The Spotlight
posted by jm at 7:42 AM
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
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Holy
remember the photo of george bush and his halo all photoshopped and ridiculous?
Then there is this: Holy.
A visitation of Neptune.
You can almost feel the presence in the dust motes.
And perhaps Uranus as well.
OMG!! I sent this to the wrong blog! I was going to write a piece about it. Maybe I will anyway.
This is wild and weird. It's so much on my mind. Maybe I don't need words. Heavens! What am I to do?
Isn't it just like me to put it in the deepest darkest corner?
You're right about Neptune. Almost an underwater light. Leo/Pisces has always been what I associate with the stage and all the illusion. This photo captures the beauty. Photos. Neptune.
Here we are in the Saturn/Neptune with the Bush halo pretty much disintegrated. Now what?
How amazing that you were there to catch the light just as it came in. Or not so amazing at all. You live and work in light.
Tseka. You give new meaning to the phrase, "wandering eye". Yours is magnificent. You find treasures, secrets, illusive entities, and all things way way out of the ordinary. Something guides us, that's certain.
How unique each set of eyes is.
Shani, this is great!
The Fishanaries and the "i'm important 2" campaign.
i am just a normal person, who doesnt always follow pop-culture. i do follow it sumtimes...come on...we all do, no matter how much sum of us try to deny it.
Well said.
A couple of other quotes from your blog,flipPy DOodle, if I may, Shani...
No more painters, no more writers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more republicans, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more Bolsheviks, no more politicians, no more proletarians, no more democrats, no more armies, no more police, no more nations, no more of these idiocies, no more, NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING.
-Aragon, in thirteenth issue of Littérature
Beware of artists – they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous
- Queen Victoria
How delightfully
the fishes
are enjoying themselves’,
exclaimed Soshi.
‘You are not a fish’,
commented his friend,
‘how do you know
that the fishes
are enjoying themselves?’
‘You are not myself’,
answered Soshi;
‘how do you know,
that I do not know,
that the fishes
are enjoying themselves?’
- Taoist dialogue
And from the comment section, ucrawford said:
I guess the best sub-culture to dedicate yourself to would be yourself. Sometimes as individuals we just don't give ourselves enough credit for acting and thinking on our own. And that's too bad because it's a great way to live.
Standing in the spotlight.
The place where one is the focus.
This week i had the great pleasure of looking at some remarkable photos. My Leo photographer friend came to stay a few days. He drew out the maps, the glorious photos of his long trek into the Himalayas. A journey of heart and soul, walking 150 miles along the Tibetan border
Looking at the photos of the people i am stunned beyond words. The grace, the illumination of the faces the beauty of these people. Sorting through there are children, "Not Tibetan" i say. "Nepalese", he replies, "Katmandu." The difference could not be more remarkable.
150 miles from a large town, accessible by only foot or mule the children stand without mask. naked before the photographer. One is full of mirth, one furrows forehead concerned, a taller girl curves her arm around concerned and looks with the cool eyes of a warrior into the eyes of my friend. Each offers fearlessly the open window of their soul.
A woman winnows grain, i only see the creased face, a mirror of the folded landscape against the blue sky, a basket and chaff flying in the wind. "Look says my Leo, her fingernails." They are a shocking red. Deeply feminine, she stands in her day long toil, life long toil, clear in who she is.
My Leo says that the villages have a sense of impermanence. When the water shifts course or the rains fail to come the village moves. Possessions are few. "I have never met a people so filled with grace and so free, so trusting."
It made me deeply consider how society with (false) expectations imbues us with limitations.
I'm adjusting my image of beauty. It is being moved sideways by an older woman who took time to paint her fingernails bright red, who stands smiling and whole before a stranger, feet planted in the earth winnowing grain under an azure sky, by a nervous young girl, whose hands fly up like doves.
Abundance is everywhere around me. Our children no longer have this natural selfless self.
The spotlight of society has turned off our light.
Could it be that we would appreciate the performer in the spotlight more if we turned it away form the injudicious lighting of everyone?
I just logged on. Came back early because something was calling. This is amazing. I spent 9 months in Katmandu and trekked in the Himalayas.
There is so much in this comment. I'm going to go through and respond. It's exactly what I'm desiring.
The spotlight of society has turned off our light.
Could it be that we would appreciate the performer in the spotlight more if we turned it away form the injudicious lighting of everyone?
Oh oh oh oh oh.
Ja JM I wondered if you would.
This man is turning my world upside down. Or moving it sideways at least.
He moves into the wilderness for long periods of time for those photos. I will post the Nepal link when he gets the photos up - be a while.
In the most curious way it is our craving for solitude which draws us together. So few understand this aspect of creativity.
I can't even begin to tell how I feel about Nepal. The Eight-fingered Eddie character from my song, Cold Facts Ave, was one of the many highly unusual travelers I met there. Everyone was in an altered, heightened state.
The moment I crossed from India and come into Katmandu the architecture and atmosphere made me feel like I was in a fantasyland. My experience from then on matched this fantasy. It was like a fast forward, so much happened.
We ate and hung out at the Blue Tibetan restaurant and felt completely at home with the Nepalis.
They are small sprightly and good natured. They literally run up the Himalayas carrying their wares down to the market and back home. I never got tired of witnessing their ease with the mountains.
The temples are alive day and night and they slaughter their water buffalo for meat in a sacred spot in the forest. I went there and it was haunting and unforgettable.
So much life passed through me in my short time there. very vivid and extreme.
I'm adjusting my image of beauty. It is being moved sideways by an older woman who took time to paint her fingernails bright red
Beautiful.
The spotlight of society has turned off our light.
We'll have to turn it back on and keep it on.
Another story in a second. This is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.
Sigh let me adjust my pillow and relax to hear more. This is wonderful.
Tseka, I am goose-bumpy. I am so happy that I will get to see these photos. What a friend.
I'm going to train my light on all things like this from now on. The others are free to do as they will.
In the most curious way it is our craving for solitude which draws us together. So few understand this aspect of creativity.
Oh oh oh oh oh.
I'm in love. It's all coming in like a wave.
The most important aspect of said creativity is this understanding of solitude.
Most important.
I know the artist must embrace aloneness just as the mystic when she seeks enlightenment.
This is something. I was going to get some milk and lettuce, but decided it could wait. I had to get home. One can't help but trust.
A wonderful gentle man from the Peace Corps lent me his home in Katmandu while he went on a trek. The group of travelers there stayed with me in the small house, and one of them was comlpetely catatonic. I don't know how it happened but he would be with us all the time staring and never speaking. This went on for some time.
One night I cooked dinner and they all fell asleep, except him. I was cleaning up and suddenly he came to life leaping about the other side of the room doing all kinds of creative things like a joyous elf. I needed a spoon, said nothing, and suddenly he was right before me holding a spoon and smiling.
I'll never forget this night, and have never understood what happened. The next day, he was back to the catatonia.
Nepal is a magical kingdom and the things that happened there were unique.
One day we trekked up into the mountains. All day all day all day higher higher higher. At sunset we came to a village where we were fed in their usual humble graceful way and bedded down for the night. In the morning we walked to the edge of the village and before us was the whole Himalayan Mountain range in a vastness that is impossible to describe. I felt like I was on top of the world, and of course, next to heaven.
This is why I don't worry about man and the earth.
The most important aspect of said creativity is this understanding of solitude.
Most important.
I am often chided for not participating with other artists, sharing studios, working with others, getting out and talking at the coffee shops about our work.
It's an easy answer: Influence.
I look and all i see is similarity.
Not me.
OMG, tseka. The photos are gorgeous. Thank you thank you thank you. I can feel his longing to capture shapes. I'm going to spend a lot of time later tonight traveling through these slowly and savoring the products of this artist's imagination. So glad he's here.
we are on the road. Oh oh oh.
I felt like I was on top of the world, and of course, next to heaven.
ja, the ceiling of the world.
My Leo and i were walking under the night sky, commenting on how bright the night is here without much manmade light. The local landscape is similar to Nepal on a much, much smaller scale. The arid brown desert uplifted ridges following the deep fault lines.
In the Himalayas he said that the night sky was so brilliant, the stars appeared so close, the sky so lit one could read by the light.
Magic
indeed and some of us have been touched by it.
Time to bring it home?
God i love the internet. Thank you for being you jm
I am often chided for not participating with other artists, sharing studios, working with others, getting out and talking at the coffee shops about our work.
YESSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I parted ways with this long ago. And this is why I am a solo act. A very very hard thing to sell, but that's that. One woman. Enough.
It's an easy answer: Influence.
I look and all i see is similarity.
Not me.
This is our NN in the first. Exactly.
It stalls the destiny too. All the while being with could have been spent doing. Drawing closer.
Tseka, the magic is right here. I'm stunned. We have been guided to connect and I know this is part of our humility and genuine desire to fulfill our artistic destinies. I feel the possibility become a probability.
Thank YOU.
The whispering is audible.
The boxes are magic. When the time comes to open them, they keep on giving. No bottom, no top, no sides, no end.
Maybe the energy conducted by the copper is infinite after being closed for so long.
Maybe the energy conducted by the copper is infinite after being closed for so long.
Hel on the Aries point?
And when Hel wrapped up all the tones, stories, songs of birds, water, trees, rolled all the magic into bundles and placed them in the copper-lined boxes, she set them on her sledge. Not even Thor (Jupiter?)the mighty thundergod could lift it. Only the huldrakats; the forest cats (lynx, bobcats) the ones who can see in the darkness cold lift the sled and fly.
Children of Ullr ask where is the boundary that contains me, where is the boundary that dissolves me?
It's July already? Dear me, I knew time flies but this is ridiculous!
Yes. The more I feel it the more I think this is so. I know it's a beginning, but of something old.
Children of Ullr ask where is the boundary that contains me, where is the boundary that dissolves me?
Oh oh oh.
Ha! Ha! Hej Joe
Well the Jazzrap has some definite Uranian elements to it.
Plus a strong vibration of Neptune.
Good to see you.
Joe!!
Welcome to ever ever land!
time is relative.
Jeez, I feel like such a dolt for not catching on sooner. Oh well... there's been a ton of stuff going on with my neighborhood development group. Both my SO and I are on the board. Saturn and Neptune are ripping away the veils of secrecy and intrigue, and we are finally seeing what's been going on behind the scenes with a power-grabbing executive board.
I have a lot ot Saturn, as you know, and so does my SO. There's going to be an accounting... very soon.
Very Uranian/Neptunian. Little less on the Pluto. And Saturn will have to decide for himself. He's not the boss here! That's probably why time has warped.
In fact, no one is in charge.
Hello to both of you! :o) jm, I posted a new link on global warming back a ways before I realized that I was posting it back in January's entries. Maybe you'll find it... maybe you won't. :o)
There's going to be an accounting... very soon.
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight!
Global warming!! Yes! Thanks. I could use some right about now.
Oh yeah! We've been burning up the telephone wires ever since the big blowout Thursday evening. Should be interesting, regardless!
Well, it's late and I gotta get some sleep. It's also -10 here so I'm grateful to be under the covers. G'night!
Jeez, I feel like such a dolt for not catching on sooner
Nah
jm, the ever modest one.
Stay warm Joe, don't let the bedbugs bite.
'nite joe. Glad you sauntered in.
Ooh boy. That modesty. That's a loaded pipe.
And tseka, my solo artist compadre.
Thanks for the plug over at raging uni.
Hel and Aries.
The last few days have been remarkable. the feeling of returning and starting anew. I'm so inspired and the specific events of last week were a real ending.
I feel again like the artist I am. Aries is identity. I wonder how Hel figures in. Clues, O Wise Onne?
This is all so NN in the 1st too. Hel and Aries. Helen and Hel. we can be ourselves with 50 others, 10, 2, or solo.
We is who we is.
Subtle
Guess we needed horns with the fireworks eh?
Well it's been fun to put on my new rhinestones screw on heart earrings. I still have virgin ears can you believe it? No body piercings. No tatoos. Plain.
LOL! I don't think even the horns would get through. Maybe a little violence would perk them up. Their usual menu.
virgin ears? Really?
I had them poked (by my funny cousin with a potato), but I let them fill in years ago.
I have a tattoo and you won't believe this. I got it in Katmandu!
This is the story:
I went to a hotel with some friends who were on their way to visit some more friends. I walked into a room, and there were nine pounds of hashish rolled into balls, with which they were playing a game of catch.
I ended up staying for two days. Suddenly I got an inspiration to open my third eye. So I went to the tattoo guy in town late at night and got a little one in the center of my forehead where it remains to this day.
Katmandu. I'm telling you.
How does Hel figure in?
Astrologically i do not know. Mythically she represents a point or end of the last cycle before this one. There is some sense of the tantra about Hel. The wholebeing connection to all.
Perhaps a sense of her is reflected in the peoples we have been discussing tonight.
Fragments of memory that we are finding, we are weaving together through song, story, painting, photo to set the foundation for the next.
I believe and have for a long, long time that we living at the end of one cycle that began about 11,500 years ago. The patterns all around suggest it. i perceive your thoughts on climate change may mirror my own; that we are in a natural cycle of warming that precedes an ice age.
This matches the ancient cycles told by the Eddas. Hel was the great one who stored all the wisdom through time.
I'm not waiting for any Mayan calendar prediction of 2012. When i want to understand the depth of an illness i walk as far back as i can then chart a course for a cure.
The changes are already afoot. Hel the asteroid has been following some interesting patterns. She was with mars when it was retro in Taurus. She has been prominent in charts of some big events.
Hel represents the bridge to wholeness. Walking the NN halfway through Pisces turning around hitting the Aries point on Imbolc or one of the great cross quarter points of the wheel seems to just be playing out a pattern. I have not been looking long enough at astrology to understand it.
Really? a tattoo on the third eye. Did it work - opening as you wanted?
Tseka this is wonderful. I have to live in this world of broad perspective, and so few do. It's a joy for me to find this kindred viewpoint.
she represents a point or end of the last cycle before this one.
This is exactly what I'm getting.
I remember that Mars retro in Taurus! I thought it was a big deal, but it fizzled out in the community among all the rapidfire dire predictions and all the picky goings-on.
The Mars retro in Cancer coming up will be very significant.
I don't know about the larger astro cycles and how they would compare to your 11,500 one, but that's part of the equinox precession and the cycle for the Ice Age just about due.
I'm sure the Ice Ages signify these changes and the halfway points of the equinox cycle.
That is absolutely fascinating about the Taurus retro.
I'm sure the Pluto return to the GC is significant.
I think that changes repeat cyclically but also that a slow and steady evolution is always going on and that progress in unpreventable.
The third eye?
You know, I think it did. At Woodstock during the famous festival, Ravi Shankar saw me, looked at my face, and came up and embraced me. I didn't know why. Thought it might have been the tattoo.
I don't know if the awareness would be there anyway, or if the symbolism of the act made sure it became manifest, but it does seem to do something.
People always always come up to me and say they've seen me before. I thought maybe that spot was part of this, but I don't know. They insist they know me, even thought I know we've never met. It's uncanny and goes on all the time.
Ja i thought the taurus mars rx to be very important.
The retro of Mars in Cancer. 15 Nov will be on 12-13 Cancer (heh we git hit good) conjoining fixed star Sirius, also known as the birth home of Hel. This is the place the Skypeople- Ullr came from in Myth. It is also known as the point of chaos on the jule. Loki's brand Lokabrenna -great place to have your Uranus eh? Especially in the 5th. Or your sun....
I think we are watching the change of the masculine archetype not just in the limit of current society but from patriarchal religious to a new form. Or possibly a very ancient one that is in balance with the "feminine"
Hel - Loki
order chaos
whole separate
NN conjoins my NN that day could be interesting.
Very very interesting.
Our Cancer points exactly. And the USA Sun at 13. The NN return. Wonderful.
I'm sure of the polarity shift, and this one is a synthesis. You can see it right now in our country with Pelosi coming in (although she's an intermediary), and the old going out with Clinton. Pelosi is playing a new game and she's commanding respect.
It's in the bones. A feeling. People want more equality of the sexes. They're ready.
It used to be women artists that led in this area, but now the others will be the beneficiaries.
I have an interesting theory though.
I think it's possible that this society has been too feminine and receptive with all the Cancer. We've been pushed around by European royalty. The Sagittarius asc, and the NN in Leo indicates masculine development. I know that's hard to believe, but I don't think it has to do with the gender in power, but with the deeper characteristics and behavior.
Pluto will be changing this in some way. And the Sag asc just kicked in.
Very interesting joe.
Man and the earth
The thing is.... I think humans will mutate and adapt like they always do. For awhile, anyway.
I think it's possible that this society has been too feminine and receptive with all the Cancer. We've been pushed around by European royalty. The Sagittarius asc, and the NN in Leo indicates masculine development. I know that's hard to believe, but I don't think it has to do with the gender in power, but with the deeper characteristics and behavior.
Couldn't agree more. My primice also. This country is the experiment to get the "tomte" back the "whole man" the one who can cross the river and remember the language of the animals.
premise
ahem
Polar shift
hmmm polarity shift?
That covers it all doesn't it?
*sproing* Polar shift. Polarity shift. Hmm, now you got the cranks turning in my head. :o) I read somewhere that scientisis believe Antarctica was once a verdant continent until the poles shifted to where they have been in recent millenia. When the poles shift again, will Antarctica melt and green up again? I wonder what's beneath the ice there? Some lost civilzation(s)?
Scientists, I meant.
"scientisis" heh, sounds like a disease you could contract in a laboratory.
"This is wild and weird. It's so much on my mind. Maybe I don't need words. Heavens! What am I to do?"
It's a fait accompli, and we'll just have to accept it. Maybe your deeper self meant it to happen.
Honestly, it's a wonderful image to appear when it did. All that high contrast of light and dark creates stirring drama.
"Almost an underwater light. Leo/Pisces has always been what I associate with the stage and all the illusion. This photo captures the beauty. Photos. Neptune."
I'm taken by how it boosts the contrast between the ends of the spectrum of light-dark values -- blurring some things while sharpening some edges. You'd think from how people talk that Neptune is just amorphous, but here there is most definitively a selective eye at work.
"Polar shift
hmmm polarity shift?"
That covers it all doesn't it?
Why yes it does.
I do know that things are not at all what they appear to be. This is great, tseka to have your unusual input with your different metaphysical slant.
what's beneath the ice there?
Good query. Man will always push on for this reason. To see.
It's a fait accompli, and we'll just have to accept it. Maybe your deeper self meant it to happen.
What was so strange was that tseka was there to catch it. Had she not been I might have moved it over. Who knows? It had to be here. Then it moved to the top. It expresses something many of us are experiencing, especially with Saturn in Leo, ending soon. The best thing happens a lot.
This was like the photo coming to reality in the darkroom. Very satisfying.
All that high contrast of light and dark creates stirring drama.
You said it Brother. This has tremendous meaning. Look at the contrasts were battling around us in the world. Stirring drama. Yes. And a perfect whole.
You'd think from how people talk that Neptune is just amorphous, but here there is most definitively a selective eye at work.
I have a lot more to say on this. A little bit later.
Thank you all so much for these absolutely wonderful continuing conversations.
blurring some things while sharpening some edges.
This in particular and my view of Neptune creating alternative vision. One of my favorite topics.
More later.
I don't know how your computers work, but on mine when I come to Jazzrap the spotlight comes in as if it's just turned on. Gorgeous. This was a great coordinated effort and captures the magic I'm looking to share.
There is an odd liveliness to this medium that has yet to fully reveal itself. I think it is the bridge away from television.
OOOH this is cool.
1867 nanomachine now reality
"Molecular machines allow life itself to occur at a molecular level. Our new motor mechanism is a small step towards doing that sort of thing with artificial molecular machines," Leigh told Reuters.
His mechanism traps molecular-sized particles as they move. As Maxwell had predicted long ago, it does not need energy because it is powered by light. more
Dreams of 150 years ago becoming reality.
I like it a lot
1867
Jupiter in Aq
Neptune in Aries (Hel conjoined)
Uranus in Cancer
NN in Virgo
Pluto in Taurus
Saturn in Sco
Chiron in Pisces
And just check out that Uranus back and forth on that 12-13 degree.
OMG!! This is fascinating. I'm very interested in nanotechnology.
Will read read in a minute.
And look into this 12-13.
This country is the experiment to get the "tomte" back the "whole man" the one who can cross the river and remember the language of the animals.
What a wonderful premise. I know there is something special about this place.
Tseka, this is amazing. And look how it goes almost unnoticed. Subtlety comes with great things.
I know we are on the verge of big discovery about energy. It's connected with quantum physics and a closer relationship with the universe
All as we enter the Age of Aquarius.
The Pisces/Aries connection with Hel blows my mind. The nodes now are part of this. And of course, the same ones as 1867. How much proof can a woman take!
I'm beginning to sense the bridge more and more.
There is something to this nanomachine and light. The Sun, I believe, has yet to fulfill its destiny in our lives.
The 12-13 is almost midway in the darkest part of the wheel. Uranus brings awareness and dispels superstition and fear. This could be part of what's happening with this cycle, and Pluto will soon oppose this degree. Could we be poised to leap ahead in this field of energy? I feel we are about to come into something that taps this culture's natural inventiveness and forward looking spirit.
As our Mars goes retrograde by progression and we've come to an impasse with any forward motion militarily and aggressively, plus the takeover around the world of the after-effects of the Industrial Revolution....all make me think we have to go in an entirely new direction.
The country is putting too much energy into the Hollywood political nonsense, and when Capricorn comes, it will effect our economic structure. Uranus in Aries is great invention so the set-up is there if things are in alignment.
The real thinkers and innovaters should have their day.
You'd think from how people talk that Neptune is just amorphous, but here there is most definitively a selective eye at work.
The one major thing Neptune does is bend the light and change images entirely. More of the alternate vision. Adding shimmer, changing colors, breaking up the linear and usual patterns, and all assorted effects.
This has a lot to do with this discovery and the Neptunian times we're in as it blinds us to the ordinary and leads to the extraordinary.
Hel from Pisces to Aries is telling us it's time to move.
Could it be that we would appreciate the performer in the spotlight more if we turned it away form the injudicious lighting of everyone?
Time for the spotlight to find some different places. Call in the Cosmic Chopper!
This 12-13 topic reminds me of the fact that there are 13 lunations per solar year, vs 12 months (though even the word month is derived from "moon.") There is a 13 month calendar that some Celtic tribes used based on a system of 13 trees that represented a lunar month.
Anyway, the 12/13 part reminded me of a premise based on the Mayan calendar, as put forth by Dr. Jose Arguelles (who, coincidentally, was born in the same city as I was!), that the calendar of the universe is based on 13, not 12. He argues that the conscious change from 13 to 12 is at the root of the discord, disharmony and chaos in the world, and that a return to 13 would reharmonize us with the pace of nature.
Whether or not it's connected or even right, I find this 12/13 a curious "coincidence" with the 12/13 Tseka is talking about.
Overall, I find the 13 moon calendar based on the Mayan ideas overly complex and with far too many names to remember. Most ordinary people will just roll their eyes. "You say today is Blue Cosmic Night? Sure, whatever..."
Nevertheless, the basic idea makes distinct sense if you read Arguelles' essay on Nature's Calendar.
Dang, the link keeps going to the wrong page!
try this one.
Ja Joe, the old societies lived by lunar cycles.
It could be that with the polarity shift to the patriarchy and trying to demarcate by Sun with cartesian methods we lost our Union with the planet's rhythm.
It appears to be the path of humans to go away - come back, a process of evolution that animals to do not take.
I've wondered about this my whole life. Why do we construct structures which on their surface appear to be designed to make us forget, lose union with the natural world around us?
Over and over
Could there be another reason?
Rather than denying our roots and living out of harmony, might we in fact be pushing to remember a deeper rhythm that is not tied to the moon? By building these structures to limit the local lunar influence, do we ask ourselves to remember cycles beyond our local planet?
Many old cultures watched Sirius, it was integral to the "calendar" which set the patterns of behavior. The Nordic Sagas are filled with "battles" humans going up against the "frost giants" (planets, stars)to learn lessons.
Maybe we are listening to something which extends to deep space - the galactic center and the great attractor, maybe Luna distracts us from something in our "chip" that is even older than our presence on this planet.
Random thoughts....
tseka, this is intriguing. I'm receptive to more of it!
Yes it surely is intriguing. Be back shortly to continue. Excellent. I don't think I've been this mentally stimulated by others in ages.
Fascinating input joe about the 12-13.
The moon factor. wow. Been thinking about this. Back in a mo.
It appears to be the path of humans to go away - come back, a process of evolution that animals to do not take.
Yes. Be back on this one. Conciousness and memory. It has functions beyond our grasp. Great great question.
Why do we construct structures which on their surface appear to be designed to make us forget, lose union with the natural world around us?
Could there be another reason?
There always is. This is something I'l love to explore. Such food for thought.
I've always watched the animals carefully and have marveled at the way they do exactly what they're supposed to do. I think they are there as company for us and teachers, maybe by reminding us about natural behavior.
We don't know, but it seems that we are different in our ability to perceive the future, and maybe this is part of why we neglect the past.
Elephants remember the place where other elephants have died, and this sound like that deeper memory you talk about, tseka.
Maybe Luna distracts us from something in our "chip" that is even older than our presence on this planet.
This is good. No doubt that this lady can be mightily distracting.
This is a great thought. The moon is supposed to the the oldest memory, but in human life, it governs personal events and past. I would tend to agree that one object maybe doesn't represent the full spectrum of memory.
We are notorious for not learning from past behavior, but maybe we are stalled for the purpose of gaining other knowledge. Eventually we will incorporate.
The ancients, too, were badly behaved, so I think we are yet to come to this full knowledge.
I do know that we had lunar power in the past and this failed as miserably as any ruling power by a segment. I think we had solar lessons to learn these years, and the failure is upon us. Along with the successes which will be useful in time.
I'd like to know what form this greater knowledge could take.
maybe Luna distracts us from something in our "chip" that is even older than our presence on this planet.
I would guess that these planetary symbols, ancient mythologies, etc., are vehicles to this understanding, certainly not the end. I can see right now how bad a position astrology is in. I think it is moving away from the literal symbolism, and maybe leading us to a place where the symbols will no longer be needed. Right now there is complete confusion about their meaning. Wasn't always so. Used to be strict and literal. It's interesting that the public is catching on, so it seems, just as the science is in trouble and trying to move ahead. No wonder we're slow as a whole.
It's all in the journey. The quest seems to be what motivates humans, gives them purpose within the development of "intelligence", and provides perception of progress.
I like to think of all the "mistakes" and repeated lessons as part of a learning process like any. In this sense, the obscure older than the universe memory is being added to by our consciousness, so a return won't be necessary. It's a developing element.
Memory is ahead. Luna was just a stepping stone.
BTW, this is the basis for my nodal research. The solar/lunar dichotomy. The urge to leave both behind.
A side note, i have been reading of solar flares on the opposite side of the Sun which correlate with severe and unusual weather occurring approximately two weeks later on Earth.
Core samples of Salmon creeks yield a history of cycles, 50 yrs, 100yrs of Salmon increases, decreases. The Salish myths tell the same story.
Things occur beyond our view in larger and smaller epochs.
BTW, this is the basis for my nodal research. The solar/lunar dichotomy. The urge to leave both behind.
Am i interpreting your meaning correctly...the urge to leave moon- emotion / sun -ego behind, following the nodes; our points of soul growth? I'd agree. It was reading about the nodes that drew me into astrology and frankly the part that make most sense to me - as growth and healing. The other points tell me a story of archetypal patterns and an unfolding of energies, but as to the healing path the nodes seem most potent.
Also curious your take on this: as i look into my chart and others, those with whom i share deep connection, telepathic connection, those sparks of recognition, all have nodal contacts. I'm wondering if the nodes must be somehow shared among soul families not purely ancestral ones.
It's a good thing these these are beyond view. We can't interfere.
It's always a good feeling to know how much a part of it all we are.
I wonder why some perceive and trust this largesse, some fear it, and some try to ignore it. It's so darned obvious.
I think a cycle is a replenishing after a normal emptying.
Humans have yet to learn the value of not-full.
I'm wondering if the nodes must be somehow shared among soul families not purely ancestral ones.
Oh yes. Absodamn. There is a familiarity beyond the personal when this occurs. And and immediate urge to connect and stay connected because of the valuable information being exchanged. Soul memory is how Buz Myers referred to it, and he was tops.
the urge to leave moon- emotion / sun -ego behind, following the nodes; our points of soul growth?
Yes. Well put. The synthesis of our longing is here in the nodes. It's not a planet/thing, it's a point, so already it has a different connotation, and freed from the archetypal as you suggest. Very good point.
They seem to be an entrance and exit point for a greater understanding of life and the self, and in this sense, the healing factor is most prominent.
I have yet to see any scenario in anyone's life that isn't intrinsically engaged with this opposition.
There is bondage to the other planets and also liberation in the nodes. The aim is to understand ourselves through the planetary placements, but I think ultimately, to free ouselves from the domination.
They provide identity, which is helpful, but they are not the rulers.
The nodes are obscure but real, and very friendly, I find. Allies.
Humans have yet to learn the value of not-full.
Ja not paying attention to the patterns not modulating our own cycles. I look out at the burgeoning population and sigh.
Animals adjust their population according to the cycles, we just bully our way along til we die out.
OMG do I ever agree about the population. This mindless re/pro-creation, completely oblivious to supplies, geography, and demographics.
It absolutely astounds me how people speak of saving the planet and population growth, while fumbling and Boom! Producing yet another one. Don't get it.
The best thing the animals do is die when they no longer are healthy enough to make it on their own.
I'm thinking in the near future we might have to face this issue with the aging population and the heroics of life support. If you can pay for it, you live. Going to be problematic.
I'm thinking in the near future we might have to face this issue with the aging population and the heroics of life support. If you can pay for it, you live. Going to be problematic.
Perhaps. Mostly, after working for 4 years as an Ombudsman in Skilled Nursing Facilities sitting on bio-ethics panels to determine end of life issues, i found that most do not choose it. And at least in my area those who do are primarily Hispanic and Catholic. So education and demographics matter.
Also generations have differing views, the WW11 folk and their Baby Boom kids are not likely to choose life extension. Even though they might buy into all the stuff to keep 'em young, active, healthy, at the end it's quality not quantity. The generations both sides of these were more likely to want it all. More fear i noticed as well. But let me quickly repeat that this is my own and limited to local experience.
OMG. Tseka, you wrote: It could be that with the polarity shift to the patriarchy and trying to demarcate by Sun with cartesian methods we lost our Union with the planet's rhythm. It appears to be the path of humans to go away - come back, a process of evolution that animals to do not take.
The Moon and Sun do both, in their own way. The Moon disappears/goes away for 3 days each lunation. The Sun goes away each winter solstice and then returns.
There's a connection somehow but the flash of insight has dimmed again and I can't find it again. Oh well...
Oops. How'd that happen?
It happened earlier joe! To kadimiros.
Good point about the sun and moon disappearing.
We replay it as infants too, when our mothers go and come back affecting us in a cosmic way each time.
Ran across this article the other day and thought of you all here. It's a fairly long read, but "net of Indra" makes an appearance. @;-)
http://www.mythicjourneys.org/newsletter_jan07_armstrong.html
Sige, thank you so much for your generosity. This fits perfectly. It's so good to know others like you are all around.
This is wonderful! Thank you Sige.
@:-) the sign of KJ...
kj? Really? What a gal!
This article is interesting and explains a lot, if true that individuation is the phase we're entering now.
It could be the reason for the sense of frustration and trouble. The terrible fear of not belonging, or of the group safety net disintegrating. This one based on heirarchical obedience.
Pluto in Sagittarius and the GC just revealed the failure of the religions and the societal structures built around them. Probably a lot of the warfare is an attempt to finish the breakdown. Especially since it's primarily in one spot and violence is decreasing overall. This is starting to make sense. Hard to investigate the self with a gun poised and ready.
I saw this in the political arena and the people's obsession with celebrities as they avoid their own inner landscapes. I'm hard-pressed to see the allure of these characters. If these archaic structures can no longer dictate like they once did, then no wonder there is fear.
I see the lack of self esteem and the daily drama of others dictating to the people, and I lament. But this article made me feel good. That there is a passage out of blind obedience, one of the greatest dangers.
We are only part of the masses in a sense. I know we are part of a whole, but I think that the purpose for birth in this realm is to separate and find our own solar system. A world within a world.
I certainly don't want to miss it.
yep, just a post-it note on the well. @;-)
glad the link was enjoyed.
Leave it to tseka to notice everything. Your link was just what the doctor prescribed.
As long as there are others out there trying to make a better society, I will continue. Got to look in the right places.
Had a talk with my buddy the retired Prof and his wife re: the four epochs. I'd been so down about needing to go find work, as a peon again, and letting them down re: taking over the nuts and bolts of the poetry review. The need to go back into the city and pick up the string of the matrix instead of my preferred life as a hermit/poet/seer. Especially after the chaos of the last few years.
Anyway, no real words of wisdom from them, other than they too had to put in their time to get their share of the grain, but somehow, over their lifetime, they didn't lose their artist selves or compromise those selves in any way shape or form.
It is so inspiring to me (and not using that word lightly) to know these people. They are not young. He is one of the best writers and certainly THE most authentic poet I'll ever know in this lifetime. And yet, except for some regional attention and respect, he is a secret. A treasured, beloved, secret.
He kept his quality. A man, a stranger to us, after hearing him read, told JBK and I that he felt like he was listening to the voice of the ancients, the voice of The Bard. And that was exactly correct. That is who he is.
Sigh. Tis a mystery. This whole business. But reading that article really helped.
I also like thinking about the places where strings of light gather, along the earth, in cyberspace, to create their own matrix and mandalas, as wells, with water from the source. This is such a place.
We do it alone, and ultimately for ourselves, but are so fortunate when we find others who are following their own paths as well. Sometimes we meet up. Again, that's how I think of this place.
Nicely said Sige.
Yes, I agree. Tseka and I have been talking about this. The solitude required for great work and the love of sharing with kindred souls.
sometimes we meet
I remember in India living with some advanced people in a house. We all had separate endeavors but we would meet on the veranda overlooking the Ganges every few hours briefly. In the evenings we would gather for longer and I played and sang. It was wonderful.
Sometimes we meet
And I'm officially calling the meeting back to order. Or disorder. Or something. Anyway, glad to have you back, sige!
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