Caroline is delighted to welcome the return of Susan Shannon, as we honor the radiant resilience of the “former lifer” community, those “Returning Citizens” who have completed their sentence, and are now part of the team of Mentors, having much earned medicine to contribute – to us all… Inner work allows for synchronicity. Power of changing the narrative. Redemption. The rituals of healing betwixt those who have harmed, and those whom they have harmed. Milarepa, thug, highwayman and others who go on to be great Saints… Diving into the Dark to glean “Power with” vs. “power over.”
Susan Shannon is a seeker, student, mystic, poet, dharma lover, student, and teacher, earth and animal steward, and devotee of the heart, interfaith minister and chaplain…. Susan has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for over 45 years, studying with many of Tibet’s greatest teachers here in the United States and abroad.Since ordination, Susan’s ministry has been focused on prison chaplaincy projects and transformational programs at San Quentin State Prison, including working with the renowned Guiding Rage Into Power program through Insight-Out.org and providing Buddhist Chaplaincy on Death Row.
As we dive into the Dark, approaching Halloween, Pluto -presider over Underworld Initiation, stations to go Direct on October 6th,
we be here to glean Mentoring on Good Citizenship from those previously
Serving Time (in San Quentin, but what a great phrase… We are all Serving Time)…
Pluto reminds us that intensity is volatile and dangerous in direct proportion to the force of its exclusion….
So we be preparing a welcoming guiding party for us all…
The unified King and Queen from the alchemical Philosophia Reformata (1622) by Johann Daniel Mylius
We love Mars, (in Mutual reception with Venus) Sun opposite Chiron the Centaur Mentor—that calm-weaver, “strong enough to be gentle” Mars is cahooting with Guiding and Mentoring…
Venus, in Mars’ Scorpio realm, trines Neptune. So once again we have sizzley, smoldering insight – with compassion….!
Like New Orleans musicians who emerge from the black owned funeral homes to begin the 2nd line parades, wearing T-shirts that say “We <3 haters!”
“The compassion that is brewed from the biter having been bit.”
Grand trine to the Moon in Cancer (cross-cultural engagement degree)…
Br’er Rabbit, all remembering they are kin…
Venus (shape-shifting degree) squares Jupiter, so these stories are eager to be told, as invaluable contribution to Community…
The Sun and Mars quintile the Moon, opening portals for all our relations…
Moon quintiles Uranus – Medicine Being of collaborating with Nature’s experimental Genius,
who then bi-quintiles back to Mars…
So cool…
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, Fairy Tale of Kings (1909)
We have available Underworld Medicine eloquence -0 to spiral forth and hum, opening the portals for all our ancestors to be welcome to help out…, We are humbled…
and, “against all odds,” let’s see the worthy “Build Back Better” bill passing… We leave it to Uranus and Jupiter to handle how, once we tell them what..
Cahooting with Saturn, Ceres, Sun, Mars grand trine in Air…
Our dedication gets handed to our booking agents for the sake of the Earth, that we all may be good Planetary Citizens…
And we can see what a beautiful “dreeing of her weird” Susan be embodying…
12th house prison ministry, to liberate the culture’s soul… Sun at graveside death-re-birth rituals!, next to Venus, healing cross-cultural encounters around water….
sextile her Dark o Moon Pisces Moon,
pragmatic mysticism…
Her Jupiter at 22+ Virgo = this Nation’s Neptune, its soul, trines her Mercury, Blessings bestowed and destiny guided by auguries….
