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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When my dad was a young man, he spent summers working in the canneries and crab traps in Alaska to pay for college.
One day he and a Norwegian gentleman, who was spending some time on the trap with him, rowed ashore for a break from the waves and the wide-open sea. They spied a group [...]

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I was fortunate enough this weekend to soak up a talk on memory, voice and writing by the inspiring and insightful Dennis Patrick Slattery, who I once heard speak, seemingly off the cuff, on Dante’s Inferno for about seven hours straight. (Okay, there was a lunch break in the middle of that one. But still. [...]

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Astrologer Extraordinaire Joyce Hopewell challenged her blog-reading astrologers to come up with eight random things about themselves through the lens of a single aspect structure in their birth chart. So, because I can’t get it out of my head, I choose my irritation triangle, that red-green-green dog biting my chart in two along the MC-IC [...]

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Lunching with a friend this afternoon, she told me she’d had her chart read once and that it’s amazing how accurate it is. I agreed and then couldn’t help adding, “When it’s done right.” She agreed back. She’d had a good experience, for which I’m always grateful.
But it got me wondering what I meant by [...]

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