We be setting sail this Solstice in our (alchemical) Vessels,
and
our Craft (“power from dedication”)
like-wise be our boat,
our skookum craft in the Wild Summer Seas,
on which we all be embarking..
With protection,. and blessings of safety for all our kin…
And all be our kin.
Setting sail on our boat with our ever expanding repertoire of liberating responses,
spiraling out of hot reactivity, on which the dementors feed.
So, please do not feed the dementors !
Mentors (Chiron! Eleutherios! ) are the anti-dote to Dementors….
And here be the actual Summer Solstice, a few hours ago, in which the Sun quintiles Chiron, granting portals of cooperative participation, betwixt us and all of our resonant mentors, guiding traditions throughout time…
Let’s avail ourselves of the unfurling guiding blessings…
Tonight- after sunset, the Moon, Venus and Mars all aligned in the West…
Mars’ image last night and continuing (18+Leo) is “Dionysian house-boat party!”
and Venus has just changed degrees to 14+ Leo- “Mardi Gras – pageantry fills the streets…”
So we have Mardi Gras on a Dionysian house-boat…
as unfurling Summer augury…Fully informed, yet rousing in a celebratory manner.
Encourage listening to my radio dance with Diana Beresford Kroeger, Leo, fully informed yet full of enthusiastic confidence: “We can do this!”
And as we address cuckoo tyro tyranny in the outer world, appreciative of liberating quips.
Love some wag on twitter re the tyrannical hate group, anti women’s autonomy “Moms for Liberty”
called them
“Klanned Karenhood.”
And always remembering the cultural admonition to not mistake the mere human for the mythic divinity…
When Venus rises as the morning star, tis in meso-America, the return of Quetzelcoatl, wise leadership to the Community.
He’las, due to historic kerfuffles – tis when Cortes, the murderous tyrant, shows upon, and is mistaken for the god.
When I was covering the 2016 Republican Convention…Venus, again, was rising as the morning star, and the humans mistook this cruel, befoibled man, devolutionary nadir of our rogue species – for a divinity…
Thus the irrational possession, mistaken for “loyalty”, aka “cult.”
Cult is the toxic mimic of Community…
Same with any celebrity that assumes mythic dedication…(First notable was when Princess Di died, twas as though the Moon Goddess, Diana, died… Mother of the Solstice King, a Sun in Cancer herself – “born to shop”) dies on a solar eclipse, in a tunnel underneath the Place D’alme, dedicated to Hecate…on and on.)
So let’s honor the myth ,
and wish all to be freed from possession-
Let us all awaken self-possessed, rather than merely “possessed!”
Meanwhile our dedication grows the form…that best serves..
So wondering, and would love to hear from you all, re what you might like most with me… what form of next Summer Council…
and here be the so beloved, and referenced song of the Bengsons
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The Sun has reached its most Northern point… stays there for a few days before journeying South … So we all together, slow way down, step into the Still-Point of the storm to gather our wits, dedicate our gifts; And waft Reciprocal blessings of support, to and from our accomplices, known and unknown.
Who are already there, in the still center of the storm, awaiting our arrival.
(Express van to Still Point:)
wish to attribute to mystery artist
The Positive Intrigue of Now!
“Take the zircon to Foppa – and tell him we move tonight!” (exhorts Richard Farina)
Summer Solstice –
Dreaming with the Earth
on behalf of Flora Fauna Fungi
Tuesday, June 20th at 3 pm pdt/6pm edt
Robert Gonzalves
Our dedicated blessings, form our crafty alchemical vessel, in which we also set sail for this Summer Solstice, and on out into the wild Summer of Dire Beauty
and on that boat be Green Man!
(Big Papa, to cahoot with Big Mama)
Sean will further guide us to cahoot with “the Green Man, Dionysus, voices emerging from the Wilderness, and the herbs of mind-Summer.”
Our First on-going task:
re-designing the human cultural interface with Flora Fauna Fungi….
Sun quintile Chiron, The lineage of Mentors be attending, and backing us up… Saturn quintiles Uranus – So our dedication is our freedom!
Together Jupiter and Saturn, exactly sextile (in collaborative creative democractic cahoots) say “whatever dedicated vessel you craft – I will fill it!
Let’s put our vessel of dedicated devotion, on the altar of desirable mystery…
Aspiring to follow the advice I proffer, have been dusting off all my vessels, Tibetan Bowls and what not…. and they all are happy for it….ringing the bowls… putting our manifestoes of dedicated devotion into bowls…
“Ring the bell that still can ring -forget your perfect offering there’s a crack, a crack in everything -tis how the light gets through.” (Bre’r Cohen)
Ceres Demeter, dwarf planet 29+ Virgo – “emergency call!” – no kidding forms a Grand trine in earth with Pluto, at the most organizing degree in zodiac 29+ Capricorn, and Vesta -Uranus , dedicate to the Hearth/Bonfire of Community well-being – and – we all may proceed…
Moon 29+ Cancer, tapped into that grand trine in earth, forms a grand trine in water , to irrigate the parched earth… trine Neptune 27+ Pisces (underlying powers of Nature) trine our Ascendant 27+ Scorpio (Nature’s portal to faery world be open)
Solve et Coagula:
dissolve and re-imagine Dissolution is the Secret of the Great Work
So let’s dissolve all bamboozling “prison masquerading as freedom” chicanery. Dissolving cults, as toxic mimic of Community…
Ladling out the true Community of Democratic Animism…
May we all awaken “self-possessed” rather than merely “possessed.”
Old forms dissolving New Forms not yet in place…. We participate in envisioning,
dissolving old binding spells, personal and collective –
Ladling out our new liberated-liberating vows… and blessings!
Sean and I are finishing our Plants and Planets Council (of which this Tuesday is a part, but open to all beings, then that Council will have our last session on June 27th)
I had invited our council members to send Solstice blessings, and here be one from most wonderful Elizabeth M
This last one was very much inspired by the beautiful description that Sean gave of the way Black Cohash brings hope. As a form of acknowledgement, I also included the green fairy wormwood. the fungi allies, lavender and references to other beings that blessed us during these sessions (including the Bengsons and the Princess Parizade) I wanted to thank also the planets with the plants. I have a Venus moon conjunction and that is the part of me that I feel blessings flow through so I let that also be part of my inspiration as well. Thank you all so much for the inspiring course. I hope you all feel these blessings blow like a playful wind in your vessels sails -Elizabeth
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a gift, for us all to distill working “mojo” – (“mojo”means “soul.” )
For the deep dedicated fun of it , have excavated
Michael Ventura’s fantabulous essay “Hear that long snake moan – the Voodoo roots of jazz and rock n roll…”
Saturn – now stationing is the God of Cool – “mojo”- soul, “Boogie” “juke” “jazz” “jism”…… “funky” = “Positive sweat of the ancestors”
“In his remarkable book Flash of the Spirit Thompson writes: “Like character, coolness ought to be internalized as a governing principle for a person to merit the high praise, “His heart is cool” (okan e tutu). In becoming sophisticated, a Yoruba adept learns to differentiate between forms of spiritual coolness… So heavily charged is this concept with ideas of beauty and correctness that a fine carnelian bead or a passage of exciting drumming may be praised as “cool.”
Coolness, then, is a part of character… To the degree that we live generously and discreetly, exhibiting grace under pressure, our appearance and our acts gradually assume virtual royal power. As we become noble, fully realizing the spark of creative goodness God endowed us with… we find the confidence to cope with all kinds of situations. This is ashe. This is character. This is mystic coolness. All one. Paradise is regained, for Yoruba art returns the idea of heaven to mankind wherever ancient ideal attitudes are genuinely manifested.”
