Deja Voodoo:
re-convening
the Ouiji Board of Directors
The New Moon (4+ Aquarius)
whose image is “The Council of Ancestors –
a young leader listens to their voices…”
is behind us (January 24th),
yet, with it’s square to stationing
Uranus in Taurus, sets the template
certainly for this lunar cycle…
(Till New Moon 4+ Pisces
February 23rd)- & more…)
Virginia Frances Sterret illustration
We be calling all worthy guiding ancestors,
not just humans, all Flora Fauna,
customized according to our
dedicated hum of affinity kinship…
and fictional and faery tale allies, as well….
The veil between the living and the dead
continues to thin as we approach mid-Winter…
In this time (of Dire Beauty) when
serendipitous synchronicity be increasingly available,
Liberating Trickster is especially eager to connect us all,
supporting “against all odds” pluck.
When told that she couldn’t possibly do this bold,
impossible thing to save the world,
“million to one chances against you,”
Granny Weatherwax! responded,
“with a look that would have made wolves whimper
‘million to one chances crop up nine times out of ten,
when..” your heart is dedicated.
Visconti-Sforza tarot deck, Death
“When the Plague swept through Europe
in the 14th century, none of the Village Idiots
were infected.” (Barbara Tuchman “A Distant Mirror”)
(a positive rumor – and if it’s not true – let’s make it true…)
I have kept this quote in my Inner Council…
and when I expressed it to Grand Dame
astrologer Barbara Watters, she re-joindered,
“Well, we’re all safe here!”
“Contagion spreads on the wings of fear.”
is a proverb that gives a hint,
that the Village Idiots were
outside the realm of reactive cultural dread…
And may we emulate that quality
of being boundaried, Saturn calm,
responsive, but not reactive..
Reactive into cauldron,
from which Coyote ladles out
an ever expanding repertoire of responses –
spiraling forth into the Memosphere…
The Black Death (1348-1350)
killed circa 1/3rd of the population,
beginning in China through India to Europe.
In the midst of constant war (100 year war
between England and France)…
The entirety of the 1300’s, Tuhman calls
“a violent tormented, bewildered, suffering
and disintegrating age.”
14th Century: Crusades and Plague
But crucial lessons to be derived
from this “distant mirror”…
as now, with the Chinese virus,
arises human’s mis-treatment of animals,
from the “wild-life markets”,
of unspeakable cruelty and filth.
(Filth is a big plague incubator.)
just as Ebola and other deady viruses
were unleashed when humans transgressed
the boundaries of Nature.
The deadly viruses have served as
Temple Guardians…killing the hapless…
(And twas the Catholic church’s encouraging
of the killing of cats, and wearing their ashes
on forehead, that was complicitous in
the plague’s devastation, spread as it was
by the fleas on the rats on the ships from the East.
Predators having been killed by superstitious
cruel people, destroying our treaties with
long-time allies cats, and all else.)
Remember Lucia, guiding the lung virus
from NYC back “to a damp dark cave in the
Carribean, that no human will ever disturb..”
– against all odds. So may we be Pied Pipers
to our Plague of Dementors, Cons, swindlers,
grifters, goons, Russian Wily Man….etc.
“Here you go, right this way…”
(no blocking, just guiding….)
Itsuko Azuma illustration
We are especially favored in this regard
with our Venus, Neptune, Moon
conjunction in Pisces.
Metaphors are especially eager to cooperate
in the realms of incarnational actuality
to be incarnationally useful…
The Beautiful and the Useful, happily wed,
hold the vetting standards….
And tis during (and before and after)
the Plague that the Grail Legend arose,
to its humming pertinence now…
“The Grail Legend (also known as the Grail Quest,
Quest for the Holy Grail) developed in Europe c. 1050-1485 CE.
It most likely originated in Ireland as folklore before
appearing in written form sometime before 1056 CE
in The Prophetic Ecstasy of the Phantom, an Irish tale.”
Mars 135 degrees –
sesquiquadrate to Uranus,
more revelations,
of anything we need to know
to have a sane reverent ingenious
collaborative culture… nominations welcome!
Demeter and Persephone
Venus semi-square Uranus
from the Eleusynnian Mysteries degree…
Cultivating Liberating Cultural High Jinx..
and more to be unfurled this eve…
Hello… Laura Toups here. Blessings to all…