Tele*Coyote message and charts: 4.24.2017
Well welcome all right it is it is nine P.M. East Coast at six P.M. on the West Coast of America eight P.M. for evangeline in Minnesota and it’s three A.M. for our teammate Elizabeth in South Africa. Just wanted to honor how fun that is our global conference because I have the last little bit right beside me of imphepho which is this fabulous South African herb that my friend sangoma rod suskin grew for me ooo maybe a decade ago and I’ve been parceling it out parceling it out and I now have this teeny teeny little bit that I’m going to light now for all of us because it summons the ancestors the positive ancestors. And even though you can’t smell it you know what I found in America you know even though we haven’t smelled it, it still smells incredibly familiar …and and also a little prayer to our council because Elizabeth in South Africa, (excuse me Yes and still have the cough, we’re making everything an ally) but a little bit in South Africa we are we are wondering about how to send me a kilo of imphepho- which it’s a pretty fragrant Herb right to send across borders but we’re thinking it is sacred and..so we just want to engage the councils you know protection of sacraments legal sacraments crossing borders. And I do remember when I when I went to South Africa the first time and it was embraced by sangomas in Johannesburg and they took me to many things in the places and bestowed upon me you know necklaces and necklaces with vials and vials full of different forms of of Muti and powders and things and I was wearing them all, as I crossed customs into America thinking and ‘I don’t know you know I wonder’ and all of the customs agent said was, ‘wow those are beautiful necklaces, go right through’ OK so we just want that kind of quality again, all of us you know we are ‘we are invisible to the authorities except when we request their assistance’ so there.
So you know we’ll start off one of my favorite cds and favorite musical groups is ‘Axiom of Choice’ already witty because it’s taking (Excuse me) it’s taking you know a pernicious thing – axiom of evil – and turning it into a positive thing and so we’re going to start off with a wonderful piece of music by them called ‘Mystics and Fools’ here we go.
Axiom of Choice “Mystic and Fools” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLMCU1eCPSo
Aha yes well that’s just a portion of ‘Mystics and Fools’ but here we are – here we are mystics and fools and the dark of the moon the dark of the moon which is traditionally when people elders, mavens would gather to determine the course of culture – so here we are.
And as I mentioned just now back stage to our back stage you know ‘tending old things’ this is the old, the lowest ebb tide you know the New Moon will be right on the on Wednesday on the 26th very early in the morning 8:16 A.M. East Coast time at 6+ Taurus – which is such a powerful degree that I know so well. It’s image is ‘the woman of Sumeria at the Ancestral Well – healing cross quarter cross corridor encounters cross cultural encounters around water’ and the reason I know it so well is that it shows up you know whatever language we know, is how the world will speak to us…. so there’s that beautiful image and it reminds us, it is incumbent upon us to animate desirable lest we leave it by default to the Dementors.
Because, I first noticed it historically in the first 9-11 event in American history was 9-11 1957 when the Mormons dressed up as Indians and attacked a Wagon Train of settlers and they surrounded them and then said ‘Well we notice you’re out of water here we will grant you a truce and you can go resupply on water’ and they were like ‘Thank you’ and then the Mormons betrayed that treaty (we want to talk a lot about mending treaties) and massacred them all – and at that time Pluto was at 6+ Taurus – healing cross cultural encounters around water – going ‘Oh no!’
And in the American south when Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman. Again, innocent black kid walking home from a store. The Moon Jupiter conjunction overhead was at 6+ Taurus – Healing cross cultural encounters across around water – going no no! Reminding us of the Episcopalian minister who said, “I want to live in a world where George Zimmerman offered Trayvon Martin a ride home in the rain.”
So here we are with the Dalai Lama and the cats and the animals and the wolves and all things that need mending and tending you know – to set the desirable template. And somebody in our Facebook had also posted – oh our beautiful champion dreamer Rebecca – Said there’s an article missive article “entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korean briefing top trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea” right well there is there is New Moon at 6+ Taurus OK team this is our experimental you know, Doesn’t have to be realistic at all – in fact realism is vastly overrated, situation so dire we can’t afford the luxury of realism – how would we like that to go as healing cross cultural encounters around water going or what would we like to invite in?
I love Philip Slater wrote a very fun novel called ‘How I saved the world’ and he has kind of you know hip people, sangomas, medicine people, California hippies, Astral travelling through the Pentagon to change the molecular structure of reality and do all kinds of things that I want to kind of research and Reanimate – we go yeah what shall we do? what kinds of things?
So I began by saying making spaciness great again you know it’s part of our theme of making allies from adversaries so I do still have the cold cough. Waning, waning somewhat, but making an ally – very spacey – but rather than feeling guilty about spacey, going “and no, spacey, I have earned the right to be Spacey….” There we go.
So making spaciness great again… it is dark dark dark dark dark of moon before our wednesday thing – it is our dangerous beautiful assignment edition. We remember that that is the phrase that I like so much, the healing word phrase, when so many people and so many groups that I was a part of were talking about ‘trauma’ ‘my trauma my trauma my trauma’ some didn’t even remember what their trauma was, but they knew they had one, and it was bigger than anybody else’s. And so I said ‘How about next time you’re tempted to use the word trauma use the phrase My dangerous beautiful assignment.’ And some people are like ‘oooh’ and some are like ‘no trauma trauma my whole life is based around trauma’ but they came back, the next day going ‘I did and it it changed it changed the story – it changed the energy.’ We’re going to talk – we want to speak about story crafting – change the story – change molecular reality – change the story, change the words, change the metaphor, change the dynamic… how backstage can we begin you know to play in these in these realms available to us. So our dangerous beautiful assignment that really does work, because whatever difficulty or underworld adventures we may have had, is an assignment to brew healing medicine from that, as opposed to, you know, again it’s a change of the story: We are healers composting all of the adventures and misadventures we’ve been through – into a gift – into a tending – into a mending – into a concern – into a greater intimacy. We’ve got to say ‘hello I see you’ve been to the underworld too, glad to meet you, how you doing.’
And since we’re in this Venusian Realm you know one of the actually pretty great talks I gave a million years ago at Brown University was ‘Persephone’s Task: The Artist as Keeper of Collective Soul’ and how to apply to a visa, a round trip visa to the underworld, it was pretty good. To the art department. But I want to bring that back up as we animate the guiding story in the chart – so each moment of time awaits our dedication to animate the most desirable story. So each moment each moment each moment. So right now, there’s 4 fire planets 2 earth 2 air 2 water (fiery). So what to do with all this fire? but dark of the moon smoldering fire. So remembering, also you know the honoring of fire the honoring of everything that’s difficult to avoid – conflagration, light a candle. These forms of witty ritual micro magic.
So there is the Moon in Aries coming up behind Uranus and Mercury in Aries – we will honor those guys – Mercury is retrograde it is about kind of returning to the desert, to have an inspiration, to gather that and then and then Mercury will go forward on May 3rd and conjoin Uranus, forward motion on the Full Moon on May 10th – the Buddha’s full moon – so it’s lively and rich with so many Stories, eager to be animated. And the dynamic and fluid is you know each sign of the zodiac is called Cardinal fixed or mutable – so 5 cardinal (which is kind of Wolfie, but two of those guys – three of those guys are retrograde – So it’s Wolfy interior realms), 1 fixed (only one fixed planet – that’s the Sun), and 4 mutable (shapeshifty – you know it can be it can be surface tension you know but it’s but it’s highly shapeshifty). So we go it’s dynamic cardinal and shapeshifty and not really very stuck, fixed – it’s all fluid. And that’s why a phrase that I haul out every now and then when it’s true ‘the protoplasm of reality is especially receptive to imaginative imprint’ and I go ‘oooh yes’ – so what is desirable? We honor – we honor the up-to-no-goodness, the horror of human bad manners, you know – and we conjure the desirable. And that theme of being protectors of protectors.
You know part of what I juggle is I also have the Wednesday shift event you know and so some of you are participants in both! God God love you, very witty. But I’m recording my wednesday tomorrow because I on Wednesday night on the New Moon I’ll be at the Goldman Environmental Awards which I really treasure – it happens in San Francisco and then also they do it in Washington where they honor six protectors, six people who against all odds and with enormous bravery are doing ingenious protective things – dedicated to collective wellbeing. And you know I was there two years ago when Bertha Caceres from Honduras was honored for her extraordinary work in protecting the sacred waters of her of her indigenous people and she was, she was later a year ago in January murdered… and so this ‘the protectors of protectors’ the enormous quality of bravery of so many people on the line doing things that – I don’t know I don’t know we’re very lucky we don’t have to put our lives on the line. And we also want to embrace and change the story, honoring those who’ve died dedicated to life… but also willing to compost the story that the good must die, we go no – any martyrdom vestige we might want to throw into Pluto’s cauldron, going there. But let us be protectors of protectors forging alliances of reciprocal blessing with whatever we are kinned by affinity.
And as I wrote you know ‘so much life is under threat by human rudeness.’ And so yeah I think part of our invocation you know is ‘oh may humans…’ Let’s conjure some blessings… Remember we’re allowed to set in motion anything of which we would be the happy recipient you know ‘May our species have its manners restored’ the restoration of manners. And you know we brought up you know in the council Facebook, and also dear to my heart you know everybody feel what you’re kinned with, but the incredible you know hunting down and cruelty to Wolves and to much wildlife. And going well you know part of our dynamic – the many ways exploring without hubris, without deriving status, without presumption, without certainty, ‘how can we be influential?’ and ‘how can we feel what we’re kinned with?’ and how can – in this Taurus time – whatever small acts of grace we perform, we can dedicate and spiral out into the world in a larger way.
So as I you know I have a really good time preparing Stella coyote’s meals and meds and sometimes I share in it and sometimes she eats better than I do, and I go ‘May all four legged people be treated with such respect.’ ‘May all beings have attended and adored old age’ – in which again, so many things happen, you know to have a safe old age is so interesting to see. As I’ve been given you know this backstage dynamic with Stella coyote – again her father is a coyote, her mom’s a dog, so between worlds person – so you know our years together (19 years so far – we might be going for 23 well who knows I don’t presume). But you know I got to see well coyotes destroy things – but they also make art. There’s incredible humor and wit and profound intelligence, I mean all kinds of things that some people know. And then you know in this wheeling and dealing experimental deal, these treaties these treaties we make, because what Stella’s really taught me is you know ‘dogs no shame, coyotes no shame, it’s all negotiation.’ ‘I give you this – Will you give me that?’ ‘No? How about this? How about that?’ So early on, and it would be telepathic, she really liked me putting my little forehead to her little forehead – going ‘Well here’s the deal, all right we’re all giving up something early in our adventure. I’m giving up you know every pair of shoes I own, and you’re giving up a great amount of freedom, but you’re getting safety back’ -OK This is this is really important I think for all of us, you know if we want to negotiate ‘the one state solution’ to a Palestine and Israel – ‘yes you’re giving up this, but you get safety’… it’s a big bargaining chip to be able to put in our magic backpack. ‘If you give this up – you get safety.’
This is – that’s not nothing you know – so you get safety, and my job is to keep you safe, you get companionship, you get food in return. you know but right now I get to say to Stella coyote ‘it’s paying off – because now through our relationship,’ and ‘May all relationships be of experimental reciprocal benefit to everyone involved – the cat the dog the human everything’ So I go ‘Well now you’ve got a safe old age. Which Nature would not by itself provide, this is an evolutionary assist.’ And and getting to see what happens when this being, but we extrapolate, when we have a safe old age – all kinds of other forms of intelligence as as some of the senses dim, you know with Stella Coyote there’s more dreaming, there’s more telepathy, there’s you know there’s all kinds of mystery stuff kind of going on, each – Not only does each moment of time await our dedication, but each moment of aging has some liberating trickster gift to it you know it’s not just like ‘ouuuuhhh.’
And I realize just by the tending, and feeding of good food, and what happens to so many creatures, as you go ‘Well here’s a can of dog food – oh they’re dying – OK there’s nothing to be done.’ It’s like no no – to give the building blocks of nutrition… It affords me enormous pleasure to to give pleasure. And to find out these quirky things. Stella coyote loves seaweed salad. Loves it. And we go ‘all dogs should be offered seaweed salad for goodness sake!’ you know because like seaweed salad yum yum yum yum. You know and I do remind her how challenging it would be for her to bring down a buffalo by herself. But seaweed salad with all no yes little nutrients, little all kinds of things going on there, and yes and she loves eating well, all kinds of stuff!
So remember we’re in the Taurus Realm of this Festival of Color – that Taurus knows that everything is food – smell taste touch color – all of that you know – and that we can start from aesthetic deprivation as much as caloric… and eating different colored things, and surrounding ourselves with beauty, all of those things are really great. So when I do go, ‘Here’s seaweed salad Here’s the buffalo with turmeric and a pinch of pepper because that activates the turmeric and the anticarcinogenic effects of turmeric,’ and she goes ‘Yeah I like all of that!’ And how responsive – it’s like oh! it’s really great! And probiotics and really great things. And I go – Well then, on out! ‘May this inform humans’ relationship to all four legged beings, to the wolves!’ And again mending our treaties – our long evolutionary history with wolves into dogs (you know cats important and we think about a twenty thousand year history with cats) dogs, wolves much older and it was an evolutionary necessity. Anthropologists think that you know again the partnering partnering for reciprocal blessing and benefit was crucial – that you know wolves would go into the caves, in case there were some saber tooth tigers in there, and in return they might get cooked meat you know and and also anthropologists think that wolves taught humans silent hunting. Only humans and wolves have the following quality – which sounds so obvious but hardly any other animals do it – which is Wolf, alpha wolf (or whatever they call themselves), will look say at a herd of elk and then look back at the pack and then look back at the elk and the Wolf Pack will look – will follow the gaze – of the wolf leader. It sounds really obvious but other animals don’t do that – humans do. And anthropologists think that humans learned it from wolves, but again humans are like ‘oh a lot of noise! look there’s a herd of elk! Oh they’re gone now!’ that wolves taught humans silent hunting, you know on this idea of partnering.
And I do want to bring up, and back, and fluff out, and dark of the moon old material brought alive again, because I find it so useful – the conversation with the Lakota Elder so long ago when Stella was just a puppy really. And he said, ‘Wolves and coyotes – so smart so smart – we didn’t hunt alone, those gifted [right – now are going into the Neptunian realms here] those gifted would go into a trance, and broker a deal with the wolves and coyotes – a treaty – and we would all hunt together for a season. And if you want to destroy a culture, destroy its capacity for that – for the reverie, the backstage reverie, the telepathic negotiation and the forging of alliances in treaties across species borders.’ And with the imphepho, again the herbs that allow treaties, partnerships, intimacy.
We’re in this Venusian Realm of Intimacy – intimacy with the ancestors, and allowing mystery to inform and keep our knowledge base humble. So I love that part – and you know what I’ve always wedded the Reverie – we want to animate – and ancient practices are available for re animation right now.
Jupiter in Libra (Venus’ other sign) and the Sun is in Taurus (incarnation of Venus). The Sun’s image is pretty great right now today 5+ Taurus ‘a cantilevered bridge over a rocky gorge – going over obstacles – finding a way to get from here to there – bridging a gap – knowing relevant factors’ we go, ‘OK bridging bridging’ That’s great.
So the Sun in Taurus proclaims this is the season of the incarnation of Venus in all full sensuality – everything is food smell taste touch color.
And that’s why we also look at Jupiter in Libra of the Venus’ other sign, presiding over the night sky, really great you know from eight P.M. on to through the whole night as I was under the Sinai desert sky you know it was so bright no moon was waxing when I was there and but but Jupiter so bright you know I just it was too exciting to go to sleep I would just go ‘Wow there’s Jupiter – it’s really exciting!’ Jupiter retrograde in Libra until June 9th – re·trieving old practices, old stories, bringing them alive again. In our own personal lives, in wisdom traditions, all of that… so the part that I wed with the Lakota elder talking about ‘the practice – the pragmatic mystic practice of brokering deals through the practice of reverie and respect…’ woah – Oh! {trickster Chris in San Francisco chimes in about Jupiter in the night sky SE} Yes Jupiter Jupiter is probably rising where you are right now. In the in the East – and it’s and it’s pretty much I mean Saturn will rise in a couple hours but yeah and then we get a little bit of Mars sitting in the West after sunset but yeah so there’s there’s Jupiter shining down on you. It was also you know the whole time I was in the desert you know. Oh there we go the whole time I was in the desert Jupiter was on 18° of Libra – right on my Saturn – which is why I was like ‘oh oh we are part of a larger story OK it is downloading.’ There we go ‘Pluto squaring my Saturn and Jupiter is right on it OK I know things that even I don’t know that I know’ – but yeah and so what I want to see what I always loved syncretizing, that I want to bring alive is –
Okay so the reverie and negotiating of treaties – really good that story – and then syncretizing it with my friend Robinette Kennedy ( http://www.robinettekennedy.com/ ) of the provocative deeply knowledgeable who teaches trance postures lives in Georgia and Crete right and and she saying, ‘the modern concept of worship is so infantile – you know ‘you are great, I am nothing, now give me this thing’ and she said in hunter gatherer society and throughout Crete in the Mediterranean she said and indigenous practices it was great reverence and respect between the onstage incarnational manifest world and the backstage invisible energetic world – great reverence and respect but she said ‘it was a much more collaborative relationship.’ ‘That the invisible backstage seeks incarnational invitation, as much as we seek communion with it.’
I go, ‘I love this’ – right, and here comes the trickster dynamic, because it’s as long as we have a hierarchical spirituality (great whosa whosa you know it was useful once, but I think we’ve outgrown it) we’re going to get you know Donald Trump right we’re going to get external tyranny. And this idea of you know collaborative – again and that’s when we’re in the Taurus Realm which is dedicated acts of beauty. Taurus magnetizes the invisible you know to come in there, it serves as an invitation. So so anything, ‘By the making of this fantastic supper for Stella coyote – May it be that the hearts of humans open, and they treat their four legged allies well!’ ‘By the doing of this…’ you know it’s again the mundane – the metaphysics of the mundane – ‘By the lighting of this candle,’ ‘By the doing of this thing..’ ‘By the blowing of this nose – by the whatever the thing is! It’s playful and profound.
And so I love those two things, and that’s you know what I forged into this idea of Democratic Animism – again ‘Cooperating with Everything’ – the spirits, the ancestors, the energetic force fields around the plants, and the animals – and this is the way, this is the evolutionary informed by ancient practice and of course wisdoms in past that is necessity for now.
I love somebody also on our Facebook page to you know when I said ‘may we mend our broken treaties with the wolves’ – we would be nothing without them! How dare we treat their incredibly excellent pack manners so badly – and somebody and maybe it’s beautiful Rebecca, I can’t remember also said, ‘Well then let’s invite them…’ many good postings here ah ‘let’s invite the wolves to Canada and California where there will be a ceremony of welcoming.’
So as we begin – again Dark of the Moon: it’s old business, but we’re beginning to plant seeds for new things. For things we might do together, things we might visualise together, actions we might take together, drawing things – again we’re going backwards to where all art you know is invocative power, little sketches, little ceremonies of humans you know welcoming the wolves ‘Welcome welcome!’ little you know, protective boundaries… Map Magic is quite wonderful.
Remembering years ago, when I had an interesting accomplice who was a policewoman in charge of security… she was the Park Service liaison to the F.B.I. for many things including Obama’s first inauguration. But also you know she was a cop – but she was a shamanistically oriented cop. You know and before before a big event – before Obama’s first inauguration – she called me up, and said ‘I think we need to do some magic’ and I go ‘OK Map Magic’ so we pulled out a map of Washington D.C. And she goes ‘We’ve never had so many death threats, and we’re worried about this over here, and worried about that over there…’ And with Map Magic you go ‘Oh no well no I don’t think that’s a threat, but in case it is we we bind it with a little circle of cornmeal…’ There we go. ‘And in case anybody’s grumpy over here we put some drops of honey there, to sweeten the heart of all who go through this portal into the gathering’ and other things like that. And we did a lot of different things with that. In fact I even introduced her to Starhawk ( http://starhawk.org/ ) and there was an historic moment in a restaurant called Utopia where they were doing profound Map Magic to keep things safe… but I just we we’re bringing everything up here trying to put maps… when I said you have a map of D.C. and she said ‘we don’t have to burn it do we?’ and I go ‘no no let’s use a laminated map so we can you know put things on’…and if something’s stuck we put red pepper on it. It’s all by playful analogy – all ritual magic is literalized metaphor. And witty, in that regard, of co·rrespondence, co·rresponding.
So if we want to keep something safe – and part of that also is ‘to protect wolves become more like wolves’ ‘to protect water become like water’ – but this powerful time of offering ourselves in dedication, as treaties, what do we love – and each person’s affinity – it’s why there’s more than one of us, we all have different affinities and assignments. So I lived with wolf hybrid dog and half coyote dog and so they came to me – I have enormous respect and regard, for their people. That’s a strong affinity. For each one of us, again, different affinities, and what are we to do – we wonder.
And again just to pull out all of our drawing skills and map skills and herbs skills and you know putting herbs are on the map and making sanctuaries and and protecting things and doing all of that and part of it also can be you know indeed as yes ‘entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing’ …things are used to do and you know we dust everything off you know and it’s a bit more a high security climate right now, I used to at World Bank protest events take some of the South African muti (the banish shadow opponents Muti) and you know it looks like – it’s a white powder, it was a white powder, and you know sprinkle it across the doorway to the World Bank, and just go (we are allowed to set in motion anything of which we would be the happy recipients) ‘May all who cross over this threshold may their hearts be opened and may be incapable of doing anything that is not dedicated to collective good.’ Sure! Give it a try. You know and cops would watch me sprinkling white powder over the threshold and that was OK then, a little bit different now, but again we are ingenious and playful.
All of those things so yeah mending broken treaties – another theme – you know working with Sara James, wonderful Kutchin elder from the Arctic, and says – the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in which she has been indefatigable in her dedication (with many many many other people) in protecting it – it’s called the place where all life begins – because so much life goes through the Arctic in its long migration cycle… birds whales everything you know why are humans so intent on destroying the place where all life began? we wonder… and we conjure the antidote blessings – but she says, ‘Don’t use the acronym – don’t call the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ANWR {which a lot of people do} because’ she says ‘if you use the acronym it becomes abstract, it loses its intimacy, and then we’ll drill it.’ It doesn’t take that much more time to use a few more words – The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – words are powerful, no need to shorten them. I mean some acronyms are witty, I mean again remember Trickster has Guidelines, no rules exactly. But again uniting with all good hearted people, all good hearted people. So yes we wonder about those things.
In part of the chart of now, and do feel free to chime in in any point, it’s the Jupiter rising again so so beautiful – rising and retrograde. So what is it doing? So Jupiter is opposite the Moon. The Moon’s image is, it’s a great image right now, it’s ‘Indian woman weaving a magical basket of serpents’ There we go. Yeah I love that. And it’s opposite Jupiter again – so it’s the power of the woman storyteller within everybody, within everybody.
And the Moon squares Pluto and Jupiter squares Pluto – it’s called a cardinal T square. So Jupiter Pluto is again, stories – well this beautiful language can describe challenging things you know, Disasters – what happens when we don’t honor the choreography, when we leave the desirable by default to the Dementors to animate in a less than desirable way… So it’s a volatile time – the Moon Jupiter Pluto T Square – volatile volatile – yes changeable – What is the desirable imprint? Power – again the power of blessing – for every kind of ‘uhh!’ it’s an incentive, ongoing practice – you know that we’re all you know in our in our cute in our cute trickster training here with some people who just joined and some people have been here for a long time – but we know how how appropriately artfully challenging blessings are.
And I don’t want to be – it’s interesting, I don’t want to be finger waggy about people who are finger waggy about people who are finger waggy… it’s a wonderful thing, we’re all working this together. But we are deconditioning – a very strong Pluto transit is about deconditioning – so from polarity, from the Snark, from finger wagging, from those things …but still being spicy still being spicy and insightful …it’s not about being nicey nice.. No no no. It’s the greatest you know, most fun, most challenging, art form – of how to be fully informed, fully informed, and bless and love it anyway. No fair trying to bless things when you don’t know how horrible they are, you’ve got to know really how horrible they are, to have a really full effectiveness of the blessing part. Again so you know ‘when this, then may this’ – powerful conjuring up blessings is part of our dynamic.
So as we are Dark of the Moon into New Moon you know – and quite a lot going on – and then we, this New Moon is partnered with the Buddhas Full Moon which will be May 10th. Which is also a Mercury Uranus conjunction which is where we go ‘ooh the Buddha’s full moon – it’s the Moon Taurus Scorpio – it’s the you know it begins this Wednesday, you know we’re brewing it kind of now, New Moon into Full Moon wow, Buddha Full Moon, Vesak Full Moon [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesak ] it’s the Full Moon of the invisible being invited into incarnational reality – so so that’s why I was saying any maps, any drawings, any sketches, any art forms, any altars, any arranging of things, you know according to one’s own creative impulse – not worrying about ‘oh I don’t know how to draw’ ‘Yes You know we all know how to do something’ – just draw the thing you know draw happy wolves protected it all by welcoming people or or whatever or whatever kerfuffle you know and you know or the problem with these people and then well okay so do a little homage for those people being unlocked – you know again you know it’s it’s playing it’s playing. ‘The woman weaving the magical basket out of serpents’ is weaving something artful out of the myriad autonomous daunting beings. Yes And there’s the image of the snake sideways because you know we’re in a mercury retrograde time period, there it is.
But remember you know part of this – through artifice and ritual and all of the Egyptian iconography, you know the thing that I came there will be a lot of things that kind of emerge from the you know what a great journey, but the iconography of something in front of you – is oppositional, something scary in front of you is oppositional, something beside you is your ally, something in back of you is your protector – and that swooshing of adversaries into allies – to think of a scary thing, and then to (don’t block it don’t try and push it away no -) guide it. Invitational guidance – ‘wouldn’t you like to be an ally? or even a protector?’ Whatever it is – it’s my cold – it’s my whatever – or whatever it whatever we go no, come this way, come this way ….the art of magnetizing invitation you know or weaving the magical basket out of serpents, that’s a good drawing too. So any of those any of those fun things.
I do love – somebody took that great photo of me trekking off into the desert (with pretty good posture by jimminy) north of Nueiba, in the Sinai. So, Mercury in Aries, on its way back to Uranus Trickster (inward) – that’s the kind of setting forth into the into our interior desert going inward inward inward and I remember Reverend Ike saying, “Lord reveal..’ [I mean he would say] ‘a moneymaking project to me’ and as I was thinking of that, I go Yeah and remember Jesus never used the word Lord… and that was only brought in way late to justify feudalism. So I like Find and Replace wherever I see the word ‘Lord’ I myself I’m amused by replacing it with ‘Trickster’ – Oh Trickster reveal to us a creative fantastic idea!’ …The Tricksters Prayer. Going back to Aramaic works just as well really because as Neil Douglass Klotz has guided us but what comes to us is the Lord’s Prayer and it was he who told me that Jesus never used the word lord at all. And the Lord’s prayer begins (or what passes for the Lord’s prayer begins) ‘Abwûn’ which is Aramaic for ‘The Divine’ and Neil says it’s the closest thing is ‘Oh Father Mother Ongoing Birthing Creation’ (Read & Listen to Aramaic http://thenazareneway.com/lords_prayer.htm ) Oh Father Mother ongoing birthing creating is more of what’s in that word.
In any case Mercury (Uranus is called the higher octave of Mercury – we love that) and so you know ‘where would we like this kind of brilliance?’ So this whole time period, all around now, Mercury Retrogrades into the interior desert with an appointment with genius – exactly on Friday – but you know it’s close enough right now. Where would we like… where is something trying to speak to us? We are invited to…. Yeah and then it goes direct on May 3rd and then it conjoins Uranus again on the Buddha’s Full Moon – pretty cool. Lot of a lot of story and animation available for however we want to – not not to leave it by default to the dementors… because you know the dementors… I don’t I don’t think it’s intentional but for instance, every time Ronald Reagan bombed something that was on the Full Moon. Every time George W. Bush started a war it was the Persian New Year, it was on the Equinox, it was on some powerful symbolic time – like you know in in a truly demonic way, you know we could say – no we’re not going to animate – we could say you know the Full Moon, well the Full Moon is just more of everything, right, it’s more of whatever… There are.. we we want to invite in, wise – wiser than humans – protecting trickster elements.
We want to speak also, you know, when people go ‘Mercury retrograde – and it’s the rebellion of things that we have not treated well’ – you know as Martin Prechtel tells us,’Was the oil in the ground invited to become plastic? Was the plastic invited to become a computer?’ And the retrograde is a rebellion of things that have not been treated well… and a time to renegotiate treaties… but we can also give things permission. ‘Oh words that do not want to be imprisoned – forced into the slavery of serving untruth – flee! Flee from the mouths of those who would abuse you and force you into servitude to untruth.’ ‘Oh plastic used for war you know refuse to perform!’ You know shape shift yourself into… I’m just reaching out to the team for playful ways of invoking… You know everything’s an ally. And people go ‘oh Mercury Retrograde today we don’t… No, it’s an ally! It’s like Yoko Ono used to always sign contracts on a Mercury Retrograde anda Moon Void of course and everything like that in case anybody was trying to cheat her. There’s a lot of ways to play with all of these things in liberating fashion.
And see the Mercury Uranus dynamic available collectively to all of us – and by the fact that we’re even focusing on it, it it’s noticing us – I like to go, it’s like a giant… I like thinking of the Divine as a Giant Coyote – tricky tricky – right a giant coyote you know, bowing down in a playful but daunting manner in front of us going, ‘Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?! We go, Yeah! Yeah we do, OK. And it part of it also is directing, you know the artfulness, and the language, and directing flow – ‘May anything up to no good, be revealed, rendered harmless, and be an occasion for mirth!’ ‘May the things themselves rebel’ – you know it’s again like, at the water conference where there was a moment where the machine that ran on water (you know with one tablespoon of gasoline) wasn’t working, wasn’t working, and a lot of pressure… and I just stepped in, you know press and everything, and and said to the inventor you know ‘Do you vow that this technology will never be used for war?’ And he said ‘I do!’ and the engine came to life… Va-va-voom! Everybody was so happy to think that everything was alive – that the machine itself was alive, these were hardcore scientists and and military people and stuff… but they were so delighted, everyone wants permission, to return to Animistic Truth – that everything’s alive – it’s such a relief.
And that also is you know part of, you know The March for Science is very very good… But it’s also part of our dynamic of ‘the wedding of science and myth’ – and science and it’s guiding wisdom languages (like astrology) because there’s been a long rift right and they want to come back together – and the astral logos and the mythological language was the moral cocoon in which science scientific knowledge was passed down to make sure that knowledge was applied with reverent respect, that it be dedicated to collective wellbeing.
And that’s part of right now what we have again the Saturn in Saggittarius squaring Venus in Pisces it’s that knowledge and soulfulness. Knowledge and symbolic understanding together. And that’s why, I don’t know whose quote it is, I just I’ve been reading so many things, but somebody in some Egyptian book, I think it was last night, they’re all beside my bed, you know said, ‘symbol designs’ (or maybe it somebody on our council, if it was, chime in) but ‘symbol designs the temple – knowledge builds it’ like oh well that’s fun, it’s one way we’re just priming the pump priming the pump all these things…
So… Hello I hear somebody rustling like a mouse. {Chris in San Francisco: ‘what you just said reminded me of the delight I experienced listening to KPFAs coverage of the Science March in Washington where I was just like – oh wow listening to a march on the radio that’s going to be interesting – but I did and it was – because it was a delightful t and fro between speakers and entertainers and they would have a scientist come out and talk and be actually really informative and amusing and then they would have like Thomas Dolby, I couldn’t believe I got to hear Thomas Dolby playing at the Science March you know on my Saturday morning it was just delightful!) That’s great who’s Thomas Dolby – the creator of Dolby sound systems? Who’s Thomas Dolby? {Musician who wrote ‘she blinded me with science’ and is also a professor at Cornell or something similar …and the reunification of Art & Science and the March on DC just nailed it. And there was KPFA, and it was great.} And you helped me you know compost compost harrumphitude about about the mothership, I’m so glad they did that and going – Oh yes I was I was home with a cold not there but telepathically attending – but no that’s a great report I’m so glad to hear, KPFA did a great job of covering in this and the science and music and art and entertainment – with the reunification, splendid!
Right and then Jen in Tacoma writes in, (yes I’m turning to the e-mails now at last) {have you ever had a chance to read Josephine McCarthy?} (No no) {she writes about Mystery Schools has fantastic journeys and has a great sense of humor} – OK we put it we put it in our repertoire – I will keep my ear to the tracks and or alert you know… because right now I mean again ‘We are the molecules with which the big story speaks to itself, through the miracle of synchronicity’ and you know that mystery of does synchronicity actually increase or is it always there and we’re just sometimes more receptive to it? We don’t know, but in any case Mercury to Uranus can be a huge surge in available synchronicity – going all right – I will find Josephine McCarthy [https://josephinemccarthy.com/ ]- I will find these things… everything’s wending its way to us …and then also how do we participate in the dance – you know ‘May everybody entering into the political conference on North Korea have a dream of sanity the night before’ or whatever however you want to play you know how we want to play you know in our little separate selves but also in our group selves to you know to bring before the council to experimentally experimentally explore like what what can we what shall we do what shall we propose – you know each one of us having a desirable image or a blessing is good, but together also really fun, so that’s it that’s a great thing – Trickster reveal a liberating inspiration to all of us and grant us the wolf to be its voice! that’s that Mercury Uranus kind of dynamic. For everybody, what does one want to be a voice for, and in in making that dedication, one attracts the support of that for which one is willing to have a voice. In dreams and synchronicities, into those things that so oh restore heart you know – going through you know the coincidence the synchronicity, the you know what by you know ‘by Jimminy what we hope is true – actually is true – what a relief!’ So that’s increasing.
And anyway so it but that’s a great yeah and then there’s the upcoming – this Saturday is Earth Day you know – global – just as science is global There were marches for Science in Antarctica you know and everywhere – which is it’s a very good part of humans, this is a good part of humans, and again you’ve brought it up you know and animated it further, Chris, in your scouting report really great but so this Saturday Earth Day Climate March lots of allies are coming into town, I mean all kinds of stuff going, on it is a global event and then also I am delighted to be able to have my fun radio guests this week who are Bob Hieronimus and Laura Cortner who wrote the book on Lady Liberty and who are really really informed dedicated magic scholars because what I also want to do in preparation and here’s the use of visualization – incipient incipient we’re still just kind of beginning together here – Because in Egypt you know saw all these obelisks right and these mysterious things that were a lot of work, when you when you journey through Egypt you go ‘that was a lot of work!’ We went up to Aswan to see again how they excavated, how they how they were made, sculpted, these obelisks, I think one hundred sixty one feet tall, in granite, and it was so good to feel the granite …like I had no idea that going to the mine for the obelisk would be like ‘well that’s interesting’ but I was like ‘no – it’s really interesting, to feel the grinding stones, and then to touch the granite… going ooo granite ooo yeah what it what a great stone it just felt wonderful. And the technology really you know that they would trace the outline and then they would put in wedges of wood and then the wood they would wet the wood and the wood would expand and that’s how they – slowly took a long time – and then they would move this many many many tons (and forgotten all the exact things) onto seven boats seven boats and float it down the Nile this multi-ton hundred sixty one foot thing, and then it took about a week to erect with pulleys and such and so a lot of work went into this thing. And there are obelisks all over. And what is this? you know why? and Washington D.C. has one.. not you know but that’s what it has there. And one of our guides said ‘well you know Osiris was torn apart and the obelisks are his penis. To fertilize Isis.’ And we go, Huh!
And I remember the late great ally David Ovason who wrote a fantastic book called The Secret Architecture of our Nation’s Capital about Washington D.C. And it’s you know approved of by the Masons it’s not new age fluff it’s really very profound, and also historically true… that a lot of things (and this is probably everywhere every one of us lives) a lot of things were set in place, with dedication to await animation at a time of historic need… and we go, now!
Now would be really good – like the calling back (the Mercury Retrograde – the calling back) of a positive Mars-Yang: King Arthur did not die, he goes to go residing in Avalon to hang out with the priestesses, to await the world’s call at a time of dire danger you know when positive Yang leadership is needed to dance equally with positive Yin – we go, Now! Now would be really good!
High John The Conqueror of the South you know the great trickster Redeemer (again always interested in liberating even the tyrant as well as as those imprisoned by the tyrant) you know he does not die he goes to go residing in High John the Conqueror Root this wonderful root, it goes really well with imphepho, it smells smoky kind of like osha… To await the world’s call, we go, now would be really good!
So when we put all these guys together, again, what’s here, it says, Mercury to Uranus is the calling back of that which is promised to return when we need it.
The Taurus part, the structural part, of things having been placed in a dedicated way (like in Washington D.C.), David Ovason’s book says, ‘the founding fathers [yes the fathers] but a lot of it is is intended for Washington to be an Isis {goddess} worshipping city’ – which is very trippy given the misnomer of the Western press in calling Diesh, ISIS – ‘so monuments were erected with particular attention to the constellation Virgo, which is associated Isis.’ Apparently in August the three fixed stars of Virgo are over the Washington Monument the White House and the… Capitol – that’s what it is, I have not seen that, I’ve read that, but it’s like, OK – but so in keeping with that so when we go look at the obelisks, all this work, why were they doing that? to fertilize Isis in Egypt.. maybe I mean that’s one story, and we go ‘Well we’ve got a giant Washington Monument (a giant Osiris Penis) in the center of the city’ and so I will be running this by, these very fun playful pragmatic mystic informed cognoscenti esotericist radio guests on Thursday, going, ‘well how should we have the Washington Monument come alive and fertilize Isis in Washington D.C. And larger than humans and what are all these dedicated things deeply embedded in a rising up?’ And in each one of our neighborhoods you know where is there something old in nature or by human design… or by Wolf design.. that is awaiting our honoring, our feeding of it, our pouring of water on it or corn meal or cornmeal in salt …you know the a lot of the monuments in Washington were were erected with freemason ritual, we go, ‘OK It’s all around us.’ The whole everything, in our immediate neighborhood, no matter where we are, is a palette of living magic, with which to paint the desirable story.
So it’s like mmmm and it can find us in dreams and you know and inspiration but this this ‘spaciness’ – this Dark of the Moon into New Moon – it’s pretty interesting cycle…
And then into the Mercury forward motion conjunction on the Full Moon on the Buddha’s Full Moon and the return of sanity. But we don’t want to leave it by default because the dementors will just you know go, ‘full moon – let’s go to war!’ – Noo – We want to suck the Chi out of that… And exhale it into a desirable thing…
So yeah and then just for the fun of it I threw in the Egyptian calendar of hours. My Egyptian guide wonderful beautiful Marianne was like ‘I’ve never seen that, let me take a photo, Oh interesting’ she being a Coptic Christian, but a great guide into the Egyptian historic, powers of Lucor And the Valley of the Kings and Queens and Temple of Hatshepsut – she was like ‘well that’s really interesting.’ And we were talking astrology and she’s like ‘oh oh’ and talking about autonomy, and she’s like, ‘ah – yes!’ again these are radical ideas. And different forms of tyranny one doesn’t have to put up with. but I’ve been it so I I don’t even know I mean this little chart was published in. 1989 I must not have had it Longer than it was published, 1989 – but it’s a little piece of paper I’ve had in my wallet for the longest time, and I go yeah so I wrote this to us, it’s in the missive and I’ve been mis-using it, you know the hour is 1, 2, 3, – the first hour is the hour of sunrise and then each ensuing hour… You know we have Sun·day moon·day Mars·day Mercury (Jupiter’s·day) Friday (Venus·day) Saturday (Saturns·day) …we have a 7 day week because of 7 visible planets, that is the only reason, there are more accurate calendars, but that’s the only reason… to honor that quality of intelligence, and then within each day, each hour has a different planetary quality.
And I just I just put that out here for our bemusement, for our animating all of the ways of paying attention, all the ways of bringing things alive, all the ways of forming partnerships, so so so there. Hah!
Anybody want to chime in? OK I will keep a look out for Josephine McCarthy… Rich in Tuscon, aha! {Is ritual effective if done internally?} Well sure! but um well. Well let’s see. Internally. I wish you were here Rich, star seven you can call in. Well I think it’s.. more effective when we do a physical thing. That’s my, I think that’s what you’re asking… In all the different traditions, you know in Santeria and what not, would say ritual is literalized metaphor. It likes a more molecular tangibility into which the invisible can pour… so but you know, you know it again internally can mean a lot of things. We certainly can say things. The pattern on the trestleboard – ‘all the power that ever was or will be is here now.’
‘We are a center of expression for the primal will to good which eternally creates and sustains the universe.’ And so on. you know we might say those things, as in the mystery school of the Builders of the Adytum (https://www.bota.org/resources/emtablet.html) that and Andy Weil and I joined in 1970. There were things that we would say, to ourselves.. upon awakening, at noon, at six pm, before going to sleep, so one might say that was internal.. but it was to be said out loud even if no one was around, right.. So but again – there’s no rules, only guidelines – experiment experiment experiment. I mean all that we speak on is only useful if it resonates, and – believe nothing, entertain possibilities – so ‘if done internally’ so if one were in prison and had nothing at hand… One could certainly create an internal, Well the memory palaces, and all kinds of things, so internally one could go through a ritual… if one were in prison.. yeah, so I’ve come completely around your point of view Rich.
But it would be, well cause we’re in we’re in a really great kind of deep realm of the moment, that we will ‘to be continued’ …because the Kabbalist said, remember, you know, if the divine is everything how does the divine create using nothing outside the divine? And they said, well by analogy, how do we create using nothing outside ourselves? Which we might call internal. And they said ‘oh! In our imagination we create things using nothing outside ourselves!’ and so they said ‘well that’s how the divine creates – We are dreamed in the image of the Divine, we are made in the image of the Divine {not that we look like old white men with beards} the divine is an imagining creative undergoing birthing creating process, and the part of us that imagines is the part of us responsible (reassuming responsibility) for dreaming the desirable world into being.’
So yeah if you really see yourself building the house… but it’s not just internal (because we’re kind of dissolving these borders) because what the Kabbalist said is ‘A clear mental image is made of molecules as much as this table.’ And that’s why they would say a clear mental image tends to materialize as an actual condition or event ….so it all starts internally but it’s going to wend its way into molecular manifestation. Yeah and even the Buddhists, you know very big on transcendence.
Other interesting things going on but it’s a to and fro, it’s a commerce between the invisible and invisible, between the internal and the external, I think… but there’s probably a lot more to your question… but that’s but all I’ve got at the moment. So. But but a worthy worthy intriguing rich query and just – try stuff. Try doing it just internally (whatever that means to you by your own definition) – see what happens.
OK So Team, we will deconvene… if you want to speak now that would be splendid and welcome and if not… Our Grand Wazir has some beautiful outro music for us it is… Which thing is it – remind me? It’s the soul.. it’s the something of the soul… [Parting ways with the soul] – Parting ways with the Soul – Yes, There we go, thank you!
