A student in my 5 Element mentorship program, asked this question: My Fire element gets slammed by my older sister. When I am affectionate and playful, she frowns and treats me like a child that needs to be disciplined. It hurts. What can I do? I think you have choices here–more than I can think…
Let’s talk about Horary points. Horary points are all about being present and congruent with the way of nature and the way of Tao as it is expressing right here, right now, not only inside of myself but also around me. One could say that Horary points are the solution to self-centeredness. They are the…
There hasn’t been a blog from me for a while because although I’ve started several blogs, nothing that I can say seems to address with any adequacy our world situation. I feel absolutely terrible about the level of suffering that appears to be increasing in the world because of the actions of the United States,…
A wonderful organization called Association for Spiritual Integrity has come up with a truly sane ethics code for spiritual leaders—and their students. I love it so much that I brought it to the attention of my (Sufi) spiritual community, which has adopted it. Now, the ASI is working on a series of videos by various…
The Real Danger of Fear What is the Water element? It’s the aspect of nature, including human nature, that resonates with the wintertime. It resonates with the coldest, darkest time of year, or the coldest, darkest time of your life, or the coldest, darkest part of your internal terrain. The emotion associated with this part…
The nature of the Bladder meridian trajectory is to move like a river. It splits, and comes back together again. It plummets straight down like a waterfall, and then it jogs off to the side, only to return again to median again, again and again (the Kidney meridian by contrast goes upward and then curls…
I have a CEU on sale right now called Kidney 7-8: To Thine Own Self Be True. I thought I’d give you a small taste of it. The CEU is an audio and a written transcript, but I had a fabulous time making this video about it. The subject matter is quite serious, but the…
On December 15, I gathered my annual Pre Solstice Winter retreat, and the first hour was free. Afterwards it struck me that I could make that first free hour available to more people by posting the recording on my blog. (The rest of these workshops are very interactive, so I can’t share them with those…
Somebody sent me a very funny, very well-made video—it was brilliantly done—of this older, very PhD-looking woman with a chart describing how we are all absolutely and totally fucked. She said, “You are really, well and truly, fully dicked over.” She then went on to this part where she said, “How do you handle it?…
I’ve been uncomfortable, post-election. I’d been having a hard time settling and focusing, and I’ve had a much stronger temptation to resort to dissociative and addictive displacement behaviors like eating chocolate and listening to podcasts or reading fiction. In other words, it’s been hard to unwind unless I’m actively sucked into something that commands my attention;…
