What Captivates You Now?
Hello out there! Is anyone else feeling insatiable about what you are learning? There just don’t seem to be enough hours in the day. One moment I am expanding my astrological knowledge into the vastness, the next I am toning my vocal cords with new exercises, after which I dance to unexplored rhythms, and then attempt to memorize the lyrics of old songs. All of this is juxtaposed with the balancing act of my brain seeking reprieve from the overflow of new terrain I discover on a daily basis through my J.O.B. in the Architecture & Design sector. Multi-task learning is the perfect crescendo to wrap up Gemini season on this new moon in Gemini…
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When Does It End?
There is no end! Haha, in my humble opinion of course. This is not true from certain vantage points (we do die) and yet there is maha or “grand” truth so fervently embedded in that statement. Where am I going with this? Eternal life is defined perhaps by the incessant continuation of the cycles of death, rebirth, and transformation inherent within the rhythms of life itself. For example, we die to one way of being in the womb, once surviving through our umbilical cord and swimming in amniotic fluid, to then an abrupt ending as we die to being a fetus and are born into this world…
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What Is a Silent Luxury?
Moments ago I laid down on my floor and let every part of me sink into the gravitational pull toward earth. As I was scanning my body, I could clearly feel the areas of tension accumulated from holding myself upright, not to mention the impact of the stresses of daily life. Lying in the horizontal plane is not something I have done much of these past few months as I’ve been sleeping in more of a meditative posture and not by choice. It has been wild to witness the fury of my body undergoing duress as I continue to be processed in the meat grinder of life. Ok, a little dramatic but sometimes it feels like that and it is better to laugh with a twist of dark humor (thanks Pluto) than to not laugh at all…
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What Is Changing?
Astrologically, 2023 is poised as a revolutionary year with a spotlight on Pluto, Saturn, and Jupiter providing the scene for the micro and macro tectonic shifts that will carry us through into the rest of this decade. This is not about being comfortable. Although I am tempted to say something about how challenging and radical this moment is as an indicator of the sea change…it is hard to compare “these times” with all times throughout history because, let’s be honest, when has being human ever been easy? Whether dealing with predators, plagues, sanitation, natural disasters, wars, tyrants, and the most challenging of all, ourselves (our ego and the indications of said ego), there has always been an antagonist nipping at our heels…
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Is There a Spirit of Vulnerability?
You know how people say...”In the spirit of _fill in the blank_?” In the spirit of Christmas, teamwork, frothy matcha with housemade almond milk, etc. Well, tonight I am reflecting on my moment and this rambunctious lunar eclipse befalling us and in the spirit of vulnerability, I would like to share some of mine with you. Deep sigh. Ok…it has been a very challenging couple of months for me. I feel that I’ve been consumed by a literal fire within my body that has truly challenged me on every level. Health is wealth, my Godfather always says, and it is true! And lately, I’ve been feeling a bit impoverished in this area while going through a compost phase of sorts…
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Are You Uncomfortable Enough?
Comfort is a curious thing. I’ve noticed just how eager I am to feel it, especially in times of distress or when I feel deeply uncomfortable due to whatever the circumstance, illness, challenge, etc happens to be. There is a register, almost an internal yearning for homeostasis, that seeks comfort as one would a soft blanket to melt into. However, when is it that true change of mind, thought, action, attitude, and beliefs, occur? Certainly not in a state of comfort…
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How Does Your Lava Flow?
As willing as one is to see, this new moon in Aries (a truly rare hybrid eclipse on all levels) will pierce the veils to the inner realms of knowing thy self. The question could be, how willing are you? In my bones, in the cells of the marrow of my bones, I am receiving a very deep invitation to change. And not just my mind about something in particular, or a habit, but to see myself as I have never before and in seeing what I cannot unsee, I am now tasked with a new responsibility to do something about it…
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Will You Be Mine, AI?
Or not? Honestly, I am feeling very resistant, almost tantrum-esque in wanting to pause the AI takeover that is actually already happening. I guess I was that person who didn’t want a cell phone either and then kept a flip phone for as long as I possibly could. I still have never been on TikTok and loathe social media even though I am a part of its mayhem as a “user”…
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What Is a Birthday?
Time of birth is determined by the moment that the entire length of the body, from the head to the toes of the baby is outside of the mother’s body. This reminds me, at one point, each of us reading this right now spent many months inside another body (our mother) doing nothing other than coming into form as a human being. This is a radical reality that often lives outside my focused awareness somehow…
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Can We Celebrate Yet?
Who else is counting down the days for Pluto to enter into Aquarius? Those of us with birthdays in the last degrees of Capricorn, Aries, Cancer, and Libra are certainly ready for a reprieve. Not only are we the cardinal signs of the zodiac, upholding the responsibility as the initiator of the element we represent, we’ve also recently endured the divine wrath that only a Plutonian rapture can offer (and graduation is near). On March 23rd, this cosmic beast of a planetoid moves from the political to the technological, the art form to the dialectic, earth to air, and from patriarchy to humanity…
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Hello?
Hi! Do you ever wonder if anyone is out there thinking or feeling the same things you are? I do as I get squeezed through the emotional plunges of an empathic flight through this moment of humanity. It is a wild time, that is for sure. Between the fluidity of genders blending into new types of identified beings beyond the human species, AI feeling sad, Ohio as the next Chernobyl, and imminent war in the air, I have all the feels. When I say imminent, it could be a couple of years off but I can smell it. And when my future senses are dialed in, I start living today in preparation for what is coming down the pipeline of life. The next step? Stay present…
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Are You Retrograde?
Happy New Year friends…and happy continuation of the cocooning that is your natural and seasonal birthright as we remain in winter until the Spring Equinox. (I love run-on sentences.) Thus, there really is no actual pressure to be a “New You” on January 1st. Typically, in the Northern Hemisphere, the energetics of rebirth come when the snow melts and the sun calls us out of our caves and cozy sweaters…
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Are You a Capricorn?
Do you know that the entire zodiac lives inside of you? That every facet of every sign can be found somewhere inside the universe that is your personal psyche? You are a Capricorn and you are also a Pisces, a Scorpio, a Leo, etc. Regardless of where your Sun shines, you also have many other planets in your birth chart that indicate further characteristics of your personality. Even without a planet or star residing in an area of your birth chart, that part of you exists and reigns over what is called a “house”. The houses from the 1st to the 12th are a map of your entire existence. Perhaps worth taking a look one of these days…
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What Is in the Air?
On this rambunctious Gemini full moon (Gemini is an air sign notorious for its trickster energetics), it would be wise to gain some objectivity. At the same time, Mars retrograde aggravates even the most peaceful and serene of us. There is a gnawing quality to this moon, a sandpaper-like roughness that will not go away. What is there to be exposed will eventually come to the surface like acne. It isn’t pretty but the clearing of the old will be done, if not with a twist of violence…
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Are New Moons for Planting?
A seed has been planted in my heart. It is a vision of beauty and bold materialization. It is nearly an impossible task that one such as myself could ever imagine successfully bringing to fruition. And yet, it is there, planted as a gift that is relentless in nudging me from within. What does it mean? Is it a metaphor? Is it a blueprint? Can it be both? I suppose time will tell but as I am already drawing up the plans in my mind's eye, I suppose I’ll have to surrender to seeing what I cannot unsee…
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What Is the Sound of Your Heartbeat?
One week has passed after the recent eclipse season came to a heightened conclusion and I am still feeling the aftershocks. I love them though, as I can definitely say my life has taken some dramatic twists in recent days. In fact, just weeks ago I was scouring the basement of my own despair and wondering “how” this would all work out. Taking a running leap into the unknown at full speed and arriving in New York City without a plan was starting to look slightly foolish. Could I really do this? Yes, my heart was still clear and my faith, unwavering. But how?? Then the answers started to arrive one by one…
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Are You Resourced?
What comes to mind when you envision your resources? Do you immediately think about your bank account? Or do you look out your window and take in the view? Some of you may begin to feel your body, your strength, energy, or tiredness. Do people come to mind? Relationships you have built over time? Or perhaps you take a tour through time and retrace the steps you’ve walked up to this moment. As someone who loves words with a fervor, there is something about re-sourcing that really inspires me. The dictionary’s researched origin of this beauty you might ask? Dating back to the “early 17th century: from obsolete French ressourse, feminine past participle (used as a noun) of Old French dialect resourdre ‘rise again, recover’ (based on Latin surgere ‘to rise’)…”
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Are You Falling?
If you are falling, dive. ~ Joseph Campbell
I was recently gifted this quote from a new acquaintance and I couldn’t feel more resonance. There is something so powerful about accepting one’s fate and these words really hit home for me. True story, I have been attempting to articulate my recent journey with the planetary body Pluto for the past couple of years. Right now I am underneath it, so if you don’t hear from me or if you are wondering where I am, you can know that I am dancing with this well-known and underestimated death star…
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How Do You Weather a Storm?
If the circumstances of life allow you to stay within a cocoon of your own making, this is a great time to do so. Slip into an imagined gel-like substance that pervades every inch of your external reality, only to suspend your internal reality for the depths of review and inner work. For me, no amount of squirming will slough off the “unwanted” realizations, the parts of me that are resisting being seen under the microscope of truth. Instead, I think I will bask in this discomfort and allow for a surrender like no other…
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What Is Possible?
Somehow deep in my bones, I have unlimited access to eternal optimism. Maybe this is my true superpower or is this because I am an Enneagram 7, the Enthusiast? Or perhaps this is due to my unwavering faith? The faith that has come alive in me from direct experience of living the impossible into reality. What matters is that I remember everything is possible, even in the face of great challenges and obstacles, and to help my friends remember this too…
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