A fellow astrologer recently asked about earning a living through astrology. Though he doesn’t put it exactly in these words, his question boils down to three things: (1) What I do has value. (2) What I do helps people. (3) What I do is my calling. So why aren’t I making enough money at it?
He [...]

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Because Cancer, the sign, symbolically embodies the mother-child relationship, this month I have re-read the Grimm Brothers’ story Rapunzel, which I used in workshop to explore the opposite sign, Capricorn, six months ago. This time, I was seeking to understand how the idea of attachment, used in the context of early childhood development, related to [...]

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I spent a few days in Taos, New Mexico last week, checking out San Geronimo Lodge and the larger community in preparation for my Yoga & Astrology retreat there October 12-19.
I was deeply moved, while there, by the way different archetypal energies are expressed not only through our personalities and relationships but also through the [...]

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Yesterday marked the fourth workshop in our Astro-Play series at Yoga Grounds, with Vera on yoga and myself on astrology. Yesterday’s theme was the process of goal-setting and goal-getting, as prismed through the Capricorn archetype, as illustrated through the Grimm Brothers fairy-tale Rapunzel.
I’m working on fleshing the ideas out into a full-length article but I’m [...]

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Our two-year-old son, whom we call the Dragon, has always had a hard time getting to sleep. Most nights it takes an hour for him to find a breath that is steady enough for dreamland. It’s often another half-hour before we can tiptoe out of his bedroom and quietly shut the door, our own breaths [...]

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