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Taking Poetry to the People

afrose fatima ahmed poetry busking

afrose poetry busking. Photo (c) James Curtis 2015

In Episode 2 of the Naked Songwriter, DK interviews poet afrose fatima ahmed on taking the plunge and doing what you love, writing intimate poetry for strangers on the street, love, loss, and giving yourself permission to just be you.

“I find that every time I take the risk and I put out the thing that feels too edgy, people respond really well to it. They’re really grateful that I chose not to just wrap it up in puppies and rainbows. They want that rawness. They’re hungry for it. Because we’re all experiencing it every single day but we often don’t find spaces in which we can acknowledge it openly…”

T-square alert: Venus triggers Uranus-Pluto-Lilith today through Sunday

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Psychological Release from Bondage

Venus conjunct Pluto Capricorn chart

The Moon in Capricorn joins Venus and Pluto at the apex of the Uranus-Pluto-Black Moon Lilith T-square this evening, with the “exact hit” period stretching from around 8 pm to midnight EST. I didn’t mention this in the David Bowie pod, but the Sabian symbol for the degree of this conjunction (17 Capricorn – same as Bowie’s Mars) is:  A repressed woman finds a psychological release in nudism. Continue reading →

Gratitude and belonging

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church by sea (c) DK Brainard 2016Last week I came down with a strong case of the Kundalini Fever. Or the Ascension Flu. Whatever you want to call it, it was gnarly. Migraines, nausea, bizarre hot flashes, no sleep, nothing but sleep, dropping things, verbal part of brain shutting down mid-sentence and refusing to come back online. Am I cracking up? Or cracking open?  Continue reading →

Hammered by the Gods (and Goddess) Part 2

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A Creative Response to the Blows of Fate?

I’ve spent the last week dealing with migraines. It has been an interesting experience. I’ve had ‘migraine clusters’ in the past – times when I’ve gotten three migraines over a two-week period, for example. This one has been different. I’ve come to think of it as one long migraine. Sometimes I feel almost fine, other times I feel woozy but mostly functional – and then there have been the days where I just have to lie down and be still.

As you might imagine, I’ve found this sense of being repeatedly incapacitated somewhat frustrating. Continue reading →

Hammered by the Gods (and Goddess)

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Pluto, Uranus, Black Moon Lilith – And Mercury Retrograde

Remember when the first two or three weeks of the year seemed to pass in this weird, foggy limbo state?  That’s how I remember it – “nothing happens in the first two weeks of January anyway.” From Christmas until about the time the Sun enters Aquarius, it was a dead zone.

Seems to me that for the last few years – since Uranus and Pluto entered the cardinal signs of Aries and Capricorn – January has become this super-intense month. It’s like a baptism of fire and ice designed to prepare us for the changes we will be required to make in the coming months. Continue reading →