Happy (known to humans) Birthday Pluto!
discovered on this day by Clyde Tombaugh
89 years ago.

 

Pluto (NASA)

 

Democratic Animism
Rising from the Cauldron of Calamity

 

Waxing Full Moon! “Awoooooooo!”

and

for us humans
Moon Virgo – Sun Pisces–
Linguistic Precision Guides the Vision!

 

 

Waxing Full Moon tonight
(exact tomorrow 10:54 am et Tuesday)

Sun enters Pisces tonight at 6:04 pm et,
incarnational realm of Neptune and Jupiter…

So where be they?
Jupiter in its outward
Sagittarian Questing mode…
The Quest begins with a Question.

Akin to our practice –
“If we don’t know what to do –
invite in what does!”

 

Jupiter trines the Moon, still in Leo,
at the “Carrier Pigeon Fulfills Its Mission…
Long-term determination.
Training for important tasks.
Bringing messages…
Carrying a piece of the larger picture.”

“What is our Mission?”

Neptune is with Mercury, our mind,
and the Mind of Creation…
at the Grail legend degree….
spacey pertinently peripheral….
All we need is questions spun by wonder…
We are co-meandering, with purpose…

 

King Arthur and His Knights (illustration by Frank Godwin 1927)

 

About what shall we converse tonight?

“What ails the Grail King?”

“By what is the world polluted, Sariputra?”
addressed to the Buddha 500 BC
(“Greed,” he responded)

We re-animated the Tale of Dame Ragnall,
the Loathley Bride, last week…
now we invite more Grail Guiding forward…

Let us rejoice that the Sun sextiles
Mars in Taurus at the “Rainbow’s Pot of Gold
lies shimmering in the mist” degree…

 

Uranus with rings (NASA/Hubble)

 

Leading the way for Uranus entering Taurus
(on March 6th-April 27, 2026…)
This be our deep dedication to cahooting
with all our plant and animal relations…
Democratic Animism re-emerging-rising
from the Cauldron of Calamity

and Chiron quintiles Venus –
Let’s consider all the
Centaur Mentors in our lives…
They are eager to be in touch…

We are wandering, following threads…

Right after I wrote the above
an ally synchronously connected me
to the Joseph Campbell page.
He was mentor, befoibled, as are we all,
with whom I studied Grail, and we had
a spooky correspondence around his book
“The Way of the Animal Powers,”
that he sent me inscribed…

 

See the book on Biblio.com

 

And I found the tome right in plain sight…
and dusted it off… tis all alive
with poignant memory…

We are surrounded by treasures,
Rainbow’s Pot of Gold,
shimmering all around us…

 

“Hello and welcome to the Hero of Heroes –
the Myth of Joseph Campbell. I’m Rachael Kohn.

On The Spirit of Things this week we’re celebrating the centenary of the man who took to the gods down from Mount Olympus and gave them back to the people. He connected us to our inner heroes and to all those who went before.

We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a God. And where we have thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the centre of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”

-Joseph Campbell Foundation Mythic Salon (Group on Facebook)

 

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Ah, whoo, humans have colonized dogs too,
into bad manners. Let’s be more like wolves,
and mend our treaties:

 

Wolves cooperate but dogs submit, study suggests
From ScienceMag.org:

http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-behavior/2014/08/wolves-cooperate-dogs-submit-study-suggests

 

“..wolves were the tolerant, cooperative ones.
The dogs, in contrast, formed strict, linear
dominance hierarchies that demand obedience
from subordinates…”

“Wolves also beat the hounds on tests
that assessed whether the canids were able to
follow the gaze of their fellows to find food.”

“They are very cooperative with each other,
and when they have a disagreement
or must make a group decision,
they have a lot of communication
or ‘talk’ first,” Range said.

“The same was not true for the center’s dog packs;
for even the smallest transgression,
a higher ranked dog “may react aggressively”
toward one that is subordinate.”

“…when in packs, poodles and Labrador retrievers
are more aggressive than are malamutes
and German shepherds.”

 

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(all quotes below from Loren Eiseley)

“Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need,
they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments,
where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort.

The magic that gleams an instant between Argos
and Odysseus is both the recognition of diversity
and the need for affection across the illusions of form.
It is nature’s cry to homeless, far-wandering,
insatiable man: “Do not forget your brethren,
nor the green wood from which you sprang.
To do so is to invite disaster.”

“We are one of many appearances
of the thing called Life;
we are not its perfect image,
for it has no perfect image except Life,
and life is multitudinous and emergent
in the stream of time.”

 

 

Goddess Flora gathering flowers (Roman fresco 79 CE)

 

Joseph Campbell chiming in again:

“That we are so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget that the inner value, the rapture,
that is associated with being alive
is what it’s all about.”