Jenny, happy New Year and thanks for all the amazing writing you are sharing here at the 🍩. Something that crossed my mind when you shared that your word for 2025 is Breakthrough is that you could explore the archetype of the planet Uranus in Astrology because that is the planet of breakthroughs. I have Uranus on the Ascendent and I have explored it quite a bit, happy to recommend resources if you’d like.
Love all those wonderful serendipities you are sharing and the theme of soil and composting too!
Thank you so much Milena, and huge happy new year wishes to you too!! Ooh, I love the idea of exploring Uranus as an archetype . . . I have it conjunct Jupiter in my third house of communication, so an astrologer once told me it was about flashes of insight. I hadn't yet made the connection to this year's theme, what a gift, thank you!! And do you have a word or theme for 2025? I'd love to know if so!
That is so exciting, Jupiter + Uranus is such a powerful combo! 🎇
Yes, I am finalizing my work on the word of the year but it will be something like NURTURE, very feminine and supportive 🌸. These past few years were rough so a gentle theme feels quite right.
Jenny, I think you would like to read “Dirt, the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth” by William Bryant Logan. One of my favorite books. It starts out in front of the Great Portal of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. We are all stardust, Jenny.
Ooh, thank you so much for the book rec John! I ordered it as soon as I saw your note — and I *love* the Cathedral of St. John of the Divine — one of the most beautiful structures in NYC, if not the world! Wishing you and yours the happiest new year — thank you so much, as always, for being here with me :D
Three cheers for wishful thinking! Can you imagine what thoughts would be like without wishes? I'm seeing you - and all of us - breaking through in 2025 ⛓️💥
Thank you Patrick, I love your energy!! You always bring such bright positivity :D And this! "Can you imagine what thoughts would be like without wishes?" So true :) Do you have a word or theme yet for 2025? Sending big huge hugs and so much love your way! ✨
I'm pulled to the comparison of "terroir" and "noir", obviously pulling their French suffix structure into conflated etymologies in my "Inbox Subject Line Skim" brain.
Noir, originally meaning black in French; and culturally meaning a genre of anything bleak, dark, and a bit cynical. Sometimes based in seedy crimes and black-and-white classics.
So learning about the seedy dark dirt roots of terroir, it makes sense in my word mind to see similarities in the two studies. How there would be a sense of "-oir" to the hard fought, scraping up from the depths of the soil, transformation that we sometimes go through.
Oooh, I love the etymology nerdery!! (Though I can never spell the damn word). In part two I talk about how close it is to "terror" (hah), so I love what you're bringing in here about noir!!! So good!! Might just have to add that in :) You've been on my mind this week — will try you soon for a New Year's SPIRL! Love how your mind words (<- freudian typo!) works :D
Jenny, happy New Year and thanks for all the amazing writing you are sharing here at the 🍩. Something that crossed my mind when you shared that your word for 2025 is Breakthrough is that you could explore the archetype of the planet Uranus in Astrology because that is the planet of breakthroughs. I have Uranus on the Ascendent and I have explored it quite a bit, happy to recommend resources if you’d like.
Love all those wonderful serendipities you are sharing and the theme of soil and composting too!
Thank you so much Milena, and huge happy new year wishes to you too!! Ooh, I love the idea of exploring Uranus as an archetype . . . I have it conjunct Jupiter in my third house of communication, so an astrologer once told me it was about flashes of insight. I hadn't yet made the connection to this year's theme, what a gift, thank you!! And do you have a word or theme for 2025? I'd love to know if so!
That is so exciting, Jupiter + Uranus is such a powerful combo! 🎇
Yes, I am finalizing my work on the word of the year but it will be something like NURTURE, very feminine and supportive 🌸. These past few years were rough so a gentle theme feels quite right.
Jenny, I think you would like to read “Dirt, the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth” by William Bryant Logan. One of my favorite books. It starts out in front of the Great Portal of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. We are all stardust, Jenny.
Ooh, thank you so much for the book rec John! I ordered it as soon as I saw your note — and I *love* the Cathedral of St. John of the Divine — one of the most beautiful structures in NYC, if not the world! Wishing you and yours the happiest new year — thank you so much, as always, for being here with me :D
Three cheers for wishful thinking! Can you imagine what thoughts would be like without wishes? I'm seeing you - and all of us - breaking through in 2025 ⛓️💥
Thank you Patrick, I love your energy!! You always bring such bright positivity :D And this! "Can you imagine what thoughts would be like without wishes?" So true :) Do you have a word or theme yet for 2025? Sending big huge hugs and so much love your way! ✨
I'm pulled to the comparison of "terroir" and "noir", obviously pulling their French suffix structure into conflated etymologies in my "Inbox Subject Line Skim" brain.
Noir, originally meaning black in French; and culturally meaning a genre of anything bleak, dark, and a bit cynical. Sometimes based in seedy crimes and black-and-white classics.
So learning about the seedy dark dirt roots of terroir, it makes sense in my word mind to see similarities in the two studies. How there would be a sense of "-oir" to the hard fought, scraping up from the depths of the soil, transformation that we sometimes go through.
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Oooh, I love the etymology nerdery!! (Though I can never spell the damn word). In part two I talk about how close it is to "terror" (hah), so I love what you're bringing in here about noir!!! So good!! Might just have to add that in :) You've been on my mind this week — will try you soon for a New Year's SPIRL! Love how your mind words (<- freudian typo!) works :D