The Sunshine Boy (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Iceland 2009)
There are some films that have the power to change the world, and I hope this one actually proves it.
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson directs this documentary about one woman’s journey to try and understand her autistic son’s mind. In adopting the voice of one [...]
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The Sunshine Boy
Posted in Awareness, Cinema, Responsibility, tagged challenging norms, Saturn-Uranus opposition on 17 September 2009 | 5 Comments »
Healing Pluto problems: Obsidian order, Walnut way
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Desire, Fear, Karma, Meditation, Suffering, tagged crystals, flower essences, Pluto, shadow self, therapy on 10 September 2009 | 21 Comments »
If you are currently experiencing the Pluto station at a sensitive point on your chart — it is currently square my natal Pluto, and opposite my natal Venus — it’s likely you’re feeling just a bit taut, like waiting for a shoe to fall, but not knowing if it’s going to be made of soft [...]
Healing Pluto Problems
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Desire, Fear, Meditation, tagged book, honesty, Pluto, Pluto in Capricorn on 7 September 2009 | 6 Comments »
In honour of Pluto going direct on 11 September 2009, I thought I’d share some thoughts about Donna Cunningham’s book, Healing Pluto Problems, whose title I’ve borrowed for the title of this post.
I picked up this book on Neith’s recommendation. It is not as heavy-going as Judy Hall’s Hades Moon, which I’ve written about [...]
I/Thou/We/They
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Buddhism, Cinema, Ego, Suffering on 13 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness
— Annie Savoy (played by Susan Sarandon), Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988)
On the verge of … verging
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Buddhism, Practice, Suffering, Zen, tagged lunar eclipse, nessus, pain, Pluto, Right Effort, Venus in Cancer on 2 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
The title of this post came from a comment by my astro-blogging friend, Neeti Ray. I was trying to describe the weird sense of limbo I’m feeling that I can’t shake, like being on the verge of something that hasn’t yet manifested, and she wrote: ‘On, the verge of, verging’. Perfect! My original title was [...]
Safe space, open space
Posted in Awareness, Blogging, Love, Responsibility, tagged communication, safety on 16 July 2009 | 4 Comments »
Neeti Ray’s comment about my use of the analogy of the front porch below got me thinking about how we create psychic spaces safely for others to enter, and how we behave when we are invited into another’s.
Children’s literature is full of these spaces: Winnie-the-Pooh’s 100 Acre Wood is one, Narnia is another. These are [...]
‘Active laziness’
Posted in Awareness, Buddhism, Death, Practice, Responsibility, Suffering on 14 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1992) is an interpretation for the modern world by Sogyal Rinpoche a collection of texts commonly known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Sogyal Rinpoche interprets some of the ideas from the ancient texts for the modern world, and argues that the lack of respect for death [...]
Projection: Channelling by proxy
Posted in Anger, Annoyance, Awareness, tagged conversation, destiny, dignity, Mercury retrograde, projection, speech on 12 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More thoughts on being projected on. (Note: I am aware that this doesn’t absolve me from my own projections, but that’s not the subject of today’s topic).
I was musing the last time about MV reading deception into what, to me, are neutral requests or statements. There is no better time than while Mercury is [...]
Projection: Who I’m not
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Buddhism, Perception, tagged conversation, projection, speech, Venus on 10 May 2009 | 4 Comments »
In a moment of synchronicity, I read Julie Demboski’s take on ‘Receiving Venus’ very shortly after having one of my impossible conversations with the Mercury in Virgo person (hereafter known as ‘MV’) in my life, though I didn’t allow it to escalate this time.
His Venus falls in my 7th house (as does mine, so [...]
Pluto transits: Bearing witness
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Practice, Zen, tagged Pluto, witness on 13 April 2009 | 6 Comments »
One of the hardest things to do during one’s own Pluto transits, as well as others’, is to learn to bear witness to the transformation without judgement.
Here are two enormously insightful articles: Elizabeth Spring’s ‘Healing Pluto’s Wounds’, and Radiant Woman’s ‘Five Ways to Use Pluto Square Pluto Positively’.
The only thing I can think [...]
Sheldon Kopp’s Eschatological Laundry List
Posted in Awareness, Thinking, tagged book, Sheldon Kopp on 8 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the end of his book, If You Meet Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!, Sheldon Kopp offers ‘A Partial Register of the 927 (or was it 928?) Eternal Truths’, 43 items in total. This list exists elsewhere on the World Wide Web, but still worth reproducing here:
