On the Aquarius Age & its Leo Shadow
During our road trips as a kid, my father would always play the “Age of Aquarius – The 5th Dimension,” since then, I’ve been intrigued by this so-called Age of Aquarius – when and what it would look like. With its uplifting plays on Aquarius’s utopian and visionary aspects, the catchy song is filled with […]
The Healing Power of Fluff – On Venus
This week, someone asked if I had watched the Super Bowl game. I responded that I did for the commercials and tongue-in-cheek for a Taylor Swift sighting. That got me thinking about how, amid meta-crisis and the low-hum drum of doom and gloom about the world, many have been gripped by the love affair of […]
Seeing Red – Mars Archetype & You
“Unless we have relation to the principle, we will fall victim to its negative manifestation. If we are not willing to fight when required, if we cannot summon up aggressive energy when it is appropriate, we will succumb to it in some other way.” – Edward Edinger This video lecture explores the Mars Archetype from […]
Attunement and Aquarius
“We live in a relational universe. Everything is relationships.” – Keith Witt “Attunement can be simply defined as the focus of attention on the inner world. Interpersonal attunement is the focusing of kind attention on the internal subjective experience of another.” – Dr. Dan Siegel In my recent event, The Wheel of Myth & Sound […]
Saturn and Pluto and this Courageous Decade
“One does not discover new land without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a long time.” – Andre Gide Recently, we had a wind and ice storm that brought down a lot of trees, broke power lines, left many without electricity for days, and destroyed many homes. Even where I live, one of […]
Asking the right question at liminal times
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about LIMINAL SPACES and how we traverse from the known into the unknown. Some spaces evoke transition: the very threshold at your front door, boundary crossings, airports, and even for the more mystically inclined, standing stones in all their mysterious majesty. In some mythic stories, the liminal boundary between […]
On Purpose, Vocation and Livelihood
This article was originally published in the Federation of Australian astrologers (FAA) March 2023 and on Astrodienst April 2023. Bridging the Individual and the Collective From a very young age, I was fascinated by the idea of discovering my life’s calling and purpose. In my vivid imagination, I thought an angel messenger would come […]
Astro Weather – December 2022
The Astro weather for December, as we near this year’s closing, we’re invited to review and plan and do it with discerning gravitas. By the time the Sun arrives in Capricorn on the Solstice, our cosmic Santa Claus Jupiter reenters Aries, which will stay until May 16, 2023. Jupiter’s arrival at 0º of Cardinal Aries […]
Astro Weather – November 2022
We’re smack in the middle of the eclipse season between the partial Solar Eclipse of late October and the Full Moon Eclipse of November 8th. As these eclipses – something gets concealed and revealed – are in the signs of Taurus & Scorpio, and we’re also in the time of Samhain, here in the Northern […]
Astro Weather – October 2022
The Astro Weather for October continues the theme of shifting directions, enough to give all of us whiplash. And yet, it’s also a month that gets the train moving towards the larger shifts of 2023. We kickstart the month with our faith friend Mercury standing still and starting to move forward again, thus retracing for […]
