Gotta go through Act IV – to Earn Act V: Assuming Cultural Narrative Lead
Navigating the Underworld, with increasing understanding of the crisis we all be in, yet with jaunty hearts and cool savoir faire…
We are in a collective crisis occasioned by our having out-sourced Saturn-authority to those possessed by churlish selfish interest, who have been missing the whole point of life —until now! (be our cris de coeur).
Yet, we be aspiring agents of cool response and kindness in this hot reactive world, cultivating an ever-expanding repertoire of ingenious responses, in collaborative cahoots with Nature’s Guiding Evolutionary Ingenuity, aka, Trickster.
Waxing full Moon – tonight!
Moon and Saturn rise in the East, as Mercury, Sun, Mars in Underworld set in West power of voice and story….
‘Tis a very useful time to reflect on our own journey, how did we get here? I stayed up late last night, answering interview questions about my journey as a “professional astrologer.” So first, pulling out harumphitude composter re the constraining quality of the queries, remembering creativity and freedom, to answer the question we wish had been asked…Then all is useful. So at first resistant, then enthused…
Resistance transformed into enthusiasm…
And how does our journey enhance our tolerance, how might increased insight actually increase ingenious compassion
And it is really useful to reflect upon and write out our own mini bio now. What have we studied? What have we learned? What is our dedication? The work of Reflective Saturn is so useful now, as the story of our learning clarifies our narrative voice, and our dedication to be a voice for what we love, at this dire auspicious beautiful terrible time…
This week on Radio I will be hosting, fierce, secular, social critic Henry Giroux, and his 6oth book(omg), “The Violence of Organized Forgetting” (which we balance with the Peace of Organized Remembering…)
(Feel free to contribute to this on air conversing by googling the incredibly prolific Henry, reading an article, lots of talk about neo-liberalism and hegemony and general left wing pedagogical language, and let me know what utility you distill.)
Let us dedicate to always expanding our communicative skills, tolerance, spice, wit, play….transcending tantrum yoga, performed in a pit of outrage, and clamber out and up – onward indefatigable team of steely eyed, critique full blessing- the-world beings.
Below an excerpt from a curmudgeony ally, full of critique, but also spicy blessing and splendid language:
John Feraday:
“There are perfectly intelligent people across this nation -and planet- who have been cornered into a fight. We understand the sacrifices that must be made.
“I think that what you provide to some of us on the militant left is a broadly inclusive and vastly amusing umbilical to a fluid spirituality. Your vision and voice provide an original and layered version of a resolved destination beyond. At inception, an imaginative alternative to criminally-complicit conventional theology….
I’m not going to reach to say that your pacifist optimism is empirically contagious. Clearly and rationally, greater sacrifice remains imperative for (attempting) environmental salvation.
But, in a way that nobody I’ve heard has, you show and share an inspiring, inclusive and oxygenated vision of a place where our species can come back into balance.
Obviously, we are all presented paths. Constantly and multiply.
You are one important Leader of a flotilla floating down a very unique tributary.
Those of us paddling-hard on a parallel fork of militancy can still see across to and appreciate your motives, methods and ebullience.
Although absent your determined optimism, our distant optics still hope that our torrents merge….
Our chosen current necessarily bears blood, but it is spilled in pact that a future day shall come when it will be diluted after joining the clear and splashy waters enjoyed by your create-your-own-reality canoeists.
At the moment of my own death, I should feel greater peace hearing your voice talking to Coyote and Eagle. And Dolphin and Squirrel. And Mouse and Elephant. And Snake and Bunny. And…
Basta. Death is nothing to delay through fear.
(Well, maybe it shall be their voices speaking directly to me.
But you do have a great voice)
Peace among Allies
JF”
