Raw, molten, fire, and crackles
On this edge…you begin.
From the darkness,
An emergence.
So delicate.
So green.
A sprout.
Life, and with it comes a power.
Vulnerability pressing into possibility.
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The best thing we can do right now is gear up for the long haul. Stamina. A word of strength and in this moment, possibility. We always have options in the face of deep challenge. Maybe we resist completely, hide and scurry away under our metaphoric blankets, hoping that others will take care of the dirty work for us. Perhaps we get loud and speak out against, activating the fight instinct without really knowing where to direct our angst. Or maybe, just maybe we can orient ourselves in a center of gravity that can withstand any storm. And storms…they are coming.
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There is a slithering cauldron full of untruths within each of our shadows. These facets of ego shy away from the light, and they lurk deep within our unconscious realm. The more we avoid them or ignore(ance), the stronger they become. Generally, they are already running the show beneath the surface, starless kings and queens of internal real estate that if seen with the naked eye would shock our nervous system into convulsions. And we think we are free…
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What would you do? Please indulge me and ask yourself this question. Instead of us thinking how others should live into this immense responsibility, let’s dream together about what we would do in those shoes.
First thing, I would apologize. Deeply, fervently, with tears of love, and prayers for mercy. Standing in the present moment I would ground my feet into the earth and give thanks. There would be recognition for all that we have been given and rectification for all that we have stolen, lied about, and destroyed. To walk forward into a bright future, we must first know where we have been. The road is long and we will walk it together, not as sheep, but as lions
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Welcome to the revolution. Change is never comfortable and yet we yearn for it, pray for it, and at times demand it through our activism. We have officially crossed over from Winter’s grasp into the renewal of Spring. And this Spring is unforgettable, to say the least. Every aspect of life as we have known it is now touched by the presence of change. There is no going back to where we have come from. Only forward my friends… and onward we go.
Astrology is a powerful tool for inner work. At this moment, the cosmic weather provides a mirror of a combined archetype that is unprecedented in our lifetime. Not only is this a new moon cycle in Aries, calling forth our internal warrior/ess to the front lines, we are also at the beginning of a new astrological year. This chapter will forever be etched in our souls…shall we dive deeper?
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If that means that I offer my body, blood, and vigor for the sake of our enhanced overall wellbeing as one of the billions of the extraordinary human species on this glorious gift of a planet of ours? Then yes, halleluiah, amen! To be of service…
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I’m in a high-rise hotel nestled into a bustling city; home of one of the stronger cultural pulses within our country. Life is everywhere you look and it moves, weaves, honks, cries, consumes, smiles, decides, acts, conceives, eats, masks, etc., all within a heartbeat. Despite the ramping up of mass hysteria and necessary precautions to avoid a pandemic virus, everything seems to be continuing as usual.
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Growing up with Judy Blume as a go-to author in my tweens, she helped me to start formulating my ideas around ‘God’. Her controversial Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. ruffled some conservative feathers due to the exploration and introduction of sexuality and religion for young women entering puberty. Really? Today, with iPhones, nothing is off-limits it seems, and Blume’s honest approach is far behind us.
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A powerful new moon calls us inward for cultivating our inner power within the dreamy dimensions of Pisces. Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, and each of us does as well. What is your dream? The one that is bigger than you, that is more illuminated than the limited scope of your current vision? The one that will change the world for the better? I dare you to discover it…
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The only true power I have is when I deeply surrender. This courageous act is much more than meets the eye. It is not one of simply accepting my iniquities and thrusting them towards an invisible God of sorts as if to say, “please take this, I no longer want to be with it.” Although, acceptance does occur at the beginning of a long process within the depths of surrender and opens the pathway to what this immense virtue has to teach us.
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This is a powerful inquiry, Truth, approached throughout the ages by philosophers who have assisted in paving neural pathways of thought for us to reflect upon and assess our own groove. On this Leo full moon with a trine from Mars, we have the propulsion to take action from the heart, in other words with courage. And what is more courageous than living our truth?
How do we navigate this topic in an era of false facts? Perhaps the question is how do we choose not to? Clearly, we have graduated into a higher necessity of self-responsibility than ever before. While our context of ‘reality’ is constantly shape-shifting before our eyes as we witness the power to bend words, wash brains, and the use of propaganda is amplified throughout the social and traditional media universe, we return to the question of ‘where will we each land in our own truth’?
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On the journey of self-discovery, we inevitably find ourselves at some point entering into the “dark forest” as so eloquently expressed in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, Canto I:
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.
So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.
Dante takes us lyrically and metaphorically into the first submerged layer of our process. It is dark, difficult to see, and there is much we don’t yet understand…
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2020? Check. Pluto/Saturn conjunction lunar eclipse to ring it in? Check. A new decade calling us into becoming who we truly are? Check.
And now this…a new moon in Aquarius squaring Uranus. Whenever I think about the weather on Uranus, I am gratefully reminded that we inhabit such a small corner of real estate within the universe here on the Earth Star. That what would be perceived as miracles here are of everyday normal occurrence on other planets. Have you heard about the weather on Uranus? It is -193 degrees Celsius and rains solid diamonds.
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With the intensity of the cosmic play by play of this Capricorn season, who needs Netflix? Throughout time we have sought actors to reflect the emotions we desire to access within our own hearts. Theater can bring us into these depths we haven’t known or perhaps have hidden far away. In this moment now, our personal truth is on center stage, asking for our attention and to stay tuned for what it has to say.
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We are one family. Yes, presently that is smoke from Australia burning up in flames, bringing tears to our eyes. Past: It is the residue of our beloved rainforest in ash form. Future: that scorched earth over there…we used to call that California.
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There is something extraordinary in that we can literally change, transform, and shed psychological skins to be renewed incessantly throughout a lifetime. How many lives have you lived until now? When you reflect on your recent past, do you relate to yourself? As you were a few months ago? What has changed inside of you?
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Gentle Wings: A poem duet with Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy”
Joy! A spark of fire from heaven
A new day is born…
Whilst in deep review of what has been
From the past, we’re caste and torn
Lord Jupiter amplifies golden skies
While the moon passes over the sun
Hark the herald angels sing
And the day has barely begun!
…
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The lessons of this year are still arriving by the truck full over here, how about you? Maybe the question is more of “What Was Easy in 2019?” The answer, nothing. Entire towns have been engulfed in flames, continuous mass murders proliferate at gunpoint, and the earth is on the brink of an unrecognizable landscape. Our heartbreaks are only deepening at the loss of what has been and now we find ourselves hard at work to face new inconceivable realities. I sense this thematic experience of being jolted into unforeseen new territories as one felt by many in the realms of health, family dynamics, politics, and the environment etc.
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Do you know the sensation of sinking into the earth without a return in sight? When your skin feels as if it is rotting, molting off of itself, and staleness casts a shadow over the moment of what has been? Caught within the transit of dying while still breathing...perhaps through a breakup, a swift change, remorse, pain, surrender, purification, clarity, renewal, and so it goes around and around.
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Yes. In past chapters of my life, I may have moved from one relationship to another with little room to breathe in between. Now, I hold that time between dear, and sometimes I think I am holding on to it perhaps a bit too tight, not truly wanting to let go of my coveted independence once again. Once I do, this next time around will be different than the last, for sure.
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