Animism be quickening
all around us!
3rd Quarter Moon,
exalted in realm of
Living Animism – Taurus,
conjoining Uranus,
that liberating Harmonia
emerge from Horror…
That Calliope arise
out of the Cauldron
of Collapse & Complaint
and so on…
Saturn quintiles Chiron
“The Caravan of Mentors”
be wending its way to us…
Whom might we recognize as an old friend,
perhaps a memory of the future.
and among them be
“a woman carrying a precious
veiled burden safely into the future.”
= Mars’ degree, as engages with the
Capricornian goats, that we be liberated
from the lure of depression by our dedication,
tested, initiated by boring old nihilism.
“No future in Nihilism.”
(another bumper sticker)
“Your depression is caused
by your inability to praise.
A man who is depressed is a thief,
and steals from the Divine.”
(Rumi, via Robert Bly)
Let’s toss tedious complaint
and alleged depression into cauldron
to stoke the fires of our Creative Dedication.
Article from CNN: 5 lessons from the pandemic
to tackle the climate crisis
The Sun (“House-boat Party”)
is the Apex of a Yod, finger of destiny,
continuing the Leo Pisces/Neptune conversation:
that Creativity is not performance
for gratification of child ego,
but magic, dedicated to collective well-being.
And Leo to Capricorn (Mae West!),
that Creativity with imagination,
be magnetized into incarnational actuality…
and Gardening, perhaps
Carl Jung wrote to a friend,
who had just bought land:
“Ah, how wonderful for you –
the Chthonic Earth Spirits (Taurus)
love nothing more than to be wedded
to human ingenuity.”
we’ll say Leonine Creativity…
Mayumi Oda asked me to write a forward
to her Goddess Tarot Book Cards
(to which I have contributed word craft)
So here’s what I wrote today, to us all, really:
Let’s “Forward,” by gazing backwards!
In Western culture, we think of the future in front of us; the past, invisible, behind us, “who cares?”
In Arabic Culture, quirkily aesthetically kinned with Japanese, tis the reverse – we gaze at the past before us. And the future, invisible, behind us.
“We craft the future by gazing at the Caravan of past Mentors” (*from Syrian cross-pollinating agent Deborah Felmeth,)
Mayumi is a cross-pollinating agent, betwixt ancient and modern, Western and Asian, so essential at this historic rip-tide, where we need all the Vitality of Guiding Wisdom possible…
Profundity cloaked in wit..
One of Mayumi’s gifts to us:
She animates profound imagery from the past,
that they may join with us in conversation now.
She animates profound imagery from the past,
that they may join with us in conversation now.
(“Conversation” means “turning with.”
We are all turning together in this conversing.)
We are all turning together in this conversing.)
She smuggles liberated-liberating power into culture
in the garb of whimsy, and quirky depth…
in the universally understandable language of myth.
in the garb of whimsy, and quirky depth…
in the universally understandable language of myth.
Tis the origin of all Tarot.
An apocryphal tale of the origin of Tarot says,
when the Libraries of Alexandria were burned,
the center of Wisdom moved briefly to Fez, Morocco,
where the wise from all traditions would gather,
and decided to put the sum of their Wisdom in a universally
understandable language, images, disguised as a deck of cards.
An apocryphal tale of the origin of Tarot says,
when the Libraries of Alexandria were burned,
the center of Wisdom moved briefly to Fez, Morocco,
where the wise from all traditions would gather,
and decided to put the sum of their Wisdom in a universally
understandable language, images, disguised as a deck of cards.
Fresh telling of a story brings it alive,
as a living presence in the Community.
These fresh expression of ancient images,
brings them alive in our lives,
and through our lives into the Community.
as a living presence in the Community.
These fresh expression of ancient images,
brings them alive in our lives,
and through our lives into the Community.
And here be the cards, in our hands, as collaborators,
and we return the favor, by the fun honor
of being their ambassadors..
and we return the favor, by the fun honor
of being their ambassadors..
The magic of Art:
Metaphors are the incarnational garb
whereby Power enters the world.
whereby Power enters the world.
(“Metaphor means “to carry across.”)
(By touching these cards, may we too cultivate
metaphoric agility, and like Mayumi’s cards,
be a bridge over troubled water..)
metaphoric agility, and like Mayumi’s cards,
be a bridge over troubled water..)
Let all Mythic Figures be understood as
metaphoric animations of intrinsic
Intelligence in Nature..
metaphoric animations of intrinsic
Intelligence in Nature..
Now, the back-stage Divine says,
“Let all teachings that guide humans
to participatory kinship,
come alive through unique expression!”
Mayumi has heeded that call,
“Let all teachings that guide humans
to participatory kinship,
come alive through unique expression!”
Mayumi has heeded that call,
that we may do so as well.
The Artist paints doors in the wall
of the Reality Police, whereby a festival
of fantabulous imagery, a liberating plethora
of shape-shifting vitality, can dance from
back-stage to on-stage…
So that with them, suffused with
Nature’s evolutionary Trickster Genius,
as they be, we can be agents of “against all odds,”
miraculous Beauty.
of the Reality Police, whereby a festival
of fantabulous imagery, a liberating plethora
of shape-shifting vitality, can dance from
back-stage to on-stage…
So that with them, suffused with
Nature’s evolutionary Trickster Genius,
as they be, we can be agents of “against all odds,”
miraculous Beauty.
If we track art back, within our own Mythic DNA,
to cave-paintings, we see and feel its true leadership.
Art serves as a magnetizing invitation to Power
to come and animate the proffered template.
to come and animate the proffered template.
When drawing a card, we might invoke:
“Come on in energetic woof!
and animate this painting, this story,
for this is the quality…
our community of all kin needs now!
and animate this painting, this story,
for this is the quality…
our community of all kin needs now!
(Pick a card, “ah yes, exactly what be needed now.”)
Venus magnetizes, Mars animates,
and together they spiral forth
into the atmospheric realms of cultural influence.
and together they spiral forth
into the atmospheric realms of cultural influence.
“The Caravan of Mentors” be wending its way to us,
through these cards, and what realms of synchronous
encounter be occasioned, by our play with them?!
we wonder.…
Whom might we recognize as an old friend,
perhaps a memory of the future?!
through these cards, and what realms of synchronous
encounter be occasioned, by our play with them?!
we wonder.…
Whom might we recognize as an old friend,
perhaps a memory of the future?!
Perhaps an ally that is dangerous in a good way?!
“Art is the tracks not the animal.”
(Japanese saying?)
Art is the visible evidence of the artist’s interior work.
(Japanese saying?)
Art is the visible evidence of the artist’s interior work.
We are so fortunate to be agents of diaspora
for Mayumi’s dedicated, artful embodied craft.
May we be inspired, and honed by the texture of her dedication.
Mayumi, “May our whole lives be art!,”
is delightful, daunting, deliberate.
is delightful, daunting, deliberate.
“Deliberate” comes from “Libra”,
the Venusian realms of art,
and also two verbs, “libare” -“to liberate,”
and “librare” – “to balance.”
To be deliberate is to be in a state of Liberating Balance!
the Venusian realms of art,
and also two verbs, “libare” -“to liberate,”
and “librare” – “to balance.”
To be deliberate is to be in a state of Liberating Balance!
May we be inspired, to be ever more deliberate,
from our play with these living Intelligences!
from our play with these living Intelligences!
May we liberate Mars from the
unimaginative confines of swagger
and compensatory weapons fetish to:
unimaginative confines of swagger
and compensatory weapons fetish to:
Cops, (within us all) instead of weapons
now carry a thermos of green tea,
and a deck of Mayumi’s cards.
“Sir, I notice you are in some distress.
Here, pick a card, have a cup of tea, and let’s converse.”
now carry a thermos of green tea,
and a deck of Mayumi’s cards.
“Sir, I notice you are in some distress.
Here, pick a card, have a cup of tea, and let’s converse.”
Thank you Mayumi, and all the Beings herein,
whom you have quickened by your prodigious dedication
to myriad forms of Beauty.
whom you have quickened by your prodigious dedication
to myriad forms of Beauty.
Beauty and Cruelty, neck and neck.
We’re betting on Beauty!
Caroline Casey
August 10, 2020
Kismet Coyote Realm
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p.s. Mayumi I did get to Pele, whose print I have!
so profound, I did write this, but didn’t send, until now,
as she just stopped me in my tracks:
as she just stopped me in my tracks:
“21. Pele brings Fire and Heat to cool the Earth…She is on-call, to be invited, that her lava may disrupt the cement foundations of any ill-mannered human project. In her womb – she is seen cooking the hot toxins of the world into cool fresh earth (in the fullness of time)…When her calling card appears in our divining, feel encouraged to call her in, assume her mudra, embracing our own womb-we cook our own poisons, and the world’s – into new life. For self and all beings.”
