John Coltrane. The Astrology. And Me.
He wasn't making music. He was translating the cosmos.
Jazz has been one of the great loves of my life — right alongside film. I'm still learning, still discovering artists and eras and recordings I've never heard before. But recently I came across something about John Coltrane's life that stopped me completely. I was so moved by what I read that I had to share it. Because I think it matters — especially right now, especially for those of us who are the creative minds of our times.
Let me start here.
By the early 1960s, John Coltrane had stopped separating things.
The Kabbalah. Vedic cosmology. Einstein's theories of space and time. The mathematics of scales. Numerology. Astrology. Sacred geometry. He wasn't studying these alongside music. He was studying them as music. As the same inquiry, arriving through different doors.
(I can relate to that — as somebody with a 12th house Virgo Sun.)
A Love Supreme — the album that still stops people mid-breath — was recorded in a single session. Twelve hours. But I bet you didn't know that Coltrane had spent the previous day reading the Bhagavad Gita. He entered that room already in devotion. What came out wasn't composed so much as transmitted.
That's the part I want us all to sit with.
The separation we've accepted
Most of us move through life with our worlds neatly divided. My creative work. My spiritual practice. My finances. My health. My relationships. Separate tabs. Separate energy. Separate versions of ourselves managing each one.
And it works — until it doesn't. Until the art feels hollow. Until the discipline feels disconnected from anything that matters. Until you're grinding in one quadrant of your life while starving in another.
What Coltrane's life insists on, quietly, is that the division was always a choice. Not an inevitability.
And that mysticism is not woo woo, it is spiritual connectedness in all its emphatic truth.
What he actually believed
Coltrane understood sound as vibration. Vibration as structure. Structure as divine intelligence.
Which means scales, harmonics, and rhythm weren't aesthetic decisions — they were expressions of the same mathematical and spiritual intelligence that orders the cosmos. I finally realized he wasn't decorating that. He was translating it.
Now I get why the four movements of A Love Supreme — Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance, Psalm — function almost as ritual. The final movement is him playing his own written prayer on the saxophone. Word for word. Note for note.
He wasn't making music about God. He was making music as a co-creator with God. As a practice of communion and co-creation.
And when I say God, I don’t mean religion, I mean the Source of All That Is.
What this means for us
We are living through a collapse of the old categories, the old world.
Pluto in Aquarius is doing exactly what it does — dissolving the structures that kept knowledge siloed, that kept the mystical separate from the scientific, the creative separate from the sacred. The walls between disciplines are coming down. The people who will thrive in what's emerging are the ones who stopped pretending the walls were real.
Coltrane was ahead of the calendar. But the calendar is catching up... and so are we.
The art that heals — that actually moves people, that lands in the body and stays — has never come from one dimension. It comes from someone who brought their whole self to the work. Their inquiry. Their devotion. Their questions about time and death and God and structure. Their everything.
A one-dimensional creative makes a one-dimensional product. There's a market for it. But it doesn't change anyone — and that's the least interesting thing to me.
The invitation
I'll be honest: finding this felt like being seen.
I have a 12th house Virgo Sun (and 12th house Pallas Athena).
I've always thought in systems, across disciplines, connecting things other people keep separate. It's the source of some of the best and most disorienting parts of how I move through the world. And for a long time, I treated it like a quirk to manage rather than a gift to develop.
Coltrane's life reframes that entirely.
The capacity to hold Kabbalah and physics and music and devotion as one continuous practice isn't an eccentricity. It's a fuller way of being human. And it's available to all of us — not just the ones born with planets in the twelfth house.
Unity consciousness isn't a concept reserved for mystics or jazz legends. It's a practice. It's the refusal to keep cutting yourself into pieces and handing each piece to a different part of your life.
The inquiry is what matters. Keep it going. Let it surface where it surfaces.
For Coltrane, it surfaced in music. For you, it might be something else entirely.
But the instruction is the same: stop separating things.
Because when you understand there is a Divine Mind weaving all of us and everything together — you listen for it, you create from it.
You don’t practice to get better, you practice your art to connect back Source, to yourself, and all of us.
And now there is nothing is left to say here, except to say that I am so in love with this way of being and creating.
And so in love with this life.
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