Summer Astrology: Tectonics

I came from a prairie land with rising rivers and violent storms and wind and funnel clouds that will pick you up and shake you and throw you back down on the ground, but that was no preparation for earthquakes. Earthquakes pick you up and shake you too, but psychologically it’s a very different experience. Tornadoes, at least, assume a world where the earth is constant, stable, reliable—something to be picked up from. But earthquakes rob you of even that reliability. The earth, steady beneath my feet, was not a given….