Discipline and Creative Insight

Saturn Square Uranus and the Restructuring of Self Saturn is currently in a waning square aspect to Uranus. As I write, it is already beginning to separate from the aspect. It will again be exact again on June 14, December 24, 2021, and closely in early October, 2022...

Discernment and Self Definition

Our Values and I-Making When speaking of Venus and Saturn, the focus one usually finds is on love and restriction, self esteem and deprivation of some sort, pleasant and easy times, working hard, or the acquisition of money and one’s deprivation, or loss of it. Of...

Epiphany or Apophany

The Basis of Trust Moving Mountains Michael Pinchera The Lunar Nodes in Gemini and Sagittarius, squaring Neptune in Pisces bring a focus to the challenge of discerning truth from lies, what is true insight, from illusory fantasies. This is clearly being played out by...

What is it to Love Ourselves?

Echo and Narcissus John W.Waterhouse The directive to love ourselves is a widely used modern phrase, a buzz phrase, a hypnotic good intention that sounds so correct, because…well, everyone should feel good about themselves, thus love themselves. Of course, everyone...

Gifts and Challenges

From Karma to Dharma As human beings, we reflect upon ourselves, and can find the existence of various antipathies and sympathies living in our feeling life. We either enjoy experiences, and we gravitate towards them, or we feel they are distasteful, then shun them....

Crash!

Conscious Will and Creative Imagination Versus Reaction and Destruction Mars meets Uranus in Taurus, along with its expression in the Tarot deck, The Tower card always point to the karmic destruction, or overthrow of egoic structures not in alignment with positive...

7-Year Phases

Incarnation in a Lifetime is a Process To give a foundation for understanding the significance of the 7 year phases in the human life, we will take a brief anthroposophical point of view of the human being, in relation to the other kingdoms of nature, here on earth....

You are Another I

What Does it Mean to be Fully Human? Birthing I last wrote about the differences between living as an authentic creative free I, and living as an “I” that is built up of thought and feeling constructs based upon externally defined definitions. It may be that what I...

Doors to Transformation

Six Necessary Exercises for Personal Growth Healing Michael Pinchera One of the doors to transformation in our lives is through a spiritual practice. Transformation cannot happen if we just understand the importance of having such a practice, because it wouldn’t be a...

Seed Time

Trusting in the Invisible in All That You Do Led to the Abyss Michael Pinchera Pandemic time: What the heck is happening to our world? Did we just get sucked into a whirlpool?Well, this can be the shift for which we have been waiting! Humanity has crossed over a...