Animating the Powerful Sensual Kinship of Beltane: Dedicated acts of beauty trump tyranny
Magic Carpet Hovering Round the Bodhi Tree
(We are on the flying carpet watching ourselves simultaneously sitting against the tree. Our stillness allows the carpet to fly, and vice versa.)
Let’s be still like the Bodhi Tree, where the Buddha, on this Moon attained enlightenment, with his spine pressed against its trunk: perennial roots reaching deep down, branches reaching way up…Personally and collectively all in need of healing is drawn to the surface.
The carpet grants us fluctuating perspective.
One of the charges brought against the 6 Baltimore cops is:
“depraved heart murder, ” which is so tragically mythologically poetically apt for a legal term…
(like to Wall Street term: a market down-turn is occasioned by “a loss of animal spirits.”)
This Full Moon exactly squared Jupiter in Leo, journeying to it greased lightning trine with Uranus, the theatre of playful hearts healed and animal spirits magnetized by honoring…
As the Sun, at Tribal Medicine Woman/Man degree trines Pluto, who provides the cauldron, that we may toss in the desire to punish, and ladle out the desire to heal.
The Spicy Scorpio Moon is rising, opposite Mars (exact during call 9:49 pm et) in Taurus…Fierce and beautiful protection of life and celebration of pleasure.
Mars is in Venus’ sign, Moon in Mars’ sign….The Marines head to Nepal to help rescue life, no time for war anymore, let’s re-dedicate all heroism to healing and helping.
Uranus changed degrees now at 18+ Aries, “Magic Carpet hovers over drab city streets…”
135 * to Saturn, how can accountability be liberating, we wonder… “Because we are friends of their souls we are friends of their accountability.”
Jupiter in Leo likes James Carse writing, ” We are playful when we engage others on the level of choice…To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with each other, we relate as free persons, and that relating is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility.”
And our Trickster dedication guides us to delight in “the unpredictable outcome of open possibility.”
Venus and Mercury in Gemini re-mind us that: The world is an agreement in which we are constantly complicitous. We suck the chi from our complicity in less than-desirable, and exhale it into the desirable narrative:
Let us be sufficiently skookum for serendipitous synchronous spiraling Reciprocal Blessings into the world
The kindom of heaven is at hand.
Two John O’Donohue poems to guide our hearts…
(and do feel free to share works of beauty that encourage our hearts…)
and let us (as Nathanial Hawthorne encouraged) “maintain kinship – even with the guiltiest among us:
FOR THE PARENTS OF ONE
WHO HAS COMMITTED A CRIME
No one else can see beauty
In his darkened life now.
His image has closed
Like a shadow.
When people look at him,
He has become the mirror
Of the damage he has done.
But he is yours;
And you have different eyes
That hold his yesterdays,
In pictures no one else remembers:
Waiting for him to be born,
Not knowing who he would be,
The moments of his childhood,
First steps, first words,
Smiles and cries,
And all the big thresholds
Of his journey since. . .
He is yours in a way
No words could ever tell;
And you can see through
The stranger this deed has made him
And still find the countenance of your son.
Despite all the disappointments and shame,
May you find in your belonging with him
A kind place, where your spirit will find rest.
May new words come alive between you
To build small bridges of understanding.
May that serenity lead you beyond guilt and blame
To find that bright field of the heart
Where he can come to feel your love.
Until it heals whatever darkness drove him
And he can see what it is he has done
And seek forgiveness and bring healing;
May this dark door open a path
That brightens constantly with new promise.
*John O’Donohue
