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The Coming of Winter

 


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Most writers of memoir need not expect the chill and silence that has followed in the wake of my publication of In
the Tracks of the Unseen; Memoirs of a Jungian Psychoanalyst
. My story touches upon the history of a psychoanalytic community, and while mine is not a narrative about the New England Society of Jungian Analysts, it references, in part, my experiences within it. Over a period of thirty-some years this institution and ever-changing collection of analysts have played a major role in m

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My Mother and the Pope

I was surprised yesterday to receive a phone call from my very excited mother. She was thrilled to tears that ‘we’ had a new pope from Argentina. I could almost see her 82 year old self jumping up and down for joy. I, however, was a bit taken aback. We are Jewish.But we were both born in Argentina – and it seemed that regardless of religious affiliation or belief, regardless of the fact that Argentina protected Nazi perpetrators of genocide, my mother was caught up in the field of nationalistic
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The Cosmic Story: Pisces/Virgo Full Moon 2012

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

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      This week’s Pisces full Moon mixes the watery energies of the collective unconscious with our Virgo (Sun) self-knowledge.  Coming after the Leo new Moon, this full moon energy can make us aware of how committed we are to ‘following our bliss’ as well as how our bliss can serve ou

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Sustainable Living & The New Mythology

Interview with Willi Paul of PlanetShifter Magazine and Open Myth Source.

by Julianne Victoria, Through the Peacock’s Eyes

 

Willi Paul is a Green certified business and sustainability consultant. Willi is the founder of the San Mateo Permaculture Guild and Planet Shifter Magazine, a collection of interviews and articles about sustainable living, mythology, and the mystical arts. He is also designer of Open Myth Source, a website where he is building a New Glob

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Sagittarius Lunar Eclipse, June 4, 2012

 

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Gemini, the sign of the Twins, exemplifies how the Mind perceives the world as a play of opposites: light and dark, man and woman, left and right, good and bad, spirit and matter, life and death, yin and yang.  Tao says that these opposites contain a spark of each other.   What appears to be separate is really related.  The best way to understand an opposition is to see that each side complements and balances the other side to create a greater whole.

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On June 5th, there will be a cosmic event that you don’t want to miss.   The planet Venus travels across the face of the Sun.  (See link for viewing details)

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The Cosmic Story  

Astrology is an art as well as a science, using metaphor as its language and cosmic law as its metaphysics.  Our solar system spins, drawing us into the center, together.   Each planet and asteroid circling the Sun energizes a force at play in the world.  Along with the force of gravity, all bodies in our solar system hold

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SoundSourcing: Building the New Permaculture - based Mythology 
Video / SoundScape by Willi Paul, openmythsource.com
"I have long believed that Humanity needs New Culture and to have that We have to have new myths. 
Myths rich in Truth as well as mystery. We have an advantage in this undertaking because of what 
We know of the past and Our World today. So much that We can speculate well on possibilities and 
potentials of Truth…as We make these Ours in Our Times. Myths can strengthen Us, by inspiring
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Creativity requires that we listen and notice: What is moving me? What is touching my heart? The process of discovering what we love is about letting the world in. We need to be open to it, see it, feel it, and experience it. In honor of James Hillman's passing, I'm sharing something he wrote that has always inspired me:

The world “doesn’t consist of merely objects and things; it is filled with useful, playful, and intriguing opportunities: The oriole doesn’t see a branch, but an occasion for per

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