Saturn is the archetype of burden, pressure, hardship, isolation, limitation and work. The archetype of Saturn also includes everything that comes from facing these challenges, such as discipline, perseverance, rigor, responsibility, and maturity. Saturn is a great archetype for showcasing the homeopathic nature of astrology and of the universe in general...
Read MoreThe 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 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 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 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 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...
Read MoreOne day recently I noticed that the Moon would cross my ascendant in Gemini at the very same moment that the Moon would rise over the eastern horizon that day. This occurrence is rare enough that I wanted to design a ritual to honor it...
Read MoreSaturn is the archetype of the heavy judgement, the reality check, the backbreaking burden of responsibility. Uranus is the archetype of spontaneity, fun, freedom, and disruption.
When we go toward freedom and run from responsibility we are coveting Uranus and rejecting Saturn. Our life will be out of balance and we will suffer...
Read MoreDid I say nondual astrology or nonduel astrology? Well, nondual astrology is the art of looking at distant bodies in space to understand our innermost natures. Why would we look at something so distant in order to understand something as intimate to us as our own life? Because inner and outer are divisions that ultimately don't exist. When you gaze into the deep quiet of the inky black sky at night you are looking into the deep well of your own innermost being...
Read MoreOf the spiritual offerings available today, the movement of nonduality is becoming more and more popular. Nonduality says that all of the divisions we perceive, such as the division between you and me, between this object and that object, between now and then, are ultimately illusions. What does this have to say about a practice in which we look to very distant bodies in space to inform us about our lives here on Earth?...
Read MoreIn this life I have been blessed with wonderful teachers, and I consider having wonderful teachers to be one of the highest riches in life. Every human's first and foremost teachers are their parents...
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