Writing
Essays on the medicine hidden in the stories we're told to dismiss: romance novels read for what they're actually doing, astrology read for what it's asking, and the liminal ground between what was and what's becoming.
Every piece arrives on Substack first, where you can subscribe and have it land in your inbox, like a letter. The archive gathers here.
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.
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.
'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 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.
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.)
Forging a new Excalibur
Imagining the planetary transits as characters in some magical high fantasy kingdom.