The Altared Heart

12/21/2025

There is poverty in the winter season. It is an emptiness that does not evoke lack but surrender, an invitation not to absence but to presence.

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Email from The Altared Heart New Moon Solstice "Don't settle for the simple ride There's sun over the mountainside Far beyond the great divide lies endless skies, blue and wide Don't be afraid to sacr

06/15/2025

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These great contemporary spiritual teachers—Myss, Bourgeault, and Rohr—are all naming the same archetypal cycle, one that echoes across traditions and time. Like all truths, it can be found everywhere, including in the heavens themselves, where the celestial movements—the thoughts in the minds of the gods—speak the same eternal pattern.

Email from The Altared Heart The Archetypal Sky at the Summer Solstice “Wisdom is not knowing more. It is knowing with more of you.”  Cynthia Bourgeault The Altared Heart offers Spiritual Direction,

12/01/2024

Lessons from the Hooves of Life
New Moon in Sagittarius

Following Scorpio’s turbulent waters, we are granted a higher perspective if we can endure the crisis of faith that comes with this house as well. Sagittarius offers clarity and elevation. Yet, this clarity is not given freely—it often comes after a crisis of faith.

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02/10/2024

Our earth-based theology contradicts the laws of holism, downloaded as we move toward this Aquarian age and the power shift from the individual will to the greater whole. When we scramble to secure physical borders, we fight evolution. Yet, the skies above clearly show that we must go through the necessary transformation, beginning with ourselves and radiating to our families, states, countries, and worldly and galactic communities. Like Carl Jung's individuation, it's an autonomous process of individual wholeness experienced as psychological completeness and the union of the conscious and the unconscious.

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Candlemas, Imbolc & Aquarius "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus The Altared Heart offers Spiritual Direction, Archetypal Consulting

10/14/2023

"Solar Eclipses bring profound change, like a light going off in the solar dimension of our lives and then turning on from an altered (or altared) position. "

Judgment to Mercy "Each trial, every loss, is an opportunity for you to meet suffering with love and make of it an offering, a prayer. The minute you lift your pain like a candle the darkness vanishes

07/17/2023

New Moon in Cancer

The Soul enters the wheel here, foregoing the first three houses where we develop our separate identity, identify our resources, and establish how we communicate. Our souls wait until we come home and then meet us in what lies beneath.

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Cancer New Moon  With this long last rush of air We speak our vows and sorry whispers When the waves came crashing down, He closed his eyes and softly kissed her. But I pulled you and I called you he

06/18/2023

I Think, Therefore I Am.
New Moon in Gemini

Gemini teaches us how to think and rationalize. The word rational comes from the root ration, which means to separate. It's also our first opportunity to recognize the consequence of our thoughts and speech, for the Mystical Law of this house is For Every Action, There is an Equal Reaction.
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05/19/2023

New Moon in Ta**us & Happy Birthday Mom
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New Moon in Ta**us “Offer only lovely things on my altars— the bread of life, and jewels, and feathers, and flowers. Let the streams of life flow in peace. Turn from violence. Learn to think for a lon

02/21/2023

We enter the astrological year in Aires with the words I AM. We are pulled from the spirit realm and cross the river of forgetting. We've barely breathed, and we're cut from our mother. If the first order of business is separation, the last is dissolution.

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New Moon in Pisces and Saturn "With shortness of breath I'll explain the infinite How rare and beautiful It truly is that we exist. Sleeping At Last Saturn PLAY The Altared Heart offers Spiritual Dire

12/21/2022

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Goodbye Old Friends   For Ernie & Winnie May the long time sun Shine upon you All love surround you And the pure light within you Guide your way on Guide your way on White Sun Traditional Blessing PLA

10/24/2022

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New Moon in Scorpio “In this high place it is as simple as this, leave everything you know behind. Step toward the cold surface, say the old prayer of rough love and open both arms. Those who come wit

09/25/2022

Judgment to Mercy "Each trial, every loss, is an opportunity for you to meet suffering with love and make of it an offering, a prayer. The minute you lift your pain like a candle the darkness vanishes