Tele*Coyote (11.29.2021)

Bly: doing Rumi-ish:  

Neptune stationing-

(Direct Wednesday December 1st at 8:22 am et)

Inward dreaming – to outward spiraling

and to deepen the opportune Mystery

Tis

Dark o Moon – when we gather back-stage for positive Intrigue

before eclipse,

whose cycle began Dec 4, 1983

humming….

New Moon Friday December 3, 11:43 pm pt

Saturday December 4th 2:43 am et

Neptune says : “You provide the metaphors – we’ll provide the molecules!”

If any of us have a favorite Robert Bly poem, or translation by Bly – Sharing…would be most welcome…

Jupiter so prominent in his birth and death chart,

Let’s imagine the Community of ancestral poets and story-tellers greeting him….

in congratulatory collegial embrace….

Let’s all imagine who would be in that Community…

Neruda, Gallway Kinnell – and more,

Speaking of the latter, I like disrupting the hagiography :

Remembering an annoying poem of Robert’s, cruel to donkey:

“I used to give Robert, and Galway Kinnell grief for these needless contrived cruelties to animals in their poetry, as over-compensating, still saying to Daddy, “I may be a poet, but not a wuss…see…cruelty…” and they pretty much liked having good grief bestowed upon them.. Kinnell said, a tone of slight incredulity, “so shall I re-write the poem,

so the snake no longer dies as a result of brash boy poet’s heedless cruelty?”

“Yes!”.. I rejoindered.

So the 3 of us hooked arms and went off for a few drinks, ostensibly to re-write their poems,

but after Robert had two martinis, we moved on from that play…to Robert saying wicked witty deft things about poets and story-tellers in 9 words- an artform… And we agreed, as the Inanna myth reminds us, : “that anyone unchallenged, will become a tyrant.” So we toasted: “To challenging each other (with a playful heart) – as a public service!”

We honor his Jupiter opposite Moon Neptune,

the inherited transmission, redeemed, and spiraled forth into larger Community..

Considering Jupiter and Neptune (2 “rulers” of Pisces)….

Jupiter Rising east exact same degree as when Robert was born…Neptune stationing…