Dream News (09.05.23)

 

 

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Post-Council Notes, References & Resources

 

Yo Team,
So We have begun to craft our vessel….

Dancing with danger!
Undulating….
the dance of expanding, unfurling,
then furling….

 

Here be the article, and opportunity to re-watch the fantabulous video of Luigi, dedicated Diaspora of seeds in Amazon….
as part of our expanding repertoire of responses…. and our dedication to diaspora – seeds everywhere….

100 Million Seeds From Native Plants Are Released Into the Brazilian Amazon by Daring Skydiver

https://mymodernmet.com/luigi-cani-amazon-rainforest/

Yesterday was the 27th anniversary of The Visionary Activist Show – September 5th 1996

So thanks for helping me celebrate!

* 1st ever Visionary Activist Show with guest James Hillman

On the very first ever Visionary Activist Show (September 5, 1996) Caroline hosts Consciousness Artist James Hillman (and his book, ‘The Soul Code’) in a discussion that could have happened 20 minutes ago, about the importance of ‘growing down’ into one’s self, recognizing demonic mythological possession at play, and awakening the imagination of everyone to dream the desirable world into being.

 

* Janine Benyus Biomimicry show

– bio-mimicry –

“The sine qua non for life on planet….”

Janine Benyus,
Describes herself as “Scientist, animist, poet.”
Founder of  Biomimicry Institute

“Let’s learn democracy from bees! Before our arrogance destroys the bees, who truly know how to vote.”
“Range voting.” Grief and ingenuity…innovation & limits

From Fall 2008 – but so powerfully pertinent to now…

 

and oops we sent out wrong link in missive:

Highly encourage reading (and subscribing) Heather Cox Richardson – this is a deep one to delve (the one I had meant to send)

Please read in entire from link….
crucial to understanding the great danger

Letters from an American

August 30, 2023
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-30-202

“As David Kurtz of Talking Points Memo put it two days later, “America is living through a reign of white supremacist terror,” and in a speech to the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law on Monday, President Joe Biden reminded listeners that “the U.S. intelligence community has determined that domestic terrorism, rooted in white supremacy, is the greatest terrorist threat we face in the homeland—the greatest threat.”

Biden said he has made it a point to make “clear that America is the most multiracial, most dynamic nation in the history of the world.” He noted that he had nominated the first Black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, for the Supreme Court and has put more Black women on the federal circuit courts than every other U.S. president combined. Under him, Congress has protected interracial and same-sex marriages, and his administration has more women than men. He warned that “hate never dies. It just hides.”

But in his Editorial Board newsletter, John Stoehr pointed out that the increasing violence of white supremacists isn’t just about an “ideology of hate” rising, but it is “about a minority faction of the country going to war, literal war, with a majority faction.”

 

and
Labour Day
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-3-2023?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

 

Because she is proffering the history and acumen we all need to be participatory citizens….

Pluto return for America – gotta know…. the origins… and the present danger…

And as our ally Patricia Ewing says, “the more danger – the more opportunity”
More on that next week….

 

When did all that is before us – begin?

The problems, the collapsing structures of what should be community embrace and response….

We, with Pluto – put the collapsing systems of corruption (condos built on sand, Turkey falsifying earthquake standards for buildings, the Maui fires, colonialism did this.. ) … for Pluto entering Aquarius for 24 years on January 20, 2024

 

and do feel encouraged to contribute/guide us to stories you would like to bring before the council…

for our participatory metaphoric shape-shifting…

 

Here’s Heather’s latest:

September 5, 2023
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-5-2023

On Saturday, President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden went to Florida, where he surveyed the damage, praised the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and told the people of Florida: “Your nation has your back, and we’ll be with you until the job is done.”

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reiterated, “It doesn’t matter if it’s a red state or a blue state, the president’s going to show up and be there for the community.” Florida governor Ron DeSantis declined to meet with the president, apparently fearing a backlash from anti-Biden primary voters, but Republican senator and former Florida governor Rick Scott did meet with Biden and praised his rapid response to the hurricane.

Biden’s promise to the Republican-dominated state of Florida even in the face of DeSantis’s pettiness was a striking contrast to former president Trump’s withholding of federal aid from Malden and Pine City, Washington, almost exactly three years ago, when a September 2020 wildfire destroyed 15,000 acres and 85% of the buildings, including 65 homes. Trump held up Washington governor Jay Inslee’s request for a disaster declaration, which frees up federal funds, for more than four months out of spite at the Democratic governor.

It was Biden who finally approved the declaration days after taking office. According to Emma Epperly and Orion Donovan Smith of the Spokane, Washington, Spokesman-Review, when he heard the declaration was finally in place, Malden Mayor Dan Harwood teared up in relief. “Our citizens are going to be able to go forward now,” he said. “We’ve been waiting for this day for a long time. It’s a very, very good day.”

Yesterday the three most senior civilian officials in the Department of Defense responsible for their branches—Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall, and Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth—wrote in the Washington Post that Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL, though it turns out he lives in Florida) is actively eroding “the foundation of America’s…military advantage” with his blanket hold on military promotions.

Tuberville says he launched the hold in protest of the military’s policy of ensuring that military personnel can obtain reproductive health care, including abortions, but as the authors of the Post op-ed say, his policy “is putting our national security at risk.” More than 300 of our critical posts have acting officials in place, and three of our five military branches—the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps—have no Senate-confirmed service chief.

In defense of his position, Tuberville has begun to attack the military leaders whose promotions he is opposing, much as former Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson lashed out repeatedly at Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Mark Milley for his support for diversity and inclusion in the military. In their op-ed, the secretaries warned of the danger of politicizing our military and noted that the damage Tuberville is inflicting on the service will echo for years as today’s colonels and captains gather that their service is not valued by members of Congress.

Tonight, Secretary of the Navy Del Toro, who was born in Cuba, said on CNN: “I would have never imagined that…one of our own senators would actually be aiding and abetting communist and other autocratic regimes around the world. This is having a real negative impact and will continue to have a real negative impact on our combat readiness. That’s what the American people truly need to understand.”

Today marked the start of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial in the Texas Senate, which has taken on a meaning far larger than the fate of a single state official and become a fight over the future of the Republican Party.

Paxton is a hard-right Republican who has based his political career on his identity as a Christian conservative advancing evangelicals’ culture wars. He has pushed Texas rightward since he took office in 2015, first challenging President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act and immigration orders, then championing Trump, then celebrating his wins against “woke Biden administration rules” and defending states’ rights.

Paxton supported Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, filing a lawsuit drafted by the Trump campaign to challenge other states’ elections and then, when the Supreme Court declined to hear that case, criticizing both the court and other states when he spoke at the January 6 rally at the Ellipse that preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

But Paxton has been embroiled in scandals since being indicted for securities fraud just months after he took office as the state’s top law enforcement officer. That trial has yet to take place, but now he is embroiled in other scandals that have led the Republican-dominated Texas House of Representatives to pass 20 articles of impeachment against him by a vote of 121 to 23. The House started impeachment proceedings after Paxton asked for $3.3 million in state funds to pay a settlement to four whistleblowers who accused him of abuse of office and bribery in 2020 and who were fired within a month.

But the impeachment charges center around his ties to his friend and donor Nate Paul. Paxton is accused of helping Paul in exchange both for gifts and for hiring Paxton’s mistress.

The Texas Senate will conduct the impeachment trial. There are 31 members of the Senate, but one of them is Paxton’s wife, whom the Senate banned from voting after she refused to recuse herself. So to convict him, it will take 21 of the 30 state senators who can vote (his wife’s presence makes the conviction threshold 21 rather than 20). If all 12 Democrats in the Senate vote to convict, it will require 9 of the 18 voting Republicans to convict him.

Robert Downen and Zach Despart of the Texas Tribune yesterday reported that the impeachment trial is expected to focus on Paxton’s infidelity to his wife. He told his staff about the extramarital affair at the center of his relationship with Nate Paul in 2018, when he promised it was over and he was recommitting to his marriage. But, in fact, he didn’t. To hide the affair from his wife and his deeply religious constituents, impeachment managers say, Paxton worked with Paul to get a job for his girlfriend and hide the relationship, and then used his office to help Paul weather lawsuits and bankruptcy.

The Republican Party in Texas is split over Paxton much as the country is split over former president Donald Trump. Some say that Paxton’s extraordinary behavior warrants impeachment and trial and that, after all, a majority of Republicans in the Texas House were so concerned they impeached him.

But others insist that he is, as he claims, a victim of political persecution. They maintain that a flawed man can do God’s will, and they support Paxton no matter what his failings out of support for his political crusades on their behalf. J. David Goodman reported yesterday in the New York Times that right-wing donors have embarked on an expensive, high-pressure campaign to convince Republicans in the Texas Senate to vote against conviction, threatening to primary anyone who votes against Paxton.

Still, his approval rating among Republicans has dropped by 19 percentage points since April, while his disapproval rate has more than tripled since last December.

In other court news, a Florida judge this weekend struck down a state congressional map pushed through the legislature by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, saying it violates the state constitution by diluting Black voting power. The state will automatically appeal.

Today, three Republican-appointed federal judges struck down Alabama’s new congressional map after the state legislature ignored a court order to redraw the state map to include a second majority Black district since the state map put in place after the 2020 census likely violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

The judges wrote that they were “disturbed” by the state legislature’s refusal to correct its illegal maps. “We are not aware of any other case in which a state legislature—faced with a federal court order declaring that its electoral plan unlawfully dilutes minority votes and requiring a plan that provides an additional opportunity district—responded with a plan that the state concedes does not provide that district.”

The court will appoint a special master to draw Alabama’s congressional map, but Alabama attorney general Steve Marshall, a Republican, has already appealed the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In Wisconsin, where Republicans have called for impeaching Supreme Court justice Janet Protasiewicz for violating ethics codes by calling the state’s congressional maps “unfair” and “rigged,” a state judiciary disciplinary panel has dismissed those complaints. Republicans drew the congressional map in Wisconsin so fully in favor of their party that in 2018, Democratic candidates for the state assembly won 54% of the popular vote but Republicans “won” 63 of the assembly’s 99 seats, only three seats short of a supermajority that would enable them to override a veto by the Democratic governor.

And finally, U.S. district judge Tim Kelly sentenced former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio today to 22 years in prison. This is the longest sentence handed down for any of the January 6 rioters, though far shorter than the 33 years prosecutors had requested. Kelly also handed down sentences significantly below the guidelines for the crimes Proud Boys leaders committed: Joseph Biggs was sentenced to 17 years; Zachary Rehl, 15 years; and Ethan Nordean, 18 years. Dominic Pezzola, who was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy but guilty of other crimes, received a 10-year sentence.

Tarrio is the last of the gang to be sentenced and was not present at the January 6 attack, underscoring the wide reach of a conspiracy conviction.

 

The Heat is on!

“Caught up in the action, I’ll be looking out for you”

“pressure high – just to stay alive”

 

and our rousing finale medley of “Staying Alive”

 

We are here for all , Mutual Aid – to stay alive
and participating!

 

And remember –

when one meets demons in the Underworld – we always ask “What’s your story?”

 

Because we’re all in this dream together…

Crafting the future by gazing at the caravan of our past Mentors…. (councilmate, Deborah Felmeth) 

 

E Notes – – – – –

 

what’s your story? (we ask demons… and all persons) 

cultivate calm in the face of danger

invite in the power to animate the desirable story

Aesclepion
dream incubation, healing and theatre
dedicated to incubating a healing dream for self and community

https://kos.gr/historical-monuments-and-museums/asclepieion

“to know, to dare, to will, and to be silent” (Eliphas Levy)

expand and constrict … contract … condense

sending and receiving is the nature of creation, replenishing
(blessings above, below, east, south, west, north)

participatory …
participatory astrology
participatory mythology
participatory news
what’s available with which to participate?

the Yes Men
https://theyesmen.org/
– “Barbie goes mycelial” https://theyesmen.org/project/barbie

Max Dashu
https://suppressedhistories.net/ 
singing blessings into what we are weaving
(Deborah may share some singing from carpet weavers in Iran)

 

 

Chat

20:57:27 From Eryn Alloway to Waiting Room Participants:
We are gathering… doors will open soon at perfect time
21:06:12 From Judy Prescott to Everyone:
Beautiful Juniper!!!
21:09:31 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Thank you Judy! <3
21:09:50 From catherine to Everyone:
Hi
21:10:25 From Judy Prescott to Everyone:
Reacted to “Thank you Judy! <3” with ❤️
21:10:31 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Reacted to “Hi” with ✨
21:25:53 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
We saw Venus this morning, up pre-dawn to bid adieu to family at airport and driving back got out for donuts & got great sky view, gorgeous bright lovely steady
21:26:27 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
Smile, it makes people wonder what you’re up to. Caroline’s smile perfecto, magnificent, connecting, yes, say yes
21:26:28 From Elizabeth to Everyone:
Reacted to “We saw Venus this mo…” with ❤️
21:26:39 From Elizabeth to Everyone:
Reacted to “Smile, it makes peop…” with ❤️
21:26:59 From Lucy to Everyone:
Reacted to “Smile, it makes pe…” with 🙂
21:27:04 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Yes!
21:41:28 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
Expand condense….. different than constrict…. Breathing all
21:52:44 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
@Deborah ~ mmm interesting, condense, like water?
21:56:00 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
Replying to “@Deborah ~ mmm inter…”
Mmm, maybe, like a sponge soaking up water, expands, and condensing squeezes water out… or when you bend your arm the muscles on the bottom expand and on the top the muscles condense!
21:56:15 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
Replying to “@Deborah ~ mmm inter…”
Baby baby beautiful baby!!
21:57:14 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Reacted to “Baby baby beautiful …” with ❤️
21:57:32 From Miriam Carl to Everyone:
Expand and contract
21:58:06 From sally to Everyone:
consolidate
21:59:22 From Lucy to Everyone:
squeezing, releasing of our intestines, to gently move things as needed, required for good health
22:01:00 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Mm yes yes
22:01:14 From Ben Bouvier to Everyone:
i have to leave early today but looking forward to next week!
22:01:46 From Elizabeth to Everyone:
More undulating
22:02:38 From Lucy to Everyone:
Some many reminders when we look, watch, see, notice…
22:07:17 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Mmm love that wrapping of blessings Elizabeth!
With the correlation between our happiness and our neighbors … perhaps an entraining of some kind at a distance
22:11:07 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
Weave a coracle of river grasses
22:11:35 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Reacted to “Weave a coracle of r…” with 🙌🏼
22:27:09 From Elizabeth to Everyone:
Looking back Great with all the retrogrades
22:27:14 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Oo and a reminder, we will also be sending out 1st ever Vis Act Show with James Hillman recording to all beings here tomorrow .. “growing down…” into oneself
22:34:27 From Lucy to Everyone:
I feel very called to the calm alert observing… Purrfect scene that illuminates this.
22:41:20 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
Replying to “I feel very called t…”
🙏🐈‍⬛
22:41:39 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
Spirals and undulation!
22:42:23 From Lucy to Everyone:
this is funny 😉… staying alive,have been a conscious effort of late🥰
22:42:36 From Miriam Carl to Everyone:
Reacted to “this is funny 😉… …” with 💞
22:43:27 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:
yes! And may our dedication and practice lead to ease and joy
22:43:36 From Miriam Carl to Everyone:
Reacted to “yes! And may our ded…” with 💞
22:43:43 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
Reacted to “this is funny 😉… …” with 💞
22:43:46 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
Removed a 💞 reaction from “this is funny 😉… …”
22:43:50 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
Reacted to “this is funny 😉… …” with 💞
22:44:29 From Deborah Felmeth to Everyone:
🎶💦✨♥️🙏💗🧎🏽‍♀️🧬🪡🍥🕯️

Pre-Council Themes from Newsletter 

 

Crafting our Vessel!   (2 boats in one phrase… So charming, that in all languages, “vessel” means container and boat.. And craft, of course means “power from dedication,” and – boat…)   So by each one of us,  and together Dream News Council, We cultivate our craft,  conjure our alchemical participatory vessel, and then hop in to our skookum Vessel/Craft,  that keeps us afloat in the wild seas of now, through which we all be navigating…   We honor ourselves, “For keeping our small boats afloat – when so many have gone down in the storm.” (Robert Bly)   =   *If you have already signed up for the Council please check your email for a message entitled “Tonight! Dream News Council ~ Zoom Details & Council Email Signup” and email er**@***************ws.com if this email does not present itself or with any questions about the council, accessing the replays, or zoom logistics. Woof!  “ Tis a description and an exhortation.. Participatory News Participatory Astro*Mytho   Robert Gonsalves, beautiful piece   Because the first session was such effective fun… Tis really grand to convene each week – to translate the “news” into its symbolic form, then we can play…experimentally participate…   Many newses: the Jungian News: “Phallic Narcissism rose 20 points this week, with the following authoritarian creepitude” etc. And, of course, the forest news, the bird news… whatever news we be tapping into, by affinity. Experiment with being influential Weekly, Tuesdays September 5th,  as Venus emerges from the Underworld, and we with her! Bringing back our dormant gifts, now awaiting re-animation… – October 17th 9 pm et 6 pm pt Zoom or phone and replays available after  (takes us through the Equinox, time of Eleusynnian Mysteries, will be in Viroqua, Wisconsin for Equinox event, takes us through the annular eclipse –  on my birthday – October 14th)   Uranus station retrograded on Monday Aug. 28th Venus station direct Sunday the 3rd Jupiter station retrograde Monday the 4th   = We turn to the old stories, (Jupiter retro) and all of Nature’s trickster strategies (Uranus stationing) to create the new now(Venus direct)…   Reminding us, that when Inanna returns – she then becomes a liberating culture trickster! and we with her!   Mercury Direct Sept 15th,  right after New Moon.. (21 +Virgo, ancient lineage of whatever we be dedicated, reporting in – to back us up… so let’s invite mentors and allies to be with us…)   Jupiter says “Whatever vessel you craft – I  will fill it…” Constrict – expand…   ugh precedes aahhhhh!! be a jaunty rallying cry….   for on board – we are dancing with danger   “The more danger – the more opportunity”…  (sayeth ally Pat Ewing, joining us as guest cahooter)   America Pluto return Acknowledge danger. Delve deeply to dissolve the dangerous delusions.  Heather Cox Richardson is such a grand ally, in guiding us to be responsible, informed Citizens    Letters from an American https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-1-2022?r=2cv9q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web     October 1, 2022 I started to write a quick wrap-up of some of today’s stories, only to find that there is no such…   Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Achen dream news council coverage, as she speaks to the “Cunning Man,” created mob mind:   “Your power is only in rumor and lies. You bore your way into people when they are uncertain and weak and worried and frightened, and they think their enemy is other people when their enemy is, and always will be, you – the master of lies. Outside you are fearsome: inside you are nothing but weakness. Inside, I am like flint.” Especially pertinent to us now, that we insource, wise leadership and cultural woof born in each of our hearts…   not out-sourced to anyone, especially not to the mob mind of Cunning man.   Tyranny feeds on polarity and conflict…. So we practice spiraling, that we be agents of coool response in hot reactive world…   =   Equinox,  that we step back in to the center of the storm, in dynamic harmonious equilibrium with the environment… Tis humans who uniquely disrupt the hood… transgress boundaries… And that’s how pandemics happen… All virologists in accord, pandemics occur when humans disrupt the habitat of Flora Fauna Fungi… Peruvian saying expressing Saturn in us all,  “the task of the women is to tell the men when to stop hunting. stop. we have enough.”   “It’s as if the human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis and knows there is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself.”    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/northern-hemisphere-heatwaves-europe-greece-italy-wildfires-extreme-weather-climate-experts    ‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out As the northern hemisphere burns, experts feel deep sadness – and resentment – while dreading what… “They were running out of world… Rincewind dropped his bucket and snatched at the mast as the roaring final end of everything raced towards them.” (Terry Pratchett news )     ******************************* Let’s be the Moon-Venus and Saturn-Jupiter exact quintiles…. granting us the capacity to be irresistibly eloquent oin behalf of what we love, and animate our capacity to become  tuning forks, humming liberating discernment, in each heart…. and “the capacity to open portals between worlds…”       ° Astrological Readings   ° The Visionary Activist Radio Show & Patreon    ° Trickster Training Council   ° Facebook  ° Twitter  ° Instagram   ° bit.ly/DonateWoof