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Venusian Dedication
The Visionary Activist Show
Lily Yeh “Beauty out of Darkness” October 27, 2011
Beauty out of Darkness… invoking Akhilandishvara! the goddess of the power that comes from being broken! Caroline welcomes Lily Yeh, author of “Awakening Creativity,” founder of Barefoot Artists whose encouraging work in Rwanda, China, Ecuador, Haiti, Ghana, Kenya, Syria, Italy, North Philadelphia etc. is dedicated to nourishing and animating redemptive beauty from broken lives. barefootartists.org
Post-Council Chart & Themes
Ritual offerings to Underworld advised…
“Samhain was when the invisible wall between the living world and the otherworld disappeared,” McCarthy says. “A whole host of fearsome otherworldly beasts emerged to ravage the surrounding landscape and make it ready for winter.”
Thankful for the agricultural efforts of these spirits, but wary of falling victim to their fury, the Celts protected themselves from physical harm by lighting ritual fires on hilltops and in fields. To avoid being dragged deep into Tír na nÓg by the devils, they disguised themselves as fellow ghouls, McCarthy says. Two millennia later, young children the world over follow this tradition on Halloween.
Those travelers who do seek out Rathcroghan might have trouble finding its hell cave. Oweynagat is elusive—despite being the birthplace of Medb, perhaps the most famous queen in Irish history, 2,000 years ago. It is barely signposted and hidden beneath trees in a waterlogged paddock at the end of a one-way, dead-end road, about a thousand yards south of the much more accessible temple mound.”
Portals to the Underworld – sometimes disguised…
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Yo Team of fellow aspiring astro-Bards…
As we journey to Council 4 – The Underworld,
negotiating/earning our way to Act V, redemptive beauty…
We are encouraged to participate in reverent Irreverence (What was once called “heretics,” We call Tricksters, agents of Liberating Language Craft.)
(Yes, a squosh late in sending, because with Mercury sacred retro- the days have a mind of their own!)
So let’s engage in
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Anubis depicted on wooden sarcophagus c 400 BCE photo by André
Re-decorating the Underworld!
with Indigenuity (Thank you Bob Gough, Dan Wildcat,
Curtis Cassaba)
Curtis Cassaba)
to make it cozier- with Oriental Carpets and such, Underworld Spa Services etc
Let’s animate as a place of hidden wealth Clubhouse Mystery School…
(Perchance, whatever we’ve been dreading-procrastinating – be our ally in disguise…?!)
Mary Oliver: “I sing in praise to the Coyote – that came at me with its string teeth bared – and then, at the last moment – smiled.”
Pluto Stationed – on last Wednesday’s New Moon..
Underworld is open for biz…
Cauldron bubbling- Composting dread, and any sneaky addiction to crisis – we may have had…(inhaling our complicitous creative chi from human world addicted to crisis…and inflicting crisis on
Flora Fauna, for whom we all work…)
Ladle at hand…
We have all been assigned a customized Underworld through which to navigate with a companionable positive Intrigue team- yea!
And as astro bards, we become increasingly adept at discerning our own, and others’ relationship to a transiting planet.
With Pluto, say, I always like to check where it be natally…Same with all Transits…Each person’s unique relationship to this part of themselves and the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche:
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
And in the same manner…
Which is why we like to give the abyss a cheery greeting… “Hey there- how you doin’?!”
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The powers of darkness by Manaku
And of course, we are dedicated to dancing with Monsters…
(not fighting; as Ursula Le Guin said, “We strengthen whatever we oppose…”)
Spiraling Aikido….
Saturn Stationing
(Went Direct just now Sunday)
Taking new vows, tidying, inviting rubble into order, micro-to macro…The fun of editing and releasing what no longer supports us…
Laying out the art form template of who we intend to be/dedicate deliberately to being……
And supplicate the spirit of Woof! to magnetize molecules of incarnational actuality to that vow …
That we may take heed! Plight our troth, delineate our relationship to the Living Intelligence of this Language…
The Bard and the Story-teller, hold hands to emerge on the same day…
Mercury retro (stationing to go forward- outward direct) with Jupiter on October 18th…
Mercury humming with Uranus:
Thai saying, “Because we were never colonized – we never lost our animism!”
Participatory Animism is our default deep Intelligence, arising, within us,
that knows one purpose of humans is to discern the pattern of Evolutionary opportunity -liveliest possibility at any moment, and dedicate to that vitality…
Our human- responsibility-opportunity is to borrow qualities of Intelligence from Flora Fauna, whereby to be ever more effective players on the Team of Creation…
De-colonizing our minds – on to human World Mind…
The energy invested in collapsing old structures, is now available for conscious dedication…
And how Beautiful Auspicious, exact trine betwixt Jupiter retro-stationing and The Sun, preparing for the Sun’s imminent square to Pluto…
We set the guiding story template…
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*****And let us, as a Council, deliberate re the most beautiful, fun, useful engagement of our limited (Saturn), yet vast (Jupiter) time to cahoot…
Some have exhorted: Houses!
We may have exemplars of each house – speak their understanding of their assignment…
Please feel welcome and encouraged to communicate via e-mail (or telepathy) desires (Mars), and/or willingness to speak, about a house in their chart…
House Volunteers welcome…
And some have said “Progressions!” to which we might tip our hat…
And each person’s query to be honored – “What I’d really like to know more about is…(fill in blank)” This sign, this aspect, this house, this transit…
We will have more small groups for cahooting, practicing…cause that was worthy fun…
Remember – each being responsible for their own happiness… If you would like something, more or less – please say… I am delighted to respond…
Here be the elusive, until now! USA Pluto return…for us to diagnose, fathom….(lotta 2’s)
So what causes me conniption fits (to metabolize into creative antidote, hence these Councils)- is the lazy, obedient, colonized voice of “predictive astrology.”
Have read more than one alleged astrologer say, “well the Pluto return is the end of democracy for America.”
Cheap shot, easy to say, abdicating responsibility for
Participatory Astrology,
which we embrace…
Yes, Democracy, and Life, are in danger, yet, in the words of the immortal Granny Weatherwax, when told she couldn’t do a bold thing to save world, “million to one chances against you,”
replied, in a tone that would have made wolves whimper:
“Million to one chances crop up nine times out of ten!”
When your heart be dedicated…
Tis my solar return on Thursday!
All Positive Sizzly Woof,
Caroline
Caroline
Pre-Council Chart & Themes
Pluto – Direct…
Pluto’s Cauldron is now open for business
And we can all do with some Blessings amplified by our Team…
A little call and response… conjure dedications blessings that we all might want to affirm
* Here be everyone’s chart below
and after everyone briefly self-introducing,
some working themes
Transiting Planets through the houses…
then- practice play…
Break-out (or re-naming? “break through” or?)
groups of 4 or 5 beings, pre-assigned by serendipity… in the guise of me and Eryn!
In which everyone reads transits…
(Perhaps each group can have a designated Scribe,
to file scouting report)
once we flow back together…
and here be our guiding narrative chart for Council 3
(Act 3, addressing kerfuffles, micro and macro)…
and sometimes we await the right moment to do the thing…
So the Transiting Moon be on my Venus….
So let’s call it all in…
We begin with invocation,
and have a wafting woof to end our convening this night….
Nakia mentioned the value of having an invocation ritual at beginning and end, had experienced some on zoom, which helped to constellate the Community… I asked her for suggestions, contributions, and all of you as well…
How would we all like to magically convene,
calling in what?
New Moon of Participatory Kinship in service to animism…
Council Charts
US Pluto Return
Hand-Drawn Chart
And posting again, for ease of Reference:
The Visionary Activist Astrology Pocket Study Guide PDF
Find Carolines introduction to Reading a Chart on pages 4-8
By the way … You can also leave comments down here and we will see them!