Hi! I have a Zoom room that opens at 7am CT, weekdays, between now and the equinox (Sept 23 — maybe longer, depending on my energy). I am using this to finally get my medieval war novel down on the page, and have successfully drafted the first chapter so far! (Messily, illegibly......) I am calling this experiment in time-pressure COUNTER-GLOAMING, and it's for getting our manuscripts written. [[ZOOM LINK]](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86211694880?pwd=atEeeTincNWkilbU4wQinSYVU4WEdV.1) — link...
19 days ago • 1 min read
ASTRO-ARCHETYPE OF THE WEEK // THE FREE SKATE August 30 - September 5, 2026 Item [1]: How Skating Acquired and Lost Its "Figure" article Until 1990, competitive figure skating required something called compulsory figures: hours spent tracing prescribed patterns into the ice before a skater was ever allowed to perform. Judges checked the tracings afterward, on foot, for wobble. After these requirements were released, skating was called "free." But the free skate had restraints. It's four...
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ASTRO-ARCHETYPE OF THE WEEK // THE ICONOCLAST August 23 - 29, 2026 Item [1]: Anon, Christ before Pilate c.1400–25© The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge During the English Reformation, churches dealt with their painted saints one of two ways. Some were attacked directly — this panel has knife marks scratched deliberately across its surface, turning an ordinary devotional image into evidence. Others were handled more gently: churches limewashed over their wall paintings instead of destroying them....
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
ASTRO-ARCHETYPE OF THE WEEK // THE GOLDEN CHILD August 16 - 22, 2026 Item [1]: Victorian Silver Trophy Cup, Maker: Edward Charles Brown circa 1866 Before it was a trophy, this shape was a loving cup — a vessel filled with wine and passed hand to hand around a table, everyone drinking from the same rim. Once it's won, that function ends. It gets polished instead of filled, set on a shelf instead of passed around, and if the shine ever dulls, someone in the house notices immediately. Item [2]:...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
ASTRO-ARCHETYPE OF THE WEEK // THE PROVOCATEUR August 9 - 15, 2026 Item [1]: Portrait of Radclyffe Hall [source: National Portrait Gallery] A portrait like this one wasn't candid. It was composed, lit, and sat for on purpose — a person deciding exactly how she'd be seen before anyone else got the chance to decide it for her. Radclyffe Hall (1880–1943). English novelist, and one of the first to write lesbian love into English fiction — a choice that got her book banned. Item [2]: "Give us also...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
ASTRO-ARCHETYPE OF THE WEEK // STAGE FIGHTER August 2 - 8, 2026 Item [1]: The School of Fencing, engraved plate (1787 ed.) The foil is a practice weapon. Its tip is blunted — capped with a button — so a full-force touch lands without wounding. Before the match and after it, both fencers lower their blades in salute, an acknowledgment that opens and closes the encounter regardless of who scored. The rules assign right of way: whoever attacks first earns the point, unless the other parries and...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
// POMANDER April 26–May 2, 2026 Item [1]: Antique silver pomander, South Kensington Museum (date unknown) Engraving from The Art of Perfumery The ring serves as pendant to a lady's girdle. When the cap unscrews, the pomander falls into six cores, each hinged to a central column. A slide opens at the angle of each core for the insertion of fragrant powders, camphor, vinegar on sponge. What you carry against your body, what opens only when you want it to, what keeps the world at a distance...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hello Friend, Your Moon doesn't care what you told everyone you're capable of. It knows what's true in your body. And most of us override that signal a hundred times a day. We say yes when the body said no. We push through when something pre-verbal already registered: stop. And then we wonder why we're burned out, resentful, or can't trust our own decisions anymore. Physician Gabor Maté writes that we learn to silence the body's No to maintain belonging (When the Body Says No, 2003). In...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Howdy <3 s'been a bit since I've sent an email. A lot has happened since ;) Allow me to make a case for approaching your personal astrology as parts work... I've spent years learning astrology — studying dignities, house systems, aspect patterns. I can tell you about your chart in exhaustive detail. But somewhere along the way, I felt that knowing about the chart and having contact with it are two entirely different things. Contact means you don't just know your Venus is in Capricorn — but...
6 months ago • 2 min read