Create Ritual or Live Melodrama

Welcome, allies, to the Visionary Activist Show.

I'm your weaver of context, Caroline Casey.

So here we are.

Ritual, bonfires, or arson, take your pick.

The world's on fire, right? The world's on fire everywhere.

Oregon, Canada, Sicily, Spain, France, and more.

But literally and metaphorically.

So ritual, bonfires, or arson, take your pick.

The Leo part of us says, create ritual or live melodrama.

So we have the guiding astro-mytho narrative.

It is soon lunasa, midsummer.

Some celebrate August 1st.

That's the rounded-off part, and that'll do.

It's one of the four cross-quarter holidays called the Four Gates of Power.

that's halloween candlemas beltane and lamas or lunasa so when power is especially enthused to be invited into the community of creation so it's really now through friday august 7th which will be exact mid-season it's the season for ongoing exorcisms of all the demons harmful to life uh we We continue what was begun last week with Maryan Eshami and the Tsar, reminding us that underneath the rubble of malefactor cruelty and bombing stirs the antidote of powerful human ritual.

The Odyssey, I have not seen it yet, but read a lot, so critique some wildly enthused.

But one really great article said, the film does most disservice to Circe, the real Circe.

So we welcome the real Circe.

In the actual epic, Circe is a woman trickster witch of great knowledge, more than Odysseus.

And she does turn his men into swine.

He has the antidote when he arrives, so she doesn't do that to him.

And then they become lovers for a year.

And he's reluctant to leave until his men say, shouldn't we get back on the ocean, get back on the road? And he goes, oh.

But she... returns all the men that she turned into swine back into their real selves but improved improved good-hearted and wearing fine clothes right in the movie apparently it's sort of horrific she's like you know and she molds their faces into whatever the thing is and she's just an obstacle for uh ulysses to overcome so we're inviting in the real cersei and all the troubadour bards and trickster women, everything that's been excluded by orthodoxy.

The Odyssey is really in the memosphere, finding our way home to protect home.

So much at risk, right? Chaco Canyon's on the risk.

It's the last day of commentary going, no, don't open Chaco Canyon to drilling and...

We'll honor all these things.

It is the full moon Kazemi tide.

Kazemi is a wonderful Arabic astrological term meaning in the heart.

And it's when a planet is conjunct the sun.

And it's Jupiter, which was Kazemi with the sun yesterday at six plus Leo, whose Sabian symbol is the constellations of the night sky glow blazingly in the desert, the endless unfolding wonder of creation.

So let's get astonished, right? I was delighted, I was astonished to learn that the word stoned, as in let's go get stoned, which never made sense, like stoned to death, why? It comes from astonished.

Isn't that much more fun to go, hey, let's go outside and get astonished or whatever.

So let's get astonished.

And so we begin.

Well, let me just complete the intro and we'll come back to that.

It was on the full moon Kazemi tide that Troubadour bard Glenn Hansard rode out of this world on his motorcycle.

It was a life we honor.

and all musician troubadour bards dedicated to community well-being as culture doctors in full irish tradition i like sean padraic o'donnie who often says let's see the long ago dead emerging to welcome the recently dead to help us to help us now right so Yeah, so let's begin putting into our bonfire what's been excluded.