Whoowee, there be some wild funky shadow dancing going on!
September 13, 2010
6pm PDT, 9pm EDT
Humbling before the breakthrough. Time for serious fun. (“We ain’t play actin’ now, children.”)
Pluto and Mercury Stationing.
The dynamic intelligence they represent is stirring within and without, providing incentive for our, once again,
Convening Council in Circle, comprised of all of us w/goats and animals and ancestors,
while our iridescent sparkling Trickster selves waft around us in the spirit throng, eager for the invitation to incorporate and join in the world dance.
(In ancient Greece temples to Apollo would be built at a fork in the road, so that travelers could discern the direction of their journey. We camp at this fork, no need of temple.)
The Earth Spirit’s Story flies around Pluto’s blazing cauldron, wherein are inter-mingled grief and dazzling beauty in a rich tonic brew.
Rilke encourages us to rise:
“I want to unfold.
I don’t want to stay folded anywhere,
because where I am folded, there I am a lie.”
Unfurl:
let each of us wave the beauty of our flag, with all that we love imbedded into its shape-shifting design.
Now the flag settles around us like a cape, a mantle that announces our readiness to play.
May each of us feel like the child blessed by animals at birth.
Rilke’s lover pinned above his desk a post card depicting Orpheus sitting under a tree, playing for a circle of animals.
It catalyzed what he called ” a hurricane in the spirit.” He said it was a time of “howling unbelievably vast commands and receiving signals from cosmic space and booming out to them my immense salvos of welcome.”
OK, that sounds like Pluto’s idea of fun.
Meanwhile our animal selves quicken like Rilke’s meditation on a bust of Apollo:
“If there weren’t light…
its skin wouldn’t gleam like the fur of a wild animal,
and the body wouldn’t send out light from every edge
as a star does…for there is no place at all
that isn’t looking at you. You’ll have to change your life.”
In “Buddha inside the Light ” – Rilke writes:
“Oh, yes, you feel it,how the weights on you are gone!
Your husk has reached into what has no end,
and that is where the great saps are brewing now.
On the outside a warmth is helping.
for, high, high above, your own suns are growing
immense and they glow as they wheel around.
Yet something has already started to live
in you that will live longer than any sun.”
So, let’s shadow dance with the encouraging patterns of Uranus and Neptune, as well as Venus and Mars once again in mutual reception.
Jupiter and Uranus cahoot in the realm of dreams. Neptune and Chiron study under Saturn, who, exalted in Libra, “rules” Pluto’s stationing. Venus, in her retrograde shadow, in Pluto’s realm of sizzling sensual sorcery, guides the whole adventure. Our dedication to the discipline of our art raises us up from the ashes. May it be so!
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