Your heart is heavy. Not because you saw another black man killed by police... but because that man was your brother or husband. What if you woke up to learn that your son had been murdered? What if you couldn’t breathe because you were being held under a policeman’s knee without mercy? Is it a crime to be black? No. Is it a crime to be racist? Yes. Why are we living in a camera obscura reality where justice is ignored and bigotry is allowed?
Read MoreEvery month we have the cosmic privilege and blessing to receive a new moon cycle. We are drawn into a dance of planting seeds, new growth, vibrant realization, depth of reflection, and integration again and again. The moon is accountable, just as the sun, to provide us with the unceasing reminder of our inherent nature of death and rebirth. Has there ever been a new moon like this one? No, and there never will be again. Our Queen Moon, Mother Moon, Indelible Moon once again is new today and perhaps in a moment when we’ve never craved something ‘new’ more than now.
Read MoreFirst of all, I hope to God I am wrong. When I look ahead, and I don’t have to look far, I see a civil war…and I pray it’s only a metaphor. In actuality, I think we are already here—men killing each other out of preference. It is a sad day and still, there is possibility for change.
Read MoreAfter a seemingly endless period of illusory timelessness called ‘lockdown’, let’s pose the question of why to this full moon in Scorpio. Why are you asking us to dredge up our unconscious desires? Why are you exposing our private longings or long-kept secrets? Why are you the brightest light in recent months while still asking us to go deeper into our psyche than we may want to at this time. Can’t you sense the collective exhaustion?
Perhaps speaking to the moon directly, anthropomorphizing our process through inquiry toward what used to be an earth herself (moons are skeletons of planets), will provide more answers than we can imagine. Look to this moon as a mirror of truth and truth is what you shall find, ready or not.
Read MoreTo be fully empowered. To express our voice, our hearts, our creativity at volume. To live within the innate freedom that allows us to become who we truly are. Is this possible? Yes. Is it supported in the current reality we live in? No, not really. In a world that has been built upon greed, dominance, and manipulation, the actual freedom we seek is merely a myth, a fantasy. Until we do our inner work as courageous beings, we will remain enslaved to this world we helped create. Now it is our responsibility to undo this entanglement from the inside out. Yes, it is an inside job.
Read MoreRaw, molten, fire, and crackles
On this edge…you begin.
From the darkness,
An emergence.
So delicate.
So green.
A sprout.
Life, and with it comes a power.
Vulnerability pressing into possibility.
Read MoreThe best thing we can do right now is gear up for the long haul. Stamina. A word of strength and in this moment, possibility. We always have options in the face of deep challenge. Maybe we resist completely, hide and scurry away under our metaphoric blankets, hoping that others will take care of the dirty work for us. Perhaps we get loud and speak out against, activating the fight instinct without really knowing where to direct our angst. Or maybe, just maybe we can orient ourselves in a center of gravity that can withstand any storm. And storms…they are coming.
Read MoreThere is a slithering cauldron full of untruths within each of our shadows. These facets of ego shy away from the light, and they lurk deep within our unconscious realm. The more we avoid them or ignore(ance), the stronger they become. Generally, they are already running the show beneath the surface, starless kings and queens of internal real estate that if seen with the naked eye would shock our nervous system into convulsions. And we think we are free…
Read MoreWhat would you do? Please indulge me and ask yourself this question. Instead of us thinking how others should live into this immense responsibility, let’s dream together about what we would do in those shoes.
First thing, I would apologize. Deeply, fervently, with tears of love, and prayers for mercy. Standing in the present moment I would ground my feet into the earth and give thanks. There would be recognition for all that we have been given and rectification for all that we have stolen, lied about, and destroyed. To walk forward into a bright future, we must first know where we have been. The road is long and we will walk it together, not as sheep, but as lions
Read MoreWelcome to the revolution. Change is never comfortable and yet we yearn for it, pray for it, and at times demand it through our activism. We have officially crossed over from Winter’s grasp into the renewal of Spring. And this Spring is unforgettable, to say the least. Every aspect of life as we have known it is now touched by the presence of change. There is no going back to where we have come from. Only forward my friends… and onward we go.
Astrology is a powerful tool for inner work. At this moment, the cosmic weather provides a mirror of a combined archetype that is unprecedented in our lifetime. Not only is this a new moon cycle in Aries, calling forth our internal warrior/ess to the front lines, we are also at the beginning of a new astrological year. This chapter will forever be etched in our souls…shall we dive deeper?
Read MoreIf that means that I offer my body, blood, and vigor for the sake of our enhanced overall wellbeing as one of the billions of the extraordinary human species on this glorious gift of a planet of ours? Then yes, halleluiah, amen! To be of service…
Read MoreI’m in a high-rise hotel nestled into a bustling city; home of one of the stronger cultural pulses within our country. Life is everywhere you look and it moves, weaves, honks, cries, consumes, smiles, decides, acts, conceives, eats, masks, etc., all within a heartbeat. Despite the ramping up of mass hysteria and necessary precautions to avoid a pandemic virus, everything seems to be continuing as usual.
Read MoreGrowing up with Judy Blume as a go-to author in my tweens, she helped me to start formulating my ideas around ‘God’. Her controversial Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. ruffled some conservative feathers due to the exploration and introduction of sexuality and religion for young women entering puberty. Really? Today, with iPhones, nothing is off-limits it seems, and Blume’s honest approach is far behind us.
Read MoreA powerful new moon calls us inward for cultivating our inner power within the dreamy dimensions of Pisces. Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, and each of us does as well. What is your dream? The one that is bigger than you, that is more illuminated than the limited scope of your current vision? The one that will change the world for the better? I dare you to discover it…
Read MoreThe only true power I have is when I deeply surrender. This courageous act is much more than meets the eye. It is not one of simply accepting my iniquities and thrusting them towards an invisible God of sorts as if to say, “please take this, I no longer want to be with it.” Although, acceptance does occur at the beginning of a long process within the depths of surrender and opens the pathway to what this immense virtue has to teach us.
Read MoreThis is a powerful inquiry, Truth, approached throughout the ages by philosophers who have assisted in paving neural pathways of thought for us to reflect upon and assess our own groove. On this Leo full moon with a trine from Mars, we have the propulsion to take action from the heart, in other words with courage. And what is more courageous than living our truth?
How do we navigate this topic in an era of false facts? Perhaps the question is how do we choose not to? Clearly, we have graduated into a higher necessity of self-responsibility than ever before. While our context of ‘reality’ is constantly shape-shifting before our eyes as we witness the power to bend words, wash brains, and the use of propaganda is amplified throughout the social and traditional media universe, we return to the question of ‘where will we each land in our own truth’?
Read MoreOn the journey of self-discovery, we inevitably find ourselves at some point entering into the “dark forest” as so eloquently expressed in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, Canto I:
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.
So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.
Dante takes us lyrically and metaphorically into the first submerged layer of our process. It is dark, difficult to see, and there is much we don’t yet understand…
Read More2020? Check. Pluto/Saturn conjunction lunar eclipse to ring it in? Check. A new decade calling us into becoming who we truly are? Check.
And now this…a new moon in Aquarius squaring Uranus. Whenever I think about the weather on Uranus, I am gratefully reminded that we inhabit such a small corner of real estate within the universe here on the Earth Star. That what would be perceived as miracles here are of everyday normal occurrence on other planets. Have you heard about the weather on Uranus? It is -193 degrees Celsius and rains solid diamonds.
Read MoreWith 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.
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