At the Turning of the Light: Summer Solstice 2026
The summer solstice came this morning, June 21 at 08:24 UTC, or 4:24am on the US East Coast—so, welcome to the official start of summer 2026! I was driving after […]
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The Year of the Fire Horse Begins with Hexagram 11, Peace
The Chinese New Year arrives with the new moon of Feb 17 at 7:01am USA ET). This is the year of the Fire Horse, explanations of which are above my […]
In Memory of Bobby Weir
Bob Weir 16 October 1947 – 10 January 2026 Like everyone else I was caught off-guard by a left-handed monkey wrench hearing of Bobby Weir’s unexpected passing from this world […]
RIP Shane Coen
Remembering one of my longest-time friends Two Sundays ago, on October 19, 2025, just after 4pm, my longtime friend Shane Coen breathed his last, and left his body behind to […]
The Power of the Great: Shiva’s Dance, the New Moon, and the Wisdom of Hexagram 34
The new moon of Feb 27 (7:44pm USA Eastern Time) brings us the great nighttime honoring of the marriage of Shiva and Parvati, and Shiva’s heavenly dance of creation, preservation […]
Shelter From the Storm: Reflections From South India
Hello friends, Greetings from South India–a quiet rural area outside Udipi in Karnataka, to be more precise, where I’m deep in a 21-day Ayurvedic panchakarma cleanse and treatment program. More […]
I Ching & Year of the Snake: the new moon of January 29, 2025
And thus begins the Year of the Snake: the new moon of January 29 2025 (7:26am USA ET) rings in the Asian New Year, replete with a planetary alignment […]
I Ching Hexagrams 57 & 18: Wisdom for Navigating Change
A very rare thing happened in the last couple of weeks, which is that I got two precisely identical I Ching readings, barely a week apart: 57, The Gentle, […]
720 Months
July 23, 2024 Today, somehow, I turn 60 years old. I arrived in this world on the full moon of July, 1964. It was a blazing hot New Jersey day, […]
Berlin & Beyond
July 20, 2024 It’s hard to keep up sometimes on the road—especially during a stretch of 6 countries in 6 days that I just went through—phew! First I enjoyed a […]