With the intensity of the cosmic play by play of this Capricorn season, who needs Netflix? Throughout time we have sought actors to reflect the emotions we desire to access within our own hearts. Theater can bring us into these depths we haven’t known or perhaps have hidden far away. In this moment now, our personal truth is on center stage, asking for our attention and to stay tuned for what it has to say.
Read MoreWe are one family. Yes, presently that is smoke from Australia burning up in flames, bringing tears to our eyes. Past: It is the residue of our beloved rainforest in ash form. Future: that scorched earth over there…we used to call that California.
Read MoreThere is something extraordinary in that we can literally change, transform, and shed psychological skins to be renewed incessantly throughout a lifetime. How many lives have you lived until now? When you reflect on your recent past, do you relate to yourself? As you were a few months ago? What has changed inside of you?
Read MoreInward bound. I am feeling the gravitational pull into the cocoon of solstice days ahead. For the last three deep winters, I’ve found myself drawn into the Northwest Isles of Canada. It is a land and sea governed by eagles, whales, and mossy mounts of rugged terrain. There is a sweetness, as well as a majesty that has seeped into my soul, is relentless with my heart, and calls me back as if a siren’s song. The allure is profound and it is there that I find myself burrowing into my own unfathomable inner sunlit landscapes beyond time and space.
Read MoreEverything in its right place… water in the bathtub not flooding the floor, fire cooking the food not burning down the house. There is a time to wait, to sit and be still, to meditate and go in. And there are other times when we dare not wait because if we do, we miss the mark completely…or rather set ourselves up for near disaster.
Read MoreEverything. From our inner peace to a piece of land, what was once fertile ground is now in a state of desertification. I just finished watching my brother Ryland and the crew of Kiss The Ground’s long-awaited and perfectly timed documentary*. Following the pre-screen viewing, I am left with a sensation of possibility and rebirth amidst the dire straits of these times we barely know we are inherently facing.
Read MoreWhen asked this question by a dear friend in her effort to lend support at a moment of crossroads, I immediately went to the page. What is my true north? As an astrologer, I tend to think of the nodes, north, and south. Our lunar nodes in our birth chart reach to the furthest ends of the spectrum, stretching from who and where we have been into who we are becoming and to where we shall go. They bookend a life of purpose, indicating a hero’s/heroine’s journey of deep inner learning, full of trials, cyclops, sirens, and detours along the way.
Read MoreIn moments of challenge, when what seemed like a yes is then presented as no or when the rug gets pulled from underneath me, I go inward seeking resolve. Often, I first encounter the fleeting ‘ok, I’m alright, stay optimistic…this too shall pass’. I venture deeper and a flurry of emotions resembling a thousand bees buzz through me, disorient me momentarily and bring forth subtle anxiety that increasingly builds. Chocolate? A friend’s voice? ‘God, are you there? It’s me, Ciela.’
Read MoreEverything that we see, breathe, eat, experience, run through, put on, listen to and feel is created from nothingness. Perhaps my definition of “nothing” is slightly paradoxical as it also contains everything, but that is another conversation…
Read MoreIt is through the illuminating sun in Capricorn, glowing in full glory upon the canvas of the Cancer moon, that I am able to look back in review with the clarity and discernment of a Saturnian gaze. This year has taught me that: love does exist and even thrives despite hatred, betrayal is inevitable medicine, boundaries are a virtue, speaking up and silence are both strengths, patience is still a virtue, the choices we make are ours alone and, if we choose wisely, they are gold within our hearts. I learned that amidst chaos I can lean into my values and thrive while undergoing immense internal stresses in the face of temptation. And perhaps the greatest gift has been collaboration as an artform.
Read MoreImagine a world where we reclaim our mind. Where we no longer doubt ourselves in the face of authority, relationships, institutions or identify ourselves with the brands who rule our capitalist tendencies. Imagine respecting one another, our thoughts, emotions, opinions, ways of being, and preferences without the need or desire to change each other. Imagine learning new skills from those who have learned before us without the cost of giving some of your soul away. Imagine sharing what you have learned with others from the true purity of your heart without the need for glamorized recognition even if under the misused guise of devotion or gratitude.
Read MoreI love this quote. “Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.” Diane Nash
Read MoreJoan of Sparc offers personal development and empowerment through tools and resources in the areas of self-awareness and wellbeing.
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