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NOT-KNOWING, OUT LOUD, TOGETHER OCTOBER BEGINS with Mercury retrograde going direct in Virgo on the 2nd. Opposed Neptune and squaring Mars, communication may be choppy for a few days. In terms of speaking style, be like a carpenter: “Measure twice, cut once.” The first three weeks of the month (until more> Click here> to listen to this podcast GREETINGS fellow dream animals! Welcome. This podcast is place where silence grows a tongue, words turn into dharma bells and astrology is understood as a mystical practice more suited to poetry than psychology. To make the podcast more spacious and digestible there will more> THERE IS a middle path between strict Virgo routine and meandering Pisces intuition; maintaining order in our everyday lives and releasing ourselves into the mystery and vastness. This is not, however, the main message of September. September’s slam is more sublime and interpersonal. Questions emerge: Is this relationship energetically reciprocal? What more> Click Here> to listen to this podcast In this podcast I squeeze dharma from a band called, Three Dog Night, explain why it’s insane not to sprinkle our days with divine pauses and redefine “awake” as “self-respecting brokenness.” Next, we dive into a dark, unspoken truth: meditation is self-absorption unless it gives more> AUGUST BEGINS with an electric, triple conjunction of Uranus, Mars and the North Node (amplifier of things that effect the future). On the positive side, this conjunction has the power to deliver sudden insights that open us to new life and new worlds. Feeling unsure about how to move forward? The more> In this podcast I discuss the interdependence of meditation and prayer, prescribe God-talk as an antidote to Transhumanism, explain how prayer and astrology are both “bridges between longing and belonging” and why our “prayerless funk” is a form of spiritual wife-beating. Next, I dive into why long-term relationships are dying alongside the personal more> Seven levels of trust-worthiness Nobody is completely trust worthy. In the course of a day, we all experience gradations of integrity and even the wisest choice of partner will, at some point, present us with an empathic failure– if not outright violation. What, then, is an “acceptable trespass?” Is there a kind more> AWAKE IN THE FACE OF MORTALITY-MIRRORING LOVE THE BEGINNING weeks of June suffer from post Mercury retrograde fatigue. There’s a push to action, but immediately after Mercury goes direct on June 3rd, Saturn squares it. Travel is still a bit glitchy and the time for unobstructed forward movement doesn’t fully arrive more> Click here> to listen to this podcast Caravan to Midnight In this podcast I explore five ways to embody rock solid faith in the midst of relentless change and breakdown, see all beings as superheroes and dismiss conspiracy theories as kid stuff compared to the shocking truth of who we are. more> Click here> to listen to this podcast Greetings fellow dream animals. Welcome. This podcast is a place where silence grows a tongue and words turn into dharma bells: devotional tones that inspire and motivate orphaned egos to take off the crown of thinky thorns, and remember who we are: eternity-with-eyes, a psyche more> WHICH IS MORE fortunate: mindless abundance or revelatory loss? A bloated bank account or throwing bread over our shoulder as we make our way through a flock of pigeons? These are the themes of May, a month that challenges us to stand- come Hell or high water- for our true Taurus values. more> Click here to listen to this Podcast YOU’RE NOT SAFE; YOU’RE ETERNAL Ego salivates in the face of crisis. Why? Because the more frightening the headline, the more the anxiously ephemeral dream of “me” gets to feel solid, separate and real as we answer the question, Where am I in relationship to this more> IDENTITY TRANSPLANT April knows what success looks like: personal guts dancing with mystical surrender. Ready to “get funky” on the ashes of a crumbling society? All planets are direct and the floor is yours. Here’s a quick overview of April: Against a backdrop of continuing world chaos (Saturn/Uranus Square), we more> (This article is an excerpt from The Astrodharma Podcast.) The title of this month’s meditation and self-inquiry practice is: The French Fry Meditation It begins with the recitation of a mantra: Seething like a thousand chips in hot oil,This mind will never understand me. Next, I spend a more> The Sizzling Fish March presents us with a profound inquiry: What is the soulful response to side-taking, polarization and war? The answer dawns as we contemplate the Virgo/Pisces polarity (the signs of this month’s New and Full Moons). Overwhelmed and disoriented, low octave Pisces swings into the anal ordering of more> THE BEHAVIOR of collapsing governments is dripping with spiritual symbolism. Why did we choose to incarnate at this time? For a crash course in authentic operational mysticism. In their final days, all failed regimes do the same thing: more> Everyone suffers. The best we can do is make meaning out of it. In this way, crisis is, in large part, redeemed. But in order to fully redeem a particular crisis, we must understand the purpose of crisis in general. “Crisis” is an accelerated change of season: a moment when the wheel more> 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> 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> 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> 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> 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> 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> 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> |
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