Navigating Trauma: Insights on Karma’s Role

The content discusses the interconnectedness of trauma and karma, emphasizing that trauma can manifest as unresolved karmic residue. It highlights the importance of acknowledging trauma before attempting to contextualize it karmically and warns against using spiritual language insensitively. Genuine support and professional care remain crucial for healing.

Karma Explained: Action, Causality, and Your Journey

What Karma Actually Is (and Isn’t) In the West, we often have a rather muddy perspective on what karma is, and this means that often we don’t progress far on our path because of this limited understanding of causality. Karma has become one of those words that gets used so loosely it barely means anything […]

Human Permaculture: Why So Few of Us Know How to Belong

The author reflects on the challenges of fostering effective collaboration within community and Sangha events, emphasizing the need for skills in human permaculture. By aligning community dynamics with natural principles, individuals can learn to conserve resources, distribute roles, and create resilient ecosystems, essential for spiritual and collective growth in today’s interconnected world.

Unlocking Navamsha: Understanding Your Soul’s Journey in Vedic Astrology

The Chart Inside Your Chart: What the Navamsha (D9) Reveals About the Soul You Came Here to Complete I’ve just come to the end of almost a year of apprenticing with more some more advanced Vedic astrology teachings taught by Achala Sylwia Mihajlovic and Dr Arjun Pai, studying one chart in particular: the Navamsha. It’s […]

108: The Sacred Vibration Hidden in Your Navamsha (D9) Chart

Why 108? It’s a question that I’ve been fascinated by for years, and I’m far from alone. Seekers have turned this number over for centuries. My recent training in the Navamsha with prominent Vedic Scholar and teacher, Dr Arjun Pai (organised by the amazing Achala and Discovering Youniverse school!), didn’t hand me the question for […]

The Looping Problem: Why So Many “Awake” People Have No Resourcing

There is a particular kind of looping happening right now, and it’s not confined to beginners. I’m watching senior practitioners – people with years, sometimes decades, of spiritual practice behind them – go into total meltdown over what are, in the scheme of things, first-world problems. Not crisis-level events. Ordinary friction. And the meltdown is […]