The darker the lyrics – the jauntier the tune – the Genius of Jamaica
Astro*politico debriefing: to triumph over chicanery, This Fund Drive, Caroline is offering 2 of her favorite novels, The Harder They Come, by Michael Thelwell (barely 20 copies available in world, and we have them! as pledge enticements.) In this potent, pertinent novel, the dialogue is written in Jamaican patois, so as we read, we can hear the melodic, ironic poetry of the Jamaican language in our heads. “oppreshun be only fur a seasun.”
We are also offering 1 copy of “Power Game” by Perry Henzell – that comes with a debriefing phone call with me, Caroline, upon return from Jamaica! Delineates the kind of team one needs to pull of a Revolution. Practical. And fun!
(We are also offering 3 months of Trickster Training Council. It all brews together. We want to get us all fluffed up to deftly dance with danger, to liberate all polarity into a spiral)
Michael Thelwell, Born in Jamaica, the author of The Harder They Come, was the founding chairman of the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he continues to teach. He has published a number of works, including two noted collections of essays, Duties, Pleasures, and Conflicts: Essays in Struggle and Hopes and Impediments. He is currently working on a biography of the former Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael, now known as Kwame Ture.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/h-rap-brownjamil-al-amin-profoundly-american-story/
Perry Henzel – Jamaican film-maker Perry Henzell was one of the most noteworthy figures of Caribbean cinema. His masterpiece, The Harder They Come (1972), starring the reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, remains the most outstanding film to emerge from the region and has continually served as a reference point for film-makers in the Caribbean and Latin America. It brought the sights and sounds of Jamaica to overseas audiences for the first time; in particular, it made plain the jarring reality of the Kingston slums and gave some indication of the Rastafari way of life, sparking an interest for many in the island’s culture.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/dec/04/guardianobituaries.obituaries1
Yo team O Patreonistas,
Here we be in the astro-embrace betwixt Uranus rising and Mars setting,
at the “Party of Campers packing their canoe at twilight
– ability to navigate dark waters” degree…
but Trickster be with us, backing us up, guiding us into the dance…
that we all be practicing spiraling out of Polarity…
That we are cross-pollinating agents,
Democratic animism into collective atmosphere…
We be draw on all the trickster tales of triumphing over chicanery.
(Because this is where we are situated…
Gonna take a miracle to elect a sane, competent,
dedicated to collective well-being leader. )
Trickster says – s/he got a bag of miracles..
all Trickster wants is for us to proclaim our availability:
to be danced into place, where we can do the most good,
have the most fun, and contribute our gifts to the community
in a manner of reciprocal replenishment…
Let nature’s designs be our guide. In all things.
“Let life ripen and then fall – force is not the way at all.”
(Tao Teh Ching, Witter Bynner translation)
The Moon quintiles Venus at 15+ Aries
“Nature spirits dance in the light of the sunset.”
Dancing music, magic all part of our collaborative efficacy…
pouring into the collective….
Jupiter exactly sextile Neptune-
The power of Story and Metaphor craft:
metaphors and music are especially eager to don incarnational garb now…
That our words, metaphors, stories, be in accord with our dedicated hearts.
We welcome all unseen ancestral allies, Bob Marley, and Perry Henzel,
both of whose charts are humming…
(and anyone else we can think of to join us in our canoes….)
Pluto Saturn Jupiter Mars be on Bob Marley’s Mars,
Uranus be squaring his Mercury
“deserter from the navy following their own wilderness path.”
Sextile his Moon in Sag,
a cross-pollinating agent of syncretism. May we all aspire.
Ah, Perry be having his Uranus return,
dancing in the after-life.
And Neptune be transiting his dedicated compassionate Sun,
at the “Rich and poor alike pour out onto rain-drenched streets
in a joyous re-birth celebration.”
He was born on the Full Moon Pisces – Virgo,
which is our imminent super-Moon March 9th,
when Mercury stations at the Cultural Renaissance degree.
The Moon’s degree then will be 19+ Virgo:
“A caravan headed to the West Coast.
The need for cooperative effort in reaching any “New World” of experience …
Journeying together- in order tp safely reach the goal of destiny.
Here there is no longer any sense of competition,
but an ordered and structured endeavour…
Cooperating in the great adventure on consciousness,”
(Dane Rudhyar)
“Total Purpose and Effort…”
all dedicated by a shared vision – to which we are all contributing.
