Jennifer Freed PhD

10/13/2025

Astrology of Creation: Mercury & Mars in Scorpio Trine Jupiter
Right now, Mercury and Mars travel together through Scorpio, forming a harmonious trine to expansive Jupiter. This is the cosmic alignment of deep, transformative, and committed expression. Mars brings drive, Mercury lends focus and clarity, and Jupiter opens the door to opportunity, fortune, and growth. Together, they invite us to take an enormous leap toward our most flowing waters of creation.
We are living in a time of overstimulation and endless consumption. Every scroll, every ping, every beautifully produced show feeds the senses but rarely nourishes the soul.
Creativity is the antidote to consumption To create is to return to our essence—to contribute instead of extract, to breathe life back into the world that so often takes our attention hostage.
I am not here to shame the pleasures of the digital age.
I will not stop scrolling through animals kissing babies.
I will not stop my staying-informed Substack reading.
I will not stop my nightly viewing of excellent television while snuggling my beloved.
But I will complement all of that with daily doses of singing, dancing, drawing, writing, and gardening. I do not create because I am competing or needing approval. I create because it fills me with joy and purpose.
We cannot prevent the rise of the digital or AI world. But we can root ourselves ever more deeply in our senses and our sense-pleasure—touch, taste, sound, movement, and presence. No one on their deathbed will bemoan not being able to scroll one last time. But many will wonder where all the time went—and who they did not touch, listen to, care about, or feel.

10/10/2025

My friend Jen B says everyone is scared of everyone. We are living in an age of collective startle. The hum of fear is everywhere — in headlines, in hurried conversations, in the small twitch of the body that braces for impact before anything even happens. Most people don’t realize that once the reactive, involuntary fear brain is activated, presence disappears. We are no longer here; we are hijacked by ghosts of the past or forecasts of disaster.
Of course, fear is sacred and necessary when it signals real danger — when the body must act quickly to protect itself or another. But fear, when stoked by stories, algorithms, and propaganda, ceases to be protective and becomes poisonous. It narrows our hearts, obscures reality, and replaces curiosity with suspicion. In this contracted state, everyone begins to look like an enemy, and our shared humanity vanishes behind walls of imagined threat.
What if we dared to imagine a life without added fear, without the constant topping-off of anxiety, without inherited narratives of doom? What if we turned off the sirens for a while and listened to the steady rhythm beneath them — the rhythm of life itself?
A world unmanipulated by fear would be one in which we could see each other clearly again, not as symbols of danger but as souls in progress. It would be a world where we could disagree without demonizing, protect without persecuting, and rest without numbing.“A life without manipulated fear is a life untainted by false divisions, demons, and forecasts.” — Dr. Jennifer Freed

10/06/2025

10/06/2025

Holy plums

10/04/2025