Lelia
The Still Point Around Which You Turn
In The Sufi Book of Life, Neil Douglas-Klotz explains the roots of the word “Al-Quddus,” which Klotz translates as Sacred Space. Klotz...
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Lelia
- Jun 27, 2023
- 4 min
Crabwise: The Wisdom of Cancer
In Lauren Groff’s Matrix, there’s a wonderful character called Nest. From her name to her every action, she embodies the healing,...
Lelia
- May 2, 2023
- 1 min
The Great Work of Saturn: Grave and Persistent Effort
“A Worn Path” is one of Eudora Welty’s most powerful short stories, and if you've read it, you know the epic journey Phoenix Jackson...
Lelia
- Apr 11, 2023
- 2 min
A Uranian Anthem: Navigating Bolts from the Blue
Having just had a thunderbolt knock me out of my routine and off my comfortable perch, I’ve been thinking about Uranus, the Lord of...
Lelia
- Oct 15, 2022
- 2 min
Learning from Clichés: The Trite but True in Astrology
In one of Steven Forrest’s books, he mentions that every astrological sign could be reduced to a few clichés. That cliché might be a...
Lelia
- Sep 10, 2022
- 2 min
Pisces/12th House/Neptune
It' seems to me that if Neptune is prominent in your chart, or Pisces or the 12th house, you might find these quotes resonant. Or if...
Lelia
- May 21, 2022
- 7 min
Gibbons, Gornick, Hardy, Bauby and Living Your Great Story
Great Story Coaching* outlines the 3 ways we tend to narrate our lives to ourselves. The victim story (similar to Parul Sehgal’s “trauma...
Lelia
- Apr 30, 2022
- 7 min
Edmund White, Memoir & Astro Reading
About halfway through reading My Lives by Edmund White, I expected to give it a two-star rating. White spends so much time narrating his...
Lelia
- Apr 2, 2022
- 4 min
Megan Marshall and the Art of Biography
As a biographer Megan Marshall plays very close to the vest. She doles out her subject in single words or phrases, holds stories out of...
Lelia
- Mar 14, 2022
- 4 min
Uranian Freedom & Vita Sackville-West
Early in Vita Sackville-West's All Passion Spent, the elderly protagonist Lady Slane says, “Besides, I have considered the eyes of the...
Lelia
- Mar 12, 2022
- 4 min
Desire in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
In Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde uses the erotic, or what Mary Karr might call the carnal, to deeply embed herself in her...
Lelia
- Mar 9, 2022
- 2 min
Saturn and Your Great Work
Accomplishment is one of the ways we measure our lives, but in terms of what gives meaning to our lives, accomplishments are often merely...
Lelia
- Feb 18, 2022
- 6 min
An Imaginary Astrology Reading for Joyce Carol Oates: Part I
Imagine that Joyce Carol Oates*—who does not seem the type to sit with an astrologer, but let’s pretend—came to see me for a New Year’s...
Lelia
- Jan 11, 2022
- 10 min
Jane Austen, Joan Didion & Self-respect
Don’t you think Persuasion the best Jane Austen novel ever? It’s by far my favorite. That’s kind of a joke because most characters in...
Lelia
- Dec 29, 2021
- 2 min
Light and Dark: Awakening in Life's Shadows
I’m trying to reread John O'Donohu's Anam Cara, and can’t stomach the pollyanna sunshine spiritual message. O’Donohue writes, “Light is...
Lelia
- Dec 26, 2021
- 1 min
Your Soul's Original Instructions
In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer writes about Indigenous Americans’ Original Instructions. “These are not ‘instructions’ like...
Lelia
- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
Mars as Imaginary Friend and Creative Muse
In an interview in The Guardian, Maxine Hong Kingston describes a male alter ego from her memoir I Love a Broad Margin to My Life....
Lelia
- Dec 20, 2021
- 3 min
Eudora Welty + Aries + Guilt
In One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty says her short story"Livvie" is “about youth and old age: the death of an old, proud, possessive...
Lelia
- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
Memoir and the Moon
I used to pay a lot of attention to the first lines in books. I had a notebook where I wrote them down and classified them according to...
Lelia
- Sep 15, 2021
- 2 min
Feeling Adrift in an Empty Nest
My nest is empty and I’m grasping like a drowning person at anything that will tether me to a sense of stability and meaningful purpose....
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