Caroline welcomes brilliant scholar of Women’s Magic, Max Dashu, historian, artist, and author of Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion,that we may invite all metabolizers of poison, composters of corruption, to preside over this cuckoo time, as we all brew New Moon Equinoctial Medicine.
Here, as a pertinent treat is Kim Stanley Robinson’s short Bioneers talk from 2015 (we have the only copy! hee-hee!)
Which references the Gettysburg Address, that hovers over this election.
Mercury stations direct on election day, 11.3.2020 as it did in 2000
(perhaps we will get the results from 2000 this year)…
So let us be prepared to dissolve the thuggery that shut down vote counting then… with Beauty and anthems, and the radical verses of America the Beautiful..
(see encouragement below)
And in brewing all the election charts…
because there is no ‘one’…people are already voting…
So I looked to when does Mercury emerge from its retrograde shadow…
(retrogrades at 11 Scorpio 39 on October 13th)
November 19, 2020 at 3:49 pm
November 19, 1863 is the day Lincoln (also presiding over this election)
delivered his Gettysburg address, a crafted, dedicated mere 2 minutes,
whose vitality is humming directly to us now.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
“Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
“But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
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America the Beautiful, yearns to be sung, in the streets, as we vote,
as antidote to polarity poison…
to cool the strife, and assume cultural narrative lead,
no longer reactive, but responsive…
Let us dedicate, the New Moon, to being Medicine Beings
(not being lured into polarity, which only feeds the dementors),
from whose tyranny we are eager to suck all the chi,
and exhale into the living story of the democratic experiment.
Beauty v Cruelty
We’re voting for Beauty
Plaque commemorating the song, “America the Beautiful” atop Pikes Peak
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful
All lyrics also here
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!”
Merely note that Max’s Ascendant 25+ Libra is the degree
at which Mercury stations on “election day.”
So fate of nation rests on her shoulders, ha, just kidding Max.
But Mercury as our ally,
that authentic and honest kinship prevail…is in her realm…
and may we all assume creative responsibility*opportunity
for inviting the redemptive ancestors, and animating the desirable story…
