Category: Travel
Posts on travel as practice — pilgrimage, the Camino, place-based spirituality, and what becomes available when you let geography rearrange you.
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Travel for Solar Return: Month Two After the Return
Part 8 of an ongoing experiment in relocation astrology. Month Two confirms the pattern from Month One—but something is starting to shift. Colorado is beginning to make itself known through unexpected public visibility, even as Tampa’s structure continues to define the work.
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Travel for Solar Return: Month One’s Surprising Results
Part 7 of an ongoing experiment in relocation astrology. After traveling to Colorado for my Solar Return, I came home to Tampa—and found that Month One looked almost entirely like my home chart. Structured productivity, systems building, emotional containment. The Colorado imprint hasn’t taken hold. Yet.
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Who’s Listening at the Airport?
From a facial recognition snafu at TSA to defense contractors talking too freely at the gate — a return trip from Colorado proves that privacy in public is mostly an illusion.
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Locational Astrology (Part 3): Travel, Timing, and the Places That Lit Me Up
Some places aren’t meant to hold your life—they’re meant to wake something up. A personal astrocartography tour through Ireland, Spain, England, Quebec, and Mexico.
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Locational Astrology (Part 2): Living My Best Life with Astrocartography
For the first time, I moved because a place felt right—not to escape something. Here’s what astrocartography reveals about seven years of living inside the lines that fit.
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Locational Astrology (Part I): Astrocartography in My Past Homes
I moved many times without ever really leaving—astrologically speaking. Here’s what 30 years on a disharmonious Sun square Midheaven line actually feels like.
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Spiritual Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: My Only Regret
There was a theme that repeated itself in my second SR 8th House visit.I have the option of letting that theme repeat again now, as I have just entered my third year of an Eighth House Sun. As far as I can tell, I don’t have any more of these to “look forward to” in…
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Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: The Fiscal Cliff, Safeguards, and the American Mindset
Five minutes after turning on the TV, I’d heard fear-mongering, so-called journalists screaming “fiscal cliff” at least 20 times. Ack! Not that I’m not concerned about our economy, but sometimes it seems it’s more fun for my fellow Americans, politicians in particular, to go into high-drama panic or either high-decible blame rather than roll up…
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The Hardest Part of the Camino de Santiago: Return to Society
Mom and daughter walk the Camino de Santiago together – here at O Cebreiro Pass The hardest part of walking the Camino de Santiago was not walking all day in the elements, not gasping my way uphill or trying to keep from skidding downhill as my knees screamed at me, not scrounging for excess clothes…
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Spiritual Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: You Can Never Go Back the Way You Came
You can dream, but you can never go back the way you came. Particularly if you are referring to a spiritual pilgrimage like the Camino de Santiago. We were only about 20 kilometers outside of Santiago de Compostela, our destination, when we began to notice an occasional backpacking pilgrim walking against the flow of traffic…
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Hurricane Isaac Evacuation and Lessons from the Camino
Hurricane Isaac evacuation time? Yes? No? I’ve lived in the Niceville-Destin Florida area of the Gulf Coast since 1983, so I’m accustomed to making decisions about tropical storm and hurricane evacuations. By the time any tropical storm is at the door of the Gulf of Mexico, I have to start thinking about whether to stay…
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Lessons from the Camino de Santiago: You Find What You Focus On…Good or Bad
Why did we get so upset last week? It wasn’t like him at all to behave the way I’d thought, and it wasn’t like me at all to behave the way he’d thought. It was like other people, though, and it was exactly like our worst fears, and that’s what we saw. It doesn’t really…
