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What if the astrological archetypes were superheroes. What names would they go by? What powers would they wield? Here’s my Astrodharmic take: 1) Aries: “I-AM-athon”Transformer of compulsive “selfing” into soulful give and take. 2) Taurus: “KneelEstate”Transformer of miserable security into confess-and-undress rebirth. 3) Gemini: “SamurWhy”Transformer of restless curiosity into targeted more> Ego is the mother of all malware. Our eternal operating system is constantly attacked by seductive appeals to ditch deathless Being and settle for mortality-hardening role play. Eternity-with-eyes: relentlessly cyber-attacked by depressing evidence of separation. The good news: August is fully capable of deleting this presence-clogging data. With the more> The Dharma of Aging There’s much to love about July- a time to vulnerably connect, bear responsibility with grace and take assertive action before Mercury retrograde begins on August 5th. But first, we need to understand the overarching themes of more> The big news this month is Jupiter moving into the versatile, articulate sign of Gemini for one year. Good to know which house(s) Jupiter will be transiting in your birth chart, as this is where opportunity and expansion are virtually begging to happen. Not sure? Great time to map out the next year more> The Seriousness of a Child at Play June opens with a week of Gemini lightheartedness: a time of lively conversation and social mixing sure to broaden our horizons and brighten our mood. Jupiter- which just entered a one year journey through the sign of Gemini on June 25th (see feature more> Roofless World There’s nothing romantic or liberating about it—this cowering in a sleeping bag,watching the twinkling menacecollapse the screen tentof who I think I am. It is not some primordial exercise of freedom.A landlord still hovers.The rent is still exorbitant. In only one wayis it easier out here:I stop my more> Our Father who art in Heaven… Hallowed be thy name: the “Merciful Witness,” striding across the centuries, deathbeds scattering in Your wake; bless you for whispering from the center of this soul-spiraling wheel of incarnations, enticing us to sprawl shameless in this Victorian lounge chair we call “flesh,” stroke the velvet of more> TO APPRECIATE the full majesty of May we best understand it as one step in the Aries-Taurus-Gemini narrative. April, May and June, you see, are a choir. They sing together as one soul-guiding season. Aries generates healthy ego through the trial-and-error assertion of identity and will. Taurus slaps form onto Aries intention, more> As the old rules crumble and the maps we use to navigate our world no longer apply, we take refuge in Your Shepherding Presence, the mysteriously emergent, faintly dotted trail that never fails to sail us through this blinding fog of separation. For surely there is no one left unbattered by these more> SELF-FORGETTING is what we all have in common. That, and a heartbreakingly resilient “nobility of soul.” What does the March ramp-up to the lunar and solar eclipses (March 25th and April 8 ) ask of us? To take time to marinate in the pristine awareness that we are and strive for a more> IN-YOUR-FACE EMPTINESS The advice of April is simple– if paradoxical. Thou shalt practice the art of aiming your Aries will at surrender to the Pisces Tao. Said another way: assume the posture of “In-your-face emptiness.” It takes uncommon Aries guts to pause the do-er and commune with those 40,000 neurons in more> WHEN “SOMEDAY” GOES DARKWE ALL have ideas about what we’re going to do “someday:” a repugnant word to the enterprising Aries archetype. “Start now,” barks Aries, and let “someday” go dark. Imagine, then, what happens when the Sun and Moon fuse together in the sign of Aries (New Moon) which happens every more>
RECENTLY, for the sake of my visiting apprenticeship students here in Okinawa, I’ve taken to rebranding the signs of the zodiac with names that more directly express their wound/gift predicament.
After months of dredging the more> FEBRUARY is electric; a barrage of benevolent “zaps” that help us become more spiritually sovereign and cognizant of our moment-to-moment impact on the collective psyche. All planets are direct until April 2nd when Mercury goes retrograde, making the next two months (February and March) a stellar time to move forward on a host more> The New Year reeks of strategy, straight out of the gate. Mercury Retro goes direct on the 1st, goose-stepping us closer to an auspicious 4 planet pile up in Capricorn that culminates in a project-launching crescendo from the 25th to the 30th. Time to roll up our sleeves and lay down a more> I’m currently traveling with my wife in Japan, which is a “gift culture.” Gifts fly off the hands of these people all year long. The focus, however, is less on the gift itself and more on the ceremonial act of giving: the energy with which one presents the gift. The formality, of more> Dream Striving There is a time to brainstorm and there is a time to reality-test. Trying to do both at the same time dilutes the potency of both. Fortunately, December clearly demarcates which times are best for each. During the first two weeks of December (until the 13th), I suggest more> In a time when “wrongthink” can get you digitally assassinated and demonized by those you once called “friends”, the place of opinion in everyday life is being called into question. This is particularly true for people on a spiritual path. What is the function of opinion for those who practice “meditative relating?” more> Hologram Lizards On this post-truth planet called “the dream of separation,” lovable liar is as good as it gets. It’s what we and the warmongers have in common. Why don’t we sit quietly with ourselves? Because we’d catch our Reptilian brain stem surrounding itself with hologram lizards. So parched is more> The first few days of October Christen us with a grand Trine. Pluto, Moon and Mercury are joining hands in a sublime Kite formation, aimed at the implausibly faithful planet, Neptune. If you listen hard, perhaps you can hear them singing of a distant time when the scandals “out there” virtually more> We all shed DNA, leaving traces of our identity everywhere we go. On the surface of everything and everyone we touch, our biological fingerprint fuses with the code of countless strangers, blurring the line between self and other. The same is true of the 700 microbial species that make their home in more> This morning, I asked my soul, What is our natural state? The answer arrived as a testimonial: I’m more concerned with what I’m wading “through” than the direction of my sloshing; more drawn to stroking the texture of Consciousness than forming a sexy bond with a particular expression of it. more> THE WORLD was designed to drag us into existential self-inquiry. That’s Buddhism 101. In that sense, August is a gold mine. During the “soft” centuries, mind becomes contemplatively lazy. Life is about color, style and “getting stuff” from the raging impermanence– not making meaning out of it. Then the civilizational pendulum more> THE WORLD is brimming with birth charts whose style of awakening is to mature into some kind of self-inquiry coach. It has always been so. Some beings wake up in the throes of catalyzing self-discovery in others. What happens when said soul incarnates into a witness-parched society entranced by ego-hardening belief and more> |
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