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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from hell Blue skies from pain Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade Your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here We’re just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl Year after year Running over the same old ground And how we found The same old fears Wish you were here “Wish You Were…

“This has become the looming question of our time: What is the ultimate impact of cosmological disenchantment on a civilization? What does it do to the human self, year after year, century after century, to experience existence as a conscious purposeful being in an unconscious purposeless universe?… Is it not an extraordinary act of human hubris to assume that the exclusive source of all meaning and purpose in the universe is ultimately centered in the human mind?… What is the cure for hubristic vision? It is, perhaps, to listen – to listen more subtly, more perceptively, more deeply. Our future may well depend upon the precise extent of our willingness to expand our ways of knowing.” – Richard Tarnas, Cosmos…

Well, this is happening! For about 6 months now I have been asked regularly if I would teach something on reading charts, more or less a foundational astrology course. I have resisted this because I didn’t want to throw out a traditional type of class. I wanted to feel a call to create something that came from my own intuition, my heart, my way of doing this. Within a few days of quarantine, I heard the words “Charting Your Course” in my mind as I was contemplating the strange feeling of not knowing what step to take next as the calendar plans faced increasing erasure and expectations had to be quickly adapted. As someone whose dad went to work one…

How are you? Last week was a doozy. Between the hard astrology and the news and all of the feelings, thoughts, and concerns we’re carrying, it felt wildly wonky to be in and with the body. Big survival-scarcity fears, nervous tension, frustrated energy, deep relief to be with my beloved and my babies, love for the slower pace, concern for my family in New York (and everywhere!), annoyance that a trip to the store is such an ordeal, unspeakable gratitude for the people who are out there serving, wincing grief for those who are suffering, pride in the resilience my daughters show every day… just so much. These Days! I have a lot to say, which I offer as a…

How are you doing? These days are a lot. I was thinking today about the idea of ADAPTATION. I’m noticing how my daughters are responding and adapting. I’m noticing myself: how I want to spend my time, what I think will “help,” what I want to fixate on, what my mind is doing, and how my body might be asking for something totally different. I’m noticing other people and listening: to my beloved, my family, my friends, my clients and colleagues. The ebb and flow of optimism. The stated problem and then the real one that needs to be heard. The underlying desire to be able to live and love. I think it’s a fair and good time at this…

“And now comes the most important part of the story: spring approaches, new life quickens, a new turn, a new try is possible. The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life; hold on, for the promise from the wild nature is this: after winter, spring always comes.” — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from Women Who Run With the Wolves I write to you now as someone who has had some serious practice at living at the threshold between who I had been and who I was unfolding to be: holding a deep abyss of grief in one hand, and the wild…

A PODCAST BORN IN QUARANTINE Dear friends, I am thinking of you in these strange times. How are you? How’s your nervous system? What are you noticing in this hyper-reality? For many days, I sat with a whole lot of simmering feelings, thoughts, and reveries as I processed and sat with data, decisions, and shifting expectations about what March 2020 (and beyond) would be. Yesterday, from what has become my lockdown, I created an expansive space to meditate a very long time, and listen for guidance about how to deal, how to reframe, and how to serve others. In that meditation, I facilitated a past life visitation for myself, heard clear wisdom to share from my guides, and moved through…

I see it I like it I want it I got it And by “seeing” I mean dreaming, visioning, and psychically knowing. Tomorrow is the New Moon in Pisces, Mercury is retrograde in Pisces, and it is the time of year when we deeply listen to whatever forms of information are dropping in. Pisces has to do with “attunement” – tuning in to what’s available to receive from the environment, both seen and unseen, both “real” and mysterious. In order to trust our attunement capabilities, you have to trust your intuition. Your intuition acts on what you see / hear/ feel, and then you move on what you want to dream into being… I see it I like it I…

A Long-Awaited Disruption Every year, Aquarius season is when we most channel Collective Air: visioning the paradigm shifts we need for humanity. In 2020, there is more urgency than perhaps ever in our lifetime to tap into the part of self that is ready to start again. This last lunar cycle in Capricorn demanded a chiseling away at the stone structures we’ve hardened across a lifetime of patterning. How can we not see what has to change, knowing what we now know? And so, this cycle we call in the Water Bearer to nourish, guide, and regenerate us into a new way to live in both our personal and collective bodies. Aquarius reminds us that what happens to one of…

** What’s in the mirror? ———————————————————— ** The moon is a mirror. ———————————————————— I’m playing here with the dramatic gif. I find it so over the top that it’s comical. Comedy is the ultimate in diffusing what feel like the intensities of life. This Full Moon Lunar Eclipse today closes the eclipse portal of the last two weeks. It reflects back to you whatever you’ve been trying to process and move through the last two weeks. The questions are: What have you been avoiding? What do you know you need to stop, deal with, let go, or reckon with in your life right now? Maybe it’s big. Maybe it’s super subtle. Because here’s the deal: Nothing goes away just because…