Elizabeth Spring's Blog, page 16

"Cultivating the Witness"

"Do not speak for those who can speak…but for those who cannot. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre de Chardin




Dearest Kendra~

You ask me, what do I think? I'm proud of you for finding that extra energy to get out there and "do something" and then to take the time to sit down and write about it all. That's not easy to do when you're feeling miserable and scared. Maybe this quote above can help both of us keep a good per...

Loving the Unloveable~the Wound of Pluto

Dear Isabelle~


I feel un-loveable. I feel fat and miserable. I feel like climbing out of my skin, and something inside me wants to slither away like a snake or retreat like a turtle. I know the turtle image is fitting for my Moon in Cancer, but I can't hide now- I need to attempt, yet another, Sun-in-Scorpio "rebirth". I'm sick and tired of dying and being reborn, but I know I must do it. I can just imagine you saying: "this is the nature of Scorpio. This is the nature of a Saturn Return." And...

How to Read an Astrology Chart: What matters Most

Dear Kendra~

When I look at my own chart, or a client's chart, I want to find out first what is truly going on here--what is the question beneath the question? And I want the chart to give me a clue as to what would be most helpful in "solving" that issue. I don't want to bring up fear or excuses, shame or blame, I simply want to see what and why, and how to make it better.



So, I look at the transits first, to see what area of life the planets are throwing the spotlight on, and look to see if ...

Yearning to Reconcile: Christian fundamentalism, Celtic Spirituality and Jungian Astrology

Dear Isabelle~

I was touched by your willingness to get over the mask of the teacher--the "persona mask" and so poignantly tell me the story about meeting up again with Alistair and Sophie—and your yearning to heal the splits among you. This photo of a "split open rock" that I'm sending, reminded me of the pain of that "severance" I hear in your voice...it also reminds me of the resurrection story of Jesus when he split open the tomb. Ah…breaking open and breaking through…what a challenge! I l...

Invisible Realms in Celtic Spirituality

I'm reluctant to leave this place that is so embedded with Celtic Spirituality! I took one more solitary walk before leaving the island, and took a photo of a spiral stone-- it reminded me how the Celts experience the Divine as a tender force, not visible, but present in all things. Such a sweet reminder! The world of nature was a constant companion to them--and as the Irish poet, John O'Donohue, said: "the Celts remind us that we need a gentle light where the Soul can be sheltered and reveal...

Lindisfarne to Whitby

Dear Kendra~

I'm so sorry I dropped our writing correspondence when all this happened with Sophie. I suspect with your Moon in Cancer, squaring Pluto, you might be sensitive to anything that feels like abandonment or neglect. If I hadn't finally phoned you from Lindisfarne to catch up on my "disappearance" I would have felt very guilty! But here we are again, and I will get over my private feelings of needing to keep up any appearances –-even in the holding of the teacher/mentor persona….that ...

Private Journal at Lindisfarne

I'm here—on the "Holy Island" of Lindisfarne staying at the room Sophie reserved for herself at the Christian Retreat Center, while she's at the hospital on the main-land. This is all too strange. There's a lovely Celtic Cross hanging above the wooden writing table, and I love the feel of it here—I can even see the white-capped ocean waves through the diamond leaded glass windows. But—it also feels like some horrid dream. This is not the way I would have wanted to visit this mystical place…I ...

Lindisfarne

Oh Kendra~


I got a call from the British hospital late last night about Sophie. She had gone on "pilgrimage" to Lindisfarne—which she'd never told me about— I had no idea that her dream to walk to the Holy Island 'through the waters' to her sacred site meant crossing dangerous undertows of incredibly fast tides. I had no idea she planned to walk at night, by herself through the waters—it was a New Moon last night, and it must have been very dark. I still don't know if she knew how many "pilgri...

Dear Kendra, Sept 5th

Dear Kendra~

I just found this poem I wrote for Alistair and I, years before our separation, and it made me cry. I wrote it after we returned from a trip to France, and I believe there was a wonderful Neptune/Venus aspect happening at the time.



Neptune rules nostalgia, film and photographs, yearning, illusions, and combined with Venus it nurtures romantic idealism at its best. I remember thinking Alistair and I would be together always…such a sense of severance I feel now…



I called the Poem "Old...

Private Journal, August 26

Private Journal, August 26, 2010


It was only in 1920, on this day, that women got the right to vote in the United States! Ah~ how those women struggled "to have a voice" and how we still struggle to find our true voice, our authentic Self and express it…every one of us.



This language of astrology has become a voice for me. But it's strange how ambivalent I feel about it! I hate cocktail-talk astrology, and just don't do it. And when I called Kendra after the last letter about her miscarriage, I...