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Solar eclipse report: I woke up early yesterday mo

Solar eclipse report: I woke up early yesterday morning, not long after sunrise, and felt strange. Kind of hungover and dizzy and buzzing. Like a lightbulb or circuit getting too much current. I was like, oh right, eclipse. And then I was awake awake. I glanced at my phone, and had received multiple copies of the same automatic email from Recreation.gov, reminding me of some camping reservations I made for the summer solstice weekend. So the first words I saw upon looking at my screen were “recreation recreation recreation recreation recreation.” The solar eclipse was happening in Gemini, and for me, that governs my 5th house of pleasure and creative life. Alternating waves of dizziness and giddiness washed through me. I was literally too unsteady to get up, so I just laid in bed and felt my thoughts fizzing like champagne. Some transmission came through about pleasure, that like a lot of the healing and creating ahead will be pleasurable. The dizziness didn’t subside for two hours. In other news, a man (a professional lobster diver) was swallowed by a whale this morning off the coast of Provincetown. And then the whale puked him back up. He’s fine (!) except for some bruises and is recovering in a hospital. I hope you are all receiving your share of new life/new energy/operating systems upgrades/being puked back up mostly good as new by the whale. And let’s just all go really slow, slow slow slow, as it may take awhile for all this to settle and get integrated.

Tomorrow/Thursday at 3:53am PST, eclipse season co

Tomorrow/Thursday at 3:53am PST, eclipse season completes with a new moon solar eclipse at 19° of Gemini, the cosmic lovers. This is an annular “ring of fire” eclipse, the spooky magic kind, but most of us won’t be under its path to see it. We will definitely feel it though. The full moon lunar eclipse two weeks ago on the south node in Sagittarius inflamed old patterns and beliefs and initiated a massive clearing. This eclipse is happening on the north node which has the opposite effect – it is drawing in energies, initiating coming changes, seeding new stories. It’s also coinciding with a Cazimi Mercury - Hermes Trismegistus in the heart of the sun, downloading messages straight from the Self source.

If you’re being impacted personally by these eclipses, then the last two weeks have been a wild and somewhat terrifying ride, and I hope you’re ok, or atleast staying hydrated, and laying low for the big finish. We are in the rebirth half of this little death/rebirth movement, but it still has the feel of a power outage/power surge. This is not the kind of new moon you should try to wield for manifestation, or even a deep house cleaning. Your only intention should be to stay connected to your body, to the antennae inside. Write down anything you receive. Insights that arise this week will be potent.

Gemini encodes the mysteries of evolution and creativity, how halves unite into wholes, how new ideas and new lives are born. Two sides or initial states must enter into oppositional tension, and if this tension can be held long enough, a transcendent third, a new thing that transcends but includes what came before, will be born. A new phase in your life is already unfolding. It will both transcend and include all your previous selves and parts and lives, nothing left out - it will be a magnificent integration. But getting there requires devotion to the now, and the now, and the now. The now is the good part. Let’s not be in a rush to get to the end of the story.

Post eclipse otters 💛

Post eclipse otters 💛

Wednesday morning at 4:11 a.m. PST - the dark drea

Wednesday morning at 4:11 a.m. PST - the dark dreaming hours for us on the west coast - a Blood Moon arrives, the first eclipse of 2021. It’s a full moon total lunar eclipse at 5° of Sagittarius, and it sets the stage a bit for the new moon solar eclipse in Gemini that’s two weeks away. Sagittarius is the centaur philosopher, the deep professor archer firing truth arrows. It’s a healer of ideas and beliefs, a giver of enlightenment. A full moon lunar eclipse on the south node is a clearing, an emptying out. No matter where in your chart/life it’s happening, a full moon lunar eclipse in Sagittarius wants to clear out dead philosophies. It wants to reveal and release beliefs that are harming us and do not serve our personal or collective liberation.

If this has been affecting you personally and perceptibly, you’ve probably been noticing relationship shadows and old behavior patterns re-emerging in ways that you can’t not see, and this consciousness, this seeing itself - it’s a kind of harsh sunlight that clears and makes clear. This clarity IS change and brings more change, and that’s a good and healing thing, but it might not feel good. Enlightenment can be painful. As poet Tony Hoagland says: “Some people think the truth is the worst thing that can happen. The truth is not the worst thing that can happen.” Self-care under these conditions probably means tolerating and respecting what we are noticing and feeling, welcoming the difficult passage, and, whenever possible, just going back to bed 🙌🏼 on that note - love and protection on us all. I’ll see you on the other side of some serious rest.

Art by @luck_krsty 🌕🌑

Happy Monday friends! This week is a big one, with

Happy Monday friends! This week is a big one, with an eclipse and the start of a Mercury retrograde. Whatever you are feeling, give yourself a ton of permission to just be as you are 💛 I want to tip you off to some free deep play / process portals coming in mid-June. The facilitators in The Workshop Workshop I’ve been teaching this spring have invented some final zoom workshop projects. Each one is truly excellent - there are three you can check out and sign up for now with spots still available. The incredible Laura Moulton (writing teacher and founder of Street Books in Portland) has cooked up a Literary Exorcism writing workshop to help us cast out some personal demons and limiting self beliefs (yes 🔥please), that’s happening Friday, June 11th. Later in the day also on June 11th is Draw Ur Heart with Allison Kennedy (hybrid poet & visual artist & director of Michigan’s This Is Fire), an art-making workshop that will come with actual supplies in the mail ahead of time (❤️❤️❤️!) And Thursday June 17th in the evening the amazing Shanon Emerson (creative coach & artist podcaster @shanonwithonen) will be hosting a Re-Entry Workshop, a space to process and ritual around the last year and how we want to be now (✨). All the registration links are up at the link in my bio, these offerings are gifts, totally free, first come - first served while spots remain open. Pass it on to whoever could use some joy, including yourself.

UPDATE: All the workshops are full, these filled up faaast! I will list again if new spots open up!

My doctorate diploma finally arrived, in the week

My doctorate diploma finally arrived, in the week of my 42nd birthday, it’s pictured here on top of my birthday piano, a seriously beautiful Winter Company upright (thank you Brian 😭 and thank you Stephen and Brad and Rick for helping move it in!!) I’m officially more real, a certified philosopher poet and moon doctor adult with a piano, we celebrated with expensive cheese and tea at the Sandy River. What I might know now: the past is the god beneath our feet, it’s creating us. The future is the god above us, casting all the bright, terrifying light, calling us up and up. The present is the god of rivers, the only one you can look directly in the eye, get into the river whenever possible.

The new moon arrives today at noon PST, at 21° of

The new moon arrives today at noon PST, at 21° of Taurus, the earth queen herself, the bull of love. It’s interesting to have a new moon go exact at noon - the new moon feels like a midnight thing, a quiet dark thing, and noon feels so futures and arias and oranges. Jupiter is also headed into Pisces on Thursday, the day of the expansive sky gods, so, more expansion and arias on the way. New moons are generally times of contraction, times to renew ourselves, to rest and reset if needed, to calm and center our energies and start again. We can use the day of the new moon and the days following to plant seeds of intention - to locate a desire for our own or the world’s healing, learning, creating, and growth, and then to ritually point the arrow of our hearts in that direction. Then, as the moon waxes, so do we, ideally in the intended ways.

Taurus as an archetype is not interested in instant gratification. Intention setting under this astrology won’t render immediate results. Taurus plays the long game. It sings potent songs that guide slow, steady, organic growth processes. It knows secrets about roots, reliability, sustainability; how to create a stable foundation, how to create lasting growth and healing. This is possibly the most manifestation-loving astrology we will get this year. We are also still very much at the beginning of a 20 year cycle, after coming through the death portal of 2020. Take some time this new moon to ask - what do we want our lives to become? What’s the big dream in your heart? If you are at all picturing material security and gain, the satisfactions of personal achievement and accolades, I beg of you - think bigger. What would a good death mean for you, one with no regrets lingering, one that found you surrounded by love you had tended and grown? What would it be like to rest into your fully developed powers? What would it feel like to have completed your soul’s assignment? Let any beginnings-of-answers guide the setting of your heart arrow and the planting of seeds for the expansion to come 🍄 mushroom growth inspiration from @trippincrowd

Mercury has entered Gemini, where it will be until

Mercury has entered Gemini, where it will be until July 11th thanks to a retrograde coming at the very end of May. This is feel good astrology for writers and magicians - it will put us in the mood to pollinate a mood, to spread ideas and poems and good vibes. Today and tomorrow are also (!) the last chance to sign up for Rooted, the generative poetry workshop I’m teaching for The Poetry Lab, which begins on Thursday. There are atkeast three spots left. We will be experimenting with somatic meditations that flow into writing practices, seeing how grounded and connected to our genius we can feel, discovering what wild poems are ready to grow from/through us. If you’ve been waiting to sign up, waiting for a sign, maybe this is it ⚡️head to thepoetrylab.com or thecultofmindy.com to find details and registration links.

Tonight at 8:32pm PST, the full pink super moon is

Tonight at 8:32pm PST, the full pink super moon is at her fullest, peaking at 7° of Scorpio. If the skies are clear where you are, this is one to catch in person, out in the cool night air, face to moon face. Scorpio is an archetype of transformation and healing through emotional surrender - the healing that can only take place when we stop defending ourselves from feeling and descend into the abyss of our own dark heart. There’s a glorious rebirth on offer if we are willing to let an aspect of our foundation or ego identity die. It’s not kind of thing done in the bright exposing light of day. It’s not the kind of thing done brazenly or confidently. It requires sacred space, humility, willingness, and atleast a few solid, trustworthy allies who won’t be easily disturbed or frightened.

A full moon here might culminate some deep psychic sea diving begun last November. It might unearth hidden self parts or taboo feelings buried by our unconscious people pleasing. It might call for some passionate composting of artifacts of old beliefs or patterns, whatever kept us away from knowing our power. I feel like there is also a call to fearlessness in this full moon. We’ve been so focused on staying safe. That’s good - that’s well adapted - we should keep noticing danger and responding with appropriate boundaries and defenses, the pandemic isn’t over, the world is not a safe place. But in terms of our personal growth, this astrology is trying to prepare us for a coming expansion. It wants us to complete some work of internal stabilizing, some leveling-up of emotional maturity or agency. If you’ve been cooking up a secret power, developing one of your gifts in hiding, it’s nearly time to fully flower and share. Take a proper moment to get ready. Honor how far you’ve come, everyone that’s helped you get here. Integrate it. Own it. Then tap a vein of courage.

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