Tis the day, one year ago,
that our Trickster Council mate, and
Council ally of all Flora Fauna, Bob Gough,
died, went back stage… Embodiment of
effectively jaunty – even though fully informed…
Indefatigable in effective goodness…
May we invite those Medicine Qualities
into our Being…
“Sage against the machine!”
(We honor his chart, see below,
for what it contributes to us all..)
and he would surely join with Patti Smith,
in encouraging us:
“All I can say is, focus on the good that you can do.
We want a pandemic of good. We want a pandemic
of positive change. I think that we all just have to
find each other, step through the mire,
find each other, support each other
and do good work.”
LA Times: Patti Smith Interview
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-patti-smith-interview-20180912-story.html
The Sun in Virgo, approaches Equinox Saturday night..
So let us replenish and expand our Vocabulary,
etymology, metaphor story…
Word Play increases the magic
of collaborative cahooting..
Word of the day: “psyche” – the mind or spirit,
as distinct from the body; the collective mental traits
of person or group of people. The word is – surprisingly,
beautifully – from the Ancient Greek ψυχή
meaning “breath”, “life”, “soul”
and also “butterfly” or “moth”.
Twitter:@RobGMacfarlane Post: Sep 8
Word of the day: “aestivate”
– to pass the summer in a state of torpor,
drowsiness & lowered metabolic rate
(from the Latin aestas, summer);
also to summer in a place.
A creature or person may emerge from “aestivation”
in autumn as from “hibernation” in spring.
Word of the day: “gossamer” – spider-silk,
shimmering in air or on grass. Prob from
“goose-summer” (Middle English)/
“go-summer” (Scots) due to its appearance
on warm, calm, summery autumn days.
In Swedish sommartråd; “summer-thread”.
What other words for gossamer exist?
Word of the day: “thole” – to endure with fortitude,
to cope with suffering or challenge patiently
& with dignity (Scots). This is one of my favourite
Scots verbs; quietly, toughly inspiring.
If a situation is “tholeable” it is, in the end,
with courage & support, survivable.
Twitter: @RobGMacfarlane
Word(s) of the day: “thin place” –
in Celtic Christianity especially, a site
in the landscape where the boundary between
the sacred & profane worlds is thinnest;
a location where spiritual experience
might most readily occur.
(Winter image of the Skelligs by John Finn)
and just for advanced conniption fit metabolizing:
Dallas News: History Curriculum Texas Remembers Alamo,
Forgets Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller
Let us mock this tyrannical tantrum yoga
doofus move of hoovering historic narrative
– into ashes- and use as compost for democracy
Moon in Capricorn at mega magick degree…
presides over all…
Jupiter at the no priesthood big mystery degree,
quintiles both Mars and Pallas,
while sextupling Mercury giving voice to
America’s Neptune- Soul-Vision…
We shall animate!
Intertribal Council on Utility Policy
http://www.intertribalcoup.org/