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Everyone’s a Superstar to Orbit

As you know, I don’t put much stock in the changing of the calendar year. But I do put stock in what you put stock in—much like the transformative power a beloved object holds after years of us cradling it. So I can feel your resignation and disappointment seeping away tonight—the hope you are harboring however cautiously—and I love it. More than that, I love you. To that end, I offer only one piece of advice for this upcoming year: Do what your heart tells you. Not your brain, not your pelvis, not your ego, not your fear, not your past, not anyone around you. If there is one thing 2020 taught us: there is no institution more powerful than love. Trust this energetic field. More than that: Embody it.

So may we inhabit our bodies respectfully and joyfully in 2021. May we eschew punishing exercise and diet and clothing in favor of whatever helps us relish our bodies even more. And may we be more lovingly present with each other—more sensual, even when we’re not sexual—when we once again can play, dance, dress, dine, hug, smooch, fuck freely. Physical freedom is a gift. When we regain it, let us treasure it accordingly.

Astro PSA: Full Moon in Cancer

Most of us are spending this week between Christmas and New Years in our PJs, and tonight’s full moon in its home sign of homebody Cancer supports this impulse. But Capricorn season is always about reality checks, and with both the Sun and Moon conjuncting Chiron, the Wounded Healer, don’t be surprised if issues around intimacy and domestic stability come up to be healed. Honor whatever discordance you experience, because this last full moon of a truly heartbreaking year is here to help us release our impediments to true compassion and peace. So howl your heartbreaks at the moon, drop them in the water, maybe even burn them on a piece of a paper. All that matters is you make room for bigger and better love because that’s how we’re all going to heal in the year to come. As Alice Walker says: The way forward is with a broken heart.

Sweet Stillness

And now the beautiful stillness between Christmas and New Years begins. In other years, it was a time of revelry, of endless parties and indulgence. Though my life has been too quiet in these last few months of injury and isolation, I confess I find the texture of this stillness to be different—to be magical, in fact. It reminds me of my favorite Annie Dillard quote: “We awake, if we ever awake at all, to mystery.” May this divine mystery find you.

Art: “Starry Night,” Matthew Wong.

"All, everything I understand, I understand only because I love."
― Leo Tolstoy