Hayfever and pollen allergies can ruin a perfect spring day. Fortunately, a few lifestyle tweaks can help you survive -- and maybe even enjoy -- the season.

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Laura Smith hosts Above and Beyond with guest Susan Miller.  Susan is an Astrologer and talks with us today on what we can expect this week and continuing into Spring.  Susan also explains the upcoming Mercury Retrograde.  To learn more about Susan Miller, visit www.astrologyzone.com. 

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Laura Smith chats with guest Jill Marie Combine, a psychic, healer, and mystic. Jill gives us her outlook for today explaining how we are coming into a time of rebirth. To learn more about Jill Marie Combine visit www.jillmariecombine.com.

Here's yet another reason to worry about our increasingly unpredictable weather: It makes it that much harder to manage seasonal allergies.

Clocks sprung ahead a few weeks earlier than usual this year in the hopes that we'll save energy.

But the jury's still out as to whether it's an effective approach.

The natural world in springtime endures obvious, drastic changes: first rain and gloom, then a mood-swing to sunshine and flowers. Parallel swings occur in our bodies and minds, but often, we're too preoccupied to notice. Emotions and mental states can run the gamut as days grow longer, and physical conditions ranging from aggravated allergies and colds to leftover flab and lethargy from winter can frustrate the renewal that has been the season's focus across cultures and throughout centuries.

Good art has the power to move us beyond our normal modalities. In this particular case, our experience of letters —the elemental units of words and thoughts— just might mutate, or perhaps merely shift, ever so subtly, after exploring Andreas Müller’s For All Seasons.

Similar to Maeda’s calendar work these typographical forays into the four seasons are a wonderful answer to the melancholy of a rainy, cold, windy autumn day.