There is something so primitive about summer. It makes me want to curl in to the earth and let the land grow right through me. Summer yearns in my body so fantastic, a pace of blood that is almost breathable it’s so alive. Opposite that, I experience early summer in a way that feels base,…
Category: Earth Tides
Lunar Beltane, Depth Psychology, Sex and Fertility
I study depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. It’s fascinating. Depth psychology was pioneered by Carl Jung. It explores the unconscious aspects of the psyche. Depth perspective considers the deeper levels of your unconscious as the primary factors that rule your life. Also, much of the time, it is this very area…
Burning off what we no longer need
I lived on the coast of Oregon in 2005. Waited tables and tended bar at a roadside steakhouse run by a guy from Jersey. My buddy Paul, satisfied with his girls being raised rightly, put on a backpack back then and took a bus to the coast from Eugene where he had been living. He…
Living in the Mystery: New Moon, Serendipity, and Timing
I wanted to write today about living in the mystery. I thought after all the prescriptive here’s-a-translation-of-what-Mercury–could-mean, here’s-a-translation-of-what-Fire-could-mean, that reminding myself (and my readers!) the importance of simple living in the today might be right on time. So, with that in mind, turns out I also get to write today about how soul-work: living from…
Sun and Moon Symbols, and lunar Imbolc
Today is the full moon. Full moons are significant because they symbolize a center-point in a growth cycle. Growth cycles are circles, never-ending or beginning, a continuum of todays informed by yesterday. This feels good to me because one way of looking at this means that wherever you are in your understanding of your life and the…
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