Where Are We Going?
As promised, this is Part 3 of the previous series Which Way Will They Blow? To begin, let’s discuss the we and the where. A friend once shared his perspective that when using the word “we” when writing, it automatically assumes everyone is in the same boat. And when it comes to the cosmic language of astrology and speaking to the collective (we) about the astrological weather of our near future (where), there is no other boat to be found, at least while we are destined to remain on this planet together…
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What Is Beauty?
I find myself in utter astonishment. Not because of the complete 180 that has introduced itself into my life this week but because of the most exquisitely beautiful dream I just woke up from. Have you ever been surfing the tidal waves of change, basking in the glory of the unknown, and asked for a sign? Me too. Just yesterday actually. It isn’t that I am new to these death and rebirth cycles of life, yet, somehow they keep feeling more intense, more palpable, with more at risk. I imagine this crescendo of undeniability and immensity is a true blessing. The more life I live, the deeper into the layers of my psyche I go, and what I find there needs work - rugged, genuine, courageous inner work…
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Where Am I Going?
What a great question. Have you asked yourself this lately? What comes up for you? For me, many different layers to the answer are resounding in thought waves with every realization and aha. From “I don’t know” to “home” to “communion” to “do the laundry” to “the direction of my discernment” to “get some food” to “into the future” to “self-realization” to “somewhere new” to…and the story goes...
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Be Still and Know?
How often do you find yourself simply being still? I’m reflecting on the stillness that is calling me from what feels like a faraway land, beyond the bustle of New York City, beyond the constant flow of thoughts that rush as a river through my unconscious, beyond the momentum of life that persists even if my body is not moving at all. Psalm 46:10 reads, Be still and know that I am God. What does this mean to you, if anything?
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Can You Remind Me?
I’m having one of those strange moments in life where I am starting to come out of a thick internal process that I didn’t realize I was in. Well, maybe I should back up a minute and rephrase that. I’m coming out of a process I very much knew I was in but didn’t know how deep I had gone. Hmmm, or is it that I am just starting to recall ways of being that have been on pause for a long time due to said process? Whatever it is, can you remind me?
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How Do I Know?
Ok, so this moment feels complicated. No longer does summer equate to easy as it somehow did during my childhood. And even that feels like somewhat of a generalization as I don’t know if it was actually that easy back then either, having to get up at the crack of dawn to jump into a cold plunge of a swimming pool for swim team practice every day, even earlier than during the school year. All of this to say, we’ve officially entered summer and nothing feels easy about this moment…
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Who’s Going Retrograde and What’s With This Weather?
Upside down, Mercury squaring Neptune, boy you turn me. Inside out…and round and round. Anyone else feeling washing machine vibes? Is the current awareness of the acute complexity of challenging circumstances glaringly obvious to you too? And yet, is it also difficult to know which way is up? Same here. Although we’ve recently moved onto the shores of Cancer Season, this moment in time feels deeply mental, ripe with waves of confusion just murky enough to encourage pause from moving in any specific direction too fast…
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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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Are We on Common Ground?
There is nothing like waking up with vitality, feeling the inspired pull toward these keys to flush out some ruminating heart thoughts about a provocative inquiry. At least, for me, getting to share my enthusiasm, curiosities, and future memories or visions with you in this journal is quite a distinguished gem in the treasure chest of my life. And when an evening such as last night rolls through my life experience, I am all the more up and at ‘em, even after only a few hours of rest…
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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 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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Does It Matter?
I’m staring at a paradox inside my mind. On one hand, when I pull back into an intensely objective state I sense a realization that none of “this” matters. “This” may include all the things that seem so important at the moment, the goals, crushes, jobs, apartments, accolades, dreams, desires, memories, preferences, feelings…at times these can all swirl into a vapor and dissipate into the oneness of all reality. Wow. And then simultaneously, on the other hand..all the details, actions, words, choices, causes and effects, thoughts, and experiences do matter, they really matter, as nothing is hidden under the sun…
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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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Which Direction Is It?
Imagine a glass house dressed in exquisite interiors, humid from the indoor pool that wafts memories with the likeness of the local rec center from our childhood. Floor-to-ceiling windows inspire perspective and allow the morning light to pour in without warning, illuminating every corner. The temperature fluctuates, noticeably sensitive to and in sync with the surrounding environment. Vulnerability presents itself and yet there is a sense of strength and faith that the house will hold us powerfully through the storms, inside and out. What metaphor did we just live through up there in that sanctuary, three hours from the hustle and bustle of New York City?
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Are You Your Past?
This question has arrived for me this week. Even with a boundless forward momentum running through me like lightning, I am observing the various pathways inside my psyche, and they run at very different speeds. In one flow of being, there is such joy and exuberance for what is possible. Though “everything is possible” is my favorite mantra, I am starting to have wild meditations comprehending the meaning of this more and more. It is almost disturbing to my senses to go into the “everything” part and yet, here we are in this very particular world of creation, destruction, and all that exists between…
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What's New?
Besides this moon? Everything. I wonder if you’ve had moments when you take a beat and look around your immediate surroundings, then go over to the mirror to look at yourself, afterward sit down and close your eyes and realize that everything you see is new. I’m having that kind of experience right now as I kick back and reflect on the recent changes in my life…
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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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Do You Love to Be?
I love to be. To be human and all that comes with it, is an extraordinary gift. To be alive. To be here now. To be on Earth. To be together. To be alone. To be real. To become. This year has been a very strong one for so many of us and yet, still…there is being in the midst. The chance to breathe, to dance, to sing, to embrace, to witness, to experience. Please notice the exquisiteness that is encompassed in your very life. It is magnificent that you are here with an invitation to be…
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Who Are You Becoming?
I don’t know who you are becoming and I don’t know about me either. What I do know is that I can feel, see, witness, observe, notice, and experience myself changing in real-time! This could be a new experience for me. Now, these aren’t drastic changes, but they are incredibly profound ones. Changes that are textural, tangible, and axiomatic. In fact, I feel a new self emerging and I don’t yet know who she is…and, I am excited to meet her over time…
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What Is It Like to Wake Up in the Morning?
Maybe it is because I am waking up in one place now for the foreseeable future after a year of travel and spontaneous adventures. Perhaps it is because I adore my bed so much and the way my skin feels perfectly supported by my super soft sheets. Or maybe I’ve been thinking about morning routines and how they shape our days ahead. I think all three to be honest, and I am deeply curious as to how your morning looks on you…
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