Who else is feeling the paradoxical blend that is this moment? The expansiveness, so full of hope, possibility, and creativity. Also, the contrast perhaps? Both the sobering and contractive realm and the jubilant, celebration can be found within the full spectrum that is humanity at large, coming in every shape, size, color, and origin.
Read MoreA new beginning is on the horizon, the beginning of something extraordinary. Can you feel it? Have you been intuiting a change but haven’t been exactly sure what that change would be? It is quite possible that over the next two weeks, you shall receive the clarity, the confidence, and that extra boost of luck you’ve been waiting for…
Read MoreAfter decades of feeling the call, I am finally a student of the art that is Qi Gong. Throughout my life, I’ve had several opportunities to explore modalities of embodiment that weave together the mind, body, and spirit. Yoga has been my primary practice for the last 3 decades, starting early as a counter to my competitive athletic endeavors as a child. Wow, that feels like an eternity and (at the same time) is just a moment, a mere glimpse of life that occurs on this planet through the consistent cycles of birth, life, and death. We are all such unusual and unique individuals with various needs, backgrounds, and origin stories. Perhaps, for me, I had to build a foundation of exploring my inner realms physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to practice Qi Gong in the way I wanted to. And it is here where I begin…
Read MoreThis is not just any full moon, nor just any full moon in Scorpio. Does anyone else feel that the intensity of the recent astrology is somehow on purpose? As a means of conveying a message of sorts? I make up that the cosmic thunderous rhetoric of this decade - starting with that Saturn/Pluto conjunction just after the Cancer Full Wolf Moon Lunar Eclipse in January of 2020 - is less of an invitation and more of a coercion to attune with self-responsibility…
Read MoreGreat question! I am studying this one up close and personally as I am currently peeling off my psychological skin cell by cell and feeling so utterly squeezed as I wriggle through the grip of my current planetary transits. It is as if they have sunk their teeth into my old ways of being and the only way to liberate myself is to shed and let go and become naked under the sun. In other words, shuck off constructs, habits, emotions, and attachments that have kept me in particular patterns of behavior…
Read MorePisces Season is an invitation to the vastness that is the inner world. A dimension of self that can only be accessed through deep meditation, conscious contemplative activities, or through our dream states. Dreaming is an extracurricular activity for most and some are hardly present to this notion, however for the Pisces within us, dreaming is a vehicle for communication. It is through this mystical terrain that the connection to Being is illuminated via symbols, small theatrical visions of circumstance, and understanding accessed retrospectively when recounting the previous evening journey during “sleep”…
Read MoreTracing Virgo's genesis, you will come to the Vestal Virgin—representing the purest of pure. The Vestal Virgins were the priestesses of Vesta who were honored to guard the temple’s sacred fire or the original hearth. This sacred fire is both literal and metaphorical, a fire that represents both the cosmic and the terrestrial, and is both ancient and eternally new. Welcome to the paradox of Virgo…
Read MoreIs today your birthday? The odds point to no, yet if it is, the happiest of solar returns to you! PS Many of you who see me for Astrotherapy have asked me what a Solar Return reading is. It is a reading that reveals the themes for the year ahead by casting a chart that is indicative of the sun being at the same degree as on your birth chart which could happen the day of, before, or after your actual birthday. I don’t often share this but you can indeed shift your solar return chart depending on where you spend your birthday toward a more favorable reading. And trust me, I do take this into account when deciding where to celebrate mine every year…
Read MoreThe first new moon of the year, a powerful gravitational pull into the Capricorn sphere of vigilant and strategic footing. This is your life. Take a moment and look around. What do you see? Who is there? What is the tone? What is your mood? And is it changing?
Read MoreTaste, texture, sound, smell, motion, and vision…through what other ways do you perceive the world? How about through silence? Or perhaps stillness? Sometimes they come together and at others, silence and stillness may live on opposite spectrums of an experience. Sound is a world, and motion, another…And what about color, do you gravitate toward a palette that infuses your day-to-day? Your home, clothing, chosen environments and even your preference for nature are all pigments of your imagination when you become attuned to the possibilities…
Read MoreMemory is such a deep well of exploration. Each of us carries it very near within, not to mention throughout the fabric of our psyche in every ravine, crevasse, and mountain pass that we may stumble upon while traveling through the inner landscape of our beingness. Astrologically our memory is associated with the 4th house and where Cancer represents in your personal chart. And let’s be clear, memory isn’t just about recalling where you put your car keys or only used for ‘memorizing’ words for a middle school play. Memory is an ancient doorway to the past which is where most of you lives…
Read MoreWriting this by the crackling fire before the sunrise is such a luxury and I’m soaking up every moment. This week I’ve been fortunate to recharge in my homeland of Jackson, Wyoming, gain altitude by hiking in the glorious crystalized Tetons, inhale fir sap essence into my lungs from the trees, and weave along with the Snake River walking at her edge for hours…
Read MoreI love this question. It makes me want to get really close to the inner layers of this beautiful diamond of inquiry and burrow myself deeply into the answer. And ultimately there is only one true response for me. As soon as this question is posed, I begin to feel sensations ignite throughout my body, my hair stands on end and then radiates with latent energy that is awakened as if suddenly called to attention. I feel warmth, I feel excitement, and almost a touch of shyness at the same time as if spirit is flirting with me. I feel as if I am on the cusp between life and death and that truth is just about to pour out across my tongue and into the world…
Read MoreHas there ever been a better time to know ourselves? Or is that a ridiculous question in that it is always a good time to know ourselves? And, if we wish to play with semantics a bit, mixed in with the urgency of our times, then now is the perfect moment, and now is also all that actually exists…
Read MoreI love a great living metaphor. The kind that ripples out from the micro to the macro and vice versa. For example, in my daily life, I am a literal balancing act between chapters or seasons of life, not quite where I’ve been and not quite where I am going. There is such a clear and visceral truth that I no longer belong in my past and yet the future is so exquisitely unknown, only to be revealed with each step. Welcome to Libra Season, the Autumnal Equinox that gifts us a momentary taste of true balance as the daylight equals the night, and in perfect form we cross a threshold from summer into fall…
Read MoreToday is a new moon and tomorrow Mercury goes direct. However, at the moment this new moon is exact, there will be 6 planets plus Chiron retrograde which will set the tone for the month ahead (even though there will be an uptick of forward motion once Mercury shifts gears). Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter, Uranus, and Mercury are all holding a very particular court at this time. It is tentative, speculative, contemplative, and reflective through the Virgoan lens of harvesting the fruits of your efforts with a penetrating analysis of your progress along the way…
Read MoreA: It is 7:30 a.m. and 79 degrees outside. The AC is on and blowing lucid visions of life yet to be integrated into my conscious mind from the depths. There is a correlation between the movement of cool air and the rustling up of sedimentary processes lying inside the dark lake of my inner stillness. I hear the internal call to review how I got here, what is happening now, and what comes next once the past and present are clarified. The astrology of the moment is also a great indicator of how cosmic weather provokes similar invitations if I am paying attention…
Read MoreAs promised, this is Part 3 of the previous series Which Way Will They Blow? To begin, let’s discuss the we and the where. A friend once shared his perspective that when using the word “we” when writing, it automatically assumes everyone is in the same boat. And when it comes to the cosmic language of astrology and speaking to the collective (we) about the astrological weather of our near future (where), there is no other boat to be found, at least while we are destined to remain on this planet together…
Read MoreI find myself in utter astonishment. Not because of the complete 180 that has introduced itself into my life this week but because of the most exquisitely beautiful dream I just woke up from. Have you ever been surfing the tidal waves of change, basking in the glory of the unknown, and asked for a sign? Me too. Just yesterday actually. It isn’t that I am new to these death and rebirth cycles of life, yet, somehow they keep feeling more intense, more palpable, with more at risk. I imagine this crescendo of undeniability and immensity is a true blessing. The more life I live, the deeper into the layers of my psyche I go, and what I find there needs work - rugged, genuine, courageous inner work…
Read MoreWhat a great question. Have you asked yourself this lately? What comes up for you? For me, many different layers to the answer are resounding in thought waves with every realization and aha. From “I don’t know” to “home” to “communion” to “do the laundry” to “the direction of my discernment” to “get some food” to “into the future” to “self-realization” to “somewhere new” to…and the story goes...
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