Hudson Valley Astrologer

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” ~ Ernest Hemingway Cats are special animals! They are somehow connected to the mysterious, metaphysical plane, which may explain why we always see cats with witches; never dogs with witches. I am definitely…

“This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, – often the surfeit of our own behavior, – we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers,…

“Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder—and nothing more.” ~ Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint Inspired by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet.1 1. Aeon Centre of Cosmology. (2018, January 24). The Strategy, the Battle and the Nature of the Victory – Part 1. https://archive.aeoncentre.com/vishaal/extracts-theas-journal

“Time is the vehicle, the medium for the Absolute or Supreme Consciousness to be and to become and it is knowledge of this principle which integrates the Spiritual and Physical dimensions and grants the individual a direct experience of the Supreme within the physical manifestation.” ~ Patricia Norelli-Bachelet For an inkling, which is a measure…

“Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.” ~ Starhawk Time’s circumlocutions means we travel the same territory over and over again. If we pay attention, we may learn to make our way with grace and ease over the same passages that on previous turns…

“In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God.” ~ Albert Einstein Imagine operating from a central point within the realm of all that surrounds you, in the heart of the core of your…

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ~ Victor Hugo Peter Gabriel was huge when I was in college, and his album So, featuring the iconic Sledgehammer was and still is a crowd favorite. After he left the band Genesis, and went out on his own…

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore We are a species that clings to old ideas and so the notion of “letting go” is extremely important. In fact, our grip on the illusory and falsity is so tight…

“We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” ~ Paulo Ceolho Normally we vacationed on the Cape where the water is a balmy 56° on average. But one summer we opted for the Outer Banks.…

“They were afraid of your authentic love, because authentic love is beyond their control. You are possessed by it. You are not the possessor, you are the possessed. And every society wants you to be in control. The society is afraid of your wild nature, it is afraid of your naturalness, so from the very…