Explorations on purpose, psyche, and liminality from an imaginal and astrological perspective as guidance through these creatively chaotic times.
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Romancing Pluto: The Werewolf at the Threshold
It is not in fleeing the monster, but in honoring our hybrid desires — body, soul, and ego — that we find our way through endings and into the uncanny rebirth to come.
The Enchanter of the Deep – Courting Neptune
To romance Neptune is to drift into the depths, where longing dissolves certainty and dreams undress us. He is the lover who enchants through mystery, leaving us bare before the ineffable.
Seeing Red: Honoring Mars in a Time of Courage*
A guide to working with Mars as ally and teacher, shaping courage into a daily practice. By channeling Mars’s raw energy into creativity, integrity, and drive, we let its fire fuel us rather than consume us.
Sleeping With the Enemy (and Other Planetary Affairs)
Your birth chart is an epic rom‑com written in the stars: part divine drama, part cosmic fling. The planets you resist most are simply lovers in disguise, holding the keys to your next transformation.
Romancing the Sky-Shaper
A sudden storm that shatters your rut and clears the air for the life you didn’t know you were craving.
The Lover beneath the Armor - Courting Saturn*
Saturn doesn’t just test your resolve — he woos it, shaping passion into purpose. In Aries, he’s the lover who dares alongside you, but only if you meet him halfway, offering your devotion in return.
How to Romance the Planets
Less doomscrolling, more swoon-worthy transits. Astrology as sacred romance.
Real imagined conflicts - Saturn & Neptune in Aries
The easy simplicity of going towards war, as opposed to facing the terrifying conflict within.
'Heart song'* - on Desire and Trust
The journey between Mind and Heart is liminality at its purest. It's the choppy waters of the sea crossing between the mind's patterns and trusting your heart's desires.
The Return - Part 2 - The Unfurling
On elemental medicine, life's roots are in the bones of the dead and Celestine Prophecy moments. In today's post, I hope to share the intersection of the outer pilgrimage with my inner landscape.
The Return - Part 1
Slowly integrating into my homecoming after a pilgrimage around Scotland.
It's been a week since I returned home from my trip to Scotland.
Approaching Liminality as a Pilgrimage
Liminal times are not a neat crossing from ‘what was’ to ‘what is yet to be’. Because between death & rebirth - the ampersand in the middle is the pilgrimage.
The fear and the gift of romancing the Other
Taking a page from monster romance to help us bring into relationship and engage with the Other - both inner and outer.
We're all foreigners in Liminal Times
As we leave the perceived known world of 'what was' and venture further into the waters of these liminal times, the experience of 'becoming the other' becomes pronounced as we build our new selves.
“The gods have become our diseases.”
C.G. Jung was on to something as his quote shows. But how can we heal from our diseased relationship with the bigger forces that demand reconnection with us?
Entranced vs Enchanted
On enriching your relationship with Neptune during these chaotically creative times.
Keeping it sane during liminal times
Keeping it sane while also holding the tension of the opposites in these initiatory times of death & rebirth.
A mystic and plutocrat walk into a tavern
And from this meeting a new civilizational vision is born, because some tavern meetings are truly world changing. (Second installment of Age of Air Dragons.)
An antidote to fear
Fear is the imagination killer. It may serve to shake us awake, but it depletes our ability to be creative as we venture into the thick of these liminal times.
Forging a new Excalibur
Imagining the planetary transits as characters in some magical high fantasy kingdom.