Liberating Astrology Council #2

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Music played before Council:

 

Audio

 

Video

 

Resources

· Making the Gods Work for You Performed Live by Caroline 

Featuring the invocative drumming and singing of Mama Muti (Jaqui MacMillan & Amikaeyla Gaston).

Part I

 

Part II

 

Part III

 

 

Post-Council Themes

Pandora, Jacques Callot (1625, etching)
Liberating Pandora!
 
Our Monday Trickster Council mate, Kris Casler, wrote to my theme “re-purposing Pandora”
 
(Pandora Papers, the leak, to address the leak, i.e. enviro catastrophe…That all corporations responsible for such crimes against the Earth, be dissolved , Neptune, and all their assets re-allocated to bio-remediation. A grand vision for us to hold…)
 
Kris says: “Pandora has always filled me with a sense of the story being wrong…like eve.  everything bad blamed on one person who also happens to be the first female humanbeing in greek myths.  interesting that she is created and sent to cause problems in one version, but then reading elsewhere the suggestion is that pandora may be an earlier goddess representation of Pan Dora the all giving – grail/jar of life and that what was released from Pan Dora’s jar were blessings, not curses…”
 
Re-directing money, imagination flow…
A vision to hold.
 
 
 
 
Pluto (NASA/New Horizons)
 
Yo team, we have a Pluto stationing New Moon Wednesday October 6th ,
before our formal cahooting – Council 3 on Friday…
 
Below be the charts of both….
 
Two Venus New Moon, Pluto stationing:
“We honor the splendiferousness of the New Moon, Pluto stationing Sun Venus 13+ Libra 150 degrees to Uranus 13+ Taurus… The Libran cultural Venus and the Animistic Guiding Wisdom of Nature Venus – in cahoots…
 
Let’s dance with them, that we each may be an emissary for what we love in the realm of culture…”
 
 
 
 
Meanwhile,
 
*many gifts coming our way (“Making the Gods Work for You – live musical version)..
 
 
Highly recommend Pluto…(tis but one quirky long recording… so can rummage around serendipitously)
How do we honor each planet, what happens when we don’t,
many ways to honor..
 
 
* We will be sending everyone everyone’s chart…
 
and after everyone briegly self-introducing
some working themes
Transiting Planets through the houses…
 
then- practice play…
Break-out (or re-naming? “break through” or?) 
groups of 4 or 5 beings, pre-assigned by serendipity…in the guise of me and Eryn!
 
In which everyone reads  transits…
(Perhaps each group can have a designated Scribe,
to file scouting report
 
once we flow back together…
 
 
and here be our guiding narrative chart for Council 3
(Act 3, addressing kerfuffles, micro and macro)…
 
and sometimes we await the right moment to do the thing…
So the Transiting Moon be on my Venus….
 
So let’s call it all in…
We begin with invocation,
and have a wafting  woof to end our convening this night….
 
 
Nakia mentioned the value of having an invocation ritual at beginning and end, had experienced some on zoom, which helped to constellate the Community…I asked her for suggestions, contributions, and all of you as well…
 
How would we all like to magically convene,
calling in what? 
 
New Moon of Participatory Kinship in service to animism…
 
 

 

Chat

20:34:08 From Nakia to Everyone:
I’ve been playing with the idea of spells and identified an ongoing story I’ve had. I don’t want to share the content but I did want to encourage experimentation with Uranian spell breaking and dedicating new vows with Saturn. The shift is palpable. 🙂 Just wanted to share!
20:41:52 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Thats what I was thinking when I saw your note … the most difficult (interesting challenge?) thing for me is identifying the story / spell … wondering … there’s moments I believe I know and then, as you said, thinking too much makes the image fuzzy again
20:43:28 From Lindsey Schurter to Everyone:
I am with both of you and love hearing all of this… It’s quite amazing, really!
20:44:17 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
So resonant
20:47:44 From Megan Smith to Everyone:
Nakia, I was also born on March 26. One year after you. 🙂
20:47:47 From River Plumb (He/Him) to Everyone:
T. Saturn conjunct the IC ~ Redefining family and one’s place within the family structure
20:51:04 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Moon in Virgo … language craft (virgo – discernment, sifting through the wheat) is what she’s referencing there I believe … spelling/spells
20:52:54 From Nakia to Everyone:
@Megan the 26th is a beautiful date!
20:55:51 From Nakia to Everyone:
@Eryn – I understand what you mean by identifying the story. That’s been a challenge with me as well. This time I knew where I wanted to be – and I could see what I was telling myself that blocked my way to the experience. And so I wrote to that one small piece in my overall puzzle. I think I
20:56:49 From Nakia to Everyone:
I’ve gone too big to sort things out sometimes. This was a great experience because I was able to zoom in on a thought.
20:57:03 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Mmmmm thank you
20:57:27 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
Ohhh, spiritual muscle tone. I like that.
20:58:49 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
@Nakia really appreciate this thank you
20:59:04 From Nakia to Everyone:
my pleasure
21:00:57 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
@River mega woofs applauding you on your self healing, self-moon-reloving-crying-in-touch journey
21:04:07 From elizabethagren to Everyone:
Lots of dreaming!
21:04:14 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Yes dreams, and I rarely remember mine but often, yes!
21:04:32 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Often – I meant recently, yes
21:09:41 From Susan Elliott (she/her) to Everyone:
@river my brother is a qanon convert too. I feel you
21:14:18 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Wondering … would retrogrades in astrology be akin to reversed in tarot? Not a negative but different?
21:14:25 From Lindsey Schurter to Everyone:
@Erin — I’m not sure if this happens with your dreams or not… but if you remember them upon 1st awakening & have a fleeting thought of how bizarre or odd or great the dream may have been… only for it to leave you immediately & unable to remember later… if this does occur with you, have you tried immediately grabbing your phone if it is near by and writing a few notes about the dream to think about later or trying to recall it & if you can’t, then have the random notes to be able to refer to later. It’s quite interesting.
21:15:14 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
oh yes, also sometimes getting back into the same position you were in when you had the dream can help coax the dream out of the liminal space….
21:15:16 From Nakia to Everyone:
Can you both talk a little about the story you see with the Capricorn stellium? If there’s not time – no worries!
21:15:51 From Lindsey Schurter to Everyone:
@Erin — I haven’t explored tarot much as of yet, but I think I have considered similar things amongst comparing other topics.
21:16:34 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
@Lindsey yes that’s the only memory I do have when I do … that waking memory/integration… I often sleep in until the last minute though so rarely take the time … but more often than not I fall sleep and wake up and feel as if nothing has passed or happened … the dreams I remember almost always include a lot of running, and my legs are tired
21:17:04 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Mmm yes on the tarot note I think that’d be interesting to dive into … I’m just a beginner in tarot too
21:17:31 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
@Nakia yeah! I am 1990 with Capricorn stellium too … really interesting … would love to hear more!
21:17:33 From Lindsey Schurter to Everyone:
Very interesting… I always am intrigued to know those who have repeating types of theme dreams. I am one of those as well.
21:18:10 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
@Mia I think this idea of getting back into the position to coax the memory back
21:18:54 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
@eryn yes, I am studying with a dream medicine woman and this is one of her recommendations….
21:19:00 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
@Lindsey yeah me too and my partner dreams every night, many dreams, lucid dreaming … I would love to play in the dream realm more!
21:19:03 From Nakia to Everyone:
@Lindsey on the recurring dreams – do you ever experience shifts in details in the dreams? Or, are they the same each time?
21:19:30 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
@Mia oooo so interesting! Dream medicine woman… wowza I love to know she exists!
21:20:04 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
@eryn yes yes! I hope to be one day as well, so rich. Dreams are all the things….
21:20:26 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
@Mia oooo may it be so!
21:21:45 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
indeed…in some dreaming space it already is, just bringing it here now. 😉
21:21:45 From Lindsey Schurter to Everyone:
I have several different themes… I would say I have long-term & short-term type themes I suppose… I’m not always so great with attempting to explain… but for example the long-term themes I may have been experiencing since a child & the details change… but now that I am considering it, even with the “short-term” themes, those are repetitive for a time with changing details. All so interesting.
21:24:30 From Nakia to Everyone:
The pragmatic mystics. That is a beautiful description and I know Capricorn people who fit that so well!
21:24:55 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
is this Mars in Capricorn in general? Pragmatic mysticism?
21:25:11 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
I think it’s Neptune in Capricorn ?
21:26:01 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
The stellium is that everyone born between (..1988-1992?..) has many (6ish?) planets in Capricorn, because the big outer planets all stayed there for a long time per their long long orbit cycle
21:26:28 From Diane Wilkes to Everyone:
River has Mars in Capricorn as part of his Capricorn stellium
21:26:33 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
Oh yes, what makes a stellium?
21:26:52 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Ahh yes and my Mars is out of Stellium but almost every other planet is in Capricorn
21:27:10 From Nakia to Everyone:
@mia it’s often said that 3 or more planets in a house make a stellium
21:27:24 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
ah, okay. I think I have one in Aquarious then
21:27:30 From Nakia to Everyone:
Some astrologers say four or more makes a stellium
21:27:47 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Right I’m seeing “A stellium in astrology occurs when multiple planets are clustered close together in one zodiac sign or astrological house.”
21:29:24 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
How can you know if a planet was in retrograde when you were or someone was born?
21:30:17 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
I noticed it on her chart delineated with a red R … I’m not sure about other charts …
21:30:47 From River Plumb (He/Him) to Everyone:
My P. Jupiter will go direct in 2066
21:31:13 From Nakia to Everyone:
how do we know/find the direct time for a planet?
21:31:40 From River Plumb (He/Him) to Everyone:
I used my software and fastforwared the chart, but you can look at an ephemeris and use a year for a day.
21:31:59 From Kathryn to Everyone:
How long has Pluto been stationing?
21:32:08 From River Plumb (He/Him) to Everyone:
So Jupiter went direct 74 days after my birth.
21:32:08 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Is this all based on the progressed chart?
21:32:12 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Ahah yes!
21:32:46 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
So progressed charts are very interesting … I would like to ask Caroline to dive into this more at some perfect time
21:32:57 From River Plumb (He/Him) to Everyone:
The outer planets usually station forward and direct near their trine to the sun.
21:32:59 From Nakia to Everyone:
ahhh, would we look for the date that it lines up with our natal planet then?
21:33:18 From River Plumb (He/Him) to Everyone:
No, we would just look to see when it stations direct
21:33:30 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
I think it’s like every day after your birth is a new chart that represents a year in your life accordingly?
21:33:46 From Nakia to Everyone:
Ok, I’m not understanding that placement then. I’ll get it eventually. 🙂
21:33:56 From River Plumb (He/Him) to Everyone:
Yes, its a symbolic turning of the chart by a day for every year you’ve been alive
21:34:55 From annette to Everyone:
I would love to play with the US Pluto return.
21:35:12 From River Plumb (He/Him) to Everyone:
Yes! Very curious about the US Pluto return!
21:35:15 From Nakia to Everyone:
@annette agreeeeeeeeed!
21:35:21 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
yes interesting!
21:35:29 From Lindsey Schurter to Everyone:
Annette… definitely.
21:58:47 From Mia Hetenyi to Everyone:
yes
21:58:54 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Yes
21:59:22 From annette to Everyone:
Yes!!!!!
22:00:52 From elizabethagren to Everyone:
Thanks!

 

Pre-Council Chart & Themes

 

Venus, Camel photo by Christina Roman, of Caroline on camel, welcoming the return of Venus on Mt Sinai
Caroline on Mt Sinai, welcoming the heliacal return of Venus, photo by Christina Roman
 
 
And we’re off!
 
Yo Team, here we be in Libra – incarnational realm of Venus…
And Venus be at 23+ Scorpio – “person delivering a Sermon on a Mount,”
So everyone here be a story-teller with much to craft and offer.
 
“Amor Fati!” (Love our fate)
“Dree our Weird” (play our role in destiny)
 
*We deepen our dedication to participatory intimacy with everything,
exploring creative complicity…(no shame, no blame – but whatever be going on, we be creatively complicitous. And once we play with that, if something be un-desirable- we inhale our complicitous chi from, that circumstance, and exhale creative chi into a more fun, liberating, desirable template….
 
And always honoring Uranus Trickster – experiment experiment experiment!
 
Phoenician patera from Idalium, ritual dance
 
So tonight – we begin early…!
As we have a fantabulous 14 minute musical piece from Abdullah Ibrahim, for reverie, to get us in the mood….
 
So, a spicy Venusian invitation to Mystery (Venus trines Neptune, Dreams and Music. Music is a way of participating in dreaming the world into being)
 
Let’s assemble at 7:45 pm edt, 4:45 pdt…. (can be cloaked, so as to be uninhibited in our swaying to music)
 
And as Pluto be stationing – woo-hoo – dredging up everything, like ribbon grass…This music is a deft dancing with Underworld, whereby to re-gain equilibrium, and release all impedimental harumphitude…
align with, be supported by, Deep deep positive sizzle…
 
For ourselves – and All Our Relations.
 
******************************************
 
Council 1, in keeping with the 5 Act Structure of Story-telling, was
“Here we are.”
 
Act 2 – is “Away”
 
(Act 3 – be “oops” “kerfuffle”
Act 4 be – Underworld
Act 5 be – Redemption, Renaissance)
 
So tonight  is our Journey-Caravan of Dreams cahoot….
We meet in the Caravanserai…
 
to con-sider (“with the stars’) (to avert “dis-aster” “against the stars”)
 
Caravanserai-Aesclepion dream realm
 
To study astrology is to be engaged in Magic:
 
*Whatever we study – changes our brains…
(a response to the question, “Are you psychic?”)
 
* Magic is simply a willingness to cooperate with everything.
 
*This beautiful language encourages us to think symbolically, everything speaking to us, as though in a dream, that we be dream interpreters, and intimate with the world by being able to read it symbolically.
 
* Pattern tracking – being detectives….
following the clues (tossing the iron ball of our desire and following it to the FaeryRealm, where customized Guiding awaits us all…)
 
* Intuition
 
*Awareness of societal conditioning, and how we dissolve for self and others.
 
*Ritual Magic
 
* Whatever we cultivate, break old spells – (Uranus) – take new more fun vows (Saturn), grants us the spiritual muscle tone to participate in guiding the world!
 
* We all be guides – (Jupiter, 9th house, Sagittarius)
 
Jupiter guiding Mercury (Journeys through Bookland)
 
We begin by blessing all of our Guides, known and unknown, and receiving blessing from all those, known and unknown , for whom we be guides.
 
So many ingenious ways to translate this language into our unique contribution.
 
(For instance, Michael Meyer, astrologer who brings Chi Gung into play. If someone feels daunted, he might teach them Lion Dance.)
 
Elixirs, talismanic magic…
 
Herbs
Poems
Faery Tales…
and whatever crafts we are all bringing to Council…
 
The more cultivated we be, according to our own affinity, the more we bring to this language, the more our
access  to this language, expands…
Astrology is a grand ally, who loves to organize all we bring to it, guiding coherence. May it be so!
 
Dendera Zodiac, illustration
 
And, tonight Astrology reveals the real reason we have been magnetized into this Council,
Our Ouiji Board of Directors,
for the work at hand…
Hee-hee!
 
note: many different levels of intimacy with this language, some of us are already deeply dedicated to this craft, and some have mentioned being daunted due to being not- yet – being familiar…We wonder how all perfect.
 
(With the little booklet that Eryn sent to all, tis grand to be rudimentarily familiar with the Glyphs… I still love doing a little glyph of the planetary day, with cornmeal, outside door…)
 
First, everyone is welcome and treasured.
And all questions be welcome…Beginners feel free to ask simple questions,
“What is Mars etc?” – anything….
As “simple” questions are always useful – forever…
and for us all – the task of translating this language into understandable vernacular, painting reality with words…
 
May we all internally calibrate what we would like to glean from our cahooting.
 
Let our craft be our craft, our sturdy boat, through the Underworld Ghost River!
 
 
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We gather
Listen
Convene
Introduce ourselves
 
Co-operators are standing by!
 
So let’s introduce them…
 
We welcome  our “now.” (chart below)- 
 
I lay out some working principles –
Then we play!
 
 
 

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