Confluencing of Allies,

the living, the gone back-stage,

the ancestral and Mythic

 

Ally-ally-in-come-free!

 

 

Winged Being carrying a Woman – Etruscan (6th c. BC)

 

As always

Co-Operators Are Standing By!

 

Let’s meet them tonight…

 

Illustration by Charlotte Maria Tucker

 

*Sun in Libra, at an exuberant degree

“Chanticleer saluting the dawn –

ushering in a new beginning,

enthusiastic blowing of cultural horn”

confidence, “No brag – just fact!”

 

Sun quintiles Saturn,

eloquence opens the portals

betwixt the desirable and the actual…

 

and

 

Holding all to Saturn’s sacrament

of accountability… (The image for Ceres is

“Two men placed under arrest, accountability.”

Nominees accepted…)

 

Adrienne Adams (1971)

 

In the Scorpionic realms, always remembering

the heartening ally chant:

“Don’t you be so sad and blue –

you have witches looking out for you!”

 

Inanna illustrated in Myths and legends of Babylonia & Assyria (1916)

 

We Honor the Journey of Venus,

on her good bye tour of the Overworld,

disappearing from the Night Sky,

entering the Underworld, to speak with the dead,

that the dead many speak to and for us…

 

She is at the “go to the root of decay

and corruption” degree, conjoining Mercury,

at the “fellowship supper reunites

old comrades,” degree, as one of

the rising signs for America…

 

That we may call in all investigative,

diagnostic, healing Intelligence –

that we all be Noire Detectives…

 

Still from ‘The Thin Man’

 

and thus

honor Jamal Khashoggi’s chart,

and his tragic role in the Mystery Play…

Without certainty, but with grief, wonder,

deep delving investigative Intelligence…

that Venus will retrieve his story,

in a positive noire come-uppance…

 

That there be the glimmering

of redemptive Act V

 

 

Mid-terms:

as with everything,

not so much – “what’s gonna happen?”

as what wants to happen, and wondering

our way into co-operating with the desirable…