New Moon!
Mercury (presiding over New Moon in Gemini) stationing Direct-outward-
June 3rd,
4 am edt
Saturn stationing Retro-inward
June 4th
5:47 pm edt
Inward deepening dedication calibrates the outward flow of resonant connectivity…
(or something like that, let’s play with words)
Word Play
&
Meteors Wednesday for making wishes…
Our Moon tonight is “woman giving rousing speech on behalf of the earth!”
and she quintiles Mars and Jupiter – beginning her Solstice dance…
and sesquiquadrates Pluto –
the danger provides the incentive….
for the woofiness to arise…
semi—squares Venus, newly arrived in Taurus,
re-blooming the Earth
30X30
30% protected by 2030
50×50
50% protected by 2050…
(last week’s radio show with Tony Hiss, “Rescuing the Planet.”)
For our New Moon,
very now…
FOR A NEW BEGINNING
John O’Donohue
In out-of-the-way places of the heart,
Where your thoughts never think to wander,
This beginning has been quietly forming,
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire,
Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,
Noticing how you willed yourself on,
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the gray promises that sameness whispered,
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,
Wondered would you always live like this.
Mars-Jupiter,
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream,
A path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not yet clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is at one with your life’s desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure;
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;
Soon you will home in a new rhythm,
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
and for the news:
For the Parent on the Death of a Child, John O’Donahue
No one knows the wonder
Your child awoke in you,
Your heart a perfect cradle
To hold its presence.
Inside and outside became one
As new waves of love
Kept surprising your soul.
Now you sit bereft
Inside a nightmare,
Your eyes numbed
By the sight of a grave
No parent should ever see.
You will wear this absence
Like a secret locket,
Always wondering why
Such a new soul
Was taken home so soon.
Let the silent tears flow
And when your eyes clear
Perhaps you will glimpse
How your eternal child
Has become the unseen angel
Who parents your heart
And persuades the moon
To send new gifts ashore.
~ John O’Donohue ~Irish poet John O’Donohue
First published in Benedictus, November 5, 2007
and for the cruelty in the world
For the parents of one who has committed cruelty :
No one else can see beauty
In his darkened life now.
His image has closed
Like a shadow.When people look at him,
He has become the mirror
Of the damage he has done.But he is yours,
And you have different eyes
That hold his yesterdays
In pictures no one else remembers.Waiting for him to be born,
Not knowing who he would be,
The moments of his childhood,
First steps, first words,
Smiles and cries;
And all the big thresholds
Of his journey since…He is yours in a way
No words could ever tell:
And you can see through
This stranger this deed has made him
And still find the countenance of your son.Despite all the disappointment and shame,
May you find in your belonging with him
A kind place, where your spirit will find rest.
May new words come alive between you
To build small bridges of understanding.May that serenity lead you beyond guilt and blame
To find that bright field of the heart
Where he can come to feel your loveUntil it heals whatever darkness drove him
And he can see what it is he has done
And seek forgiveness and bring healing;
May this dark door open a path
That brightens constantly with new promise. “
All crime is a public dream…
and Deborah Felmeth and I are brewing of Summer Solstice offering
for June 20th (our usual Monday, and we shall invite others to co-cahoot)
The more the manifest merrier the mojo..
As it is the Time to call in Big Mama,
to take the stage….
“Give the Police to the grand mothers…”
“When George Floyd called out for his Mama – all the Mothers Responded…”
The Mom who rushed into the school in Uvalde, Texas to rescue her kids…
https://sports.yahoo.com/mother-handcuffed-outside-texas-school-202952406.html
(with profound video clips, including Steve Kerr, “we can’t get numb to this.”)
“Angeli Rose Gomez, a farm supervisor working nearby who has children in second and third grade at Robb, told the Journal that she drove 40 miles to the school when she heard about the shooting, only to see an apparent lack of response from law enforcement as the gunman barricaded himself in a classroom.
“The police were doing nothing,” Gomez told The Journal. “They were just standing outside the fence. They weren’t going in there or running anywhere.”
David Grimes’ friend’s encountering Mama Grizzly…
All the Mothers (within everyone) are kinned in grrrrr….
So just to consider the glory of the Solstice moment
(On East Coast) the heliacal rise, the energetic return of 6 visible planets… at the very moment…
(let’s start looking for pre-dawn East vantage point from, where ere we be…
Moon Jupiter in Aries – the Intelligence of Protecting Life is Aroused, and plenty woofy…
This is the time to really do the necessary. but blocked- until now- protections of life, and autonomy
2016 So wonderful… these South African Fire Responders came off their 20 hour flight singing and dancing to help Alberta!!!!
Wow- that is definitely how I want my fire responders… Fire to put out fire. Fire respects these guys, speaking the language…
Video: https://www.facebook.com/keena.half/videos/830104687123532/
Mercury, squared by Saturn, but trined by Pluto …
dedicated mission surmounts outward tyrannical ding-battery…
and of course, “the fate of the world requires us all to insource our Saturn…”
Crazy about Queen Zenobia, have walked where she walked in Palmyra,
raising that city to be cultural mecca on silk road, she would gallop bare-back across the desert, and welcomed dignitaries in her bath house…
didn’t know that when captured by the Romans, after thumbing her nose at them for so long -she then married a Roman patrician, finding sanctuary…
(Deborah Felmeth and I will be welcoming her return, and all the potent forms of Big Momma, eager to incarnate this Summer Solstice! (on line cahoot- details soon..)
Zenobia (the Syrian queen Zaynab of Palmyria, who gave the Roman Empire a bad scare, as she almost retook SW Asia, before being taken captive and then landing on her feet by marrying into a patrician family), by lesbian sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). This artist blasted through obstacles that barred women from sculpture to become the first professional female sculptor, mastering the neoclassical (Greek) style.
“She was a delicate child, and was encouraged by her father, physician Hiram Hosmer, to pursue a course of physical training by which she became expert in rowing, skating, and riding. He also encouraged her artistic passion. She traveled alone in the wilderness of the western United States, and visited the Dakota [people].” She studied modeling and anatomy for years. Her breakthrough came in leaving the United States “when, with her father and her lover Charlotte Cushman [look her up, another lesbian luminary], she went to Rome…”There she could study with professional sculptors and finally work with live models. More than that, she found a congenial cultural community: “While living in Rome, she associated with a colony of artists and writers that included Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bertel Thorvaldsen, William Makepeace Thackeray, and the two female Georges, Eliot and Sand. When in Florence, she was frequently the guest of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning at Casa Guidi.”“The artists included Anne Whitney, Emma Stebbins, Edmonia Lewis, Louisa Lander, Margaret Foley, Florence Freeman, and Vinnie Ream. Hawthorne was clearly describing these in his novel The Marble Faun, and Henry James called them a “sisterhood of American ‘lady sculptors’.” As Hosmer is now considered the most famous female sculptor of her time in America, she is credited with having ‘led the flock’ of other female sculptors.”Here’s Nathaniel Hawthorne on Hosner, around 1858, referring to her gender non-conforming dress and manner: “She was very peculiar, but she seemed to be her actual self, and nothing affected or made up; so that, for my part, I gave her full leave to wear what may suit her best, and to behave as her inner woman prompts.”
Much more in comments.
