This past weekend I was on a train with my wife, and we heard a sound I first thought was someone’s very unusual laughing, but it didn’t quite sound right. A few seats ahead of us, a young woman slumped against her boyfriend. He called her name a few times. She was having a seizure. …
Love Really IS All We Have (and It’s Enough)
Recently a friend of mine called me, upset that her daughter was getting divorced. She wanted to try to talk the couple into working it out somehow. Based on the comments she ascribed to both husband and wife, it was pretty clear to me as an impartial listener that this particular marriage was over, dead …
Observations on My Own Grief & Mourning
Grief is so very personal, and tough to share with others. It is a natural for people who care about you to try and cheer you up, make you feel better, and bless them all for being so kind and loving… but really, the healthiest thing ultimately is not to be cheered up, to sit …
My Health, My Beliefs, My Dreams & My Evolution
I take my health issues personally. I believe healing has to be accompanied by an investigation of why I am ill, both emotionally & spiritually, or the healing will not “take” as well as it could, and will probably return. And recently I uncovered a health issue that took some far-sighted examination. Apparently, it turns …
Surrender To The Process
I have a client wrestling with a particularly tricky & challenging transit: Neptune is crossing her natal Saturn. Most Neptune transits can be a challenge, but Saturn symbolizes, among other things, how we structure our personal world, ourselves and how we decide what matters & what doesn’t. Saturn is very physical & results oriented. And …