After some mulling (but not too much!), I have slashed my Facebook ‘Friends’ list down from over 120 to 99. All my mercurial planets insist that communications count (Sun, Merc in Gemini in 6th house), and count seriously (Saturn in Gemini conjunct Sun and Merc, and Pluto in Virgo).
Archive for the ‘Anxiety’ Category
Pruning
Posted in Annoyance, Anxiety, Astrology, tagged communication, repetition compulsion on 15 July 2009 | 6 Comments »
Hades Moon II: The darkness that is mine
Posted in Anxiety, Astrology, Death, tagged Capricorn Moon, Pluto-Moon, tarot on 27 May 2009 | 6 Comments »
Parts I and III.
Judy Hall’s book spooked me (in a good way) because nearly everything she described about the Hades Moon I recognised from my own life. Now, I like working with astrology, but there are times when the general descriptions in astrology ‘cookbooks’ don’t necessarily apply, and thus require creative interpretation. Because Hall’s book [...]
Grateful for zazen
Posted in Anxiety, Gratefulness, Meditation, Poetry, Practice, Zen on 14 May 2009 | 2 Comments »
The past few months have been rather trying, and while I can easily point to Pluto (see past few posts), ‘blaming’ the transits is missing the point. Life happens. Learning about Pluto is a means of understanding what’s happening. A means of coping with it is practice.
Mercury in Gemini in conversation with Mercury in Virgo: Implications and obligations
Posted in Anxiety, Astrology, Responsibility, Thinking, tagged conversation, implications, Mercury in Gemini, Mercury in Virgo, obligations on 15 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Cross-posted in my Mercury Retrograde blog]
In preparation for Mercury rx in Gemini and Virgo later this year, I thought I’d share a little life example that occurred to me recently of a conversation between someone with Mercury in Gemini (me) and someone with Mercury in Virgo. Although Mercury rules both signs, their conversational styles, processes [...]
Venus retrograde: Reassessing what you value
Posted in Anxiety, Astrology, Love, News, Pleasure, Practice, tagged projection, Venus, Venus retrograde on 14 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
These are tense times. Scanning the headlines on the Huffington Post makes me dizzy, anxious, and mildly depressed. Trying to fix the world is important, but perhaps the only way to do that is to look within and fix ourselves, if ‘fix’ is even the right word.
Crossed paths
Posted in Anxiety, Thinking on 19 December 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ever wonder if the people who cross our paths are somehow meant to cross them? I don’t necessarily mean it in a mystical or supernatural sense, but more like a gestalt sense: a sense that in the crossing of paths is a lesson to be learned about one’s momentary being in the world.
Knots landing
Posted in Anxiety, Awareness, Thinking, tagged acceptance, endings, gestalt, psychotherapy on 24 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
During my gestalt weekend, it was put to the group that one of the premises of gestalt therapy is that human beings have an innate will to completion. That is, when faced with an incomplete pattern, or ‘unfinished business’, the subject has an inherent desire to close the circuit. While anxiety may be alleviated by [...]
Controlled chaos, or thoughts on the Saturn-Uranus opposition
Posted in Anxiety, Astrology, Awareness, Fear, Responsibility, tagged Saturn-Uranus opposition on 14 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Call it ‘the Grand Irrationality’, as Robert Wilkinson does, or a ‘tricky time’ as this reader does on ElsaElsa.com. There’s a weirdness in the air — a sense that what we know, experiences we have built up (Saturn), may not, or cannot, help us make sense of the chaos (Uranus) we sense. The economy is [...]
Moving house
Posted in Anxiety, Awareness, tagged anticipatory anxiety, moving house on 26 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sooner than later
Posted in Anxiety, Blogging, Thinking on 16 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing like blogging to say I’ve no time to blog than to do so within 24 hours. Sometimes the part of the mind generating the resistance just needs a swift kick every now and again.
Anxiety as practice
Posted in Anxiety, Poetry, Practice on 24 February 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I met up with a friend earlier this evening for coffee and was telling him about my recent struggle with the fear and anxiety over the outcome of my PhD. As I started to recount the story to him, about how I became aware I was blaming my supervisor, the examiners and external circumstances for [...]
