May 13th · Council 1

Be Wilder journey to Solstice Sovereignty

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Post-Council Themes

Yo indefatigable team , at this bewildering time…

fittingly, last night was bewildering….

focus —then woooo—Saturn and Uranus- discipline and wildness, dedication is freedom….

preside over the Aquarian realms of how shall we gather…

As in Aikido (Do see “Art of Peace”) – no rules but guidelines…

Don’t block – guide….

So one of our encouraging guidelines is critique as incentive to Liberating Blessing….

Let’s dedicate to this worthy practice

Thankyou, all….

Just by showing up-we are evidence that we have metabolized ancestral futility….

Yea! Onward….

and poems are maps for navigating inner and outer wilderness…

or

“poems are maps for getting lost in wilderness….”

Fred Lamotte

“Today, like every other day,

we wake up empty and frightened.

Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading.

(or check phone)

Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

From Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing, by Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks.

So let’s gather favorite poems….that have kept us in good stead….

And as we are all in this Dream/Faery Tale together- we turn to this realm as well…

and Sean chimes in:

“And let us invite in our company Mad Sweeney, Suibhne Geilt, the Irish king who was exiled to the forest when he rejected the missionaries’ demands that he live by their rules. He was lost, he was angry, he was frightened. Then he grew feathers and learned to leap from tree to tree. And he learned to love the music of the Wolf and the belling of the Stag more than any song. In our own bewilderment, what beauty can we find that we would never have known had we stayed in the old familiar places? What feathers, what wings might we grow?

—

Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue

Poet — Herbalist

https://otherworldwell.com/

and here’s some highly encouraged reading (inj keeping with what it be to be and educated participatory Citizen….

https://michaelventura.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/HEAR-THAT-LONG-SNAKE-MOAN.pdf

Council 1 References

*Rudra meditation (youtube video)

*Stephen Karcher I-Ching (available for rent on Internet Archive)

*Visionary Activist Guidelines (explore on our site)

*Otherworld Well Hedge School with Seán (Courses with Seán)

*Zora Neale Hurston’s High John de Conquer (PDF available for download)

*Alexis (councilmate) shares: How Universal Principles And Patterns Will Shape Our New Economy (PDF)

*Pages 371-491 (or thereabouts) in The Dawn of Everything about Teotihuacan … (page 380) “HOW THE PEOPLE OF TEOTIHUACAN TURNED THEIR BACKS ON MONUMENT-BUILDING AND HUMAN SACRIFICE, AND INSTEAD EMBARKED ON A REMARKABLE PROJECT OF SOCIAL HOUSING”

Hexagram 19, for us all…

“All these rituals are part of an investment in darkness, a ceremony that turns the exoerience of death into an ancestor through whom blessings can flow.”

OK-then

20:23:30 From Alexis Halbert to Everyone:

I received 19 yesterday

20:24:08 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:

Woooo interesting, resonant indeed

20:33:44 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:

thats a great exchange – weapon to instrument … and that myth, bows to lyres?

21:08:53 From Alexis Halbert to Everyone:

We just went to a talk at a local church that hosts a social justice series. The woman who spoke shared her story of reconciling being the 7th generation of the largest slave trader in U.S. history. I deeply appreciated her story. I haven’t watched the film yet, but her cousin documented their journey. It’s called Traces of the Trade (YouTube)

21:19:26 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:

Reacted to “How_Universal_Principles_And_Patterns_Will_Shape_Our_New_Economy.pdf” with ♥️

21:23:37 From Alexis Halbert to Everyone:

Lol, I though Caroline said the book was called “The Keeper of Lost Causes”

21:23:53 From Maggygrace Howe to Everyone:

Let’s remember Sudan

Say more, con jure a blessing…

21:24:01 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:

Reacted to “Let’s remember Sudan” with ♥️

21:24:40 From Alexis Halbert to Everyone:

Myanmar

21:27:43 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:

mmmm Hammer Space – very good!

21:32:18 From TeraDona to Everyone:

And Hawthorn is the May flower, so very fitting

21:33:36 From Eryn Alloway to Everyone:

And what do you suggest we read this week in The Dawn of Everything – the beginning or ?

yes, start at beginning, and set forth …

will be sending especially nutrient rich quotes…

Would like you all to send quotes you find worthy,

so we can to and fro – a squosh…

21:36:19 From Ann Landesberg to Everyone:

Yes! Please—I have it. i’m reading it . Opening windows—fresh air!

21:36:50 From Lara Morrison to Everyone:

May you persist, knowing the ancestors back you up and the allies on the Team of Creation stand in Solidarity with you.

21:37:05 From Alexis Halbert to Everyone:

Reacted to “May you persist, kno…” with ❤️

21:37:09 From TeraDona to Everyone:

Reacted to “May you persist, kno…” with 👍

21:37:54 From nancy to Everyone: