Astrology
Dear Isabelle~
I was touched by your willingness to get over the mask of the teacher--the ?persona mask? and so poignantly tell me the story about meeting up again with Alistair and Sophie?and your yearning to heal the splits among you. This photo of a ?split open rock? that I?m sending, reminded me of the pain of that ?severance? I hear in your voice...it also reminds me of the resurrection story of Jesus when he split open the tomb. Ah?breaking open and breaking through?what a challenge! I love that you?re also yearning to heal your own spiritual split---that space within you that puts you into the place of ?the reluctant astrologer? at times?I?m only just beginning to get a sense of what that is about?
So?how will you find the middle ground between Sophie?s Christian fundamentalism, Alistair?s cerebral spirituality, and your more pagan astrology?? Are you thinking it could be through Celtic Spirituality? Maybe the history (or ?her-story?) will be found in the numinous stones at the monastery ruins of Whitby and will open Sophie?s heart. I imagine that?s why you?ve chosen to take her there?since it was a woman abbess, St Hilda, who governed this ancient monastery that gave both men and woman a chance to ?be monks? and to honor both Christian and older earth/nature centered beliefs. I read somewhere too, that she mentored a lowly cow-herder into becoming a famous poet?I wonder if they were in love? ~grin~ And, I wonder? what will happen when you meet up with Alistair again in Switzerland--in ?Jung?s land; in his temonos/sacred space??
I?ve started doing charts for other people, but I have questions for you. People are wanting to know more astrology now, especially with all the fear around 2012 and not understanding this shift between the Piscean Age to the Aquarian age, and how this Cardinal T-square between Saturn, Pluto, and Uranus will usher it in.
So?I need to understand it in my own chart first. And I need to know how to approach doing a chart for another person. What do I start with? How do I see what?s really important in the chart and how can I avoid being a predictor of fear?like the astrologer who was predicting only ?endings? in my Saturn Return? There?s so much information out there, but how do you suggest I do a reading? How do I get a sense of how a client (or myself) will play out, and live into the transits? Especially when they look ?hard? to my beginner?s eye?.till later then~
~with love?~Kendra
- You Can Make Astrology Prove Anything!
Dear Isabelle~ Sometimes I think you can make astrology prove anything. Isn?t it like the Bible?the way you can just pick the right verse and chapter, and prove anything?! I can imagine you can make a case for God?s approval or disapproval, or for...
- Pilgrimage To Whitby~where We Find The Stones
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- Invisible Realms In Celtic Spirituality
I?m reluctant to leave this place that is so embedded with Celtic Spirituality! I took one more solitary walk before leaving the island, and took a photo of a spiral stone-- it reminded me how the Celts experience the Divine as a tender force, not...
- Private Journal At Lindisfarne
I?m here?on the ?Holy Island? of Lindisfarne staying at the room Sophie reserved for herself at the Christian Retreat Center, while she?s at the hospital on the main-land. This is all too strange. There?s a lovely Celtic Cross hanging above the wooden...
- Lindisfarne
Oh Kendra~ I got a call from the British hospital late last night about Sophie. She had gone on ?pilgrimage? to Lindisfarne?which she?d never told me about? I had no idea that her dream to walk to the Holy Island ?through the waters? to her sacred...
Astrology
Yearning to Reconcile: Christian fundamentalism, Celtic Spirituality and Jungian Astrology
Dear Isabelle~
I was touched by your willingness to get over the mask of the teacher--the ?persona mask? and so poignantly tell me the story about meeting up again with Alistair and Sophie?and your yearning to heal the splits among you. This photo of a ?split open rock? that I?m sending, reminded me of the pain of that ?severance? I hear in your voice...it also reminds me of the resurrection story of Jesus when he split open the tomb. Ah?breaking open and breaking through?what a challenge! I love that you?re also yearning to heal your own spiritual split---that space within you that puts you into the place of ?the reluctant astrologer? at times?I?m only just beginning to get a sense of what that is about?
So?how will you find the middle ground between Sophie?s Christian fundamentalism, Alistair?s cerebral spirituality, and your more pagan astrology?? Are you thinking it could be through Celtic Spirituality? Maybe the history (or ?her-story?) will be found in the numinous stones at the monastery ruins of Whitby and will open Sophie?s heart. I imagine that?s why you?ve chosen to take her there?since it was a woman abbess, St Hilda, who governed this ancient monastery that gave both men and woman a chance to ?be monks? and to honor both Christian and older earth/nature centered beliefs. I read somewhere too, that she mentored a lowly cow-herder into becoming a famous poet?I wonder if they were in love? ~grin~ And, I wonder? what will happen when you meet up with Alistair again in Switzerland--in ?Jung?s land; in his temonos/sacred space??
I?ve started doing charts for other people, but I have questions for you. People are wanting to know more astrology now, especially with all the fear around 2012 and not understanding this shift between the Piscean Age to the Aquarian age, and how this Cardinal T-square between Saturn, Pluto, and Uranus will usher it in.
So?I need to understand it in my own chart first. And I need to know how to approach doing a chart for another person. What do I start with? How do I see what?s really important in the chart and how can I avoid being a predictor of fear?like the astrologer who was predicting only ?endings? in my Saturn Return? There?s so much information out there, but how do you suggest I do a reading? How do I get a sense of how a client (or myself) will play out, and live into the transits? Especially when they look ?hard? to my beginner?s eye?.till later then~
~with love?~Kendra
- You Can Make Astrology Prove Anything!
Dear Isabelle~ Sometimes I think you can make astrology prove anything. Isn?t it like the Bible?the way you can just pick the right verse and chapter, and prove anything?! I can imagine you can make a case for God?s approval or disapproval, or for...
- Pilgrimage To Whitby~where We Find The Stones
...
- Invisible Realms In Celtic Spirituality
I?m reluctant to leave this place that is so embedded with Celtic Spirituality! I took one more solitary walk before leaving the island, and took a photo of a spiral stone-- it reminded me how the Celts experience the Divine as a tender force, not...
- Private Journal At Lindisfarne
I?m here?on the ?Holy Island? of Lindisfarne staying at the room Sophie reserved for herself at the Christian Retreat Center, while she?s at the hospital on the main-land. This is all too strange. There?s a lovely Celtic Cross hanging above the wooden...
- Lindisfarne
Oh Kendra~ I got a call from the British hospital late last night about Sophie. She had gone on ?pilgrimage? to Lindisfarne?which she?d never told me about? I had no idea that her dream to walk to the Holy Island ?through the waters? to her sacred...