Michael Erlewine

Michael Erlewine LANIAKEA: “IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN” Just pronounce the word. ‘Laniakea’ is the supercluster of galaxies in the universe. If we are looking for a mudra that is as subtle as a leaf in a gentle breeze or.....

Laniakia: "Immeasurable Heaven"

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Michael Erlewine NOTHING AS SOMETHING Walked today down by the creek and along the creek now swollen with melting snow from the spring runoff. The forest floor and the path we walked, flattened by winter, is already....

Nothing As Something

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Michael Erlewine ASTRO*TALK: TERABYTE OF FREE DATA These are the years of my dispersal of archived material: film, movies, rock concert posters, music data, astrology books, and a lot of the stuff. In addition, I.....

Astro*Talk: Terabyte of Free Data

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Michael Erlewine MY LITTLE BLUE BLANKET I have a knack for dragging my past behind me through the present like a little kid does his little blue blanket. I’m technically an archivist of popular culture. How did I...

My Little Blue Blanket

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Michael Erlewine SHARING WITH THE FUTURE “The University of Illinois Library has acquired the extensive collection of astrology journals and books belonging to Michael Erlewine, an American musician, astrologer,...

Sharing With the Future

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Michael Erlewine RINPOCHE’S REMARKS ON MICHAEL’S STROKE My introduction to what is called “Recognition” of the nature of the Mind took place years ago. I’d love to tell you about it, yet here I am more interested in....

Rinpoche's Remarks on Michael's Stroke

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Michael Erlewine INTO THE HAYMARSH Margaret and I drove out to the Haymarsh State Game Area for a looksee and the lakes and marshes were still frozen, although a thin layer of melting water could be seen on the ice.....

Into the Haymarsh

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Michael Erlewine HOWLIN’ WOLF AND ALL HEART Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 We don’t think with our heart. We feel with our heart. We are moved to feel, and with our gut too. How do we come by that? In my fifty...

Howlin' Wolf and All Heart

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Michael Erlewine INSCAPE: MY KEY TO TAKING GOOD PHOTOS The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins came up with a concept that struck me as true. He even made up his own word to describe it, “inscape.” Inscape was to Hopkins an.....

Inscape: My Key to Taking Good Photos

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Michael Erlewine SURFING THE EDGE I try to stay up to date at least with my own changes, but lately it’s a bit like a kaleidoscope, especially with the world situations directing the show. What does that even mean...

Surfing the Edge

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Michael Erlewine MY FRIENDSHIP WITH ASTROLOGER ROBERT SCHMIDT I’m starting to dig through the 80 hard drives I have collected, one by one. I came across a video from the 2nd Neo-Astrology Conference is June of...

My Friendhship with Astrologer Robert Schmidt

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Michael Erlewine CASTING SPRING I am once again reaching toward spring, although practically speaking spring is still in the future. Even at the spring equinox here in northern Michigan is not quite spring. Yes, we.....

Casting Spring

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Michael Erlewine KHENPO GANGSHAR WANGPO The particular take on Mahamudra meditation that my dharma teacher taught a number of times was first presented in Tibet around 1958, just before the diaspora in Tibet, the...

Khenpo Gangshar Wamgpo

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We Become What We Want

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Michael Erlewine THE LOVED ONE: AN OBJECT OF LOVE It’s not the same as becoming objective but it is related. I’ve done research into being lovable, which at least at heart means being enough of an object for there...

The Loved One: An Object of Love

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Michael Erlewine IN FOR A NICKEL , IN FOR A DIME William Blake: "How do you know but ev'ry Bird that cuts the airy way, / Is an immense world of delight, clos'd by your senses five? --“The Marriage of Heaven and...

In For a Nicel, In For a Dime

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Michael Erlewine “WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE” The operative words here are “We Weave.” Most of our thoughts, comments, and readings are leading, meaning they further bind us to samsara. Samsara does not have to...

"What a Tangled Web We Weave"

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Weaving Samsara
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Life Is But A Dream

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Michael Erlewine THE FLAME OF BECOMING If we have no permanent being like a permanent "Soul' that flits from life to life, what kind of being do we have? I am intrigued by the old phrase "What a becoming dress she...

The Flame of Becoming

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Michael Erlewine “ALL ABOARD” [Yes, the stasis or fix I have been in as the New Moon came around and we begin to head toward Full Moon and the next eclipse begins to release, and we are freed up at least a little.].....

"All Aboard"

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Michael Erlewine STABILITY OF SPACE I’ve been studying the empty space in a natal chart for some time. We each have the nine planets, and we also each have the same amount of space in a chart. It just depends on how....

The Stability of Space

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Michael Erlewine THE MEANING OF MEANING What is a ‘deep dive” when it comes to meaning in our lives. I imagine that varies with each of us. I can only tell you what I think and what I know about this. For me the...

The Meaning of Meaning

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Michael Erlewine “LOOK MA, NO HANDS” [New Moon: Annular Solar Eclipse at 4:56 AM EST. This is the first of two eclipses, two weeks apart, so this means a special time when we should do our best to monitor our own...

"Look Ma, No Hands"

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Michael Erlewine ARE YOU LOVEABLE? I think I need to talk about being loveable, because I feel it is misunderstood. And it’s easy to determine if we are loveable or not. Just answer these questions: Are you...

Are You Lovable?

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Michael Erlewine SPRING TEASE Edging toward spring and the light is already much brighter. As for the cold, it is still there but there are days we can walk down the middle of the street with boots on. Sneakers for.....

Spring Tease

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Michael Erlewine INTERPRETING RELATIONSHIPS You want to look into the helio planets and patterns because in the helio chart the planets are tied or bound to the Sun by gravity, while in the Earth or geo chart, they.....

INTERPETING RELATIONSHIPS

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Michael Erlewine RELATIONSHIP TYPES: PART TWO LOVER, LOVED ONE, INDEPENDENT, OR MULTI-RELATIONAL More important to me than even programming astrology for astrologers was heliocentric astrology because it taught me.....

Relationship Charts: Part Two

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Michael Erlewine RELATIONSHIP TYPES LOVER, LOVED ONE, INDEPENDENT, OR MULTI-RELATIONAL [Here are some photos of how I wrote out charts before computers. I had thousands of them in chronological order stored in...

Relationship Types

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Michael Erlewine BLAST FROM THE PAST: PHOTOGRAPHY [i know, another long article, and it’s about photography to boot, and my history with it and in the present as well. Just don’t read it. I do have a few photography....

Blast From the Past: Photography

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