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SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT Ask your inner child For a good indicator of your calling, think back to school and remember what you were best at. The simplicity of childhood play can be very revealing and shows us what brings us the most joy! Coming up in ASTROLOGY EXPLAINED… ✓ FEBRUARY Moon Understand your primary love language PHOTOS ADOBESTOCK, SHUTTERSTOCK Meaning behind the myth What lessons can we learn from Apollo, the Sun god? Knowing the Sun symbolises our goals and life purpose is one thing. However, knowing all about the Sun god Apollo, his life story and the challenges he faced, takes our understanding to the next level. Myth is evocative and opens the doors of our intuition and perception. Many images of Apollo show a hero, his bow and arrow drawn, looking straight ahead at where he is going. This image shows us how focused, virile and potent our solar energy can be when put to the correct use. Apollo was an illegitimate son of Zeus, the product of one of many of his affairs. His mother, Leto, was afraid to give birth to him because Zeus’ possessive wife Hera had threatened anyone who assisted in the birth. The unborn Apollo told his mother what to do and his birth was blessed and auspicious – everything on the island of Delos, where he was born, turned to gold. This is the story of a ‘golden boy’ who is successful, multi-talented, has many friends, some enemies too, but suffers difficult relationships with women. The lesson in this myth for all of us is that when we are too focused on doing what we want, and are always looking ahead, our relationships may suffer. ✓ MARCH Mercury Discover your communication style ✓ APRIL Venus Learn more about what you value in yourself ✓ MAY Mars Reveal what sparks a fire in you ✓ JUNE Jupiter Find out more about your guardian angel ✓ JULY Saturn Learn how to navigate around your blocks Expert Tip SUN-day is the day we rejoice. In the Western world, it’s the day we come back to ourselves and have time to do the things we love to do. 58 JANUARY 2022 spiritanddestiny.co.uk
ECO LIVING When asked recently what inspired me on my eco journey, I realised I’d always been a bit of an ‘eco girl’ at heart. As a child, I loved visiting the bottle bank and throwing the glass bottles into the containers – smash! (Hands up, who else loved doing that too?) As well as recycling, we collected old paper and envelopes and used them for our drawings and notepads. One birthday, my mum made the Barbie double bed I craved, out of an old cereal box, covered with material, and featuring dowels as the posts. So, I guess the eco seed was always there and my mum really led the way in terms of being less wasteful. It continued through school, where I was a member of Earth Action, collected paper from every room to be recycled, and organised an Endangered Species Awareness Week. Early in my work career, I helped organise a workplace Carbon Reduction Summit. And I’ve always tried to use eco products at home, buy less plastic and generally have as light an impact on the world as possible. Always learning But my eco living lifestyle really cranked up a notch three years ago, after my family moved back from America where we’d lived for three years owing to my husband’s job, and I was able to expand my business into eco products. Over the past three years, I’ve Would you believe… Microwaves are so much more energy efficient than putting the conventional oven on. It’s always quicker and its smaller size means the heat is more focused on whatever is being cooked. Love the Planet NEW! continued to learn – about plastic pollution and recycling; what zero waste means and whether it’s even possible; the importance of biodiversity; and a LOT about climate change. As a family, we’ve gone 100% renewable – our electricity tariff is 100% renewable, our gas is 100% carbon neutral (green gas and offset), plus we pay a little extra per month to plant trees. On top of this, in January last year we had solar panels Introducing sustainable living expert Elena Cimelli, here to help us make a difference to the health of our world About Elena I’m in my early forties, and live in London with my husband Al, two daughters, aged 12 and nine, two cats, Tilly and Molly, and two gerbils! I run an online eco store called The Contented Company which I set up in 2018, selling eco and zero waste products. I also run eco courses. My mission is to educate, inspire action and provide hope on all things eco and show how each one of us can really make a difference. installed. By choosing 300% 100% renewable more greenhouse gas electricity and emissions are saved by carbon-neutral gas eating a plant-based you can take a big diet than by chunk out of your recycling. carbon footprint. We also eat much less meat and dairy – about four vegan meals a week, one or two vegetarian, and one or two meat or fish. The urgent need for us to act, as individuals, as a collective, as corporations and as governments, is why I’m so passionate about the environment and eco living. We have a small window in which to act, and I want to inspire as many people to do so as possible. Trust me though, I don’t judge. Everyone is different – different levels of income, different levels of eco awareness, contrasting amounts of free time, various levels of work and family commitments. The good news is that there is a LOT we can do to have a positive impact. I love the quote, ‘It’s only one straw, said eight billion people.’ If we all start being more environmentally conscious each time we make a choice, it will soon add up. Fresh start My family set itself a challenge in September last year when the kids went back to school. That challenge was to buy nothing new until 2022. We wanted to create less unnecessary waste, use things that already existed and have a much lighter eco footprint. Can I tempt you to perhaps try this as a new year’s resolution? Maybe start with a month? That way, it’ll feel less daunting. Each issue, I hope to introduce you to a new area of eco living and inspire you to make changes that together will really make a difference. And you don’t need to try to do it all in one go – just make one change. And do that until it becomes a habit. Only then, think about making another. Happy New Year! With love, hope and eco action, Elena x ✿ More info thecontentedcompany.com NEXT MONTH: Eco anxiety and how to approach it spiritanddestiny.co.uk JANUARY 2022 73
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