Time-lapse photo of the Aries Lunar Eclipse on Sept. 27, 2015. All rights reserved (c) 2015 Jim McNeil.
Can we maintain our accelerated evolutionary trajectory and still be in relationship with the more traditional elements (and people) in society? That’s the question of the Libra New Moon. Continue reading
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Song: Ten Year Bender
Album: Ten Year Bender
This song is the title track from the 2015 re-release of Ten Year Bender by my rock project Stand & Deliver. I don’t remember the exact day when I wrote the song Ten Year Bender, but Continue reading
On this roller coaster ride
that my emotions have to take me on
– Neil Young, ‘Natural Beauty’
That first line from the last song on Harvest Moon always gets me. Sometimes my life seems like one epic emotional roller coaster ride. We’re trained by society to believe in control as a positive attribute. Continue reading
I sat down to play the guitar for a few minutes to get my energy flowing before recording my October 2015 Audio Horoscopes. I didn’t feel like “playing a song” but making music always opens up my creativity chakra so I just started picking. No destination in mind, no chord progression, just feeling the vibrations of my fingers on the strings and listening to the sounds in the air of my room at night. Continue reading
You can wear your shoes in bed at the Milner Hotel!
If I ever doubt that the emotionally-charged images I hold in my thoughts can create my future reality, all I have to do is look back at the Ten Year Bender period. Three images that manifested with an eerie degree of precision: Continue reading
I get as frustrated as anyone during Mercury retrogrades. But I have also learned to love these periods, because Mercury Rx tends to be when I make the biggest changes in my thinking, changes that lead me to more freedom, more money, more joy, and more of what I want out of life. Think of this podcast as a guided tour to the secret places Mercury’s publicist doesn’t want you to know about. And yes, the guided tours I’ve enjoyed most were the ones where the tour guide was obviously just a bit cracked… Continue reading
The first of two eclipses in September happens overnight Saturday, September 12 (USA). This is a solar eclipse (new moon) in Virgo that very closely opposes Chiron in Pisces. I’ve created a free 24-minute podcast you can stream or download, or listen to on YouTube. Also check out my September reading special: Continue reading
In 1997 I was living in one of the richest parts of Paris, next door to the Hermes showroom on the rue du faubourg saint honoré. Sounds posh, right? But I was working illegally for this rageaholic Japanese woman who ran an audio-visual import company and, since I was living in the company’s $3500/month corporate apartment, she could pay me whatever she wanted. Which basically I meant I worked all the time and then had to walk a couple miles to a neighboring arrondissement to buy my wine and groceries. Oh, and I was also a pretty bad drunk. Continue reading
Ten Year Bender is the second studio release from Stand & Deliver, the current incarnation of my long-time rock project. Recorded in 2002 and 2003, the original, limited-run version of the album was titled songs for depressed people².
This record was intended to be my first “solo” project as a singer-songwriter. Continue reading
Did you feel that? The Moon entered Aries Monday morning, Aug. 31, around 4:30 am EDT and made an exact conjunction at noon on Monday to the degree of the September 27 Aries lunar eclipse. The Sabian symbol for the eclipse degree of 5 Aries talks about the capacity we all have to take our lives to a new level when we open to the power of spiritual inspiration. Continue reading