Caroline welcomes brilliant astro*mytho colleague Becca Tarnas,
that we may animate in accessible vernacular the guiding astrology*mytho guiding narrative of now, at this riptide where Science proves folk lore, and symbolic languages, like astrology, are restored to their appropriate contribution of Cultural Guiding..
Mercury (Pisces) square Mars (Gemini): Symbolic Thinking dances with energetic intellect, the young Fool guided/informed by aeons of earth mythos
Becca Tarnas, PhD, is a scholar, artist, and editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology. She received her doctorate in Philosophy and Religion from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), with her dissertation titled The Back of Beyond: The Red Books of C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien. Her research interests include depth psychology, literature, philosophy, and the ecological imagination. She teaches at both Pacifica Graduate Institute and CIIS, and is the author of the book Journey to the Imaginal Realm: A Reader’s Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Becca lives in Northern California, where she has an astrological counseling practice.
Top image: Frontispiece for A new and complete illustration of the celestial science of astrology Sibly, Ebenezer, 1751-1800
Yo allies,
what I said to Becca:
“Love so much about your chart, that gives us a way in — Your one Earth Planet is Neptune in Capricorn, the most realistic thing is Pragmatic Mysticism, power of symbols dreams etc…
with your Sag team… “I will study everything, as long as its useful…”
teasing all into pertinence….
and I have a great, Science proving folklore, example of how imagination is completely molecularly real to our brain…
and Your sizzly Mercury at 19+ Scorpio, one of my favorite degrees…
Transiting Neptune trining….so
deepest part of you, and what you hold dear, increasingly welcome in collective,
Inquisition over (ish)…”
The Flora of Middle Earth (Walter and Graham Judd)
“Tolkien developed a theory of imagination that he called “Sub-creation” as a way to understand the origin and creation of his stories, which he explicated in his essay “On Fairy-Stories.” Tolkien defines “Imagination” as “the faculty of conceiving images,” and “the mental power of image-making.” Yet he points out that over time the term “Imagination” has come to mean something more than the faculty of image-making. The term carries a greater potency: “the power of giving to ideal creations the inner consistency of reality.”
Excerpt from Becca Tarnas’ Journey to the Imaginal Realm
Karla Ortiz
So – one earth planet is Neptune! 6+ Capricorn
“Heavily veiled Hierophant, cahooting with the Divine, leads powerful ritual…”
The most realistic Intelligence is Imagination, Myth, Pragmatic Mysticism……
(and will reference Frances Collins – head of NIH, and his remarkable MRI revelation/illumination, quite literally of Imagination…)
Itsuko Azuma
And here, on her site, Becca has quite fun Astrology Transit updates…
“Transits for the Pisces-Aries Lunation”
*March 25 @ 11:58 pm PT*
The Sun and Venus at last conjoin in Aries after dancing in a close tango for many weeks. The cazimi marks Venus’s transition from the morning star to the evening, where we can soon adore her diamond beauty at a reasonable hour once more.
*March 28 @ 11:48 am PT*
The Libra Full Moon opposes the Sun-Venus conjunction, directly perceiving the tender hidden realms of the Lunar unconscious and inviting them forth to illuminate the sweetened pathways of the heart.
*March 29 @ 8:24 pm PT*
Mercury and Neptune conjoin in Pisces, drowning rationality within the wet pools of dream consciousness and allowing the symbolic whispers of transcendent intimations to seep through our thought patterns.”
more days on her site… https://beccatarnas.com/2021/03/11/transits-for-the-pisces-aries-lunation/
Theda Bara (Cleopatra c 1917)
but the Full Moon chart has stopped me in my tracks for its fantabulous potency…
Sun, Chiron, Venus all at 8+ Aries, Crystal Gazer!
Ceres close by at 13!!!!!+ Aries, remembering to include the snake in the garden party…
(The all important 13 be evident and Humming…)
