My move last year has seemed to unleash a torrent of unexpected spiritual experiences. Neptune is the planet of spirituality, and I moved to where Neptune conjuncts my Part of Fortune (a point of luck in our charts) which seems to be leading me down a spiritual path of events. It all started in mid-February […]
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This morning I was reading this account from Gurdjieff student Kathryn Hulme who, along with some other of his students, were taken to a casino to observe human behavior and given money to gamble with. The “lesson” was to observe people who were slaves to their appetites. I think she captured her lesson well in
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Shortly after ICE agent Jonathan Ross killed Renee Nicole Good, the Trump administration excused it by saying Ross was a victim of PTSD, from having been dragged by a car while in combat. In this blog post, I’ll explain how the Trump administration is co-opting the religious function of the mind to create an elaborate
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I’m a little late to the manifesting party here- I know it probably sounds bad to say, but positive thinking and I have a difficult relationship. I grew up around the Enneagram types 2/7/9 faux-spiritual ego trope of defensive positivity and as an adult, it grates on my nerves- the mental habit of pushing actually-felt
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The longer I study astrological t-squares, the more I’m fascinated by how connected are astrology and the Enneagram. The t-square is the linchpin of my astrological chart, and it also shows in visual form what work the Enneagram requires of me as a Four. Standard disclaimer: not all Fours have t-squares, and just because you
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I keep coming back to writing about projection, I think it’s because I want to know where all the energy leaks out from my astrological chart. The little pictures of the planets are dotted around my chart, why can’t I have access to them? Where am I seeping out their energies, if I’m unable to
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I watched this Omeletto video this morning and was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t super profound, but it was a light-hearted example of what society looks like when we’re unbalanced in the three intelligence centres, with an overweight toward the heart. In the Enneagram, we have three intelligence centres- the head (logic, rationality, etc), the heart
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-spoiler warnings for last two paragraphs- If you’re a Type Four, especially if you’re feeling stuck, I highly recommend watching the movie Girl Interrupted on Netflix. In it, Susanna (Wynona Rider) gets admitted to a mental hospital in the 1960’s after trying to commit suicide and makes some friends on the inside, one of whom
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I am slowly working my way through Bea and Uranio’s youtube videos, and I’ve got a spreadsheet to help me keep track. This week, I listened to their interview with Self-Preservation Type 4 Ian Morgan Cron, and I was reminded that I have an entire shadow that I’ve barely glanced at spiritually: envy, which is
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My aunt is either an Enneagram 7w6 or a 6w7 and everything I say to her gets churned into a soupy vat of grey untrue-ness where the distinction between truth and lies gets dissolved by doubt and cynicism, and she can choose to believe whatever she wants based on how much of a political “underdog”
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