My World(view)
I’ve got some new people joining me on various social platforms, so it seems like a good time to be explicit about how I am and act within the world, and to the extent that I can control. A Statement of My World View
Astrology-Based Scheduling
I’m not a professional astrologer, but I’ve been working with (and teaching) this fascinating system for decades. One area it can be used for is finding the best time for a surgery or medical procedure, because there are a number of “rules.” (Rules is in quotes because we don’t always get to choose the time […]
Re-Solving
In just a few days most people will celebrate a new year. Some large number of people will also make promises about things they will do to make changes in their life. I am not one of them.
Watershed
I started this post in late October, long before the recent US election, although what you will read has been revised. Nonetheless, apparently I was prescient.
Peering Out (Waves Hello)
This is a particularly difficult Mercury Retrograde and I’m feeling more than a little irritated and thwarted and just plain grumpy. Among other things, a major writing project and collaboration just got shut down after more than a year. In retrospect, I had my doubts about the promises made, but didn’t think it would go […]
Storms are Just Weather
This post is a continuation from my last post, Storms Don’t Have to Be a Crisis where I talked about the inevitability of storms within a magickal group.
Storms Don’t Have to Be a Crisis
In classic sociology, small groups follow a consistent pattern of forming-storming-norming-performing and finally, adjourning [1] and most, if not all, magickal groups fall into this pattern as well. For the group leader, trying to navigate your group through the storms can feel like standing in the middle of a field in a lightning storm—shocking, dangerous, […]
Swimming in Deep Waters: Mermaids as Symbols of Transformation
For many of us, Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid was our introduction to this fascinating and compelling myth, but stories of mermaids have appeared in every culture. Her form has been the chosen subject of diverse artists like Munch, Waterhouse, Beardsley, Pyle, Rubens and Bosch. Shakespeare mentioned mermaids and sirens repeatedly in his work, […]
In the Midst of Revelation
We’re in the middle of Mercury Retrograde right now, and I — as always — am feeling it in a Big Way.
April, Not So Foolish
Let me start off by being very clear that I don’t think the pranks played on April Fool’s Day are very funny. By and large, they are mean and rude. And this year we’re all going to start the month on rocky footing as Mercury begins its retrograde dance on the 1st. Ignore that first […]