Cultivating our Repertoire of Cool Responses

Welcome, allies, to The Visionary Activist Show, and I'm your weaver of context, Caroline Casey.

So with my great ally, Sean Padraic O'Donoghue, that we can co-weave, well, all the themes.

Here we go.

We're ladling a resurrection out of the smoldering cauldron of calamity.

Of course, I looked up calamity in etymological dictionary.

It works pretty well.

A great misfortune or cause of misery, damage, loss, failure, disaster, misfortune, adversity.

Well, we got that.

So cool it all out, slow it all down, sacred bonfires or arson, true lamas, dark of moon before the spooky eclipse on the 12th.

We'll talk about all these things.

So let's quell the hot reactive escalation trap.

that we cultivate an ever-expanding repertoire of cool responses.

We want to be first responders, not first reactors.

We have a lot of first reactors.

It's the anniversary of the bombing, the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

which the Japanese celebrate as disarmament, global disarmament days.

And NASA's Curiosity rover landing on Mars, August 6, 2012.

We remain curious with the rover about Mars, literally and mythologically.

Venus forms a grand trine to Pluto and Uranus.

It's the Phoenix revolution of art and beauty and kinship.

Let us be artists of atmosphere, public dreamers, conjuring the atmosphere conducive to the desirable.

Yeah, everywhere it's hot.

It's hot everywhere.

Cool it out.

So convening with Bard herbalist Jean-Patrick O'Donoghue to light a sacred boundaried fire of fierce beauty in our hearts into which to toss our nafs, right, wonderful Sufi term, our personal and collective befoiblements.

They're very active while honoring the art of grief, Glenn Hansard's parting song, his widow, poet, mayor, Saritza's grieving eulogy, the craft of complex storytelling, satire, Abdul El-Sayed's victory over 60 million AIPAC and democratic establishment, bankrocrat's corruption, and the news all woven with the guiding astro-mytho-animistic news, the description, and the assignment.

Welcome, Sean.

Thank you.

So grateful to be here.

And then just to honor James Baldwin, who said, God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, fire next time.

So here we are.

I'll just say a little bit about the spooky eclipse.

So eclipses, we won't see it here, but eclipses are honored really everywhere in humanity, except for our modern illiterate realm.

It will be at 20 Plus Leo, which is drunken chickens playing the fool.

It's the Lord of Misrule.

We'll bring that into play.

But everything real, everything symbolic.

So my friend Sylvia delineated long ago, is when you're in an actual eclipse, total eclipse, it gets spooky, right? Whoa.

The moon covers up the too bright light of the sun, turns it into a crescent image of itself, and the winds come up.

And striation bands sweep across the land.

And then at the moment of precise totality, it's like,

oh my god.

and you see the stars.

So the analogy, well understood in the Middle East, is that we only see possibilities, the stars, after an eclipse.

So all the more reason, everybody, to just cool it out, cool it out, our own hyperreactivity.

The description in the assignment, it's a jumpy field.

I'll delete the chart and Sean will bring up everything.

We have to and fro.

May it go well for all of us.

But just a short clip to, well, a short witty clip.

The mushroom news.

Here's the mushroom news.

My brain is like my Internet browser.

There's like 19 tabs open, six of them are glitching.

And where the fuck is that music coming from?

Right.

So for reasons there, Venus just moved out of mutable sign.

It's a little more stable now.

But it was in Virgo squaring Mars, the two Mercury realms.

So the description was jumpy, right? Our brain, 19 tabs open, and where's that music? And how do I turn it off? There's that.

And then we calm everything down.

There we go.