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Michael Erlewine

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Founder and developer of: Matrix Software, All-Music Guide (allmusic.com), All-Movie Guide (allmovie.com), All-Game Guide, ClassicPosters.com, Heart Center Recording Studios, SpiritGrooves.net, Astrologyland.com

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Michael Erlewine MERCURY RETROGRADE, OR WHAT? Here is a story still fresh in the air. It just happened and culminated a few hours ago, so I might as well write it down and let’s contemplate it together, puzzle it...

Mercury Retrograd, or What?

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15.11.2025 03:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine X4-CLASS SOLAR FL+ARE Another huge X4-Class solar flare occurred starting at 3:30 AM EST. I was up, doing some house work. Here is the report from Solar Ham. SOLARHAM.COM “AR 4274 still has some.....

X-Class Solar Flare

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14.11.2025 10:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine ASTROLOGY OF TODAY I’m not taking this current rash of Solar flares and their CMEs lying down, so to speak, which some do. Many just must go and lie down. The flares, for now, are over, but their...

Astrology of Today

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13.11.2025 09:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine INNER VS. OUTER This is just a preliminary mention as to something I am thinking about, more of a shot across my own bow. How do I integrate in my mind the concept of cosmic cybernetics with the...

Inner vs. Outer

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12.11.2025 08:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine SOLAR CYBERNETICS In the history of the Sun’s effect on Earth, scientists have concentrated on the material damage and effects intense solar activity, like solar flares, coronal Mass Ejections...

Solar Cybernetics

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11.11.2025 11:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine SOME DAYS ARE JUST LIKE THIS It was around 11 degrees above zero when I started out this morning at 6 AM to the local grocery store, about four miles, and on the way back I caught a full-blown flat,....

Some Days Are Just Like This

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10.11.2025 22:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine GO WITH THE FLOW Well, winter in western Michigan is closing in. The frost has come and is here. It’s 17 degrees above zero tonight. I managed to get the storm windows up in the four doors of our...

Go With the Flow

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10.11.2025 06:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine SPACE WEATHER Over the last week, intense solar activity has returned, with a number of X1 rated flares taking place, and some sending CMEs directly at Earth. At 2:35 AM EST and X1.79 solar flare.....

Solar Weather

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09.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine INTEREST IN INTEREST In the glacial pace of dharma realization, I seem to be avoiding effort as best I can. It’s the old chestnut of jumping from one personal interest or hobby to another, checking.....

Interest in Interest

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09.11.2025 04:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine LIFE INITIATIONS: SHAMANISM [Some of you have requested more ‘esoteric astrology’ teachings, and I am game to put something together here. Before we get into the thick of the esoterica, it is...

Life Initiations: Shamanism

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08.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine THE QUALITY OF TIME Those of us who have ever played with time know that the quality of time is far more important than the quantity of it. Just a little bit of real or quality-time experience can.....

The Quality of Time

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08.11.2025 07:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine VISITING MY SELF [Enough detailed posts for now. Time for me to walk out to the very edge of nothing and look out at the vast expanse of emptiness. Please forgive this nothingness.] What good are...

Visiting My Self

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07.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND Here I will share with you something about the history of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which very much influenced me and our band, the Prime Movers Blues Band....

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

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06.11.2025 08:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine THE FOLK MUSIC REVIVAL IN ANN ARBOR [I received some requests to detail the history of folk music in Ann Arbor. I have cobbled together some writing I have done in the past so please bear with me if.....

The Folk Music Revival in Ann Arbor

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05.11.2025 02:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine “A COMPLETE UNKNOWN” I have put off watching the movie about Bob Dylan, “A Complete Unknown,” not so much because I did not want to see it, but because I felt I would not like it. Why should I worry....

"A Complete Unknown"

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04.11.2025 07:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine DHARMA CHART, KARMA CHART It has been a long journey since I first became interested in things like astrology back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I don’t know if history has always had such an...

Dharma Chart, Karma Chart

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03.11.2025 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine VISIONARY The endless kaleidoscope of the changing patterns in the solar system are most effective if we view the heliocentric chart, and this because heliocentrically, with the Sun as the center,...

Visionary

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02.11.2025 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine WINTER CLOSING IN Busy lately, physically moving things around. Winter is coming, time to put away outdoor things, clean up the gardens, gather bulbs for wintering, and ten other things. Also, we...

Winter Closing In

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02.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine MAKING DHARMA SENSE According to what I read, Buddhism has more extant literature than any other religion by an order of magnitude, which is saying a lot. I used to joke to myself that this is true.....

Making Dharma Sense

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31.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine LUCID DREAMING “Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream, Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Life is but a dream.” Something I have wondered about in dharma is ‘dream yoga’, a meditative...

Lucid Dreaming

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30.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine SCHOOL DAYS I can remember when I was about 14 years old and, in the 6th-8th grades, at St. Francis Catholic School out on Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There were perhaps 12 kids in my.....

School Days

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30.10.2025 01:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine IMPORTANT I remember early-on in my study and practice of dharma, after a number of years of practicing under Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche direction, I asked when I should start helping others who are...

Important

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29.10.2025 01:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine URGENCY RETURNS Right now, the astronomy of the planets around their center the Sun forms a rough Heptagram – seven pointed star. The astronomy of it is what the astrology attempts to interpret....

Urgency Returns

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28.10.2025 02:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine KNEADING THE MIND Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche: “With discriminating wisdom, we can see the actual, true nature of mind, just as it is. But before this can happen, our mind must be workable, which...

Kneading the Mind

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27.10.2025 03:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine MOSTLY THE SAME The urgency for action these days, at least for me, is minimal.

Mostly The Same

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26.10.2025 09:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine LACK-A-WANNA Astrologically speaking, we are still in a continued time of “Lack a Wanna,” not feeling the usual drive or sense of urgency to act or do anything. Of course, we can rest in the stasis,....

Lack-A-Wanna

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25.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine THE PHENOMENOLOGIST As to what kind of philosophy I represent, aside from dharma, etc., I am a Phenomenologist, meaning I focus on conscious experience or phenomena as they subjectively appear to me....

The Phenomenologist

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24.10.2025 07:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine “THE MUSIC GOES ROUND AND AROUND, AND IT COMES OUT HERE” I’m indoors, if only because winter is coming. Windows are closed and storm windows coming out of the basement. What do I want to do all...

“The Music Goes Round and Around, and it Comes Out Here.”

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23.10.2025 08:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine THE SPINNING WHEEL Let’s talk about the mind for a moment. Increasingly I find myself up against it and breaching new territory, a strange land I have not seen the likes of before. This is new...

The Spinning Wheel

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22.10.2025 09:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Michael Erlewine THE FOUR KAYAS “Seeing delusive appearances as the four kayas is the unexcelled protection emptiness gives.” “The way to see confusion as the four kayas (also translated as the four bodies or four....

The Four Kayas

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21.10.2025 09:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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