Marianne Moore isn't mentioned in the Lawrence biography by John Worthen, but she published his poems in The Dial and they exchanged numerous letters. After his death, Moore wrote privately that she had a "deep, indeed reverent regard for him." Marianne Moore was often characterized as a spinster, yet she learned from frequently-censored D.H. Lawrence that there's "dignity and mystery even in carnality," writes Moore's biographer Linda Leavell. And when Moore heard that some

There’s a Cesar Millan video about an un-neutered family dog whose unsatisfied mating instinct leads to food aggression. An astrologer would note that aggression is a quality of Mars. In our own lives, when our passions and energy are not directed constructively, they can run amok as the dog's does in the video.  Imagine Mars is transiting through your busy 9th house in Libra. You become aggressively dogmatic about the way your family makes sandwiches. You are suddenly passio

The rooster was Rumi's favorite symbol for "wanting." “You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep.” (Rumi, "A Great...

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...

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....