Astrodharma Transit Report: February 2022

A Vision Wild and Noble

From February 4th to April 29th, there will be no retrograde planets in the sky. This is rare and, luckily, coincides with a time when buoyant Jupiter is strongly placed in the sign of its traditional ruler, Pisces. Think: “faith finding reasons for more faith.”

Mars more>

The Price of Seeing: Dharmic Pointers for February 2022

WITH VENUS and Mercury Retrograde in the rear view mirror and three months of nothing but forward-moving planets stretching out before us, it’s time to take a deep breath and focus on some soulful alternatives to Schwab n’ Gates cyborgian wet dream.

Now is the great reset!

There is a more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: January 2022

WALKING OUT OF MOVIES

Birth is an expensive ticket to a movie we’re designed to walk out of.

This, of course, will never happen until something jolts us back into our senses. Suddenly, we notice where we are: a dark theater flashing meaningless suspense.

Now for the hard part: whispering more>

The Right Use of Two in 2022

ORPHANED EGO reacts with identity-hardening belief and opinion. Why? Because me-story is all its got. Space-with-a-face, on the other hand, uses language as a catalyst for self-inquiry, playfully teasing and testing, “What wordplay shines the most wise-loving light through the lampshade of personality?”

Teachers are those who “wonder aloud,” accurately identifying the more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: December 2021

OUT OF THE FEARSTORM, INTO THE FRIEND

ARE THESE TIMES more fearsome than others? Perhaps. But, let’s be honest: ego-on-a-countdown was born in a fearstorm and ego-on-a-countdown will die in a fearstorm. Not so, our Timeless Presence.

McVirus, aside, our predicament remains the same: the hairdo’s and happenings continue to bob more>

Holy Smoke or Storied Bloke?

ARE THESE TIMES more fearsome than others? Perhaps. But, let’s be honest: ego-on-a-countdown was born in a fearstorm and ego-on-a-countdown will die in a fearstorm. Not so, our Timeless Presence.

McVirus, aside, our predicament remains the same: the hairdo’s and happenings continue to bob and dance all around us as mind seeks more>

Angels With Amnesia

ASTROLOGY is embodied nonduality. Why? Because it locates the God of the sky in the play of personhood; it melts our heart with the purity and nobility of every archetypal facet of personality (drunk with divine intent) even as it equips us with the shrewdness needed to sensitively confront the ways orphaned ego more>

Brave New Prayer: Depopulate

Prayer that sends our soul a-weepingField that does the bulk of teachingPrick us with your numinous needleDepopulate this orphaned ego

“Bethlehem” this harried mangercast out me-stories, like money changerRapture this nanotech abominationearth no longer Heaven’s way station

Spank us hard, show no mercy,with Shwab n’ Gates Transhuman curtsyUnmask more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: November 2021

One Problem, One Solution

On the surface, November looks formidable, tense, divisive. Underneath, it shimmers with innocent, existential curiosity:

Is time erasing your sentience?

Even now, we answer with posture, mood and breath.

Are you an orphaned ego on a countdown? Or a psyche of cosmic dimensions meditatively more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: October 2021

THE DEMON OF EGO AND THE ANGEL OF PRESENCE

October is littered with lurid leaks and daring disclosures.

It’s a muckraking, calm-before-the-storm kind of month– a time to strategically reposition, stock-up and spirtually prepare for the scruffy tug-o-wars of November/December when Mars in Scorpio starts triggering the Saturn/Uranus square more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: September 2021

All Quivers Beneath Your Silent Immensity

To crack the code of September, we will need to narrate the soul’s journey from Leo to Virgo to Libra, and savor it as a chivalrous love story.

Virgo, it turns out, is an otherworldly paramedic.

Swooping in like a caped superhero, more>

Why Get a Reading During Covid?

WHY GET a reading during Covid? Simple. So you can project a steady field of faith. Let me explain.

In the basement of every psyche there is a bare bulb hanging over a dusty workbench. My job is to flick on the light switch, descend down the rickety staircase, wipe off the more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: August 2021

Templates of Grace

Winston Churchill once said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” I wholeheartedly agree– providing the crisis is defined as: “numbness to the Shepherding Presence.”

How do we harness the opportunity hidden in the folds of our Presence-blindness? By daring to pause long enough to see what existential more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: July 2021

THE END OF AMBIVALENCE

Would you characterize your closest relationships as a “liberating commitments?” Yes and no, right? We’re forever balancing our evolving needs with those of our partner’s.

The first ten days of July demand that we break free of “responsibly repressive” models of love, work and service, or risk sudden rifts and more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: June 2021

THE RUMI-MAKER

There comes a time when “I’ll be happy when…” slams into a ditch. Suddenly, the lie of living as a time-tethered “blip with a lip” becomes impossible to believe and the “state-chasing” frenzy of ego loses all credibility. Then we see it:

No peace lies in the future more>

Astrodharma Prayer: Night Sky Lover

Thank you for gathering us together out here under Your endless sky, for re-sizing us in relation to Your “psyche of cosmic dimensions;” for re-minding us how ant-like, vulnerable and desperately interdependent we are, and how batshit crazy we become without soul-mirrors: the company of beings alive to Your timeless presence– the more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: May 2021

Timeless Glory or Human Story?

WITH NEARLY HALF the zodiac in the sign of Taurus, the first days of May are a sublime time to reconnect with nature and meditatively gather together outside to celebrate our common destiny as dream animals.

This shared human contact with earth and sky is particularly more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: April 2021

TAKE A RISK THEN HUNKER DOWN

MARCH WAS for re-dreaming our lives. This gestating period comes to an end on April 4th when Mercury goes into Aries. By now, we should have an action plan for April.

Then, the closer we get to the New Moon in Aries on April 12th, more>

The Beautiful Problem of Awakened Aries

AWAKENED ARIES (key phrase: “I AM”) knows what personality really is: God, fist-bumping the “imaginary others.”

This higher octave Aries part us also knows where “evil” comes from: personality on cruise control.

In our hearts, we all know personhood was never about the dense branding of ego; it’s more>

Astrodharma Transit Report: March 2021

UNBROKEN LOVE EMERGING FROM THE FOG

The first two weeks of March are ripe for “personal retreat”. Time to make a clean break from our daily routine, re-imagine our lives and get ready to begin anew on the Pisces New Moon on March 13th.

This New Moon is conjunct Venus/Neptune and more>

The Equinox Embodied

IT TAKES “contemplative guts” to pass the test of March; to allow the great Aries-to-Pisces wheel of incarnation to grind to a halt, pause for a moment of sober self-reckoning in the netherworld between incarnations, then stand up again into a more soul-animated pole of flesh.

This is the course-correcting power of more>

Dharma Poem: Screen Savior

Look Up! Look Up!From the unfeeling eye of the almighty Screen Savior, the “empathic failure” maker, the antiseptic civility of the meditator, and power down, power down the ambition to stay cool in the face of this orchestrated temptation to become: Robosapien.Depressed! Depressed!Is the soul, with this sexy reluctance, to sink into more>

Dharma Poem: “Me-Goth”

Remember whenthere were solid, separate somebodiesinstead of me-gothinked into forever’s forearm,and “falling for the trait bait”was sexy fun?

Now there are no people,just tattoos asking why, mythologies marching across a skin-celled sky

Cattle-brand charismawith deep-space cry:“person, sweet person,die before you die.”

Remember when cut flower psycheshad more>

Disheveled, The Priesthood

Grief into praiseGrief into praiseDisheveled the priesthoodas the Rumi schools rage

Carcass of gloryCarcass of gloryIdle and blessedYukon Territory

Psyop the tensionPsyop the tensionMinus Your PresenceCrippled, no pension

Heat-seeking helperHeat-seeking helperDo-ership stormQuick, take shelter!

Merciful WitnessMerciful WitnessMad Max the trainerUltimate fitness!

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Portals to Presence Practice

THOUGHTS ARE the caboose; archetypes are the engine. Astrology– when used as a catalyst for meditation and self-inquiry– moves us from the back of the train to the front.

Re-situated in the engine room, we can clearly see what me-story cages we’re pacing inside of– and, in the act of mercifully witnessing more>