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.

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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.)

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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.