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The darkness always ends...
The darkness always ends…
As we approach the Winter Solstice, often called the ‘shortest day of the year’ (it’s not, but it does have the least amount of sunlight in the northern hemisphere anyway), it’s helpful to remember that the darkness ALWAYS lifts. We can learn so much from the seasons, including this dark and dormant time of year. It may feel as if everything is dead and brown, but underneath, things are…
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Navigating the heavy fog
Navigating the heavy fog
We are all in a fog; the fog of fear, of war, of crisis, of insecurity…it’s VERY thick.
What is the best thing to do in the fog? I used to drive down I-70 at o’dark-thirty every morning to work in Denver as a morning radio host. There were days when the fog (or a whiteout) was so thick that I couldn’t see 5 feet in front of my car. It was, to put it mildly, terrifying. So, I often had to come to…
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Both Things Can Be True...
Both Things Can Be True…
Everyone is fighting. So much frustration, conflict, self righteousness.
My husband is reading “The Art of Happiness” by the Dalai Lama, and since I’ve dabbled a bit in Buddhism, he asked me yesterday, how can we just float along, with rainbows and unicorns? Being ever kind and tolerant and understanding. Doesn’t that make us zombies?
His point is valid. NOTHING is solved or altered or mitigated…
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2020 Reimagined
One of those mornings…feeling a bit trapped, stilted and restrained.
So, I have to be honest with myself and understand that nobody is restraining me, specifically…it’s my own perceptions.
I’m seeing a lot of complaining and gallows humor about how ‘awful’ 2020 is….how punishing and whacky and off kilter this year has been.
The perception of this ‘year’ (I prefer era or transition because we’re…
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See the Karma, Release the Karma
See the Karma, Release the Karma
Okay, a little astrology today. Just a little.
We had a full moon in Sagittarius yesterday (also a lunar eclipse, which is a bigger deal) The first one where the moon’s nodes are now in Sagittarius and it’s opposite sign, Gemini.
Without getting into the weeds and losing you: the moon’s south node in Sagittarius is digging up things from the past, while the north node is our future evolution.…
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Both Things Can Be True
Both Things Can Be True
Something to keep in mind as we try to navigate these confusing times:
Both things can be true
We tend toward binary arguments, decisions and opinions. We take one side or the other and keep repeating our narratives and talking points, while the other person does the same.
We fight a battle of internet links where we throw them at each other like like spitballs that never land on either side.…
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A higher vibration...
A higher vibration…
I’m angry. I’m frustrated. I’m not a lot of fun to be around right now.
It feels like the world as we know it, is on the brink of some huge shift that I can’t quite put my finger on.
Actually, I can put my finger on it. In fact, I think that I can predict what is happening, but to actually verbalize that ‘feeling’ or vision, is almost too hard. To talk about it makes me feel vulnerable. When…
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Cocooning to cope...
Cocooning to cope…
It’s a turn off the news, ask Alexa to shuffle Norah Jones morning.
Very cold this here; one of those hard to catch your breath, the dogs are walking on 3 legs, super clear at 8500 feet, mornings.
The condo feels like a little cocoon with Christmas lights, warm slippers, fireplace, counting small blessings (like clean sheets) happening.
The world is so absolutely chaotic right now. I was…
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On 'privilege'...
On ‘privilege’…
The concept of privilege is really beginning to sink in with me. I finally get it.
I do not reject ‘Political Correctness’. It began as an attempt to bestow dignity on EVERYONE and has devolved into an insult; a way to belittle others for being ‘too soft’.
The insulting or offensive language that has been thrown around in reference to minorities and various groups and races and nationalities…
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On Forgiving....
On Forgiving….
Here’s the thing about forgiveness and compassion.
The more I read about the kid who murdered 17 people in Florida last week, the more it breaks my heart.
The whole situation is so incredibly devastating, but to read about a kid…yes a kid…a human…not a ‘monster’ or a ‘madman’, but a kid who had obviously had a difficult life and long standing mental/anger/anti-social problems doesn’t make me…
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We are starlings...
We are starlings…
Undercurrents…energy….
We can feel it. We are being animated by these things that we can’t quite see or describe. If we squint or remove our strong attachments to outcomes, we can begin to see it.
Have you ever watched a flock of starlings when they collect and fly off? It’s like a gray-black wave that undulates as one.
You can’t really pick out one bird; it’s a collective decision to move and…
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On JUST DOING IT...
On JUST DOING IT…
Early morning musings as I listen to cello music shuffling on my Echo, thanks to Alexa fulfilling my wish. She is like a genie in a bottle.
I got a new tattoo yesterday; what I think is a very beautiful, stylized, abstract depiction of the most beautiful of the planets, Saturn.
In mythology/astrology, the god Saturn is all about hard work, discipline, timeliness, rules, strong foundations,…
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Not to Be a Debbie Downer...
Not to Be a Debbie Downer…
I’m a pragmatist.
That’s just how I’m made. I try to clearly evaluate and assess information before I act or form an opinion.
There are always two sides (or more) to every issue/discussion/event and a pragmatist tries to weigh all of those factions and then, act; not out of emotion, but out of what will actually work. That is pragmatism.
I guess what I’m saying is that due to all of the Capricorn…
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2017: The Year of Complete Exhaustion
Let’s face it: 2017 has been a completely exhausting year. We’re all worn out, mostly from the weird energies and ‘new normals’ that have we’ve been faced with this year.
I would love nothing more than to go into the whole astrological significance and transits and energies and how this is affecting our lives, but I know better. Many of you find that silly and confusing…so onward.
I guess the…
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The Era of Stupid
I’ve begun to refer to this time in history as ‘the era of stupid’. To me, there is no other explanation for what is happening in our culture.
Watch enough cable news or read enough online postings and it becomes abundantly clear that the ‘enemies’ are smart, competent people.
We call them ‘elites’. Which to me, are people with decent educations, bright minds and a level of competency in their…
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Anniversary....
Anniversary….
One year ago today, I embarked on a journey that affected me so profoundly that I haven’t even processed it fully. I packed a bag and left my house to drive four hours south to sit at my 96 year-old mother’s bedside as she died. I wrote quite extensively about the process and the journey of being with my mom as she wound down toward death. I had been preparing for this for some time. As I sat…
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A Tipping Point...
A Tipping Point…
We are swimming in the soup of enormous cultural changes and I worry that we will now slide into a gender war.
Every woman in the US has known that this has been going on forever. We have all known that we are considered ‘less’ than men.
We all know that there is a cultural knee-jerk reaction to believe the man when a woman makes an allegation of sexual abuse, molestation, harassment or…
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