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The Sword of Discernment The Heart Chakra as an Air Temple: Discernment, Boundaries, and the Mythic Art of Relating Most people imagine the heart as a soft, glowing pool of water — tender, emotional, endlessly giving. But in the ancient esoteric maps, the heart chakra is not a water center at all. It is an air temple. Air is clarity. Air is breath. Air is truth spoken without trembling. Air is the sword that cuts illusion from intimacy. To understand the heart as air is to un

The Beginning of a Series Keeper of the Night Journey I want to tell you the story of my mythopoetic life. Or more accurately the pressure to write is upon me and I cannot not follow the impulse. Mine has been a life shaped not by plans or goals, academics and social circles but by searing dreams, sudden directives, voices that arrive in the night, and visitations that rearrange the architecture of my days. A life trained by forces I did not choose, in landscapes I did not se

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939–1987) was a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master, scholar, poet, and one of the most influential teachers to bring Vajrayana Buddhism to the West. Recognized as the 11th Trungpa Tulku at just thirteen months old, he was trained rigorously in the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions — lineages known for their precision, discipline, and uncompromising commitment to direct experience. After fleeing Tibet during the Chinese invasion, Trungpa completed his mon

Become the architect of your life One of the foundational tools I teach my clients is the Navatara , a Vedic astrological system that maps the relationship between the Moon’s current position and an individual’s birth star (nakshatra). Navatara literally means “nine stars,” and it organizes experience into nine repeating categories that describe how planetary energy is received on a given day. The nine days repeat 3 times every lunar month. I teach my clients to work with thi