Tales of Environmental Devastation & Recovery
Caroline re-hosts learned Druid, Hermetic, Masonic initiate, John Michael Greer,
author of over 50 books on esoteric traditions, nature spirituality, and the future of industrial society. His resonant erudition finds expression in his latest, “The Ceremony of the Grail, Ancient Mysteries, Gnostic Heresies and the Lost Rituals of Freemasonry.”
Welcome John Michael Greer,
not since “Apocalypse Not”
(a great book, liberating us from the cultish con of Apocalypse frenzy)
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Mars rising, stationing today – Direct just now at 8+ Gemini = US Uranus
(segue to last week’s splendid show with Robert Ovetz, on Constitution,
as compost for experiment in actual democracy….
May we participate in stirring…)
JMG delineates Mars as Percival,
and from archaic star lore –
the Planets are great Spiritual Intelligences,
the 7 Guardians of the World…
Welcome Mars to grant us the woof
to participate in protecting and honoring Earth
and all her Flora Fauna Citizens…
Mars’ Sabian, what he proffers to us – is “a quiver filled with arrows”
(and may they be tipped with Compassion with tyranny as their target…
Phtewwwww!”)
Mars sextile Chiron –
Let us be “crafting the future
by gazing at the caravan of our past Mentors…”
Mercury quintile Neptune
May we be available to Mystery!
We have endogenous receptors….
for Myth, astrology and Guiding Mystery…
Endogenous Indigenuity!
be stirring in us all….
Uranus has arrived at stationing degree 14+ Taurus – Direct on 22nd
“In the midst of a wild windstorm,
a stranger walks into town, wearing a silk top hat,
carrying a large black- The Doctor Magician –
collaborator with Natural Forces…”
Let’s feel this within ourselves,
and Zelensky’s one earth planet is Mercury at 14+ Capricorn…
receiving the Stationing Liberating Trickster trine …
Let’s see the portals opening for against all odds,
resolution with Nature
and the Ukrainian Faery Tales,
full of humans triumphantly cahooting,
aligning, with Nature, good for all beings…
Still seeing Russian Women marching into Ukraine –
to take their sons home,
as they did to end the war in Chechnya ….
Brewing the Desirable now – back-stage –
for on stage manifestation from 22nd on…
Shinto, in Japan, honoring the Kami,
the spirit beings in woods and water,
and Greek Paganism:
“Both religions are diverse, tolerant, polytheistic faiths
that value ritual and custom above doctrine and belief.”
-The Ceremony of the Grail, by John Michael Greer
(Yea!)
“Japanese culture has always understood draught as a consequence
of deforestation. In 821 an edict ordered a halt to logging along rivers,
streams and irrigation ponds, and commanded officials to plant trees
to replace those that had been cut down.”
“Hence they never experienced the Wasteland of cataclysmic
environmental agricultural collapse,
that occasioned and ignorantly endured
by most other cultures….”
We take heed!
Thor’s Hammer is formed by the Moon, in language crafting,
ritual magic Virgo to (135 degrees) Venus in Aquarius,
to (135) Uranus in Taurus…
and the completing square betwixt Venus and Uranus…
Thor’s Hammer can sweep corruption out of the halls of governance,
what a good idea…
We have arrows, and a hammer!
and soon angels
(Mercury station direct on the 18th…8+ Capricorn =
“Angel Carrying a harp,”)
(So we add harp to quiver and a hammer..).
That all corrupt impediments to Society being in accord with Wild Nature,
be swept away…
Portrait of Kobo Daishi (Kukai), 14th c. Hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gold on silk
We can use all help possible…
So let’s call on Kobo Daishi,
founder of the Shingon School of Buddhism who died,
but didn’t die (774- 835)…
“Far from inactive in his timeless trance…
Stories describe how a plump and smiling monk appears out of nowhere
to bind demons, break curses, and solve otherwise insoluble problems
through powerful prayers and shrewd common sense.
Once all is well, the monk vanishes just as suddenly as he appears…”
Yes, welcome Kobo Daishi…
and Merlin, Arthur, High John,
and William Morris,
all potent positive yang returning to the world,
within and without…
This week:
Let’s Consider that for whom we are willing to be a Messenger..
and for whom we are willing to be an agent
of revitalization and redemption…
And ongoing proclaiming and practicing our availability to Mystery!
