{"id":65739,"date":"2013-04-01T17:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T21:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=65739"},"modified":"2013-04-02T17:25:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T21:25:34","slug":"a-note-from-fe-bongolan-the-planet-waves-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-promo\/a-note-from-fe-bongolan-the-planet-waves-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note From Fe Bongolan: The Planet Waves Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, we’re running a series of letters from my Planet Waves co-creators (introduced here<\/a><\/strong>). Tonight’s letter is from Fe Bongolan, my friend, mentor, astrology client and fellow political junkie. I first met Fe in San Francisco in 2004. The hand-written Planet Waves logo that we use everywhere was scribbled using a Sharpie pen in Kinkos Copies on that very trip. Fe is one of our roots into the Earth, into soul and into reality. — efc<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Planet Waves Reader:<\/p>\n

I am fortunate to have had the right teacher at the right time whenever I was at crossroads. Each came to me as an answer to a prayer. They were often totally unexpected, not in a shape or form I would have predicted. They gave me the right information at a crucial moment, leading me forward on the path. The right path. They led me to my life in theater, to the people who would turn out to be my dearest friends, and to all of my jobs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Since I was a child, astrology had always held a fascination — actually an obsession — for me. I looked to it for answers, or at least clues. What was I going to be when I grew up? I found myself still asking that question in my forties. When I happened upon Eric’s writings on the Internet fifteen years ago during the early Vashon Island days of Planet Waves, I knew I was meeting up with the next guide, the road sign, the map to where it was I was going. What it was that I have been. Where I could be going.<\/p>\n

I was in a life that increasingly was no longer mine to claim. Unfulfilled by career and the incessant call of familial duty, my time was not mine. Even with the frustration of that kind of restriction, mostly of my own making, I was afraid to venture out into the world beyond the gates of my history, my culture, my fears.<\/p>\n

Yet, the call of so much left undone waited for me in my dreams like a specter in the closet. I was at a major jump-off point in my adult life, stuck in the middle of the four-way intersection, not certain where my path would lead. Going back was not an option, and yet the new was fearful territory for me. ‘The new’ was finding my freedom and my passion.<\/p>\n

I remember Eric Francis’ words as though I’d read them yesterday: What you need now is to FINALLY allow yourself to listen and think with your feelings. <\/em>Which in my old Catholic brain was the road to hell: allowing myself to say and do what I think and feel.<\/em><\/p>\n

In actuality that was the expressway to heaven: freedom to be myself, unfurled. The wisdom in Eric’s writings and Planet Waves astrology inspired me to take a leap of faith and purchase my first of many one-to-one readings with him.<\/p>\n

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But little by little,
\nas you left their voices behind,
\nthe stars began to burn
\nthrough the sheets of clouds,
\nand there was a new voice
\nwhich you slowly
\nrecognized as your own,
\nthat kept you company
\nas you strode deeper and deeper
\ninto the world,
\ndetermined to do
\nthe only thing you could do —
\ndetermined to save
\nthe only life you could save.<\/p>\n

— from “The Journey”<\/em> by Mary Oliver<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While writing this letter for Planet Waves, I kept hearing the words from Mary Oliver’s iconic poem “The Journey” as I looked back on the “she” that I was. I kept hearing the questions I’d asked myself then: Who am I? Who do I love? Who loves me? <\/em>And more than once, sometimes painfully and honestly: Where am I now?<\/em><\/p>\n

In finding Planet Waves, I discovered an astrology site that was more than astrology. It was a soul resource, a map to my Self. It put me on the path to who loves me. It was there, helping me answer those questions, letting me hear that the answer was finally, authentically: Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n

By unlocking these doors, I began the next journey, and the next, moving further out, unmoored, unafraid, and into the world. Mi casa, mi cara;<\/em> Planet Waves — with its writers, its oracles, its horoscopes and its community — is a safety rail on the high-speed train of living life in this new century. With it, we can stride deeper, as Mary Oliver said, into the world.<\/p>\n

At a special introductory rate of $49 for a year<\/strong><\/a>, you’re indeed very lucky to have the ticket for the journey that is Planet Waves. This special rate is just for your first year. What do you get for this membership fee? Take a look here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the midst of all the stimulus in our society, and all of the ‘stuff’ out there that we are compelled by our media and our culture to buy — stuff that’s keeping us from ourselves — Planet Waves is a place and an experience that brings you back to you. I’d say that’s priceless — more than worth the price of the ticket. So take a chance. Jump on board. And get ready. As Fe-911 says: Life is an adventure. Enjoy the Ride.<\/em> That’s Planet Waves.<\/p>\n

Warmly,<\/p>\n

Fe Bongolan<\/strong> (aka Fe-911)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, we’re running a series of letters from my Planet Waves co-creators (introduced here). Tonight’s letter is from Fe Bongolan, my friend, mentor, astrology client and fellow political junkie. I first met Fe in San Francisco in 2004. The hand-written Planet Waves logo that we use everywhere was scribbled using a Sharpie pen in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}