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John Holt, Bach and the Secret of Ceaseless Activity: New Moon in Aries
In his book, How Children Learn, author and educator John Holt describes a key difference in the approach of a child versus an adult when it comes to trying something new. When he brings out his cello to a group of children they often ask him to play it. He responds by playing a very… Continue reading
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Carl Jung and the Vital Relationship Between Ego and Self
Carl Gustav Jung said there were two centers to the human psyche; the ego and the Self. The ego is the center of consciousness and the Self is the center of the whole psyche; consciousness and unconsciousness. These two centers are separate, autonomous identities that organize and attempt to bring coherence to the lives we… Continue reading
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Be The Cause. Inspiration From Spinoza.
The philosopher Baruch Spinoza saw nature to be synonymous with God. He saw all living creatures as a part of this whole. The thing that tied everything together was affectivity; the capacity to affect and be affected. He saw everything to be relative to something else in a web-like structure. Consciousness sits in the middle… Continue reading
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Fibonacci Patterns and the Metabolism of Time
Libra and Saturn introduce the seasons of Fall and Winter. The leaves on the trees turn red, orange and yellow. they no longer recede into the distance like they did while green in the summer. They come forth, into our focus. We are inspired to pick up a fallen leaf and look closer at it.… Continue reading
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Goodbye Forever, Cheerios. Just Say No to Glyphosate!
Though I am a Leo, my chart is chock full of Virgo. Years back the grain turned on me, that is to say I developed a very strong gluten intolerance. My genes don’t show any evidence for Celiac disease so I am in the somewhat new category of ‘non celiac gluten intolerance’. I avoid all… Continue reading
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Off The Clock. Secrets of Toroidal Time.
The biggest difference between the original wheel of the zodiac and the toroidal zodiac lies in how we approach the matter of time. The wheel of the zodiac shows the horoscope: a snapshot of the planets and luminaries at a given moment in time. Horo is Latin for hour. The clock is also a wheel… Continue reading
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Cats and Dogs; The Solar and Lunar Sides of Human Nature.
Are you a dog person or a cat person? Dogs and cats have been a roommate to mankind for millenia. Why is this? Do we see something in them? Do they see something in us? I think we do. I think they do. I think what is shared is a kindred affinity for play. Dogs… Continue reading
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Thymos! Building Spirit in The Body.
There is a new paradigm shift a brewin’. The Copernican revolution restored the sun to its rightful center as a stable nucleus to our solar system. The previous Geocentric model held the earth at the center. The paradigm shift upon us now is in acknowledging the existential truth of TWO CENTERS; the earth and the sun. The… Continue reading
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Toroscopes for March 2022
Aries It’s that time of year again, Aries, when life renews itself by beginning again. At your most infinitesimal level you are, by nature, a self-renewer. You are a self-renewer in your commitment to beginning again. Such a commitment is grounded in the ultimate reality, a reality that extends farther and deeper than science and… Continue reading
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Teilhard de Chardin and the Powers of Narrowed Focus
Metaphorcast 11/8-14, 2021 We had two significant planetary shifts at the end of last week. Mercury’s stream of thought had been scanning the broadest horizons of Libra, and then vortexed into Scorpio in search of deeper meanings. Venus had been preferring Sagittarian heights and big-picture orientations, but then switched her fancy to Capricorn’s goal-oriented, hard-working… Continue reading
About Me
Thanks for stopping by! I use the zodiac as a guide towards a philosophy of nature. I hope you enjoy!
Recent Posts
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- Inner Freedom and the Centrifugal Force of the Sun
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- The Role of the Gradient. How Life Emerges Through the Ups and Downs.
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