What am I passionate about?
With Mars squaring Uranus – an aspect that predicts sudden passionate outbursts, this is a timely question as a few blocks of Los Angeles convulse and the US is engaged in several wars.
Personally, I am passionate about how language is used and about personal – rather than projected, sovereignty.
Especially how language is used to program ourselves and each other within our collectives –to encourage limitation and compliance meanwhile stripping many of dignity.
Because I come from a place of practicality, this lead to my vision of ‘souk school’ and ‘souk school community collective’. https://drjenwyman-clemons.com/2025/04/25/summary-of-souk-school-and-collective-its-value-and-blessings/
This is a blueprint to kindle passion in kids and adults as they become USEFULLY creative and rewarded for competence. This holds the key to having earned self-esteem. As a result, individuals can contribute within and between demographic collectives in a healthy respectful way.
I’m also passionate about exploring ideas and practices that support healthy and sustainable living – like what is really a healthy diet and what exercise is stimulating but not destructive? While my “solutions” aren’t one-size-fits-all, they probably fit most. For that I lean on fundamental Ayurvedic principles. I reference these in the above essay.
As a living waveform – which I certainly am (and we are), in terms of being probabilistic clouds of electrons energized by mitochondrial “organs”, you could consider each hu(e)-man beings as being like a candle flame.
For most or really all of my life, like most women and minorities, my little candle of self has been mostly snuffed out by those who expound, influence, and control airwaves. Here’s an essay about nourishing our flame of self. https://drjenwyman-clemons.com/2023/05/19/care-and-feeding-on-ones-wave-form-of-self/
Truthfully, late in my sixth decade now, I see little evidence of being able to shift anything. Since I’m now on borrowed time, meaning my health is being supported by outside doctors, my time for transition (dying away from the tangible world) is coming up.
Maybe changes will come posthumously. Or maybe my collective world will just keep on its trajectory. Sigh. At least I’ve been trying to offer my take on things.
I’m passionate too about the need to reform astrology. Getting back to the waveform analogy, as we are beings of tangible matter, we are also the physical embodiment of planetary energies (thank goodness for Saturn – or none of us would be here moving matter around!!!).
For too long we’ve been conditioned by the words of the “patriarchy”. Traditional astrologers in particular demonize anything about the “divine feminine”. I get it. As they developed their craft during Medieval times, they tread the fine line between a rock and hard place navigating their language so the king(s) didn’t get too upset when fiery Mars or frightening Saturn were acting up and The ‘churches’ didn’t burn them at the stake. IN the western world, they were threatened and persecuted themselves.
To call a planet in “detriment” or “fall” or “combust” makes one who has such planets feel less than. I’m sorry but these are not uplifting or empowering words. And the south node has all our natural gifts – it isn’t evil. (I have several of these placements).
What they’re referring to are qualities of Divine Feminine – which sorts, witnesses, reinforces (by giving attention), organizes, and listens.
Remember the king wants to keep his power and form – like Lord Farquad in “Shrek”; he doesn’t want to share or grow up himself. And don’t get me started on divisive religions!
As a global community, astrologers only give credence to tangible and measurable actions – Divine Masculine traits. We need this FOR SURE (!!!)– but we need the DF too. With their ongoing use of negative language, in their own way they quash self-esteem.
Every being has value and worth and can uniquely contribute to their collective. (And It may turn out that in addition to “bright stars”, “black holes” are immensely important!!)
It is ~nearly impossible to “reach” those so fully indoctrinated with the idea of externalized success, when a system, for them, is working. Yet I try. https://drjenwyman-clemons.com/2024/08/04/letter-to-a-young-traditional-astrologer/
So far my observations are brushed away like an inconvenient spider’s web.
Don’t even get me started on the destructive nature of Western Medicine. (I used to be an internal medicine and allergy/immunology physician for 30 years.) According to the Law of Attraction, what we speak to – we get more of. Health is a different thing altogether from anything western docs focus on.
I’m also passionate about Kabbalah. While not Jewish myself, this construct of our sacred merkaba accurately presents a much broader perspective of what intelligence really is. There are 32 paths – the Stanford-Binet (an early IQ test) measures one of them. As creatures, we have all 32. Some are superhighways from lineage training; some are dirt paths. With skillful investments of time and thoughtful understanding, we can strengthen even the weakest.
And we are embedded in our initial intimate firmaments of family and society which affect each differently.
To manifest durable abundance, you kind of need all of them.
8 responses to ““What am I passionate about?””
In India, astrologers also talk a great deal about feminine energy “Shakti”. Yoga, meditation are important for improving holistic health. Some researchs proved that.
Thank you for reading it! India is one of my favorite places and is so rich with humanism. I visited twice in the 80s. Then I felt like I was home. I love seeing and experiencing mystic and spiritual life incorporated into everyday reality. I do wonder if the Vedic astrologers are a little heavy on the Divine Masculine though- but this could be what has filtered through to me (I’m learning western astrology). You might be entertained (or insulted) by my re-interpretation of the Krishna story when he seduced all the women. The divine feminine (or Shakti?) powers of being are listening, organizing, sorting, being. Meditation is very helpful for quieting the mind before such tasks. You might also like my Vipassana retreat essay which is about the beauty of silence. And I am so sorry and sad for India’s painful tragedy today. I’m still in tears.
Your krishna story is completely incorrect. He was not some cunning boy that steal other’s wife from their husbands. Husbands didn’t use to beat their wives. I don’t know what is your source of information. It’s completely wrong. In most days, we listen to his childhood tales which teaches us true devotion which doesn’t need ritual practices, just true surrender.
Krishna wasn’t stealing wives – he wooed them. His flute was a melody that was sweet and entrancing – many hadn’t been treated so kindly. They all went back to their husbands. Mother-in-laws have been known to be very unkind to the daughter-in -law and there used to be slave-like conditions for both men and women in many parts of the world, India- included. I read the story in the book, “Trickster Makes His World” by Lewis Hyde. In it, Hyde wonders why Krishna did what he did and then disappeared. I was responding to that. I meant no irreverence. Blessings.
Please know, for the last five years and until very recently, I’ve been ‘dealing’ with a version of possession that was extremely intrusive. I can only describe it as a full on version of a loving daemon that has been in my aura day and night, after someone – a man I barely knew, said things to me while I was in a severe state of distress- probably suicidal (so suggestible). The timing itself was nothing short of miraculous.
“Dealing” with it, for me someone who was and is normally very well put together, was by surrendering to it totally and ‘making it my own’ self. Since the man himself disappeared, I’m considering it a version of soul retrieval. The experience inspired me to write these 200+ essays, in addition to essays about the Love Daemon (L.D. series). Probably that’s the reason the story resonated so strongly! I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if historical evidence showed the story with Lord Krishna really happened.
Sending prayers for your healing. I heard about Lewis Hyde for the 1st time. His person beliefs, biases might have influenced his book. During krishna’s time, there was injustice in some parts of the india. But where he lived, he ensured just treatment . Your post doesn’t represent the great teachings that lord Krishna had given throughout his life. In Mahabharata war, krishna showcased that if you try to snatch a woman’s dignity then there would be far worse consequences. His lessons are still relevant today. Consider reading bhagavad geeta, the book has many life lessons. May your problems get solved.🕉️
Like the women wooed by Lord Krishna, who were never the same again after he made intense love to them, and no doubt enhanced kindness within their collective and even the men ‘upped their game’, after my ongoing experience I seem to be changed as well. For the better I hope! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify my previous remarks.
So incorrect information. What is the source of your information about this story? He is God, took birth in human form for a purpose. He is God, he looks so beautiful that mothers in Vrindavan were loving him like their own son. When he played flute, the tune is so amazing that they sit quietly listening to the tune. His Bhagavad Bhagavad is so relevant till date.