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SINCE THE ELECTION of Trump, a stunning number of so-called “spiritual” people have shown their true colors. It appears that many consider mental violence — so long as it is accurately demonizing — a valid step towards Self-realization. Regardless of whether folks are for or against Trump, most seem to agree that the U.S. more>
ECLIPSE SEASON IS UPON US! THE FIRST WEEK of February is a ramp up to the Feb 10th Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse in Leo. To understand this fertile patch of darkness we’ll need to dive into the Leo/Aquarius polarity. Aquarius is the part of the ego that loves humanity, but is ambivalent about the more> IMAGINE RECEIVING “a three-month astrology reading.” That’s how Gen from Boulder, Colorado described the Styles of Awakening Training. Surely, it would be (as another Styles graduate put it) “a rare opportunity to develop full spectrum vision.” An intriguing phrase, no? But what, exactly, does “full spectrum vision” mean? Best to begin with what it’s not: more> DEATH CAFE A GOOD METAPHOR for this year is the increasingly popular Death Cafe — where people “drink tea, eat cake and discuss death.” Here we have the friendly detachment of Uranus forming an unlikely alliance with death-reckoning Pluto in a way that inspires deeper Jupiter meaning and perspective. This “camaradarie-through-self-reckoning” theme continues throughout all more> IT’S ALWAYS TOO EARLY TO DESPAIR Fast on the heels of the November 29th New Moon in Sag which conspired to pivot us onto a more adventurous, soul-liberating trajectory, our thoughts become more sober and strategic as Mercury enters Capricorn on December 2nd. And with good reason. The second half of December is a more> THE INNER GAME OF THRONES Good news! The drama of the U.S. presidential election makes Game of Thrones look like a game show. What’s so good about that? Well, it means that samsara is doing its job. The smell of ego is becoming so nauseating that we’re being driven to a choice point: become septic more> This emotionally charged U.S. presidential election- when harnessed as a meditative self-inquiry practice- has the power to expose and release us from our go-to styles of aversion and reactivate the sublime, soul-seeing awareness that we truly are. Here’s the practice: Step One: Exaggerate your disdain As you watch, listen to or speak about the more>
NOW THAT THE Mercury retrograde/eclipse season is over, we enter a well-earned grace period. On September 30th the New Moon in Libra (conjunct buoyant Jupiter, trine mergey Neptune) set an amorous, opportune tone for the month. A great time to nourish and reinvigorate our relationships. How? By listening others into Being. By playfully more> ECLIPSE SEASON: ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT ONTO YOUR LIFE PATH REMEMBER LAST MARCH? For many, it was a mind-bending morph into a new life. Why? Because it was an unusually Piscean eclipse season. Six months later, we find ourselves passing through another pair of Solar and Lunar eclipses. This time, however, the life-pivots unfold in the shadow more> FOR MOST OF US, the road to meditative “fullness of Being” is rocky and painful- especially in the midst of interpersonal misfires. Over and over, life says, “upgrade your soul-seeing skills or suffer.” By grace, we eventually confess: It’s nothing short of masochism to abandon our true position as awareness, itself. Finally, we learn more>
AS AN ASTROLOGER, I practice a form of extroverted mysticism. The object of worship: the divine personality embryonically displayed in the face of everyone. “Sin?” Absenting myself from soul-seeing relationship. This means I am vocationally obligated to recognize Hillary and Donald as the stinging zen sticks that they are; to take the more>
THE PROBLEM WITH meditation is that it turns most conversation into subtitled whale song. Weird. Why not let The Incomprehensible speak for itself? Indeed, according to the latest computer data-mining, ego is preoccupied with only six thematic story lines: 1) Rise-fall-rise, 2) Fall-rise-fall, 3) Rise-fall, 4) Fall-rise, 5) Steady fall, 6) Steady more> THE FIRST HALF OF 2016 was, for many, a disorienting faith-tester. With the help of a paradigm-melting Pisces eclipse season followed by a slew of introspective, postponing retrogrades, the Saturn/Neptune square slowly, inexorably drained the lifeblood from our miserably secure roles and relationships. Remember: Neptune is a mercy killer. She prefers slow, imperceptible atrophy and more> JUNE IS A TRANSITION month from “two steps forward, one step back” into slow-building forward momentum. Now that Mercury retrograde has gone direct on May 22nd, the contours of the second half of the year (July through December) start to become clear. Giddy plans stop backfiring because they’ve fermented into something nonconceptual and heartfelt enough more> FOR THE FIRST TIME in a decade, we have 5 planets retrograde at the same time (Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto). Don’t fall for the idle gossip. A pensive concern lurks behind the apparent frivolity. Instead, be nondual: applaud the pompous, pumping smokestacks of the great Oz, but speak directly to the faceless face more> ADMIT IT: THE SOLAR and Lunar eclipses of March sent you free-falling through a psychedelic worm-hole. Seduced by the spoon-bending logic of Pisces, ego lost focus, loosened its grip, and released you into a current of karmic inevitability. Poor little flesh-puppet; he was miles downstream before it occurred to him to start clutching at his more> AS YOU READ through this list of Aquarian characteristics, please remember that they do not so much point to a separate somebody, as to the One Being attempting to dream lucid in a particular kind of ego. In other words, don’t fall for the trait bait! What you are witnessing is the outer circumference of more> USE THE FIRST WEEK of February to self-reckon. Pluto is conjunct Mercury trine Jupiter, a great time to sit in front of an uncommonly vast, empty pair of eyes – a beloved who is still enough to listen you into being as you slowly, meditatively untie the knot of last month’s Mercury Retro. Now that more> As you read through this list of Capricorn characteristics, please remember that they do not so much point to a separate somebody, as to the One Being attempting to dream lucid in a particular kind of ego. In other words, don’t fall for the trait bait! What you are witnessing is the outer circumference of more> JANUARY BEGINS with a Mercury Retrograde on the fifth, squared by Mars. This is a call to action – perhaps a chiropractic adjustment for your career. For three days, Mercury will move backwards into Aquarius, followed by 17 days in Capricorn. Use the first week to boldly inquire into how you might inject more humanitarian more> WE ARE NOT AT WAR with “bad” personalities; we are at war with personality, itself. A confused and angry part of us wants to rain death down on whatever orphaned sacks of skin remind us of the soul-killing me-stories that lurk inside of us. Failing to locate our self as the tender witness of our more> AT THE BRINK OF DEATH, autobiography makes no sense. As ego surrenders back into the One telling the story of our life, even prayers become nervous clinging. Like the final moments before a total lunar eclipse, a timeless hush comes over us. Why wait? asks December. Is not every me-story an orb going dark? The more> YES, I KNOW. The question sounds naive. At best. But bear with me. Modern, meditative astrology is not a parlor game; it’s a paradigm. Seen through the eyes of the average, orphaned ego, the head is a graveyard: every cynical (or soulful) thought about itself continually passing away; every moment tainted by the subliminal more> JUST IN TIME for the first of three exact Saturn/Neptune squares on Nov 26th, Playboy Magazine just announced a return to veiled beauty. Effective March 2016, no more full nudes. It seems the divine feminine is reclaiming her archetypal teaching power: it takes persistent Neptunian longing for the Unseen to get Saturn (the gritty veil more> IT IS THE PRIVILEGED vocation of the Aries archetype (in all of us) to cajole – and, if need be, implicitly push – other souls into showing up as embodied personalities and thereby to have a fighting chance of awakening as pure Piscean awareness enjoying the role play of an Aries ego. This is the more> |
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