2018 is a year that will bring huge shifts in the prevailing energies as multiple slow moving planets will change from one zodiac sign to the next. The slow moving planets impact us collectively. They are disrupters of the status quo. In October of 2017 Jupiter moved into the sign of Scorpio. Just a few… [Continue reading]
Planetary Destabilization
The Need for Shamanic Creativity in 2016
Has anyone else already been writing 2016 when they write the date? I have now done it several times. Others have mentioned making this same error. I don’t know what it means, but it feels like we are rushing into the future at high speed. Everything is heating up, literally and figuratively. These days we are… [Continue reading]
Pragmatic Spirituality
Now is an opportunity for a radical new beginning, a departure from business as usual. This is a photo of the solar eclipse on March 20, 2015 taken in Hamburg, Germany by my dear friend Dr. Gunnar Lindstroem. Remarkably, this potent eclipse coincided with the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring, on the last… [Continue reading]
Coming to Our Senses
This morning I tuned into my very favorite radio program “On Being”, which describes itself as a “spacious conversation” about “the big questions at the center of human life”. Host Krista Tippett interviewed Jon Kabat-Zinn about the role of mindfulness in our lives, which he defined as becoming intimate with the core of our own being. (In… [Continue reading]
What Will It Take?
My youngest recently graduated from elementary school. I live in a town in the Boston area called Newton, which is 144 miles away from Newtown in Connecticut. The difference between Newton and Newtown is one letter. I am in a state of shock, grief and rage over the slaughter of innocent children and teachers yesterday.… [Continue reading]
