Caroline hosts fellow Council of Unreasonable Women, alumna
Susan Griffin, “radical feminist philosopher, essayist, novelist and playwright particularly known for her innovative, hybrid-form ecofeminist works.”
on her 80th birthday!
Honoring her latest book “Out of Silence, Sound.
Out of Nothing, Something.
(A Writers Guide)”
in which she be embodied encouraging, soothing, rousing fierce gentle Mentor
of writing craft, to all of us who seek to gather our wits… our wonder and focus, whereby to cultivate and contribute our gifts.
www.counterpointpress.com/books/out-of-silence-sound-out-of-nothing-something
“The distinguished author of more than twenty-two books, many award-winning, Susan Griffin distills daily wisdom garnered from more than five decades teaching creative writing and editing manuscripts, as well as from her own writing. This collection of brief , pithy chapters designed to help beginning writers get started also guides experienced writers through blocks and difficulties of all kinds”
“Organized according to a practical timeline, Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something. elucidates the process of writing from beginning to end, presenting an approach that is similar to the practice of meditation as it encourages and enlarges the mind’s intrinsic capacity for creativity. An autobiographical account, a sometimes humorous, at times moving essay called “How I Learned to Write” is threaded throughout the book.”
Timely, as we dive towards mid-Winter,
When Persephone lights her candle to ascend up out of the Underworld,
and we with her…
Circa February 2nd, when the Green Comet, not seen in 50,000 years, the time of the Neanderthals,
will be closest to the Earth…
and will be hosting astrologer, and recently elected to public office in Ojai,
Rachel Lang,
who has plenty to say about comets…
Susan’s useful book, honors
Saturn
Satyrn,
by guiding us to our own autonomy,
let that be a vetting standard for all teachings with whom we may cahoot…
Does it guide all to their own autonomy?!
Is it equal Mars and Venus?!
Is Trickster Welcome?!
As we all in-source our Saturn, our authority,
we thus suck the chi out of tyranny,
by no longer out-sourcing to sociopathic ding-bats…
Self-possessed, rather than merely “possessed!”
So Susan Griffin be “dreeing her weird,” “Playing her role in Destiny.”
Power of Woman Story-Teller working for the Earth,
a la Sheherezade
Jupiter exalted in Cancer quintile Neptune…
Curiosity and Wonder…
And her Moon Neptune trine Saturn –
specificity satisfyingly arising from the depth…
“The difference between the almost right word and
the right word is . . . the difference between the
lightning bug and the lightning.”
—mark twain
Powered by the entire Woofy Women Mentors tradition…
So Susan’s and Zelensky’s Solar return, and our chart for now,
I keep, let’s all keep, seeing Russian Mothers marching into Ukraine to take their sons home, as they did to end the war on Chechnya …(thank you Sean Padraic O’Donoghue)
Mercury and Fortune
Mercury quintiles Neptune-
so yes inviting the necessary miracles to incarnate into actuality…
Pluto ,”Gypsy reading teal leaves,
quintiles Chiron – 12 + Aries “bombs that fail to go off –
defusing tense situations…”
Let’s see all the woofy mentors reporting in for Susan, ourselves, Ukraine…
Spirits love word play, rhyme and riddle…
“symmetrical rhythm,
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,”
or the dramatic list of contrasting circumstances,
“It was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,”
I loved this paragraph and would read it over
and over…”
“I was training my
ear to take in the music of language.”
“Thus, even you, as you write, will be led by
the sound of the words you have written toward a wisdom you did
not know you had within you.”
“Down to Gehenna, or up to the throne,
he travels the fastest, who travels alone…” (Kipling)
it really gallops…
Neptune Close Up Voyager 2 NASA
Neptune:
There’s an ocean of consciousness inside each of
us, and it’s an ocean of solutions. When you dive
into that ocean, that consciousness, you enliven it.
You don’t dive for specific solutions; you dive to
enliven that ocean of consciousness.
—david lynch, Catching the Big Fish
Good, cause we want to go diving for solutions…
to haul up a Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity
The impossible task:
Faery tales,
the elves…the ants arrive by the invitation of our humble craft….
and our need…
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“How do you tackle writer’s block?”
“The best two ways are to take a long, vigorous
walk, the second is to write by hand.”
—amanda brainerd
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A sentence that dazzles even as it deflects
our amazement, graciously leading us to the
next, is a sentence worth keeping.
—alice mcdermott,
“The Art of Fiction No. 244,”
The Paris Review
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention;
be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
― Nikola Tesla
“My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.”
~Nikola Tesla
