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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Desire’ Category
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 »
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 [...]
Sex and Zen III: 8th house astrology
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Compassion, Desire, Fear, Zen, tagged eighth house, sex on 29 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Parts I, and II.
Trawling through my archives, I came across this article by Eric Francis on eighth house astrology, bringing together ideas of orgasm, death, and self-renewal, I’d been musing about earlier. ‘Typically,’ he writes, ‘the 8th becomes a dance of death: ego death; flirtation with orgasm and desire (often secret desire)’.
In the previous [...]
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 [...]
Chat-terley
Posted in Desire, tagged conversation, D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover, sex on 18 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More on the subject of sex and conversation, from Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), the one D.H. Lawrence novel I hadn’t read, which fell into my lap at the shop last weekend:
‘… I can’t see I do a woman any more harm by sleeping with her than by dancing with her … or even talking to [...]
Acting on desire III: talking compersion
Posted in Desire, Love, Responsibility, tagged compersion, jealousy, The Lovers (tarot) on 16 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part I and II.
‘Compersion’ has to be as unsexy a word as they come. Nevertheless, it is the closest to describing a condition for which no word currently exists — that is, a non-exclusive love, or an all-inclusive love, depending on which slant you prefer.
Theoretically, the word ‘love’ should itself be enough, but like [...]
Acting on desire II: sex and the art of good conversation
Posted in Aversion, Desire, Love, Responsibility, tagged conversation, Kamasutra of Vatsayana, sex, sixty-four arts of love on 10 February 2008 | 3 Comments »
Part I
For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. — Isabel Allende
As synchronicity, and serendipity, would have it, my ex-boyfriend (not quite the right word, but it’ll have to do) turned up online as I was [...]
Acting on desire I: lust, context
Posted in Desire on 9 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. ‘Yes’ is the answer.
— Swami X
Okay, I’m going to be experiencing this Pluto square in angular houses for a while, so sex, or rather, the part of the psyche expressed via sexuality, is probably going to surface quite often in my discourse. As it happens, serendipity [...]
Sitting with desire II
Posted in Awareness, Desire, Love, Responsibility, Suffering, tagged craving on 27 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part I.
It is very difficult to write about loving each person in each moment without sounding like I am advocating hedonism and promiscuity. I am not. I am advocating responsibility, the responsibility that comes from the acknowledgement of one’s own desire. Acting on desire is a different thing, and requires different consideration.
