“If people bring so much courage to the world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms
Time of change and shedding skin. Clever and patient, the snake waits for the right time to take action, striking out exactly at the right moment. This is that year, waiting for impeding transformation, the only way is through the eye of needle. Good Luck People.
“We are doomed with out YOU, Walk the Truth.” My dear friend and I took a lovely hike at Onteora Lake with the very happy dog a few weeks past. We left a painted rock as an offering to the land on an alter by a very special campsite. We spoke of all things on that hike, death, medicine, the elementals, spirits, love, children, health, partnership, community, sadness, magic, holding space and pain. When her partner returned days later to visit the alter, there was a note under the rock. “We are doomed with out you, Walk the Truth.” This week a childhood friend of mine’s wife passed on…… I was at her funeral today. I felt this weeks experiences, many Winters, were in my bones, precious and tenuous it all is. The emergencies, the heightened energies, the polar forces, the vortexes that pull us through to the other side.…
For me, this entire year has been an exercise in getting through the door. A metaphysical portal of sorts, it would be the door labled acceptance. There is a lot of me saying to myself “it is Okay, everything is Okay”. I have been practicing for a long time but was not quite able to make the leap prior to the presidential election of 2024. It took a combination of unrelenting hard events, research, steel like inner perseverance and wild abandoned risk taking to cross the threshold. I think I might change my mind and go back the way I came, this place echos in hollowed space, off quiet walls. I was introduced to Human Design about three years ago by a dear friend, this body of investigation has given me some overall confidence and encouragement . It helped me understand why I often do not feel in sync with…
he said that the reason he was meditating was that it was the most radical act he could do to examine his own mind, practice non- violence to himself and by doing that he could change the world… or something like that.
Jipala R. Kagan founded Transpersonal Acupuncture in 2004 and Jipala Acupuncture PLLC in 2024. She is a NYS licensed acupuncturist, NCCAOM diplomate, Pediatric certified (2022), teacher and writer. Her 20 year practice focuses on emotional wellbeing and healing, it is individualized care for the motivated patient. She treats acute and chronic pain patterns, trauma and most internal symptoms. Jipala R. Kagan has written for a number of local publications and has released two books, Transelemental Medicine in 2022 and Living Arrows, Living in Aligned Stewardship in 2023. She is currently in a Chinese Herbal mentorship. She is raising two children. Please visit her website @ www.jipalakagan.com for more information.
I found our beloved cat, Penny, dead on the floor of the basement. It looked like she died of a heart attack. She was a magical cat of the highest order, she came us to at a time in our family, when she and her sister were desperately needed. She took her job of caring for my eldest child seriously, she would lay on her bed protecting her. She would lick her face and sit on her chest and purr. She could smell if one of the family was sick or upset and she would find us, nudge her way onto our chest and purr us back to health. I see her now as an angel that came to us for eight years and then left because her body wasn’t strong enough to keep her here. I cannot tell you how sad we all are, but especially my daughter, they…
The Mother morphs the Father. As easy as it is to understand the mother time of Earth, even the Yang mother is computable. It is that much more difficult to grok the time of Father that is Metal. The Father, the stern yet aloof ruler of the astrological houses. He rules with out being home a lot and his energy is wearied. Metal is certainly not warm and embracing, it is rather cold, harsh and unbending. It is like connecting with a galaxy of stars. More precious than anything, the gold under the mountain, connected to Spirit, the Holy energy. Your Monk in the mountains that prayers and fasts connects to the Divine and shares the sparse enigma of doctrine to those who are worthy. The deliverance of these teachings are usually pointless, where the lesson and the answers are riddles that mean nothing to seeker. The point of the…
What a hot Summer we had in July. The cool weather of this week is so welcomed, last night it was almost chilly. It was delicious. As usual, I have been on an education binge. I read a number of novels this Summer, as well as, studying Chinese Herbs and researching some topics of extreme weight and relevancy. We consistently speak of Earth time as the time of the mother. We usually, think of the mother as a nursing docile ever-loving, all -giving mother, the nurturer. I would like to invite the other mother onto the stage, the destructive mother, the mother that breaks down in the service of new life. The Yang mother, the one that will go to the end of the earth, to the bottom of the sea for the love of her children. The cold mother, she is the one, the figure to do your work…
This information should not be free, It is not free to just take and idly ponder over. It is not free. Do I have to say that again? No need to be lazy. It takes a lifetime to figure this out and the cost..If you see this and do not use it, then you are missing an incredible opportunity. If you take this, practice it and use it for your community. Give something back, don’t just take. My thought is this if as person you choose not to feel the pain of living, a soul incarnated into mass on a physical plane. If you do not feel this in your body. The pain that you do not feel goes somewhere. It goes to someone else in your family. It goes to a population of people that are not like you and therefore a lesser species. It fuels the criticism and…