Jupiter trining Neptune – fairy tale Mystery,
as Saturn in Jupiter’s sign trines Uranus,
encouraging us all to set forth into Mystery,
tossing the little iron ball (Mars) of our dedication,
and following wherever it leads….
(Mars exactly quintiles Saturn)
Mercury exactly square stationing Neptune…
(confusion arising from mis-communication
may be available… remedied by the blessing:
“May communication serve a shared vision
of ever-expanding un-furling inclusivity…”)
Neptune [NASA]
but Neptune trines
Venus and Jupiter conjoining in pre-dawn sky
making/describing
Dark Beauty – Dangerous in a
Good Way * Positive Intrigue
available as a spice…
to sprinkle on everything…
And may metaphoric agility
pervade all of our communications…
Words…metaphor…story…
May they be in accord with our dedicated hearts…
For instance: perhaps we re-name the
toxic oil pipelines from “black snake” to….
(fill in blank…)—to engage snakiness as our ally,
and name pipeline , the war on life, the greed colonic,
‘t u r d – The Underworld Road to Death,’
Hubrus Highway…
(etc. feel encouraged to contribute)
And always remembering that
“Critique without Vision is complicitous with dominance,
whereas Critique with Vision engages the support
of all Flora Fauna!”
So what would we have the redeemed pipline carry…?
Sane reverent common sense – in the form of?
Mycelia-infused Spring water? or?
(fill in the blank)
I so love last week’s show with
spirit brother Yahia Lababidi on,
among many things:
Let’s encourage all of our aphorism art…
saying alot in a little…
“Paradise Papers” (revealing nefarious corporate
and individual hidden off-shore looting,
now coming to light.)
May a festival of reciprocal liberating blessings
spiral forth and back…
Snake in Paradise Papers,
although my conundrum slithers
in re employing snake as pejorative…
but perhaps if we consult with “snake.”
So, with Snake’s permission,
we are playfully flexible:
(Scamp and Sneak and) Snake in Paradise Papers
“Since Sneak, and Scamp and Snake –
so often undertake – a plan that does not thrive –
the world wags on – alive!”
(2000 year old “Pancha Tantra,”
remarking on how “evil is intrinsically stupid,
and thus, in long run, we are safe..)
Partners well with MLK Jr’s quote,
“The arc of the moral universe curves towards justice.”
(It’s long…but it curves…)
Panchatantra relief
We shall honor the “Pancha Tantra” tonight,
the world’s oldest frame story…
Moon quintiles Mercury, irresistible eloquence,
in service to the greatest wealth, which is friend ship:
“Better with the learned dwell,
even though it be in hell –
than with fools roam
palaces that gods call home.”
3 thoughts on “Tele*Coyote (11.13.2017)”
EAlloway
Some transcription from Caroline’s 11.13.17 Tele*Coyote
It is a very quirky time… Mystery is good…
All these pertinent lessons about our goats getting got, and our complicity – not shame or blame – complicity in our goats getting got.
The I-Ching has a lot to say right now about ‘stripping’ ‘stripping away old habits, old patterns.. And descending to underworld..’
I did like starting our missive with coddiwomple, ‘to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination’ – very apt, we all be coddiwompling now..
Jupiter trining Neptune – going ‘Ohh, it is a Mystery, it is a Mystery…’
And we’ll come back to Neptune *exactly squaring* Mercury
Which can be miscommunications… and dissolving of quirky boundaries…
And then our own interesting complicity, but then we sink back into Mystery
Jupiter (the power of story)
trining Neptune (the whole fairytale dream realm of beauty) – that’s where we want to go…
As Saturn, in Jupiter’s sign, trines Uranus – it does encourage us all to set forth into Mystery
and I love that, we remember from many fairytales, the tale of the Prince when he is tricked into an adventure (it is a very tricky time right now) many fairytales begin with a trick, that gets us into an adventure, that we may not have necessarily chosen, be it small or large… but then, someone, a dervish, disguised as a beggar, gives the hero or heroine a little iron ball and says, ‘here – toss this and just follow wherever it goes…’
And it’s kind of perfect because iron is sacred to Mars, we are going to honor Mars,
Mars is in Libra right now, and all the positive things that are available…
once we compost our harrumphitude before setting forth…
EAlloway
More transcription from Caroline’s 11.13.2017
The is a kind of Collective Pattern, and once we see Collective Pattern, a Theme…
(miscommunication of all kinds)
It’s also like the Gods playing tricks with us too..
It’s a very advanced time – meaning the image for Neptune as it is stationing
– so we want to get used to this, because it is just stationing –
we could say ‘illusion hits reality’ as neptune stations from retrograde to go direct on November 22nd… it is stationing, so we want to come into accord with it
-it’s (sabian) image degree, kind of grumpy and antique, but we can change everything…
“Candidates are being examined by the lodge of initiates”
It’s very antique, it’s not a real Trickster frame, but we get the gist of it…
“Guiding human evolution by dispensing occult or spiritual knowledge, when the time is right, operating within a larger cosmic context, taking one’s place in the spiritual community, the inner ear transmission of teachings from an inner level…”
So it is a challenging time, and we might even say… well some of our team quite possibly had a clear communicating time.. But wherever we might be examined in our little weak spot.. That seems to be coming up there.
…I will say where I was complicitous in getting my own goat was dilly-dallying and lollygagging (as is a Libran want) so that the kerfuffle of negotiating with these apparently external forces (although everything that’s within us…) so that it did take longer than it need have… then part of me was like ‘Oh I don’t even get to go swimming or go to the river because of this kerfuffle!’ but then ‘yes, it’s also because of what you did with the kerfuffle, Caroline’ – fair enough! Fair enough!
But Pluto does give us this all-purpose cauldron – and we throw things into the cauldron and ladle out the desirable ‘how we want to be’
And the I-Ching is particularly grumpy, in a stern way, which we will bring into play, maybe now, might as well start with the Critique – but let us all, those who have kept their goats, their jaunty, their bemused attitude about everything personal and collective today, ‘Well done!’ – and for those who didn’t, ‘Look! There’s the little goat galloping back!’ and it’s beautiful little goaty eyes and it’s our goat, our Saturn.. It’s our Autonomy. And the goat kicks up it’s heels and goes ‘I was never far away.. that was just a compelling de-lusion..’
‘What is it all about, I-Ching?’ and the I-Ching said ‘Strpping’ and I go, ‘alright, stripping is it..’ which is a fierce hexagram, but let’s put it on the table..
‘Stripping away old ideas, eliminate what is outmoded or worn out, stripping the corpse, the outmoded and decadent spirit is displaced in preparation for the return of the new…
‘Stripping describes our situation from the habits and ideas that are outmoded and worn out, the way to deal with it is to strip away what has become unusable – this brings renewal – remove and uncover things. Cut into the problem and strip away the non-essential without thought of immediate gain. If you can do that, then you can impose a direction on things or have a place to go. You do need a base. …. Offer service at the Earth Altar.’
And we get to be our critics too – I didn’t get to go to the river but Neptune gives us the Bronx cheer and goes, ‘One can be replenished and refreshed, one can change the movie in ten seconds…’
We’ve got to change the story, we bound backstage and rewrite the thing and go back on… it’s very fluid.
(back to the Total I-Ching by Stephen Karcher)
‘Stripping the corpse, change the bed, use the stand.
You must address basic questions of support and intimacy,
The place where you feel at home.
Strip the old away, take a stand for change, this is important, if you simply ignore the message, the way will close.
Don’t turn this into a ghost to be gotten rid of.’ [Which is an interesting phrase]
‘Take things in, be open, and provide what is needed.’
And it changed to, just for the fun of it,
‘27 – Jaws, the tiger’s mouth, nourishing and being nourished.
Taking things in, the mouth, daily bread, speaking, words, major site of initiation, creative transformation, clear the channel. This is an all important occasion when we nourish and are nourished by the world of the invisible..’ [And we’re all invisible to each other right now]
‘To nourish the people it was of first importance to see and seek the invisible presence that supports us and fills our mouths…’
I love in Rachel Harris’ book, ‘Listening to Ayahuasca’ she cites a number of neuro-science articles, one of which said, ‘When we speak to an invisible prescense, it stimulates the same part of the brain as if we were speaking to a friend in front of us having a cup of tea..’ And we go, that’s great.
So this is very, our Call & Response
And ‘Better a Trickster Than a Matyr Be’ – and the distinction is that both take on the unmetabolized poison of World, but the Trickster (our aspirational dance partner) does not presume to do it alone, invites in what can address the situation or what can metabolize the poison in a way that is good for every body!
(I-Ching)
‘To nourish the people it was of first importance to see and seek the invisible presence that supports us and fills our mouths… The essence of the being offered in sacrifice fed and nourished the ancestor and ennobled his descendents… The world refers literally to the jaws and the lower part of the head that allow us to eat and speak, that support or brace the activities that nourish us literally and spiritually… it means to take in and understand what is past in order to nourish the future… Eating ancient virtue…’ [Oh, I have a good meal for us of ancient virtue and wise stories that are jauntifying]
‘It points to the great value of the words of the oracle, the spirit words that nourish us and connect us with heaven.’
‘Jaws, trial, wise words, the way is open – view the jaws, seek the origin of what fills our mouths. What we use to eat and speak, source of nourishment, take in, swallow, digest..
The old character shows the tiger’s open mouth and a person whose head is filled with spirit.
Jaws, nourishing describes your situation as what goes in and out of an open mouth.
The way to deal with it is to take things in to provide for yourself and others.
Take in what has been said and done and let it nourish the new.
Provide what is necessary to feed yourself, and those connected with you.
Putting your ideas to the trial generates meaning and good fortune by releasing transformative energy. Contemplate what nourishes people and what you are nourishing.. Think about what you give and what you ask for, seek out the source of what goes in and out of your mouth and the mouth of others.. The answer to your question lies there.’
‘…Consider your words carefully when you speak with others…’
‘This is a time when noble one considers their words and articulates the time of the sacred meal that unites us with spirit. This is Earth over Wood. Previous accomplishes that are sacrified to nourish rousing new growth. The ideal realizing person reflects this by considering and articulating the nourishing power of words and the sacred quality of the meal shared with spirits and friends carried by the bright omen.’
Thank you! That’s Mysterious, and heartening…
So first we throw the little iron ball of desire, and we follow that to the fairy-realm…
Not getting entangled in modernity right now, Neptune is retrograde stationing at that degree until November 22nd when it goes forward..
So this time right now (retrograde) is about re-trieving things that have moved us, past poetry, past work, all of those things.. To bring them alive as guiding…
Mercury at 11° Sagittarius squares Neptune – which … I’m never a great fan of predicting predicaments, but we do get witticized by reality because a conventional interpretation of that would be ‘miscommunication’ or ‘confusion’ … but in order to grow a form that really serves the content…
I had a kerfuffle that didn’t need to take quite as long… Are we hiring reality to distract us from what we really want to do?
Or anything that’s a kerfuffle, part of our Experimental – Saturn is: When things are going on, we go ‘I wonder why I would’ve directed this movie this way?’ and (we’re entertaining possibilities, we don’t have to believe anything) in case I was… ‘I wonder why I would’ve directed the movie this way and what can I learn from it now to not do that anymore?’
Self-observation is really great, and I do know, when the I-Ching says ‘releasing, releasing’ and Neptune says ‘dissolution is the secret of the great work’ – dissolve certainty and dissolve old habits or patterns… and certainly all patterns of reactivity, into the cauldron, and ladle out expanded repertoire of agile responses…
Besides my kerfuffle, I received scouting reports from people saying this thing went wrong, and this thing over here… So we do feel better when we go ‘Oh it’s a Collective interesting thing…’
I did actually set my alarm for pre-Dawn this morning, but then looked out going ‘oh it’s cloudy, nevermind..’ because Venus and Jupiter were exactly conjoined in the pre-dawn sky, about half an hour before dawn… but it was cloudy, so I just waved to them, going, ‘I know you’re there!’ and if it’s clear tomorrow, it’s still pretty close. And it is a beautiful sight, Venus and Jupiter conjoined in Scorpio, right before dawn..
Rising in the East, Jupiter’s got a great degree [sabian symbol]:
“A lake bathed in moonlight, a powerful dragon slowly emerges” and that’s the degree at which it was conjoined with Venus this morning… Venus has moved on, to the next degree, which is “A Dentist drilling decayed teeth” – it’s kind of like ‘Stripping away’ going we just have to look at everything… and everything is in a self-revealing kind of way, and we will tease this forth into larger world and into revelation of what needs to be revealed…
‘Anything anywhere is everywhere’ and so the sexual predation… and all of those things.. But at the same time, we don’t necessarily vilify one person, or ‘scape-goat,’ just as our goats, when they come back they are un-scapable and un-gettable, but it is part of a larger public dream of something that is pandemic or everywhere and wants to be addressed.
And we do remember the great american writer, Hawthorne, who writes,
“Let us not lose a sense of kinship, even with the guiltiest among us.”
These are high aspirations, and we’re all befoibled, so it’s more daunting.. And it does go with the saying from the black southern christian teaching ‘There’s no one we couldn’t love, if we didn’t know their story’ – also a big challenge, but we’re up for big challenges..
I do love that Neptune squares Mercury – and we do want to get intellect and imagination and mythology happily ensconced together, happily as dancing partners together, and the miscommunications resolved… with humor.
And Uranus chimes in with us right now, saying, ‘We are Big Gods, we don’t really care what you humans do, we care the manner in which you do it, that it come from freedom and choice.’
Everything is in play here, but I do love Neptune trining Venus and Jupiter in the pre-dawn sky in Scorpio… which is quite beautiful, and increasing, they will come into an exact trine by the end of this month (Jupiter and Neptune) which is this festival of story and metaphor and convening the renaissance court (will be Jupiter’s image) and this festival of imagination and our capacity to convene and meet backstage for experimental influence, blessing, and well-wishing.
I love the Dark Spicy Beauty of Venus in Jupiter conjoined in Scorpio, and dark humor and irony and compassion all dancing together… Dark beauty, dangerous in a good way, positive intrigue, available as a spice to sprinkle on everything…
Our goat has also brought back our magic backpack, what a relief, and things we didn’t know were in it, they only now become accessible, like the jar of ‘Dark Beauty Dangeous in a Good Way Positive Intrigue Spice’ – we go, ‘I didn’t know I had that in my magic backpack, but here it is!’
Everything is in our Magic Backpack, and that’s part of the model of this beautiful Astrological*Mytho language and the whole concept of timing… which is, so in our own personal lives and chart we go ‘everyone is there’ but in varying degrees that parts of us are available and animated on stage and parts of us are waiting backstage for their cue… And that’s what timing does, timing taps little backstage parts of us like a theatrical stage manager and goes ‘everybody’ – everybody’s Neptune (dreams, vision, shapeshifting), Jupiter (storytelling, access to ancient guiding wisdom, how to feed ourselves properly) – ‘You’re on now!’ – which is why we say, ‘Some things are always true, but there are times when they are truer’
And the blessing! May metaphoric agility pervade all of our communications…
And we can all infuse a little dark spice and jaunty humor on top of everything.
And where we get to play, words, metaphor, story – may they be in accord with our dedicated hearts.
… People brought up the pipelines, and everyone is calling it ‘The Black Snake’ – and part of me wants to re-name the toxic oil pipelines from ‘Black Snake’ to… (fill in the blank) in other to engage snakeiness as our ally, to engage snakeiness as our ally, and name pipeline – the war on life, the greed colonic, ‘t u r d – The Underworld Road to Death,’ Hubrus Highway… how to rename the Black Snake?
Because anything human that we compare to animal, almost always does a disservice to the animal or the plant… So what could we call the oil pipeline known as the black snake, because I don’t want to kill the black snake, especially the black snake, because they are friends, and good neighbors… so I want our metaphoric agility to play more with that…
And always remembering, “Critique without Vision is complicitous with dominance, whereas Critique with Vision engages the support of all Flora & Fauna!”
So what would we have the redeemed pipeline carry…? Sane reverent common sense – in the form of? Mycelia-infused Spring water? Or? (fill in the blank)
And this is where it can be completely whimsical… Mad creative whimsy.. Blessings and whimsy do not have to be what we call ‘realistic’ at all…
That’s part of convening meetings of people who are really grumpy and polarized… and just saying, here are the Guidelines (Trickster says no rules, but guidelines..) so for every kind of critical insight that somebody voices, they are encouraged to come up with an antidote to the poison… an antidote in the form of a blessing… and many modern people, especially in America, don’t actually know what a blessing is… and it can be ‘Whenever this happens… Then may a council of wise wolves dance around one and take one out to the woods…’ It can be anything.
So in that realm, what would we have the re-deemed pipeline carry?
And it’s like our phaser settings… sudden interest in botany setting [eddie izzard], or lightening up, or here comes the Thesaurus setting…
In keeping with this I really did love the word play dance with spirit brother Yahia Lababidi, Egyptian poet and Aphorism maestro of last week’s show (https://coyotenetworknews.com/radioshow/welcoming-back-yahia-lababidi/) – that one was like, boy, that one was great! And you can feel that..
And that’s part of the positive what’s available now… wordplay, aphorisms. The way he pitched it was, growing up in Egypt, Egyptians speak in pithy, witty, sometimes dark, one-liners… and that’s what an aphorism is. And again the radio show was full of these great aphorisms..
Imagine distilling… say a lot in a little, distilling things into witty wise one-liners… cooking it down seems very available.
This season of revelation, there’s the Paradise Papers, the research papers (revealing nefarious corporate and individual hidden off-shore looting, now coming to light) .. and swoosh that, and where would we like to move that?
Paradise Papers sound too jolly.. So there’s a ‘Snake’ in Paradise Papers,
although my conundrum slithers in re employing snake as pejorative… but perhaps if we consult with “snake.”
So, with Snake’s permission, we are playfully flexible:
And that takes us to this wonderful book, the Pancha Tantra, which is so wonderful and wise and jaunty and has great things to offer us now, and I remember so many parts of it…
(Scamp and Sneak and) Snake in Paradise Papers – “Since Sneak, and Scamp and Snake – so often undertake – a plan that does not thrive – the world wags on – alive!”
But I think snake may not mind being employed, because it is snakey…
EAlloway
More transcription from Caroline’s 11.13.2017
Continued from above:
So, with Snake’s permission, we are playfully flexible:
And that takes us to this wonderful book, the Pancha Tantra, which is so wonderful and wise and jaunty and has great things to offer us now, and I remember so many parts of it…
(Scamp and Sneak and) Snake in Paradise Papers –
But I think snake wouldn’t mind being employed, because it is snakey… Snake in Paradise Papers… because it does resonate with uber-Christians … like great ancestor ally Bob Gough, when talking to conservative christians saying ‘We don’t want the fuels from hell (coal and oil) – we want the fuels from heaven (sun and wind)!’ So oil and coal didn’t mind being called the fuels from hell, to be employed in that purpose. Snake in Paradise Papers may be okay.
“Since Sneak, and Scamp and Snake – so often undertake – a plan that does not thrive – the world wags on – alive!” And that’s what the 2000 year old Pancha Tantra says, remarking on how “evil is intrinsically stupid, and thus, in long run, we are safe..)
Partners well with MLK Jr’s quote, “The arc of the moral universe curves towards justice.”
(friends have chimed in – It’s long…but it curves…)
Yes, the irresistible eloquence of the Pancha Tantra, the world’s oldest frame story – it is older than 2000 years old, so much older than the Arabian Nights, and the stories contained within are even older than that… but a frame story (which is very in-keeping with now) there are stories, within which there are stories, within which there are stories… and it explores what is called ‘Niti’ which is the ‘wise conduct of life as practised by a social being’ meaning one has explored the possibility of being a completely pure saint and gone, No. So how to live a wise life in the world. And it’s a wonderful book from 2000 years ago, it’s animals fables teaching what is real wealth, and real wealth in friendship, and that’s why again, I love, what I know by heart:
“Better with the learned dwell, even though it be in hell –
than with fools roam palaces that gods call home.”
And it does talk about security as a necessary foundation – the mouse must have a home far enough from the cat’s paw… all of these things… and then the defining of wealth. It addresses money 2000 years ago and says, ‘Money is not important – and what wise woman or man with things to do in the world, would concern themselves with which is not important in the world… And so money must be had in sufficient abundance so you don’t have to think about it!’
And it’s part of our reciprocal blessing, May windfalls of wherewithal to everyone on this call! Swooshing… It’s still good to have little containers on our altar to catch windfalls of wherewithal, and then to distribute it – ‘you go there, and you go there, and you stay here so I’m secure, and you go spiral over there…’
These important visions, we do want to turn over, and bring them to life and stir them up…
William McDonough ‘Cradle to Grave’ theory http://www.mcdonough.com/
Working with corporations willing to receive back anything they produce…
…
This is all right in our astro*mythological dynamic – Mars in Libra (beauty and symmetry, biomimicry) is called the ruler of Jupiter and Venus (in Scorpio – and the Sun’s in Scorpio as well) – it’s got an elegant design… science in service to harmony and beauty.
… And all of the main issues we’re facing on this planet at this time, are all design issues, all Venus issues… ‘All the wisdom that ever was or will be is available now,’ in new forms [pattern on the trestleboard]
Let’s really envision the pipeline flowing with remediated kelp slurry from the David Blume oil-rig bio-fuel creating station. It does something wonderful. It restores our goat, when we see beauty and symmetry… it really is an antidote to all the toxicity of modernity which really is conniption fit inducing.
So we do want to feast – we do want to fill our heads and our tigers mouth – with encouraging science (and poetry).
Great Resources – The Renaissance Council of things that make one proud, that are beautiful, that could remediate the incredible insults we’ve imposed on our flora fauna kin.
And in keeping with the Pancha Tantra – the Niti-Sashtra (textbook of Niti – the wise conduct of life) – the fantastic translator, Arthur Ryder – it rhymes in the original Sanskrit and he made it rhyme in english in a pretty close way – he says, ‘Western civilization must endure a certain shame in realizing that no precise equivalent of the term ‘Niti-Sashtra’ (wise conduct of life) is found in french, english, latin or greek… many words are therefore necessary to explain what Niti is, though the idea, once grasped, is clear, important, and satisfying. First of all, Niti pre-supposes that one has considered and rejected the idea of living as a saint. It can be practised only by a social being and represents an admirable attempt to answer the insistent question, how to win the utmost joy from life in the world of men. The negative foundation is security… considers a considerable exercise of intelligence, since the world swarms with rascals, and no sensible man can imagine them capable of reformation..’
Which is true… (as some say) when people tell you difficult things about themselves, believe them … but we also leave the opportunity open, we do not expect, but we are willing to leave open the slew-scapes of redemption… which are pretty wide open.
And I think part of our opportunity, as we want to be irresistibly eloquent storytellers, agents of sane reverent common sense, agents of compassionate trickster as well… at this opportune time as people are left without a story – as the razzle dazzle swindle becomes apparent – that we can be inviters.
And fabulous movie, often referenced, ‘Lives of Others’ – how the sociopathic heart can bloom again… that’s in fact the theme of the Arabian Nights, the second-oldest frame story in the world (Pancha Tantra comes first, then perhaps a millennia afterwards, the Arabian Nights.)
Maybe not everybody can be redeemed… there are rascals and we do believe them… but you never know, especially in this quirky time.
It’s the part of the Underworld… we’re third quarter, dark of the moon… The New Moon will be on Saturday November 18th at 6:42 am east coast time… so we’re diving to the dark of the Moon in Scorpio… so it is the backstage realms, it is the time when the likes of ourselves would gather with the other likes of ourselves to swoosh – to determine the course of culture, the desirable direction… how do we want things to go? How do we cooperate with the invisible as the i-ching, and everything in us, would say.. How do we invite in the desirable… and may you swoosh over there, and let’s start an alliance over here…
And for our detective selves, the detective journeys into the underworld in order to restore balance and harmony to the world – but very often meets rascals, up to no good people, but they do sense the authenticity of each one of us (may it be so! That the inside and outside of each one of us really match) and the up to no good person goes, ‘I was going to kill you or rob you, but I sense that you are authentic so I want to switch teams and be on the good team (of sane reverence renaissance) but I have Underworld skills you will need.’
Some transcription from Caroline’s 11.13.17 Tele*Coyote
It is a very quirky time… Mystery is good…
All these pertinent lessons about our goats getting got, and our complicity – not shame or blame – complicity in our goats getting got.
The I-Ching has a lot to say right now about ‘stripping’ ‘stripping away old habits, old patterns.. And descending to underworld..’
I did like starting our missive with coddiwomple, ‘to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination’ – very apt, we all be coddiwompling now..
Jupiter trining Neptune – going ‘Ohh, it is a Mystery, it is a Mystery…’
And we’ll come back to Neptune *exactly squaring* Mercury
Which can be miscommunications… and dissolving of quirky boundaries…
And then our own interesting complicity, but then we sink back into Mystery
Jupiter (the power of story)
trining Neptune (the whole fairytale dream realm of beauty) – that’s where we want to go…
As Saturn, in Jupiter’s sign, trines Uranus – it does encourage us all to set forth into Mystery
and I love that, we remember from many fairytales, the tale of the Prince when he is tricked into an adventure (it is a very tricky time right now) many fairytales begin with a trick, that gets us into an adventure, that we may not have necessarily chosen, be it small or large… but then, someone, a dervish, disguised as a beggar, gives the hero or heroine a little iron ball and says, ‘here – toss this and just follow wherever it goes…’
And it’s kind of perfect because iron is sacred to Mars, we are going to honor Mars,
Mars is in Libra right now, and all the positive things that are available…
once we compost our harrumphitude before setting forth…
More transcription from Caroline’s 11.13.2017
The is a kind of Collective Pattern, and once we see Collective Pattern, a Theme…
(miscommunication of all kinds)
It’s also like the Gods playing tricks with us too..
It’s a very advanced time – meaning the image for Neptune as it is stationing
– so we want to get used to this, because it is just stationing –
we could say ‘illusion hits reality’ as neptune stations from retrograde to go direct on November 22nd… it is stationing, so we want to come into accord with it
-it’s (sabian) image degree, kind of grumpy and antique, but we can change everything…
“Candidates are being examined by the lodge of initiates”
It’s very antique, it’s not a real Trickster frame, but we get the gist of it…
“Guiding human evolution by dispensing occult or spiritual knowledge, when the time is right, operating within a larger cosmic context, taking one’s place in the spiritual community, the inner ear transmission of teachings from an inner level…”
So it is a challenging time, and we might even say… well some of our team quite possibly had a clear communicating time.. But wherever we might be examined in our little weak spot.. That seems to be coming up there.
…I will say where I was complicitous in getting my own goat was dilly-dallying and lollygagging (as is a Libran want) so that the kerfuffle of negotiating with these apparently external forces (although everything that’s within us…) so that it did take longer than it need have… then part of me was like ‘Oh I don’t even get to go swimming or go to the river because of this kerfuffle!’ but then ‘yes, it’s also because of what you did with the kerfuffle, Caroline’ – fair enough! Fair enough!
But Pluto does give us this all-purpose cauldron – and we throw things into the cauldron and ladle out the desirable ‘how we want to be’
And the I-Ching is particularly grumpy, in a stern way, which we will bring into play, maybe now, might as well start with the Critique – but let us all, those who have kept their goats, their jaunty, their bemused attitude about everything personal and collective today, ‘Well done!’ – and for those who didn’t, ‘Look! There’s the little goat galloping back!’ and it’s beautiful little goaty eyes and it’s our goat, our Saturn.. It’s our Autonomy. And the goat kicks up it’s heels and goes ‘I was never far away.. that was just a compelling de-lusion..’
‘What is it all about, I-Ching?’ and the I-Ching said ‘Strpping’ and I go, ‘alright, stripping is it..’ which is a fierce hexagram, but let’s put it on the table..
‘Stripping away old ideas, eliminate what is outmoded or worn out, stripping the corpse, the outmoded and decadent spirit is displaced in preparation for the return of the new…
‘Stripping describes our situation from the habits and ideas that are outmoded and worn out, the way to deal with it is to strip away what has become unusable – this brings renewal – remove and uncover things. Cut into the problem and strip away the non-essential without thought of immediate gain. If you can do that, then you can impose a direction on things or have a place to go. You do need a base. …. Offer service at the Earth Altar.’
And we get to be our critics too – I didn’t get to go to the river but Neptune gives us the Bronx cheer and goes, ‘One can be replenished and refreshed, one can change the movie in ten seconds…’
We’ve got to change the story, we bound backstage and rewrite the thing and go back on… it’s very fluid.
(back to the Total I-Ching by Stephen Karcher)
‘Stripping the corpse, change the bed, use the stand.
You must address basic questions of support and intimacy,
The place where you feel at home.
Strip the old away, take a stand for change, this is important, if you simply ignore the message, the way will close.
Don’t turn this into a ghost to be gotten rid of.’ [Which is an interesting phrase]
‘Take things in, be open, and provide what is needed.’
And it changed to, just for the fun of it,
‘27 – Jaws, the tiger’s mouth, nourishing and being nourished.
Taking things in, the mouth, daily bread, speaking, words, major site of initiation, creative transformation, clear the channel. This is an all important occasion when we nourish and are nourished by the world of the invisible..’ [And we’re all invisible to each other right now]
‘To nourish the people it was of first importance to see and seek the invisible presence that supports us and fills our mouths…’
I love in Rachel Harris’ book, ‘Listening to Ayahuasca’ she cites a number of neuro-science articles, one of which said, ‘When we speak to an invisible prescense, it stimulates the same part of the brain as if we were speaking to a friend in front of us having a cup of tea..’ And we go, that’s great.
So this is very, our Call & Response
And ‘Better a Trickster Than a Matyr Be’ – and the distinction is that both take on the unmetabolized poison of World, but the Trickster (our aspirational dance partner) does not presume to do it alone, invites in what can address the situation or what can metabolize the poison in a way that is good for every body!
(I-Ching)
‘To nourish the people it was of first importance to see and seek the invisible presence that supports us and fills our mouths… The essence of the being offered in sacrifice fed and nourished the ancestor and ennobled his descendents… The world refers literally to the jaws and the lower part of the head that allow us to eat and speak, that support or brace the activities that nourish us literally and spiritually… it means to take in and understand what is past in order to nourish the future… Eating ancient virtue…’ [Oh, I have a good meal for us of ancient virtue and wise stories that are jauntifying]
‘It points to the great value of the words of the oracle, the spirit words that nourish us and connect us with heaven.’
‘Jaws, trial, wise words, the way is open – view the jaws, seek the origin of what fills our mouths. What we use to eat and speak, source of nourishment, take in, swallow, digest..
The old character shows the tiger’s open mouth and a person whose head is filled with spirit.
Jaws, nourishing describes your situation as what goes in and out of an open mouth.
The way to deal with it is to take things in to provide for yourself and others.
Take in what has been said and done and let it nourish the new.
Provide what is necessary to feed yourself, and those connected with you.
Putting your ideas to the trial generates meaning and good fortune by releasing transformative energy. Contemplate what nourishes people and what you are nourishing.. Think about what you give and what you ask for, seek out the source of what goes in and out of your mouth and the mouth of others.. The answer to your question lies there.’
‘…Consider your words carefully when you speak with others…’
‘This is a time when noble one considers their words and articulates the time of the sacred meal that unites us with spirit. This is Earth over Wood. Previous accomplishes that are sacrified to nourish rousing new growth. The ideal realizing person reflects this by considering and articulating the nourishing power of words and the sacred quality of the meal shared with spirits and friends carried by the bright omen.’
Thank you! That’s Mysterious, and heartening…
So first we throw the little iron ball of desire, and we follow that to the fairy-realm…
Not getting entangled in modernity right now, Neptune is retrograde stationing at that degree until November 22nd when it goes forward..
So this time right now (retrograde) is about re-trieving things that have moved us, past poetry, past work, all of those things.. To bring them alive as guiding…
Mercury at 11° Sagittarius squares Neptune – which … I’m never a great fan of predicting predicaments, but we do get witticized by reality because a conventional interpretation of that would be ‘miscommunication’ or ‘confusion’ … but in order to grow a form that really serves the content…
I had a kerfuffle that didn’t need to take quite as long… Are we hiring reality to distract us from what we really want to do?
Or anything that’s a kerfuffle, part of our Experimental – Saturn is: When things are going on, we go ‘I wonder why I would’ve directed this movie this way?’ and (we’re entertaining possibilities, we don’t have to believe anything) in case I was… ‘I wonder why I would’ve directed the movie this way and what can I learn from it now to not do that anymore?’
Self-observation is really great, and I do know, when the I-Ching says ‘releasing, releasing’ and Neptune says ‘dissolution is the secret of the great work’ – dissolve certainty and dissolve old habits or patterns… and certainly all patterns of reactivity, into the cauldron, and ladle out expanded repertoire of agile responses…
Besides my kerfuffle, I received scouting reports from people saying this thing went wrong, and this thing over here… So we do feel better when we go ‘Oh it’s a Collective interesting thing…’
I did actually set my alarm for pre-Dawn this morning, but then looked out going ‘oh it’s cloudy, nevermind..’ because Venus and Jupiter were exactly conjoined in the pre-dawn sky, about half an hour before dawn… but it was cloudy, so I just waved to them, going, ‘I know you’re there!’ and if it’s clear tomorrow, it’s still pretty close. And it is a beautiful sight, Venus and Jupiter conjoined in Scorpio, right before dawn..
Rising in the East, Jupiter’s got a great degree [sabian symbol]:
“A lake bathed in moonlight, a powerful dragon slowly emerges” and that’s the degree at which it was conjoined with Venus this morning… Venus has moved on, to the next degree, which is “A Dentist drilling decayed teeth” – it’s kind of like ‘Stripping away’ going we just have to look at everything… and everything is in a self-revealing kind of way, and we will tease this forth into larger world and into revelation of what needs to be revealed…
‘Anything anywhere is everywhere’ and so the sexual predation… and all of those things.. But at the same time, we don’t necessarily vilify one person, or ‘scape-goat,’ just as our goats, when they come back they are un-scapable and un-gettable, but it is part of a larger public dream of something that is pandemic or everywhere and wants to be addressed.
And we do remember the great american writer, Hawthorne, who writes,
“Let us not lose a sense of kinship, even with the guiltiest among us.”
These are high aspirations, and we’re all befoibled, so it’s more daunting.. And it does go with the saying from the black southern christian teaching ‘There’s no one we couldn’t love, if we didn’t know their story’ – also a big challenge, but we’re up for big challenges..
I do love that Neptune squares Mercury – and we do want to get intellect and imagination and mythology happily ensconced together, happily as dancing partners together, and the miscommunications resolved… with humor.
And Uranus chimes in with us right now, saying, ‘We are Big Gods, we don’t really care what you humans do, we care the manner in which you do it, that it come from freedom and choice.’
Everything is in play here, but I do love Neptune trining Venus and Jupiter in the pre-dawn sky in Scorpio… which is quite beautiful, and increasing, they will come into an exact trine by the end of this month (Jupiter and Neptune) which is this festival of story and metaphor and convening the renaissance court (will be Jupiter’s image) and this festival of imagination and our capacity to convene and meet backstage for experimental influence, blessing, and well-wishing.
I love the Dark Spicy Beauty of Venus in Jupiter conjoined in Scorpio, and dark humor and irony and compassion all dancing together… Dark beauty, dangerous in a good way, positive intrigue, available as a spice to sprinkle on everything…
Our goat has also brought back our magic backpack, what a relief, and things we didn’t know were in it, they only now become accessible, like the jar of ‘Dark Beauty Dangeous in a Good Way Positive Intrigue Spice’ – we go, ‘I didn’t know I had that in my magic backpack, but here it is!’
Everything is in our Magic Backpack, and that’s part of the model of this beautiful Astrological*Mytho language and the whole concept of timing… which is, so in our own personal lives and chart we go ‘everyone is there’ but in varying degrees that parts of us are available and animated on stage and parts of us are waiting backstage for their cue… And that’s what timing does, timing taps little backstage parts of us like a theatrical stage manager and goes ‘everybody’ – everybody’s Neptune (dreams, vision, shapeshifting), Jupiter (storytelling, access to ancient guiding wisdom, how to feed ourselves properly) – ‘You’re on now!’ – which is why we say, ‘Some things are always true, but there are times when they are truer’
And the blessing! May metaphoric agility pervade all of our communications…
And we can all infuse a little dark spice and jaunty humor on top of everything.
And where we get to play, words, metaphor, story – may they be in accord with our dedicated hearts.
… People brought up the pipelines, and everyone is calling it ‘The Black Snake’ – and part of me wants to re-name the toxic oil pipelines from ‘Black Snake’ to… (fill in the blank) in other to engage snakeiness as our ally, to engage snakeiness as our ally, and name pipeline – the war on life, the greed colonic, ‘t u r d – The Underworld Road to Death,’ Hubrus Highway… how to rename the Black Snake?
Because anything human that we compare to animal, almost always does a disservice to the animal or the plant… So what could we call the oil pipeline known as the black snake, because I don’t want to kill the black snake, especially the black snake, because they are friends, and good neighbors… so I want our metaphoric agility to play more with that…
And always remembering, “Critique without Vision is complicitous with dominance, whereas Critique with Vision engages the support of all Flora & Fauna!”
So what would we have the redeemed pipeline carry…? Sane reverent common sense – in the form of? Mycelia-infused Spring water? Or? (fill in the blank)
And this is where it can be completely whimsical… Mad creative whimsy.. Blessings and whimsy do not have to be what we call ‘realistic’ at all…
That’s part of convening meetings of people who are really grumpy and polarized… and just saying, here are the Guidelines (Trickster says no rules, but guidelines..) so for every kind of critical insight that somebody voices, they are encouraged to come up with an antidote to the poison… an antidote in the form of a blessing… and many modern people, especially in America, don’t actually know what a blessing is… and it can be ‘Whenever this happens… Then may a council of wise wolves dance around one and take one out to the woods…’ It can be anything.
So in that realm, what would we have the re-deemed pipeline carry?
And it’s like our phaser settings… sudden interest in botany setting [eddie izzard], or lightening up, or here comes the Thesaurus setting…
In keeping with this I really did love the word play dance with spirit brother Yahia Lababidi, Egyptian poet and Aphorism maestro of last week’s show (https://coyotenetworknews.com/radioshow/welcoming-back-yahia-lababidi/) – that one was like, boy, that one was great! And you can feel that..
And that’s part of the positive what’s available now… wordplay, aphorisms. The way he pitched it was, growing up in Egypt, Egyptians speak in pithy, witty, sometimes dark, one-liners… and that’s what an aphorism is. And again the radio show was full of these great aphorisms..
Imagine distilling… say a lot in a little, distilling things into witty wise one-liners… cooking it down seems very available.
This season of revelation, there’s the Paradise Papers, the research papers (revealing nefarious corporate and individual hidden off-shore looting, now coming to light) .. and swoosh that, and where would we like to move that?
Paradise Papers sound too jolly.. So there’s a ‘Snake’ in Paradise Papers,
although my conundrum slithers in re employing snake as pejorative… but perhaps if we consult with “snake.”
So, with Snake’s permission, we are playfully flexible:
And that takes us to this wonderful book, the Pancha Tantra, which is so wonderful and wise and jaunty and has great things to offer us now, and I remember so many parts of it…
(Scamp and Sneak and) Snake in Paradise Papers – “Since Sneak, and Scamp and Snake – so often undertake – a plan that does not thrive – the world wags on – alive!”
But I think snake may not mind being employed, because it is snakey…
More transcription from Caroline’s 11.13.2017
Continued from above:
So, with Snake’s permission, we are playfully flexible:
And that takes us to this wonderful book, the Pancha Tantra, which is so wonderful and wise and jaunty and has great things to offer us now, and I remember so many parts of it…
(Scamp and Sneak and) Snake in Paradise Papers –
But I think snake wouldn’t mind being employed, because it is snakey… Snake in Paradise Papers… because it does resonate with uber-Christians … like great ancestor ally Bob Gough, when talking to conservative christians saying ‘We don’t want the fuels from hell (coal and oil) – we want the fuels from heaven (sun and wind)!’ So oil and coal didn’t mind being called the fuels from hell, to be employed in that purpose. Snake in Paradise Papers may be okay.
“Since Sneak, and Scamp and Snake – so often undertake – a plan that does not thrive – the world wags on – alive!” And that’s what the 2000 year old Pancha Tantra says, remarking on how “evil is intrinsically stupid, and thus, in long run, we are safe..)
Partners well with MLK Jr’s quote, “The arc of the moral universe curves towards justice.”
(friends have chimed in – It’s long…but it curves…)
Yes, the irresistible eloquence of the Pancha Tantra, the world’s oldest frame story – it is older than 2000 years old, so much older than the Arabian Nights, and the stories contained within are even older than that… but a frame story (which is very in-keeping with now) there are stories, within which there are stories, within which there are stories… and it explores what is called ‘Niti’ which is the ‘wise conduct of life as practised by a social being’ meaning one has explored the possibility of being a completely pure saint and gone, No. So how to live a wise life in the world. And it’s a wonderful book from 2000 years ago, it’s animals fables teaching what is real wealth, and real wealth in friendship, and that’s why again, I love, what I know by heart:
“Better with the learned dwell, even though it be in hell –
than with fools roam palaces that gods call home.”
And it does talk about security as a necessary foundation – the mouse must have a home far enough from the cat’s paw… all of these things… and then the defining of wealth. It addresses money 2000 years ago and says, ‘Money is not important – and what wise woman or man with things to do in the world, would concern themselves with which is not important in the world… And so money must be had in sufficient abundance so you don’t have to think about it!’
And it’s part of our reciprocal blessing, May windfalls of wherewithal to everyone on this call! Swooshing… It’s still good to have little containers on our altar to catch windfalls of wherewithal, and then to distribute it – ‘you go there, and you go there, and you stay here so I’m secure, and you go spiral over there…’
Jupiter trine Neptune – ‘Play Fair, Dream Big’
To reconfigure everything toxic as an tonic ally.
David Blume – ‘Alcohol Can Be a Gas!’ http://www.permaculture.com/David_Blume_Bio
Paul Stamets – http://ww.fungi.com/about-paul-stamets.html
John Todd ‘Living Machines’ Bio-Remediation http://www.toddecological.com/
These important visions, we do want to turn over, and bring them to life and stir them up…
William McDonough ‘Cradle to Grave’ theory http://www.mcdonough.com/
Working with corporations willing to receive back anything they produce…
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This is all right in our astro*mythological dynamic – Mars in Libra (beauty and symmetry, biomimicry) is called the ruler of Jupiter and Venus (in Scorpio – and the Sun’s in Scorpio as well) – it’s got an elegant design… science in service to harmony and beauty.
… And all of the main issues we’re facing on this planet at this time, are all design issues, all Venus issues… ‘All the wisdom that ever was or will be is available now,’ in new forms [pattern on the trestleboard]
Let’s really envision the pipeline flowing with remediated kelp slurry from the David Blume oil-rig bio-fuel creating station. It does something wonderful. It restores our goat, when we see beauty and symmetry… it really is an antidote to all the toxicity of modernity which really is conniption fit inducing.
So we do want to feast – we do want to fill our heads and our tigers mouth – with encouraging science (and poetry).
Great Resources – The Renaissance Council of things that make one proud, that are beautiful, that could remediate the incredible insults we’ve imposed on our flora fauna kin.
And in keeping with the Pancha Tantra – the Niti-Sashtra (textbook of Niti – the wise conduct of life) – the fantastic translator, Arthur Ryder – it rhymes in the original Sanskrit and he made it rhyme in english in a pretty close way – he says, ‘Western civilization must endure a certain shame in realizing that no precise equivalent of the term ‘Niti-Sashtra’ (wise conduct of life) is found in french, english, latin or greek… many words are therefore necessary to explain what Niti is, though the idea, once grasped, is clear, important, and satisfying. First of all, Niti pre-supposes that one has considered and rejected the idea of living as a saint. It can be practised only by a social being and represents an admirable attempt to answer the insistent question, how to win the utmost joy from life in the world of men. The negative foundation is security… considers a considerable exercise of intelligence, since the world swarms with rascals, and no sensible man can imagine them capable of reformation..’
Which is true… (as some say) when people tell you difficult things about themselves, believe them … but we also leave the opportunity open, we do not expect, but we are willing to leave open the slew-scapes of redemption… which are pretty wide open.
And I think part of our opportunity, as we want to be irresistibly eloquent storytellers, agents of sane reverent common sense, agents of compassionate trickster as well… at this opportune time as people are left without a story – as the razzle dazzle swindle becomes apparent – that we can be inviters.
And fabulous movie, often referenced, ‘Lives of Others’ – how the sociopathic heart can bloom again… that’s in fact the theme of the Arabian Nights, the second-oldest frame story in the world (Pancha Tantra comes first, then perhaps a millennia afterwards, the Arabian Nights.)
Maybe not everybody can be redeemed… there are rascals and we do believe them… but you never know, especially in this quirky time.
… Radio this week will be the return of John Kiriakou (https://coyotenetworknews.com/radioshow/dragons-airing-deep-dark-delving-in-conversational-vernacular/)
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It’s the part of the Underworld… we’re third quarter, dark of the moon… The New Moon will be on Saturday November 18th at 6:42 am east coast time… so we’re diving to the dark of the Moon in Scorpio… so it is the backstage realms, it is the time when the likes of ourselves would gather with the other likes of ourselves to swoosh – to determine the course of culture, the desirable direction… how do we want things to go? How do we cooperate with the invisible as the i-ching, and everything in us, would say.. How do we invite in the desirable… and may you swoosh over there, and let’s start an alliance over here…
And for our detective selves, the detective journeys into the underworld in order to restore balance and harmony to the world – but very often meets rascals, up to no good people, but they do sense the authenticity of each one of us (may it be so! That the inside and outside of each one of us really match) and the up to no good person goes, ‘I was going to kill you or rob you, but I sense that you are authentic so I want to switch teams and be on the good team (of sane reverence renaissance) but I have Underworld skills you will need.’
‘Internal dedication magnetizes external opportunity’