So here we are, the first day of Virgo season, and Hexagram 59: Dispersion/Dissolution recommends that we become less rigid by having a religious type of awe: Through hardness and selfishness the heart grows rigid, and this rigidity leads to…
Five years ago this month I got to experience what it is like to be caught unexpectedly in a flood. I was driving my daughter to her viola lesson on a sunny day and just as we exited the highway…
The first half of life is "essentially a giant, unavoidable mistake," according to author and Jungian analyst James Hollis. I always chuckle when I reflect upon that. It helps me take some of my own past youthful folly less seriously.…
War and armies would normally be about the last thing I would typically want to write about. But, with astrology being a lectionary of sorts, and with the I Ching added to the mix, here we are with Hexagram 7:…
While reflecting on the necessity of retreat, two poles quickly become apparent. On the one hand, as James Hillman exhorts us to "make soul by living life, not by retreating from the world into 'inner work' or beyond the world…