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June soothes and strokes, inviting a delicious “divine pause.” A peaceful interlude between the Aries-aggravated dramas of the last three months and the explosive Mars/Uranus conjunction approaching in early July. June says, give up your media-stained story about the world and openly savor the fading treasure of the one’s you more> May is a month to savor our “non-toothache.” To reignite our forgotten enthusiasm for this incarnation and remember: we could be– but are not- stuck in some static bardo. No, not us. We’re one of the lucky ones, outfitted with a fleshy lampshade and a mandate to incandesce. more> April has a short fuse for simplistic anti-war sentiments. Better to affirm the soul’s healthy calling to confront: War and soul-seeing communion grant humans the power to destroy history. No lesser power will satisfy. That’s right. We were born with a gun in our hands. What more> What do people most want from us? Simple:A soul-targeted question (implied or directly stated) that silences all commentary and returns them to the wondrous threshold on which they stand.A question whose answer their body knows, but their mind cannot yet fathom, because the question is beyond their current ability to conceive. A more> Monster-hunting on the Epstein client list? Careful. Neurologically speaking, suspicion and revenge (however virtual and remote) act like cocaine– with chemically similar withdrawal symptoms. “Psychopath” is Big Pharma-speak for what is dharmically understood as “unwitnessed ego” and the only one allergic to unwitnessed egos is unwitnessed ego! more> The internet is abuzz with this month’s eclipse-rattled Saturn/Neptune conjunction in Aries. The old world order is aggressively dissolving but the the new order is ill-defined, clouded by the fog of Mercury retrograde in Pisces. It’s tense, adrenaline-pumping stuff. Yet our karmic predicament remains the same: Is awareness more> The purpose of this blessed human life is to awaken to our boundless, interpenetrating nature. All day, every day, we are “making a difference.” Our bucket full of moods and me-stories is sloshing out onto the imaginary others. Someone will be taking a trace of our wonder and woes to more> November was thresholdy. December: time to step across. Saturn and Mercury have gone direct. There is space to move. Yet so many of our steps are still labored, halting. Why? Perhaps because we are doing more than advancing towards a worthy goal. We are re-wiring ourselves. Old habits more> Three quarters of earth is covered in dreamy, otherworldly depths: a blatant invitation to flood our carnal density, in kind. Alas, we do more than forget; we repudiate, abort and strut proudly our violent negation. The good news: the dewy, clear-seeing eyes of our inner Kindergartener are alive and well more> The purpose of life is to become a wise lover. How? By becoming timelessly present enough to see through the veil of personality to the soul’s divine intent, then shrewdly assessing the way this ageless innocence gets twisted by ego on its way out into the world, and how we more> On September 1st, the Lord of Time (Saturn) dips his toes, once again, into the sensitive sign of Pisces for 5 1/2 months. A striking shift in the quality of time. One thing’s for sure: this isn’t a time for flaccid wonder. Saturn in Pisces is tough and uncompromising. Picture more> September is a great month to exit the gridlock of “getting somewhere” and drench our head in mantra. It’s also the optimal time to establish a new mantra practice. Here’s why: On September 1st, Saturn retrogrades out of “just do it” Aries back into the slower, energy-aligning sign of Pisces more> Believing in reincarnation may or may not evolve into Perceiving Reincarnation In Action (P.R.I.A.) and, to the extent that it does not, the wheel of incarnation is mere “food for the mind:” an ego-hardening me-story. Here are three simple pointers to help you determine whether or not your “wheel of more> The most impactful transit this month is the ongoing Saturn/Neptune conjunction. (Particularly strong if it’s aspecting one of your personal planets. Not sure? Contact me).Look around. Neptune is dissolving the Saturnian paradigms and societal structures we rely on to make order out of chaos and meaning out of suffering. Why? To provide more> The Peacetime Roots of Overseas Bombing July kindly invites us to inquire into the peacetime roots of overseas bombing. After all, if war is arising in our perception, it’s not actually happening overseas. It’s a catalyst for self-inquiry, FedEx’d directly to our doorstep. The question is: more> June is bright and curious. A time to teach by wondering precisely, out loud. It’s also the stage set for a slowly tightening Saturn/Neptune conjunction (near-exact on July 15th, culminating in an exact conjunction on February 20th, 2026). A good time to walk out of movies. Sometimes the more> As what are you speaking? The answer comes in five stages: 1) Negation: Objection to the question as vague and unanswerable: an exercise in fruitless self-absorption. 2) Regurgitation: An eruption of conditioned ideas of self that are riddled with dead preconception. 3) Disorientation: The more> Make Existence Great Again May supplies a simple, straightforward interlude after months of confusing and complex eclipses and retrogrades. A time to release generous amounts of forest green into our eyes and live “in the body, on the earth, as it is.” In short: Come out of your more> MARCH was a mystic compost heap– funky and relentlessly self-reckoning. Sorry, says Pisces, but we don’t wake up from the dream of separation until we’re sufficiently disillusioned by it. It’s rare for Pisces to be this blunt: There are no people. Just paranormal gazes engaged in concept-worship. “Samsara more> In 1970, Stephen Stills wrote a song named, Love the One You’re with. Venus Retrograde in Aries (March 1st- April 12th) agrees with the sentiment, but sings it differently: Lose the one you’re with. Be scandalously unfaithful to the preconceived picture you have of each other. Encourage each other to more> Walking Each Other Home February blesses us with forward movement. Uranus went direct on Jan 30th followed by Jupiter on Feb 4th, then Mars on Feb 23rd. Time to take a break from the feverish politics, stare into hurtable human eyes and walk each other home. Every step, more> TO JUDGE someone is to judge the dysfunction of the family system that helped shape them. Behind whatever crazy-making toxicity may lie in their immediate family, stand generations of ancestors and societies that passed on their unique bias and blind spots. Finally, zooming all the way out, every so-called “guilty more> 2025 demands bloodshot sublimity; a mad, meditative ease embodied, not for ourselves, but for the bankrupt and bereaved: the godless and orphaned in every eye. For surely grace does not descend into the “miserably secure” without upheaval and disarray, urgency and angst. How wise were we, then, to more> THE TRANSITION from November to December (Scorpio to Sagittarius) drives dark reckoning into soul-seeing redemption, with the crack of a whip! This is the wheel of incarnation pressing us to loosen the grip of psychoanalyzed evil and give thanks for the cosmic privilege of having an awareness to wake up more> Astrology: The Ache for CommunionIt takes study, contemplation and interactive reality-testing to fairly assess the validity of Astrology’s dharma and enter the realm of “felt archetype.” Nonetheless, millions are now smitten by the code-cracking resolve required to embrace or dismiss it. What’s going on? Why now?The resurgence of astrology is a response more> |
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