One of my favorite cartoons online is called “How to Adult” features a man picking out a tie, making macaroni, exercising…then sitting in a chair with a stressed look on this face with the words “don’t let the existential dread set in.” So then he gets up and vacuums the rug (see cartoon below). Everytime I see it I laugh, and then cry a little. It hits a little too close to the human experience, or at least the human experience I'm working to integrate. In graduate school on

Thursday, August 15 @ 5:28 a.m. PT/8:28 a.m. ET/12:28 p.m. UT Opposite Venus Square Vesta Sextile Eris Plant Partners: Orchid, valerian root, birds of paradise Keywords/themes: Originality, impulse, sudden change, radical energy, divine mind, intuition, rebel, eccentricity, innovation, freedom, epiphany, defiance of authority, service to humanity, radical expression, quirky, misfit, inventor, mad scientist, groups, aspirations, possibilities Collective Unconscious: Something’

This weekend in San Francisco is the large, outdoor music festival called Outside Lands. It's odd because I think of San Francisco as a city of outsiders. Many of us black sheep who didn't belong where we were and sought greener, weird pastures beyond. I recently found this story/myth I wrote a year ago, and in an effort to share more of my personal writing and not just astrologically related stuff...figured would share it here. ---- Once upon a time there was an alien in a s

When I was 13 years old, a boy pushed me off a trampoline when I refused to kiss him. I fell off onto concrete and directly on my tailbone. As I hobbled off holding back tears, I was speechless and in terrible pain. I remember praying that he didn’t see me cry and witness my moment of weakness. As I walked more than a mile home, bawling about my physical and emotional discomfort, I couldn’t get over how shocked I felt by his response. I thought he was my friend. I couldn’t fi