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THE STINKY DEATH DANCE The final weeks of Mercury retrograde in Aries (until April 15th) together with Mars conjunct Saturn square Sun/Mercury, provide a golden opportunity to sense into how grim and heavy it feels to imagine ourselves as separate somebody’s parting a dead ocean of space, pulling our cart of flesh through the rickety more> Happy Astrological New Year! Looking for a soulful graphic to guide you through another trip around the Sun? Download, print and laminate this Astrodharma poem: pdf download
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 articles more> THE EQUINOX WILL NOT BE TELEVISED THE ADVENT OF the astrological new year (March 20th, 9:15 AM PST) is normally a time of heroically extroverted Aries action and rebirth. Not this year. Due to numerous astrological factors outlined below, our season of “full steam ahead” will be delayed until mid-April. Instead, inner ground wants to more> THIS IS MY PLACE. THESE ARE MY PEOPLE. The purpose of meditative astrology is to help us stop falling for the “trait bait” and attune into the soul’s divine intent. May this Transit Report inspire and spur you on! FEBRUARY KICKS OFF with a Full Moon/Lunar eclipse in Leo on Jan 31st that throws more> MEDITATION OR EVISCERATION? Without periodic dredging, the pond of the mind becomes a stinky swamp. The swimmable layer of awareness grows thinner and thinner until, finally, it becomes a weedy wet spot. Okay, so dredging is essential. But how? Two options: 1) Learn to humbly meet and dissolve identity-clinging habits of mind, on-the-spot, via meditation more> WE ALL HAVE VICES. Thank God pedophilia is not one of them. It’s sickening and unforgivable, right? Ah, but why, then, did we incarnate at a time when thousands of these sad creatures are being outed worldwide? Why did we invite this particular breed of molestation into our waking dream? And why are these more> ARE YOU A PRE-PEDOPHILE? WE ALL HAVE VICES. Thank God pedophilia is not one of them. It’s sickening and unforgivable, right? Ah, but why, then, did we incarnate at a time when thousands of these vile creatures are being outed worldwide? Why did we invite this particular breed of molestation into our waking dream? And more> ARE YOU A “SCORE-PEON?” Ah, November: that scandal-outing interval when the whole planet turns into a confession booth. Time to pull back the projected self-hatred toward those bumbling “Pluto square Mars” souls like Harvey Weinstein and re-aim the “witch hunt” at our own premature penetrations. What’s that you say? You’re pretty Weinstein-free? Careful. We all more> THE MOST HATEFUL thing about astrology is not that it’s woo-woo enough to link faraway planetary positions with the colors of personality, but how it pushes us to face our meditative mediocrity. After all… If every mortal psyche is somehow tweaked by the way starry constellations hang in the sky (a.k.a. the void’s passing mood), more> A GRACEFUL ERUPTION INTO SANGHA THE FIRST SEVEN days of October poke at us until we allow the willful speck we call “me” to fizz and dissolve, Alka Seltzer-like, into the Great Mystery. Trying to speed up the story being told through you so your mind can race ahead for a glimpse of the final more> THE FLOOD WE LONG FOR: OUR INNER HOUSTON DURING THE FIRST week of September, the continuing transit of Mercury retrograde conjuncts Mars in the exact degree of last month’s solar eclipse (29 degrees Leo). Impatient to pivot onto those new trajectories revealed during last month’s Solar eclipse? Feeling revved up with no clear, action steps more> The impulse to reverently lower one’s head is downloaded into our DNA. The body is driven to assume the shape of varying degrees of prostration, no matter how godless or irreverent we think we are. Why? Because moving the atomized Aries head in the direction of the pressed-together world of the Pisces feet captures, with more> Eclipseograde! Eclipse is in the air. Mercury Retrograde too. How nimbly will you navigate this “Eclipseograde?” Depends on how elegantly you straddle the Leo/Aquarius polarity and become “you without you,” “space with a face.” Eclipseogrades demand unusual amounts of humility and self-reckoning. Why? Because, in their zeal to upgrade individual and collective consciousness, Eclipseogrades more> DARTH PLUTO MEETS SHOCK JOCK URANUS THE FIRST DAYS of July shudder and quake into an intense, shadow-erupting full Moon (conjunct Pluto/opposed Mars) on the 8/9th. Notice: awareness is being pummeled with emotional content. Digest! Egos feel extra-vulnerable now and are, therefore, prone to icy assertion and control. The slightest tinge of a threat or more> INTER-BEING: THE ULTIMATE SAFE-HAVEN JUNE IS A STAGE SET for electrically charged communication and the sly art of interBeing. The Venus/Pluto square has finished purging the shadow elements of our relationships and the jerky, gas/brake motion of the Mars/Saturn opposition is fading fast. Now comes the gutsy, “fear forward” energy that is Venus conjunct Uranus more>
YOU AND ME AND KIM JONG UN YOU AND ME and Kim Jong Un have something vital in common: all three of us are wrapped in a trance-inducting membrane that we were conditioned to call “my face.” Day after delirious day, all three of us keep missing what this rubbery constellation of features more> PSYCHIC BOOMERANGS AND THE RISE OF THE 10 MINUTE MONK APRIL IS A BARRAGE of backwardation. It begins with the continuing Venus Retrograde (until the 15th) followed by Saturn retro on the 6th, and Mercury and Pluto going retro on the 20th. A key player in this orgy of introspection is Saturn, who forms a more> MARCH BEGINS with a six week crash course in meditative relating (Venus retrograde, March 4- April 15), accompanied by an fortuitous “finish the project” trine between Mars and Saturn (March 1-15). Next comes a body/mind house-cleaning ceremony on the full Moon in Virgo on March 12th. Yes, its time to pull out the juicer more> 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> |
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