spirituality
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My oldest son has become quite obsessed with the Seven Deadly Sins, which originated with the Catholic Church in the 6th century and were famously outlined in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. The sins are: Each of us struggles with one or more of these, but one often dominates our lives. For my son, it’s Wrath. He feels compelled…
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ORIGINAL POST February 2022 In 2022 I joined a year-long class that met weekly to learn the structure and philosophy of traditional Hellenistic astrology. The textbooks alone filled in many gaps for me. One thing became clear: to truly understand astrology requires a devotion not just to technique, but to archetypes and mythology. I felt…
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ORIGINAL POST JUNE 2022 I love watching patterns emerge over time. When you look back over ten, fifteen, or even thirty years and take a wide-angle view of your life, you can start to see not only how you showed up in the world, but how events themselves seemed to steer you in certain directions.…
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Original Post Nov 2022 I woke up early this morning to try to see the lunar eclipse. At the peak of the eclipse, the clouds covered the moon completely, and I wasn’t able to see it at all. About an hour later, though, the clouds moved on, and the moon emerged fully, unobstructed, and luminous.…
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Original Post December 2022 Have you ever noticed that people who seem almost oblivious are often strangely protected by the universe? Throughout my life, I’ve been quietly fascinated by people who don’t appear to think very deeply, yet move through the world as if invisible bumpers are guiding them. Life seems to cushion their edges.…
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Original Post January 2023 I took a class called Practical Mysticism through a Science of Mind, or New Thought, church. One of the first questions posed was deceptively simple: What is mysticism? The dictionary offers a couple of definitions. One describes mysticism as the spiritual apprehension of knowledge that is inaccessible to the intellect, obtained…