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On my mind tonight, and John explaining: “When w

On my mind tonight, and John explaining: “When we stick posters around saying 'WAR IS OVER!', what we’re trying to promote is an awareness in people of how much power they have and not to rely on leaders. Nobody on Earth can do it for you. Whatever it is you want, you must do it yourself.” Right. And also I’m totally watching the inauguration tomorrow morning, and just having a good long cry on my living room floor. For everything that’s over and everything that isn’t. For the moment Sonia Sotomayor swears in Kamala Harris 😭😭😭 whew. If we want it. If we want it.

Happy new moon my friends. Wow. Hi. This new moon

Happy new moon my friends. Wow. Hi. This new moon is at 23° of Capricorn, cardinal earth and the holy sea-goat, archetype of mountain climbing and what it takes to bring something from imagination into tangible physical reality. It is often talked about as sign of challenges and hard limits – of hard and harder work – but on a deeper level, it encodes the mysteries of creation and form and bounty. It was the horn of the priestess she-goat Amalthea that Zeus turned into the horn of plenty – the cornucopia. This new moon is also conjunct Pluto, stealth god of fertility governing the death processes that feed and regenerate life. A new moon conjunct Pluto is not offering a straightforward reset or fresh start.

The exact moment of newness is 9:01pm PST Tuesday evening – just after midnight on the east coast, between days as it were. That’s the theme of the moment: deep liminality. Endings are still ending, loose ends threatening to stubbornly re-braid. Beginnings have begun but are very much in process. Shapeshifting is underway, and this in-between state is a vulnerable place to be. What many of us are freshly reflecting on right now, following last week’s escalation of white nationalist terrorism, is this abusive relationship we have been in with white supremacy and colonial capitalist patriarchy. While we’ve been in it our whole lives, and our ancestors’ whole lives, the Trump regime has been a four-year-long crisis, acute and dangerous enough to awaken dormant agency and galvanize a massive and gorgeous resistance.

Statistics on domestic violence show that leaving an abuser is the most dangerous time; abusers will go to violent extremes to prevent losing power and control, and that feels like exactly where we are at. This week brings additional intensity and a Saturn Mars square – the astrology of reckoning. Guard your energy for the steep climb ahead. Ignore calls for reconciliation without accountability. Focus on cultivating love and joy for the work and creating the conditions under which the work ahead could be loving and joyful. Give thanks, again, for the gift of being alive to enact the revolution. Laguna agate inspiration from @sacredgrounds_ 🌈

If you want to take a break tomorrow from seething

If you want to take a break tomorrow from seething with rage to focus on art/poetry/creation, it's not too late to sign up for the two-hour generative poetry workshop I am offering tomorrow through the Georgia Writers Association. The workshop is on Zoom at noon EST (9am PST), and it's only $20!! And it supports an important Georgia literary institution, which, yes!! The workshop is called The Crystal Castles of Memory, and you can read more about it on their Eventbrite registration page, link is up on my website (in bio). Deep breaths everyone, the wave is still in motion. (Art is an album cover of Rossini's Stabat Mater, a hymn to the grief of Mary, the title translates literally to "The Mother Was Standing"...)

Happy eve of 2021 friends! I’m not quite ready t

Happy eve of 2021 friends! I’m not quite ready to announce a calendar of new offerings and events for the new year - I’ve been hiking and eating and sleeping for a week straight - but there is one thing coming up shortly. I’ve been invited by the Georgia Writers Association to offer a two hour Saturday writing workshop on January 9th - it’s early for west coasters, 9am PST. I normally do not work on Saturdays, but I would probably do anything someone from Georgia asked me to do right now since they came through so magnificently for us all in November. This is a generative poetry workshop which means I will activate a writing container anf we will write together. The title is The Crystal Castles of Memory, and we will be exploring somatic and poetic modes and accessing and engaging different kinds of memory - both explicit and implicit - for the purpose and giving fresh language to what’s happened, what’s happening now, and the lived experience of being cumulative. The link to register is up on my website (link in bio) and it’s only $20 to join. If you’re signing up for things to kickstart your creative flow in 2021, I would be honored to zoom-see you there. Until then, party with honor.

Tonight at 6:28 pm PST the moon is full at 8° of

Tonight at 6:28 pm PST the moon is full at 8° of Cancer, archetype of protection, nurture, and mothering. Coming at the end of 2020, it feels like a celebration of all the emotional labor that went into surviving this year - all the phone calls and zoom hangs and porch talks and check ins and artist and mystic offerings that buoyed us, if barely, through a pandemic and civil rights uprising and epic fires and endless threats and gaslighting by those in power.

For some of us this year, foundations crumbled or revealed their fragility; relationships were severely tested as any weaknesses or unhealthy dynamics became unsubtle AF; jobs and housing were lost and dreams postponed. This year was a stress test of collective and personal systems, and if we lived through it, and not all of us did - we owe it to the people we have learned are actually essential during an apocalypse. The farmers and grocers and cooks and caregivers. The nurses and respiratory therapists. The government bureaucrats and postal workers and delivery drivers. The artists and activists. The friends and family whose senses sharpen in crisis.

This Cancer full moon invites us to feel into the vast and often invisible network of care and work that feeds us and keeps the lights on. It wants us to honor the people and animals and plants and spirits who have loved us and provided infusions of warmth and connection when we were at our most vulnerable. And it insists we honor our own emotional labor, all that we have given away this year in the name of love. As we cross the threshold between this year and the next, this moon can support us in partying a little in our hearts, for all this year has been and meant, and it can support us in feeling and allowing to flow out anything we don’t intend to take with us, and it can prepare us for the year of mourning ahead. May the big emo ending begin 🙌🏼

Art by the inspiring @stefyloret, @midnightgospelmemes, @rob_brezney, and Kazumasa Nagai.

Merry Christmas Aquarians at heart ✨ Today we ce

Merry Christmas Aquarians at heart ✨ Today we celebrate magic babies and all new life and new light coming into the universe, which, we know from the stories, we must guard fiercely from evil wizards. May fresh hope and health and enoughness be upon you and yours. Peace, and goodwill, and presence. Life is strange and getting stranger. We are the magic and love we are seeking.

Inspiration from @markrogersart “Dawn of a New Age” 2016

Brian burning the Yule log - the Christmas tree fr

Brian burning the Yule log - the Christmas tree from 2019 - one of our main solstice fire ingredients 🔥

Merry Solstice friends ✨ usually I spend this da

Merry Solstice friends ✨ usually I spend this day preparing like crazy to host a big party on the longest night, making wassail and cakes and moving the furniture around so we can all lounge and puppy pile listening to records and drinking hot drinks and feeling good. The backyard gets freshly tidied and we prepare the fire pit for the magic wishing fire and somehow the weather always works out, like for 8 years straight in Portland, Oregon it has not rained on Solstice night 😭🙏🏼it makes me cry every year the dumb luck and beauty of it. This is my favorite holy-day, and there’s nothing I love more than spending this night with all my artists and hippies and healers and scientists and free weirdos and the littles allowed to party with the grown ups. Obviously that’s not what’s happening this year. I’m missing the buzz and excitement and worth-it work of it. And, it’s so peaceful to just be cozying in for a quiet day and night. The weather is, as ever, surprising and gorgeous, windy and raining off and on, but setting up to *maybe calm and dry in time for a fire. If you’re one of my people, my past or future party friends, I’ll be throwing poppy seeds for you tonight. Next year next year next year. Stay well, stay sane, stay sincere, whatever it takes, you are loved and you are missed.

The Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is upo

The Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is upon us - 2:02 am PST Sunday night / Monday morning, as the day of the sun crosses into the day of the moon and the Solstice. Saturn is the archetype of limitation, containment, and the gateway of form. Jupiter is the archetype of mercy, generosity, and limitless expansion. When the two meet every 20 years, we magically have a union of force and form, primal spirit and primal container - the holy yes and the holy no - the two ingredients for creation. Happening at 0° of Aquarius, this is the moment all the witches and astrologers have been waiting for, the exact moment of restart and repattering. A gift of freshness and cosmic foolishness is being granted.

Solstices are powerful timing for completion and release / beginning and calling in. This one has, like, 1000 times the juice. This is no time to be shy with the prayers that are hidden in your heart, your sacred intuitions about what comes next, if you only had the bravery, the wisdom, the discipline, the self regard, and the lightness to create the life - the world - that’s possible. If you are ready to initiate the next phase - and you are - put your wizard hat on, use your most sincere words to crystallize your intentions, ask for all the inspiration and allies and luck you might need, and lock it in by enacting some metaphor. Build a fire and add the fuel of all your past mistakes. Throw seeds into it of love and justice and beauty and right relationship. Eat honey to make it stick. Happy rebirthday friends ✨✨✨✨✨✨

Repost from @dopblog looped a video by @yo.vo and added the audio by Mika Vainio aka Ø (from the album Oleva, 2008, Sähkö Recordings)

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