Follow your bliss
Every so often, we reach a junction in life where a choice must be made. Suddenly, the freedom to choose turns into the nausea of decision—one that could alter the course of everything that follows.
The word decide comes from the Latin decidere, meaning to "to cut off." Every decision is an act of severance: cutting yourself off from what could be, and stepping with courage into what is.
I remember facing such a moment when I decided to go to graduate school. I had to choose between a prestigious, well known program and one that was more esoteric and less understood. I knew which one would make my parents proud and my career safer. But...I felt a pulse of deep adventure in the school that didn't check all the boxes.
Everything I do now—from these words I write to the offerings I create—traces back to that single decision to follow my bliss, to walk toward the unknown. And I'll be honest: following my bliss hasn't been easy. In fact, it's been a struggle. But a beautiful struggle. A struggle worth sharing.
I have a firm belief in this now, not only in terms of my own experience, but in knowing the experiences of other people. When you follow your bliss, and by bliss I mean the deep sense of being in it, and doing what the push is out of your own existence—it may not be fun, but it's your bliss and there's bliss behind pain too. You follow that and doors will open where there were no doors before, where you would not have thought there were going to be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anybody else...And so I think the best thing I can say is follow your bliss.
—Joseph Campbell
If you're following your bliss: I'm excited to see where this journey will take you. Venture forth!
If you're still struggling to follow your bliss: take a gentle pause; you already know what to do. It's just fear that is holding you back.
And if you haven't found your bliss: you're lucky, because a grand adventure is waiting just around the corner! Keep listening.
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You Don’t Need an Alter Ego, You Need a Myth
In this video, Somya shares 3 reasons why developing a myth is a stronger alternative to creating an alter ego, drawing on depth psychology and archetypal astrology to reveal how real transformation comes from integration, not imitation.
You’ll learn why alter egos can lead to fragmentation, what it truly means to live with a myth, and how your birth chart holds the missing key to living your deeper story.
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Outer Planets Ephemeris
An ephemeris charts the movements of planets through time. For centuries, astrologers and astronomers have used it to map the sky.
If you’ve ever wanted to see how the planets have been aligning through time, we’ve made it easy: a 30-year outer planetary ephemeris is now freely available on our website. It's a simple, visual way to explore the long cycles shaping our collective history and culture.
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Sora AI and Dead Celebrities
Open AI's Sora, a new video generation app, has surged in popularity among meme creators. Yet, it has also stirred discomfort among the families of deceased celebrities, such as Robin Williams' daughter.
While Open AI has long faced scrutiny over copyright and data use, the dead were never part of that conversation—until now. Since Sora's launch, clips like Michael Jackson stealing chicken at KFC have gone viral, blurring the boundary between satire and séance.
This eerie new form of celebrity resurrection mirrors the current Saturn-Neptune alignment (2024-2027), a cycle that fuses the real and the ideal.
Saturn represents what is old, enduring and immortalized.
Neptune represents what is otherworldly, fantastical, and illusory.
Together, they form an archetypal polarity: the romanticizing of the dead (Neptune idealizing Saturn) and the giving of form to the formless (Saturn containing Neptune). The result: ghosts that look real enough to sell, sing, or even tell jokes again.
But this is not the first time such a theme has permeated the collective. The 1999 film The Sixth Sense, released under a Saturn-Neptune alignment (browse the ephemeris), captured the same haunting idea: that the dead still walk among us. Across decades, this alignment seems to conjure an enduring fascination with making the invisible visible and the gone present.
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Jane Goodall on Impact
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
– Jane Goodall (passed away October 1, 2025)
