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IN PURELY ARCHETYPAL terms, there is nothing more commonplace than rape and suicide. Why are these two words so highly charged and disturbing? Because of how routinely we engage in subtle forms of both, every single day of our lives. Indeed, it is the bitter taste of these masculine and feminine faces of violence in more> SPEND THE FIRST HALF of January finishing up already-started projects with an eye out for new collaborations and enlivening group projects. Tired of working by your lonesome? Ready to brave the ups and downs of working with another ego? Venus and Mercury moving into Aquarius make this a good time to get out there and more> THE FIRST HALF OF December (particularly on the Full Moon in Gemini on Dec 6th) is a time for blue sky thinking. Take advantage of the grand fire trine (Sun/Jupiter/Uranus) on December 11-12 to confess some irrepressible soul-calling and shatter the glass ceiling on what your mind says is possible for this life. Then, during more> EVERY EGO HAS A DIFFERENT style of resisting and succumbing to shepherding presence. One might even say that personality is, itself, little more than a real-time outpicturing of this tug-of-war between identity-grasping role play and relaxing into timeless presence enough to see who wants to show up. Why do we spend so much time refusing more> AS WE PULL OUT of Mercury retrograde’s “After-Shadow” on Nov 9th, and the soul is emboldened by Mars’ Oct 26th movement into matrix-friendly Capricorn, our goal-realization urges are likely to intensify. Use the first week of November (until the Full Moon in Taurus on the 6th) to realistically examine which life visions are so indigenous more> SEPTEMBER BEGINS nose-to-the-grindstone and becomes progressively more light-hearted and inspired. The lunar energy builds until the Sept 8th full Moon in Pisces, then, on Sept 13th – after two years in poker-faced Scorpio – the assertive, fiery planet, Mars, moves into shoot-from-the-hip Sagittarius, followed by Pluto going direct (out with the old, in with the more> THE PISCES FEET are experts on the topic of reincarnation and the impermanence of egoic identity. Constantly hovering and landing, hovering and landing, each footfall reincarnates our lofty Aries head into a new line of sight, a new vantage point or worldview. Meanwhile, behind our built-in binoculars, a conspicuously untraveled awareness calmly watches our footy more> DID YOU KNOW that an owner’s manual for the human psyche was encoded into the organs and structures of your body, and that the more you learn about the higher and lower octave expressions of each archetype, the more specific this two-legged Bible’s guidance is? Sound far-fetched? Perhaps. Here’s your chance to find out. Download more> WHENEVER WE TAKE the (imagined) risk of abiding as the loving vastness looking out through our eyes, we psychically join hands with every other personality-draped consciousness on the planet. At last, sighs the soul, ego is mad enough to be mortal, sane enough to disappear: the assertive Aries head is sharing the stage with the more> IT WAS NEVER GUARANTEED that there would be unlimited future generations of earthlings. Fine. As a faraway fate that awaits some future generation, mind can pretend to cope with earth’s seasonal die-offs. Alas, the specter of depopulation appears to have arrived a tad early – or so sings a growing choir of climate-priests. Judging by more> AFTER SIX MONTHS of nonstop retrogrades – Venus, Mercury, Mars, then Mercury again (over on July 1st) – the way forward becomes a tad clearer in July. Delayed projects and stymied relationships, caught in the tug-of-war required to fashion a mutually motivating, realistically updated commitment, get green lighted on July 20th when Saturn (the last more> WHAT IF the shuffling mass of flesh moving around you didn’t point so much to particular people, but to the Supreme Being? What if every totem pole of body parts was chiseled with symbolic scripture whose reassuring profundity continually eclipsed people’s individual attitudes and behavior, highlighting instead the heroic journey of self-realization that every soul more> Where mind sees crass Capricorn opportunism, meditation sees a heroic “Neo” seduced, for a moment, by the matrix they’re so nobly attempting to infiltrate. (Neo is the protagonist in the movie: The Matrix.) WHO ARE THE temporarily seduced “Neos” in your life? Imagine them in your mind’s eye. Remember: if those “cold users” stay more> TIME HAS PERSONALITY — a rainbow of archetypal styles of expression not unlike the feline glide of Obama or the Sagittarian savvy of Brad Pitt. Just as different personalities serve to christen us into different flavors of the divine mind, the revolving carousel of hours, days, months and years is constantly coaxing us to update more> ACCORDING TO ASTROLOGY, the divine is “waking down” to itself through our bodies. Pure awareness is forever nudging our egos into a swan dive off the ledge of our sovereign Aries head into our timeless trance of toes. Why? So personal will (Aries) can be humbled and cleansed by skin-to-skin contact with the Piscean ground more> I ONCE ASKED a Tibetan Buddhist teacher what she thought was the core cause of human suffering. “Believing this place is solid,” she quipped. Of course, I thought to myself, ego has to make it solid ‘out there’ so it feels solid ‘in here.’ So long as trees and tits and power plants and politicians more> PLEASE ASSIGN an astrological sign to each of the 12 walking styles below. Remember, we’re all archetypal mutts down here, so though we have our signature styles of parting space, it’s just a matter of time (or lifetimes) before we try on all 12. In the real world, archetypes arise in compensating clusters. Descriptions of more> Archetype: The Mediator Key Phrase: “I harmonize” Dates: Sept 23 – Oct 23 (Varies year to year) Polarity: Masculine/Yang Element: Cardinal Air Ruling Planet: Venus Body Rulership: Kidneys (The kidneys rectify toxic imbalances, delivering harmony and justice to the body), lumbar region of the spine, ovaries. Aura: The diplomat. Usually tall, slender, well-proportioned body. Clear more> Archetype: The Virgin. Separates the wheat from the chaff. Key Phrase: “I Discriminate and Purify” Dates: Aug 23- Sep 22nd (varies year to year) Polarity: Feminine/Yin Element: Mutable earth Ruling Planet: Mercury Body Rulership: Abdominal region, intestines (colon “analyzes” how and what nutrients to absorb from food), spleen, liver, pancreas, sympathetic nervous system. Aura: dutiful, more> IMAGINE IF THE SUN second-guessed itself. Life would perish. The same is true for us. We are here to shine free of our ego’s ever-changing self-portrait, to be as generous with our presence as the Sun. This is the heart of meditation and the Leonine prescription for all forms of diminished life-force. Who are we? more> SO IN LOVE with dream interpretation is the Beloved, that S/he created “dream animals” with the power to dream their dreams rock-solid and entirely unworthy of interpretation. Bravo scientific materialists! Your denial of dreaming may be the most outrageously imaginative dream interpretation of all. Sadly, it also destroys psychic wholeness because it allows our muscle more> AH, THE FOURTH OF JULY, the picnicy domain of clannish Cancer. What’s that, you say? You’re not into the egoic land mine of family gatherings, the robotic patriotism toward the Corpratocracy? Fine. But be careful: this is the furthest the northern hemisphere ever gets from shivery January. Behind the buzz, the booze, the “bombs bursting more> SEEMS WE HUMANS have a penchant for “wearable technology” and if the body/mind isn’t recognized as such (via meditation) then, by golly, we’ll invent some of our own. Enter “Google Glass.” If, after watching the following 2.5 minute video you aren’t at least a little creeped out by these voice-commandable computer screen eye glasses coming more> |
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