Astrology Beyond-the-Horoscope Forecast for September 2020 — With election season heating up in the United States, we’d do well to recall the preamble to the Constitution: “We the people, in order to form a more perfect union…” It doesn’t say a perfect union, it says a more perfect union. Perhaps that’s, in part, because the framers of…

Astrology Beyond-the-Horoscope Forecast for August 2020 — I really do wish I had a magic wand. I would wave it, and everyone could enjoy “the dog days” (of summer, in the Northern hemisphere, of winter in the Southern). But, alas, it’s not going to be that kind of August. I don’t often spend most of my time…

Astrology Beyond-the-Horoscope Forecast for July 2020 — Humanity is going into labor; what you’re witnessing are the first waves of contractions. As anyone who’s been through natural childbirth knows, birth is not the simple affair you see on television show. …

Astrology beyond-the-horoscope forecast for Taurus 2020 — Imagine the scene: a lovely park, walking barefoot through the grass, decadent picnic, watching the ladybugs dance by… Psych! We now interrupt the regularly scheduled program for something completely different: This is no ordinary Taurus season. Love Out of Bounds When the Sun enters earthy Taurus, we do love our sensual pleasures. Taurus’ governing…

How Hermetic Adepts Use the Mystery at the Heart of Creation for Magic & Self-Mastery — Continued from The Veil of Isis (Part 1). Hermeticism and the Accursed Sciences What is hermeticism, besides a trendy word in some new-age circles? It’s been called “the accursed science,” though it’s not precisely a science the way the word is commonly used today. Today’s scientists tend to explore the world on the “horizontal” dimension…

How Hermetic Adepts Use the Mystery at the Heart of Creation for Magic & Self-Mastery — In the last chapter, our Magician stands at the crossroads, examining the things spread out on the table before him, and wonders. You see, the Magician’s already figured out that, in order to create — in order to step into that coveted Flow — he needs to focus on mastering…

Magic happens when Creators plug into “Above” to fuel their work “Below” — In the previous episode of my Magic & Mastery podcast, I ended with this: “To re-create a new world, one that sustains us all, everyone will have to become a little bit of a Magician.” Let’s pick up where I left off, and talk more about Creativity and Magic. Magical Fallacies It’s…

I admit, when I first started writing this piece, I had the Bonnie Tyler song “Holding out for a Hero” playing in a loop in my head. In a sense, I suppose we’re all holding out for a hero. Back in the early 90s, my Shamanic teacher predicted that, as…

America’s Turkey Day has deeper roots in pagan tradition than you may realize — As I was laying in bed this morning, contemplating the cooking ahead, my smart speaker read the expected Thanksgiving-themed stories, including one on the politics of the name “Thanksgiving.” Of course, the Thanksgiving mythos is complex. Even today, school-kid textbooks gloss over the twin genocide’s upon which the United States…