Jan 23
As a companion to my recent blog post, On 2012, I interviewed evolutionary astrologer Dena DeCastro for my podcast, Empowering Astrology. We talk about the upcoming transits and bring a balanced view to a year that has been hyped like no other. To listen, click here.
Over the last few years, “2012″ has become this thing, this concept loaded with cultural speculation and a touch of doomsday hysteria. I’m not sure when exactly it entered mass consciousness, but somewhere, somehow — perhaps the new age community is to blame — the collective latched onto this idea that we’re entering the end of time.
Humans have had a long history of getting worked up about an apocalypse that never comes. With the Mayan calendar allegedly ending on December 21, 2012, the more fearful began to wonder what was going to happen on December 22nd. Personally I don’t think the end of a 26,000 year cycle means the apocalypse; I don’t take stock in dire predictions. But I do think the world is shifting gears. Does astrology support the idea that we’re on the precipice of something massive? Let’s take a look. Read more
A Facebook follower of the Empowering Astrology page, in response to my article on lunar manifestation, asked:
“. . . what do you mean about karma? That we won’t get more than our karma deserves? What if we have past karma from previous lives that is not good? Or if we have tried very hard to have good karma in this life but have sometimes done things out of desperation because life has dealt us some bitter blows? I would be very pleased if you could answer this!”
Oh, karma. It’s one of those loaded words that means many things to many people, but often is an excuse to philosophize life’s injustices. Karma is a sanskrit word that roughly means cause and effect, both in this life and previous ones. In the West we’ve come to reimagine the word as an eye for an eye. So if I steal from someone, I will get stolen from. Cause and effect. Karma’s a bitch.
Except that’s not how I see it.
Yes, karma is a cause and effect, but it’s not a Judeo-Christian concept and so we need to stop seeing it as such. For me, karma is the sum experience of the soul in this dimension. Karma is the agreements the soul makes with other souls before incarnating; It’s the curriculum of life; It’s layer upon layer of joy, trauma, survival, lessons, epiphany, instincts, brilliance, imbalances, vows, beliefs, and wisdom; It’s is the framework upon which the soul engages the human experience; It’s neither good nor bad; It just is. Read more
Confession time, astrology style.
I come from a family that is not physically demonstrative. Hugging and other spontaneous forms of physical affection is something I taught myself slowly and awkwardly. I’m still a little weird around overly touchy-feely people, as if they are some alien tribe determined to test my boundaries, but this is my issue and I’m working on it.
One of the ways this manifests in my natal chart is Chiron in Taurus in the 4th House. Chiron is the core wounding. Call it karma or improper childhood programming, but Chiron is a point in our chart where we’re deeply sensitive about an inadequacy or perceived lack. It gnaws as us unconsciously until a transit brings it to light and we realize just how much the wound was a filter for experience. Read more
Mar 8
Imagine you’ve walked into the home of someone you’ve just met. There’s clutter everywhere, nothing is organized, and it’s physically hard to navigate between rooms because of furniture and stuff piled everywhere. How would you imagine the energy of that home feels? Unpleasant? Stagnant? Dense? The energy can’t move because we have a hard time moving in the house. It accumulates everywhere much like the stuff piled on every surface. The energy feels low and inhospitable. Worse, if household is prone to fights and outbursts, the emotional energy can get stuck in the house.
Now imagine you’ve walked into the same home, except the person has moved out. Once busting with clutter, the rooms are now clear of any physical trace of the previous inhabitants. How would the space feel to you? Would you want to move your stuff right in? This is the moment where you trust your gut. If the space doesn’t feel right intuitively — if it still feels low, dense, dark, stagnant, unwelcoming — it’s time to clear the energy, which lingers long after the physical stuff has moved. Read more
Ritual plays an intrinsic part in the human experience. Through ritual we find comfort and meaning in actions or words. A few years ago, when I was in a particularly dark period on my life, I started paying close attention to the lunar cycles within the context of astrology. There was comfort in the marking of the new moon as if I had another chance at a new beginning.
Somehow, probably due to the power of the internet, I learned about new and full moon manifestation rituals. At the time, I was unbelievably broke. My life looked like a bomb had gone off and I needed the reassurance and focus that came with these rituals. I needed to feel like I was in the driver’s seat of my life again. And so during the new moon I wrote out a list — pen and ink to paper — of the things I wanted to manifest in my life. I dated the piece of paper, folded it up, and tucked it away. Two weeks later, during the full moon, I took the piece of paper out of its storage place, placed it in a bowl, and carefully lit the piece of paper on fire, scattering the ashes to the wind. Read more
Last week the world freaked out when a Minnesota astronomer sent out a press release stating that the zodiac signs had shifted over time and, surprise, you’re not the sign you thought you were. Even more shocking, there was now a new zodiac sign — Ophiuchus.
Thanks to the power of the internet, the press release went viral and people whom I never thought would care about astrology were suddenly losing their stuff. Mainstream American news like CNN and MSNBC even devoted prime time to this allegedly new revelation. Well known astrologers like Susan Miller breathlessly went on air to refute the ill conceived press release. I fielded emails from friends and colleagues who wanted to know if it was true. Read more
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