With the world gazing down the barrel of World War III and fresh on the heels of the craziest two years since WWII, I want to share a perspective that's helped me so much to keep my sanity and optimism in these troubling times. This is the deliberate choice to look somewhere else, and ways to build a magic bubble to both improve well-being and contribute something beautiful and hopeful, even if it's small, to a troubled world.

READ POST/TRANSCRIPT: https://www.katymorikawa.com/the-magic-bubble/

LINKS: Subscribe to The New York Times for $1/week for one year by using my link: nytimes.com/share/hbbAAfa (I don't think I get anything from this, but if you want to support high quality journalism, and you don't see The Times as problematic).

- Jewel on Joe Rogan (go to 46:30 to listen to her insights about dilation and contraction) https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TRBNGScfO2K3RWRIYJedJ

- Andrew Huberman on Armchair Expert (go to 1:20:07) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ARrJfjusp7Xm4ApY9QX1s

- Jewel's Inspiring Children Foundation https://inspiringchildren.org/

This is an esoteric topic that remains oddly inscrutable to me: the sacred heart. What is it? This is Love Without End's beautiful explanation, minus the thorns and flames, plus a bit on the mind, soul, infinity, and more practices for strengthening the heart as a way to heal and fulfill your life.

READ POST/TRANSCRIPT https://www.katymorikawa.com/what-is-the-sacred-heart/

Buy Love Without End at https://www.lovewithoutend.com/ or Amazon.com.

REFERENCES

Green, G. (2011). Love Without End: Jesus Speaks. Fideli Publishing and Spiritis Publishing. Smashwords ebook edition, Chapter 2.

Sacred Heart. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 00:47, March 12, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacred_Heart&oldid=1073250794

With this post, we come to the end of my series on cancer. The topic here, the deeply immoral decisions that expose us to powerful cancer-causing agents, reaches far beyond just cancer itself. We're going to explore the troubling realm of DU weapons before we take a look at ways to pivot from a natural response of depression or reactionary activism to strengthening the heart as a muscle, as a defense against depression, anxiety, overwhelm, and hopelessness.

READ POST/TRANSCRIPT https://www.katymorikawa.com/cancer-is-a-symptom-iii-dastardly-and-immoral-deeds/

LINKS

[Edited 3/21/2022] Cancer is a symptom of our dissociation from the wisdom of the heart. This is an invitation to come back to a deeper radiance that can shelter us from harm. It will require that you confront some painful truths about the ways we all, usually unconsciously, participate in worldviews that sacrifice wonder and love for the sake of profits, assets, and convenience. Nowhere do we see this more clearly than in the relationship with our food animals, like the endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna, source of the delicacies of maguro sushi and sashimi. [This episode has been updated with a key segment to clarify the argument] 

READ POST/TRANSCRIPT: https://www.katymorikawa.com/cancer-is-a-symptom-ii-with-roots-in-the-heart/

LINKS:

"How Global Regulators Are Selling Out the World’s Largest Tuna" by Jennifer Telesca from Yale Environment 360 https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-global-regulators-are-selling-out-the-worlds-largest-tuna

Wikipedia article on "Intensive pig farming" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_pig_farming

Michael Pollan's This Is Your Mind on Plants https://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Mind-Plants/dp/B08RF1K2LD/

REFERENCES

I believe the epidemic of cancer is a symptom of a psychic or sensory deadness that fails to register toxins in our environment. We don't dodge or avoid them when we should, and our societies continue to tolerate toxins in our industries. Retraining our senses is a powerful first step to eliminating the widespread incidence of cancer.

The American Cancer Society says this about cancer: "Cancer cells develop because of multiple changes in their genes. These changes can have many possible causes. Lifestyle habits, genes you get from your parents, and being exposed to cancer-causing agents in the environment can all play a role. Many times, there is no obvious cause." - from "What Is Cancer?" at cancer.org.

READ POST/TRANSCRIPT: https://www.katymorikawa.com/cancer-is-a-symptom/

Photo of logging in the Canadian boreal forest: https://environmentalpaper.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/BorealClearcutsNRDCRiverJordan-980x455.png Read more in this NRDC article https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jennifer-skene/canadian-logging-industrys-spin-cycle about the terrible approach Canada is taking, and remember that the U.S. is their major market.

Articles on Baby Home Safety

Articles on Everyday Carcinogens

References

This is part skywatching guide for the 2022 Venus-Moon morning sky alignments, and a deeper dive into the mythic and astrological meanings associated with the Venus Morning Gates.

POST/TRANSCRIPT & DETAILED SKYWATCHING GUIDES https://www.katymorikawa.com/the-2022-venus-morning-gates/

LINKS & RESOURCES

Find the exact date of Mercury’s highest elevation at your location by clicking the wrench icon after the city name in the description which begins, “As seen from (location)…” HERE https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20220216_11_100 Same for Venus HERE https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20220320_11_100

Stellarium Web online tool for visualizing the sky at any time and day of the year https://stellarium-web.org/

In-the-Sky.org free skywatching guides. Night Sky feed https://in-the-sky.org/search.php?ordernews=asc&feed=thesky

See all the dates in the Venus Cycle for 2022-2023 https://www.katymorikawa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-2024-Venus-Cycle.pdf

Shamanic Astrology https://shamanicastrology.com/

Free Astrology Charts https://www.astro.com/

Katy's PayPal.Me https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/katymorikawa

When terrible needs arise, it's natural to look for saviors. But there is another way: to respond with great generosity. This is the Jupiter Principle, and I'm going to illustrate this by telling a story about how I decided to take action about climate crisis, and how the willingness to be the solution has opened up all new possibilities. This is not meant to preach or pressure activism, but to offer a pivot for when you're feeling overwhelmed by dire needs.

READ BLOG POST/TRANSCRIPT: https://www.katymorikawa.com/leaning-in-with-great-generosity-the-jupiter-principle/

LINKS

NETZERO COMPANY FEATURED PRODUCTS

This is a master teaching (not mine - you'll see!) about the adamantine particles, the smallest irreducible particles of matter, which quantum physics calls the Higgs boson. It is a cornerstone of cosmology and will form the basis of much of my map-making work.

READ BLOG POST/TRANSCRIPT https://www.katymorikawa.com/the-adamantine-particles-building-blocks-of-reality/

LINKS

In this post, I answer the question I've been getting ever since I relaunched this website: what is the imaginal? It is a good question and an important inquiry. I'm actually surprisingly happy with where I arrived in my understanding by taking on the topic. This, by the way, is part of the revelatory nature of the imaginal process, and one of the reasons I love doing this so much. Here then is that understanding as I've come to it: I see the imaginal process as a creative access to higher orders of reality, orders of reality which, in an infinitely expanding universe, must continue to expand out in ever widening spheres. These higher orders of reality can be thought of from a theoretical scientific perspective as higher dimensions or unknown areas of understanding about the physical universe. They can be seen from an esoteric, a shamanic, or artistic perspective, or any area which is unknown and theoretically unknowable at the present time. And so the imaginal is a stance and an art (and for me a discipline, since I’m wired up that way) which is not bound to a particular location or type of question, just as the artist is not bound to a particular medium or subject matter. Perhaps there is a place called the imaginal realm, where all imaginal works can be found–a great confluence of intersecting realities, creative works, and artists, like a massive art studio. If so it would be a truly stupendous, wild and magical, dangerous and haunting and brilliant place indeed, as Tolkein described the realm of faerie: “The Land of Fairy Story is wide and deep and high […] its seas are shoreless and its stars uncounted, its beauty an enchantment and its peril ever-present; both joy and sorrow are poignant as a sword.”[8] For now, I am focusing on the imaginal as a method which holds potentials for revelation, and thus lends itself to grappling with mysteries. I look forward to these revelations in the coming months and years.

READ POST/TRANSCRIPT https://www.katymorikawa.com/what-is-the-imaginal-and-how-does-it-differ-from-visionary-processes/

Astrology chart for Moon conjunct Venus on January 30, 2022 (1st Morning Gate of Venus) https://alittlemorefree.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Venus-2022-AM-1.png

Becca Tarnas' book Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings.

Find the rest of my references at the blog post linked to above.

This is a skywatching guide for observing Venus in the morning sky in early 2022, as well as a reflection on Venus' mythological history and archetypal astrological associations.

LINKS

Read the blog post/transcript https://www.katymorikawa.com/reflections-on-venus-the-morning-star/

Andrew Huberman on Armchair Expert (go to 1:20:07 for the segment on low angle sunlight's health benefits) https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ARrJfjusp7Xm4ApY9QX1s

Dates in the 2022-2023 Venus Cycle (more coming on how to work with these in a future episode) https://alittlemorefree.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2022-2024-Venus-Cycle.pdf

The *Starshine* Astrological Planner at alittlemorefree.com https://alittlemorefree.com/starshine/

Venus in culture. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:32, January 26, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venus_in_culture&oldid=1066845266

Planets in astrology. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:33, January 26, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Planets_in_astrology&oldid=1066344802

Shamanic Astrology https://shamanicastrology.com/

Map of Venus in 2022 https://in-the-sky.org/findercharts/05venus_2022_1.png

In-the-Sky.org charts for finding Venus (downloadable or interactive) https://in-the-sky.org/findercharts2.php?id=P2

For the Imaginal Journey step-by-step tutorial, listen to Episode 6 or visit https://www.katymorikawa.com/an-imaginal-journey-with-nature-in-7-easy-steps/