Join Sharon Day, Mary Lyons and other native leaders as they gather with representatives from different faith and spiritual traditions for a Water Ceremony at the Mississippi River in Palisade MN. We will come together on land owned by Winona LaDuke and Honor the Earth near the construction route of the Enbridge Line 3 crude oil pipeline.

p.s.

especially to plight our troth…

animate our dedicated expansive desire for self and world,

and cahooting with Statue of Freedom,

Monday, December 21st circa 1:21 pm est, 10:21 am pst

Saturn-Jupiter conjoin!

Electing a Community of Mutual Aid,

animating the irresistible all inclusive story of humans humbly cooperating

with Nature’s Guiding Genius…

Pre-Council Themes

Rituals of Dedicated Dreaming

The Moon

12+ Capricorn: “Sitting in front of a blazing fire-place –
the dedication of Self, with all skills…”

trines Uranus in Taurus,
Liberating Trickster Genius of Nature…..

Humming with Venus, 0 Sag,
veteran tricksters gather to journey,

sextile (creative opportune cahoots)
with Saturn and Jupiter, both at 29 + Capricorn,
a degree of organizational supportive mastery…

Saturn says,
dedication is the prerequisite for the journey….

So, before we convene, let’s all consider a
dedicated desire for self and world….

So many ways to travel….

2 Jupiters
Sag and Pisces,
inward and outward

We all be emerging from eclipse,

into new light…

Here’s a squosh of what be available
for our animation…

Mercury at
“Crown and Torch of statue of Liberty –
necessity to defend democracy from tyranny…”

degree

(where the Moon was at the beginning
of yesterday’s eclipse…)

trines Mars, 21+ Aries =
“gateway to the garden of all desired things”,

encouraging our dedicated desire….

The South Node (19+Sagittarius) proclaims,
the supportive traditions behind us,
know how to navigate climate crisis,
that humans come into mannered harmonious accord…

a radio listener, Lanora Percy sent me her poem,

which feels deftly resonant with now….

a place to which we journey this evening…

Deep inside

Amongst the shadows

And flickering firelight,

The golden skulls gather

Claiming their place in the cave.

I become aware…

They are peering at me from the

black dark

Of their eyes.

I become aware…

It is their secrets that have kept them Sentient.

I become aware…

They are now willing to share.

With my dirt stained feet

And my head bowed

I stand before them.

They begin to whisper so silently that

I have to  close my own eyes

to listen to theirs.

I am their humble novice.

I begin Grinding

Leaves, sticks, stones, roots…

In a small wooden bowl.

In a small wooden bowl

Powders will become potions.

As promised.

This is no atmosphere of death.

This is no place to forget.

This is a place to remember.

A place to believe  what was once lost is now returning,

A place to know what needs to be found will make itself known,

A place that insists what needs to transform will find itself finally home.

The clean clear water of all life drops from the

Center fountain

Into the small wooden bowl,

Shimmering spirits

Rise from the spray on

diaphanous wings.

One by One

through a crack  in the rock,

They fly.

Into the moonlit sky

They rise.

Ascending into Peace.

I bend to my knees

Lifting the small wooden bowl to the thin beam of blue light,

And I wait.

There is no need to ask questions.

These medicines will answer

When they are called to speak.

I know,

Because all the golden bones

have spoken.

And thus it is so.

So, yes, we delineate the guiding patterns,

and experimentally come into participatory accord…

There are appointments we each have to keep…

encourage pen and paper,

and

a light covering for eyes, for our journeying….

Click here for a full size image of the Osiris sculpture

Notes

Tidings of comfort and joy
Blessings

Our journey be cumulative:

we gathered as mercury was retrograde, stationed election day, emerged Nov 19th, just had the electoral college eclipse

we were at the dark of the moon, at the dark of the year
but now we are at the light of the moon, at the dark of the year

the moon was at
the crown and torch of the statue of liberty
as she moved into the solar eclipse
and then the moon was afterwards at “the bluebird of happiness perched on the Gate of a Little Cottage.”

Gandalf’s evergreen: “the tide has turned, the Great Storm is coming .. but the tide has turned.”

We salute Lady Freedom (statue) atop the US Capitol

she has long flowing hair, and her helmet has an eagle’s head atop it
decorative balls, wreaths, sword wrapped in drapery

we’re back to the Magician, Mercury, sword, wand …

we’re tracking back everything …

one thing we would do in a semi-crackpot ritual council
included imagining/projecting ourselves into the object or animal
we say
oh freedom, may we look through your eyes?

the only other Freedom statue is atop the Georgia statehouse
Miss Freedom
she is holding a torch (crown and torch of the statue of liberty…)
and she has an eagle on her head, and a sword, not wrapped in a scarf

I think this is useful to animate, the Georgia part of ourselves, Georgia on our mind …

how might we want to look at Freedom, color her in, with iridescent streamers
with wafting strands of influence across the land,
and spreading tidings of comfort and joy
(syncretized with Annie Lenox)

necessary miracle: windfalls of wherewithall for all in need

what’s rising due East at the moment of inauguration (1/20/21) is 14+ Taurus
whose image is
“in the midst of a wild windstorm, a person walks into town wearing a silk top hat and carrying a large black bag
Doctor * Magician …”

(augur – the diviner who walks into nature and reads the patterns of nature, whereby the human would be inaugurated)

It’s important to define and see the desirable vision
(lest it be left to the dementors)
what’s our dream inauguration, our dream team

Saturn and Jupiter are both at 29 Capricorn

Part of our experiment is that we’re all heretics
Saturn squaring Uranus will be a predominate theme of 2021
Saturn in Aquarius, Community
Uranus in Taurus, Trickster Genius Mind of Nature

it goes back to Astrology as mystery school
any community – what does it need?
it must have a touch back to nature’s guiding genius
and Leo – any community must encourage the individuality
and Scorpio – wellbeing is based on necessity to welcome the dark, spiciness of now

anything can be liberating or imprisoning

so let us conjure these blessings

let it be that what is going on with other people is information, not constraint or shame

as Robinette said last night (we’re all speaking with Astrology)
to journey (Jupiter) it’s good to have a (Saturn) intention
it keeps us safe but it allows for movement

Our Chart of Now

18 Aries overhead (magic carpet ride)
Mars straight overhead

Pallas Athena as descendant
prismatic perspective
may we all have eagles on our head
‘a deserter from the navy following their own wilderness path’
a community of unique and disobedient individuals

Saturn will be entering Aquarius just after midnight tomorrow Wed/Thur east coast time
Saturn won’t be back here (Capricorn) for 28 years

The Moon chimes in ‘dedicate dedicate’
the Greeks view the Moon as the People
may there be dedication in all of us, fellow citizens

Mercury, to remind us,
when the Moon was heading into Eclipse
Mercury, our mind, our Magician, crown and torch of the statue of liberty, necessity to defend democracy

Robinette Kennedy’s experience comes from work with Felicitas Goodman
who put her grad students in the postures of sculptures and observed what their experiences were

So our mudra, that we will be holding is similar to the posture Robinette shared,
her’s was a Bear Pose from Crete

* See Robinette’s write-up on the Bear pose at the bottom of this email *

and ours is a sculpture of Osiris from Egypt

hands gently closed, like around an Egg
and middle knuckles together

the kindom of heaven is at hand

there are so many ways to travel

entheo – the divine within
enthusiasm – that which makes the divine within us dance

every day the sun rises and sets further in the south (northern hemisphere)
until the 21st when it stays as far south as it will get (circa 25th)
and then further north until the Equinox

January 6th 12th Night Epiphany
that’s when the three Magi watching the Star arrive
(scheduled for auctioning off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)

what intimate strands of collaboration, to and fro
do we weave

Evangeline asks us to draw up a pipe line and then cut it up
to disrupt these projects

… may all bad projects be too expensive
bind the wealth that is up to no go
set the thing free

Saturn templates would love to be filled with Jupiter animation

Sabian Symbols

The idea of metaphors for each degree of the zodiac goes back to ancient Egypt
that impulse came through in modern times as two people perceiving these images
they seem to have a resonance

and to liberate everything into autonomy

anything to which we are dedicated is how synchronicity speaks to us
each according to our own resonance

whatever people’s journey, their dedication known or unknown, may it be so – Ashé

Saturn-Jupiter
Dedication allows us to Travel

many ways to Journey
(walking, crawling, swimming, flying, and how we journey now … -friend of Caroline & Deborah)

Dance us into place where we can do the most good
have the most fun and contribute our gifts to the community

Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/693602678011019

Thursday, December 17th
1:00 pm (Central) · livestream rally & protest songs
2:00 pm · prayer circle

Follow-Up Themes

Yo team, jolly jaunty cahooting…

Council be alive,
as we dedicate to Saturn-Jupiter ,
dedicating to joy

May we rejoice at what we “get to!” do….

Shifting our default setting to “woof*Woof*wanna play?!

Also, Amikaeyla and I will be animating the Winter Solstice,
by phone or web
Monday December 21st 9 pm est/6 pm pst
(usual Monday Trickster time)

and all election magic council team are welcome as guests,
but gotta register… (free)
details in forthcoming (tomorrow) email

Statue of Freedom photo found by Rachel Heerema

* Anything to which we are dedicated
is how synchronicity speaks to us ~
each according to our own resonance

* Tidings of comfort and joy / Reciprocal Blessings

* Collaborating with / Inviting in Freedom

see Katya Miller’s exploration of Lady Freedom
https://www.katyamiller.com

Continuing cahoot with Freedom, and Miss Freedom…

* Trance Postures for Journeying
“to journey (Jupiter) it’s good to have a (Saturn) intention”

see Trance Posture Write Up from Robinette Kennedy

(Also copied below)

* December 17th – Water Protectors Event (via Theo)

Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/693602678011019

Thursday, December 17th
1:00 pm (Central) · livestream rally & protest songs
2:00 pm · prayer circle

Chat

19:13:04 From Dawn Danby : The greatest holiday music has that minor-key modal edge. But the drums, and the shaman Santa…!
19:16:25 From Suzanne : wow, nice!

19:24:50 From Eryn Alloway : Oo Rachel that’s a fabulous picture of Statue of Freedom

19:27:37   From Rachel Heerema (she/her) : Doctor Magician sounds like Kamala Harris to me!
19:28:29   From Rachel Heerema (she/her) : or Doctor Magician as Jill Biden!!
19:32:21   From Leslie McIntire : I finished the book, “I Shall Wear Midnight” today. So I’m nominate Tiffany Aching

19:34:10 From Dawn Danby : I’ve been told that the Three Kings refer to the stars in Orion’s belt, pointing down to where the sun sets as it stations for 3 days during the Winter Solstice?
19:34:13 From Dawn Danby : (As a related aside… We Three Kings is another trippy minor-key-ish Aeolian Mode carol)

20:12:30 From KO : Ah.. tres reyes ! commemorating when east met west in PEACE
20:13:19 From Ann Landesberg : Just discovered today Kamala Harris’s middle name is Devi, Hindu Mother Goddess who bifurcates into Durga and Uma.(Hope I got the spelling as it should be)

20:21:02   From Suzanne : Isa is the scandinavian rune for slowing things down
20:21:10   From Suzanne : it means ice
20:21:18   From Eryn Alloway : Thank you for sharing the rune name Suzanne!

20:23:27 From theotalcott : Dec 17 livestream in solidarity with Stopping Line 3 https://www.facebook.com/events/693602678011019

20:23:37 From Richard~MOS : Michigan upholds Nestlé permit to withdraw 576K gallons of groundwater daily” – putting the bulk of that water into Plastic bottles

20:23:42 From Dawn Danby : This is amazing, the saxophone in the pipe! Thank you for sharing! https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/saxophone/player-pipeline-outdoor-tube-video/

20:25:00 From Richard~MOS : Tis goes with Michigan + Nestle: “The permit, granted under then-Gov. Rick Snyder, allows Nestlé to withdraw up to 400 gallons per minute—576,000 gallons daily—to supply its Evart water bottling operation in exchange for a $200 annual fee.”
that are eager for the assignment

20:31:03 From Suzanne : Composting fear came through for me too

20:31:34 From Richard~MOS : Fermentation as Metaphor – Sandor Katz
Sandor be radio guest 12.17

20:32:10 From Rachel Heerema (she/her) : I’m working on ranked choice voting as part of my “composting” juice. !!
yes, sine qua non for 3rd (and 4th and 5th) parties
Instant run off voting (to counteract instant voter run-off)

20:33:02 From theotalcott : https://peoplesparty.org

20:35:56 From Eryn Alloway : Here’s info about the background of the modern sabian symbols from Marc Jones and Elsie Wheeler http://www.sabian.org/sabian_symbols.php

20:40:02 From theotalcott : http://www.honorearth.org
20:40:14 From theotalcott : https://www.stopline3.org

20:42:14 From theotalcott : https://www.facebook.com/events/693602678011019/

the last three are resources for sending yourselves or your socks to support Mother Earth in Minnesota.

20:49:52 From theotalcott : Starving artist, once fashionable, well-fed artists, now in style

20:51:29 From Suzanne : It came through to me to put the phrase “I’m so done with this” into the cauldron. I’m inviting new phrasing, Thoughts? I have started with “I am honored to be a part of this process”

20:51:54 From Eryn Alloway : I’m ready for the next adventure

20:52:44 From Richard~MOS : Mesa Water owns permits for about 200,000 acre-feet or 65 billion gallons of water a year. To put that in perspective: One acre-foot of water is enough to meet demand of four people for a year. Or looked at another way it’s means 124,000 gallons per minute of water. Basically, this means Pickens company owns more water than any other person in the U.S.

20:52:57   From Delia : Suzanne, what about, “moving through this will enrich me”
20:53:11   From Suzanne : I like that
20:53:20   From Eryn Alloway : I like that too Delia – very good

20:55:10 From Dawn Danby : Even the knowledge of the planet is increasingly freely available to so many more of us. It’s not all held by the oil companies (as much as it was, anyway). May more citizens use, reveal, liberate those capacities

Resources

· **Robinette Kennedy’s Bear Posture write-up**

Article is in our Resources area, here

The purpose of bear rituals is to merge with bears’ healing powers, life ways and nature. Even as far south as ancient Greece, bears were honored in much the same way as the northern European Saami and Lapp tribes cultures still do today. In the 6th century BCE, 35 kilometers north of Athens at a stunningly beautiful place named Brauron, every four years, young girls from Athens who were 5 to 10 years old were brought to Brauron, dressed in saffron-dyed robes, and taught how to dance bear movements as a ritual to honor the memory of a bear spirit associated with Artemis, the guardian spirit of the animals and the forest whose followers had the ability to shape-shift into bears. Today on Crete in a cave on the Akrotiri peninsula near the town of Chania, an annual festival related to bears and the mother of Jesus is still performed on February 2nd. The ritual is named ‘Arkoudiotissa.’ (Holy Bear Mother.)

Continue reading…

· Water Protectors Event & Ritual Artwork

From Theo:

Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/693602678011019

Thursday, December 17th
1:00 pm (Central) · livestream rally & protest songs
2:00 pm · prayer circle

Join Sharon Day, Mary Lyons and other native leaders as they gather with representatives from different faith and spiritual traditions for a Water Ceremony at the Mississippi River in Palisade MN. We will come together on land owned by Winona LaDuke and Honor the Earth near the construction route of the Enbridge Line 3 crude oil pipeline.

From Evangeline:

Evangeline asks us to draw up a pipe line and then cut it up

to disrupt these projects

… may all bad projects be too expensive

bind the wealth that is up to no go

set the thing free

Participatory Magic Council #9

Dec 15, 2020 ° 7 pm eastern / 4 pm pacific

Audio Replay:

Video Replay:

Offerings Below:

· Pre-Council Chart & Themes

· Notes from the Council

· Follow-up Themes

· Chat from the Council

· Resources from the Council