A friend recently sent me a link to the song and video, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” from Monty Python’s The Life of Brian, in which the “savior Brian, along with a host of others, is being crucified and one of them bursts into song about the right attitude to adopt in the situation. Monty Python always had a way of taking some of the most difficult (and some of the most sacred) events of life and turning them on their head. Being a Sagittarius (humor), with a good dose of Scorpio (death & dying), I personally …

For those who are familiar with astrology, this stage I’m in as I approach my transition—the one I mentioned yesterday about feeling like I’m like a plane in a holding pattern over the airport—the situation, and the feelings that go with it, are very much like the Balsamic phase between two planets. It’s the last in the series of phasal relationships that began with a new phase conjunction and eventually leads to finishing the dynamics associated with and between the two planets in a balsamic conjunction. It very much …

“A soul in tension that’s learning to fly / Condition grounded but determined to try.” Pink Floyd, Learning to Fly

 I love Pink Floyd, and their song, “Learning to Fly,” really captures what I’ve been experiencing and feeling these last few weeks. Poised as I am between the physical and the astral, my soul, my consciousness, is definitely “in tension” as it navigates two realities at the same time, and especially now that a little more of my consciousness is on the astral plane.

 ”Condition grounded” is exactly what it feels like, from the standpoint of having the cage in one place …