05/19/2026
My thesis for my Masters in Lit at San Francisco State University was titled Unordinary Faith. Reminds me of this...
From Rob Brezsny's Free Will Astrology - always inspiring.
• Our faith has to become less about what we believe and more about what we dare to enact in the face of fear, failure, and futility.
Belief is no longer a noun we possess but a verb we perform. The question shifts from “What’s your spiritual path?” to “What does your spiritual path lead you to do on a Tuesday morning when nothing feels meaningful?”
Saturn cares about our follow-through. Neptune cares about whether we can stay devoted to mystery even when mystery offers no comfort. Together they are midwifing a faith that is athletic, weather-beaten, and unromantic. It’s a faith we could trust our life to because it has already been tested by life.
• This is the end of spectator spirituality. The cosmos is pressuring us to choose. Do we retreat into anesthetized cynicism, the easiest religion of our era, requiring nothing but a smirk? Or do we take up the vulnerable, unglamorous work of living our most compassionate vision in real time, in real bodies, in real conflict?
There is no neutral position anymore. Every soul is being summoned onto the field, not as a champion but as a participant in a cause that’s larger than personal victory.
Aries is the sign of beginnings, and what begins now is the long, awkward, exhilarating practice of becoming the people our prophecies have been describing.
Not someday. Not when conditions improve. Now, with this body, in this hour, with whatever fear is currently moving through us.
. . . is fun, daunting, humbling, and impossible
