It’s been a chilly holiday season here in San Diego. Not when compared to anyplace with real weather, of course, but the discomfort is real enough to us. Cold is a relative thing, and when a place that seldom sees daytime highs below 65 degrees experiences a string of days in the 50s, folks around here get a little testy. Of course, we’re testy – scared, really – about a lot … [Read more...]
Capricorn Full Moon: The Shape of My Heart
Before the Uranus-Pluto square began making matters of life direction (and pretty much everything) tougher to unravel, it was much easier for me to offer Joseph Campbell’s career advice to those clients who were miserable in their professions. “Follow your bliss” I’d say, and point to the major career indicators in the chart: Sun (creative ego), the MidHeaven sign and Tenth … [Read more...]
Cancer New Moon: Wrapped in Love
In the Daily Guides of last month’s Science of Mind Magazine, Cynthia James shared about her rescue dog, Rusty. Abused as a puppy, Rusty was an anxious mess—tearing up furniture, barking incessantly, running away. For nine years James and her husband put up with Rusty’s difficult behavior and loved him anyway. Then a friend told them about Thunder Shirts—a garment that … [Read more...]
The Moon and the Rhythms of Life
Cancer is a water sign and old as the Moon is the ocean, earth’s watery womb and source of life. The Moon measures out the ebb and flow of the ocean's tides. To move instinctively with the rise and fall—the emptiness and fullness—of life's cycles is the basis of Feminine wisdom. The inner knowledge of nature's rhythms is the key to life. Of course, the ocean's tides are not … [Read more...]
Cancer Full Moon: The House Of Belonging
As we turned the corners of the new year, I returned home after living in Stockholm, Sweden for four months. I am finally where I belong. Home. In Northern California where the air has an otherworldly perfume of damp peaty musk and fresh green. Home. As David Byrne of the Talking Heads once sang, "...where I want to be" And as poet David Whyte once wrote, "...where I want to … [Read more...]
