JUST IN TIME for the first of three exact Saturn/Neptune squares on Nov 26th, Playboy Magazine just announced a return to veiled beauty. Effective March 2016, no more full nudes. It seems the divine feminine is reclaiming her archetypal teaching power: it takes persistent Neptunian longing for the Unseen to get Saturn (the gritty veil more>
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OCTOBER IS MUCH LIKE the third and final stage of a vision quest, which is called “Incorporation.” The quester hikes down from the seclusion of the mountain and, before speaking with anyone else, recounts the journey of his/her vision fast (as if it were a symbol-stuffed Neptunian dream) to a Saturnian mentor-guide who was busy more> EVERY SEVEN YEARS, transiting Saturn conjuncts, squares or opposes the position of Saturn in our birth chart, providing crucial thematic guidance for our ever-evolving soul. Scroll down to your age and see which bread crumb your ego is currently pecking at. (All ages approximate). FIRST SATURN CYCLE: Age 0/First Breath (Saturn conjunct Saturn): Knot more> WELCOME TO “Night of the Living Dead” — a.k.a. “your life.” Like the 1968 movie of the same title, it’s a corny, dated zombie flick with a sly political undercurrent that you and I paid good “money” (birth) to get into. Why, oh Why? Are we cultish nerds, or have we intelligently tapped into more> ONCE A YEAR, the moon turns into a blazing, axe-to-the-forehead ray of truth. Exactly what truth does this ray wish to illumine? Read on. Scorpio corresponds to the 8-10pm time period. Why? Because Scorpio wants to stay awake in the dark. Yes, a later time in the night would, perhaps, evoke a more forbidden more> Aries: I am phenomenon in the eyes of a deeper seer. I have won myself back. Taurus: All passing pleasures: finger food for the fullness of Being. Gemini: All clever word-craft: catalysts for silent communion. Cancer: Old hurts and defenses: hardened homesickness for You. Leo: In the fire of pure seeing, self-worth scatters like ash more> FEBRUARY PRESENTS an interesting opportunity: socially engaged introversion. How comfortable can you be “alone together?” It’s as if this Mercury retrograde (in Aquarius until Feb 11) is grooming us for the kind of unwavering self-possession we might need to work calmly, side-by-side during the geopolitically tense and militant March equinox period. Then comes the Jupiter-focused more> THE FIRST HALF OF December (particularly on the Full Moon in Gemini on Dec 6th) is a time for blue sky thinking. Take advantage of the grand fire trine (Sun/Jupiter/Uranus) on December 11-12 to confess some irrepressible soul-calling and shatter the glass ceiling on what your mind says is possible for this life. Then, during more> AS WE PULL OUT of Mercury retrograde’s “After-Shadow” on Nov 9th, and the soul is emboldened by Mars’ Oct 26th movement into matrix-friendly Capricorn, our goal-realization urges are likely to intensify. Use the first week of November (until the Full Moon in Taurus on the 6th) to realistically examine which life visions are so indigenous more> SEPTEMBER BEGINS nose-to-the-grindstone and becomes progressively more light-hearted and inspired. The lunar energy builds until the Sept 8th full Moon in Pisces, then, on Sept 13th – after two years in poker-faced Scorpio – the assertive, fiery planet, Mars, moves into shoot-from-the-hip Sagittarius, followed by Pluto going direct (out with the old, in with the more> DID YOU KNOW that an owner’s manual for the human psyche was encoded into the organs and structures of your body, and that the more you learn about the higher and lower octave expressions of each archetype, the more specific this two-legged Bible’s guidance is? Sound far-fetched? Perhaps. Here’s your chance to find out. Download more> WHENEVER WE TAKE the (imagined) risk of abiding as the loving vastness looking out through our eyes, we psychically join hands with every other personality-draped consciousness on the planet. At last, sighs the soul, ego is mad enough to be mortal, sane enough to disappear: the assertive Aries head is sharing the stage with the more> WHAT IF the shuffling mass of flesh moving around you didn’t point so much to particular people, but to the Supreme Being? What if every totem pole of body parts was chiseled with symbolic scripture whose reassuring profundity continually eclipsed people’s individual attitudes and behavior, highlighting instead the heroic journey of self-realization that every soul more> I ONCE ASKED a Tibetan Buddhist teacher what she thought was the core cause of human suffering. “Believing this place is solid,” she quipped. Of course, I thought to myself, ego has to make it solid ‘out there’ so it feels solid ‘in here.’ So long as trees and tits and power plants and politicians more> PLEASE ASSIGN an astrological sign to each of the 12 walking styles below. Remember, we’re all archetypal mutts down here, so though we have our signature styles of parting space, it’s just a matter of time (or lifetimes) before we try on all 12. In the real world, archetypes arise in compensating clusters. Descriptions of more> THE MOON represents what we need to feel secure. What happens when we step over our hurtable human needs in order to manifest some otherwise constructive Capricorn goal? Patriarchy. Assembly lines. Manic distraction. Planecide. Until we learn to slow down, resensitize and make on-the-spot assessments of our own and others shifting inner landscape, all spirituality more> IF THE PASSAGE OF TIME isn’t a mouth-piece for God, then God is as good as mute. An extreme statement? Not to the astro-literate. Consider this: What if a viable path of Self-remembering, or dharma, is embedded not just into our yearly and monthly transits, but into the hourly flow of each day? A kind more> AS WE LEARN to sense into lower-octave Scorpio energy in ourselves and others, we start to generate a real, heartfelt compassion for the fear that drives this archetype: Fear of superficiality. This detective-like corner of our ego suspiciously punches through the straightforward (Taurean) aspect of Being in hopes of extracting enough “truth” to allow more> THE 12 SIGNS of the zodiac exist in our inner sky as way-showers, personalized road maps uniquely suited to our body type and conditioning, our genius and wounds. With practice, these 12 styles of awakening become as percievable as the constellations backstroking through the void above us. But what happens when we fail to more> CHECK OUT THIS handy, downloadable reference chart that summarizes how the twelve signs of the zodiac appear when seen through meditative eyes. An objective, woo-woo-free way of measuring your capacity for interpersonal insight and on-the-spot compassion. Post on your fridge or carry in your pocket as a guide to correct your seeing and instantly more> WOULD YOU LIKE to develop an intuitively accurate, real-time awareness of the astrological archetypes in your everyday life, work and relationships? Are you an aspiring astrologer or would you like to deepen your current counseling, healing and interpersonal work with Astrodharmic insights into your clients? This training may be just what you’re looking more> WHAT IF A ROADMAP TO AWAKENING was built into the very fabric of the cosmos? What if a pathway to the Buddhist middle path – the ego-dissolving center between mind’s wildly swinging extremes – was laid out for us in the pattern of the planets? This is the essential, but too often hidden, insight of more> WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING “motorist” metaphors do you find more appealing: 1) Driving merrily along, lost in the buoyant beat of some smooth jazz station– oblivious to your toxic wake and the incalculable plant, animal and human sacrifice that allows you to fly across eroding rock trails made bump-less every night at 3:00 AM by more> |
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