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With Mars transiting the sign of Aries for the next six months, I thought this visual aid from The Twelve Wheels of Karma might help you better navigate the rest of 2020. Ready for more?–Learn about the Styles of Awakening online training–Schedule an astrology reading with Hunter–Subscribe to Styles of Awakening newsletter (monthly)–Receive these more> SIX MONTHS OF MARS! WAKE UP! The season of stunned disbelief and “mulling our options” has come to a screeching halt. Now is the time to act upon the things we realized during our Covid-enforced retreat. Against a backdrop of continued, world-crumbling volatility, July is our less-than-perfect-but-good-enough time to “fear forward.” Here’s why: After more> MERCIFUL WITNESS! Cloned and memory-wiped into tight-fisted thugs with street-smart histories, bless you for whisking us through this riot of Self-forgetting. Walk with us now, briskly, through this spiritual winter, as we dart through the window-smashing mob of moods, the me-story graffiti that junkyards the tongue, ending before there’s a chance of beginning, the more> I HAVE NEVER met a mind (political, psychological or spiritual) that deeply wants to be here. Ego claws at the world to survive, even as it resents it for swallowing it alive. This lack of “full incarnational choosing” undermines all of mind’s world-saving and soul-saving aspirations. Only the Unborn, Undying, Imperishable more> THE TONGUE IS is an innocence-magnifying organ, designed to redirect our attention to the Shepherding Presence animating all. And so, today, we give thanks to You, Sly Shepherd, connoisseur of star-wines, birth times and the fruity bouquet of lifetimes, for giving us a glimpse of the benevolent arc of meaning weaving through the god-awful more> SAY HELLO TO THE GOLDEN SHADOW WELCOME TO eclipse season, when outgrown aspects of our lives “go dark” so we can pivot into new life. Now that the angel of death is no longer a hazy concept in the future, but a guiding presence in our day-to-day lives, the Saturn/Pluto conjunction rests and is, more> MIDDLE AGES 2.0 MAY BEGINS with the Sun in the dirt-friendly sign of Taurus and a looming Full Moon in the death-stinky sign of Scorpio (May 7th). The most important thing to do this month? Walk on bare dirt. Feel the weight of your body squishing into generations of accumulated death and decay. This more> MATURE SOULS CONFESS: karmic predisposition shapes and informs everything we humans think, say or do. Meditation and self-inquiry: the slowing down required to get a glimpse of this otherworldly narrative playing through us. Why are we so adverse to sacred pauses? Because they shatter ego’s fantasy of absolute free will. Because they expose what more> THE SOCIAL MEDIA response to Corona has made one thing clear: Ego prefers dark certainty to a neutral unknown. The shadowy intrigue of Pluto is far more compelling than Saturn’s bare bones here/nowness. Why is this? Perhaps because Saturn is the lantern-carrying monk who wanders the aftermath of atomic Pluto. Not as sexy as more> Dear friends and Astrodharma allies, It’s all going online. Even face-to-face college courses could be canceled this September. As a result, thousands upon thousands of online trainings are being rushed out onto the internet. Few, however, have a solid, 10 year track record (with consistent 5-star reviews) like the Styles of Awakening Training. Why more> IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY Pan was a mischievous forest sprite, inhabiting the lonely stretches of wilderness that separated the Greek city-states. Pan’s favorite diversion? Tormenting Greek travelers as they traversed the byways of that once-forested land. At first, Pan would gently “rustle the bushes” engendering a sense of apprehension. Over time, as He delivered more more> THERE USED TO BE A WORLD; NOW THERE’S JUST GOD’S DREAM. It’s over. The sinful materialism of Saturn: cauterized by the hot poke of Pluto. The Tinder-swiping obsessions of Pluto: freeze dried by monkish Saturn. Hundreds of thousands will die in order to deliver this ethical re-set. The best we can do now more> DEATHBED TRAINING WITH 10% OF THE world’s population locked-down in quarantine and the portable cremation furnaces of Wuhan burning-out from overuse, it’s tempting to believe we are perversely “special” for living in such dire, death-stinky times. The truth: Before, during and after this pandemic, orphaned ego (that mad scientist hunched over in his more> WE ALL SHED A VIRUS. WHAT’S YOURS? We’re all modeling– and, in effect, teaching– a way of inhabiting consciousness. Our me-stories and moods, the paradigm from which we speak, our inner/outer posture and energetic field— they’re all wildly contagious. Will it take a metaphorical “devil virus” to help us face our infectious condition and more> Eyeballs looking for their eyeball-nessThe more they aim, the more they miss Now I know I’m The LookingSo aglow with The Looking Opinion punching like an empty fistat the belly of apocalypse Now I know I’m The LookingSo aglow with The LookingTemple ruins from an ancient war:all the faces we adore Now I more> 2020: YEAR OF DISCIPLINE & EMPOWERMENT 2020 IS NOT JUST a new year; it’s the beginning of a new 35 year Saturn/Pluto epoch; a time when entrenched institutions harden to the point of brittleness, before breaking, and “personal success” driven egos refocus on empowering and caring for the souls piling in behind them. The more> From the inky udder of night:the first faint sprayof luminous delight A milky grey, from far, farawaylike hearsaydusts our cult of edges Then the first light: a million flickering altarsput Zoom calls to shame Business suits remember who they are:robes of confession Later, in the kitchen,owl-lightgets shocked into submission A fluorescent handgrabsa razor sharp more> CALM BEFORE THE STORM DECEMBER HAS a “calm before the storm” feel. Our best shot at injecting “ho ho ho” into the “humbug? Tap into your inner philosophy clown. Weave whimsy into the weightiness even as you prepare for the collective colonic: the Saturn/Pluto conjunction of 2020. Here’s three steps: 1) Build faith-in-life more> BEAUTIFUL PROBLEMS Mercury Retrograde (Oct 31- Nov 20) is a spiritual spot quiz. It tests how anchored we are in The Silent Immensity, by baiting the mind with distracting “problems.” It’s Gem-in-eye curious: How reflexively will you abandon your true position as awareness, itself, and harden into the shape of the problem-solver? Miscommunication, travel more> INTERPERSONAL BOOT CAMP The September 28th New Moon in Libra set a clear theme for October: relationships. As Venus, Sun, Mars and Moon take turns squaring Pluto and Saturn, we are being poked and prodded to resist temptations to emotionally manipulate and, instead, upgrade our capacity for graceful negotiation and humble resolution of differences. more> MYSTIC IN THE MATRIX SEPTEMBER is fantastically functional and forward-moving. It begins with half the zodiac conjunct in the sign of Virgo, forming a T-square to Neptune and Jupiter. Normally a tense configuration, the pressure of this ongoing T-square receives an auspicious “release valve” through Trines to visionary Uranus and disciplined Saturn. Then, over more> Dear friends and Astrodharma allies, Are you a budding counselor, teacher, social worker or simply an evolving “spiritual friend?” Are you ready to learn the perceptual skills you need to see and support a full range of personalities, allowing you to go soul-to-soul with your clients and those you claim to know and more> No wonder we hate him.Mind did something unspeakableTo our underage eyes. TurningInnocent pink sunrisesintobackstabbing honeypots. Sunsets into sugar daddieswith a creepy commandto hold some handbefore we punish by postingto Instagram. Jeffrey’s most despicable act:reminding ushow we pedo ourselves:look the other way,as sweet, starry-eyed silence is mountedover and over, by a potbellied queue. PEDOPHILES AND HEAD-O-PHILES AUGUST OFFERS SWEET relief from the shadow-outing intensity of July’s Mercury retrograde and eclipses. (Mercury went direct on July 31st). With Venus and the Sun conjunct all month, the mood is more upbeat, social, even romantic. Could the first twenty days of August be the happiest days of the year? ARE YOU AN EXPERT IN DESENSITIZATION? Feeling pulled in a new direction? Mercury is retrograde, conjunct risk-taking Mars and square unruly Uranus. The soul is restless for change. Alas, we have some emotional homework to complete before moving forward. Is life buzzy, with doors flying open, pushing you to expand your emotional comfort more> |
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