I know everything, I know myself I know morality, spirituality, good and bad health I know fatality might haunt you I know everything, I know Compton I know street sht, I know sht that’s conscious, I know everything I know lawyers, advertisement and sponsors I know wisdom, I know bad religion, I know good…
The Power of Life in the Unconscious
An excerpt from The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers Moyers: Whats the mythological significance of the belly? Campbell: The belly is the dark place where digestion takes place and new energy is created. The story of Jonah in the whale is an example of a mythic theme that is practically universal,…
Eclipse Edition: Jonah and the Equinox
We have just entered a patch of time that can be described as an ancient lake of simmering potential. As I related in a recent blog post, last week we had a poignant solar eclipse that is the only one of its kind, and we will complete this season’s eclipse cycle with the lunar…
A Meditation on YogaMoonWoman
Lately I’ve ramped up my yoga practice, going to hot yoga two times a week for the past month or so. The net result is that I feel stronger in my body, my muscles are lean and toned, and there is a sense of embodiment that carries me through my attempts at graceful movement on…
As We Melt, Let’s Make No Noise – Poetry for a Pisces Mercury Sandwich
One of my favorite poems which inspired my favorite band to make the lilting work of somber aural ecstasy linked at the bottom of this post. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning By John Donne As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say The…
From Whence We Enter the World
Aries initiates the cycle of manifestation. All souls, as individual entities, come into human incarnation for the first time in the sign of Cancer, emerging as mental entities in the sign Aries, as emotional-desire entities in the sign Taurus, and as vital entities in the sign Gemini, taking then physical form in Cancer… Aries…
An Edgar Allan Poe Study in Dispositorship for a Saturn Station
While the Moon is in the home stretch of Capricorn, the Sun in Pisces, and Saturn newly retrograde, here is a an analysis of Saturn’s dispositorship in Edgar Allan Poe’s chart. E.A. Poe is high on my list of favorite people. Is it because he was depressive? Melancholy? Completely blown about life? Poetic? Sensual? Mad?…
The Eclipse of March 20 2015, Set in its Context
It was well said, A te & a scientia. William Lilly *the following information is partially drawn from Bernadette Brady’s book, Predictive Astrology. Eclipses are not stand-alone events, they are part of a family of eclipses that carries a thread of meaning through time. The timeframe of an eclipse cycle is around one thousand…
Farewell Mercury in Aquarius – Notes on the 11th House
“A truth once seen, even by a single mind, always ends by imposing itself on the totality of human consciousness.” Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin After an extended stint in Aquarius, Mercury finally plunges into the soothing waters of Pisces tonight for the first time in 4+ weeks. To see it off, let’s take…
The Necessity of an Artist’s Solitude
The Sun is in Pisces and the Moon is in Scorpio. Pisces, the imaginative wistful whimisical dreaming creator and Scorpio fierce eyed strong silent type that knows things about you you have yet to dream of being a part of you. Any artist, visionary, creator knows the supreme importance of being alone to hone your…