Let's gather (via phone or web) to metabolize dread,
anxiety, conniption fits into nutrient for
Dreaming the Desirable World at Mid-Winter
’Tis when Persephone lights her candle & begins her ascent, and we with her!
But she/we are carrying many things in her/our
Magic Back-Pack, supportive plants, poems, guiding aphorisms,
to get the humans ready for the collaborative task ahead…
What shall we see in her/our back-pack?
…tis really all guiding Wisdom traditions reporting in for duty…
and what might they look like?
Tis high time to partner with what we love
in reciprocal blessing and protecting...
We gather to Cawcus!
(crows - to liberate the Iowa Caucus)
Tonight! 6 pm pst/9pm est
(and recorded - if one can't make the live event)
What qualities shall we contribute
to our artful brew,
to be ever more effective players
on the team of creation?
Slowing down to quicken,
taking deliberate steps,
deliberate imagining
(deliberate from Libra and Librare -
"to liberate,”
& Libare - to balance…
to be deliberate is to be
in a state of liberating balance.)
Image: Justice, Hermetic Tarot
Candlemas or Imbolc is one
of the four cross-quarter holidays
(Halloween, Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas),
celebrated in antiquity as much as Solstices/Equinoxes.
Called the Four Gates of Power
where the Quality/Intelligence of that Season
is especially eager to be invited into play.
True Candlemas is not till Tomorrow,
when the Sun will be at 15+ Aquarius, exact Mid-Season…
So we are preparing to avail ourselves of such
much supportive power being proffered to us...
Tis always a complete delight to cahoot w Micah Nilsson,
living treasure, Ambassadress from the alchemical plant world
Micah Nilsson will introduce us
to the content of Persephone's back-pack…
"It starts to be pretty springy here about now, so the energy and herbs are about air and respiratory health physically, and energetically, air as inspiration and clearing out. I am thinking of some anti-infective helpers, and also of cleansing “smudge” type herbs that work by bringing in sweeter, more positive energy. Mugwort is coming to mind, and also aromatics like fennel, sweetgrass,
frankincense, etc.
For folks still in the winter energy, your thoughts on Demeter and Persephone make me think of poppies, since Demeter created them to ease her pain at the loss. We work with a few poppy relatives, and it struck me how so many painkillers are also beautiful flowers. Flowers are not winter, but I think the comfort of these helpers and their quiet, compassionate energy can be helpful. This
thread is a little darker than the springy/air one, but might be useful to some."
Image: Silene capensis
Saturn says we haven’t earned depression,
until we’ve done the magic we know works...
& speaking of depression re
the dire state of the world,
the dementor war on life...
We are enthused to re animate
and Tricksterize - Dion Fortune
& the ritualistic realm of Britain,
when the magicians of England were
engaged in weaving spells of protection
over England during WWII…
“Situation so dire - we can’t afford the luxury of “realism.”
Saturn cigarette card (1924)
The airwaves have been high-jacked into “story prisons.”
But we have keys!
Our chart for convening tonight is full of supportive spice...
The Moon is at the “aroused strikers “ degree -
rising tide of democratic will o people.
Quintile Venus exalted in Pisces - irresistible eloquence -
whereby to liberate the entire circumstance,
open portals between worlds.
Then Venus quintiles Jupiter in Capricorn -
that we guide and swoosh esoteric compassion
into actual structures of embodied wisdom.
Squares Mars in Sagittarius - we go inward first
to then be effective outwardly…
Mars is our only Fire Planet,
so 'twould be grand to have a candle on hand tonight.
(and warming spice tea!)
p.s. Barbara Tuchman in writing of the 14th c. plague
in "A Distant Mirror” said, according to reports at the time,
none of the Village Idiots were infected…
Goes with the saying “Contagion spreads on the wings of fear.”
They were outside their culture’s fear loop..
so let us be...
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