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Cassandra MacLeane

Cassandra MacLeane is a professional psychic based in Vancouver. To book a phone or an in-person reading, visit www.cassandramacleane.com.

Celebrate Green Men: Your Numerology Cycles for September 16–30

Get ready for September 21. There is an major celebration at this time. The Druids call it Mea’n Fo’mhair, and honour the Green Man, the god of the forest, by offering libations to trees. Offering of...

The Most Intense Month of the Year: Your Numerology Cycles for September 1–15

“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows and regret.” —Alexander Theroux   We can’t help feeling some regret when September comes....

Your numerology cycles for August 16-31

We are in the home stretch now, and summer is in the early autumn of its beautiful life. Take time off if you can manage, regardless of where you are in your cycle pattern. Summer in Vancouver is...

Your numerology cycles for August 1-15

The dog days of August are with us, and with the warmth, the madness and the sadness of the last days of summer. My dog, Seriuss, spends much of his time looking for tile floors on which to cool his...

"Doormats make flat company," and other numeric wisdom

The raccoon and crows are still at war in Kitsilano. Every evening a small knot of people wearing flip-flops and clutching beach blankets and bags gather on Creelman Avenue to watch a raccoon and the...

Sleeping Beauties

Sleeping Beauties passively wait for a prince to arrive and kiss them into their lives.

Summer cycles: your numerology cycles for July 1–15

Summer is officially here, and the crows in Kitsilano are busy, busy, busy. It’s important to get those babies fully fledged in the next few weeks. On Creelman Avenue, there is an ongoing battle...

The summer solstice: your numerology cycles for June 16–30

If June could talk, it would probably boast that it invented romance.

The middle of things: your numerology cycles for June 1–15

We have finally reached the middle of things (cycle-wise), what Carl Jung referred to as “neti, neti”—neither this or that.

Book Broads give good presentation

At the Northern Voice 2010 conference, I was struck by the difference ego makes in the way that people make presentations