Astrology will describe and then guide – disasters (against) means against the stars and consider means with the stars – that we gather to consider, in order to avert disaster.
Next Monday will be the Vernal Equinox, the Sun enters Aries. We remember Nora Hall says, ‘Deliberate celebration of the change of seasons, stirs the creative powers of the psyche’ – so here we are in the last week of Pisces, the very end of the Zodiac, the end of a cycle – what would we like – in our own personal lives, and then also in the collective (because it’s all related) – to be released from,and what we want to bring alive for fresh animation.
This is the last week of Pisces before the Vernal Equinox – the green fire of new beginning – so we are releasing and rummaging and becoming intimate with everything that we own, you know or that is in our lives, going dust it all off you know and hello hello greeted going ‘hello and do you want to stay here?’ and where do you want to go?’ and ‘move ten things – change your life’ so say the the Feng Shui people.
We are re-storying the world you know as we begin you know in the Chart of Now which guides us – I love that degree of the Zodiac Rising 27+ Libra which is, a person in deep gloom (or with a bad attitude), unnoticed a glowing circle of angels surrounds them…. so alone we can all be that person, but together we are the glowing circle of angels….
Grand Square in Cardinal signs – can make can describe feeling jumpy, like wooo there’s a lot going on, a lot in the world, a lot in our lives, like wooah! but Mars goes, ‘Slowly, slowly’ and Jupiter says, ‘Pleasure, pleasure’… again ‘Beauty is always available to the unhurried reflective mind’
We have all of these planets – parts of our psyche, parts of the world – in Pisces:Neptune (in it’s home realm, dreams, envision) it’s going to stay there for quite a while, right next to the Sun (basic central keeper of the rhythmic beat), right next to Pallas Athena, right next to Chiron same degree, the image for that degree is, ‘a reformed clergy officiates a new‘ – it’s about releasing corruption, releasing corruption.
Mercury is leading the way, Mercury is at the Equinox spot – Mercury has just entered Aries today. Its image is, ‘a woman emerging from the ocean a seal is embracing her’
Mercury at 0° Aries – Mercury right now is kind of holding the the place, it’s the advance scout, because the Sun will be where Mercury is tonight next Monday.
Mercury is in the realm of Aries – which is the realm of desire – it’s Mars’ realm. And so it’s as well, ‘let’s also throw anger into the cauldron, and ladle out desire’.
And Mercury has a beautiful quintile (we love the angles, the ways of dividing the circle, the sacred geometry) it’s so exact – Mercury quintiles Pluto and remember my affection for quintiles (the 72° angle) is that it’s a capacity for liberating irresistible eloquence…. about speaking about old deep things, and even all deep dangerous things, in a fresh vernacular and liberating fashion. And it it’s a pattern available to be bestowed on all who are in this Council right now, may it be so, so let’s let’s make wishes…
Because Jupiter says, Anything you want anything you want.
Now Jupiter is rising in the East right now– according to World Headquarters in Cabin John, Maryland- and that was called having a guardian angel. And we can take that on any level, we want but we also want to feel, again we are weaving our customized kind of trickster cloak and embrace, so that in moments of difficulty large or small we can draw something big and vast and comforting around us.
Jupiter is the intelligence of curiosity journeying travel storytelling blessing games– games allow us to travel…
Jupiter also is about storytelling andjourneying and blessing all of that and theater and ritual theater and a little bit of not too much but a little bit of bravado
And soJupiter in reciprocal blessing goes – guiding and games – and so I love that because Jupiter is associated with games, I was like, ‘What do what are games doing in there’ and we go the learning of games, which involves rules, that’s true, allows us to travel beyond limited circumstance.
Jupiter’s about expansiveness and replenishing generosity. As a physical planet it’s the only planet we know of that emits more electromagnetic radiation than it receives from the sun – so jovial generous blessing journeying… all of those things – it’s quite quite available.
Jupiter loves synchronizing.
Jupiter says ‘let’s re-story’… Jupiter again is retrograde until June, so it’s re-searching re-trieving re-joining, re-storying, re-weaving, re-membering…
Jupiter says – ‘there’s a million ways to understand or speak to everything, there’s a million stories all going on at once, they can all be conflicting and they can all be true and which ones are we going to vote for’
Jupiter opposite Uranus goes experiment with story, experiment with story, experiment…
There is a giant cauldron available as Jupiter squares Pluto
Jupiter is also about learning,and it’s in Libra – about art and story craft and artcraft.
Mars in Taurus – Taurus is the most sensually intelligent of all the parts of this language
Everything is food… smell taste touch color sensuality all of those things… and so Mars in Taurus says, ‘don’t get angry, make a fantastic meal– don’t get angry, feel the embrace of the wonderful wise animal behind you, the wolfote (the combination wolf-coyote)…
Mars in Taurus says, ‘tending, brewing, making wonderful food, making art, enjoying the sensual thing…’
Mars in Taurus also reminds us – quickens – the Truth of Animism, that Everything’s Alive!
Mars sort of does want to slow way down… it’s coming slowly over the next week to sextile Neptune – going ‘dreams dreams’ and it says ‘Remember beauty is always available to the reflective mind.’
I love the phrase ‘as any fragment of rock from a hillside set respectfully in agarden will arrest the eye’ and that is actually so beautifully expressive of what I was trying to say and kind of communicate from the sky pattern of now – Mars in Taurus, one rim of this bucket, is about beauty in nature and Libra (the moon in Libra and Jupiter in Libra, Libra Rising) is about cultivated beauty – and that’s exactly that’s exactly the wonderful thing that Joseph Campbell just did: that any fragment of rock from a hillside {nature} set respectfully {artfully} in a garden {art} will arrest the eye… right this ‘confluence of nature into a garden’.
Mars right now 2+ Taurus is ‘natural steps leading to a lawn of clover in bloom – letting nature take its course – following natural processes – growth and unfolding – concern for environmental ecology – earthy funkiness – energetic yearnings – overcoming inertia’ hehehe there we go – and it’s going to be changing pretty soon becauseit’s at the very last part of that degree so by tomorrow it will be at ‘a pot of gold – the rainbow’s pot of gold at the end of the rainbow – hopefulness optimism – inspirational belief which keep one going’ there we go ‘renewal of resolve’ yes! ‘mythologizing one’s insights – literalizing the symbolic’
Venus will disappear from the night sky around the twenty third
she goes to the underworld and then she will rise the Helical Rise as the morning star very late March or early Aprilquick it’s a quick underworld tour,but she will be in Ariesfor the next ten days-ish and Mars in Taurus – they are inmutual reception – so let all Mars be more gentle and all Venus be more woofier
mutual reception, it’s a wonderful term, it just means Venus is in Aries (Mars’ sign) and Mars is in Taurus (Venus’ sign) – so they’re guests in each other’s homes, they’re on very good behavior, in a way, and they’re borrowing qualities of medicine – or exchanging those things. So Venus (love beauty art) has a kind of ‘rarr’ wolfiness to it, and Mars (generally wolfie) is in Taurus going, ‘make something beautiful, make a great meal’
Saturn is our rhythm in Sagittarius (Jupiter’s sign), trining Uranus, brought to life to fresh expression – going yeah, ‘we had a little, we have all been close to death’ (Pluto chimes in) ‘then we found rhythm..’
Saturn in Sagittarius the wild horses parts of us we speak to those parts of us as though they were spooked beautiful wild horses. You know eager for escape but worried about a trap
…rhythm, it’s a Saturn thing – rhythm is rules, boundaries, rhythm, our own authentic rhythm, our own balance – when we are authentic, we are more centered
Neptune gives everybody an escape and a ‘sanity clause’(‘everybody knows there ain’t no sanity clause!’)We wonder what from our resources would we like to call back, to reanimate
Neptune in Pisces, North Node of the Moon in Virgo – there we go the Virgo-Pisces thing is ‘Linguistic Precision Guides the Vision’ Linguistic precision is the kind of Virgo Realm you know that takes the vastness of Neptune’s poetry and myth anddream you know into precision so experimenting, experimenting, experimenting.
The Moon in Libra, Jupiter in Libra rising in the east, and then underneath planets planets planets, and Mars in Taurus setting in the west… Everything is contained, like a beautiful crescent shape between the moon in Libra (which is kind of cultivated beauty) and Mars in Taurus (the other Venus sign – which is deep sensual beauty derived from nature) and there that’s the rim of the bucket, so it says ‘Beauty – beauty is strong, and beauty is the way to go’
While we’re talking the moon has changed degrees – so here’s maybe a blessing – the moon has changed degrees from it was 10+ Libra when we began which is ‘a professor peering over her glasses’ Well there we go ‘offering guidance’ well we aspire to.. ‘making cultural..’ ah any how – –so okay now while we’re talking, it’s changed degrees, and now I know this one really well, it’s ‘coal miners emerging from the mine into the sunlight – getting out from under – digginguncovering – light at the end of the tunnel – hidden nuggets – shaking off some dusty concepts one has of oneself – breathing freely again’ and ‘A wish for the world’…may all coal miners literal and metaphorical emerge from the mine into the sunlight
And it’s such a great way to go as Jupiter chimes in, and everybody chimes in here, saying, ‘Live as though the desirable story is true,’ – ‘Just as an experiment’
So we’re just going to live that thing you know and it’s also you know to be brought alive you know there’s a part of everybody regardless of chronological age that is is brewing, getting ready to come alive in a whole new way as we enter into the Aries season so we’re in the sifting sifting what part of ourselves would we like to call back – you know what is needed now? or what would we like to call back into the world through us?
Set us forth into the right mood… oh grand Wazir, backstage? [‘All of God’s Creatures got a place in the choir, some sing low, some sing higher, some sing out loud on the telephone wire, some just clap their hands, or paws, or anything they got…’]
(not the same version, but similarly fabulous rendition of the song)
Welcome welcome oh trickster training team fellow aspiring agents of the Trickster Redeemer Coyote Bodhisattva Citizen Trickster- all of those things! So welcome, many longtime participants really over decades, and new people who have just joined, Welcome welcome. So we are here to gather all of our wit (ah-ha-ha!) And to be guided by the very heartening sky story that does not obscure the danger that we’re in, but does give us ways to navigate.
So let’s do what we often do, which is- we call our Saturn (our goat) back- we get our goat back, and let’s see our goat coming back (there it is) from wherever it got got… from whatever annoying news story or conniption fit or dementors of doom, you know, behaving in a sociopathic cruel way unleashing unfurling you know vast darkness upon the world there we go… But our goats are back where we are, and we have our Magic Backpack- full of lightning full of lightning, so we can remember- we have a bag of lightning and we can hurl that (zzzphah!) at any habitual pattern of our own, we are all in this together… that we’d like to change the circle of habit, into a spiral- there we are!
And we’re here in our hearts to Dedicate to being Agents of Liberating Blessing- liberating blessing, because that is you know that is what is made available. Increasingly, I love this language of astrology to which I’ve been dedicated since 1970 in my own spirally way, but it seems clear that one of the great profferings of this language is to make, to give voice to what’s available- what is generously available how to navigate now. So we are re-storying the world you know as we begin you know in the Chart of Now which guides us- I love that degree of the Zodiac Rising 27+ Libra which is, a person in deep gloom (or with a bad attitude), unnoticed a glowing circle of angels surrounds them…. so alone we can all be that person, but together we are the glowing circle of angels…. there we go OK… So we gather we gather for two to pluck up our spirits
Now Jupiter is rising in the East right now– according to World Headquarters in Cabin John, Maryland- and that was called having a guardian angel. And we can take that on any level, we want but we also want to feel, again we are weaving our customized kind of trickster cloak and embrace, so that in moments of difficulty large or small we can draw something big and vast and comforting around us. And blessings on the inner and outer journeys of all beings…
So synchronizing, Jupiter… Jupiter loves synchronizing. So from many of the things that I’ve loved I want to weave them together and yes some of these things you might have heard before but there’s a good purpose to re- member. Re-storying, re-trieving, re-weaving, re-searching, re-membering… So we remember, years ago (sometimes we just need a person for one story and I met you know somebody who was in charge of the UN refugee camps years ago and and we just had a brief dinner and he told me the story which was why we met) and it was when he was really terrified in Africa because colleagues of his had been kidnapped and murdered the week before and he was walking down the street with colleagues and they were kidnapped; they were shoved into the back of a van and they really thought they were going to die- but he said (here comes this part of all of us) to his teammates, ‘We’ve got to change the story- we’re not being kidnapped, we’re being helped in this confusing situation.’ So they began to Thank their captors ‘thank you so much’ and their captors were puzzled, (right remember always changing the story- being unexpected) and that night they locked them up, and the captors said, ‘don’t worry we’re putting a guard outside so you’ll be safe’ and three days later let them go. So we’ve got to change the story.
Now I like also synchronizing that with the fantastic Bunny Planet books of Rosemary Wells- wonderful children’s books- ‘Far beyond the Earth and stars, twenty light years south of Mars, spins the gentle bunny planet, and the bunny queen is Janet, “Come in” she says “For here’s the day that should have been…”‘ and they really, it’s a day that’s gone bad adorable little animals had a really difficult day and then right before sleep they go off to the Bunny Planet and they redo the whole day in rhyme as it should have been.
It’s so charming and it’s such a beautiful medicine- and it goes with the UN guy and it also goes with where Meredith is about to go, on a happy path-opening no problem journey to her beloved whales in Ignacio lagoon in Baja Mexico… and many stories from there but what I love is, again in this (that how it how it themes with the Bunny Planet and the UN refugee story), is that it was told to us by a Poncho Mayoral (I’m pretty sure- you can correct me Meredith I get the names wrong but)- there was a time, this is where the whales you know all only here do seek human relationship and they bring up their babies and it’s so moving (again all gods’ critters- we’re here to protect all of life) and there was mitsubishi wanted to build a salt plant in that lagoon (the one lagoon that is so important for breeding and birthing and where they gather their force for the long long long long journey up north)… and the president of Mexico had approved it, and it’s like, oh no this is terrible… But the fisherman said ‘Come out in the boats with us, oh president and your wife and child…’ And Poncho said, ‘The whales knew what they had to do’ he said they’d never been so (I mean they’re always beguiling) but they’ve never been so beguiling and what happens is you know the president’s wife and child were just weeping, because it’s so beautiful and haunting… and the president’s heart was changed and he said, ‘No, we can’t do this.’ So I like teasing this into the team of all good hearted people, you know like the whales of San Ignacio- they didn’t they didn’t finger ah- ‘fin wag’ or finger wag you know, and go, you run a dog lackey of corporate you know imperialism you know rah-rah-rah or whatever whale sounds they might… they go, ‘No, we’re just going to open your heart into kinship so vast- that you can’t do anything terrible’
And this is part of our intriguing conundrum, as I look at our adorable Facebook page and you know Pat (Patricia Ewing) was proposing to our council, going, ‘What would be a prayer for Trump’s presidency to be no longer profitable for him and his family.. then he/they will move on to other ventures the less gold they see the plunder and a quicker they will go thoughts on a prayer for this…’ it’s about the newspaper story ‘trumps children say their property him away from a presidency’…. Well Jupiter is such a vast intelligence you know it has to do with wealth and how we define wealth and it is also the journey and story- it reminds us of the Panchatantra you know in the oldest frame story in the world, animal fables teaching humans how to live a wise life in the world without being reclusive and you know it and they define wealth in a number of ways… They say through friendship, through gathering, you know through learning- ‘better with the learned dwell, even though it be in Hell, then with fools round palaces that Gods call home’- and they say about money you know, that it’s not important and- ‘What wise person with things to do in the world would would concern themselves with that which is not important? So money must be had in sufficient abundance so you don’t need to think about it- and we go ahhhhh alright a Blessing to everybody on this cause may there be an abundance, in quirky ways, skidding in at the last moment- there we go, whatever we need- remember the Pattern on the Trestle Board says, ‘From the exhaustless riches of the limitless substance we draw are all things needful- both spiritual and material.’
Because it is, it will you know- Astrology will describe and then guide – disasters (against) means against the stars and consider means with the stars – that we gather to consider, in order to avert disaster. But I do want to put this before the council saying, Yes Wealth, wealth- how would the wealth hide? how would it be like a cat chasing a little feather going, there you go there you go over there, there we go- that remember the U’wa people in Colombia when they were threatened with by Standard Oil was going to destroy their lands they thought of terrible things and maybe they would kill themselves rather than see this heart break… and then they thought ‘no no wait wait’ and they did ceremony- deep ceremony- in which they asked the oil to hide and Standard Oil did three drawings came up dry and packed their bags and left… and so maybe along those lines going Ask the wealth to hide elusively.. like like pulling a feather a little feather thing in front of a cat, going, there, over there, and there, not there, there you go- little trumpians, trumpians.. there you go, backstage, where you.. something like that…. And remember you know, because it is a very counsel-y kind of evening, and oh good heavens all kinds of strange things. But feel free to type in a question a wondering all of those things. A contribution a blessing a conundrum something- is completely welcome and also *7 will unmute, you can speak and *6 will restore you back to you know audio privacy… but but I do love the to and fro, because it was last week that somebody typed in a question when I said ‘remember in trickster training, no rules but guidelines’ and they were like ‘say say more about that’ and I said something or other… but it’s a Power of Now- that whatever we ask- the answer then comes- it might be the next day…
So the next day…I went off to my my my little Aikido class (I’ve had three now and I’m getting quite a lot out of it) but it was quite wonderful because we were learning a little move an instructor said ‘Remember don’t block never block- guide’ right and it’s us swooshy thing, somebody comes at you and you don’t go huh-nun! You go, you take your hands and you go through- you step aside and you swoosh… and I go right and I was like- oh this is so great about Guidelines versus Rules- the rules are like a block and you can either obey or disobey but it’s a finite, it’s a finite game- whereas a guiding it’s, swooosh… You know again like the whale swooshing… So we want to be swooshing, spirals swoosh- and so I love that because again the rule is a kind of eh-hurh you know and and as we tease this into you know usable medicine, our in our dance in life you know something comes along we don’t go no no we go, where’s that want to go.. where does that want to go. It’s in a lot of martial arts (that I’ve done sporadically through the years) but I remember in in Qigong there’s also where you just move backwards in a glidey way but you’re swooshing, you’re swooshing it’s called it’s called ‘repelling the monkey’ right and you just go, swoosh swoosh…but maintaining one’s Saturn- one’s autonomy, one’s Hara, one’s goat, one’s balance. Remember goats are so good at balance, coyote’s are so good at balance… many animals (dogs) like kind of firm footing, but coyotes like a seesaw you know goats love a seesaw as well, but all of these are skills we want here going right and so balancing balancing…
Remember Terry Pratchett says ‘Magic is easy we just find the fulcrum point and push’ ….right and and then just to modify and syncretize.. In Aikido you don’t pull or push, but you you keep your your Hara, your base, under you, and you can, rather than push- you just walk forward and tip… but you’re also it’s about you know one staying balanced, and then finding the unbalanced spot of the aggressor- so that’s why it’s unexpected. Somebody comes at you and you- these are trainings, programmings, that we want to tease into our mental patterns and also our verbal patterns- So somebody comes at you and grabs your hand and you then might go up, you might raise your hand up, and they go like drinking a glass of water you go up and how surprising says the aggressor- and the other hand may go down… and there we go, again, surprising weavings swooshing all of that…
There is a giant cauldron – Jupiter does square Pluto – and we are in the very last it’s our very last Monday of winter and apparently winter is going to be a big deal in the east coast here where we are hunkered down… just keep the heat on just keep the heat on, that’s my Jupiter wish. So that would be good. And all the little critters, all the little critters… But I love starting off with All God’s Critters the Bill Stein wonderful song because- I remember when there was a big swirling hurricane here and it was wild and it was summertime and I opened the door into the wild storm and said How are you everybody How’s everybody out there and rising up out of a storm was this great cricket chorus it was like we’re all right we’re doing OK! So solicitousness solicitousness – reciprocal regard – how are we all doing, how are we all doing…
It is our last – here it is the last Monday before next Monday will be the Vernal Equinox, the Sun enters Aries. We remember Nora Hall says, ‘Deliberate celebration of the change of seasons, stirs the creative powers of the psyche’ – so here we are in the last week of Pisces, the very end of the Zodiac, the end of a cycle – what would we like – in our own personal lives, and then also in the collective (because it’s all related) – to be released from (there we go), and what we want to bring alive for fresh animation.
So we have all of these planets – parts of our psyche, parts of the world – in Pisces:Neptune (in it’s home realm, dreams, envision) it’s going to stay there for quite a while, right next to the Sun (basic central keeper of the rhythmic beat), right next to Pallas Athena (that we learned from this council so long ago, somebody said {to refute the story that Pallas Athena was born full grown from Zeus’s head and had no mother} and it was somebody on our call who said, Um no she had a mother – her mother is Metis {creative feminine – creative genius} who is hiding inside Zeus’ head) so it’s still a kind of late patriarchy story, but so there’s Pallas Athena, right next to Chiron same degree, the image for that degree is, ‘a reformed clergy officiates a new‘ – it’s about releasing corruption, releasing corruption. Mercury is leading the way, Mercury is at the Equinox spot – Mercury has just entered Aries today. Its image is, ‘a woman emerging from the ocean a seal is embracing her’ and we go ‘Ahhh’.
You know and people often say you know where did you get these images and we go well they’re what’s called Sabian Symbols, so I I have an affection for them, the tradition of having metaphoric imagery for each degree of the zodiac is very old – it does go back to Egypt (where I will be going on March twenty eighth! ..to retrieve something, retrieve something, it feels like that) but the Sabian symbols were you know invoked conjured channeled made up by two people sitting next to each other in a park, Elsie Wheeler and Marc Edmund Jones, and so – sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t, but I like them quite a lot… some more than others…
but Mercury at 0 Aries – so Mercury right now is kind of holding the the place, it’s the advance scout, because the Sun will be where Mercury is tonight next Monday, right so Mercury is already kind of advanced scout team. And Mercury has a beautiful quintile (we love the angles, the ways of dividing the circle, the sacred geometry) it’s so exact – Mercury quintiles Pluto and remember my affection for quintiles (the 72° angle) is that it’s a capacity for liberating irresistible eloquence…. about speaking about old deep things, and even all deep dangerous things, in a fresh vernacular and liberating fashion. And it it’s a pattern available to be bestowed on all who are in this Council right now, may it be so, so let’s let’s make wishes… Because Jupiter says, Anything you want anything you want. So we go ‘all right we know what we don’t, want what do we want’ – that’s really crucial. Mercury is in the realm of Aries – which is the realm of desire you know it’s Mars’ realm. And so it’s as well, ‘let’s also throw anger into the cauldron, and ladle out desire’ – Desire – so we can might be angry about something, aroused, or resistant …these are perfectly good first stages of reactive response – and then but we don’t stay there we want to move it on to respond – Responding ..So you know ‘may may anger turn into desire’ going – whoa the arrows of desire… and we’re also following this around, we go well, where is Mars? Since you know Mercury has entered Aries (Mars’ sign), Venus is retrograde – about to disappear from the sky and go into the underworld (will play with that). We go, Mars – Mars is in Taurus – Mars is in Venus’s sign – in fact there’s this beautiful thing that I will animate…
Mars and Venus are in what’s called mutual reception, it’s a wonderful term, it just means Venus is in Aries (Mars’ sign) and Mars is in Taurus (Venus’ sign) – so they’re guests in each other’s homes, they’re on very good behavior, in a way, and they’re borrowing qualities of medicine – or exchanging those things. So Venus (love beauty art) has a kind of ‘rarr’ wolfiness to it, and Mars (generally wolfie) is in Taurus going, ‘make something beautiful, make a great meal’ – Mars in Taurus, Taurus is the most sensually intelligent of all the parts of this language you know it knows that everything is food… smell taste touch color sensuality all of those things… and so Mars in Taurus says, ‘don’t get angry, make a fantastic meal – don’t get angry you know feel the embrace of the wonderful wise animal behind you, the wolfote (the combination wolf-coyote)…You know some wonderful thing…
And these can be very mundane – you know my my companion of 19 years, Stella Coyote will be 19 on March 27th – may she make it may she make it into new moon – she’s pretty good, she’s pretty good, we’re doing medical cannabis and tumeric and medicinal mushrooms and many things and she’s pretty jaunty… she has a painful shoulder issue. But I’ve really, I tell her this too, I go you know I’m really enjoying this part of our lives now… I love making your meals. We had I cooked for this just just now you know organic Amish chicken livers from Happy chickens that gave up their livers voluntarily, and collard greens, and sweet potatoes, and then some C.B.D. oil, and then some possibly a little too much of the other C.B.D. thing that I gave her, she is like a little woozy, and then some vitamin C; and brewing these things and I squish it with my fingers and I go, ‘you know, this is very wonderful,’ and she goes ‘yeah, it is’ …you know this might be a kind of coyote hospice but we’re having a really great time…
And so Mars in Taurus says, ‘tending, brewing, making wonderful food, making art, enjoying the sensual thing…’ but it does want to – Mars sort of does want to slow way down… it’s coming slowly over the next week to sextile Neptune – going ‘dreams dreams’ and it says ‘Remember beauty is always available to the reflective mind.’ My friend Kenneth Baker art critic told me that years ago, but remember part of what seems to be available right now is, we’re remembering all in the scraps of paper and the quotes and who told us what you know that we’re all these composites of things that have you know, that we’ve accumulated on our journey through life, and they’re all kind of rustling, rustling… as I mentioned you know it’s all re-storying – re-storying the world – Jupiter says ‘let’s re-story’… Jupiter again is retrograde until June, so it’s researching retrieving rejoining… Whereby researching beauty, whereby Venus reanimates intimate cahooting with the world – going right, ‘the restoration’ think of all these wonderful ‘re-‘ words restoring the restoration of intimacy with the world – you know and then you know Mars chimes in, and everything in the beautiful pattern of now is …. the Moon in Libra, Jupiter in Libra rising in the east, and then underneath planets planets planets, and Mars in Taurus setting in the west … so everything is contained, like a beautiful crescent shape between the moon in Libra (which is kind of cultivated beauty) and Mars in Taurus (the other Venus sign – which is deep sensual beauty derived from nature) and there that’s the rim of the bucket, so it says ‘Beauty – beauty is strong, and beauty is the way to go’ – making work and crafting…
So these retrieving of things the scraps of paper that are so useful. ‘As we journey inward and backward to retrieve what was lost or forgotten – until now!’ That’s right… computers, I see these messages come in but excuse me while I rummage here yes… it’s our ally, It’s our ally Jen: “It really helps it helps to really know the rules, why they are there or the spirit of the law, in order to break them appropriately, boundaries are necessary depending on the situation. like our aura layers shifting with time and circumstance” – Yeah no it’s true, it’s true that there’s a million ways, I mean, Jupiter says – ‘there’s a million ways to understand or speak to everything, there’s a million stories all going on at once, they can all be conflicting and they can all be true and which ones are we going to vote for’ but especially what we want in our council, is just the cultivating of complex perspective …so that is welcomed, yes there are rules – there are rules on this planet, there are limits, there’s only so much water…. That is that is a rule in a sense. So just in the distinction, going – we don’t block, but we guide – so that’s one part, and yes we do want to know the rules in order to break them. It’s also part of you know Jupiter is also about you know – it it’s all of these intriguingly associated ideas, it’s about learning,and it’s in Libra – about art and story craft and art craft.
So another smidgen from way back is, you know we say, ‘You got to know the rules in order to break them’ – the way I translate that into the realm of art is, Picasso really knew how to draw, so he could un-draw into abstraction; and James Joyce really knew how to write, so he could unwrite… and people who simply imitate the end process of the abstract Picasso or the kind of free consciousness flowing of James Joyce, it doesn’t have any power because the invisible deep cultivation isn’t there. So you’ve got to know the rules, to master the rules, and then to be able to break them, and be liberated from them – yes, a worthy, a worthy contributing of our complexity, so we do we do love that too. So rummaging in the past excavates lost connections mystery and beauty. And that’s why I did what I did love finding – literally I, I you know many people are technologically modern in in this you know in in this realm in this era, I’m halfway there but I have scraps of paper scraps of paper… And I love those scraps of paper because they’re animated, when I give a talk I need to scraps of paper, I can’t do it off of a printed page… it’s like well there’s a little piece of paper that I’ve traveled with since where I first had this idea…(And that’s part of you know art and sensuality, are very kind of themed here too, because the intimacy..)
So the scraps of paper – yes I opened a book, and and there was a quote I’ve been trying to find that I sent out to you – “We had a little, we have all been close to death, then we found rhythm, and now we have much” – I like that that was, I was at the Envision festival in Costa Rica, and Jason Cohen and the band Incus sang that, I was like well that’s great, and then I had a good conversation with him about that too…. but it but it’s also Saturn is our rhythm in Sagittarius (Jupiter’s sign), trining Uranus, brought to life to fresh expression – going yeah, ‘we had a little, we have all been close to death’ (Pluto chimes in) ‘then we found rhythm..’ rhythm – and again the others again these interesting associations, there’s rhythm and rules – they’re different they’re different – but but they’re somehow (they both start with R) and rhythm it’s a Saturn thing, you know rhythm is rules, boundaries, rhythm, our own authentic rhythm, our own balance, when we are authentic, were are more centered and also again, the little bit I’m learning from actual embodied physical Aikido, what they say is – ‘the more advanced you become, the more compassionate you can be’ so, the more balanced, the more freedom, you know the more kind and felicitous you can be even, to someone that is attacking one, because you go ‘there you go, no don’t do that you’ll hurt yourself – there you go’... So this idea of you know reciprocal blessing here, ‘May we all be so’ (or have a part of our repertoire because we all blow it and we come back to this thing) ‘may we all have a quality of balanced witty, rhythm and unflummoxed by whatever’s coming at us… going, ‘there we go’ we step out of the way, we guide ‘that way,’ we don’t go the blocking thing, although we do we do like the rules, and the ceremony and the bowing again all these many things.
And in the back of a bookshelf I found this wonderful long ago 2012 thank you note from a wonderful client, again, I don’t know about you guys but I do know I’m surrounded by hidden wealth – going oh well that wonderful thank you note, or that wonderful gift that somebody sent, oh my goodness, and sending thank you notes telepathically and literally really good – but yes I did just thank this person who sent me this letter an actual letter and a package in 2012 – And she’d said she’d come to visit with her husband and they’d met the cats and they got to see Stella coyote eating a banana, and they were like Well that was so great. And. And she had said. And the little scrap of paper – went somewhere… And she’d enclosed also a beautifully packaged into a tissue paper a pair of old leather gloves for Stella coyote which was very very witty… so from 2012, 4-5 years ago and I brought the package to Stella Coyote, who was like ‘oh!’ and I was so happy to see, to go back upstairs, and see that Stella had unwrapped the present, and had eaten one of the fingers off the gloves and was munching away happily… going ‘that’s my girl’ – all these cute parts of our lives so wonderful… But the wonderful thank you note person had said you know she had a beautiful book that had Rilke’s letters to friends and each day had a little excerpt, and so she sent me the excerpt of when we met which had stayed in her mind so wonderfully, and now I will thank her for that five years later but Rilke’s letter to a friend, ‘The Joys of Travel’ “oh the joys of travel to feel the excitement of sudden departure Not always knowing whither, surely you and I are in agreement about that. How often did my life seem concentrated in that single moment of departure to travel far far and that first morning awakening under a new sky and to find oneself in it, no to discover more of oneself there. To experience there to where one has never been before one’s own continuity of being and of the same time to feel that something in your heart, something indigenous to this new land, is coming to life from the moment of your arrival. You feel your blood infused with some new intelligence wondrously nourished by things you had no way of knowing.” And there’s there’s Stella and her and her package…
So I find that very wonderful. Some of us may be going on on real journeys, some of us... but every all of us – the description of now – are going on some kind of journey... some synchronously schedule journey something– because againJupiter is the intelligence of curiosity journeying travel storytelling blessing games– games allow us to travel, you know remember the resilient child study that done by educators who decided to study you know, what about the kids who against all odds make it out of difficult circumstance and they found that the thing that was that all those kids had in common was someone was teaching them a game... didn’t seem to matter what. Now in teaching a game, obviously somebody is beaming you know ‘I like you’ and it usually wasn’t that person’s, that child’s parents – it was a neighbor, an uncle, you know a mentor of some kind... and we go, ‘ahhh– right!’
And soJupiter in reciprocal blessing goes – guiding and games – and so I love that because Jupiter is associated with games, I was like, ‘What do what are games doing in there’ and we go the learning of games, which involves rules, that’s true, allows us to travel beyond limited circumstance.Jupiter’s about expansiveness and replenishing generosity. As a physical planet it’s the only planet we know of that emits more electromagnetic radiation than it receives from the sun – so jovial generous blessing journeying… all of those things – it’s quite quite available. We will play with that… and then just to complete, you know,because the office got painted (Oh thank you allies) and there was my Joseph Campbell book, ‘The Way of the Animal Powers’ that he had inscribed to me, long ago, ’93 he had written me a note in that book which was powerfully resonant, and again that idea of ‘there you are – let us give gratitude to all of our mentors’… I did get I was lucky enough to study Grail Legend with him, in his later years… that’s really great. So yeah and opening things up because we’re rummaging around our homes, we’re opening journals back up, we’re cleaning out the backs of shelves…. because againthis is the last week of Pisces before the Vernal Equinox the green fire of new beginning – so we are releasing and rummaging and becoming intimate with everything that we own, you know or that is in our lives, going dust it all off you know and hello hello greeted going ‘hello and do you want to stay here?’ and where do you want to go?’ and ‘move ten things – change your life’ so say the the Feng Shui people. ‘Do you want to be given?’ I do every now and then I secretly drop off a box of books at the co-op going ‘free books everybody there you go!’ and some of them are really great books it’s not just dumping… There you go make more room, clean up the files, do this thing, slowly, slowly in a pleasurable way… make haste slowly… Yeah.
Everything – to explain you know – what is called aGrand Square in Cardinal signs – can make can describe feeling jumpy, like wooo there’s a lot going on, a lot in the world, a lot in our lives, like wooah! but Mars goes, ‘Slowly, slowly’ and Jupiter says, ‘Pleasure, pleasure’… again ‘Beauty is always available to the unhurried reflective mind’going right right and that is a strategic advantage as well. And it’s part of the mystery, not only of you know, ‘from the exhaustless riches of the limitless substance we draw all things needful both spiritual material’ – but the next sentence in the pattern on the trestle board says, ‘in all things great and small we see the beauty of the divine expression’ …and it’s not something to argue with going ‘No but the world is full of this -!’ .. just wait for it, let it go in there, let it go in there, to perceive the beautiful, to magnetize to beautiful, not to cover up or deny...
So in Joseph Campbell’s excellent book, there it is – a giant book, ‘The Way of the Animal Powers’ – that have been gathering dust, but this rather important to me thing… (oh, Cat being quite witty, tearing things down...) but in his introduction he writes, “The unfolding through time of all things from one, is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths herein. They become an effective mythic image the moment we recognize its own inner mystery. By the same magic, every god that is dead can be conjured to life again, as any fragment of rock from a hillside set respectfully in a garden will arrest the eye. This historical atlas of world mythology is to be a garden of thus reanimated gods’ we go that’s really great.I love the phrase ‘as any fragment of rock from a hillside set respectfully in agarden will arrest the eye’ and that is actually so beautifully expressive of what I was trying to say and kind of communicate from the sky pattern of now – Mars in Taurus, one rim of this bucket, is about beauty in nature and Libra (the moon in Libra and Jupiter in Libra, Libra Rising) is about cultivated beauty – and that’s exactly that’s exactly the wonderful thing that Joseph Campbell just did: that any fragment of rock from a hillside {nature} set respectfully {artfully} in a garden {art} will arrest the eye… right this ‘confluence of nature into a garden’. And Jung wrote to one of his friends who just acquired land and said, ‘oh oh this will be so good for you, and your balance, because chthonic earth powers love nothing more than to be wedded to human ingenuity and the garden. The garden is a great literal and metaphoric aspiration and desire.’ we go, yes really great – the garden – so it also says you know – many ways too many ways to experiment with changing our attitudes. But sometimes we savor them too going, ‘bad attitude yum yum yum.’ But it does say you know ‘move a rock, make some beauty’, put hands in soil, talk to an animal, it’s true humans humans are ah….ahhzagah.. So to place ourselves you know in our in our context, to go, ‘All right so here we are the waning days of Pisces, the last moments of the astrological year, the vernal equinox, Persian New Year – the whole beginning of those things.’
And so we journey you know from that, and we and we go of course, this Friday is St Patrick’s Day – and we also remember and we repeat the wonderful story of St Patrick (just stirring everything together here), that the apocryphal story (remember there’s always many stories many stories many stories about everything), so the story is told that Saint Patrick is invited to a dinner where he’s given a cup of poisoned wine, and so he holds the cup up to the light, (if you have a cup at home hold a cup right now it would be really good) so he holds the cup up to the light, the poison rises to the top – like froth on a Guinness – and he blows it off. And he quaffs the drink, toasting everyone, including those who tried to poison him… causing the elders to go, ‘oh a real initiate.’ So in that respect you know we go well it’s perfect that March 17th is right before the vernal equinox, kind of announces him as a Vernal hero. We journeyed through winter, it’s a time for bitters, for cleansing the liver, all kinds of things… we’ve all we’ve all been given a cup of poisoned wine, you know it’s like you know in some form, and so we could go – Grrr or throw it down or drink it and be poisoned or any of those things but no no much more fun and effective – to hold it up to the light poison rises to the top we blow it off we quaff the drink we toast everyone. Again remember part of our unique experiment there’s many waysto go and many paths and everything but our unique experiment is the Trickster Redeemer is willing to liberate everybody even the bad ass guy even the dementors – not counting on it but willing to toast those who tried to poison us. There we go and it can be fierce and playful serious and playful tell us we’re all we’re all completely up for that that’s completely great.
And so so sort of keep our kind of loosely woven fabric of whatever we’re doing here, so right right behind us –yesterday was the full moon, the full moon at 22+ Virgo.22+ Virgo is where Neptune was when America, or the United States, was born July 4th 1776, Neptune at 22+ Virgo – it’s Soul, it’s vision. And remember in the late 1930s,when Germany went Nazi, America went New Deal – and that was because America was had – well not ‘because’ well it was ‘described’ by – America with having its Neptune Return. A return to its soulfulness. So it went New Deal: let’s provide, let’s take care of all gods’ critters, you know let’s have you know Medicare and Social Security and you know a five day work week and you know forty hours and all of those things – which the dementors would and the brain the space bug brain dead it would like to undo – it’s quite related, but again we go right ‘the soul of America’… and it’s also Barack Obama’s Mars, he was Mars-ing, he was animating the desirable vision of the country. But it does say behind us you know what was asleep is quickly you know quickening re-new-all…. to feed the desirable – what is what is the desirable soul of this country? Which again when the symbolism was imbedded in the Chart of America, that Ben Franklin liked and knew, and the founding fathers you know but but they did embed symbolically in Washington D.C., and in documents, you know at least half aware that the promise was not fulfilled… it was awaiting animation… awaiting lightening… awaiting quickening. It’s very much like all of the Mars Hero Myths of you know King Arthur and High John the Conqueror, of the South, that says – they went away into kind of Pisces world right to await the world’s call at a time of danger and we go – now! This vernal equinox coming up on the twenty seventh this would be really really good! Now let’s start doing it now to to call back, to call back what has been forgotten. So King Arthur didn’t die goes to Avalon to wait the world call. High John The conqueror of the great Trickster Redeemer of the South, these very positive positive Yang expressions of maleness, of positive male leadership, they go and they go away into the Piscean Realms, into themythological realms, to awaken fresh animation, to bring the gods and the stories alive – and we go ‘Oh it’s very Now.’So ‘toodoodoo!’ do come on back – everything that is needed you know all that has been dormant that has been asleep or that it’s been promised or embedded symbolically – let’s quicken it with our woofiness! Cooperators are standing by and ‘of course we can’t do anything by ourselves!’ there we go.
So there’s that and then, yeah so so what was asleep is quickening what was asleep is quickening and again whether it’s piles of paper, things, thoughts, projects, the Declaration of Independence, High John The Conqueror, King Arthur, you know what would each one of us like to call back? and you knowNeptune gives everybody an escape and a ‘sanity clause’(‘everybody knows there ain’t no sanity clause!’) Who says, ‘if you know – or think you know – that’s great, and if you don’t that’s also great, just wonder…’Wonder what from our resources would we like to call back, our life chapters, our twelve year Jupiter cycle of all the studies that have ever been useful to us, what our friends, what we’ve done in our lives that we might have forgotten that our want to come back, that to be quickened and brought to life… so this week is really sifting sifting through things… To gokeep this, toss that, keep that..
And seeMars in Taurus also reminds us of you know – quickens – the Truth of Animism, that Everything’s Alive! Everything’s Alive– the pile of papers – alive, you know ‘what do I need now’ ‘where did I put this thing’ ‘what do you want – where do you want to go, little book?’ ‘what wants to happen here’ ….and that’s again why so love Terry Pratchett, you know a wonderful Taurus Animist – Everything’s alive. And it’s such a great way to go you know it again Jupiter chimes in, everybody chimes in here, saying, ‘Live as though thedesirable story is true,’ you know ‘Just as an experiment’ you know…Jupiter opposite Uranus goes experiment with story, experiment with story, experiment… So it’s not like ‘Well is this true’ and it’s like, ‘no live the desirable story’ you know it’s again from my own ancient history path, as a little seventeen year old, in Andy Weil’s salon, where we were doing you know reading Joseph Campbell and Carl Young and doing intelligent astrology and tarot cards and the Kabbalah and social change and everything …and and I did say to myself, ‘either this is all true – this beautiful language of astrology and ritual magic – in which case clearly it’s the only way to go, and even if it’s not true – it’s clearly the way to go!’ So we’re just going to live that thing you know and it’s also you know to be brought alive you know there’s a part of everybody regardless of chronological age that is is brewing, getting ready to come alive in a whole new way as we enter into the Aries season so we’re in the sifting sifting what part of ourselves would we like to call back – you know what is needed now? or what would we like to call back into the world through us?you know and it’s like again in the Renaissance you know – who brought what? you know everybody’s got you know a poem a skill a feeling all of that that we want to kind of you know put forth.
Yes and Susan in Palo Alto says, “May we collectively get better about what we want by expressing that dream clearly and thereby help it come into being.” Yes! “And embodiment of the very thing” Yes, exactly. Let’s play with that. I think I think one one one way I’ve been playing with the kind ofNeptune in Pisces, North Node of the Moon in Virgo – there we go the Virgo-Pisces thing is ‘Linguistic Precision Guides the Vision’ Linguistic precision is the kind of Virgo Realm you know that takes the vastness of Neptune’s poetry and myth anddream you know into precision so experimenting, experimenting, experimenting. And you know, asking for what we would want. So, and I guess you know we want to play with what Susan is proffering… We want to, I think it’s part of our strategy,to present the desirable vision that really much would would be enticing to everybody – animals, critters, right wing golfers, I mean everybody – going ‘how about this’ you know ‘this vision, this story’ you know ‘a story we could all vote’ for not so much you know ‘about like well how are we going to get there’ but – inner cities blooming ingenious Renaissance and adding texture and fabric to that you know the the smell of the tomato the things that we paint with words, you know so that we become as wise as animals in their visual telepathic communicating, you know so that we are you know positive enticers… if if if many people you know are being bamboozled not just in America, you know all there is scary hate mongering tyranny in France, in the Netherlands, in the I mean everywhere – anything that’s anywhere is everywhere – and so like dog whisperer we want to use the the lightning you know ‘Hey! hey!’ disrupt the thing and then go ‘how about over here – there you go’ – everybody wants to be invited to a guiding story, everybody wants to be invited to a shared dream, you know and it behooves our team – Why why do we meander and gather as we do, and it’s like, well let it be that each one of us – in our own unique way – be increasingly effective beguiling magnetizing story crafting Negotiators, on behalf of all life. How about this? Wouldn’t that be beautiful? so that’s why you know there’s more than one of us… I mean each person has a unique journey, a unique knowledge field, and that’s why we say ‘who brought what?’ Again ‘did you know’ the practice we want to bring back up ‘did you know’ Jupiter says, ‘who brought what – did you know?’ – Because nobody really minds being asked, ‘did you know? did you know this cool thing? did you know that we could get all of our environmental allies and did you know that we could run hugeamounts of energy from alcohol made from garbage?’ … ‘Did you know that?’ you know ‘oh I didn’t know that how interesting!’ So each one of us as ambassadors of sanity, ambassadors of sane reverence – the more we know the clearer vision the dream the enticing the sensual ingredients we can add to that to paint pictures with our words and we go mmm.
We’re in the woah Dream Pisces realm going whoa! In the last bits there. Like good good ahh! And we go, no are smoothing that out… there and yeah and yeah and even you know there’s a desire and then there’s a fear and a concern like oh well what if that bad thing happened there – and we got steady steady that’s why we also gather, easy… we speak to the wild horses rightSaturn in Sagittarius the wild horses parts of us we speak to those parts of us as though they were spooked beautiful wild horses. You know eager for escape but worried about a trap you know and we go you know when we goahh! we go, no easy whoa steady easy there… There you go, here’s an apple, gates open, there ya go. So. Anyway yes may we may we get better at expressing the invitational irresistible dream. Yeah working working working on all those all those good things.
And (oh oh I see ‘which degree is Mars in Taurus’ Sabian’ right thank you) I’m pretty sure I know a lot of these by heart I’m pretty sure it’s ‘the flowering gardens’ it is Aha Yeah it is – so Mars and Taurus (here’s here’s here’s a dream – we segue – our contributing allies here) the image fromMars right now 2+ Taurus is ‘natural steps leading to a lawn of clover in bloom – letting nature take its course – following natural processes – growth and unfolding – concern for environmental ecology – earthy funkiness – energetic yearnings – overcoming inertia’ hehehe there we go – and it’s going to be changing pretty soon becauseit’s at the very last part of that degree so by tomorrow it will be at ‘a pot of gold – the rainbow’s pot of gold at the end of the rainbow – hopefulness optimism – inspirational belief which keep one going’ there we go ‘renewal of resolve’ yes! ‘mythologizing one’s insights – literalizing the symbolic’ now – right so we have ‘a field of clover in bloom’ you know I’m going all the poetsyou know going back to William Blake who was also you know so forlorn at the you know the trashing of London and the polluting of the rivers back in eighteenth century. But he would paint – he would paint right – but he would also paint with words as well, you know ‘imagine the rivers running the River Thames running sweet unclean’ imagine this imagine that. Again Yes what what our teammate Susan was invoking, imagine this see this here’s the horrible thing imagine the beautiful thing wouldn’t that be wonderful wouldn’t it be wonderful Yes you know and remember Jupiter and Uranus are our booking agents they go you know you come up with what we’ll do the booking for how – what is it what is it you desire what is it you desire? Mars in Taurus says desire and what and what what animal do you desire to be like?
And I like to you know when we were backstage doing backstage you know and Richard was saying I’d like to throw a bad attitude into the cauldron – I go if it were an animal what would be? Not that we want to throw an animal into the cauldron. He is like Badger Badger’and we go wooo well badg- liberated Badger is great. you know again we stick we stick – we place we reverently place – the word liberating in front of everything – Liberating Badger – There we go! because it’s such a wonderful gerund – Gerund being any word with an -ing (I love Gerund) so Liberated Badger because Badger is famous you know Badger is is great medicine Badger never gives up ahrahrah it’s got those great claws and and in a respectful way ‘you don’t mess with Badger in his hole’ great moment in Thunder Heart, a pretty good movie. Badger Badger so so maybe maybe you know if something’s a problem make it bigger, is something I used to quip to myself, you know growing Badger Badger we Badger somebody badger badger bad attitude with oh maybe more maybe more Badger maybe Badger one’s way out of being you know not quite enough Badger I’m gonna badgers got claws that are Badger demands respect but Badger also is a great medicine. And you know the few people I know who are Badger Medicine you know like you know they theydon’t give up on their friends they’re like oh no you can make it. I’m not quite sure what badger sounds make but but I think they have a growl but I like I like We just want to turn around in the dance going something’s a problem make it bigger more badger or I’m gonna go maybe maybe make the thing bigger or go deeper go further or you know. Again experiment experiment experiment try this no try that you no let’s try all those things.
So Team Yes we are approaching the witching hour whatever Here comes Susan how wonderful, Susan in Palo Alto hello thank you ‘So many Native American cultures talk about it being the being time for the opportunity to bring about a balance between the masculine and feminine but the extreme times are what is needed for the feminine culture to exert herself to bring this balance forth’ – yes not just the Native Americans yea no I think everybody the planets the things of whatever the equality when that’s what’s so beautiful about the the premisewe can feel it in ourselves – the equality of Mars andVenus – right and and it’s true it’s been it’s been way whacked out (oh there was another scrap of paper but all have to find it for posting another interesting thing) you know about from the Mabinogian, about the equality of masculine and feminine and you know How much that was honored – and then as that began to fall apart and courtship and respect between them – that also was going to contribute to the earth’s death. and and I love Martin Prechtel saying ‘courtship courtship’ – Venus and Mars within us all and in the world they want courtship – and Martin was saying you know courtship exists in nature, humans you know want to restore this... and then he made you know his one joke which is a pretty good joke he said ‘what passes for courtship in American culture is where the guy says look I made a golden statue of myself for you’ so he goes yes.So bring about balance yeah have a dynamic balance between masculine feminine within each one of us as well as outward too which is why I so love the astrological language because we can talk aboutmasculine feminine men and women going, Yeah yeah – but everybody’s got a Mars Venus dynamic within them and Mars is you knowVenus magnetizes and Mars animate and together they spiral things into the world and right now you know and for some time until Venus disappears back into Pisces – because she snaps her fingers and remember she forgot something and wants to go back into her sign of exaltation. She,Venus, will disappear from the night sky around the twenty third we won’t see her – she’s been really great that’s really good – butshe goes to the underworld and then she will rise the Helical Rise as the morning star very late March or early Aprilquick it’s a quick underworld tour but yeah so butbut she will be an Aries you know for the next ten days ish and Mars in Taurus as well so they are in reciprocal – they are inmutual reception there we go so yeahso let all Mars be more gentle and all Venus be more woofier there we go. And on.
And on and Jen says ‘when I was a little anxious about something recently I imagine this I walked leaving a trail ofroses flowing from behind me like when he said to leave what he wanted flowed from the back of your head I’m a pillow’ Yeah.’ I felt immediately more relaxed and centered and started being able to really Smile and feel compassionate ‘ yes thats really good we have metaphoric agility metaphoric agility so we can be part Badger holding a rose (you know courtship Badger) right imagine as many ways to be. And you know right the trail of roses flowing from behind it’s wonderful – it’s a beautiful mythic image you know of you know where where the Goddess or the fairytale maiden steps you know again the plant spring up the roses spring up – that’s great and we want to get more playfully fabulous in just that way you know for each one of us.
BecauseJupiter also is about storytelling andjourneying and blessing all of that and theater and ritual theater and a little bit of not too much but a little bit of bravado you know for each person to consider you know and to say when I walk into a room. You know because when Venus walks into a room everybody everybody gets wittier… orwhen Iwalk along I leave a trail of roses flowing behind me as Jen in Tacoma says – and we go right or when we’re walking on something slippery May we have gecko feet – you know again playing playing and a lot of this is.It’s kind of relaxing into remembering we know how to do this …that the nature of learning you know sometimes it’s it well it’s got both it’s got because dynamics to it – sometimes we’re kind of focused on something like oh like. You know a feeling daunted in Aikido class going well it’s that complicated move there oh – and then and then you find it, and then you are it. It’s like there’s the focus and then you are moved and danced or.It’s a little bit of concentration, Oh, and then you embody the thing. It’s an alternating thing right but it’s likefocus er-er-er- ahhhh.
And that’s also the power of seeing power of seeing. People have been posting just great things from science as it blends into metaphysics of you know basketball team you know by visualizing their improved dancing skills you know had you know some enormously huge effect. Even more than physical practice apparently on their skill set …you know even in the midst of something the coach would take this these particular players out and go No Not just want you to see yourself doing it just see yourself doing it there you go. And in a relaxed in a relaxed and happy experimental way. And we do want to play with that.
Did anybody want to chime in before we do whatever we’re doing before we saunter forth into the world, before we conjure a blessing – blessings to spiral forth… to all the critters and the whales in San Ignacio, and to the smoothness of our ally Meredith’s journey and all journeys inward and outward and retrieving retrieving you know and a fountain of blessings would be fun you know – May everyone findsomething amusing and liberating that they were seeking even though they might not have known that – you know by opening a book, a journal, somewhere there going, ‘Ah! Hah!’ Which is why meandering meandering.. there’s there’s a straight right going directional and then there’s kind of meandering like rivers wandering around.
While we’re talking the moon has changed degrees – so here’s maybe a blessing – the moon has changed degrees from it was 10+ Libra when we began which is ‘a professor peering over her glasses’ Well there we go ‘offering guidance’ well we aspire to ‘making cultural..’ ah any how – –so now OK now while we’re talking, it’s changed degrees, and now I know this one really well, it’s ‘coal miners emerging from the mine into the sunlight – getting out from under – digginguncovering – light at the end of the tunnel – hidden nuggets – shaking off some dusty concepts one has of oneself – breathing freely again’ we go Haaa! haaa! that’s good and ‘A wish for the world’ you know ‘A wish for the world’ you know anybody if anybody wants to come up with a blessing or wish for the world that we could spiral out ….but yes‘may all coal miners literal and metaphorical emerge from the mine into the sunlight’ you know ‘to all beings’ you know ‘fresh air clean water to all beings.’
And the art form of blessing – when conniption fits you know and bad attitudes grip ones being then may the fierce indomitable Badger of one’s true nature stride forth in a way that nobody messes with!’ or or anything or any way you want to go like that… that would be fun…. OK hey team, anybodywant to say hello star seven or chime in further. And if not…. Oh Captain, Grand Wazir can you take us on out?
