Crossroads can be frightening. Something about the summer, its slowness. And it’s not even summer yet. We’re in Gemini Season. We had our eclipses. We’ll have more in the fall. Now it’s the in-between time. Today’s Sun Saturn square feels like a shadow. Don’t blame yourself if you can’t get […]
I’ve been blogging for over a decade (wow) although I deleted years of blog posts a few months ago. And I just heard the news that the legendary Tina Turner (a Sagittarius) has died and I’m looking at the class options for fall 2023 as I continue my psychoanalytic training […]
I feel haunted by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, one of the many analyst-writers I had the privilege to read this semester and it’s the end of the semester although I still have one more short paper to write. I’m not quite at the end of my life, but I have already outlived […]
How’s your Mercury retrograde going? Any revelations? Any blasts from the past? Whatever happens during the retrograde might be a rectification. It might be a review or a redo or a renew and all this redoing and reviewing and renewing is good for you. And I’ll tell you something else: […]
I know I need to say a quick hello. The blog is still a good way for us to keep in touch. Of course if you are a client or just like my stuff, check out my Patreon. There’s more stuff there and it’s the stuff that I don’t share […]
This eclipse is a hot one. A Pluto in Aquarius eclipse. And it could be more breakthrough than breakdown for you. It could be. And it could be exhausting. Get your eclipse prep ready. Maybe you need a bottle of red wine. Maybe you need two. Maybe you need a […]
We’ve had two weeks off from school and I haven’t liked it one bit. Too many ruptures. Too many truths. It’s eclipse season, after all. We start to put the pieces together. We start to see what might fall. AND ALLERGY SEASON. Was it Friday that I was literally sneezing […]
It’s hard to be so unpleasant. This is what I think when I reflect upon today’s meeting with my analyst. But it’s about me. I’m the unpleasant one. And then I think: I don’t want this job. And then I think: keep going. Finish your studies and your training and […]
I feel like I went through something very dark, and it’s not done yet. Can you relate? You feeling this? The first of our 2023 Eclipses is next week. NEXT WEEK. And then we have another one early May. I’m sparing you the dates and times and signs and details […]
I wasn’t planning on quoting John McClane to my analyst today and I try not to text my analyst. I try to keep the frame, the boundaries. But sometimes it happens, and there I was texting him, quoting John McClane: Yippee-ki-yay, mothefucker! Actually what I texted was Yippee-ki-yay, motherfuckers. With […]
So I was just telling my Patrons that we can’t go back. Saturn and Pluto have moved on so we have to move on too. Everything is different now. There might be people leaving your life or they will stay in your life but in different forms. It’s okay. It’s […]
I feel like I’m at the edge of the world. It’s so quiet here sometimes. It’s so quiet that I can hear the trash blow down the street. But this quiet is because it’s Shabbos, and I live among religious Jews, and I am not so religious, but somewhat religious. […]
Think of Pisces as a cloud. Think of Pisces, ruled by Neptune, as chaos, no boundaries, no limits, too much freedom, too much liberty. You can see, my friends, how this could be bad, how this could go very very wrong. We need rules. What if there were no stop […]
I feel it and I know you feel it. Probably the most important month of the year. I just finished lunch and I’ve got class in an hour and THIS WEEK. It’s all I can think about: this month, this week, and how I’m gonna keep doing what I’ve always […]
So Rachel Pollack is not well and I don’t know the latest. I don’t know if she’s “here” or “there” or neither. I never met her in person but had a couple of readings from her over the years (actually one reading and one Celtic Cross lesson). I think this […]
Yesterday my tooth hurt. Sometimes I get a little nerve pain from an accident a few months ago which caused some little fractures. My amazing dentist recommended a watch and wait approach and it’s been the right one, but occasionally if I eat the wrong thing, it’ll hurt for a […]
Saturn symbolizes death in astrology (among other things), but the truth is all the planets do, and yes some more obviously than others, and Saturn changes signs today, and I’m thinking about death and loss and grief and myth. I’m thinking about myth. I never think about myth even though I’m […]
I’m thinking a lot about anger and decisions. Mars is in Gemini. We don’t know what we want exactly. We don’t know what we want, inexactly. But we yearn and our ambition is pushing us somewhere, but where. I don’t want to quit but I am wondering if the institute […]
Time is a bastard and we all get robbed. I’m only six months in to my analysis, and I’m ready to talk about things that I’ve never talked about before. I don’t mean the usual old traumas seen in new ways (or the usual ways) but new thoughts about my present […]
Some thoughts on how I teach Tarot: When I started teaching Tarot again, it had been a while. The last time I think was… 2016. I’d been holding little Tarot (or astrology or creativity) groups/classes on Facebook over the years, but one-one-one Tarot teaching was more sporadic until recently. I […]
Already I’m thinking about this month’s New Moon in Pisces. February 19th. We have a Venus Pluto link on that day (a good one) and Venus enters Aries. Fireworks in a thunderstorm are still fireworks, right? Pisces Season with Venus in Aries. I’m sure you know one or two of them […]
What is moderation anyway? Well, we do have a Temperance card. The Tarot gods created a Temperance card. And a Devil card. There’s a card for everyone and everything if you look close enough. But I was thinking about this topic — moderation — as I started to ponder my […]
When Saturn is in Pisces, we keep trying to structure God and then we realize it can’t be done. We keep trying to control God and, no, it can’t be done. He keeps slipping out. He’s near and then far. Far and then near. And yet we need, must learn, […]
My analyst acts like we have all the time in the world. I don’t know how old he is, but he’s older than me. Today I asked him what something meant. “Symbolically,” I said. What does it mean symbolically? And as I sit here typing to you I can’t remember […]