Caroline welcomes Hendrika de Vries, and her powerful pertinent memoir of growing up in Nazi occupied Amsterdam:
“When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew.”
“Hendrika de Vries, author of the memoir When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew, is a therapist, teacher and writer.
A depth-oriented family therapist for over thirty years, she facilitated the healing of trauma, life transitions and empowerment of women. As faculty member of Pacifica Graduate Institute in California, she helped students explore the archetypal patterns of their life stories and discover their personal mythologies.
Her life experiences: a child in the dark days of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, a teenage immigrant, swimming champion, young wife and mother in Australia, and a move to America in the turbulent 1960s, infuse her writing with historical insight and spiritual passion.
A mother and grandmother, she lives with her husband in Santa Barbara.”
Demeter and Persephone with mushrooms, Eluesinnian Mysteries, Pharsalos bas relief 5thc BCE
Yo Team
Continuing theme of Mentors guiding us in
Brewing Medicine in Underworld
We begin this worthy show 15 minutes before the New Moon in Scorpio,
perfect Trickster timing…
As we honor the Dark o Moon, and the dark of our customized Underworld,
from which, with the power of New Moon, and all our colleagues who join with us to brew Medicine in the Underworld,
of whom Hendrika is our honored bad-ass ambassadress…
We ladle out the new desirable from the cauldron of death…
The New Moon quintiles Pluto – woo-hoo woo-hoo, that we may speak of its arduousness with vernacular accessibility, and open portals between worlds, that all for which Hendrika gives voice, may waft into collective Group Mind to mentor us in these dangerous times..
We honor the lucky grace, bestowed upon us,
that we
“have kept our small boats afloat-
when so many have gone down in the storm.” (Robert Bly)
Mercury is the potent adorable: “Men toiling in a Dark pit- a woman calmly lowers a rope.”
Resonant backwards and forwards.
And True Halloween, exact mid-season is before us, to further open portals for us to invite
that which is needed to support us in this dangerous time…
“freedom is gazing at danger,” says Ron Kauk, rock-climbing mentor
We see that
Shérazade et le sultan Sani ol-Molk
Here be the power of the Woman Story-teller, to honor, and liberate, women, men, the land, even the tyrant, the entire circumstance…
With her Jupiter quintile Saturn, that all knowledge be useful, that we give fresh expression to old liberating traditions..
That her Pluto is opposite the US Pluto,
that this country, and the world welcomes her contribution, that we compost despotism into nutrient for kind wise Renaissance…
