Caroline Welcomes the return of Sarah Wolcott and Kristine Hill,
gathering to brew a metaphoric feast of Gratitude, as Jupiter the Intelligence of Giving Thanks, Blessing, & Story stations, in its Piscean realm. So Thanks Giving be redemptively real now. Metaphor, myth and music, be the incarnational garb whereby Power enters the world. Jupiter stations at the “prism” degree – unifying Vision dissolving division…
On yesterday’s New Moon in Sagittarius – Jupiter’s out going realm.The quest begins with questions…and wonder… May this serve as a priming of the pump for all our gatherings, to ladle out blessing and dedication into the memosphere…which of course requires digestive bitters…to metabolize America’s Pluto return…
That we all may be agents of spiraling liberating blessing and wafting kinship into the memosphere…
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My election magic colleague, Pat, queries.
“what is the antonym of grievance?
– gratitude!…”
antonymic antidote
via endogenous indigenous parts of ourselves- stirring now…
Tis worthy to consider-because the dementors run on grievance…
And Terry Pratchett’s fantabulous novel “I Shall Wear Midnight,” delineates that grievance and resentment make one vulnerable to possession by the atmosphere of the Cunning Man, feeding strife and “justifying” cruelty…
“Poison goes where poison is welcome,” sayeth the witches….
Which allows for beings with permeable membranes to be possessed by volatile cruelty…
We grieve for all those lives, which be unique stories, recently so cruelly ripped from their kin…
We boundary – greatest protection is Jupiter- blessing-gratitude
mid-15c., “good will,” from Medieval Latin gratitudinem (nominative gratitudo) “thankfulness,” from Latin gratus “thankful, pleasing” (from suffixed form of PIE root *gwere- (2) “to favor”). Meaning “thankfulness” is from 1560s.
So- grievance into cauldron,
ladling out the authentic sacrament of grief, which is love…
and obscured by “grievance…”
(the toxic mimic of authentic grief.)
grief – (sometimes poignantly & deeply –
for the beauty of what has been lost…)
Desiderata- “something for which desire is felt,”
Our word “desire….”
comes from – de sidere “from the stars,”
from sidus “constellation”
(we avert further disaster by gathering to consider )
We desire “reconciliation.”
mid-14c., reconciliacioun, “renewal of friendship after disagreement or enmity, action of reaching accord with an adversary or one estranged”With the gathering of cornucopia – enough for all…,and wishing all in need of supportive abundance, warmth
“horn of plenty,” ancient emblem of fruitfulness and abundance, 1590s, from Late Latin cornucopia, in classical Latin cornu copiae “horn of plenty,” originally the horn of the goat Amalthea, who nurtured the infant Zeus.
Related: Cornucopian.
“We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched by the better angels of our nature.” ~Abraham Lincoln
“The Thanksgiving Tale We Tell Is a Harmful Lie. As a Native American, I’ve Found a Better Way to Celebrate the Holiday” (Time)
by Sean Sherman, founder and CEO of The Sioux Chef and the author of The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen
https://time.com/5457183/thanksgiving-native-american-holiday/
The Sioux Chef: “The thing is, we do not need the poisonous “pilgrims and Indians” narrative. We do not need that illusion of past unity to actually unite people today. Instead, we can focus simply on values that apply to everybody: togetherness, generosity and gratitude. And we can make the day about what everybody wants to talk and think about anyway: the food.
People may not realize it, but what every person in this country shares, and the very history of this nation, has been in front of us the whole time. Most of our Thanksgiving recipes are made with indigenous foods: turkey, corn, beans, pumpkins, maple, wild rice and the like. We should embrace this……No matter where you are in North America, you are on indigenous land.
And so on this holiday, and any day really, I urge people to explore a deeper connection to what are called “American” foods by understanding true Native-American histories, and begin using what grows naturally around us, and to support Native-American growers. There is no need to make Thanksgiving about a false past. It is so much better when it celebrates the beauty of the present.”
“It was the Wampanoag in 1621 who helped the first wave of Puritans arriving on our shores, showing them how to plant crops, forage for wild foods and basically survive. The first official mention of a “Thanksgiving” celebration occurs in 1637, after the colonists brutally massacre an entire Pequot village, then subsequently celebrate their barbaric victory. Years later, President Washington first tried to start a holiday of Thanksgiving in 1789, but this has nothing to do with “Indians and settlers, instead it’s intended to be a public day of “thanksgiving and prayer.” (That the phrase “Merciliess Savage Indians” is written into the Declaration of Independence says everything we need to know about how the founders of America viewed the Indigenous Peoples of this land.) It wasn’t until the writer Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded President Lincoln that the Thanksgiving holiday was needed and could help heal the divided nation that it was made official in 1863. But even that was not the story we are all taught today.”
On earth as it is in Heaven…
Jupiter and Neptune would like us to consider the power of metaphor to incarnate…
