Aries & The Astrological New Year Dreams have been telling me for a few weeks now that things were arising around my dad. And not just dreams – many old behaviors surfaced, with astrological alignments urging and supporting the process. It’s always hard to find language, but I am learning more and more that with […]
I don’t have a good way to begin this. In a way I feel ridiculous sitting down to type as if something cohesive is going to accumulate in the ensuing minutes, hours, or even weeks. I guess I will begin with the Leo full moon, exact on my north node at 7 Leo, which was […]
It is my experience that grief is the gateway back home to my feeling self. Sometimes I still fight this, or try to pretend it’s not true, or get so tired of grieving that I expect it will always be the same, and fight it more, forgetting the sweetness of the underground spring that tastes […]
The Deep Dark Place I went in 2012 Was: XV: The Devil “In the numerological order, The Devil corresponds to The Pope, Arcanum V… he also represents a bridge, a transition. But while The Pope represents a path towards the spiritual heights, The Devil showing the way to the depths of being.” The Gift I […]
It’s been a real struggle to find a flow that leads me into writing here, now. The Capricorn Shitstorm was wonderfully cathartic, and I was planning, organizing, and manifesting like a MOFO, but it moved with a raging undertow. That tide moved out and we’ve slipped into Aquarian territory, where my natal moon sits at […]
After receiving several unmistakable messages re: putting my creative projects on ice this Winter, and having given my writing and photography an unthinkable five-week hiatus, I am re-chewing the initially baffling Marseille Tarot spread I drew last week, (Hanging Man inverted with the 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of Swords) as I sense the […]
Solitude is intense after not getting enough of it. Pressure and a vacuum at the same time, during those drifting moments between activities and beyond that drift I am aware of my energy to do, my thirst to create and make, my submersive fear, my subversive appetites, my desire to sink down into stillness, my […]
I was thinking this morning about power, and how I am learning to use my power differently. Just vaguely, circling the idea, feeling how I am pulling inward, but not at all in a collapsing or withdrawing way. Perhaps it is analogous to the moment, in yoga, during a standing pose, where I remember to […]
I wrote in my last Empress Pinniped 10/27 (re: the Saturn-Sun diamond of 10/29) that I never remember my dreams. The night of 10/29 I dreamed that the tree-person greeting the Autumnal Equinox sun in the Empress Pinniped banner was running around like an Ent in battle, branches burning, on a warpath, taking the fire from […]
Your last entry was so worth the wait! I had prayed for you as you wrote, I had prayed for both of us, as we are co-teaching and co-healing. I prayed for that last essay, knowing in my heart that you were going to teach me about what I had just written, and I was […]
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