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Grounding yourself by finding your center. According to the I Ching, you have only one obligation in life — to get your relationship to yourself right. Do that and your relations to sex, time, money, power, food, body, career, society, the cosmos, etc. will all be as good as outer conditions allow. Omit, distort or…

“Yesterday is ashes. Tomorrow wood; Only today the fire burns brightly.” — Native American saying What you have to work with in the present may seem weird, unexpected, incomplete, but those are just ego judgments. Your job is always to work with what is present in the moment, whatever it is. Engage what the moment…

This card may indicate a propitious time for solitary, difficult inner study. The path of individuation can feel isolating, but some relative seclusion can be extremely developmental, giving you the space to discover and unfold your individuality. It is true that the more you work on yourself the fewer will be the people you can…

The Babylon Matrix needs you to be a sleepworker. You are surrounded by forces that want you asleep, want you sleepwalking, sleepworking, sleepshopping. Once you are in an anesthetized trance, comfortably numb, you are putty in the hands of the Babylon Matrix. The process of waking up is one of deconditioning, relinquishing addictions, undoing mechanical…

Journaling and oracle consultation can be empowering and developmental. The unconscious person usually requires tragic shocks to learn and to punctuate his stagnant equilibrium. But the conscious person can learn through the subtle shocks provided by oracles, dreams, synchronicities and intuitions. Never underestimate journal writing as a powerful practice and form of inner journey. Among…

What is the source of your suffering? Feel compassion for yourself and for others in the world who suffer. Sometimes there is a fine line between indulging self-pity, negative tape loops and their associated feelings and authentic suffering, necessary sorrow. Chogyam Trungpa believed that the ideal state for the warrior is broken-heartedness. Sometimes sorrow is…

The emphasis here is on the stance of the survivor and warrior. Focus on basics, discipline, attention to detail and working with and through privations and difficulties. Try to minimize self-pity as you do the best you can from awakening to bedtime, working with what the day presents you.

Sometimes there is a fine line between indulging self-pity, negative tape loops and their associated feelings and authentic suffering, necessary sorrow. Chogyam Trungpa believed that the ideal state for the warrior is broken-heartedness. Sometimes sorrow is what we need to feel, or what someone else is feeling, and we or they need to feel the…

The occurrence of this card may indicate a need to be in a place of power and vision. British biologist James Lovelock (formerly with NASA) has provided much evidence to support his Gaia Hypothesis that the earth functions as a super organism. Complex organisms have very differentiated structures, and we can see this with our…

The occurrence of this card may indicate a lonely, unhappy inner child. It’s become a bit of a New Age cliché to talk about your “inner child.” But this aspect of the psyche is as real as any bodily organ. A few years ago I had an experience of an unhappy inner child breaking through…