The first new moon of the year, a powerful gravitational pull into the Capricorn sphere of vigilant and strategic footing. This is your life. Take a moment and look around. What do you see? Who is there? What is the tone? What is your mood? And is it changing?
Read MoreTaste, texture, sound, smell, motion, and vision…through what other ways do you perceive the world? How about through silence? Or perhaps stillness? Sometimes they come together and at others, silence and stillness may live on opposite spectrums of an experience. Sound is a world, and motion, another…And what about color, do you gravitate toward a palette that infuses your day-to-day? Your home, clothing, chosen environments and even your preference for nature are all pigments of your imagination when you become attuned to the possibilities…
Read MoreCan you imagine a water cocoon? I recently had a dream that I was inside of one. Maybe if I were a whale I would just call it home? Anyhow, a dear friend of my heart reminded me when I shared this with him that this wasn’t the first time I had been in one of these. Rebirth is near, which means this year has been so much about death, release, and honestly, endurance…
Read MoreThis time of year offers a powerful reflection if you’re daring enough to witness yourself on the cusp, the in-between. In these moments, the veil is thinner and we are less apt to choose self-deception if our heart is aligned with the truth. That doesn’t mean it is easy, it means that this time has the potential to be very raw and blazingly authentic. The Winter Solstice is known as a crescendo of darkness in the Northern Hemisphere and yet it is also the opening to the expansive light ahead…
Read More(Raises hand up in the air.) I wonder how many of you out there feel the same way? While this time of year is traditionally so festive and an extrovert's dream, I often find myself pulled into a deep state of inner process. A journey that calls me inward as if following the whisper of the Solstice lullaby bringing me home to myself…
Read MoreI was only an ocean surfer for about 5 years of my life in my early 20s. I thought that because I had been raised on a snowboard there would be a natural translation of my ability from snow to waves. I was wrong. I didn’t realize how accustomed I had become to being strapped onto my board and knowing that Earth would catch me regardless of where I was jumping from. Surfing waves was a completely new frontier, one of fluidity and unknown…
Read MoreI love this question because what else is there but now? I mean, despite that most people either live in the past - lamenting, dwelling, yearning to change, or traumatized by what has come before, or live in the future - hopeful, daydreaming of, or worried about a time that has yet to come - now is all we ever have...
Read MoreAs someone who is oriented toward service as a life path, I am often reflecting on to what extent I can actually help people and what kind of circumstance is required for that to be a reality. Over the years I have learned 4 big lessons on this topic 1. I cannot actually help anyone unless I help myself first and 2. I can only help people who are also willing to help themselves because 3. You can’t help anyone if you are sacrificing yourself in order to help them and 4. If they don’t want to help themselves, nobody can help them at all…
Read MoreLife is beautiful. It is such a gift, perhaps it’s the biggest gift of all…to be alive. And yes, it comes with a full spectrum of human experience that is both shattering and exhilarating, expansive and terrifying, possible and trying - all at the same time. How is it that I get to wake up every morning to this glorious mystery and experience something completely new and different if I so choose (to become aware of the new and different)? Am I in fact free to change my mind and life at any moment? Am I not free if I forget this?..
Read MoreMemory is such a deep well of exploration. Each of us carries it very near within, not to mention throughout the fabric of our psyche in every ravine, crevasse, and mountain pass that we may stumble upon while traveling through the inner landscape of our beingness. Astrologically our memory is associated with the 4th house and where Cancer represents in your personal chart. And let’s be clear, memory isn’t just about recalling where you put your car keys or only used for ‘memorizing’ words for a middle school play. Memory is an ancient doorway to the past which is where most of you lives…
Read MoreWriting this by the crackling fire before the sunrise is such a luxury and I’m soaking up every moment. This week I’ve been fortunate to recharge in my homeland of Jackson, Wyoming, gain altitude by hiking in the glorious crystalized Tetons, inhale fir sap essence into my lungs from the trees, and weave along with the Snake River walking at her edge for hours…
Read MoreHave you ever heard the definition of Shamanism as that of making the everyday sacred? Having explored rituals, ceremonies, underworlds, inner worlds, and outer worlds for at minimum the last 25 years I am yearning to pull this definition apart. I don’t actually believe that anything becomes sacred just because I believe it to be, that simply does not feel like my seat to sit in. I truly feel that every day is sacred regardless of me and it is my job, and my privilege to remember this…
Read MoreAt one point I wrote a blog about the following statement - We cannot change the world until we accept we are the world. This is the new conversation. Today I am steeping in this phrase. What does it mean to me? Why did I once announce this to myself and what is the conversation I am longing to have and with whom?..
Read MoreI love this question. It makes me want to get really close to the inner layers of this beautiful diamond of inquiry and burrow myself deeply into the answer. And ultimately there is only one true response for me. As soon as this question is posed, I begin to feel sensations ignite throughout my body, my hair stands on end and then radiates with latent energy that is awakened as if suddenly called to attention. I feel warmth, I feel excitement, and almost a touch of shyness at the same time as if spirit is flirting with me. I feel as if I am on the cusp between life and death and that truth is just about to pour out across my tongue and into the world…
Read MoreHas there ever been a better time to know ourselves? Or is that a ridiculous question in that it is always a good time to know ourselves? And, if we wish to play with semantics a bit, mixed in with the urgency of our times, then now is the perfect moment, and now is also all that actually exists…
Read MoreI love a great living metaphor. The kind that ripples out from the micro to the macro and vice versa. For example, in my daily life, I am a literal balancing act between chapters or seasons of life, not quite where I’ve been and not quite where I am going. There is such a clear and visceral truth that I no longer belong in my past and yet the future is so exquisitely unknown, only to be revealed with each step. Welcome to Libra Season, the Autumnal Equinox that gifts us a momentary taste of true balance as the daylight equals the night, and in perfect form we cross a threshold from summer into fall…
Read MoreToday is a new moon and tomorrow Mercury goes direct. However, at the moment this new moon is exact, there will be 6 planets plus Chiron retrograde which will set the tone for the month ahead (even though there will be an uptick of forward motion once Mercury shifts gears). Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter, Uranus, and Mercury are all holding a very particular court at this time. It is tentative, speculative, contemplative, and reflective through the Virgoan lens of harvesting the fruits of your efforts with a penetrating analysis of your progress along the way…
Read MoreA: It is 7:30 a.m. and 79 degrees outside. The AC is on and blowing lucid visions of life yet to be integrated into my conscious mind from the depths. There is a correlation between the movement of cool air and the rustling up of sedimentary processes lying inside the dark lake of my inner stillness. I hear the internal call to review how I got here, what is happening now, and what comes next once the past and present are clarified. The astrology of the moment is also a great indicator of how cosmic weather provokes similar invitations if I am paying attention…
Read MoreAs 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…
Read MoreI 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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