Venus guides us along
the flowering path to Beltane!
Listen to the replay:
May Day is May 1st.True Beltane, exact mid-season will be circa May 5th and 6th,
Venus presides in full potency in this, her own realm:
The art of inviting, takes root, and grows into a Maypole, around which all the other players within and without dance. (on May 6th we will open our Compassionate Trickster Experimental Juju Mystery School Doors, for guests, should you want to invite anyone.
Guests of enrolled aspiring Trickster for free…All others for $20. So let us know whom you’d like to invite.)
Dedication Is Invitation
Saturn Opposing Mars
Tuesday Mars opposite Saturn…opportunity to suck the negative chi from opposition , and turn into a channel of dedicated desire.
Our Manifesto of Dedicated Devotion can be a few words, or an altar, or a drawing or…?!!!! Template of desirable new timing.
Saturn (“dentist drilling decayed teeth,” Sabian…And I am off now to have a cavity filled. How perfect.)
is trining (proffering a template to)Neptune.
We’re all in this dream together.
Moon in Capricorn – Council for Next Seven-ish Generations, goats into the mix.
(Don’t know what to make of the etmology of “tragedy: “apparently literally “goat song,” from tragos “goat” + oide “song.” But thought we’d wonder. In any case each of our goats is comedic.)
According to Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable, HORACE (Ars Peotica, 220) says, Tragedy comes from “Goat Song” because the winner at choral competitions received a goat as a prize, although the explanation has no authority.
Apparently, it was originally a reference to a type of plot for a play. Aristotle said that the plot of a tragedy should move one by “pity and terror.”
Which reminds me of Shakespeare. His plays are all either Tragedies or Comedies.
And that take me to a recommendation of a film.
Just saw Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado about Nothing” at San Francisco Film Festival. When it comes out, if you have a chance to see it, go. Funniest Shakespeare ever!
Thinking of Tragedy in theatrical terms–Aristotle tells us Tragedy is shown–not told. You do not hear the story–you see the story, and cannot change the events that unfold before you. Sacrifice seems to be integral–and maybe that is where the goat song comes in–we can’t avoid the unfolding of events, and a sacrifice to the gods must be made…
We may have lost a tradition where a goat was actually sacrificed, and we heard the goat song–part of the katharsis which is the healing function of tragedy…
However, this is the Greeks. Shakespeare didn’t just write tragedies or comedies, but also histories, pastorals, romances…some are termed ‘problem plays’ because they don’t fit a category easily-and many of his plays are incomplete or corrupted (one of my favorites, Macbeth, is both).