Open | Closed What better day to do some “Earthing” than on the New Moon, under the Earth trigram? Within context of the Early Heaven Bagua — the Eight Changes — the Earth trigram represents the New Moon, and Yin, the receptive. It’s here and now that the seed of the Creative (Heaven) is planted. […]
Category: Consciousness
Awareness, it’s said, is curative. These blog posts might just provide exactly the new insights & understandings to usefully expand your awareness.
Stimulation
Stretching | Stressing Stretching is a misnomer, but for lack of a better word for something that conveys the idea of pulling on tissues it’s sufficient, albeit inaccurate. Never mind that my second book is called, A Righteous Stretch — Yin Yoga: What It Is, How To Do It, And Why. The reality is that […]
Breathing
In | Out It’s self-evident. The natural cycles playing out over the course of each year, each month, each day are elements of life itself. The four seasons, a synodic lunation, day & night, and even our own breathing. And they’re reflective of each other. Consider the Summer Solstice, where the Sun reaches its highest […]
Complete
Work | Play On February 1, 2022, at the outset of the Spring Festival — otherwise known as the Chinese New Year — I released the Kindle edition of A Righteous Stretch. This, my second book, explores precisely what Yin yoga is, how to do it, and why you should. Six weeks later the print […]
Voila
Lunar | Solar The Full Beaver Micro Moon occurs at 02:59:15 PST on November 8th, but at that moment it’s obscured by the Earth’s shadow. This lunar eclipse is notable due to its extended duration. That is, the event begins as the Moon passes into the penumbra, Earth’s wider shadow, at about 12:02:18. Then, what’s […]
Sandhya
Celestial Events The New Moon initiating Brown Lunation 1223 occurs on November 4th at 14:31 Pacific Time. Ecliptic latitude is not quite right for a solar eclipse this month, but will be next. In just a fortnight, however, at the Full Moon, a partial lunar eclipse occurs, opening another eclipse season which closes with the […]
Diana
Bright | Active The Full Moon of October 2021 occurs on the 20th of the month at 07:56 (PDT). It rises at 18:33, sets at 07:00, and crosses my meridian — where it’s highest in the sky — at 00:29. That of course is just past midnight, some hours prior to the Moon, Earth, Sun conjunction. […]
Yin Yoga and the Earth Trigram
Hidden in Plain Sight You’ve probably never thought of this, and likely never noticed it either. The New Moon rises about dawn and sets about dusk. That’s right, the New Moon is in the daytime sky right along with the Sun but, aside from the occasional solar eclipse, it’s invisible. Since it’s outshined by the […]
Yin Yoga and the Water Trigram
Dive In Quarter Moons tend toward midday and midnight emergences and departures which of course is right in character with their simultaneous manifestations of both Yin & Yang. They display their half illuminated / half shaded visages, half during the day and half during the night. The third-quarter-moon moniker derives from this Cardinal point of […]
Balance
Fifty | Fifty Just after noon (12:21 PDT) on September 22, 2021, the Autumnal Equinox occurs. At this cardinal point Summer officially becomes Fall. The Sun rises due East, sets due West, and traverses the sky directly above the Equator. Its axial tilt points neither at the Northern nor Southern hemisphere. Day and night across […]