Tales of Environmental Devastation & Recovery – part 2, our next exciting episode!
The Wasteland and the Grail – Turkey/Syria Earthquake – teasing Mythos into Pragmatic application.
Caroline welcomes, encore, 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.”
Turkish Geologist, Celal Sengor, said, about the earthquake (chart below)
“we knew it was coming,
but there was no preparation…”
Resonating in all realms…
State of the World address…
How shall we prepare?
To answer (or at least play with) that question,
we welcome the return of John Michael Greer, that we tease ancient wisdom/myth
into application….
Geologist Celal Sengor said earlier this year that passing such construction amnesties in a country riven by fault lines amounts to a “crime”.
Preparation:
”The maximum intensity for this earthquake was violent but not necessarily enough to bring well constructed buildings down,” says David Alexander, Professor of Emergency Planning and Management at University College London.”
BBC: Turkey earthquake: Why did so many buildings collapse?
Irish saying “God created the potato blight – but the Brits created the famine…”
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Now our guest poo-pooed the following, with “do they drive SUV’s, do they fly?”
So, am excavating:
and Guterres flies commercial (no private plane)..
Bill McKibben flying less,
but thinking systemic large change be more the strategy…
So just tossing back a toast of nuance and complexity,
from our guest, to our guest, and spiraling forth to all…
We put many conundrums on our work table…
Nonetheless, undaunted, I am appreciative of McKibben’s article
and António Guterres clear and necessary woof…
The U.N. Secretary-General’s Searing Message for the Fossil-Fuel Industry
by Bill McKibben
On Monday morning, at the United Nations, the Secretary-General delivered his annual report on priorities—a kind of State of the Planet address. If you’re struggling to remember the name of the current Secretary-General, it’s António Guterres, who came to the job after, among other things, serving as the Prime Minister of Portugal. We’re used to the idea that “diplomatic language” is filled with euphemisms—“a full and frank exchange of views,” and so on. And, since Guterres is the world’s top diplomat, one might expect that he would be a master of this form of address.
He begins by saying, in a sentence typed in bold in the official transcript, “We must end the merciless, relentless, senseless war on nature.” That war, he continues, “is putting our world at immediate risk of hurtling past the 1.5-degree temperature increase limit and now still moving towards a deadly 2.8 degrees.”
Hence:
We need disruption to end the destruction.
No more baby steps.
No more excuses.
No more greenwashing.
No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.
He continues in the same vein, ending with this excoriation of the fossil-fuel industry, which has enjoyed record returns, in large part because of the war in Ukraine:
I have a special message for fossil-fuel producers and their enablers scrambling to expand production and raking in monster profits: If you cannot set a credible course for net-zero, with 2025 and 2030 targets covering all your operations, you should not be in business.
Your core product is our core problem.
We need a renewables revolution, not a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence.
Just to be clear, the U.N. Secretary-General is saying that the central problem with climate change is the fossil-fuel industry’s product, that the industry is immorally undermining climate action, and that, if it continues, it should be shut down. This is certainly the truth, but it too often goes unspoken. If Guterres’s courageous directness is unusual, it’s also hugely important.
and yes, trains, not sure will take train to Bioneers in Berkeley,
as guest suggested…
…but worth considering…
Electric trains across the country,
and certainly on the Beltway around DC, that dementors want to widen,
in my precious hood, and infringing on beloved Plummer’s Island,
“oldest botanically studied Island in America,” as the honoring sign says…
Whenever I walk there (often)…
I envision solar powered electric trains,
rather than the unimaginative carnage dementors would want to inflict.
with much destruction of homes, human and critter habitats…
And then what? gonna widen it again in 4 years? 8 lanes, asphalt on everything?
Not the kind of ingenious altruism,
and far vision we be encouraging in ourselves and all beings…
Preparation!
for which we be looking, and designing…
and definitely fully supporting Biden and Pete Buttigieg …
Train Guys!
for this sane ingenious desirable
preparation!
Biden’s SOTU – was deft magic…..
So on his Scorpio game…steady rhythm…
the Scorpio unflinching “I see you” gaze!
the playing the dementors like a fiddle, to genius effect…
that Social Security and Medicare are now safe!
Never underestimate a Scorpio…
Remember in Chiron’s Mythology,
“to be underestimated is a positive strategic advantage,”
if one is going to do something impossible.
The following is wiley witty and may it be effective…
(Remembering in the Grail Legend,
the land is ill, due to abuse of rank and privilege,
and the ill-treatment of, and denying autonomy to – women…)
Judge suggests abortion might be protected by 13th Amendment
despite Supreme Court ruling
(13th amendment prohibits slavery – definitely worth a try!)
More on preparation:
“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, ….experienced by most other cultures….”
We take heed!
That all corrupt impediments to Society being in accord with Wild Nature,
be swept away…
On-going Mercury quintile Jupiter:
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!
and do check out SOTU, as the Biden part of us,
our collective dream is doing his skookum* best
(* “skookum” = “connected to the spirits and completely competent for the task at hand.”)
Our Monday Trickster Council preceding SOTU,
we envisioned and encouraged what happened..
seeing Bob Marley providing ancestral sound-track
as Bob, and SOTU chart both have Thor’s’s Hammer pattern
= the capacity to sweep corruption out of the halls of governance…
and that Biden’s decency, competence,
and Scorpio craft waft forth into memosphere…which it did…
And like the mid-terms , all the
pundits were “surprised.”
We were not…
But delighted and woofily participating – yes…
Let us gaze at the Moon Ceres conjunction at the degree,
“witch protecting chickens from the hawk,
although she likes the hawk too.”
We can use all help possible…
to protect all us chickens, and hawks.
Imagining… be one of our grand ways of inviting Power into the world…
So from John Michael’s book:
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 William Morris,
all potent positive yang returning to the world,
within and without…
and, always, nuance….
Am, going to dust off and excavate William Morris’ novels,
especially “The Well at the World’s End.”
as antidote to Tolkien’s sneakily conservative Christian Catholicism…
by which Hippie-progressive folks have been bamboozled..
I like being un-bamboozled…
“Morris and Tolkien were on opposite sides of the political and religious spectrum. Morris was a socialist who had no time for Christianity. Tolkein was a staunch conservative and a lifelong Catholic.”
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!
The earthquake chart is offered for deep reflection…
as event charts not only describe, but guide…
what does the earthquake want us to know?
and how to prepare…
Hempcrete with brass bolts surrounded by lead holding blocks together
…as in the ancient Temple of Bal in Palmyra, Syria.
The Moon in Leo overhead, forms a yod to Mercury and Pluto..
The Underworld is speaking, dramatically…
and to Neptune…
what has been brewing for a long time, invisibly, now becomes manifest.
The Moon just past full with square to Uranus in Taurus, opposite Saturn…
Are our structures of collective support and governance,
derived from cooperating with Nature,
thus up for the task of ingenious, competent, compassionate response?
No
So let us prepare…
