Hello, Gemini season! The first air sign of the astrological year. A time for communication, learning, connection, and expansion. And hopefully, some lightness and relief after the intense new moon + fixed grand cross of last week (17th-24th) that could’ve brought a sense of stuckness, conflict, tension or inner turmoil.
Writing has been flowing through me. New posts and journey updates to come, including my first sit with the Yawanawa tribe from Brazil. But first, here’s what’s been guiding me in May:
What I’m Reading
Shambhala Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
Rumi, The Book of Love (Ah Sufi poetry, straight to the heart of the Divine)
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Love Me, Don’t Leave Me by Michelle Skeen (painful just writing this title😅 a straightforward guide on the fear of abandonment and its conditioned patterns. This has been coming through for me lately, digging up early childhood and high school trauma. After a year of transcendence, it’s been grounding to become aware of a very human edge that has been living in the shadows. The book isn’t very deep, but sometimes the Western psychology modalities are most helpful for these parts)
What I’m Watching
What do you really want? Michael A. Singer
Troy Very drawn to the ancient Greece, Rome, Macedonia, and Persia history and era lately
What I’m Contemplating
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. - Kahlil Gibran
Virtue is its own reward
Know thyself - Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world. It never happened otherwise. The few whose impact was long-lasting were all knowers of reality. Reach their level and only then talk of helping the world. As long as human behavior is dominated by desire and fear, there is not much hope. And to know how to approach people effectively, you must yourself be free of all desire and fear. - Maharaj
Return to a childlike sense of awe in the face of the wonders of life. The world is a miracle, yet we take it for granted. If we take the time to reflect, it becomes obvious that we are surrounded by profound mysteries. The universe is a gigantic work of art, signed by an unknown master. Humble amazement is a prerequisite for coming to know God. - The Hermetica
Knock upon yourself as on a door, and walk upon yourself as on a straight road. For if you walk on that road, you cannot get lost, and what you open in yourself will open in life. - Silvanus
First words, then silence. One must be ripe for silence. - Maharaj
Such is the magic of man’s mind and heart that the most improbable happens when human will and love pull together. - Maharaj
How do I know when I’m finished with a painting? — How do you know when you’re finished making love? - Jackson Pollock
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things. - Mary Oliver