I have been making banana pancakes.
It’s the only thing I know to do right now in this coffee-press climate of clusterfucks, eclipses, internal turmoil, change, transition, transformation, etc., etc. (I refuse to use the ‘h—–’ and the ‘w—–’ words!).
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Small wonder: Banana pancakes
Posted in Astrology, Pleasure, Wonder, tagged banana pancakes, Venus in Cancer on 6 July 2009 | 5 Comments »
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.
Betty’s back
Posted in Pleasure, tagged Betty Dodson, bodysex, masturbation, selfsex, sex on 22 August 2008 | 3 Comments »
Not that she’s ever gone away. But that doyenne of masturbation, selfsex, and self-confidence, Betty Dodson, teams up with sex-positive activist and entrepreneur, Carlin Ross, to launch a new website this week that takes her into the 21st century. Given all the repression we still see everywhere, I’d say it might be the 21st century [...]
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 [...]
Waking up your Venus
Posted in Astrology, Awareness, Pleasure, tagged Venus on 31 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
An astrologer friend casting a brief eye on my chart recently left me with this piece of advice:
‘You need to wake up your Venus.’
Venus in my chart is one I rarely think about, being far more obsessed about Sun-Mercury-Saturn in the sixth house; i.e. the doing aspects of my chart. As a novice [...]
Mussel bound
Posted in Pleasure on 31 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
I live along some of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, and — inexplicably — also with some of the worst seafood cuisine in the world.
