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Picture of the Week: I Heart Boys and Girls

boys and menFunny, after what seems to be a lifetime of being female-oriented — going to a women’s college, working in lots of women-owned and women-dominated businesses (including at a women’s PAC), being generally very pro-female and pro-feminist — boys seem to be springing up everywhere in my life these days. I blame Jung and the tension of opposites.

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boys and menFunny, after what seems to be a lifetime of being female-oriented — going to a women’s college, working in lots of women-owned and women-dominated businesses (including at a women’s PAC), being generally very pro-female and pro-feminist — boys seem to be springing up everywhere in my life these days. I blame Jung and the tension of opposites.

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May 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Astrology, Energy, Planets, Psychology | 2 comments

Picture of the Week: Light and Shadow

lightsMost of the time, when I look at the picture of the week, I see right away the astrological archetype with which the image aligns.

My first instinct with this one was Saturn: the organization, the predictability, the safety of the grid-like pattern. But then I thought: No, Uranus: energy, electricity. Or Mercury: thousands of little connections all bringing energy to an undefined, in-between space.

All of these archetypes are true to the image in their own way but they don’t really get to the core of it for me. What is most striking about this photo, in my view, is the stark, bright, white light against the utter blackness: the striking oppositeness come together. Secondarily (or perhaps primarily, depending on the viewer), the grid pattern kind of couches or embraces a cross, which in the Christian tradition is the symbol of light penetrating dark.

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lightsMost of the time, when I look at the picture of the week, I see right away the astrological archetype with which the image aligns.

My first instinct with this one was Saturn: the organization, the predictability, the safety of the grid-like pattern. But then I thought: No, Uranus: energy, electricity. Or Mercury: thousands of little connections all bringing energy to an undefined, in-between space.

All of these archetypes are true to the image in their own way but they don’t really get to the core of it for me. What is most striking about this photo, in my view, is the stark, bright, white light against the utter blackness: the striking oppositeness come together. Secondarily (or perhaps primarily, depending on the viewer), the grid pattern kind of couches or embraces a cross, which in the Christian tradition is the symbol of light penetrating dark.

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May 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Aspects, Houses, Myth, Planets, Psychology | Leave a comment

Picture of the Week: Mars on the Y Chromosome

soccerThis picture is appropriate in that I’m now reading The Wonder of Boys by Michael Gurian in an effort to better understand the burgeoning boy in my life.

Psychology and sociology have conspired in recent decades to promote the belief that temperament and personality are all nurture, no nature. But as most parents will tell you (and as researchers have finally begun to admit), kids come out with their own distinct natures — a portion of which are clearly gender-specific.

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soccerThis picture is appropriate in that I’m now reading The Wonder of Boys by Michael Gurian in an effort to better understand the burgeoning boy in my life.

Psychology and sociology have conspired in recent decades to promote the belief that temperament and personality are all nurture, no nature. But as most parents will tell you (and as researchers have finally begun to admit), kids come out with their own distinct natures — a portion of which are clearly gender-specific.

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May 12th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Astrology, Energy, Planets, Psychology | 3 comments

What It Takes to Be an Astrologer

bosnian-aquarius-stampA reader e-mailed this week asking my opinion on what it takes to become an astrological counselor. He’s been studying astrology for years and will attend the ISAR conference in Chicago this August. He didn’t specify what kind of astrology he’s interested in — though I have to assume that, since he contacted me, he must have some interest in the psychological.

Anyway, here’s an adapted and expanded version of what I told him — what I think are the essential qualities of the serious psychological astrologer:

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bosnian-aquarius-stampA reader e-mailed this week asking my opinion on what it takes to become an astrological counselor. He’s been studying astrology for years and will attend the ISAR conference in Chicago this August. He didn’t specify what kind of astrology he’s interested in — though I have to assume that, since he contacted me, he must have some interest in the psychological.

Anyway, here’s an adapted and expanded version of what I told him — what I think are the essential qualities of the serious psychological astrologer:

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May 8th, 2009 | Category: Astrology, Psychology | 2 comments

Picture of the Day: Saturn in a Tangerine

leaf-detail

Nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small it takes time — we haven’t time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

And Georgia O’Keefe should know about time. She lived for ninety-nine years, from 1887 until 1986.

I recently advised a client to spend an hour eating an orange. This was not originally my idea; it came from Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Peace is Every Step, a series of short but profound thoughts, such as “Tangerine Meditation” which reads, in part:

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leaf-detail

Nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small it takes time — we haven’t time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

And Georgia O’Keefe should know about time. She lived for ninety-nine years, from 1887 until 1986.

I recently advised a client to spend an hour eating an orange. This was not originally my idea; it came from Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Peace is Every Step, a series of short but profound thoughts, such as “Tangerine Meditation” which reads, in part:

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May 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Astrology, Planets | One comment
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