“By loving the one we were taught to hate- we change the world,” guides Caroline’s guest Dr. Raïna Manuel-Paris, “As Norwegian novelist Arne Garborg put it, “To love someone is to learn the song of their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten.”
“In service of a handmade and mythical life” -Raïna
Raïna Manuel-Paris, tarot & magic scholar, writer, teacher, and meditation guide, has taught Magic & Ritual, Myth & Symbol for the last 15 years at the Art Institute in Santa Monica. Her love of transformational story telling has guided her to an MFA in Film from Columbia University, & a Ph.D. in Mythological studies from Pacifica, and a love of frame drum. She also lectures and gives seminars at the Philosophical Research Society (founded by Manly P Hall).
Let us all be dedicated to dancing the desirable into being…
Yo Team,
We all be translating the light of last night’s beautiful Equinoctial Full Moon,
which reminds us to encourage, reverence, honor the loving kinned vitality we want to increase, in our lives, in the world.
The Moon was speaking beautifully last night: Increase the good, strengthen the desirable (compost attack-grrr, into nutrient for leading the dance of creative resilience.)
(Not to feed the Dementors, but to) align with and encourage the dynamic woofy good…
“Tyrants don’t care if they are hated – as long as the people don’t love each other.”
(Tyrants don’t care if they are hated – as long as the people don’t love the earth….)
Breath of Gaia by Josephine Wall
So we are increasing our love for each other, the Earth, and all of Flora Fauna…
The Sun, still at the Equinox degree, Persian New Year, 1st degree of the zodiac, conjoins Chiron, newly in Aries (1st time in 51 ish years)
(Just as the Super Full Moon Equinox is the 1st time in 19 years…)
Chiron’s degree is “a comedian.”
Reynard, Trickster
Healing shall be led by jaunty Trickster, as Wendell Berry re-minds us, “Be jaunty, even though fully informed!”
and the folk saying, “the task of the doctor is to amuse the patient so Nature can do the work.”
Saturn chimes in, quintiling the Sun, with wit. The most serious, dedicated part of us proffers back-up at the “Hidden Choir is Singing” degree…
The quintile opens the door between the hidden choir and our animated adorably befoibled selves…
In tarot cards, Saturn is associated with Key 15 – the Devil, who makes a vulcan salute hand gesture which means, “all that you see is all there is.”
The devil not a boogedy-boogy supernatural being, but simply, if we are snookered into belief in visible reality as sole reality we have earned depression and gloom…
But this card is associated with mirth, the chains around the little Adam and Eve figures are large and loose, and they (we) could take them off. Ha-ha!
Joe Hautman painting
The Moon in Libra, blowing (bio-degradable) soap bubbles… fresh from its fullness last night, quintiles Jupiter, story-telling Genie, whose image is “the blue Bird of happiness perched on the gate of a little cottage.”
And makes an exact quincunx to Mars in Taurus…The stories we tell are eager to incarnate into our personal and collective bodies…also encourage us to dream our mythic trickster body into being, from many realms, with which we feel a customized resonance…
Mars squares Venus in Aquarius, our back-stage collective social mind,
reminding us to spiral our inner and outer kinship with Flora Fauna, in her myriad expressions, into group mind….
