Musings

On tarot, astrology, story, ceremony, and the work of finding all our true names.

The Story Animal

Erik Vance’s Suggestible You, published in 2016, is about the placebo effect and its relatives; the nocebo, the conditioning response, the elaborate and underappreciated machinery by which human beings are…

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This is What I Do Now

After a decade of what I can only describe as an extremely productive dissolution and reconfiguration, this spring I am opening True Names Workshop. I will offer tarot readings, astrological…

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True Names Workshop

Methodology and Meaning

I am, somehow, matter experiencing itself. In a singular pocket of the universe where that occurs in this particular manner; conscious, meaning-hungry, and a blip in the vastness of time.…

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Practicing Meaning Without Belief

In February, our house sometimes swells with extra children during school break. Parents need to work; the snow is deep; the days are short. When I have the chance, I…

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