When our child was born — three years ago today — with Virgo Sun, Virgo Moon and Virgo rising, my astrology mentor raised her eyebrows, looked at me pointedly and said, “Now you’ll get a deep, deeeeeeep lesson in Virgo!”
She knew, I guess, that such a lesson was due me, my own Virgo Moon highly [...]

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It’s my personal mission to take astrology out of the head and into the body, because I don’t think it really helps or transforms unless you’re feeling it. So in my workshops, I try to play music that reflects the energy of the sign we’re discussing. But I’ve realized over the last year that my [...]

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I’ve come across two dead crows on my morning walks recently in the Los Angeles foothills. In years past I’d just shudder a bit, step aside and let the faint whiff of flying-rodent death wisp away on the breeze.
But first, these crows didn’t showcase the bloodletting and bodily trauma normally associated with accidental encounters with [...]

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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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Part Three of a Three-Part Series
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Day 5: Jenny and I had coffee with friends in the morning, then headed out to Griffith Observatory for the afternoon. In retrospect, it was a fitting way to braid together the sensory indulgences and the intellectual intakes of the previous four days.
If [...]

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