Much guiding mythic news to report
from Turkey in the unfurling fullness of time….
(Will be flying in air, landing-homing
at the time of our usual convening..)
Friday June 22nd, we are
aspiring to convene a live Zoom,
honoring the Summer Solstice,
twill be for you all, and my
Way O Trickster Shift Class,
and open to Public as well
(for them- small $ donation)
You all are comped… bien sur…
Eryn will explain further and
guide all to the ease of Zoom
(can attend live, or later,
as will be recorded…)
Details to follow…
Summer Solstice Sunrise over Stonehenge 2005 (wikipedia)
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Meanwhile
to live by myth….
and “healing fiction,”
we will be exploring, magnetizing,
animating what the esoteric traditions
can offer us now by way of pragmatic
mystic guiding through this storm,
and
to dissolve the source
from whence all horror emerges…
Solve et Coagula – “Dissolve and re-imagine”
Dissolution is the Secret of the Great Work
(the one consistent exhortation
in all of alchemy…)
Let’s compost the hubrus of humanism
to be nutrient for the truth of animism,
everything is alive and worthy of kind respect…
The Necessity for
Collective Heart to Arise!
to redress the horror being inflicted
on infants, toddlers, children, parents,
ripped from each other’s embrace…
‘Seeds of Love’ Laura Vazquez Rodriguez (website)
I love this richly pertinent interview:
Here’s to Unsuicide:
An Interview with Richard Powers
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/heres-to-unsuicide-an-interview-with-richard-powers/
“The Greek myths often revolved around the ultimate value of xenia: generosity, openness, guest-friendship. In the myth of Baucis and Philemon, the gods, disguised as beggars, knock on the doors of everyone in the city and are turned away by all except one old couple. In reward for opening their door to the unknown strangers, the old couple are turned into an oak and a linden.”
“As more than one of the characters in The Overstory discovers, it’s not the world that needs saving, it’s us. For us to be saved, as a lot of the very old myths say, we’ll have to come home and be born again.”
“But I am a sucker for another kind of story, one where people must lose themselves and their private narratives in an unseen network of connections that runs far beyond their own small selves, even beyond their own species.”
“Karen Armstrong has a brilliant book called A Short History of Myth. In it, she describes the history of civilization as a concurrent rise of human technological power and fall of old pantheisms, first to a control-model monotheism, then to the unchallengeable authority of human-centered rationalism. In her vision, the damaged present results from this utter loss of all the old spiritual guideposts. When there is no authority but collective mastery and might, and no purpose but the feeding of individual appetite, the human spirit turns vicious. It will blithely destroy, without thought to the consequences. Armstrong ends her book with a plea to artists to take up the fallen mantle of meaning-making that the old myths and the discredited religions once wore:
A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. If professional religious leaders cannot instruct us in mythical lore, our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.”
Jupiter and Neptune [NASA]
Jupiter trine Neptune, Team o Tricksters,
the churlish corrupt cruelty we are witnessing
is like a demonic tarot card…
Anything anywhere is everywhere,
and the toxic mimic roots, for us to understand
and dissolve, are stated succinctly in the above…
And may we practice our whirling
and wafting, inviting solace, peace,
kindness into the memosphere:
Banafsheh
Trickster Training
returns to live weekly calls
next week! (6.25)
