Tarot Card for Next Year October 31, 2008
Posted by frostwolftfirerose in Mystical, Personal Journey.Tags: Tarot, Brazilian music, samhain, Gal Costa, Antonio Carlos Jobim
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Each year around this time I draw a tarot card to focus the energies of the entire year. Last year (Samhain 2007- Samhain, 2008) was the 10 of wands, and things felt really ardous. Before that I had for 2006-7, the 10 of cups; for 2005-6, the 6 of disks; and for 2004-5, the Chariot–which certainly worked for me as that was the year I moved up to Albany!
I usually have picked my card in the context of a ritual, but today, as I was sitting at my desk reading a post about this particular month’s psychic/spiritual energies, I felt a calling to draw my card of the year. So I did a makeshift ritual of sorts. Ha, Kala, listening to Brazilian music (Gal Costa canta Tom Jobim) and readied myself.
So. My card for the period Samhain 2008 – Samhain 2009? The Fool!
I’m totally jazzed about this. It feels absolutely right for whatever tomfoolery is about to occur. Even though I have personally been feeling stressed–and I think it’s not just because of some of the various pieces going on in my life–busy at work, the Pop-Up Plays/New Play Fest, my sober birthday, the sElection and the ensuing ugly WTF-ever-fest (because the unhinged among us and their stoopid-’Merkkkan minions have to at least make the attempt to steal this awfulness, even with all the Main-Pain nuttiness spinning outta-kontrol and whether they succeed or fail, violence is probably just around the corner whether we like it or not–ready or not here the bloodbath comes!)–I feel like it’s in some kind of end-phase. Some people liken it to the birth-canal experience. Feels apt. I do feel something’s going to be born.
(What rough beast? Indeed!)
So the Fool is not an unanticipated development. I’ve actually been in that Fool space, seeking to find my curiosity, my Nimue/Dian-y-Glas spirit of inquiry, my eagerness for new experience. So the Uranus card just points it all up. This is going to be, I hope, FUN!
Stressed, mondo October 30, 2008
Posted by frostwolftfirerose in Uncategorized.Tags: anger, Pop-Up Plays Schenectady, soul, stoopid'Merkans, stress
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Well.
I had been meaning to write something today. Anything, if it came to me. But I’ve got a lot on my mind. I feel wiped out, anxious, sad. I sense there’s a lot of sadness around me too. It all totally sucks. Eesh. And I drew the Tower card today. Wonder what sort of cosmic comeuppance is going on right now. And how is it going to affect us all.
I also drew the Fehu rune, though. I have an idea of what I need to do with that. A necessary action to manifest something that scares and thrills me. A simple thing really. I know what it is. And it seems that Fehu is the omen for it. Oddly enough.
I’m also feeling a bit nervous about my coming out as a doomer. A cheerful one, but still, I am eager to watch our civilization devolve like the wicked witch of the west in The Wizard of Oz. “What a system, what a system” as it shrivels from receiving that cool blast of death-cleansing, lifegiving water.
B’-bye, vEmpire! Don’t let the door hit you on your way out!
We had auditions for the plays in our Pop-Up and New Play series last night. I feel totally wiped out right now. I just want to cry and cry and cry, for some reason. Don’t know why exactly, other than I had one of the busiest 2-day periods I’ve had in a long time, since I first started working again for these attorneys.
I just have to say it: Legal work hurts me. I have been awakening to some of the insights others have had about creating laws and rights, that they serve to alienate us from our selves and others. These are “air-tools” and as such serve certain purposes, but they have overtaken so much of our lives, that we are literally being blown to smithereens by all the legalized coercions, and the anesthetized (if we’re lucky!) rape and pillage games going on in our very own lives.
About a month or so ago, after my cat died, I had a new awareness arrive in my consciousness, that when I’m thinking about “death-death-death” that I’m not in alignment. Today and yesterday and the day before that–well, I wasn’t in alignment. Death-death-death was around me, and so too were my angry mockings of the troglodytic crowd that I don’t wish to acknowledge is a part of myself. Just as these ogres don’t want to see that I as a gay witch smart artist guy am another face of them.
In lak’ech, you know? Hurt me, you hurt too, and worse. Karmic blowback’s a bitch, eh? Though I wonder how one is supposed to face some of this ugliness out there.
Anyway, I’ve been in the death-death-death and anger at stoopid-’MerK-K-Kans who see me as their (addictions’) worst nightmares, and they(their addictions) would be right I guess. vEmpiry HATES the light of day more than anything. It also HATES soothing and cleansing darkness too though, preferring to see hearts exposed to the sun and the skin under wraps and muscles inside machines. Yeah, like people can live like that for more than .02 seconds.
Realign, realign, realign. Make kala. Ha. REAR is the antidote to FEAR.
Remember
Everything’s
All
Right…
Brazil–Just keeps coming… and G[rasping] W[hite] B[aboon] Dream October 29, 2008
Posted by frostwolftfirerose in Mystical.Tags: Brazil, dream recall, Kali, Lyara Royal, mayanmajix, Operation Terra, Orishas, playwriting, President Smirky, Rapture/Great Sorting, Star Goddess, willow apprenticeship, Yemanya
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First, the dream. I was in what felt either like a bank lobby or the lobby of an office building. Lots of people going about their day, one or two leisurely, most others with varying degrees of urgency. I wasn’t in any rush, and I was just sort of taking it all in. Then I was standing in front of a bank of tellers on one end, but I wasn’t in front of a teller’s booth. Just standing at the far end, as if waiting to go to a teller. I think I eventually stood in front of one for an instant. About 3 stations down, stood GWB. He was actually kind of sexy in my dream–built well. He saw me, and smirked one of those infamous sneer-smirks he’s known for, and strode away, proud as a Longhorn on its unknowing way to the slaughterhouse. Still, as I stood there I realized that he was there as an antenna, and I was what he was looking for, and I realized I had to get the f*ck outta there, which was why I was only at the teller for an instant
and then of course, the alarm clock went off! Time to start the day. Still, as I lay there in bed, I was grateful for the residue of dream-state for I used it to trust my own spiritual connection and it led me to believe that it was very important to continue the movement out of the building of the dream and to a connection with the land. I imagined myself even sharing the dirt with a tree planted in a sidewalk if I had to, though I imagined standing on the roots of an amazing willow tree.
(When I was in New Rochelle, btw, I hugged this amazing willow which gave me such an infusion of electric love, I almost had to sit down! Wonderful to be apprentice to willows…)
The other thing. I just read Operation Terra’s latest message (via mayanmajix.com’s articles page). Lyara talks about something that I’ve been sensing lies in our future, that people will be sorted out into worlds based on their energies. I’ve even toyed with the idea of putting it into a dramatic piece where 6-7 different characters speak in soliloquy to the audience about the various worlds they end up in.
I had envisioned a high-tech Asian gal with a sense of magic, an earth mother type who goes to ‘Off-The-Grid’ World; a corporate type woman (oddly I think of Angie Harmon playing “Andrea”) who is nonplussed that all the proles are gone (even though her only use for them was to do the stuff she didn’t want to); a black fellow who just goes to a world like this but with less people, another fellow who believes he’s been raptured (which it turns out everyone has) and goes to “White Christian Heaven” (no people of color, nonChristians, uppity women, gays/lesbians) only to find that he’s become the necessary scapegoat and hides in terror for his life, and a woman of color who gets sorted into a world with only other retail workers and the like without any supervisors or power-over jerkwads.
Anyway, it’s nice to see that Lyara and some others out there have a similar notion. I’m not exactly sure which world I shall be sorted into, but I trust that my Godself-’aumakua knows precisely which place will be the right slot for me. I feel that I have met members of my soul family and that we are all getting ready, some of us qucker, some of us slower, but we’re all materializing this new world as we work for it.
I decided to draw a Goddess Guidance card today, and I got an orisha! Yemanya, whose advice is rather literal. “Important doors are opening for you right now. Walk through them.” Woweth!
Brazil keeps alluring me toward something. Earlier today I was musing about the similarities of Kali and Oya. My connection to the Star Goddess/Source of All That Is has suggested I commune with Kali as regards my creativity. She will sweep away and tear down and erode and destroy that which no longer serves me. Probably right down to the bone, and I’ll be able to add to the essence appropriately (perhaps to tear it down again).
Brazil. Hm…
Odd Psychic “Hit” from New York October 28, 2008
Posted by frostwolftfirerose in Uncategorized.Tags: Astrocartography, Brazil, Brazilian music, calypso, New York, Pluto line, Sting, The Police
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I tend to notice patterns of occurrences as being personally relevant to me. One thing that kept coming up for me in New York City, and I don’t know if many people experience something like this or even something as specific as this, but on all 3 days I was there, some sort of reference to Brazil occurred. On Friday, I heard Os Mutantes singing “Panis e Circenses” by C. Veloso. I also stopped into a Brazilian steak-skewer place on 14th Street, and ran into someone I knew “out of the blue!” I don’t exactly remember the other Brazilian references, though my friend Damien who I met in the 17th Street/Union Square Starbuck’s mentioned the word “Calypso” as something he kept getting from his own guides. I feel fairly confident that Calypso is not a Brazilian form–I associate it with the Caribbean, and I also know it’s the name of a nymph from the myth of Odysseus as well as being the name of J. Cousteau’s yacht. Interestingly, talking with Damien about the Brazil thing, I heard “Every Breath You Take” by The Police. (Sting has a Brazilian connection. His autobiography begins with a ceremony in some out of the way Brazailian village that involves ayahuasca.)
There were a few different times when I thought of Brazil and I’d see a FedEx truck go by. That’s one of my “Pay attention” flags. Something about Brazil…
One thing that’s crossing my mind is that I need to discover more about Candomble as opposed to Santeria/Lukumi/Vodoun. I don’t think that I must needs fly to Brazil, or somehow get down there. In any case, my Pluto line goes right through large swaths of the country. JFK’s astrocartography had POTUS-32’s Pluto line going right through Dallas. So I know that if I were to venture down there, something–maybe my body, or maybe my personality, maybe both–would be totally transformed. It’s possible that a person from the locale of my Pluto line might be the agent of some change too, though. Perhaps it’s a sign of something else…
Spirit Microclimates October 27, 2008
Posted by frostwolftfirerose in Uncategorized.Tags: Columbine High, Denver, Dr. Atomic, East Village, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Littleton, New York City, spiritual microclimates, West Village
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A trip to New York City for a fellow like me is quite a heady experience. It was interesting how many spirit microclimates I walked through, and how evanescent they were in their changing. In one block of the Union Square area, I noticed 3 different microclimates. Granted it was a city block between Union Square West and 5th Avenue, but it was interesting to let my perceptions go along that route.
In retrospect, I find it interesting that only people who are native to the Denver, Colorado area can psychically tell, at least at first, when they are in Aurora versus, say Englewood, and when Englewood seques into Littleton or Centennial or even Denver proper. (And I’m not talking the area around South Broadway either, but other parts of Englewood and Denver that are less obvious.) Granted, sometimes it’s difficult for a native Denverite to know for example, when they’ve passed from Arvada to Lakewood, say. Though I bet I can get pretty close to the point where Lakewood flips over to Littleton-Jefferson County side. I may not be able to sense other things though, like where Columbine High School’s precincts give way to either Dakota Ridge or Thunder Ridge, but then again, how could I be expected to? I was an Arapahoe H.S. attending resident of unincorporated Littleton in Arapahoe County in my junior/senior high years.
Still, way back when I could tell when I was in the various high school districts in Littleton, whether Jeffco or Arapahoe Counties. (Perhaps I’d be fuzzy on the old boundaries for Bear Creek High, having had no idea that Jeffco Littletonites went to BCHS pre-Columbine. Interesting, eh?)
New York City offers a smorgasboard of possible places, and there were those moments, for some reason in the boundaries between the western East Village and the central East Village that felt a bit “dodgy” to me. Quite a few areas felt shut down in some way, especially as I got closer to the center of that part of the grid between 3rd Avenue and 14th Street. Sort of like walking through a warzone where the intellect and the financio-sociocultural completely overpowered the earthy and the emotional. Rapacious intellectual and economic addictions running rampant, I would say. Even so, because NYC has strong recovery programs, little pockets of “Ahhh” shone through the uckly-muckle-muck.
It was an energizing time in the cities, and completely unexpected. I know that eventually the wondrous hodgepodge will fall into disrepair though. It’s built into the system, and I say to New Yorkers and to the cities’ [sic] aficionados near and far to enjoy the place while you may. I was still glad to leave the New York Cities when I did. Friday night, we took in Bernstein’s Mass–sublime, wonderful, I cried tears of cathartic joy. Yea! Saturday night… well, getting home from New Rochelle, where I went to an amazing food-fellowship retreat and gave a hug to a Willow tree which gave me an immediate electric charge (!), was a total challenge due to the rain-wind and the awful traffic. Though I sort of wish the piece was at 8 p.m. so I could have missed the damn thing entirely because Dr. Atomic was a snoozefest. I hate to say it, but I fell asleep at one point and started to snore–that NEVER has happened before. Jody had to poke me in the ribs, alas. (Bwaaahahahahaha!)
I for my part will try and enjoy New York Cities as much as I can, my finances willing. Yeesh! But still, it was a good trip and I don’t feel less shiny now than before I left.
Will have more to post too on my spiritual journey and how certain things seem to be falling into place.
New York City October 23, 2008
Posted by frostwolftfirerose in Uncategorized.Tags: Carnegie Hall, Dr. Atomic, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Mass, neighborhood spirits, New York City
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So. I won’t be posting tomorrow through the weekend. Most likely I’ll be away from a computer tomorry, and definitely over the weekend. (Unless I’m inspired and I have computer access, I never post on weekends, and I like to keep it that way.)
Still, I’m curious to see how I with my shiny and new-to-me energy interact with the city that probably still never sleeps, though it was getting a mite weathered and worn while I lived there. (So glad to be out!)
So I’ll probably post about this and that. One thing I am curious about is the spirits of the different nabes there. Chelsea vs. Meatpacking District vs. Extreme West Village vs. West Village Center vs. Washington Park vs. East E.Vil vs. E.Vil Center etc. And yes, I do like to call my old stomping ground of the East Village E.Vil, and yes, there are differences within E.Vil and WeVill as well. Perhaps even North Chelsea vs. South Chelsea for all I know.
And then there’s the wastelands of Wall Strict and Midtown… All that c*ntcrete and glass–home of the vEmpire fershur, Marge. But I don’t think I’ll be anywhere NEAR “die Kuntlezstadt.”
Except to go to the Met and Carnegie Hall, where my partner and I will be taking in John Adams’s Dr. Atomic and L. Bernstein’s Mass! Cul-cha bay-bee, culcha!
The Earth Is Alive October 23, 2008
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That’s all I’m saying!
I just went out on my lunch hour and sat by the Hudson and whew! I felt the pulse all right. Whoa!
Yesterday and today I ran white fire iron pentacle (mostly I’ve been visualizing red fire before), and I instantly felt that my earth connection today was entirely related to that.
The thing I noticed in my “earth divination” was that the wind was blowing, but these leaves were not being blasted from the tree under which I sat. I watched as the leaves proudly fluttered like golden flags. The tree will be the one to decide “all right, now you can disengage!” And thus far, the tree, while it had mostly dispensed with its leaves, had a few choice bits it held onto for the time being.
I took that to mean I’m taken care of, all my needs are met, and it is only when Gaia decides “all right, it’s your time” will it be thus. Gaia in tandem with my godself. That feels crystalline splendid it does.
“The Test” October 21, 2008
Posted by frostwolftfirerose in Uncategorized.Tags: body percussion, Julia Cameron, playwriting, solo performance, testing desires, The Artist's Way
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Julia Cameron, in The Artist’s Way, discusses an interesting phenomenon that sometimes happens in manifesting one’s artistic dreams and notions. She has observed that when we start to move to our truest desires, something else can frequently rise up to tempt us away from it, because it’s safer and more “in line with expectations.”
Interestingly, I’m noticing a stranger wrinkle in this idea, in that as I move toward my heart’s desire for singing and body percussion gigs, and have been working to manifest one, that my theater stuff should all of a sudden start to really get my attention. And I have been feeling conflicted, though the more I think on what it is I really want, and who I really am as an artist, the juice is really in my own singing and performance work rather than in scripting works for actors to play characters behind the fourth wall of the stage.
I have had some good accomplishments in that realm, mind you. I’m really proud of My Littleton Play, Killing the Audience, and Adrenaline, as well as a bunch of short plays I’ve written. I’m also quite proud of the monologues that come to me because I know various actors. But my heart moves me toward the singing and solo performance work, and wouldn’t you know but I start to move in that direction and right on schedule, The Test appears.
I was just meditating and it feels really good to do that, I must add. It helps to clear out mental rubbish that sometimes floats into my head. Part of the reason I meditated just now though was to figure out what I wanted to post today, and this is what I realized I need to write about. I’m involved in manifestation work, and I have given myself a deadline for arranging something. I’m getting hits about what I need to do, and I will do these things. But the challenges are rising to meet me as well. And that just sucks! I’ve got to do what I’ve got to do. That’s that.
Avoiding the Undertow October 20, 2008
Posted by frostwolftfirerose in Uncategorized.Tags: preparation, protection, psychic strength, survival
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This might not make a lot of sense, all right. But I’m working with a couple of images that have been percolating in my head for a goodly 8 or 9 years now that I think might have relevance to the current moment.
They’re an odd assortment, but they all seem to have something to do with hitting the ground to best take care of oneself. It seems that it’s necessary to be either really low to the ground or above the fray, on higher ground. Though I’m not sure about the latter, actually. Something tells me that going beneath is better right now.
I’m not talking about finding a cave that goes down several miles–though if that was someone’s druthers, that might not be so bad. But I remember the first time I encountered the ocean, my cousin told me to dive below the wave, so it wouldn’t carry me out to sea. I was overwhelmed by the expanse of the Pacific, having grown up near the Rockies and seeing a more earthy enormity there. The ocean is of course way bigger than the Rockies, and Cousin David said “go under the wave.” Hey, he lived in California all his life–he should know right? And so I did that. It was interesting to see that I went into this middle zone.
I remember reading a story about a couple who were scuba-diving off the coast of one of the Indonesian islands during the 2005 December Tsunami. They felt a disturbance above them, but they didn’t really think much of it as they were perfectly safe in their scuba gear and snorkels. I wonder how they made it back to land–perhaps someone knew they were out there? I’m sure any boat would have been swept away. But still, that image of being below the surface stayed with me.
In a nuclear attack, I’ve read it is necessary to hit the ground immediately when the light flashes. Again, there’s another tow sort of aspect to the nuke, and again one is supposed to get under it. I don’t know if a person would be incinerated anyway–the air might crackle all the way to the ground, but if you were to lie in a gutter or a ditch, that might mitigate matters a bit.
With the tsunami and nuclear attack, there is the aftermath to deal with. Still, thinking of it all as being about accepting the force that is working and not trying to fight against it or to take the brunt of it “like a man” or to just acquiesce to its destruction rather than accepting the force and making adjustments–that seems to be the mindset to use. And it’s probably a good and practical idea to bring into whatever other possible destructive or violent or catastrophic scenarios that might emerge over the next few years.
I called this post “avoiding the undertow”, but it might be better to have called it something else. Still that’s what it’s known as for now. And there’s one other image that seems related, but I don’t exactly know how. In that same time period, I had this image come to mind of sitting on my bed in my East Village walk-up and meditating, and sensing that there were all these agents searching for me in my apartment, and I was right there sitting amongst them, but they couldn’t see me or feel my presence. They were scouring all over my apartment for me, and it was like I had been astrally rendered not only invisible, but immaterial as well. As if I were an invisible and ephemeral presence there. It was as if I could not be perceived even though I was right there. And I’m curious about this image, and how it might pertain to the previous images of undertow and the idea of being towed in general. Again, it seems like on some level it’s about getting so close to the ground or to reality that I “disappear” or become smooth enough that no hooks stick out and I’m not swept up into the maelstrom.
Just a couple of ideas.
Low Posting on Other Sites October 17, 2008
Posted by frostwolftfirerose in Personal Journey.Tags: blogging, Internet, poems
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I’ve begun to notice something really interesting to me. This is probably a “no-duh!” sort of thing for others, but I see that people become curious about me from things I post on other people’s websites. For some reason, the stuff I’m reading on the ‘Net aren’t really sparking a desire to post. There are a couple of places that mildly intrigue me. And I’m hoping for some things to get sparked (perhaps by my little play? I can dream!) both on this site and on others. I love to be inspired to post on others’ sites. But…
I’m just not feeling it. Sorry. And I see that it comes back to me in interesting ways. This social thing. Or should I say “social” thing.
This isn’t all THAT interesting to post about. So I’ll include a poem I wrote a while ago. The title is the first line of the poem.
A chartreuse dragon spirit existed here.
A chartreuse dragon spirit existed here. (Did you know?)
He wasn’t a bad sort—an affectionate sort of dope, really.
But he asked me to put him in the cleansing cup.
He wanted to be transformed. Time to, I guess.
I forgot to ask him his name, but he was somehow
The Spirit of the Place I Work. And he wanted change.
And the Star Goddess appeared and we breathed
Opalescence together on the yellow-green dragon.
It took a while, but eventually the milky-honey cloud
enveloped the guy and he merged with the cloud. Eyes
peered at me from this pearly, yummy joyousness
and I deeply drank from it, to cleanse my own spirit.
I have to trust that what I have to give is wanted.
The résumé for the blue-pill work I do is fine enough,
but it strafes and erodes the gentle soul over time. I have
an opportunity to Pegasus this, but I resist each sally
toward this soaring above the situation. (I should be
starting the meds soon—to arrange a fait accompli.)
There are all these smiling spirits around me. Ben
Franklin and Jehanne and Dave and others, eyes a-sparkle.
They see something coming that I don’t as of yet.
They ask me to trust, rather than to casually leap off
a bridge into the Mahicanituk’s cold and wet embrace.
It’s hard to live for the future, when the today hurts so much.