Monthly Archives: November 2019

AK Reader: The Grandmothers’ Dance (1986)

Synchronicity! Inside my ongoing Recapitulation Project, I discovered last night that I have never published The Grandmothers’ Dance in the AK Reader archival series. So I decided to do it, this morning. Voila! When this morning rolled around, I see … Continue reading

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AK Reader: The Siren Song of Neptune (1999)

This essay was published as a column in SageWoman, Winter 1999-2000. On this Black Friday, the day we’re mind-controlled to “go shopping,” the essay feels particularly germane, given that Neptune symbolizes the antithesis of materialism. THE SIREN SONG OF NEPTUNE … Continue reading

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My First REAL Thanksgiving Dinner Conversation!

  Note: Wow! I am so lucky! See yesterday’s post. I had the great good fortune yesterday evening to share Thanksgiving dinner with only four other people, one of them a high local government official, and his wife, an IU … Continue reading

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Re: The (large, generous, thankful) “space” we need to inhabit when dining with others on this Thanksgiving Day

Just imagine: millions of folks across this great and shining land dining with others whom they either rarely see or see all the time, with whom they may have longstanding histories, including loves, grudges, all sorts of icky stuff that … Continue reading

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Announcing the third ARK CroneCast: THE REAL VALUE OF MONEY

This first story (see video below) of which the other inhabitants of our Green Acres Permaculture Village are well aware, is one that has helped innumerable family, friends, and acquaintances over the years to navigate the tricky terrain we call … Continue reading

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WordPress trouble on the New Moon in Sagittarius

[Correction: This post was supposed to go out yesterday, and I thought it did. Yesterday, 12/26/19, was the date of the new moon. The post appeared as published email if you have subscribed, but did not appear otherwise. Grrrr. . … Continue reading

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What is the difference between “soul” and “spirit”?

Way back in the 1990s, when I was living in the Jackson Hole yurt with my now deceased husband Jeff Joel, This Vast Being who “carried both a computer and an encyclopedia  in his head,” I asked him: “What is … Continue reading

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Reflections on our Lived Experience of Saturn/Pluto

This coming, forming, rare conjunction of Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn (January 12, 2020 exact one time only, but lasting through much of this year and next) — is it a wall, a burden, an obstacle, a barrier, a gateway, … Continue reading

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