12th Night / Epiphany to see the Magi arriving…(on the steps of the Capitol)
Caroline welcomes 2nd generation astro*mytho practitioner, Becca Tarnas, that we inhale back this mythological date from the Dementors… and exhale its authentic liberating guiding animation. Mentors be the antidote to dementors.
Welcome Becca Tarnas,
whom I met when she was 3!
and hosted back in March….
Psychedelics and Astrology!
****We both have a shared true quip, that psychedelics taught us astrology….
(and we are placing on the altar of desirable mystery,
….the astro-entheo councils…)
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la Befana
Epiphany!
and Befana, the Epiphany Witch – an old woman, who, riding on a broomstick, delivers presents to children on Epiphany eve.
And with whom the 3 Kings, the Magi (astrologers) consulted… Needed directions to the Holy Birth. They invited her to come along, and she declined, saying she was gonna tidy her house.
Uranus is now at the “tweak your house until it sings” degree.
So also, a choice with merit.
Attend Holy Birth or snug at home tidying
-and Uranus always chimes in, “we are big gods dancing with you – we don’t care what you do – but the manner in which you do it. That it be choice-freedom versus fear…”
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Ancient Akkadian cylinder seal depicting Inanna resting her foot on the back of a lion while Ninshubur stands in front of her paying obeisance, c. 2334-2154 BCE
Let’s honor the descent of Venus, from the evening sky…interior conjunction with Sun -January 8th…which is also the last day that light continues to enter New Grange, after the Winter Solstice…
(there be the complex Inanna, but perhaps more pertinent to us now, is the Quetzalcoatl Venus,
return of ethical leadership after corrupt…in each heart….)
Although when Inanna/Venus re-emerges as the morning star, she becomes a cultural trickster and rescues human culture, that has been stolen by her Grandfather, Enki, god of wisdom , who has become a tyrant.
Needs his grand daughter to challenge him…
2022, January: Venus Into Bright Twilight, Inferior Conjunction
True Mid-Winter (February 3rd 1 pm pst),
exact mid-Season, one of the four gates of power…
when Persephone lights her candle, and begins her ascent, and we with her…
bringing creatively alive, all we be brewing in our Deep Winter.
USA Pluto Return 2.22.2022
and do note that Neptune will be exactly opposite the US Neptune
(where it was on July 4, 1776 – 22+ Virgo….)
So back-stage, is a grand opportunity- imaginatively conjuring the atmosphere conducive to the desirable…
The ingenious altruism of the Citizenry dedicated to collective well-being…
for instance…
and everything else the Magi and Persephone etc… be bringing back…
manners… Venus
on her/our journey
to rescue manners and return them to the world…
that we compost oppositional
and embrace participatory cahooting, conversing, cooperating
dancing….
with everything-
bold playing with danger:
Omicron (or O’Micron – if Irish), referenced publicly as our “opponent,” “enemy.”
I propose its our dance partner…(a jig – if Irish)
Pluto encourages , “work it….everything is a process, a river, a journey with which to cooperate…”
Venus-Pluto-“We are lovers in a dangerous time.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IX4gWkFqv
“Holly and Mistletoe Druidic life force” be rising…
Moon is : “A sword in a stone,” customized before each one of us…
draw it forth in mind’s eye…
Love that Mercury be on Becca’s MC, booking confirmation!
“Performer in a Mystery Play.”
Part of all of us.
Thank goodness, some genius is doing our scheduling…
Lea
Subject: Magi
Hello Caroline!
I have been thinking a lot about the Magi, especially since our Eve of the Winter Solstice Trickster Council and then the wonderful Winter Solstice Celebration with you, Sean and Ami.
Have you seen this photo below? It recently came to my attention and has been moving through me ever since. The Magi appear to be wrapped in a round rug, which I find amazing, and any searching says that the angel is “gently awakening one of the Magi to point to the Bethlehem star… and later… warning the Magi in a dream to return home by a different route…” But I wonder about this… awakening and transferring star energy? Human-Angelic-Star connection? There is so much here!
Especially the message of wake up!!!!!
After last Epiphany… we all need to wake up! No more usurping of this important day! Alert to danger, thank you! And to finding new ways to move in the world and to throw into the cauldron: greed – force – distraction – cruelty – disrespect – unnecessary destruction etc. And ladle out: compassion – life energy – curiosity – respect – generativity – wonder – enough for all – beauty – etc
Dream of the Magi
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Stone
Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun
The Dream of the Magi, the capital originally on the east side of the north-east crossing pillar, shows the three crowned figures together under a large, round cover. Two of them are still asleep, but the third has already been woken by the movingly gentle touch of the angel who is pointing the star out to him.
