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Hi StarScopes Subscriber,
Just a quick update for March.
| Issue #13
March 2003
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| | What's Happening
If you missed the article on What's Missing in Your Name...if you lack 3 certain letters in your name you'll always have relationship problems, you can hit the newsletter archives at MariaShaw.com and read it and all of the other articles too!
This weekend we will have a big Fun fair at the Comfort Inn in Pt Huron MI. 10a.m. 5p.m both days. We have some great meditation and crystals kits marked down to $10.
Keep those e-mail names coming! The contest is growing. For every new e-mail address you send me of your friends and family, you will be entered into a big drawing at the end of March for some great gifts; books, calendars, CDs and lots of cool stuff. We'll draw three winners. Send them in all month long to win.
I won't be in Lapeer March 23 but the other ladies will be at the fair. If you have an appt with me we can rebook for the next show. I will be making a live appearance at the Oscars preview show around 3p.m. EST on E! Television. I will be doing 2 segments that run around 3 minutes each and will be giving predictions for the award nominees and other stars in Hollywood.
My 10 page spread in Soap Opera Digest comes out April 29th. I wrote a cool piece on predictions for your favorite soap stars and they are giving me feedback in the mag!
Also watch for my appearance as a love expert on the syndicated tv show Blind Date this month, too.
Women's Own, a national magazine interviewed me on the best places to vacation based on your sun sign and that should hit newsstand across the country this month.
If you haven't got your tickets yet for my New Orleans seminar see the website and call Peggy Gelphi in NoLa right away!
I'll be back in Ft. Lauderdale the end of March. Friday night, March 28 at Borders on Sunrise, lecture and book signing. See you there! | | | Learning About Astrology
Many of you have asked me about learning more about astrology. I belong to a wonderful group called the American Federation of Astrologers. They hold a convention every other year in a different city in the country. Two years ago it was in Vegas. This year July 9 -13, it will be in Scottsdale. The organization puts on this great conference with over 200 speakers and classes for beginners to advanced. I am on the faculty and doing three lectures there myself.
I believe, for those of you interested in learning more, you won't find a better convention to attend. This year it is being held at the Westin Kierland hotel in Scottsdale AZ. Rooms are reduced to $99 per night per room. The convention classes run all day and you can choose from so many topics its unbelievable! I learned so much the last time I went that I hated for the conference to end.
If anyone of you are interested call me and I'll send you a flyer on the conference. If you register by May 15 it's $250 and that includes all workshops, events, banquet and Starlight reception. Because it's a convention, you may be able to use this a tax write-off. Please e-mail me or call me at 810-631-6887 if you need more info. | | | About War
A friend of mine from Los Angeles sent me this. With all of the negativity we are hearing every day about war, I wanted to pass this on to you as well. It' taken from a speech from Dr. Robert Muller, retired Assistant Secretary General of the U.N. Thanks to Suzanne Lopez for forwarding it to me.
Dr. Robert Muller, former assistant secretary general of the United Nations, now Chancellor emeritus of the University of Peace in Costa Rica, was one of the people who witnessed the founding of the U.N. and has worked in support of or inside the U.N. ever since. Recently he was in San Francisco to be honored for his service to the world through the U.N. and through his writings and teachings for peace.
At age eighty, Dr. Muller stunned the audience with his most positive assessment of where the world stands regarding war and peace. I was there and what he said turned my head around and offered me a new way to see what is going on in the world. My synopsis of his remarks is below:
'I'm so honored to be here,' he said. 'I'm so honored to be alive at such a miraculous time in history. I'm so moved by what's going on in our world today.' (I was shocked. I thought -- Where has he been? What has he been reading? Has he seen the newspapers? Is he senile? Has he lost it? What is he talking about?)
Dr. Muller proceeded to say, 'Never before in the history of the world has there been a global, visible, public, viable, open dialogue and conversation about the very legitimacy of war.' The whole world is now having this critical and historic dialogue--listening to all kinds of points of view and positions about going to war or not going to war.
In a huge global public conversation the world is asking -- 'Is war legitimate? Is it illegitimate? Is there enough evidence to warrant an attack? Is there not enough evidence to warrant an attack? What will be the consequences? The costs? What will happen after a war? How will this set off other conflicts? What might be peaceful alternatives? What kind of negotiations are we not thinking of? What are the real intentions for declaring war?' All of this, he noted, is taking place in the context of the United Nations Security Council, the body that was established in 1949 for exactly this purpose. He pointed out that it has taken us more than fifty years to realize that function, the real function of the U.N. And at this moment in history--the United Nations is at the center of the stage. It is the place where these conversations are happening, and it has become in these last months and weeks, the most powerful governing body on earth, the most powerful container for the world's effort to wage peace rather than war. Dr. Muller was almost in tears in recognition of the fulfillment of this dream. 'We are not at war,' he kept saying. We, the world community, are WAGING peace. It is difficult, hard work. It is constant and we must not let up. It is working and it is an historic milestone of immense proportions. It has never happened before -- never in human history -- and it is happening now, every day, every hour, waging peace through a global conversation. He pointed out that the conversation questioning the validity of going to war has gone on for hours, days, weeks, months and now more than a year, and it may go on and on. 'We're in peacetime,' he kept saying. 'Yes, troops are being moved. Yes, warheads are being lined up. Yes, the aggressor is angry and upset and spending a billion dollars a day preparing to attack. But not one shot has been fired. Not one life has been lost. There is no war. It's all a conversation.' It is tense, it is tough, it is challenging, AND we are in the most significant and potent global conversation and public dialogue in the history of the world. This has not happened before on this scale ever before--not before WWI or WWII, not before Vietnam or Korea, this is new and it is a stunning new era of Global listening, speaking, and responsibility. In the process, he pointed out, new alliances are being formed. Russia and China on the same side of an issue is an unprecedented outcome. France and Germany working together to wake up the world to a new way of seeing the situation. The largest peace demonstrations in the history of the world are taking place--and we are not at war! Most peace demonstrations in recent history took place when a war was already waging, sometimes for years, as in the case of Vietnam. 'So this,' he said, 'is a miracle. This is what 'waging peace 'looks like.' No matter what happens, history will record that this is a new era, And that the 21st century has been initiated with the world in a global dialogue looking deeply, profoundly and responsibly as a global community at the legitimacy of the actions of a nation that is desperate to go to war. Through these global peace-waging efforts, the leaders of that nation are being engaged in further dialogue forcing them to rethink, and allowing all nations to participate in the serious and horrific decision to go to war or not. Dr. Muller also made reference to a recent New York Times article that pointed out that up until now there has been just one superpower--the United States, and that has created a kind of blindness in the vision of the U.S. But now, Dr. Muller asserts, there are two superpowers: the United States and the merging, surging voice of the people of the world. All around the world, people are waging peace. To Robert Muller, one Of the great advocates of the United Nations, it is nothing short of a Miracle and it is working. | |  | Coming Up
Look for another interesting article with the regular version of our newsletter at the beginning of the month. Remember continue to pray for peace. Hope to touch base with everyone of you at sometime again this year!
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