No Longer at this Address

Hi everyone!

Thanks for visiting.

I'm no longer blogging at this address, as I've expanded to a full website at www.depthastrology.net. Hooray!

I continue to blog there -- check out my latest post (as of May 6, 2008) pondering the geographic metaphors for Taurus. There's also information about my Astrology & Yoga workshops in L.A. and my October retreat in Taos, New Mexico.

Please be sure to bookmark www.depthastrology.net for future visits and news about my growing business.

Thanks again!
Kathy

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Growth

It's been a long time since I posted: I've been growing.

I've been exhuming my innate knowledge of how to keep house, play with toddlers and get dinner on the table at a decent hour. I'll blog about that here soon.

I've also been doing chart interpretations and reading more books on astrology than I've been able to get to in a long time. I feel like I've finally made it across the desert to a cool, deep well.

And I've been planning and promoting workshops -- not only here in L.A. but now a week-long one in Taos, New Mexico, slated for October 12-19. Put it on your calendar and check back here for more info soon!

Finally, I've been building new skills and expanding my audience over at Offsprung.com, a humorous website for parents. I didn't think I could write funny, and trying my hand at it has definitely been a challenge: Check out my inaugural column here. But in the yin-yang of life, it's been fun to push myself into a new way of seeing the world and communicating about it. It's also been a wonderful reminder not to take myself too seriously -- a crime I tend to commit serially.

While I use the Offsprung opportunity to poke fun at myself, at the poorly-formed public image of astrology, and at the world at large, I do try to balance it with a little dose of serious information about horoscopes, astrologers and the state of the stars each time I write: I'm hoping to indoctrinate readers one-by-unsuspecting-one.

So this space will likely be a bit slower for a few more weeks as I find my sea legs in the world of online snark, sarcasm and parenting advice. But don't give up on me! I'll be back, deepening the tracks of depth astrology on a regular basis once again.

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...and, Curtain.

I started my career in the California nonprofit sector on Monday, January 26, 1998.

I ended it yesterday -- Friday, February 15, 2008.

Whew.

These days I'm reading about the Age Point in Huber astrology. It starts at birth at the Ascendant and moves through each house over a period of six years. So, for example, the day you turn six, your Age Point enters the second house; the day you turn 12, your Age Point enters the third house; and so on.

Each house is divided into three sections: cardinal, fixed and mutable. You enter the fixed zone two years, three months and 15 days after the multiple-of-six birthday.

I mention this now because on Thursday, February 21, I'll reach that "balance point" in the seventh house, having also just moved into Pisces from Aquarius on November 29, 2007.

For non-astrologers, or even non-Huber astrologers, this probably sounds pretty technical. But what it means is that I've spent the last couple years trying to extract myself from a way of life that was very cerebral, idealistic, systems-oriented -- and, yes, sometimes psychosomatically maddening -- and into one more concerned with empathic, intuitive engagement in relationship.

I don't mean to disparage my work in the nonprofit sector. I did lots of good stuff over the last ten years: raised funds for good causes, wrote helpful articles, managed people for better or for worse (I hope for better) and supported positive change in the world.

But in a way, I also wasn't greatly suited to it. Though I am a good writer, a good manager, a good employee, I also felt the confines of my work strongly. I am not an institutional enthusiast, and I prefer interchange and mutuality over hierarchy and dependence. The deeper I worked my way into the nonprofit sector, the more of the latter I felt.

Charitable giving is an honorable and generous act -- yet it bothers me deeply that our most-needed institutions spend inordinate amounts of time and resources simply struggling to survive, to get the money and please the donors they need to keep the lights on. And even in the context of self-sufficiency, nonprofit organizations have to work so much within the bounds of what is socially, legally and politically acceptable that that, too, eventually began to grate on me.

As I moved out of sixth-house Aquarius and into seventh-house Pisces, the hardness of thought and airy analysis that I had to put into my everyday work began to wear me down, to wear me thin. I operate so much better through feeling and intuition than through thinking and research. So much so that, just a month before I left my career, my neck -- the gateway between heart and mind, between feeling and thinking, gave out as if it had finally had enough of simply trying to shoulder the density of my thoughts. I was laid up for a week, popping Vicodin and musing on the metaphor.

Today was my first day of my new life. I woke up sick: sore throat, cough, general aches and malaise. I know what this is; it happens every time. It's gunk I've been carrying around throughout a cycle I wasn't suited to -- gunk I needed to make it through, which my body can now expel in anticipation of a new cycle that's more aligned to my truth.

I can't wait to see what this cycle brings.

(Photo credits: curtain call, Pisces)