Imagine that you have been rowing a little boat, alone, on an ocean so vast that you cannot see where it ends. You have been rowing for what feels like lifetimes and, perhaps in the truest sense, it has been. Sometimes you have met another soul out on the water, someone who could row beside you for a while, someone who made the crossing feel less solitary. Sometimes, you met someone who stole your paddles when you weren't looking, or who rowed for you if you were lucky enough

Part One: The Witness In 1989 I was eight years old, living in Hong Kong. I didn’t understand geopolitics. Children don’t read the news. They read the room and feel the tension. Hong Kong took to the streets in silence, holding candles for the students in Tiananmen Square. A city mourning on behalf of people it could not save, for a freedom it knew was also its own future question. The adults around me performed normalcy with the practiced efficiency of people who understood

This week, astrology reaches an intensity most of us will experience only once: a New Moon solar eclipse at 29° Aquarius - the last breath before dissolution, the point of no return - square Uranus at 28° Taurus, while Saturn and Neptune meet at 0° Aries on February 20th. The cosmic egg cracks open at the zero point of the zodiac. Something entirely new attempts to be born from the ashes. It's like having your fingers plugged into an electrical socket, whether you want it or