Trickster as Liberating
Alchemical Detective

 

 

Let us be the Balm

 

May the Positive Intrigue of tonight’s
potent sky-earth map guide us to
discover the ingredients whereby
to both brew and be the balm,
for the world’s darkness…

 

 

granting us opportunities
to deeply delve the realms of goodness,
underneath the world’s tragedies…
with Trickster aplomb and grace….

“Your Nearest Exit May Be Behind You!”

 

 

Our rising sign is the degree
of Jupiter’s past stationing:
“A Woman Gives a Sermon on a Mount.”

We remember Neal Douglas-Klotz’s
translation of the Beatitudes back
into the vernacular of Aramaic.
“Blessed are the Meek,” becomes
“Blessed are those who soften
emotional rigidity within their hearts
– for they shall have all the power of Nature.”

 

Venus reflected on the Pacific Ocean (wikipedia)

 

Venus blazes in the West after sunset,
in Gemini, 135 degrees from Mars and Pluto.
She has her voice, with which to speak
conversationally, making light of darkness,
with the Underworld…

Mars and Pluto, in turn,
sextile the rising Moon and Jupiter;
Jupiter retrograde animating
“a woman draws back two dark curtains
leading to a sacred pathway.”

 

The below tragic mystery brings up such for us to consider…
When the bombings in Bali occurred, the people there came together
to wonder “what brought this into our lives,” to explore complicity,
and what redemption might be distilled from the horrific.

Peru’s brutal murders renew focus on tourist boom for hallucinogenic brew

“A faith healer was killed, and a Canadian tourist was lynched in revenge – deaths that expose the dangers of the unregulated world of ayahuasca tourism”