Replaying interview with Max Dashu from earlier this year ~
Ukrainian Earth Story Trickster Magic:
A rollicking, raucous rambling playful, cahoot betwixt Caroline and Max Dashu, Keeper of Suppressed Histories Archives, erudite fantabulous history mythic scholar guide, as we delve into the deep magic of the Slavic world, the animism of Ukraine, how it hums everywhere. Chernobyl is the secret name of” mugwort.”
“Servant of the People”- Zelensky’s tv show – magic… Power of story…
Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in January of 1970 to research and document women’s history on a global scale. Dashu is internationally known for her expertise on ancient female iconography in world archaeology; female spheres of power and matricultures; patriarchies and allied systems of domination; medicine women, female shamans, witches, and witch hunts.
Her invaluable site:
suppressedhistories.net
(tis a re-play, so astro references are from the past…)
“A Word to the Wise” by Anna Pugh
Yo Patreonista Allies,
The Last Visionary Activist Show of the Year,
is a re-play…
yet
Worthy, as one of the main themes, long-time brewing,
is the necessity of the Mythological narrative…
whereby to dissolve (Neptune)
the grrr & nyah-nyah of polarizing political discourse
and toss
into Pluto’s Cauldron…
Where there be conflict –
let’s dive for the Guiding root
Underworld Participatory Animism of that place.
Children of the forest, Elsa Beskow
This place… Where ere we be…
we declare our love for the land, with Tiffany Achen: “I am your witch/wizard!”
We re-weave our alliances with what we love, adopting their strategies,
according to our augury affinities…
To protect water – become like water…
to protect wolves become like wolves…..
and as Deborah Felmeth,
(now in her Beloved Syria, may she be safe, warm, content)
speaks for Neptune
when she reminds us
“Salaam- Peace is not the absence of conflict- but the presence of Oneness.”
&
to honor the recent Chiron station, she says, the Arabic understanding of time
“The future is unknowable, behind us. The past is in front of us.
We craft the future by gazing at the Caravan of our past Mentors.”
Perhaps the Caravan arrives with the Magi
on January 6th/ Epiphany/Twelfth Night..
as we inhale back the Beauty of that day…
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Winter solstice goat Yuri Vasnetsov
The Mythological suffuses incarnational actuality…
a New Year toast to necessary mythological miracles!
whereby : “to find a way outta no-way,”
as High John – Trickster Folk Hero encourages,
“and hit a straight lick with a crooked stick.”
Zelensky and Biden held their press conference
at the exact moment of Winter Solstice. 4:48 pm December 21st…
Zelansky spoke of Light and Dark on his Solstice address….
and also said
“The Russian people will only be free
when they defeat the Kremlin in their minds…”
May it be a blessing for us all, to dissolve tyranny in all our hearts….
“Blessed are those who soften emotional rigidity within their hearts –
they shall have all the Power of Nature!”
(Neil Douglas-Klotz’s Aramaic translation of “Blessed are the Meek.”)
Venus was exactly on Zelensky’s Mercury that Solstice day
Uranus arrives at the 14+ Taurus,
trining Zelensky’s Mercury (his only planet in Earth)
on January 12th,
as Mars stations Direct 8+Gemini – which be the US Uranus….
8+ Gemini be “a quiver filled with arrows.”
So for ourselves, and the Citizens of this country,
may our arrows be tipped with compassion – with tyranny as their target…
Uranus retrograde,
is pulling the arrow back in the bow…
Uranus station Direct
on Chinese New Year of Rabbit, January 22nd,
is when we release our arrows… phetewww! Phteww!
Let’s animate the desirable,
so as not to leave reality to the dementors by default…
This station trines Zelensky ’s Mercury through Mid-Winter…
Stations hold a resonance in perpetuity…
This degree 14+ Taurus (where Uranus stationed the Summer of 2021)
is a great one to animate,
“In the midst of a wild storm – a stranger walks into town,
wearing a silk top hat, carrying a large black bag,
the Doctor-Magician collaborator with Natural forces.”
Magical character honed by adversity….
in us all…
Augurs the increasing emergence of biomimicry,
as the sine qua non for life on this planet,
that humans humbly cooperate with Nature’s guiding design Genius.
So
Let’s pull a lunar rabbit out of the Hat…
Fire Hare by Sarah Rowley
(“The Hare runs into the fire.” see Terry Pratchett’s “I Shall Wear Midnight “
– to survive the fire run into the fire – and leap!!!!!)
Let’s welcome mythological miracles,
as when the Russian women marched into Chechnya
to take their Russian sons home…
Encourage us all to open imaginative pathways
for “against all odds” Trickster to enter the world
in such a miraculous marvel, with a silk top hat,
that all of life celebrates….
not expecting – but willing!
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Eris
Mercury stations retrograde today….
to station direct, right before Uranus’ station, on January 18th
at 8 + Capricorn, which is the US Eris,
whose symbol be “an angel carrying a harp.”
Magnetize, Animate and spiral forth…
More agents of necessary miracles reporting in……
Truly
Co-Operators are standing by!
1st quarter Moon with Jupiter –
quintiles Mercury and Venus in Capricorn…
=Telling the desirable story opens portals between worlds …
For which we have incentive,
Mars sesquiquadrates to Mercury and Venus….
So imaginative guiding of Mars’ expression be a good idea,
again, lest we leave by default to dementors…
Ah, but grace again, Mercury and Venus sextile stationing Neptune —
truly
We are all One Dream, dreaming and being dreamt…
Desirable images are enthused and eager
to be invited into incarnational actuality…
The essence of this time,
the Birth of the World Redeemer in all our hearts…
*do check out the audio crafted atmosophericly immersive
BBC radio drama/podcast “The Dark is Rising”
one episode per day
(only 18 minutes… good for one cold dark walk with the dogs)
(of the fantasy novel by Susan Cooper…
of Great Danger twixt Solstice and January 6th Epiphany…)
