Goat-Fest!
Solstice Choreography

Photo Andrew Tatlow

The Dweller on the Threshold Awaits:

Oldy-timey esoterica would make
the Dweller on the Threshold
a scary initiatory demon, animating all
of our worst fears, and our five year fear planner…
the fears we fear we might fear on into the horizon…
all that induces cringing, whining, cowering, panic –
Boogedy-boogedy-boo.

However

Trickster, our primary ally-Guide,
delights in liberating everything,
encourages us, always to cook everything back
to its original liberating spark –
and align with that, be an agent of
Demon into Daemon!

“When life gives you demons make demonade!”

So, pre-Solstice, let’s get all cringing, whining,
cowering, conniption fit trembling out of the way.
Mercury is happy to assist us in re-wiring our
nervous system and our neurological pathways….
into Dancing with Daemon Delight.

Illustration from The Ban of the Bori

Let’s see the scary demon confronting us,
un-masking with great Goaty Laughter into our
welcoming Trickster extending a hand, paw, hoof,
“Well Done – good enough for mythological work!”
and escorting us across the threshold
of this powerful Solstice New Year….

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We are back-stage now,
incubating the birth of the Trickster Redeemer
in each of our hearts, customized according
to our unique experimental selves.

The Moon Leads the Way for Saturn
who guides the Sun…

The Moon passes the baton to Saturn,
entering his goaty sign of incarnational
mystery on December 19th.

And Saturn guides the Sun
to Solstice on the 21st.

Sun Wall at Loughcrew

For millennia, globally:
“O literal and symbolic light of Sun,
illumine this painting, this writing,
this Guiding Story, at the back of the Temple.”

Appropriately, the moon is at the
“heavily veiled hierophant, seized by the Divine,
leading a ritual” degree in Capricorn,
whose earliest impulse is the Council
dedicated to the next seven generations.

Arctic Refuge from USFWS

Crucial now as we see the full on war on life
being waged. The Arctic Refuge is under its
most severe threat in decades, camouflaged
in the tax the poor bill.

The Gwitch’in call the Arctic refuge,
“the place where all life begins.”

Ah, but co-operators are standing by,
metaphors eager to become molecularly manifest:
the Moon sextiles investigative deep delving Mars,
next to, “let’s reveal everything sketchy,” Jupiter.

Mars is one rim of the bucket shaped planetary design,
containing everything – all the way around
to Uranus – stationing – the other rim of the bucket.

So, let’s do some liberating revelation magic tonight,
as Reciprocal Blessing to all in our Trickster Council

and

an astro*mythic*geo*political experiment:
My former brother in-law is the currently besieged
President of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski…
I have some of the complex skinny, the players involved.
Thus, I am assured a circumstance where it would be
great for all sketchy up-to-no-good to be illumined….
Shining a light upon him and the scary corrupt (er)
Keiko Fujimori attempted coup -would be good.
By Thursday. Impeachment trial.
Possible indefinite imprisonment.
There’s a Dweller on the Threshold –
we invite to Shape-Shift…

Leo Islamic Zodiac illustration

We delineate tonight, as sacred fool Leo rises,
“create ritual theatre, or live melodrama,”
animating Positive Intrigue:

“Take the zircon to Foppa
and tell him we move tonight!”
(Richard Farina)