The biggest ailment facing our global society today is that we are short on faith. Well, being short on faith is in the top three ailments facing our global society, I'm pretty sure. When I refer to faith I'm not talking about religious faith. I'm talking about a deep abiding faith in life itself...
Read MoreDear Beloved Child,
I am sending you this Evite to invite you to step up and meet your full potential. I have actually sent you this Evite many times. You know how, when you don't reply to an Evite, it gets sent to you again and again. Those Evites I sent you could have been in the form of the relationship breakups, the sadistic bosses, the angry road ragers, the judging authority figures, the addictive behavior patterns. I have sent so many Evites. In fact, that's mostly what I do: send Evites to graduation parties. I love celebrating when you graduate to a new level of realizing your potential.
Read MoreThe Punk movement began in the mid-1970's, when Saturn and Uranus were in a particularly tense angular alignment known as a "square" (I was born under this very alignment). Saturn's archetype symbolizes authority and conservative values, as well as traditions and austerity. Uranus is in many ways the opposite of Saturn. It is the archetype of rebellion, disruption, revolution and freedom. Since the two planets, and thus their archetypes, were combined in a tense square angle in the mid-1970's we saw them struggling against one another, yet embodying one another...
Read MoreInteresting research by professor Stephen Porges highlights a new state that is being added to the fight or flight trauma response. Fight or flight is now becoming known as fight, flight, or freeze...
Read MoreThis earthly realm we share together is the realm of wounding. Tempting as it is to want to correct suffering, right all wrongs, and heal all wounds, this is not the deepest use of our time in this realm of human experience...
Read MoreEvery single human life, no matter what the content, from the most trauma-filled to the most boring, is merely a story. Not only is every human life a story, but it is a story telling itself to itself; there is no fixed underlying main character in the story. This is the aspect of reality that allows every human life equal access to freedom. By freedom I do not mean a mundane freedom involving physical, political, and/or economic freedom. No. That is more story. I mean freedom from the past, freedom from trauma, regret, remorse, depression, anger, negativity, in short: freedom from suffering...
Read MoreHave you ever had a behavior that is causing you and those around you to suffer, yet is proving resistant to change? Since the advent of Freud and the birth of psychology at the start of the twentieth century, therapy has become the go to method for addressing these kinds of stubborn and destructive behavior patterns. I will here invent a hypothetical scenario to illustrate a point...
Read MoreTony Robbins likes to say that when things don't go your way it's not due to a lack of resources, but rather a lack of resourcefulness. For instance, it's easy to say, "Things would have worked out differently if I'd had more time, money, help, approval, etc." You fill in the blank. I like to point out a similar realization using different wording. For instance, I sometimes use the word nonviolence...
Read MoreIf you don't believe there is a universe inside us, check out a beginning acting class and you'll see for yourself. By the second class that shy old lady will transform into a...
Read MorePicture two dancers conquering a partner dance on the dance floor. I know you've seen it. Maybe they were dancing swing, salsa, tango, whatever. But they were good. They were a marvel to watch. Wow. They push off each other, they pull in each other. One leads, the other follows. They move as if they are two, yet one. They appear so natural that they literally are the music...
Read MoreI've had the great fortune of working with Joey Lott, and I heartily recommend his guidance to anyone who is genuinely tired of suffering...
Read MoreOne particular day I like to watch just for the pure pleasure of it is the day...
Read MoreWell, is it? Is astrology the ultimate practice for happiness?...
Read More"Many truths we cling to depend greatly on our point of view," said Obi Wan Kenobi. Recently I was in a class in which a student...
Read MorePopstar The Weeknd was born with a tight conjunction of Venus and Saturn. Venus is the archetype of love, pleasure and art. Saturn is the archetype of negation, restriction and the tests of time.
In The Weeknd's recent video for his song "I Feel it Coming" he is on a barren planet singing to his lover, who appears before him...
Read MoreWe live in the age of space exploration. A long line awaits those eager to pledge their lives to the colonization of Mars. NASA recently announced their intention to revisit the Moon. The stars are dazzling a race that wants desperately to survive.
Space exploration holds even more immediate bearing on our planet's survival than NASA has envisioned...
Read MoreSaturn symbolizes the great reality principle that bounds, blocks and negates. Pluto is the archetype of volcanic power and drive. If you combine these archetypes and apply them to the archetype of Venus (love, art and beauty) you get a volcanic drive to love that is just as volcanically negated or blocked, birthing the taboo love...
Read MoreThis post goes out to those born between 1987 and 1989, when Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were conjoined in the sky. This astrological combination is so rare that not only will those born with it will never see the same combination again in the sky, but neither will their children nor their grandchildren...
Read MoreOnce while I was teaching a class on astrology a student of mine asked a question that is fundamental to the understanding of astrology...
Read MoreSpontaneous Ritual is seeing every event in life as a ritual to honor the divine. Celebrating spontaneous ritual does not mean we have to stop creating our own intentional rituals. But it does mean that we don't have to stress about the perfection of our rituals...
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