Thank you, Eric – what a generous thing for you to share so abundantly. We do care about you and it does my heart good to know how well your garden grows.
Jere,
No way to understate the work thing — this is the busiest time of year for me, mainly because the annual edition happens for quite a while during normal publishing operations.
I’ve been doing my best to get an early start on the annual (last year’s start was delayed and complicated by the utter exhaustion everyone was feeling from the election campaign), and get the help of my readers — the comments you’ve been posting. Far, far more goes into Planet Waves than most people know; those who have stayed with me or worked with me can tell you.
Given the sorry state of the world and how defeatist most people are feeling, and I do mean the vast majority of people as far as I can tell, I count our continued existence and development to be our most successful moment so far. But it’s taking all the focus I have; all my talent working with people; and staying cool and in balance under some extremes of pressure.
That said, I am finding time several nights a week to continue Book of Blue, which is taking the leap into sci-fi/fantasty. Believe it or not the way that I unwind at the end of a long day of astrology is by writing, which is always about the integration of art and writing (blue has its roots in a photo project but in some respects that is a front operation). This keeps my mind and emotions loose and flowing, and feeds Planet Waves with new energy. (Before that project, I would spend a lot of time listening to The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien, hours and hours — the CD set narrated by Martin Shaw is worth every penny. But this reminds me that there has always been a powerful root into fantasy/mythology — the imaginal realm — feeding my work with Planet Waves.)
These have been a rich few couple of months in personal encounters. I devote some of my clearest energy and time to a primary relationship and I have some truly interesting intimate friends nearby as well. I can put it this way: the people who I’ve got gathering around me are ones whose first commitment is to loving themselves and facilitating their healing and self acceptance, and whose second commitment is to helping those in their environment do the same thing. I have been growing this in myself for a long time and putting out the message for almost as long, and it’s starting to manifest. I consider this really good for such dark times, with the cultural obsession on narcissism, paranoia and separate interests. Despite the incredible commitment to shutting down, many people I know personally are waking up.
I am working mostly from home, leaving my studio (a few blocks away) to my assistant Sarah. I make it to the Farmer’s Market every week. Several times a week I drive to a town I don’t know well and work from there, to change up my environment often enough to focus on a new project, and hopefully meet some new people and see who is where and what they’re thinking and if I can get them involved in positive, forward motion. This is all about keeping my mind and perceptions loose and moving so that I can stay in the flow.
My plans for the rest of the evening are: finish making the Scorpio and Sagittarius research files for Cosmic Confidential; go home and do the art for my column in Chronogram magazine (I now do my own art, finally), and then start tomorrow’s blog.
Hopefully I will be free by 11 (that would be a 15 hour work day), but either way I’ll be watching Jon Stewart and at least the first 10 minutes of Steve Colbert — both of whom I study carefully as well as enjoy thoroughly.
Every day I’m grateful for working with an amazing creative team, for getting to decide what I write, and for a dry roof over my head and trusted friends. Since taking up the healing arts of tarot and astrology full time in 1994, I have never had to worry about food or rent, and I am eternally grateful for being able to earn my living doing something I am fully in accord with; something that is ethical, interesting and supportive of so many living in our benighted world.
What’s your plant? Do you still have that companion? How is it doing?
No more marionetteers… we’ve solidified that aspect of being, within the daily jive, regarding the Mojo that reflects our inner lessons. ..So, How are you, and.. what do you require.. Not that I can give any of the shit too you but, I can enquire, and vocalize, As well as a bunch of other folks. So, in side aspect to where I’ve been, what’s goin’ down with you, and where are you directing your flow these days? (Besides the projects,.. I’m talkin’ E.F.C., where’s that dude at?) (Would you throw a personal, observational, allegorical account of your encounters with the astrology of the day?) (Maybe it would be cool!…)
Thank you, Eric – what a generous thing for you to share so abundantly. We do care about you and it does my heart good to know how well your garden grows.
Jere,
No way to understate the work thing — this is the busiest time of year for me, mainly because the annual edition happens for quite a while during normal publishing operations.
I’ve been doing my best to get an early start on the annual (last year’s start was delayed and complicated by the utter exhaustion everyone was feeling from the election campaign), and get the help of my readers — the comments you’ve been posting. Far, far more goes into Planet Waves than most people know; those who have stayed with me or worked with me can tell you.
Given the sorry state of the world and how defeatist most people are feeling, and I do mean the vast majority of people as far as I can tell, I count our continued existence and development to be our most successful moment so far. But it’s taking all the focus I have; all my talent working with people; and staying cool and in balance under some extremes of pressure.
That said, I am finding time several nights a week to continue Book of Blue, which is taking the leap into sci-fi/fantasty. Believe it or not the way that I unwind at the end of a long day of astrology is by writing, which is always about the integration of art and writing (blue has its roots in a photo project but in some respects that is a front operation). This keeps my mind and emotions loose and flowing, and feeds Planet Waves with new energy. (Before that project, I would spend a lot of time listening to The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien, hours and hours — the CD set narrated by Martin Shaw is worth every penny. But this reminds me that there has always been a powerful root into fantasy/mythology — the imaginal realm — feeding my work with Planet Waves.)
These have been a rich few couple of months in personal encounters. I devote some of my clearest energy and time to a primary relationship and I have some truly interesting intimate friends nearby as well. I can put it this way: the people who I’ve got gathering around me are ones whose first commitment is to loving themselves and facilitating their healing and self acceptance, and whose second commitment is to helping those in their environment do the same thing. I have been growing this in myself for a long time and putting out the message for almost as long, and it’s starting to manifest. I consider this really good for such dark times, with the cultural obsession on narcissism, paranoia and separate interests. Despite the incredible commitment to shutting down, many people I know personally are waking up.
I am working mostly from home, leaving my studio (a few blocks away) to my assistant Sarah. I make it to the Farmer’s Market every week. Several times a week I drive to a town I don’t know well and work from there, to change up my environment often enough to focus on a new project, and hopefully meet some new people and see who is where and what they’re thinking and if I can get them involved in positive, forward motion. This is all about keeping my mind and perceptions loose and moving so that I can stay in the flow.
My plans for the rest of the evening are: finish making the Scorpio and Sagittarius research files for Cosmic Confidential; go home and do the art for my column in Chronogram magazine (I now do my own art, finally), and then start tomorrow’s blog.
Hopefully I will be free by 11 (that would be a 15 hour work day), but either way I’ll be watching Jon Stewart and at least the first 10 minutes of Steve Colbert — both of whom I study carefully as well as enjoy thoroughly.
Every day I’m grateful for working with an amazing creative team, for getting to decide what I write, and for a dry roof over my head and trusted friends. Since taking up the healing arts of tarot and astrology full time in 1994, I have never had to worry about food or rent, and I am eternally grateful for being able to earn my living doing something I am fully in accord with; something that is ethical, interesting and supportive of so many living in our benighted world.
Onward…
e
http://www.amazon.com/Silmarillion-J-R-Tolkien/dp/0553456067
What’s your plant? Do you still have that companion? How is it doing?
No more marionetteers… we’ve solidified that aspect of being, within the daily jive, regarding the Mojo that reflects our inner lessons. ..So, How are you, and.. what do you require.. Not that I can give any of the shit too you but, I can enquire, and vocalize, As well as a bunch of other folks. So, in side aspect to where I’ve been, what’s goin’ down with you, and where are you directing your flow these days? (Besides the projects,.. I’m talkin’ E.F.C., where’s that dude at?) (Would you throw a personal, observational, allegorical account of your encounters with the astrology of the day?) (Maybe it would be cool!…)
Love ya, buddy,
Jere