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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> 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> 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>
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> 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? 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> 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> 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> 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> 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> 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> 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> |
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