Crowrider: What’s Erupting? Welcoming Reactivity
I’d like to make a space for reactivity – a big, welcoming invitation for it. It deserves a space. So much of my personal and academic study has been focused on how to be responsive rather than reactive, to be consciously creative rather than unconsciously re-enacting the same repetitive story over and over. I still strongly believe in the power of waking up from reactive trance states and towards an awareness of how we are affected and the empowerment of choice. But, for this post I want to pause and just say I have a lot of new respect for reactivity. About two weeks ago I caught...
Read MoreCrowrider: Remembering What I Value
This summer has been such a wonderful liberating time for me providing me with the space to really review and reaffirm my own dreams and recipe for happiness. After the pressure of four years of academic work and my current “all-but-dissertation” status – I started the summer under the effects of a pretty heavy and unrelenting internal taskmaster. I wasn’t having much fun, I felt lethargic and certainly wasn’t getting much work done on my dissertation. I knew something needed to free itself, I just didn’t know how or what. And then I received an unexpected gift – a European...
Read MoreCrowrider: Diving into the Shadow – Unconscious Mother & Father Part II
Part II – The Shadow Father (also read Part I) With Pluto in Capricorn we are collectively challenged to let go of our limited agreements with the Old Father. On a collective level this means that all the systems, institutions, and structures of culture are breaking down. We are losing faith in Father Culture. We depended on Him, we believed in Him and now he’s drinking champagne on his yacht while his children can’t afford to go to the doctor! However, seeing Father Culture for who he really is, evokes a level of disappointment and betrayal that forces us to claim our own inner...
Read MoreCrowrider: Diving into the Shadow – Unconscious Mother and Father
Part I – The Shadow Mother Tomorrow, Friday July 1st, both the moon and the sun will be in Cancer, the sign of the Mother archetype, ruler of our inner world and our relationship to needs, dependency and belonging. On the same day, Pluto, ruler of the underworld, the principle of death and rebirth and deep transformation will be stationed exactly opposite the moon in the sign of Capricorn, the Father archetype, ruler of culture, order, and external reality. Uranus and Saturn are squaring both Cancer and Capricorn creating a marvelous, powerhouse of change called a grand square. This...
Read MoreCrowrider: The Two Needs of the Soul
The body has just a handful of basic needs: water, food, sleep, and air. The soul, in it’s multiplicity, has a variety of needs – so many that sometimes trying to meet every individual aspect of our inner-being, when they are ALL raising their hands at the same time, is quite the challenge. But at the beginning of life, and in the foundations of our being, the soul really has only two basic needs: autonomy and belonging. Autonomy relates to the seed of individuality that lives within each of us. The Greeks called this the telos of the soul and related it to an acorn that has its innate...
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