Reflections about Meaning, Purpose, and Growth
Reflections
Seeking wisdom beneath a meaningful sky.
Essays on astrology, faith, memory, and the curious business of being human. Some begin with a birth chart. Others with a question—or a story that refuses to leave me alone.
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The Birth Climate: Temperament & the Atmosphere of Your Horoscope
Astrology has more than one way of describing what a person is "like." Modern readers are often familiar with the elements — Fire, Earth, Air, and Water — and the balance of the elements do tell…
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The Moon: The Ground of Feeling, Belonging, and Habit
The Moon is the first heavenly body most of us love. Before we know the names of planets, before we understand the zodiac, before we ever think of the sky as meaningful, we know the Moon.…
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The Human Center of the Sky: Planet Earth
One of the oldest accusations against astrology is that it belongs to a discarded universe. Once the Earth was no longer understood as the physical centre of creation, the argument goes, astrology should have collapsed with…
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Tobacco Run: How My Father Taught Me to See God
When I was five, I had my first conversation with my father about the existence of God — or at least the first conversation I can remember. That I would have such a conversation with Dad…
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Writing & Alchemy: The Transformation of Experience into Meaning
Writing has always seemed to me a kind of alchemy. The old alchemists believed that hidden within common and seemingly worthless substances lay the possibility of transformation. Their work began with the prima materia — dark,…
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Gratitude: The Courage to See What Remains
Gratitude is not naïveté. It is a way of seeing. Recently, a professional friend told me she was more of a “glass-half-empty” person than a “glass-half-full” one. She admitted she needed optimistic people around her because…
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