-+*Grief is so hard because people don’t wanna hear about it, mental health “professionals” included. They will try to talk you out of it, out of your feelings, offer platitudes, stupidities. Well-meaning friends will assume you haven’t found God or your potential. There are all kinds of ways to invalidate […]
Planetary Round-Up
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-+*It’s been such an honor to do this work. It’s always been more than “chart reading.” I don’t even like doing natal chart readings. What I like and what I do… it’s always been deeper. There are some clients I’ve been working with since… 2011/2012. I’m so much older than […]
-+*I need to write another book. There are a few things I need. I’m not sure a Substack is one of them, but a German shepherd might be. I actually started a new book but before I even started it (slowly writing the introduction to it, for a book proposal) […]
-+*This morning I realized I was doing it all wrong, that I had put all my eggs in one basket or the wrong basket and I realized I was doing it all wrong. Doing my life wrong. Can you relate? This figure of speech, this eggs idiom is probably familiar […]
-+*I’ve got all these decisions to make. Or maybe it’s just one decision, and I’m more open on my Patreon than I used to be. My boundaries are less rigid. Used to be a time I wouldn’t accept a gift from a client. For most of my career I was […]
-+*Crossroads can be frightening. Something about the summer, its slowness. And it’s not even summer yet. We’re in Gemini Season. We had our eclipses. We’ll have more in the fall. Now it’s the in-between time. Today’s Sun Saturn square feels like a shadow. Don’t blame yourself if you can’t get […]
-+*I’ve been blogging for over a decade (wow) although I deleted years of blog posts a few months ago. And I just heard the news that the legendary Tina Turner (a Sagittarius) has died and I’m looking at the class options for fall 2023 as I continue my psychoanalytic training […]
-+*I feel haunted by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, one of the many analyst-writers I had the privilege to read this semester and it’s the end of the semester although I still have one more short paper to write. I’m not quite at the end of my life, but I have already outlived […]
-+*How’s your Mercury retrograde going? Any revelations? Any blasts from the past? Whatever happens during the retrograde might be a rectification. It might be a review or a redo or a renew and all this redoing and reviewing and renewing is good for you. And I’ll tell you something else: […]
-+*This eclipse is a hot one. A Pluto in Aquarius eclipse. And it could be more breakthrough than breakdown for you. It could be. And it could be exhausting. Get your eclipse prep ready. Maybe you need a bottle of red wine. Maybe you need two. Maybe you need a […]
-+*It’s hard to be so unpleasant. This is what I think when I reflect upon today’s meeting with my analyst. But it’s about me. I’m the unpleasant one. And then I think: I don’t want this job. And then I think: keep going. Finish your studies and your training and […]
-+*I feel like I went through something very dark, and it’s not done yet. Can you relate? You feeling this? The first of our 2023 Eclipses is next week. NEXT WEEK. And then we have another one early May. I’m sparing you the dates and times and signs and details […]
-+*I wasn’t planning on quoting John McClane to my analyst today and I try not to text my analyst. I try to keep the frame, the boundaries. But sometimes it happens, and there I was texting him, quoting John McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, mothefucker! Actually what I texted was Yippee-ki-yay, motherfuckers. With […]
-+*So I was just telling my Patrons that we can’t go back. Saturn and Pluto have moved on so we have to move on too. Everything is different now. There might be people leaving your life or they will stay in your life but in different forms. It’s okay. It’s […]
-+*I feel like I’m at the edge of the world. It’s so quiet here sometimes. It’s so quiet that I can hear the trash blow down the street. But this quiet is because it’s Shabbos, and I live among religious Jews, and I am not so religious, but somewhat religious. […]
-+*Think of Pisces as a cloud. Think of Pisces, ruled by Neptune, as chaos, no boundaries, no limits, too much freedom, too much liberty. You can see, my friends, how this could be bad, how this could go very very wrong. We need rules. What if there were no stop […]
-+*I feel it and I know you feel it. Probably the most important month of the year. I just finished lunch and I’ve got class in an hour and THIS WEEK. It’s all I can think about: this month, this week, and how I’m gonna keep doing what I’ve always […]
-+*Yesterday my tooth hurt. Sometimes I get a little nerve pain from an accident a few months ago which caused some little fractures. My amazing dentist recommended a watch and wait approach and it’s been the right one, but occasionally if I eat the wrong thing, it’ll hurt for a […]
-+*Saturn symbolizes death in astrology (among other things), but the truth is all the planets do, and yes some more obviously than others, and Saturn changes signs today, and I’m thinking about death and loss and grief and myth. I’m thinking about myth. I never think about myth even though I’m […]
-+*I’m thinking a lot about anger and decisions. Mars is in Gemini. We don’t know what we want exactly. We don’t know what we want, inexactly. But we yearn and our ambition is pushing us somewhere, but where. I don’t want to quit but I am wondering if the institute […]
-+*Time is a bastard and we all get robbed. I’m only six months in to my analysis, and I’m ready to talk about things that I’ve never talked about before. I don’t mean the usual old traumas seen in new ways (or the usual ways) but new thoughts about my present […]
-+*Already I’m thinking about this month’s New Moon in Pisces. February 19th. We have a Venus Pluto link on that day (a good one) and Venus enters Aries. Fireworks in a thunderstorm are still fireworks, right? Pisces Season with Venus in Aries. I’m sure you know one or two of them […]
-+*What is moderation anyway? Well, we do have a Temperance card. The Tarot gods created a Temperance card. And a Devil card. There’s a card for everyone and everything if you look close enough. But I was thinking about this topic — moderation — as I started to ponder my […]
-+*When Saturn is in Pisces, we keep trying to structure God and then we realize it can’t be done. We keep trying to control God and, no, it can’t be done. He keeps slipping out. He’s near and then far. Far and then near. And yet we need, must learn, […]