Current Astro-Overview
7.2.09
Let's step back a bit and take a panoramic glimpse at our present astrological position.
It's a good time to do so, as we're now headed into the next set of eclipses, the super-powered new and full moons that I think of as 'chapter-markers', demarcating six-month-or-so chunks of our lives into episodes that come to a sort of climax around when the eclipses hit.
Since the last eclipse period, centered around the Jan 26 solar eclipse in Aquarius, we have all seen tremendous amounts of broadening development.
Firm or Stubborn?
6.16.09
Over the next several days, we have a ripe opening to display our firm resolve… to plant our feet tenaciously on the spot or viewpoint we've chosen and refuse to be unduly influenced.
We also could be tempted to flaunt our inflexible stubbornness… to resist all potentially productive compromises and hold childishly to our closed ears, eyes and minds.
Plain as the noses on our faces, these are two sides of an identical coin. There are no guarantees as to which perspective is the more accurate.
Writing from the Trenches of Self-Consciousness
6.14.09
Last week, I spent a couple days up at Lake Tahoe, hidden away in a cabin, engaged in my first-ever self-managed writing retreat.
I followed a practice, based on the work of writing-teacher writer Natalie Goldberg, during which I agreed to write for set increments of time without stopping… and without pausing to correct 'errors' (not even spelling), to judge or critique what was coming forth.
Needless to say, that last part of the commitment—no judging, no self-criticism—was the hardest to enforce.
Chiron Wants to Speak
6.7.09
Chiron, the 'wounded healer' planetoid, presently stands in close conjunction to both Jupiter and Neptune. He has a few things to add to the conversation.
We've already spoken once so far about 2009's Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius, an aspect with the potential to fuel great collective hope, in terms of what we might accomplish by uniting our group efforts behind common goals.
On the flipside of this coin, it also holds the power to gloss over our problems with idealistic imaginings, inspiring us to grin and bear our pains…
Taurus Says, 'Show Me The Money'
5.31.09
Goodbye, Aries heaven… and hello to a slower, steadier pace of life.
Over these next several days, first Mars and then Venus will move out of Aries and into Taurus, where they'll motivate us to put our money where our mouths have lately been.
The month ahead will be something like a proving ground, testing our endurance, to determine whether everything we've stirred up over these past few months has the solid undergirding to last once the wind blows a different direction.
The First Day of the Rest of My Life, Again
5.28.09
I often like to tell myself, 'Today is the first day of the rest of my life.' The best part of this cliché statement is, It's always true.
Every morning when we wake up, we're given a chance to do it all again, differently… to recreate ourselves, no matter how crappy the day before, or the previous seventeen-month period, was.
That's why this notion of approaching each new 'Now' moment with full presence, rather than letting regrets from the past or anxieties about the future encroach upon consciousness, is at the heart of so many spiritual teachings.
