Yo Team, We open our doors
for others to join our council for this night
for our relaxed, potent fun cahooting council.
New Moon
True Mid-Winter
Gate of Power
with our great guide true alchemist Micah Nilsson,
a living treasure of alchemical plant lore,
feel free to email or chime in a query,
a conundrum, a blessing…
New Moon illustration Camille Chew
New Moon in Aquarius, (4:04 pm today et)
constellating the Community Team –
humans to plants to participatory kinship
with everyone…
Brigid’s Day, and True Candlemas,
exact mid-Winter, is called
one of the four gates of power,
where the Intelligence of the Season
is especially eager to be invited
into incarnational actuality.
Ishtar
This New Moon at exact mid-season
is available for us to animate:
tis when Ishtar, Inanna, Persephone
(all the mythic animations
of creatively dancing with Nature)
lights their candle and begin ascending
from the Underworld – and we with her.
Tis the welcome return
of creative collaborative enthusiasm!
And let’s see them all holding a scroll
with strategic guidelines for being effective agents
of Liberating Trickster:
For instance:
“As all polarity feeds the Dementors,
so all spiraling sets everyone free!”
“Let us dedicate to being agents
of cool response, in a hot reactive world…”
“Magic is a willingness
to cooperate with everything”
And o, the perfection of it all,
the Rising Sign Sabian for 28+ Virgo is
“In a cave overhung with twisted roots –
a seeker pours over the glowing pages
of an illuminated alchemical manuscript!”
(So heartening that Trickster Genius
is scheduling us all…)
The Sun and Moon quintile
Liberating Trickster Uranus,
at stationing degree of the music of the spheres,
in 8th house of ancestral down-load,
conferring to those receptive.
Irresistible eloquence; and the capacity to
open portals, from back-stage into the
on-stage Community…and vice versa
From Micah Nilsson for perusal and play:
Brigid and her Dandelions
This week marks the ancient Celtic time of Imbolc, the festival marking the midpoint between the winter Solstice and spring Equinox. Catholics celebrate the feast of St. Brigid during this time, which connects back to the more ancient dedication of Imbolc to the goddess Brigid. Candlemas, too, falls in this week, and as a celebration of the purification of the Virgin Mary; this, too relates to Brigid as the ruler of both purity and fertility.
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