Field Notes
Field Notes is a collection of essays on astrology, creativity, and the changing landscape of everyday life. Part journal, part observation, and part symbolic inquiry, these essays explore the correspondence between planetary movements and the stories unfolding in our lives.
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Field Notes: How to Stay Devoted to Who You’re Becoming
Is anyone else feeling absolutely humbled by life right now? Are you also thinking, I can see what is happening to my earthly avatar and I don’t like it at all. It’s like a trust fall deeper into the unknown part of yourself, or like getting lost and finding new trails on your way back…
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Field Notes: The Artist’s Origin
Our origin story doesn’t make us who we are. The problem comes when the identity that once helped us survive becomes another role we are expected to perform. In a time when we’re being coerced into becoming the lead actor, director, producer, and distributor of our own lives on behalf of a surveillance state, it’s…
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Field Notes: Assembling Yourself in the Dark
On the Leo New Moon Eclipse, the Late Betye Saar, and Becoming through Uncertainty “And slowly she surrendered, opening up before him like the dark continent, made mad and delirious and blind by the entry of a mortal as bright as the morning, as white as milk.” —James Baldwin, Come Out the Wilderness The eclipses…
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Field Notes: The Unglamorous Labor of Becoming Yourself
The Aquarius Full Moon reveals how we find our power through one another, even as things fall apart. My friend, a Leo Sun, has a birthday approaching, and the weeks before her solar return have been marked by a string of mildly unfortunate events. She can’t seem to find a worthwhile date, she twisted her…
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Field Notes: The Sun Comes Home
Lately I’ve been inhabiting someone else’s life. Like Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap, I suddenly find myself in someone else’s body, feeling strange in a familiar place and performing a role I don’t identify with. I move through obligations that belong to someone I barely recognize, wondering when exactly I agreed to all of this.…
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Field Notes: It’s Not About the Cake
Mercury stationed retrograde in Cancer on June 29, Jupiter entered Leo the following day after more than a year in Cancer, and Mars conjoined Uranus in Gemini on July 4. After a relatively quiet start to the year, July feels like an inflection point. Something is shifting, and it’s shifting fast.