Obatala*Olodumare*Saturn presiding…
Over
Waxing Full Moon Hearings
A toast to Saturnine Sacrament of accountability as the sine qua non for democracy!
Indeed for democratic animism,
And all life on this planet…
Much on our Trickster Council TrestleBoard
(Come in mentor Paul Foster Case
https://gates-of-light.com/the-pattern-on-the-trestleboard/ )
It’s dangerous, woo-hoo
but Trickster within and without, is inspired by dangerous impediments, that thy serve as inspirational incentives to avail ourselves of all of our skills…
Including – inviting in help…
Loves “against all odds”- now be perfect…
see Granny Weather Wax: “Million to one chances crop up nine times out of ten,”
when one be dedicated…
on-going- context: America’s Pluto Return
Democracy death or re-birth
We vote for re-birth!
When I did a virtual conversing with the School of Mythopoetics, on Saturday, the host John Wolfstone queried,
Something to the effect…
“Why engage in politics? Most poets, mythologists, I know, we all, view politics as corrupt, so not a realm of participation… How would Trickster respond…?”
First with “ack”
at least vote for gods sake… Vote devote… We are always voting for reality with each word we speak, each plant we plant, each dollar we spend etc..,
We worship that on which we spend most time…
Tis one of our ways of voting…
(I am spending much reading time now in the useful bleak realm of late 1930’s Germany,
when there was a plethora
of yoga, and chakra balancing, etc…
But oblivious to the “political” world….
having forgotten that
the poet, mythologist, artist is keeper of collective soul…
Trickster is in play – everywhere or nowhere…)
As is Myth…
I began, well our word “idiot” comes from Greek “idiotis,” “one who is such a ding-bat as to refuse to participate in collective well-being.”
However, we can toss the word “politics” into the Cauldron, to bubble for a time, in case the word is an impediment,
And ladle out – Neptune-
complicitous creative participation in collective dreaming the world into being…
Just by breathing…
And we are invited to consider our lives as spiritual detective novels, every affinity a clue worthy of curiosity, honor and wonder…
So I was a little mythological animist, born into a political family.
Long before I was born, the 5th, last, latest child.
Mom was President of Womens National Democratic Club,
Presided over its integration, with Eleanor Roosevelt…
Dad a New Deal Congressman working with FDR,
And an early supporter of Fighting Bob LaFolette, Prairie Populist
(I only learned after his death)…
“Robert La Follette was a Progressive politician and governor of Wisconsin. He developed a fierce opposition to corporate power and political corruption as a young man. Affiliated with the Republican Party for almost his entire career, La Follette worked in Congress, as the governor of Wisconsin and in the U.S. Senate. His rousing oratory, support for progressive reforms and frequent clashes with party leaders earned him the nickname “Fighting Bob.”
Born June 14, 1855
and here he be
The Full Moon at 23+ Gemini (Bob’s Sun) opposite Moon 23+ Sagittarius…”Bluebird of Happiness perched on the Gate of a little Cottage” (Nelson Mandela’s rising sign… Welcome Nelson… He knew he was gonna be happy, and his Nation…Dedication to desirable outcome…)
be humming himself, and a Uranus return…
so delighted I was inspired to look him up…
Welcome Bob!
“Bob’s our Uncle”
So my assignment is to bring mythological animism into the political sphere.
There be no place devoid of magic…
Anything anywhere is everywhere…
We calibrate our divinatory receptors to find the liberating collaborative opportunity…
Yoruba say, we receive the baton from our ancestors
to complete their dedications…
With their help…
We be guided to apply everything for which we have a dedicated affinity into
pertinence,
incarnational actuality…
Applied Mythology
Pragmatic Mysticism
(otherwise just Hinaya Honkie in a hot tub.)
Trickster adds some flexible whimsy, and noire dark humor to our Saturn…relationship to time and authority…
Am guided to re-read Terry Pratchett’s splendiferous novel,
“Thief of Time”
“I will teach you to deal with time as you would deal with a coat, to be worn when necessary and discarded when not.”
(and other quotes I shall bring forth for liberating fun.)
Meanwhile we are concerned and alert that the Supreme Court thinks it’s getting ready to toss the country back into the dark ages
There are 148 days until the midterm elections.
Here be our tonight chart:
Waxing Moon in Sagittarius rising – Power of guiding story,
quincunx Uranus in Taurus…guiding stories from the animistic vitality realm…
Let us spiral forth stories on behalf of what we love…
No solution to anything without Beauty…
Mercury just entered its own Abracadabra Gemini realm…
So we play with what be so generously proffered to us ….
So we heed the call to alert reverie, and participate in whatever our unique autonomy guides…wherever the path opens…
Tis a guided adventurous questing time…
Jupiter, Mars, Chiron in Aries – the quest, the call the journey…
Mars’ symbol encourages that before we set forth we become like: “an Indian Woman weaving a magical basket out of serpents…”
Interweaving the beautiful dangerous dynamics into useful beauty…
Here’s what I sent to Patreon team:
“Hearing Aids
For the Hearing…
So tis indeed a highly fluctuating field in which we all be navigating…
my response after watching the first hearings…
having approached with some trepidation, will citizens watch, will the committee do a good job etc?
was
Wow-stupendous powerful cathartic narrative craft….
As it began, I thought, O Bennie Thompson, the Chair…maybe not sufficiently charismatic…
But I was wrong!
I love being wrong, changing mind,
remembering that larger forces and their magic are always at work…
As the hearing/presentation unfurled,
I experienced Obatala and Olodumare standing behind Bennie
I texted Ami…if you have listened to our Friday the 13th presentation,
at the end I say
“Accountability is the sine qua non of democracy…
So Ami, let’s call in accountability.
And she did,
invoking Obatala and Olodumare…
and she really did…
forget my “charisma” concern – Bennie , with Obatala behind him, had what was skookum for this ritual: solemnity and dignity…
I’m gonna watch again.
In fact wanted it to keep going,
wanted to binge watch the whole thing…
The Moon, the people, rising in the East at (My Saturn degree) – Robin Hood degree, restoring the balance of Justice to an unbalanced society…the will to transformation requires a group (Rudhyar)
“deliberate” comes from Libra…
and this ritual is a true deliberation…
Moon trines the Sun in Gemini, conversational availability…
Sun squares Neptune.. Let clarity, lucidity, vision overcome delusional obfuscation…
Sun and Moon from a Grand Trine in Air to Saturn stationing—
accountability!
and Air- spiraling out into collective conversing…
I can honestly exhort all to watch,
and encourage all of us to exhort all to watch
Tis our Watergate, but more dire and necessary
Tis our Truth and Reconciliation…
The Moon opposite Chiron… May all the Mentors of Democracy be attending…
The part of Fortune – “a bomb that fails to go off…”
Well there was a bomb that failed to go off…
and the whole delusional murderous cruel fiasco was a bomb that failed to go off…
No question but that an actual coup was planned…
Mercury just past Algol (the beheading star – “hang Mike Pence”)
and just past the square to Saturn – gag order…
The impressive ovafying of Officer Caroline Edwards…
seated next to Nick Quested, British documentarian filming the Proud Boys/Oath Keepers, who also recorded on film the grievous injury to Officer Edwards…
providing much astounding film…
in the nick of time a quest….
The images – horrific and necessary…
Neptune sextiles Mercury and Pluto who trine each other…
lies, corruption and cruelty , o my, into the Cauldron, as well as arrogance and insolence…
to be composted into nutrient for democracy….
And Liz Cheney— quirky…. in the Mystery Play, to play such a crucial and skillful role…
As the Chinese detective novels guided us, “if you are authentic then demons will change sides…”
“I join the authentic, despite my many past creepitudinous stands, and my creepy dad, I join with those wishing to uphold democracy, and I bring my many Underworld skills…”
Sure, welcome!
and as was what Michael Steele called a “mike drop” moment…
“To my Republican colleagues who still defend the indefensible, I say your dishonor will remain after trump is gone.”
We are still in grave danger
May
Accountability is the sine qua non for democracy…
sing forth in all….
(even a new group calling themselves Accountability Republicans…the word is healthily humming
“Unless we find out how this happened – will happen again…”
Ivanka – bold admission
Liz Cheney – democracy now
Garland fitting the hand cuffs for trump.
Eager and enthused for the next hearings….
(and appreciative of the delineated time line, so considerate to astrologers…)
much more to be gleaned from this crafted dedication…
Team really doing the work…
The first primary launching of the attack was at the Peace Circle.
Truly demonic.
Monday’s hearings open with 15+ Leo rising, 15+ Aquarius setting, degrees of power for calling in what is needed.. Leo, not performance , magic…dedicated to collective well-being…
Sun, even closer to trine to Saturn, and square Neptune, may Vision supplant delusion…
Moon in Sag, Power of the Woman story-teller trines Mars and Jupiter- woofier and woofier…
More soon later
in perpetuity
