Well, I’m back . . .

January 6, 2025

. . . and snowed in.

Most of the rest of this day will be spent dealing with the hand winter has dealt us without falling down and breaking another bone. (Broke left wrist last February falling on black ice.)

Greatly appreciated the past two weeks in the dead of winter, during which I mused my way through lots of old paperwork, to discard some, keep some, and send a few very specific, esoteric items to two people who might appreciate them. Emailed them both first, and they both said YES! — excited. So that felt good.

But the main benefit of that paperwork exercise, which I have been working on periodically for a number of years now, is that it stirs up old memories, sometimes ones I had forgotten about entirely! And, at this “advanced” age (82), I find myself feeling so very grateful that I was internally guided to record, in one way or another, so very many of my life’s experiences. Each memory is like a jewel, to be identified, recognized, and appreciated, not just for its intrinsic value, but for how it radiates out, to illuminate and reconfigure ever- widening contexts of meaning.

How very fortunate I am to be a consciously aging crone, not just mentally, but emotionally, spiritually, and physically, as well; I am the rare being who, for over two decades now, has spent two full hours daily on what I call “physical culture:” walking yoga, chikung, taichi.

No wonder I don’t “do” allopathic medicine (except for orthopedics and real emergencies). I am the one in charge of my own health.

Indeed, when I think of how I’ve been working holistically with my mind/body/soul/spirit as an integrated system, for what is it now, 50 years? Something like that. Actually more, if I include my decision to refuse a ride and instead walk home two miles after working 8 hours daily at my first and only summer wage slave job as a 16-year-old. By the time I arrived home, my utter fury at having spent 8 hours at what was, for me, a frustrating, boring task (retyping, on a manual typewriter, a nurse’s manual in a room by myself with a big round clock on the wall), would be utterly spent, the body’s fast, rhythmic movement working it through until done. And what’s truly significant here, I NOTICED that walking home helped me; that this way I could process (though I wouldn’t have used the word “process” back in 1958) and thus temporarily eliminate, the ever-arising internal fiery energy that if not consciously utilized, degenerated into rage.

Thus, from that time on, I have always walked; as an extremely intense, fiery person (double Sagittarian — Sun and Ascendant — with pushy Mars also in that sign, opposite eruptive Uranus) walking three to five miles daily has truly saved my life. 

Until today. Puppy Scampi refuses to go on a walk with me through the deep snow. I’ve decided to take his advice, and will instead use the internal energy build-up shoveling snow.

 

 

 

 

 

HAPPY (or at least geared for) NEW YEAR?!?

December 31, 2024

I’m not returning here until January 6; however, simply couldn’t resist this.

 

Fear not and gear up, folks. It’s going to be a wild ride. Centering and balancing exercises required, on a daily basis, at least for fiery me!

Pluto has already shifted from earth bound Capricorn to airy Aquarius, to remain for the next 20 years. (It’s been in Capricorn since 2008, and spent the last two years going back and forth from one to the other.)

Decentralization, experimentation, exploration, AI, cooperative mind games begin.

 

Couple the above with:

Neptune shifts from watery Pisces to fiery Aries on March 31, to remain for the next 14 years.

Saturn shifts from watery Pisces to fiery Aries on May 26, to remain there until 2028.

(Both go back and forth between Pisces and Aries a couple of times, making their exact conjunction to the minute at 0°42 Aries on February 20, 2026.)

Yep, by end end of May, 2025, both disciplined Saturn and visionary Neptune will reach 0° Aries, for the first time, in how long?

Ommigod. I just signed up to ChatGPT in order to ask this question (something I thought I would never do).

Not now, thanks.

In any case:

0° ARIES = IGNITION. BRAND NEW BEGINNING.

Sabian symbol for next whole degree (1° Aries): A WOMAN JUST RISEN FROM THE SEA. A SEAL IS EMBRACING HER. Keynote: Emergence of new forms and of the potentiality of consciousness.

NOTICE what’s already happened, the publication of

The Telepathy Tapes

now going viral on twitter. This podcast, which starts with the observation that a group of children — so autistic as to not be able to use language, communicate telepathically with their mothers and teachers —  leads us to the recognition that consciousness does not arise from matter. Rather, it’s the other way around.

From now on, the old “scientific paradigm” transforms.

Materialism is dead.

Consciousness

is primary,

omniprescent,

infinite,

and

unifying.

 

Then, on July 8 Uranus moves from earthbound Taurus into mercurial Gemini, to remain there for 7 years, further fissioning eruptive material suffering into electric mental energy.

In other words, following Pluto’s final entrance into Aquarius, three zeitgeistian planets begin to support Pluto’s move: Neptune, Saturn and Uranus.

Earth and Water give way to Fire and Air. 

 

So yes, get and stay both centered and grounded.

Make of your body an antenna for Earth, via the breath.

Inhale cosmic energy down through crown through soles of feet to Her living, conscious core.

Exhale from Her core through feet to crown up to infinite cosmos.

Over and over again. No end to it.

Then: learn to move the breath (inhale) from both top and bottom at once, into the heart, swirling round and out to horizontally embrace all and everything on this suffering material plane —

— knowing, feeling, that it’s all consciousness,

all of it,

all ONE.