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The Interstitium

This week’s NYT had an article about a new discovery: a whole network of pathways in the body through which both biological and synthetic particles travel. There was a Radiolab episode about this network released on November 17, 2023. The Western medical community had difficulty finding these pathways because they are only present in live tissue; in deceased human anatomy, they appear as holes and cracks in the tissue wall. I remember in 2002, Kikko Matsumoto, an amazing Japanese Acupuncturist, told us about the triple heater and how it is one continuous pathway in the body that connects everything together, every organ, every muscle, every cell, as she wrote about in her books. She was talking about this pathway for at least 30 years, and she is one of many Chinese Medical practitioners. On the one hand, it is cool that Western medicine actually found it. For a long time,…

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Victim to F@#&%*& Power

The system of energetics is seriously handicapped in Western culture. There has been an unhealthy and unbalanced emphasis on proving human systems, such as health and healing, with exact measurements. This hyperfixation has caused us to overlook powerful moments and choices that could lead us to a better future. I think it was misused in order to gain power over the masses and make them malleable, to take advantage of us. I believe the spiritual bypassing and idiot-shaming of the concept of energetics were done deliberately to keep people from exploring it. Even the idea of “new age” is limiting us too much at this point in history. If you believe in energy, you can hold yourself in poise and wield a force that exists and that you are already linked into a stream of movement. Tongue of light, a hidden force of energy that exists above us like DU20,…

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Panpsychism

“Panpsychism is the idea that everything, every particle, the ink on the page, the atoms, all have some infinitesimal degree of psyche or consciousness, and somehow this consciousness is combined in some way from our cells and the rest of our bodies to create this kind of superconsciousness.” Michael Pollan I think about this kind of thing a lot, and if you feel this to be true, then you are just a sack of particles floating in a universe of similar particles. Quite a humbling thought, and it really takes our egos down a few notches. Also, it stands to reason that everything you embody will be magnified tenfold into the world, so choose wisely. Use your energy thoughtfully, it could be said. Acupuncture had this theory locked in about 5,000 years ago, also very humbling. The modality addresses one of the original structures of energetic medicine, along with many…

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March 2026 “Who sees all beings in their own self, and their own self in all beings, loses all fear.” Starhawk Jipala Acupuncture PLLC, formerly Transpersonal Acupuncture, is celebrating 22 years of service this coming Spring. My work has taken on a life of its own, deep, profound, and magical. I cannot express how blessed I am to interact with individuals on this transformational level. I am so grateful to participate in and facilitate this type of healing, to work with all the incredible individuals, families, and communities. Thank you for your part in making this possible. I am still taking on an occasional new person, only if they are referred by an existing client. I plan to keep teaching, writing, and consulting, and to grow this aspect of my practice in the next two years. You may be wondering what I have been up to in the last 4 years. I…

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Mother Goose

For every Evil under the sun, there is a remedy, or there is none. If there be one, seek till you find it; If there be none, never mind it. Mother Goose A moment in time, to show up or to disappear. I believe that if we all elevated our consciousness and stood firm in nurturing a healthier culture, change would follow. It will happen; it is just a matter of when. The Ruth Asawa exhibit was an example to me of how she had something to say and a pattern she had to express. She created, over and over again, a message without a direct voice. I think this kind of work can influence karma and change the landscape for the next generations. You can be part of this kind of movement; it is a matter of what you choose to focus on and where you put your Shen.…

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Yang Fire Horse

The year of the Yang Fire Horse is coming, and we are wrapping up the Year of the Yin Wood Snake. I am grateful to be slithering out of 2025. There is something about the full tilt energy of a galloping horse that really appeals to me. It is going to be a furious year of change, and a lot of what the fuck is happening? I would rather that kind of shift than waiting and shedding, the previous snake and rabbit years. We’d better fasten our seatbelts. “We take turns fucking up. We take turns getting it right. That is how it goes, I guess.” Lidia Yuknavitch In history, the years of the Horse, especially the Fire Horse, there have been wars, earthquakes, and all manner of big changes. There are also significant advancements in many areas in Horse years. You can tell that things are just falling apart…

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do not believe what you think

a favorite bumper sticker. I was just telling a friend, I am not an exceptional writer, but I am a singular thinker. The writing is just the vehicle to get my notions accessible. I challenged myself over the years to not get invested in the thinking, to not let my ego be attached to the words on the paper or how people interpret the information. I was talking to an artist the other night and asking her specifically how she handles the response to her work. This was because there were some people at her show  that evening, saying that her work “wasn’t really art” ( straight from the Witch of the Waste’s mouth). The artist herself yelled “making work is for the artist and not for the viewer or the critic. You put your work out for yourself and not for anyone else.”  The luxury of making something and…

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“Stay Light, Stay Bright.” T.S

Whilst we experience, the decolonization of normalcy. Stop selling me shit and pretending you have the key to satisfaction. Idiot happiness is not a real thing. Living a joyful life, is an everyday and attainable goal. This is the time of change, but more importantly it is really a time of transformation. You might say they are the same phenomena, but transformation is an alchemical process. Where you change into something different, not a shift from one form of energy to another. This is a big difference between the elements in Chinese medicine and the Spirits. The Spirits are concerned with the ephemeral, the not concrete stuff. This is the year of the Wood Snake, shed the skin and become something new. I think there are many elements and stages to transformation, as I see it, you know yourself and be yourself first. Then you can move towards a…

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There will be days like this..

The Summer is winding down, the weather is a little cooler at night. We hear the cicadas singing in the evening. Goldenrod will make it’s appearance shortly. We shift from Yang Fire time to Earth time, the season of harvest. Now is when we traditionally start to talk about mother energy, Earth medicine. The sacred mother. The one great mother. AS we war out the ego of patriarchy, in this gruesome battle for power, filled with violence and dominance, I cannot help thinking that the sacred feminine inside me and inside you, is the heart of true power. Love itself, nourishing and accepting, but make no mistake, crazy fucking powerful. Hag energy: I know myself, I love myself, I trust myself. I am a powerhouse and I will love and protect my children fiercely. The ego wants to dominate and destroy because it is afraid, it lacks the inner structure,…

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