Crowrider: An Inquiry on Radical Surrender
As I wrote in my last post we are in the midst of an epic Trickster workshop. And this week things really amp up as Mars joins the ongoing Uranus-Pluto square creating what’s called a T-Square. A T-Square occurs when two planets (Mars and Uranus) are in opposition aspect (180 degress) to each other and both making a square aspect of (90 degrees) to a third planet (Pluto). Whenever planets are in aspect of each other we are challenged to bring their energies within our psyche into a co-creative dance. So when the God of War, Will and Action...
Read moreCrowrider: Monkey Rides the Wave, Trickster Knows How
I had an amazing time at Oakland’s monthly Art Murmur. It has become quite the event drawing throngs of supporters out to see the exploding local art scene. It’s feel grateful that my surrounding culture so deeply appreciates and serves the arts! And it was a super fun Gemini Sun start to the gathering and cavorting energy of the Summer! On my walk home as I cruised down the last street of art galleries I was riveted by one last painting. This painting depicted a handful of monkeys surfing on tsunami-sized waves as a volcano erupted in the...
Read moreCrowrider: I’m Your Venus
Over the weekend I had a perfectly nourishing and wild Beltane celebration with a group of close friends. Lilacs, bees, butterflies, a rushing river, delicious foods, a gigantic cauldron full of fire, full moon rays, drumming, singing and ritual merry-making – my soul was as happy as it could be! Beltane is a holiday devoted to our sensual relationship to life, Venus, and the Sun is also presently in Taurus (ruled by Venus). So the weekend got me pondering the following question: What gets your Venus going – what is Her version of...
Read moreCrowrider: CRAZY 101
Here’s what I’ve been hearing a lot of lately: “I don’t know how to fix this” “I am overwhelmed” “I can’t hold it together anymore” “I’m exhausted” “Nothing is working”” “I’m FU**ED” “I feel crazy” Mars Retrograde turned the first three months of 2012 into advanced, required and uncomfortable human coursework. We’ve all been asked to identify and confront the most stubborn, ongoing issues that seemingly evade transformation. Add Mercury Retrograde into the mix and the last month has been a...
Read moreCROWRIDER: Aloha Happiness
I watched an amazing movie last night, a documentary called “Happy.” It addressed the true causes of happiness and included clips from many different cultures as well as the latest neuroscience and positive psychology research. It was really well done and meaningful. I highly recommend it! It seems that 40% of our happiness is up to us and the choices that we make. Only 10% has to do with circumstances like income level, weather or where we live, and a given genetic baseline makes up the other 50% of our capacity. The biggest focus of the...
Read moreCrowrider: God is Alive, Magic Is Afoot- Neptune in Pisces
I have written a bit about other collective astrological developments in past writings: Pluto’s transit through Capricorn and the great transformation of the Father Principle of structure, culture, institutions and ways we organize our world. I’ve written about Uranus transiting through Aries, the great revolutionary energy sweeping through the warrior archetype – catalyzing our basic need for autonomy and liberation. And I have written about Saturn moving through Libra and the law of limitation/restriction asking us to take...
Read moreCrowrider: Learning From Limitation
If you are anything like me, one week into the New Year you may be sharing my current prayers. Please, please Universe, Let me return to the order and rhythm of my own life. Please, please Universe, Let me return to my own body, my own purpose and goals. Please, please Universe, Let me be provided for and supported. Please, please Universe, Let me find the daily and weekly structures that will help me move my goals forward. I don’t think I’m the only one that marvels at how much time and energy it takes to return from the rituals and...
Read moreCrowrider: Hidden Boxes, Messages from the Past
Since mid-October, I’ve spent every spare second I have, many long three-day weekends, at my mother’s getting her house ready to sell. Sorting through closets, drawers, garages, trunks, rummaging through old photos, baby cloths, letters, old jewelry, etc. My mom has lived at this house for 20 years. There’s a lot of stuff to go through. We are also painting bathrooms, updating hardware, reframing broken artwork, repotting plants, selling old beds, buying new ones, and putting together IKEA furniture for the staging of the house. We are...
Read moreCrowrider: Entering The Dream Cave and Living Your Dreams
Hearing the Call As we enter the deep heart of Autumn, we feel the loss of light and the darkness beckons us. At this time, I am aware of a familiar turn within, as the soul hears the changing of the drum beat. She is guided now, not by the light of the outer sun, but by a subtle glow of barely burning embers within. Some of you may hear the drum calling you into the dream cave and resist it. Many of us are still scared of the dark. So much of our identity is anchored out there in other’s approval, in tangible accomplishments, and in our...
Read moreCrowrider: The Art of Relationship
With four planets in Libra (Sun, Saturn, Mercury and Venus) my mind and experience is centered on relationships. This astrological concentration is highlighted this week by the full moon in Aries (Tuesday the 11th) and the ongoing transit of Uranus through Aries, who’s opposing energies really light up the ongoing tension between our need for radical, individual freedom and our longing for and commitment to our relationships. As this topic of Self and Other has been meandering through my awareness this living inquiry has been fed by two...
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