The Sky Is Meaningful
A wounded willow sapling became my first lesson in guilt, ritual, and the mysterious power of sacred attention. This childhood memoir recalls a very young boy, a damaged tree, and the first strange intuition that words, gesture, remorse, and love might somehow participate in the healing of what has been harmed.
As astrologers gather in Chicago for UAC 2026, one of the most consequential conversations surrounds a speaker who will not be there. What began with Steven Forrest’s use of a racial slur has become something larger: a reckoning over race, accountability, professional power—and a community increasingly divided over what justice should look like.
Óscar Romero did not become a dangerous man by seeking danger. He became dangerous because he allowed hidden suffering to speak through him. This reflection reads Romero’s nativity as a symbolic portrait of receptive courage, public responsibility, disciplined service, and the costly word that emerges when conscience can no longer remain private.