – Would you recommend it to others?

Yes, absolutely, if the two people are prepared to approach the experience with open hearts and minds and they are truly interested in doing the work to strengthen the relationship.

Lindsay, as I said before, “I honestly do not know what else we might have done that would have been so effective in turning the relationship around”.

Joyce Gioia

From the Blog

What Our Clients Are Saying About The Sedona Intensive

“The Sedona Intensive was a life changing experience for me. I had been searching for happiness and serenity for over 20 years and as a result of the Intensive I found that I was looking in all the wrong places. I not only experienced what happiness and serenity truly are but now understand the process needed to maintain and enhance that state of being. It doesn’t mean that I don’t experience the ups and downs of life but what it does mean is that those downs do not even come close to impacting me the way they used to. There is now a presence of mind that provides clarity and purpose that did not exist for me prior to the Intensive.

It is impossible to put a value on such a quality of life enhancing experience that the Sedona Intensive provides the person willing to do the work.It is by far the most significant thing I have done in my 62 years.

I came across a quote last week that summed up what I experienced and learned while attending the Sedona Intensive – ‘Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free’ -Bodhidharma (440ce – 528 ce), the Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma: A Bilingual Edition.”

— Gary, Ontario

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by Mr. Darby

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ALBERT CLAYTON GAULDEN

Transpersonal psychologist, astro-intuitive, author, lecturer, and founding director of the Sedona Intensive, Albert Clayton Gaulden has influenced countless individuals from all walks of life — actors, athletes, financial specialists, teachers, families, psychologists and psychiatrists — from all corners of the earth — helping them to retrieve their authentic selves and to tap into the inner core of their power. Discover Your Authentic Self with Albert Clayton Gaulden

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