• Neptune and Saturn: Rekindling a Cosmic Love Affair of Spirit and Matter

    Neptune and Saturn: Rekindling a Cosmic Love Affair of Spirit and Matter  From 2014-2017 the planets Saturn and Neptune will be in a 90 degree square to one another informing and permeating the collective psyche during this radical and revolutionary time. This presentation given at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California in October 2014… Read more

  • Initiation to Archetypal Astrology: Working with the Fundamentals

    Initiation to Archetypal Astrology: Working with the Fundamentals  Spring 2015 January 20th– April 28th This 12-week course will begin at the end of January and run through April, meeting once a week for 2.5 hours from 6:30-9:00pm at CIIS. The group will choose which day of the week they wish to meet once the class has… Read more

  • Embodying Astrology in an Archetypal Cosmos

    Embodying Astrology in an Archetypal Cosmos Spring 2015 January 20th – April 28th This 12-week course will begin at the end of January and run through April, meeting once a week for 2.5 hours from 6:30-9:00pm at CIIS. The group will choose which day of the week they wish to meet once the class has… Read more

  • Chapter IV: Summary and Conclusions

    Chapter IV Summary and Conclusions For fatherless daughters living in a patriarchal culture shame is the cornerstone emotion that fosters an inborn lack of self-worth and value in a young girl’s early identity formation, often becoming a debilitating force in her creative pursuits and deep need for belonging and connection with others. Since shame is… Read more

  • Chapter III: Finding a Way Through Shame

      Chapter III Finding a Way Through Shame When we let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that we are enough just as we are and that we are worthy of love and belonging. When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from… Read more

  • Chapter II: Through the Portal of Shame: A Path Toward Self-Love for Fatherless Daughters Living in Patriarchy

    Chapter II Review of the Literature In service to granting access to qualities, desires, visions, and intuitive sensing split off into the unconscious by shame, it seems one must inquire into the nature of shame from a psychological perspective—what it is, how one gets it, how it operates in the psyche, the effects it has… Read more