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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Death’ Category
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 »
‘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 [...]
Down the (rabbit) hole
Posted in Death, Poetry, tagged book, repetition compulsion on 13 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across this poem in Sogyal Rinpoche’s The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (1992) (Will say more about the book another time).
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 [...]
The rough beast slouches, or Pluto on the move I
Posted in Astrology, Death, tagged demolition, Pluto on 11 September 2008 | 12 Comments »
Pluto has finally turned direct a couple of days ago after months in retrograde for its last tour of the last few degrees of Sagittarius. And I think we’re all feeling it in various ways. What is likely to be common for many is the theme of death and rebirth, metaphorically [...]
Sex and Zen II: Quelle probleme?
Posted in Death, Desire, Fear, Pleasure, Thinking, Zen, tagged orgasm, sex on 29 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part I
When asked how to deal with the ‘problem’ of sex, Krishnamurti gave this answer:
Why is it that whatever we touch we turn into a problem? We have made God a problem, we have made love a problem, we have made relationship, living, a problem, and we have made sex a problem Why? Why is [...]
Pluto and the ‘alchemy of desire’
Posted in Astrology, Death, Desire, Meditation, tagged alchemy, Pluto, transformation, Venus on 11 March 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I recently stumbled upon this article by Elizabeth Spring called ‘What’s Pluto Got to Do With It? The Alchemy of Desire’. I like it for its clarity and personal nature, and yet that it does not over-simplify the experience of a Pluto transit which tends to impact individuals in complex ways. And even if one [...]
Jump – leap – fall
Posted in Death, News on 17 March 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I watched a documentary on TV last night called 9/11: The Falling Man, and later read the article on which it was based by Esquire journalist, Tom Junod, with regard to the collective repression surrounding the photographic image of a man jumping from one of the ill-fated Twin Towers, out of fear, desperation, even courage, [...]
