As astrologers and readers, we look at the same symbols over and over again. We spot the Sun in a chart and register it immediately, a learned response. We pull the tarot Sun from our favored deck and have an automatic reaction. Is this what happens when we boil our symbols down to stereotypes only to have them … Continue reading When Symbols Get Stale
The Music of Cancer ~ Moon, Mother, Memories, and Home
We see astrological symbolism all around us everyday. Sometimes through images and sometimes through what a friend of mine referred to as "nose-talgia," or scent memory. Music, however, is the art that can stop us in our tracks. Have you ever been driving, listening to the radio, and heard a song that was so emotionally … Continue reading The Music of Cancer ~ Moon, Mother, Memories, and Home