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June 21, 2009

Nourishing the Spirit Within

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Today, planet Earth has entered the celestial sign of Cancer and the Sun, having swallowed night nibble by nibble since the first day of spring, stands still triumphant in glory the longest day of the year. Each year, when our Earth reaches the ecliptic at 00 Cancer those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere celebrate the solar promiscuity of Summer Solstice splashing our naked flesh with incandescent rays slithering across our skin like golden honey unleashing the spirit of Dionysus within. Hedonism rising with the zenith of  our solar vitality we stand stilled by the Sun mesmerized by the prodigious powers of a miraculous living spirit mysteriously incarnate in matter bedazzled that it is ” I “. Read the rest of this entry »

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May 27, 2009

A Cycle Within A Cycle

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“Since the dawn of time itself, Man has measured his life by the cycles of the planets – from sunrise to sunrise and from one new Moon to the next he has reckoned his existence by the heavens.”*

Cycles, within cycles, within cycles, the pulse of our beloved astrology, plumbing the life blood of our universe; circulating Earth, Moon, planets and asteroids, named and unnamed; transfusing human experience with a profane and sacred significance. The celestial cycles most familiar to us are the daily rising and setting of the Sun charting the axial rotation of the Earth gliding through the entire zodiac in one day, the changing faces of the Moon gathering and dispersing the light of the Sun enfolding the entire zodiac in one month, and the annual changing of season from spring to summer to fall to winter mirroring the faithful marriage of Earth and Sun dancing cheek-to-cheek round the zodiac in one year. Each of these cycles observable with our naked eye delivers a new birth in the processes of life on Earth and in particular within the individual. Read the rest of this entry »

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