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🌕🌊✨ THE PISCES LUNAR ECLIPSE: ASTRAEA, THE LAST TO REMAIN ✨🌊🌕
August 27–28, 2026 — depending upon where you are in the world The Pisces Lunar Eclipse of August 27–28, 2026 occurs on August 27 or August 28 depending upon where we are in the world and our local time zone.… Continue reading
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Among the Well and Loving Ancestors 🌿☀️🕯️
Today is August 26, 2026—my 49th birthday. 🎂 It is also my grandmother Daisy’s remembrance day. She passed away 44 years ago today, on August 26, 1982, my 5th birthday. And it has been 569 days since my mother, Gloria,… Continue reading
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We Are Not Asked to Copy the Past 🌿
There comes a moment in every seeker’s life when a quiet question begins to rise… Can I honor where I come from without becoming a replica of it? Whether we’re exploring our ancestry, our faith, our culture, or the traditions… Continue reading
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Othala and the Conscious Ancestor
Inheritance, Lineage, and the Courage to Choose What Continues There are moments when a symbol does not merely interest us — it recognizes us. I held the rune Othala in my hand, carved into warm wood like something remembered rather… Continue reading
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🌑 At the Water’s Edge: The Pisces New Moon Before the Fire of Aries
Every year, just before the astrological new year begins, the sky brings us to a shoreline. Not a dramatic one.Not a storm. But a quiet threshold — the place where water meets fire, where reflection gives way to emergence. This… Continue reading
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🌾 The Field Beyond Right and Wrong
Meeting One Another in the Ground of Being “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” Those words, spoken by the Sufi mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, have echoed through centuries because they point… Continue reading
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The Ancient Cross-Cultural Anatomy of the Human Soul
From the Egyptian Heart to the Hebrew Lev 🤍 Throughout history, cultures separated by deserts, seas, and centuries described something remarkably similar: the inner landscape of a human being. Long before psychology existed as a formal discipline, ancient civilizations were… Continue reading
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🌿 The Tree in the Midst: Awakening Consciousness in the Garden
Sometimes the deeper meaning of a story doesn’t appear until we slow down and look at the language itself. Recently I found myself doing exactly that with the Genesis garden narrative—sitting with the Hebrew words, tracing their roots, and letting… Continue reading
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When Truth Speaks in Many Tongues
On the Paradox of the Perennial Philosophy There is a quiet realization that begins to dawn when one studies the mystical threads running through the world’s spiritual traditions. 🤍 Not the institutions.Not the doctrines.Not the theological arguments that divide camps… Continue reading
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The Quiet Courage of Incarnation 🕊️
The phrase has been echoing everywhere lately —For such a time as this. It has been used as a rallying cry.A prophetic banner.A declaration of destiny in the midst of upheaval. But when it resurfaced for me, it did not… Continue reading
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