Eclipses occur because the planes of the Earth, Moon and Sun come together at two nodal points in space. We call these points lunar nodes and they stand opposite each other. A double triple crossroads, if you will, between different states of being or different dimensions of reality. Since triple crossroads mark fateful forks in the life’s journey, eclipses mark points where choices make a difference.
Over time, these two lunar nodes move backwards through the zodiac and constella
Dream interpreted by Howard Teich, Ph.D.
A man of Asian descent has the following dream:
“I was in a far away exotic place. Eventually I noticed things on the floor. They looked like old washed up, mud-covered tree trunks, embedded in the floor. I looked closer at one, and it looked like a dark mud-covered stone tiger. Looking closer, I realized it just didn't look like one, it was a tiger, sort of half incarnated. Out of fear, I kicked sand from the floor on its face to see if it was real. I fel
Mythology at the Edge of the World Interview with New Mythologist Willi Paul
By Emily Harris
November 14, 2012
Willi, you founded planetshifter.com magazine contributing many stories on innovation, new mythologies, and sustainability. You have founded several other websites since 2009 sharing your original writings and novel ideas related to the “Permaculture Age”. How is the “Permaculture Age” defined?
The Permaculture Age started with the moral compass from the sustainability movement, adding a
The Cosmic Story: Scorpio Solar Eclipse 2012
Cahron & Psyche: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
Next Tuesday’s Scorpio New Moon is a solar eclipse, marking an ending and a new beginning for us all. As you may have noticed, cosmic law dictates that we renew ourselves at different times, for change is the only constant in our marvelous Universe. We renew ourselves each month at the new Moon and we also renew ourselves yearly at the 15*Scorpio power gate around Samhain or All Hallows’ Eve.
Down in the dumps happens when life calls us to turn inside and listen. Usually we're so caught up by emotional commotion and outside dilemmas that we haven't listened to what's going on inside us. So....we get depressed....the psyche's way of saying slow down, listen, and let's see what's what!
Depression actually is trying to rescue us from ourselves. It tugs us inside soul so we can take a deep look into self. Of course, we're usually scared to go deep into the heart of things. That's why we'
An Archetypal Perspective on Clinical Practice
A Summary of an Introductory Teleseminar Lecture by Jungian Analyst Michael Conforti
A few days ago I attended a teleseminar wich I found valuable and provocative and which inspired me to summarize it here. Please note that that this synopsis is based on my own understanding and interpretation of what was said on the call, and has not been reviewed by the presenter, Dr. Michael Conforti. Also, the teleseminar was offered to the general public free of
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"Resilience symbols are a foundation for change,
not quite a movement, but a movement charger."
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What's eating at me is something we can ask whenever we can't get over or through the bad feelings that keep swirling through us. We try and shake them off, talk ourselves out of them, try all sorts of therapy gimmicks, take mind altering drugs, do too much yoga or meditation, or try a geographical cure...just move somewhere else and everything will be better. The fact is that something is eating away at us on the inside because we are running from psychic shadows, things we need to know and fac
May I encourage you to visit the Philemon Foundation Facebook Page and to leave them a gentle message encouraging them to speed up the publications of their "Forthcoming" books related to Dr. Jung's work.
The valuable books include:
JUNG ON DE NERVAL
JUNG NEUMMAN CORRESPONDENCE
Hermes, archetypal energy of all that is helpful, shows up in dreams or life events when we most need a jolt, a surprise, a mind blowing change of attitude. Who among us doesn't need from time to time, or regularly, to be turned inside out, upside down, and then mentally righted so that we can see that we weren't following our path. Hermes whispers or speaks loudly or shouts to us in synchronous life events, through sudden intuitive flashes, or in breath taking dreams or nightmares. When Herm
The Cosmic Story: Taurus Full Moon 2012
This week’s Taurus Full Moon confronts us with the awareness of the cycles of life. The sign of Taurus opens us to the beauty of Spring and initiates the beginning of the summer season in the northern hemisphere - the Celtic festival of Beltane on May 1st is the beginning of summer. The sign of Scorpio initiates the beginning of our winter season, with Samhain or Halloween marking the part of the cycle that honors death and winter.
With
5 Questions for Starhawk
1. As you create the event, how do you balance the internal or spiritual with the group joy?
2. What is happening these days for you personally at the intersection between Nature and magic?
3. Is Kezar Pavilion a sacred space for you? How can we know such a place?
4. The Cardinal Altars will be interactive? Why? What is
Years ago I worked briefly as an intuitive reader, but my readings were different from what normally constitutes a 'psychic reading.' What I did was not prediction or fortune telling—I merely read the images that were there 'under the surface' of whatever situation the client was addressing. Although people loved my readings and my friends were always asking me for them, I never felt comfortable with the word ‘psychic’ and reading images did not seem to fit with academia, so I pushed it under th
Oct 15, 2012 - News Release
Just Published - John Ryan Haule's
Tantra and Erotic Trance in two volumes.
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Tantra and Erotic Trance
Volume One - Outer Work
Human sexuality is a problematic thing. It gets us into trouble, breaks our hearts, involves us in painful compulsive relationships, even transmits deadly diseases. It would surely scare us off, if it were not for its siren call to higher forms of union and moments of bodily bliss. When examined more closely, however, and especially when we turn our
Two (of ten) questions from the survey include:
4. Do you get information directly from other folks? Where? When?
8. How would you improve the political dialogue in your city?
Trauma invades a child's mind through neglect, abuse, parental divorce, poverty, bad nutrition, chronic parental fighting, and anything else that goes on and on and damages a vulnerable human life. David Brooks in his September 27, 2012 new York Times article, The Psych Approach, reports that the effects of childhood trauma, left untreated into adulthood, can be staggering: seven times the likelihood of alcoholism, six times more likely to have had sex before age 15, twice as likely to be diagn
Part One
Our first responsibility as mythological, archetypal thinkers is to take a step back from the dominant political and pop cultural issues to perceive the real stories that are being played out in our culture. The next step is to understand how we participate in those narratives through our own willing acceptance of their primary themes. How do we do this? One way is by being passive consumers of our national rituals. I’m not speaking about conscious, intentional, local, indigenous-based r
Cascadia’s Green Mythic Tea Tribe.
New Myth # 30 by Willi Paul
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Menku and Kay work in the basement of the Green Leaf Café, a localized tea plantation (a reclaimed cemetery) and sipping spot in northeast PDX, now a proud member of Cascadia. They work with several other researchers to discover how the mythic gene works and if they can turn it on for folks without its spark.
