As New Year begins . . . “I, SAGITTARIUS”

January 2, 2024

1/1/2024: FIRST NEW POST IN FIVE MONTHS!

Meanwhile, I remain dedicated to my archival/recapitulation project, and might call it “I, Sagittarius,” with my double-Sagittarian astro chart writ large, stamping the home page. Literally everything I write both marries above and below, inner and outer, plus is threaded with astrology, at least as background, and often explicitly in language. One good thing: you needn’t know astrology to read my posts; instead, you automatically familiarize yourself with this ancient, deeply penetrating symbolic language simply by absorbing them. And in so doing, enlarge your understanding of, and relationship to . . . SPACE and TIME.

Astrology as the study of complex, interconnected structures of space created through time.

The meaning of a planet IS its cycle . . .

Astrology as the study of the rhythmic, spiraling web of LIFE.

Each of us stands in the exact center of an infinite, spiraling universe.

My archival project, now six years in the making, will feature over 500 essays. I am collecting many single essays into e-books which feature a certain theme. Have 15 of these collections so far. Here’s the latest example, completed yesterday:

Nature & Animals

Would love to see any comments on this ebook, 63 pages long. IF you have the time and inclination!

Can offer others here, if you seek more. (How about “On Mothering”? Or “Reflections on Soul”? Or “Back When I Was Dying?” or “My Secret Life” or . . . or . . .)

Hopefully, by the end of 2024, my entire philosophical legacy will be featured,  as single essays and/or as collections, on a new archival website.

2025-2026 will see me focus on adding audios to them all.

That will take me up to my first and only Uranus Return to its own natal place, which happens 84 years after birth. Wow! One giant eureka moment that encapsulates 84 years of time and space!

Will I still have more to do? Or will it be time to “retire.” Or maybe when I’m 90, and the third 30 year Saturn Return . . .

Hmmm . . . Sometimes I think I’ll aim for four Saturn cycles in this lifetime, which will take me up to 120 . . .

Assuming, of course, that the world doesn’t end first in either a bang or a whimper.

Assuming my two full hours of “physical culture” a day (3-4 mile walk, plus yoga/chikung/taichi) continue for the duration.

Assuming that we humans — all of whom long for LOVE — finally figure out how to live together in vibrant, regenerative PEACE, while reaching to the stars, the wheeling galaxies!

Do I sound like a philosophical, perspective-expanding, truth-seeking, Sagittarian? Yep. I, Sagittarius.

Re: Yesterday’s State of the Body Session with Sibs; plus, need another three day break

December 29, 2023

 

Geez! After yesterday’s hour-long zoom  with my sibs I think I must have arthritis everywhere! Not that I would recognize it, since I only go to doctors in emergencies. . . but of course, at this age, I do “have aches and pains,” especially upon arising, before I get moving. Three of my sibs, however are very aware of their arthritis, and one of them had her hip replaced because of pain that doc told her stemmed from her hip, even though the pain was felt in her butt.

Now docs are saying her other hip is riddled with arthritis, but she’s not going to have it replaced unless and until it’s painful.

One sib who takes daily care of her three grandkids, has noticed that her knees, which used to hurt when she stooped to pick up the toddler, no longer do! We assume stooping regularly built muscle where it was needed.

Oh yes, I was informed that the older we get, the more we need to make sure we have protein with each meal, because it builds muscle. I do that already, protein with every meal.

My tremor (which I inherited from Dad) is shared by several sibs (and several nieces), though not as advanced. One sib tells me I should work with five pound weights, to build muscle in my arms; that this exercise helps her tremor. OKAY! Will do.

The most remarkable finding, was that two sibs only get two to three hours of real sleep each night. Both of them used to fight it, but now both are resigned, and realize that they can actually function okay on that amount of sleep. Both also take naps. (These two are grateful that they can finally nap, since they both retired, jut this year.)

We reminisced how Dad used to rise at 4 AM, every day, to sit in the living room, reading.

We also shared other best practices in terms of exercise and nutrition.

All in all, a very valuable session. Highly recommended!

 

P.S I’m going to take another three day break, from tomorrow, December 30, through January 2, when Mercury turns from it’s current retrograde process, going back over old stuff for three weeks total, to go forward. (This three-week retrograde process happens three times each year.)

Until January 2!