Enthused exhilarated at the prospect unfurling before us we are

Diving into the Replenishing Dark

from which is born the Guiding Earth Wisdom Story within each heart

December 19, 2011
6pm PST, 9pm EST

We cahoot with Jupiter stationing with a New Moon on Christmas Eve, whose image is “A spirit receptive to new experiences. Materializing hopes and wishes….A powerful yearning for whatever will increase the scope and depth of one’s contacts with other living beings.”
Magnetizing Metaphor into Matter.

We are simultaneously
Cultivating In-Sight – Santa’s Wink – one eye looks within, one without, especially now. Insight gives birth to outer expression.

Please to begin considering and contributing to the list of what we desire to toss into Pluto’s Winter Solstice Composting Cauldron of ReBirth
(dominance, debt, depression,tantrum yoga, venting, insomnia etc..) A “To Un-Do List!”

and drawing forth (with the Moon and Saturn in Libra, our dedication to intimacy and living kinship) from that cauldron the loved on dis-harmony, now contributing to ever greater harmony…

Because we are gathering woof and growing structure. The work referenced below looks worthy of delving and mega-pertinent! (We can have encouraged reading for group woof. Coming soon!)

Here follows a portion of a particularly woofy e-mail scouting report introducing me and hence us to the work of an intriguing ally:

“I am an ally of yours who has moved from Oakland to Israel. You have not met me yet, though I celebrate you often when I hear your words and thoughts from the little village where I live, Moshav Aviezer, a village settled by East Indian Jews in the 1950s.

Over the years I’ve delighted in your vision and how you share it, your playfulness and insight, and the way you tease out beauty and wisdom from your marvelous guests, some of my favorite people (including Martín Prechtel) and spiraling talks about Marie Laveau and High John the Conqueror, mantras about wolves and the way a pack’s leader is chosen, and invocations of harmony with all beings.

There is so much I am grateful to you for, including dosing me with language to help me free myself from any cages I’ve closed around myself (composting, eclipsing, etc.). Your conversation on December 1st with John Michael Greer about Apocalypse Not was sufficient impetus for me to contact you about that topic as a way to share some more words and ideas as antidote for apocalypse-addicted culture. (I will let you know that I am still drunk on Michael David Lukas’ tale, The Oracle of Stamboul, which I learned about from your dialogue with Michael.)

In case you are not familiar, I introduce you to Professor Catherine Keller via two of her works. In Apocalypse Now & Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World, Catherine Keller beautifully draws out the eloquent-and-scary Revelation of John in this text. True to her nature as a trickster-theologian, lover of life, she points out context and language in the book of revelation and its mission to murder the goddess and for the murderers to take the spoils. . . Yet she does this from such a brilliant and playful perspective. She supports neither apocalypse nor anti-apocalypse! As in your conversation with John Michael Greer, she recognizes that dualism locks in what one wishes to eradicate. Keller practices a 3rd way, a third point of perspective that looks at the polarities and asks questions, beautiful and provocative questions.

She then discovers and reveals examples of heroes and heroines who have lived lives of celebrating life and the sustenance of life in situations that are mind blowing.  You often mention High John the Conqueror and his trickster ways. Keller mentions a couple of Quaker/Shaker women from centuries past whose work you may know. If not, I trust you will be delighted to “meet” them.

Even more exciting to me than this excellent text is Catherine’s masterpiece: Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming, which explores the first phrases of the torah/bible using scholarship from ancient Jewish and Christian writers (talmud, kabbalah, Augustine, Augustus), as well as Herman Melville, Derida, among others.

Catherine encourages us to see into the fissure left unexplored by the masculine conversation about the beginning of the Jewish and Christian creation stories: the deep. The deep, in Hebrew it is tehom, is a cauldron of creativity with which creation co-participates in creating creation. Keller citers tehom-ophobia by millenia of writers to have either skipped talking about this deep, which has pre-existed creation, as did the first-mentioned “waters”. What a profound book, and what a beautiful inquiry. Keller brings us to samples of tehom-ophilia and possibilities of reclaiming a celebratory, co-participatory relationship with The Deep.”

That last sentence has great resonance, so yes fellow tehomophiles – onward into the Dark

(This was also excerpted  on the Trickster Renew! magnetizing missive that is spiralling forth for Tricksters to renew in December.And remember a great gift of kinship to bestow a season of Trickster Council – The Compassionate Trickster Experimental Juju Mystery School, upon a Trickster ally for Hannukhah, Solstice, Christmas. Just reply to this e-mail and elves will gladly provide a customizable gift certificate for such. Ditto consultations with Caroline!)

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