Participatory Magic Council #2
October 20th, 2020
Audio Replay
Video Replay
Offerings Below:
· Chart & Themes
· Follow-Up Themes & Practices
· Chat from the Council
· Notes from the Council
· Resources from this Council
including: Gurdjieffien levels chart & Mythic Ballots
Mythic Ballot
Halloween may be the perfect time to cast our ballots…
Chart & Themes for Magic Council #2
O splendid….
wooo
feels a squosh spooky, inside and out…
so tis good to gather to settle ourselves down….
Mega-appreciative grateful to all convening….
Yip-Yip-awoooooo
Here be our splendid
guiding – participatory chart…
So much woofing to us…
A festival of effective metaphors:
Saturn overhead… the most serious and practical part of us is
“Nature Spirits Dancing in the Iridescent mist of a waterfall.”
We begin with deep Saturn,
inhaling Saturn, our Saturn, and the World’s,
exhaling to animate this Sabian…
Deeper dedication is the antidote to dread…
and depression….
Saturn says, “depression –
still too shallow, go deeper..”
(brief invoking of Gurdjieffien levels chart
of consciousness, cause tis a witty,
well-worn reference…
references depression and panic,
as pretty “high states.”
But can’t live there….move on
through to the upper realms..)
So to continue vitalizing our
replenishing Trickster Club House,
“Hall of Philosophy…”
(Our IC is 25+ Cancer – “a luxurious library…”
All the Guiding Wisdom that ever was
or will be is there now!)
Tonight we will be adding,
an Underworld basement,
which will include
The Pub of the Hurling Coyote,
a jaunty effective realm of metabolizing
poison for self and others…
Breathing together…to begin…
even now, a few deep breaths,
wheweeee…
I love that the Sumo Wresting match
will only begin once the referee notes that the
“opponents are breathing together.”
“Aloha”- Hawaiian love blessing
means “”full of breath.”
and our Trickster chant – Ha! Ha! Ha!
(“Haole” means “no breath.”)
Here comes breath!
and for Mars vitality,
and jauntifying ourselves,
have fantastic dog video, we will play,
encouraging everyone to dance around
as it plays (in whatever form zoom
lets me play it.) (pretty sure we will
be invisible, so all inhibition into cauldron…)
Moon in Sagittarius in 8th re-minds us
to continue welcome ancestor allies.
Many of you have made fantabulous nominees…
Feel encouraged to invite during our gathering…
Our on-going Ballots,
rudimentary though some may be… hee- hee,
we are tricksters, so all is wondrous good…
and any aspirational effort is adorable…
Trickster says
“No rules – but Guidelines!”
We have plans for those ballots….
As we find a place,
near where we live, that we love,
and give energy and to whom we bestow
presents, and make deals…
in Reciprocal blessing alliances…
Wheel and Deal Trickster…
“If this… then…
here’s what I put on the table…
“Skin in the Game..”
which doesn’t seem to be a cruel metaphor…
We can imagine it as our animal skins…
imagined expressions of our animal ally team…
Let’s make sure our ballots are
bio-degradable, because we will be leaving
them there on the Halloween Full Moon…
(and some of our ballots may be so beautiful,
that we be reluctant to leave them…
all the better,
and can make other copies…
Let’s all co-ruminate as Council on this…)
Inauguration
All Ritual magic is literalized metaphor…
we shall explore the past witty ritual
of cooling out those abusing power…
Mercury, all important, holding place
for the Full Moon, have many stories,
Quintiles Jupiter- “Hidden Choir is singing.”
Remember Quintiles (as long time astro-ally
Sylvia Hanley, reminds us)
open portals between worlds….
Much effective fun in this realm….
and so much more
pragmatic mystic experiments…
Am so glad we have 11 gatherings
of which this be but number 2,
and new, ancient allies will be
joining in tonight…
Follow-Up Themes
Deliberate Reciprocal Blessing!
= Skookum!
We begin the Inauguration
(from augur, collaborative diviner
within us all)…
Yo Election Magic team,
Gurdgieffien Level System
(That to which we are giving voice –
is coming alive, in myriad customized
forms for us all…)
So, I woke up depressed,
then moved on to panic,
then remorse
(for all the times I have been churlish)-
personal and collective…
Once I was supported into the clear realms,
dedication to being agents of living principles
(rather than subject to laws)…
phew, ahh, calm…
then the path opened for me to go out
to woods, and be guided to portal…
Brought a chart of the election,
on which I had put honey, Venus,
to sweeten the experimental
democracy ritual for all,
red pepper for aroused voter turn-out,
then corn-meal for protection of integrity,
placed in tree
(after asking permission.
Manners.)
Will return with lavender and
psolicybe mushrooms, to waft on top,
for calm convivial Salaam!
(“presence of oneness,” cooling out anything
up to no good) The psilocybes, sacraments
of kinship, encourage curiosity, confidence
and kindness = leadership qualities…
And asked Captain Moon and Miss Fox,
to be White Dog Guardians
of Election Integrity…
(Tapping into Madame Blavatsky’s White Dog)
(They accepted the role – woof-woof)
(and the fantabulous jaunty dogs in video!)
Link to video on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/196065513804350/videos/667354804028250
An here we be on the banks of the
Potomac River which flows down-stream
to Washington DC.
Where I live…
at a high point along the River,
which when I first lived here was a
great gathering place for 100’s of Crows
(a Caw-Cus!), and a White Deer,
and a White Fox, and Beavers…
(all mostly gone now;
willing to invite them back…)
And twas once a gathering place
for the local indigenous peoples:
“Indigenous Tribes of Washington, D.C.
“The United States Capital is surrounded by just over a
dozen tribal nations that thrive along the Anacostia
and Potomac River watersheds, Chesapeake Bay area,
and the states of Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware.“Washington D.C. sits on the ancestral lands of the Anacostans
(also documented as Nacotchtank), and over time neighboring
the Piscataway and Pamunkey peoples.“The human history of the region goes back thousands of years.
Groups organized themselves into stratified political units known now
as chiefdoms, … and practiced religious and spiritual ceremonies
aimed at giving thanks and keeping the world in balance.They were all part of the massive Algonquian language that spanned
the east coast, up through the Great Lakes and Canada, and even
stretched to the Great Plains and part of present-day California.”
Encourage all to find a spot,
no matter if haven’t left yard/home
in months, or urban, or “temporary.”…
There is a place that be playfully magnetizing
each of us by our dedication…and connect,
re-search what peoples, and Flora Fauna
live/lived here.
Proclaiming our availability
and willingness to cahoot…
As we each find such,
we will begin to weave the web
between them all…
And Woof*Woof to Rachel,
who did the most wondrous ballot:
(And all, please do feel free to send in contributions
to Er**@***************ws.com, so that we may add
all to the Ballots page here)
to whom I responded:
“Aha! Yip-yip!
That is most spirited fabulous,
inspired-inspiring Rachel…!
“Skookum!”
(= “connected to the spirits and
completely competent for the task at hand!”)Super yip-Yip that we are cahooting…
(and had to re-mind, re-member
Henrietta Lacks….yes yes,
and feel encouraged always, to say more…)There’s a rhythm – Saturn –
now, via dedication…What we are doing is now taking shape…”
So let’s add “Skookum”
Deliberate Reciprocal Blessing = Skookum!
And all honor to Evangeline,
whose great words I interrupted with
involuntary-ack- ack, me moving through
remorse, to appreciative kinship…
That our magic ballots grant her/us
freedom to vote for sanest possible option….
And to Cathy, whose $ account got hacked
after setting up her $ animal…
I just spoke to Capitol One, about a
fraudulent application for cc
made in my name.
Trickster made it fun…
The clearly hip, black woman, with whom
I spoke was willing to play… (within the
realms of being “recorded for
quality purposes.”)
So I said, “we are voting out all corrupt cons,
from my account, and the body politic.
So we’re all voting right?”
“Already have,” she responded…
And she found several other fraudulent
applications, deleted them… And I thanked
her profusely for being so kind and helpful,
and we laughed…
Deliberate Reciprocal Blessing…
Let every arghhh be an incentive
for experimental play…
Chat
19:30:39 From LauraG . : Great Mystic Hildegard of Bingham [sp]
19:30:58 From Cathy : Definitely.
19:31:09 From thor (Suzanne) : Hooray for Hildegard!
19:31:14 From Cathy : Also Theresa of Avila
19:31:40 From Eryn Alloway : Yes Hildegard I adore her – speaking to / listening to the plants
19:31:43 From Laura Toups : yes to Hildegard..xo
19:31:53 From LauraG . : Julienne of Norwich
19:32:07 From Cathy : Taliessin Welsh Bard
19:32:26 From Eryn Alloway : mm fabulous
19:33:23 From thor (Suzanne) : I need to invite Henrietta Lacks, I work with her nearly every day.
19:34:02 From Cathy : Wendall Berry the great environmentalist.
19:34:25 From Rachel Heerema (she/her) : Yes! to Henrietta Lacks! she has an incredible potent legacy
19:36:42 From LauraG . : I filled out my ballot listening last week to infuse the circles energy
19:46:04 From Cathy : Yes
19:46:08 From thor (Suzanne) : Could make seed paper for ballot
19:46:15 From Diana Hammerstein : Yes:
19:46:26 From Cathy : I have some full moon paper for it.
19:46:36 From Eryn Alloway : Oo Full Moon paper
19:46:47 From Deborah Felmeth : A beautiful sacrament, a terrifically strong act, yes
19:47:11 From Eryn Alloway : seed paper – beautiful! Amazing! yes!
19:48:38 From Cathy : Oh great. I’m inviting my special black cat, Magic. An ancestor to my present black cat Bella.
19:49:10 From Elana Auerbach : and wag your tail!
19:50:00 From Vanessa Meraki (she/her) : It just started wagging itself. 🙂
19:51:25 From Richard~MOS : WwooooOOOOOOOOoooFffff
19:53:11 From Elana Auerbach : check out: www.choosedemocracy.us part of a network of peacemakers preparing for non violent direct action
19:53:28 From Elana Auerbach : should it be needed
19:53:40 From thor (Suzanne) : That reminds me to invite Molly Ivens, and this quote of hers :”So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.”
19:54:24 From Laura Toups : yes our Austin TX heroine …..oxo
19:54:26 From thor (Suzanne): It’s Suzanne, not Thor. Thor is offspring.
19:55:11 From Laura Toups : add Ann Richards and Barbara Jordan in there as well….
19:55:24 From Diana Hammerstein : Absolutely do post pls!
19:55:25 From Dawn Danby : Ivins on Paglia, yes please
19:56:33 From Leslie McIntire : Would love URL for that Pet House fun!!! So happy!
19:57:08 From Cathy : this is a wonderful quote from Steve Forrest: Libra has made a perpetual peace treaty with Chaos. We have to dance with the chaos.
19:57:11 From Ann Landesberg : non-violent moves to compassionate
19:57:54 From Cathy : Mars is also about grappling with things.
19:59:36 From thor (Suzanne): That’s lovely. I can kin my apricot trees with yours, Deborah.
20:03:29 From Vanessa Meraki (she/her) : I dreamt of a herd of young goats, and when they knew another goat was in trouble, they all stood up on their back feet and started making a kind of eerie song together, moving towards the imperiled goat.
20:09:51 From Cathy : Yes I did. And someone hacked my bank account for $1500
20:10:13 From Cathy : I’ve been working on what that means. I forget I’m not hidden.
20:10:20 From LauraG . : In my real life I ride a wheelchair but in my DREAMS I ride a steelhoofed stallion with firey eyes and smoke pouring from his nostrils
20:10:29 From Deborah Felmeth : oh no! may it be returned to you twice over
20:10:34 From Vanessa Meraki (she/her) : Hopefully that will come back as more money. My money animal brought me a toaster oven. XD
20:10:46 From Cathy : Thanks Deborah. The bank will return it. But I had to laugh.
20:10:59 From Susan : OMG Cathy! So sorry! What animal?
20:11:49 From Deborah Felmeth : I would like to see the steel horse fly too, wings of an eagle, face of a beautiful woman or man
20:12:08 From Cathy : A unicorn that my cat plays with. I think I had to learn the lesson of not freaking out. I guess everyone gets hacked at some point.
20:12:58 From Rachel Heerema (she/her) : more practices, less words. <3
20:17:25 From Suzanne : I put the honey on a stone to sweeten the hearts of any republicans being called to honor their consciences. Susan Collins specifically.
20:17:37 From DepotStudios6 : Sooo…Trump in the freezer, everyone? Or Trump and his allies?
20:17:57 From Cathy : Add William barr and Amy
20:18:12 From Diana Hammerstein : click on upper right of yr square
20:18:39 From Delia : The meeting host should be able to unmute Kay
20:18:43 From Vanessa Meraki (she/her) : Praise Space!
20:20:18 From Dawn Danby : Joan Didion put her manuscripts in the freezer to recover from writer’s block
20:20:53 From Laura Toups : I personally prefer the thought of co-creating or collaborating with nature rather than making a deal with Her….this is done through the Heart and not the Mind…words are so limiting sometimes….xo
20:22:14 From Suzanne : Tupac is my birthday buddy.
20:22:34 From Suzanne : I have really enjoyed learning more about him in the last few months.
20:22:38 From LauraG . : can I share Sadhguru Many great teachings
20:22:46 From Cathy : What about Edward Snowden
20:23:25 From Suzanne : Caroline I forever remember your deal with Stella over appropriate art supplies.
20:23:27 From Cathy : He’s a trickster redeemer
20:24:18 From carmensnyder : Our “contract with the wild”, as Martin Prechtel says…
20:26:17 From Dawn Danby : Hello to all. Canadian expat beaming in from the traditional territories of Lisjan (Ohlone) peoples (West Oakland California) and so grateful and honored to be with you all. Stepping out shortly, but will see you all in the online zone.
20:27:32 From carmensnyder : I would appreciate receiving another guiding thematic word from you, Caroline, for meditation this week, (as with “deliberate” last week). xo
20:28:16 From KAY : have a terrible feedback and echo. Want to say hello and ask about the college in Vermont.
20:28:30 From Eryn Alloway : Ah! Goddard College
20:28:52 From Suzanne : my connection is getting wonky too.
20:29:04 From KAY : my sister teaches there
20:30:58 From Vanessa Meraki (she/her) : I love how it is Ranked Choice Voting!
20:31:25 From DepotStudios6 : Lovely ballot
20:31:50 From Suzanne : Yes, very lovely!
20:31:58 From Rachel Heerema (she/her) : Love this!!
20:32:08 From Diana Hammerstein : Inspirational thank you Delia!
20:32:43 From LauraG . : vote for democracy
20:32:46 From Cathy : Excellent Delia! Thanks
20:33:14 From Eryn Alloway : Delia – I love that – humor and Options!
20:39:28 From Vanessa Meraki (she/her) : Thank you so much! Au au auuu!!
20:39:49 From Suzanne : AaaaarRRarrrooOOOoo!!!!!
20:40:17 From Delia : Maybe we can assemble our dream cabinet for Biden.
20:40:55 From Michele Stern : Great idea Delia
20:40:56 From Rita : Kind detective—the film “Enola”!!:)
20:42:07 From Rita : …”Enola Holmes” (kid sister of Sherlock:)
20:44:10 From Suzanne : I love that, Rita. Things that animals can read.
20:47:45 From Suzanne : Very beautiful, Kay.
Notes
Mythic Ballot
Resources
Gurdjieffian Level System
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so many live their lives, whether it is on earth, the seas, the skies or above pr below, as virtually invisible…even though there they be…may we bless them all, may we learn to see them and honor them
~~~from Susan Brooks ~~~
A statement of intent to meet and to vote….
I seek to gather with any energetics, human or other, who share a common belief or hope that the past, present, and future can be transformed by the desires and imaginings of open hearts so focused.
I seek to gather with other humans willing to release, during our time together, fearful and judgemental thoughts for the purpose of reaching for such a focus.
I seek to gather with a group of energetics eager for the dawn of an era of freedom from fears, freedom from insecurities, and an atom-deep feeling of self-love and self-worth for all earthly beings.
I vote for turbo-charging good will and respect for all life.
I added this to the ballot page but this seems more appropriate.
This is from the Aboriginal People of Australia. On Winter Solstice, something magical is going to happen if enough people participate. Since the information is from the Elders, I tend to believe it. Ancient wisdom, ancient promise.
It seems to fit with our council.
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/dec-21st-uluru-the-original-prophecy-of-the-change-of-everything
i’ve been hosting a weekly 13-minute guided visualization called “River of Evolution” since last march where we envision courageous, visionary leaders being elected on the local, state & national levels. it’s on mondays at 9:33a pacific for 13-minutes. i plan to continue until all votes are counted and there’s a decisive outcome. below is the zoom the link if you’d like to join, i’d love that!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5054934152?pwd=ZTBkTjRjVW11RGJGcmk5dG5UVE52QT09
Meeting ID: 505 493 4152
Passcode: UNITE
and below is a link & password from this week’s dive ~~~~~~~
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/hddtNrzi99pBsq58AJwOZcARB31XscZLR2WRN33qtehRefu_6RHnnA00rI5cL1ym.MJtLfyZNET7SPgx6?startTime=1603125246000
Password: u0+PXRt3
Cathy,
Thank you for the link you left here!! Eons ago 🙂 I read a book whose feelings still resonate within me – The Reluctant Shaman by Kay Cordell Whitaker. While she was encountering shaman from the Amazon Basin, I feel a resonance between this Australian humming and that in the book. RICH is possibilities! Thank you!
Blessings of inspired, compassionate eloquence to Joe Biden tonight in the debate! May his clarity, responsibility, and leadership be awakened and increased!
I’m voting for this!
Would like to add Severine von Tscharner Fleming as a “living” ancestor because of her work founding the Agrarian Trust.
Want this “narrative” on the ballot: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-10-13/what-could-possibly-go-right-episode-18-severine-von-tscharner-fleming/?mc_cid=c256b7a1c6&mc_eid=b0e3afbd7a
Happily listening to replay!
One more triple-booked Tuesday then I can join in real time. Real being relative 😉
As I craft my ballot I am espousing these principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs0EK1z9xhc
from Wednesday October 21, 2020
It’s so long, but FYI, yins
(“Yins” is our Western PA version of y’all.)
Fragment of dream remembered on awakening.
At first this dream didn’t seem so remarkable to me, but on reflection, it seems very much on point regarding our gathering on Tuesday evening.
I was in a very old house-maybe from the 1700’s. It was comfortably mellow with age. I was maybe a guest or perhaps I was looking for a house to live in. I’m not sure.
I was being shown around by a friendly, capable young girl (around 12 years old). We had established an easy rapport.
She took me down to the basement that was surprisingly pleasant for an old basement. There was plenty of outside light from high windows. The walls and ceiling had been whitewashed. The main room was large and roughly square and it had several doors leading into presumably smaller rooms. Each door and door frame had been painted in a different pretty color: salmon, leaf green, sky blue.
The big room was filled with a disorganized jumble of clutter. Even this clutter looked appealing. It looked as if over the centuries people had just been leaving useful things in the basement. There was a hodgepodge of modest, useful, household things. It piqued my curiosity and I felt a spark of low level avarice, like I feel in a good antique or junk shop.
My guide was saying, “The people who lived here left things behind.” She was implying that if I lived there I would have access to these charming, useful things.
She remained on the stairs while I passed her to study the shelves and boxes more closely. As soon as I set foot on the basement floor, I at once felt the atmosphere of the place-the presence of the past and of the unseen who had also been left or stayed behind.
I felt I was duty bound to give voice to what I sensed even though I knew this could stir the uncanny into increased presence and activity.
“It’s not just things they’ve left behind”, I said, stating what was, at least to me, obvious. “They seem to have left a bit of themselves behind as well.”
As I spoke, the atmosphere thickened and came alive. My skin tingled and m the hairs on my arms and at the nape of my neck bristled. I could tell my companion felt the change too. I knew there was work to do to sort out the energies of this place, but that could wait. I didn’t want to involve her.
The girl was uncomfortable and had started up the stairs. I followed her. We were both experiencing unease bordering on fear. I felt I needed and wanted to reassure her. I said something that I can’t now recall, but I know that my intent was to let her know that there were things we are able to do, that we can master our fear and work in a way that can offer the possibility of healing/health to the energies that were in residence in this basement place.
I saw that the very fact of how quickly they had responded when I acknowledged them, spoke to their eager yearning to be recognized, and perhaps to be released.
What this dream is saying to me:
The ghosts of our collective past are showing themselves. It’s not always pretty or pleasant. However in emerging out of the shadow and into the light, I feel we are being given a chance to recognize them, know them, understand them and transform/release them.
I woke up thinking about Hecate, this being Her season. And my long-held love of Harriet Tubman. Both “conductors of souls,” in their ways. May we be supported (conducted) in moving from this reality to a new reality. Please, Ms. Tubman, show us the ways!
From Vanessa Meraki ~~~~~
I also wanted to pass on this event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2492880417660757
in case that sounds enjoyable to folks.
Worldwide Bed-In for Peace, People, and Planet!
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 3 AM EST – 2:55 AM EST
Rest is revolutionary. Take a day for the low-carbon, healing activity of rest. While our capitalist culture demands that we alternate between productivity and over-consumption, our bodies and souls desire periods of rest. Pledge to spend this day lying around, cuddling with yourself or your loved ones. By so doing, you are caring for your own needs. You are also naturally limiting the electricity, food, and fuel you will consume on this day.
If you are unable to rest on this day, due to care-giving, paid work, or other requirements, please lie down in solidarity with the movement by checking in.
We invite you to post ideas in the comments for community actions to support the right of all to rest.
We also invite images and concepts for meditation, focusing on the restorative power of rest.