Bear's Blog
We just celebrated love! It has many forms; personal, familial, societal, and the ultimate compassion for all. Lately I’ve been musing on romance. We can feel appreciation, responsibility, lust, empathy, and sweetness in love. Occasionally we feel the depth of love. Romance is extravagant, delicious, inspired, exhilarating. Romance doesn’t mess around, it’s all in. It’s sexy but ultimately it’s not about sex. It’s passion, which is energy!
What if your...
My Valentine to readers every year highlights the chakras most related to love; personal, societal, and boundless love. Justice is love in the societal sphere.
For Chinese New Year I delved into the mythology related to the snake. The Norse myth Ragnarök is about a battle between gods and giants. Their final battle signals the end of the world, which is then submerged in water (that's where the snake comes in). It’s reborn with a few surviving humans and gods into a world without...
Many spiritual models contain a threesome! - three aspects of the divine. Usually at its heart is “oneness”. It’s called the transcendent in Indian philosophy, although it's not a matter of ascending upward as much as expanding from within. That’s what the sayings “God is within you” and “every person has Buddha-nature” point to. Some believe God is contained in the human soul, or that oneness is found in everything. My model, or way of looking...
In 2025, Chinese New Year celebrations are heralding the Year of the Wood Snake from January 29th through February 4th. The snake is also known as a “little dragon” - possessing supernatural powers and yet, still very much on the earth plane! Since ancient times they’ve been portrayed as mythical deities in cultures around the world. Powerful and dangerous, they are shape-shifters in real life. They represent duality at its most extreme - an embodiment of awe and the awful....
Power and force have similar traditional definitions but are not the same. Force is partial, power is whole. It’s a basic law of physics that force will always succumb to power; force creates a counter-force so it's automatically limited. Force is a movement, going from here to there. Power is still, a standing field that doesn't move. Force moves against something, power doesn't need to move against anything! How can we use these principles to navigate the current (U.S.) political...
The phrase “changing your timeline” is current language to reference healing a past wound, dynamic or belief - something that’s an obstacle to moving forward. In releasing the past, negative or unwanted influences are minimized. Creating a new timeline means being freed from limitations to access new possibilities. We can move forward, even take a new direction toward a desired outcome. Still, since we portray time as linear, it’s always forward - and about the...
We are affected to some degree by the weather. How much time we spend inside or outside depends on the temperature and precipitation. Our mood can reflect the sky - sunny or cloudy? Howling wind or calm breezes contribute to our state of mind. All are visible, tangible aspects of the environment. What we don’t see - but acutely feel - is the cosmic weather. Massive waves of solar energy continue to inundate the planet since last week. It creates energy surges which can disrupt our health.
I’ve been hearing...
We’re a quarter of the way into the 21st century! Sometimes things go fast (when the economy crashed in the fall of 2008) and slow (Covid, 2020-2022 and beyond). At the beginning of 2000 there were concerns that computers would go haywire and the world would end (Y2K!). Moving forward there will be plenty to track and be concerned about, but the first and most important is attending to ourselves. The thing that will keep us sane in all the turbulence is our own inner stability and endurance.
Personal and...
Many of us are currently engaged in reflection and futurizing. What happened, what to do and not to do moving forward. Take a moment to be; align your Hara and expand your heart energy. Sit in the fullness and connection that is always available.
The present is always true. Optimism has the same peaceful, eternal quality that is in the here and now. It’s beyond a linear timeline. It’s bigger. Don’t let cynicism or despair creep into your outlook. We step into the future...
There is a constellation named Cygnus for a reason; the swan was recognized as an ancient, powerful shapeshifter. They embody wisdom, grace and beauty, love and loyalty (mating for life and raising cygnets together). Having mastered water, earth and air they can travel between realms - representing divine light and the purity of the soul. Cygnus contains the Northern Cross and some of the brightest and largest stars known. Swans are a spirit animal, a harbinger of transformation and rebirth....
As a bookend to the last few weeks of astral activity, we now approach the Solstice. Unlike the heady Equinox energies, at Solstice the sun “stands still” - from our perspective on earth! - for three days. It’s like the pause of the breath between inhale and exhale, between the subtle shift of darkness into light. Plants contract into their roots, we move indoors and coldness descends; a literal contraction. It’s a time to withdraw, reflect, and nurture - to foster...
Once a year a cosmic corridor opens as the sun passes directly across the center of the Milky Way. High energy particles stream out from the galactic center - a massive black hole - into the ionosphere. This supercharged gateway is happening between December 12th and 21st, peaking mid-way.
Astrologically this window of time coincides with a Venus-Mars opposition (12-12), the full moon (12-15) and the winter solstice (12-21). This year is an especially powerful time as we are at solar...
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