scorpio season begins with a battle between mars and pluto...

most of us think we ought to take charge of our lives and plan carefully when we’re trying to start again after an ending. As we shall see later, most of us do that prematurely, for our most important beginnings take place in the darkness outside our awareness.

One of them, “Wild Mood Swings,” is pictured above. I suppose it’s because I can’t help but “read” them theologically, as it were—the way the detritus and flotsam of our lives is transformed when light is cast upon it, projecting a wholeness we could never imagine up close.

which belongs with you. Soul is not a thing, but a perspective. It’s the slow courtship of an event that turns it into a meaningful experience. It’s the practice of trusting that if we sit silently and long enough with the absence of magic, the miraculous will reveal itself. Nothing is sacred until we make it so with the eloquence of our attention,

The Source is relentless in forcing us to realize this potential. It does this by destroying our illusion that we’re the masters of the universe—and the go-it-alone mentality that comes with it. It doesn’t do this with logic, it does it with events. It brings events into our lives that we don’t want and can’t control: illness, failure, rejection. T