Spiritual Musings From A Modern Hermit

   With the current cosmic and global climates, it's no wonder many of us are on edge. From the profound changes and shifts in key critical landscapes in world politics (US in particular), religion, and the ever-increasing climate, our collective consciousness is taking a beating. Talk about a path of uncertainty! Maintaining one's faith and trying to remain grounded is the new normal, as life is steadily falling apart around us. The level of greed and corruption being exposed is far more vast and deep than we could have imagined, but we press on, hoping for the signs of intervention to come and set us on a path to recovery. But is recovery what's needed? Have we simply hit rock bottom?  One would think that, from the scale of disarray and destruction, the answer would be, yes. I see us reaching the finish line. As the masses are waking from their unconscious states of oppression and toxic conditioning, there's a crabs in the bucket mentality in play at the moment. We...

 With the planet of communications, Mercury, being in retrograde again, we're faced with the ago old question: Have you learned the lesson yet? I've come to realize the positive power of the yearly and quarterly visits that Mercury affords me. It's a time to reflect on unfinished business in our relationships, be they platonic or intimate, and allows for reviewing the areas that need to improve or cut the partnership off entirely because it's lost its original purpose. How many of us move through life oblivious to the cast of characters we interact with? We assume all is well with you both, when actually, things aren't. Hey, if no one's complaining, then things must be alright. Right? Wrong. I'll share some personal insights with you below that I use to work with this energy.  The retrogrades (retro, to go back) afford us prime opportunities to take time to reevaluate our unions, check in with them, and make necessary adjustments or difficult choices regardi...

 It's said that hindsight is 20-20, and I'll be damned if it's been providing a great deal of change in my childhood perspective lately. So I will share a couple of them with you. The first involves abandonment issues from childhood. For years, I was under the impression and assumption that I was seriously wounded by my father abandoning us, when it was far from the truth. Because I was so young and a strong empath, I couldn't decipher my emotions from my moms. She was the one feeling abandoned, not me. I felt relief. When he was around, it was not a positive environment for any of us. Being the oldest of four kids, hypersensitive, and unable to articulate what I was experiencing made my formative years challenging is definitely an understatement. And I'm not bitter about it because it helped me to exercise compassion for those in similar settings. Unbiased listening is a skill set necessary in light work, along with establishing healthy boundaries.  Don't get m...