Dark o Moon-State of Union-Mardi Gras-Primaries
New Moon with Jupiter.
Yo team!
We are convening tonight.
So much blessing opportunity
I am humbled by everything, so this be short.
Mars-Venus-Vesta (& Pluto, of course) on my Ascendant.
I thought, ah,I will get everything done that needs doing – ha!
So I remembered Paul Stamets saying combining Lions Mane mushrooms with Niacin is a good experiment. The Niacin flush zooms the lions mane to toes and fingers, growing new pathways, alleviating neuropathy.
So I did
OMG
Overwhelming dis- & recombobulating
May well be recombobulated by tonight,
As we honor Venus guiding Mars, art, poetry, blessing, the softening of hearts.
The movies
“Lives of Others”
(Sociopathic heart can bloom again)
&
“Seven Days in May”
(Also about when conscience kicks in)
We be a Council of Participatory agents of Trickster,
That quality in Nature ( thus within us as well)
That comes alive in “against all odds” times.
Sending a piece by Greg Palast for our considering-
And 2 Beau reflective pieces. ( so appreciating his tone)
And to honor Neptune, beautiful hats, beautiful music, beautiful Rumi translation by my dancing friend Banafsheh
Delighted to cahoot tonight,
Humbled = available to Mystery
Ukrainian Women Bring Back Traditional Floral Crowns To Show National Pride
Alexander S. Vindman @AVindman Footage of Russian forces, vicinity of Sumy, Ukraine, marching back to Russian territory. The Ukrainian civilians thank them for leaving there equipment and departing peacefully.
These troops are likely to be treated far more harshly on the Russian side of the boarder. pic.twitter.com/4iQMefRBCD2/28/22, 2:04 PM
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Here’s Star Hawk:
“As Russia invades Ukraine, I want to speak about weakness.
Over and over, Trump and the Republicans and their Fox News echo chamber are somehow managing to blame Biden for Putin’s aggression, calling him ‘weak’. So it’s worth looking at the word ‘weak’ through a feminist lens.‘Weak’ is sexist dog-whistle for ‘womanlike’ — not ‘manly’, not representing those qualities which a patriarchal world-view assigns to the male sex as strength — mostly involving the ability to forcibly penetrate someone or something, with or without their consent, whether that’s the rape of a woman or the invasion of a country or the riddling of soft bodies with hard bullets.It’s force divorced from empathy or compassion, and it has been used for millennia to goad men into acts of brutality and violence and to coerce women into enabling them. And I’m using ‘men’ and ‘women’ deliberately because this world-view doesn’t recognize the possibility of the nonbinary and insists on this sharp division between genders.But real strength is not determined by access to projectile weapons — indeed, we could say that dependence on weaponry is a sign of inner weakness, of deep insecurity and an abyss of internal isolation. I think of the quote from Hari Seldon, Isaac Asimov’s great fictional psychohistorian, “Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.”Real strength is not violence. Real strength is getting up at two in the morning when you’re exhausted to feed the baby and let your partner get some sleep. Real strength is listening to a friend’s grief and holding them close, going to work every day when you’d rather stay in bed in order to feed your children, saying ‘no’ to a toddler and withstanding the ensuing temper tantrum, speaking an unpopular truth, daring to protest in an autocratic dictatorship, listening to someone you disagree with and striving to understand their point of view, losing with grace, admitting when you’re wrong.Real strength is a thousand ordinary acts of responsibility and caring done by ordinary people of every gender every day to keep the world running, and it requires empathy — that ability to understand that the world is full of other people who have feelings and needs and rights, just as you do, and to care about them.Let us not confuse strength with power. A strong person may or may not have the power to get something done or stop something from happening. Real strength may mean recognizing the limitations of your power, and using the power you do have judiciously and wisely.In this terrible moment, I am impressed with Biden’s strength. Empathy is one of his strong suits, born of his personal losses. He is facing this situation, where he does not have the unilateral power to stop Putin short of engaging in an out and out shooting war, which nobody wants. But he has gathered support from allies, acted in concert with them, and is doing what he can to hold Putin accountable.Could he do more? Should he do less? Maybe. There’s no perfect way to be in this situation, and certainly the US has a history of our use of aggressive force that undercuts our ability to hold the high ground. Nonetheless, he is showing up as a grownup, and doing what he can.
My grandparents all fled Ukraine in the early 20th century, trying to escape the aggressive weakness of their time, the pogroms and forced conscription and discrimination. In this time, I stand with Ukraine, and for a world where we will constrain the weakness of violence and celebrate real strength.”
And from Beau:
Let’s talk about shifting landscapes in Ukraine….
Full demonic tarot macabre:
Russia Deploys Mobile Crematoriums to Follow Troops into Ukraine (Metro.co.uk)
Traditional Ukrainian Flower Crowns
