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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> 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> 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> 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> 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> 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> 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! Chip more> 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> DECLOAKING THE DERVISH THE BIG EVENT this month is the Feb 12th New Moon in Aquarius during which more than half of the Zodiac (6 planets) will be conjunct in the sign of Aquarius. I strongly recommend finding out which area of your birth chart this powerful Stellium will be falling more> Grief into praiseGrief into praiseDisheveled the priesthoodAs 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 more> MIND-MURDERING abyss! Flushing through us like water through the gills of a fish! Ocean of presence! Looking out from our form-fixated eyes! Forgive us for withholding our blessing, then playing victim of the Hell we get to live in. For lamenting the profane state of world, even as we launch sexy profanities more> Hunter embodies a sharp knowing, a wonderful listening and a grounded firmness that provides a clean and clear reflection to all parts of my soul. Thank you Hunter for your path, your knowing and your integrity. ~Charlie, Personal Coach, Los Angeles Words are insufficient to describe the sonic shockwave I more> RESURRECTING THE AQUARIAN WATER BEARER To remain standing on the buckling, tectonic terrain of January, we will need to meditate on the true nature of “personality” and “evil.” Personality is a spiritual machine. A karmically inherited download of wound-gifts: ungovernable until meditatively incandesced by the Merciful Witness. Evil: the forgivable more> MERCIFUL WHISTLEBLOWER! God of a trillion stars that knows our name! Drag and drop your heavenly heart into this hairdo’d Pearl Harbor. Synaptic superpower, serious as cancer! Forgive us our flashlights and stockpiled water. Only You can beat this virus: this pining for refuge in the microbial madness of this world. more> 12 self-inquiry questions that will shake you free of the egoic trance embodied by the twelve signs of the zodiac Aries:What watches the impulse to act boldly? Is Presenceconfident or unsure? Taurus:What watches the desire for secure ground? Is presence safe or vulnerable to ruin? Gemini:What watches the desire for change? Is presence bored more> STALKING THE PREY OF PRESENCE LIKE DOMINION voting machines, minds were designed to be hacked by the code-cracking power of astrology, meditation and self-inquiry. What’s in it for the hacker? The crown jewel: A sublimely relaxed, soul-seeing nervous system, warmly okay with the dark controllers faithfully fulfilling their karmic role more> CONFESS AND UNDRESS WHATEVER we speak to, in another, is the part we’re feeding and encouraging, in them. Think of it as an existential exam; the soul-seeing meditation we’re called to intensively practice three times per year, during Mercury retrograde. When Mercury turns inward, bold proclamations of belief and opinion more> |
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