Dear Friend and Reader:

Later today the Moon moves into Pisces just a couple hours before Mercury enters Taurus. This kind of harmony blends dreamy and sensitive feelings with grounded and methodical expression — not a bad combination, especially if you’re involved with creative pursuits.

What do you mean I’m not progressive enough? Have you seen the other guys? Photo of Hillary Clinton by Bryan Thomas.

It also might help to take the edge off tomorrow’s Venus-Saturn opposition, which spans the Gemini-Sagittarius axis. If you feel like you’re running up against any challenges or limits in your finances or relationships today, that might be why; see if you can lean on the duality of Gemini to see more than one possibility at once.

Eric will consider the current astrology, as the Sun moves through its last week in Aries, in today’s edition of Planet Waves FM. He’ll also be looking at the event chart for Hillary Clinton declaring that she’s a presidential candidate. Her announcement came just after the Moon left Capricorn and ingressed Aquarius.

In his discussion, Eric will talk about the many versions of Hillary’s chart. Her birth data is rated as “DD” or dirty data — there are several conflicting birth times. Is she Scorpio rising (that’s what most astrologers think), Gemini rising (that’s another possibility) or is she early Cancer rising, as proposed by research astrologer A.T. Mann?

In addition, he’ll continue the discussion of the Millennials, and keep wiping away the fog from the discussion of the impact of digital technology. Machines without souls may be teaching humans that they have souls. But at what cost? Eric’s musical guest will be Sloan Wainwright.

On the Planet Waves blog this week, Eris reigned supreme: not only did Eric feature the Sun-Eris conjunction in this week’s Monday Astrology Diary, but we also featured two Planet Waves archive selections about Eris in a post on Sunday, titled Reacquainting with the Castaway Self Through Eris.

It’s a shame she isn’t running for President: Lucy Lawless as Xena the Warrior Princess. Initially after discovery, Eris was nicknamed Xena. Photo by Pacific Renaissance Pictures Ltd.

Elsewhere on the Planet Waves website, we have:

— Sarah Taylor’s tarot reading for the week, which speaks to how a heavy heart can feel like it is holding you down and back. Yet if you look carefully, you’ll see you have an Ace up your sleeve.

— Stanley Siegel, guest-writer and editor-in-chief of Psychology Tomorrow, considers how anger can heal us, ultimately balancing us as we use it to find affirmation and integrity.

— Judith Gayle considers that we have the option to change how we fit into “this little box of ours,” if we’re willing just to push a little on this world that is changing, too.

Later today, Len Wallick’s column will publish to the website, and I’ll be back first thing on Thursday with a post about the weekend’s astrology.

Please note that to read and comment on most of our writers’ columns, you’ll need to login using the sidebar to the right of the website.

Yours & truly,

Amanda Painter

P.S. With one week left of Sun in Aries, you can get instant access to the Aries birthday reading for just $29.95. You can also get a jump on your Taurean friends’ birthdays: pre-order the Taurus birthday reading for them now for just $24.95.

Planet Waves (ISSN 1933-9135) is published each Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon in Kingston, New York by Planet Waves, Inc. Annual basic subscription rate: $97/year. Core community membership: $197/year. Editor and Publisher: Eric Francis Coppolino. Business Manager: Chelsea Bottinelli. Web Developer: Anatoly Ryzhenko. Astrology Editor: Amanda Painter. Copy Editor: Jessica Keet. Research, Writing and Editing: Planet Waves is produced by a team consisting of Fe Bongolan, Brendan Merritt, Amy Elliott, Judith Gayle, Kelly Janes, Amanda Moreno, Casey Smith, Carol van Strum, Len Wallick, Lizanne Webb and Chad Woodward.

Dear Friend and Reader:

Whatever the last two weeks or so has been like for you, by now you’re probably connecting some of the dots and moving forward in some new (or newly focused) direction. Eclipse periods have a way of accelerating life — and from what I’ve heard even from friends not into astrology, the effect has been noticeable this time around.

Second-wave Millennials have practically grown up with Twitter, where hundreds posted photos of the April 4 eclipse as it happened. Photo by @jswansonphoto posted by @AspenSnowmass.

Saturday’s eclipse occurred with the Sun in Aries. Eric has done a wrap-up of that event here, along with a commentary (and great discussion) on Sun conjunct Uranus.

And right on cue, Eric is planning to wrap up the Aries reading today. He aims to have it ready for distribution by this evening; right now, it’s still available for pre-order at the discounted price.

If you’re Aries Sun or rising, Eric covers the recent eclipses in Pisces and Libra and how they describe your evolving self-concept in relationships.

He then makes “the creativity connection,” where all roads lead to Jupiter in Leo. This is yet another amazing birthday reading, and it’s also the 5th anniversary reading as well; Eric began birthday readings in April 2010 and has now done 60 of them, with their accompanying tarot spreads. (All of those tarot readings have utilized the Voyager deck by James Wanless.)

Planet Waves FM — Iran Nuclear Deal, and the Millennials

Among the surprising events of the eclipse period was last week’s nuclear deal forged with Iran. In tonight’s Planet Waves FM, Eric will look at the charts for that event. Though this has faded from the news somewhat, the issue of whether a country should have nuclear bombs is rarely discussed.

Conservatives have been pushing for the ‘bomb Iran’ approach for more than a decade. Pres. Obama seems to have made some progress on an agreement, but he’s meeting resistance from Congress. What does the astrology say about this?

Then Eric will give an overview of Millennial astrology, looking at three events between 1981 to 2001.

Coming Attractions: Millennial Reading

The Millennial generation faces many challenges that are new to the human race. To be raised in good times, emerge into adult life in difficult times and then make one’s way is not so new, but it is a special challenge. What’s new for Millennials is being born into a world that has not remained stable for two days running, from the fall of the USSR to 9/11 to nonstop war nearly their whole lives.

Millennials on board. Illustration by Lizanne Webb.

After years of study, Eric is preparing a reading for Millennials and their parents; here is information about that project.

What’s New on Planet Waves

Have you caught Eric’s foray into video yet? We’re planning to resume Planet Waves TV Thursday with a brand-new edition. You can watch the four prior editions here.

This week’s sex-and-relationships column homes in on one of the most fundamental relationships any of us has: our relationship with our fear. ‘A Woman Who Walks Alone,’ by guest author Torre DeRoche, considers how the mandate that ‘women should not walk alone’ has undermined women — and men — for far too long.

Elsewhere on the Planet Waves website:

— Sarah Taylor’s tarot reading for the week features another statistically improbable three cards from the Major Arcana, picking up a story from early last month when the same thing happened.

— Judith Gayle notes in her column that something even bigger than the nuclear deal with Iran may have been birthed last week: a shift in consciousness, as each political issue we wrestle correlates to a personal one.

— Amanda Moreno uses her essay this week to unpack what she calls ‘the priestess complex’: when devotional perseverance is undiscriminating, it can undermine trust of our deeper instincts.

Columns by these authors (as well as by Len Wallick, whose column appears today around noon EDT) are available to anyone who is registered to read blog content — that is, those with a free registration, Core Community Pass or All-Access Pass. Wednesday night (Thursday morning at midnight), we’ll post my look ahead at the weekend’s astrology.

Catch you later on Planet Waves FM!

Yours & truly,

Amanda Painter

Dear Friend and Reader:

This week’s big astro-news is the total eclipse of the Moon in Libra, which is exact Saturday at 8:06 am EDT (12:06 UTC). This is the complement to the total solar eclipse we experienced on the equinox; pairs of eclipses act like bookends to discrete phases of time with unusual potential, especially if you stay tuned in to how your inner and outer experiences are aligning.

Bethune, the watchdog of Ile du Guesclin, Brittany, France. Photo by Danielle Voirin, who’s contributing a photo a day on the main website.

We’ll be getting your Moonshine horoscopes, written for this eclipse by Len Wallick, to you a little later. Watch for that mailing.

If you have not already listened to last week’s Planet Waves FM, it’s a short, clear introduction to this Libra lunar eclipse, and Eric recommends checking it out. In today’s edition he will continue his discussion of the Moon, but first he’ll expand his investigation of Mercury conjunct Chiron in the chart for the Germanwings crash one week ago.

He noted this morning in an email that, “In many ways, Mercury conjunct Chiron tells the story of our times. Our minds are pushed to the limit, and we have unreasonable expectations placed on us. At the same time, most people feel they have few open avenues for really taking care of ourselves, especially on the level of mental health. They just struggle in desperation.”

Eric will also look at the Libra aspect of the eclipse, including its influence on relationships and what is underneath the concept of a relationship — something more primal, more difficult to understand and closer to the core of what a person is.

We began the week with a grand fire trine, still in effect today, which Eric covered in the Monday Astrology Diary. He writes, “If you want to handle this particular aspect pattern in a constructive way, slow down and pay attention.”

Elsewhere on the Planet Waves website, Cynthia Neil ponders in her Cosmophilia article what she considers to be the most powerful and under-appreciated gift of being human: our power to choose. She writes: “Try to visualize the many possibilities, from a peach to a manatee to a banana slug, that could have been your life, and here you are a conscious human choice-maker.”

Composite image of the solstice lunar eclipse on Dec. 21, 2010, at moonset. Photo taken from Tenerife, Canary Islands, by Itahisa N. González (Grupo de Observadores Astronómicos de Tenerife) / APOD

Part of choosing is being ‘conscious’, yet as Amanda Moreno notes, it can be tricky to bring consciousness to our lives. Astrology is helpful, yet it can also amplify experiences and reactions for good or bad. Things can get complicated; “It’s okay not to ‘know’ everything,” she acknowledges in her latest column.

Judith Gayle also homes in on the idea of consciousness in her latest musings on current events, writing, “Beginning with the witness of our own little slice of consciousness, then, we can begin to free ourselves from pattern, and hold a similar vision of freedom for our brothers and sisters,” adding that when things are confused and confusing, stepping into a larger perspective is key.

In this week’s tarot reading, Sarah Taylor explores what happens when three Eights come together — two from the Minor Arcana, one from the Major Arcana. With them emerges a journey that has been some time in the making, leading you from confusion to clarity and a sense of purpose.

Clarity and consciousness even appears in this week’s sex-and-relationships guest-post, which comes (pun intended) from sex therapist Gia Ravazzotti. With Venus in Taurus, the sky is emphasizing sensual pleasures, and if you have a willing playmate her guide for giving and receiving mindful oral sex is worth a look. (No playmate within reach? Consider the article a jumping-off point for some solo fantasizing.)

Len Wallick’s column will be appearing on the Planet Waves website sometime after noon EDT today, and I’ll have my weekly column to you, with another take on the weekend’s astrology, just after midnight EDT Thursday.

Catch you a little later with Moonshine!

Yours & truly,

Amanda Painter

P.S. There is still time for you to purchase the Aries birthday reading at the pre-order price of $24.95. It makes a thoughtful, inspiring and truly useful gift for anyone with an Aries Sun, Moon or rising sign.

Planet Waves (ISSN 1933-9135) is published each Tuesday morning and Thursday afternoon in Kingston, New York by Planet Waves, Inc. Annual basic subscription rate: $97/year. Core community membership: $197/year. Editor and Publisher: Eric Francis Coppolino. Business Manager: Chelsea Bottinelli. Web Developer: Anatoly Ryzhenko. Astrology Editor: Amanda Painter. Copy Editor: Jessica Keet. Research, Writing and Editing: Planet Waves is produced by a team consisting of Fe Bongolan, Brendan Merritt, Amy Elliott, Judith Gayle, Kelly Janes, Amanda Moreno, Casey Smith, Carol van Strum, Len Wallick, Lizanne Webb and Chad Woodward.

Dear Friend and Reader:

We’re fully in the zone between eclipses, and the astrology is giving you a beautiful prompting to open up some space within you for this leg of the journey: Mercury conjunct Chiron, which is exact today in Pisces. It’s entirely possible this aspect is putting you in touch with some old injuries from childhood — messages that you could not do what you most loved to do, for example, or regrets over missed opportunities. Reminders of this material are coming through for a reason.

Let the old stories wash away. Bathers brave cold, clear La Mina Falls in El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico. Photo by Amanda Painter.

In your awareness of these triggers lies the potential to see just how much you’ve actually done, and the potential for some deep healing. I covered Mercury-Chiron in Monday’s Astrology Diary, and the comments section is filling rapidly with anecdotes of shared experience — both the struggles and the triumphs.

Eric’s not sure at this point whether he’ll be able to expand on the astrology later today with a Planet Waves FM broadcast, but if he does, we’ll mail an announcement. If not, we’ll highlight one of his programs that’s perfect for a replay.

In the meantime, if you’re still recovering from Monday or simply could use a cheerleader today, Britta Dubbels divulges her secret to personal happiness and radical self-love in her article from Cosmophilia. She notes that her open inner state did not ‘just happen’: “I’ve worked my butt off for my happiness.”

Sarah Taylor has delayed her tarot reading until today due to teaching some workshops this weekend, so check the main website later this afternoon for that. Amanda Moreno’s latest column considers the need for beliefs and archetypes to evolve. She writes, “As we shift into what Eric has called the ‘post’ 2012 era, I’m grateful for a spiritual framework and language such as astrology that helps us to know the faces of the gods, and relate to them through individual experience.”

In this week’s sex-and-relationships guest-post, writer and photographer David Steinberg recounts the sexual creativity (and eventual reform) engendered by the restrictiveness of his early 1960s college. He concludes that, “The Goddess most assuredly works in strange ways, not the least important of which may be teaching us how to use the difficulty of restrictive circumstances as a means of furthering our personal growth and development.”

Judith Gayle writes this week of the “celestial fireworks” that are punctuating a cultural sea change, as they manifested in a number of disquieting political developments both near and far. In the end, though — befitting the weeks between eclipses — she notes that, “To leave behind what is old, we must allow it expression, to be recognized and discarded.” Amen to that.

As always, visit the Planet Waves website around noon EDT today for Len Wallick’s column. I’ll be back early on Thursday (followed by Len) with the weekend’s astrological highlights, and Eric will have your extended monthly horoscopes for April in the Thursday night issue.

Whether you’re blazing ahead through this inter-eclipse zone or just trying to get your bearings, the cosmos is offering signposts. We’ll do our best to translate them.

Yours & truly,

Amanda Painter

P.S. Speaking of blazing ahead: do you have an Aries Sun, Moon or rising sign? Know and love someone who does? The Aries birthday reading is available for pre-order now, and it makes a great gift.

Dear Friend and Reader:

Whew — you’ve made it through the last of the exact contacts of the Uranus-Pluto square. I say that in all seriousness; the simultaneous creative and destructive energies of these last few years have been a real struggle for many people. As if to underscore the significance of the threshold we’re passing through, this week wraps up with an eclipse.

Moon traverses Sun in a digital composite image of a 2006 total solar eclipse over Turkey. Photo by Stephan Seip/APOD.

Friday’s event will be a total solar eclipse and New Moon in the very last degree of Pisces. This is where the zodiac gathers itself and then prepares to begin anew with the first degree of Aries — the storied, powerful Aries Point. That might sound intimidating, but in truth you’re entering a very fertile space energetically.

Eric will address in Planet Waves FM this week what it means for you to experience both of these significant events — the last Uranus-Pluto square and the Pisces New Moon eclipse — so close together. That program usually posts by about 5 pm EDT Tuesdays.

He opened up the territory in this week’s Monday Diary, where he called this “another of the most astrologically interesting weeks in recent memory,” one that ripples out into the near-distant future. In general terms, Eric suggests you treat this time with respect, and keep looking at both the astrology and the accompanying events for additional information. Tune into Planet Waves FM for more details.

That Friday’s eclipse is happening in Pisces is just one of the many reasons why anyone with a strong Pisces signature in their natal chart (Pisces Sun, Moon or rising sign, or other significant Pisces planets) would do well to listen to the new Pisces birthday reading. It’s getting rave reviews; in fact, a reader named Stacy Katz wrote in recently to let us know she’s so immersed in it, she has already listened to it seven or eight times.

Sarah Taylor’s tarot reading for this week indicates the heat is rising, as she explores the presence of the next two Court Cards in a process that had its genesis in last week’s reading. There are shifts and emergences afoot at the level of how you are expressing yourself as an individual with an emphasis on thought, intellect, beliefs and fire.

In this week’s sex-and-relationships guest-post, New York Times writer Mark Jaffe describes how, when his wife was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, their sex life reversed polarities in the extreme thanks to one of her medications. Along the way to encountering unique insights, they eventually manage to find some equilibrium — and an unexpected shared purpose. In terms of clearing the ground and building anew, this is a perfect story for the last Uranus-Pluto square.

Amanda Moreno writes this week of standing at the precipice of the final Uranus-Pluto square as she receives hints of many things — from possible avoidance of her deeper purpose to being given an opportunity to revisit and say farewell to paradigms she thought she’d left behind already.

In her latest column, Judith Gayle contemplates what a surprising week we just lived through, as it continued to underline the differences between our sociopolitical polarities “in bold cartoon-like strokes.” Considering our understanding that this last wave of the 2012 energies needed to solidify itself in some final paroxysm in preparation for a new set of astrological variables, you probably were not surprised.

Len Wallick looks ahead to Friday’s eclipse in his column for today (which publishes around noon EDT), urging you to let your awareness and, in fact, your physical body record the astrological threshold we’re now standing in.

We’re all on this wild ride together — thankfully.

Yours & truly,

Amanda Painter

Dear Friend and Reader:

In today’s edition we’re thrilled to announce the advent of Planet Waves TV. Yes, Eric has dared to get in front of a TV camera, reporting in from his breakfast haunt, the Outdated Cafe in Kingston, NY. In the current edition he explains the double conjunction happening this week — Mars conjunct Uranus, and Venus conjunct Eris.

I’ve also covered this astrology in written form from a slightly different angle in this week’s Monday Diary.

Eric Francis in the second edition of Planet Waves TV. You can watch on Planet Waves or on our brand new You Tube channel.

In tonight’s edition of Planet Waves FM, Eric co-hosts with his music teacher Daniel Sternstein. The whole program is about astrology — the aforementioned conjunctions and much background on them. Daniel plays the role of the non-astrologer asking reasonable questions, and in the process he figures out the difference between a conjunction and a square.

In the second part of the program Eric takes a reader’s question about locational astrology, and gives an idea about how it works and how to use it well. Locational astrology is when you cast your chart for a place you want to live and assess how your life will be there.

Musical guests for the program are The Chromatics, the Indigo Girls and Jane’s Addition, all doing covers of songs by other artists. The program, which posts by 5 pm EDT, is worth hearing just for the Chromatics’ magnificent work.

Elsewhere on the Planet Waves website, in looking at what most religious dogmas teach us about the need to be ‘saved’ from our suffering, Amanda Moreno considers the idea that fully experiencing the physical density of the flesh is why we’re here.

In this week’s tarot reading, Sarah Taylor explores the re-emergence of The Fool — one of the cards that welcomed us into the New Year — and how your stepping up and out in your own life has started to make itself known. Masks are falling and liberation awaits.

The Chromatics; hear them on tonight’s Planet Waves FM.

The Sun-Chiron conjunction that’s still in effect in Pisces may be highlighting for you an awareness of past wounding, and your processes of healing and integrating. Guest-writer Christina Louise Dietrich, who has been chronicling her journey of reclaiming herself (especially sexually), writes of her latest strides, “What I didn’t expect was the actual felt and embodied presence of my literal 4-year-old self.”

Judith Gayle, in her latest foray into the current political moment, how it reflects the Uranus-Pluto square, and how we fit into it writes, “We’ve created the emerging outcome, we’ve crafted it for its lessons and its opportunities. Now we’ll see what we’ve produced.”

Len Wallick’s column for today chronicles Mercury’s move into Pisces after more than two months in Aquarius, and should appear on the Planet Waves website at about noon. You can read my column on the latest phase of this week’s jam-packed astrology on the website tomorrow.

This is a wild week; embrace unexpected sparks of opportunity, but watch your step and drive carefully. There’s a lot of energy building that you can put to real use.

Yours & truly,

Amanda Painter

Dear Friend and Reader:

Len Wallick has written a new edition of the Moonshine Horoscope for the Virgo Full Moon. Here is a direct link to that page

Mark your calendar — there will be a live edition of Planet Waves FM at 8 pm EST on Wednesday, March 4, 2015. This will be a 90-minute call-in program, open to callers on all topics. It will be recorded, and you can come in late. Here is all the information you need to listen or participate, by phone or by web.

In tonight’s recorded edition of Planet Waves FM, I will pay tribute to Leonard Nimoy, whose portrayal of Mr. Spock created one of the most enduring figures in science fiction history. What was so compelling about this dispassionate space alien? I will share some ideas, from his chart and from the viewpoint of Marshall McLuhan’s media theories.

Planet Waves FM posts Tuesdays at about 6 pm EST, on both the new website and on the Planet Waves FM site. I will also pay tribute to George Harrison, the Pisces Beatle. And I’ll continue my discussion of how the astrological houses work.

Speaking of astrology, I’m teaching a beginners’ class on March 21, via teleconference. Please check that out — it will be great fun. This is the class designed to get you started understanding the very basics of astrology, starting with a pencil and a blank wheel.

Today I’ll be wrapping up the Pisces birthday reading. You can still purchase for the pre-order price, and I plan to have that in your hands by this evening. This is a fantastic reading, covering all the planets currently in Pisces (there are many), Saturn in Sagittarius, the Saturn-Neptune square and a rather alive relationship angle (Virgo, Virgo and more Virgo).

Speaking of, I covered the Virgo Full Moon in Mondays’ astrology diary.

In this week’s relationships-and-sex column, guest-writer Kristin Luce describes her epiphany that love does not belong to us; something she discovered after a longtime client died, and she realized the honest, intimate conversation they had shared counted as “love” — and that he shared that love with many others in his life.

George Harrison with his Fender guitar.

We’re in new territory in this week’s tarot reading, as Sarah Taylor discusses the implications of a decidedly feminine (yet still universal) all-major arcana reading, and a shift from an inner focus to one that is directed outwards and into the world.

Judith Gayle, in her latest heart-centered foray into American political culture, notes that, “Nothing we — any of us — ever did entirely for our own good, with thought to no other, served the world around us or improved life on the planet,” and asks if that’s who we want to elect (and become).

Amanda Moreno’s use of the “universe please give me a sign” thing has, it seems, contributed to a difficulty in trusting her intuition. She describes in this piece how a crow dropping a pinecone in front of her has given her something new to work with in her belief in a connected cosmos.

Recent features from the Cosmophilia website have included Greg Macdougall’s poem “Psychovariant Belonging,” and Alison Beth Levy’s rediscovery of her birth parents, astrology and a sense of belonging.

Be sure to catch Len Wallick’s latest column about this week’s Virgo Full Moon on the main Planet Waves website at about noon today EST. And on Thursdays, Amanda Painter’s weekly posts look ahead at your weekend astrology.

Lovingly,

Articles research by Amanda Painter.

Dear Friend and Reader:

In tonight’s edition of Planet Waves FM, I’ll be describing the imagery and influence of Sun conjunct Neptune, an aspect happening now and in exact alignment Wednesday. This once-per-year event is happening in Pisces, where the Sun has joined Neptune as of last week.

3D television sketch Illusion.scene360.com via Pintrest.

Apropos of Neptune and Pisces, I have some new thoughts for you about the interplay of TV, literacy and visual illusion. It further relates to my ongoing careful reading of Marshall McLuhan, the grandfather of media theory.

And inspired by a conversation with a friend last night, I’ll share some thoughts with you about the many different kinds of charts that exist in parallel — the solar chart, whole sign houses, modern houses and the sidereal chart. If there are four different versions of your chart working simultaneously, what do you do?

This conversation is relevant for people who read my horoscopes or listen to my readings, as I will reveal the house system that I use to do those readings. You will find out how I use all 12 astrological signs to come up with the basic soul and personality profile of any one Sun sign.

Not sure of my musical guest — but it will be something fun, in the style of Pisces.

In Monday’s astrology diary, I describe another attribute of the current sky — the mix of fire (Venus, Mars, Uranus in Aries) and water (Sun, Chiron, Neptune in Pisces).

Sarah Taylor, in this week’s tarot reading, explores the Ten of Swords and how your experience of it could give you the key ingredient in an act of alchemy — one with the potential to shift something from the shadows into the light.

Photo by Eric Francis.

Amanda Moreno recounts a purging that has resulted in a sense of spaciousness that is somehow Piscean.

While she often refers to Pisces as the ocean of divine love, it can also be “the unqualified realms, where everything just exists.”

Even if you don’t live where blizzards or typhoons are in the weather forecast, ‘relationship storms’ can happen anywhere.

In this week’s relationships-and-sex guest-post, Blair Glaser discusses how, when you prepare for drama, you have the power to manage and perhaps decrease it.

In her latest look at spirituality in the face of politics, Judith Gayle urges us to make it our practice to remain aware: to decide, choose again and attend to the bottom line of our human evolution in the face of cutthroat political absurdity.

Yesterday’s article from Cosmophilia featured on the main blog was Dallas Jennifer Cobb’s story of overthrowing the narrative instilled in her by her mother — ultimately healing herself through the process of mothering.

And in his latest column (look it on the Planet Waves blog at about noon EST), Len Wallick surveys the pattern made by the ‘personal planets’: the Sun, Moon, Venus and Mars. His advice: first, listen to your imagination; then build a little reality on that foundation.

w/love

Article research by Amanda Painter.