In 2023, I spent a lot of time writing about healthy communication skills, boundaries and identifying abuse and […]
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2 Who's Tai Sui, the scary figure in Chinese astrology, and who's his equivalent in Western Astrology? Why do 4 different Chinese zodiac animals every year have to worry about "offending" him?
Fan Tai Sui: A Different Look at Facing Off Jupiter
One of the previous jobs I did was acting as a historical guide, and I gave pretty kick-ass […]
Ghost Stories
Gratitude is seen as a good emotion and attitude to cultivate and express. “Exercise Gratitude” is Card 33 […]
The Dark Side of Gratitude
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The Art of the Self-Love Oracle
Highly Sensitive People may feel at the mercy of their environments. But let's use that for our own benefit.
The Sensitivity Toolbox
Suck it up. Don't be soft. Man up. Move on. Don't be a baby. It is no easy thing to be sensitive in our modern world.
A Defence of Sensitivity
1 For much of history, Saturn was the farthest and slowest-moving planet humans could see. Its transits bring tests and restrictions. Most people hate it.
Capricorn & Aquarius Lessons
18 Chiron is one of the better known asteroids in astrology, often referred to as the “wounded healer”. Found […]
Pain Points in Astrology: Sedna & Chiron
The shadow cannot hide in an astrology chart. If we possess awareness and self-acceptance and remember that nobody is perfect, we’re better positioned to do shadow work.
Astrology & Shadow Work
2 Shadow work is a term in healing and Psychology that relates to working with the parts of ourselves […]
Sexuality & the Shadow
It’s been like an extended drug trip, or time in our own padded cell. Lockdown forced us inside. […]
Lessons in Lockdown
1 “The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s […]
The Power of Unfinished Stories
In collectivist and conservative cultures, individuation might as well be called “selfish, selfish selfishness that will lead to […]
Conformity is not Cohesion
Some of our important choice points in life will revolve around whether to pursue something big and new […]
Giving Ourselves Permission to Start
Received during the New Virgo Moon, 2019: All relationships provide opportunities for healing. We heal ourselves by creating […]
A Meditation on Relationships
Preface I haven’t found, online, many women (or mothers) writing on their Ayahuasca experiences. Here’s mine. It will […]
Mothers, Monsters and Music
2 More than one conversation that I had in the past week was about wearing masks. For some of […]
The Masks We Wear
The spiritual path is not without its pitfalls, and one of the easiest stumbles to make is to […]
Of Fake Gurus and Religious Abuse
2 Where to start? These few months have been strange. Astrological advice in mind, I had kept July and […]
Untangling Old Knots
4 This will be periodically updated; For various reasons, I’ve found it common for more people become sensitive to […]
Energetic Self-Care
Asians seem to have an extreme and fatalistic relationship with failure. We learn from childhood that failure is catastrophic […]
The Lesson of Failure
I’ve been ghostwriting recently, as I’ve shared on my mailing list. I almost wish I’d started doing this […]
3 Common Creative Blocks and How to Overcome Them
4 Self-Nurturing and Journal Prompts for Cancer Season (June and July 2017) Indulge me in some personal stock-taking as […]