I’m feeling a lot like Otis Redding (Virgo) in his posthumous hit, “Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay” during Mercury Retrograde. I’m pondering the whys, wherefores, whats and whens of my life and this blog. The path that I started out on, nearly two years ago when Sah (Immanent deity of Orion) Ra (Egyptian sun god) Palin entered the election, coming from seemingly out of nowhere, just as Barack Obama did. I did Palin’s chart and my stats went through the roof. I didn’t look back. Over the course of the past two years, I covered everything from Albert Pike to Lady Gaga and have done my best to wrap it in a blanket of stars, meaning that there was usually some sort of astrological through line. The blog has become part of an awakening process for me as I hope it has been for you, but I am not sure how much more I have to say along these lines, especially as it relates directly to astrology. Mercury in my own sign, retro has me reflecting on the meaning of it all.
Last night, I spoke with Katie Gallanti and she and I were in agreement that so much has transpired over the past two years and the awakening process has become viral. Here on the day of the Pisces Full Moon, I read a piece by Dahr Jahmail, the terrific journalist from the Middle East. He traveled to Mississippi and spent time with shrimpers who not only refused to go out on their boats to catch toxic shrimp, but held their own press conference, called for the resignation of Dr. Bill Walker, the head of Mississippi’s Department of Marine Resources for lifting the ban on shrimping and fishing. Their first hand accounts of sea life trying to out swim toxic waters is riveting. They are indicative of eyes opening wide across this country and world. Nearly ten years ago, a good friend kept me at arms length when it came to my “crazy” ideas. Fast forward. He’s that guy now. The great awakening is taking on a momentum of it’s own.
As the sleepers arise from their trance-like-slumber, I’m thinking about the next phase, catching the next wave. Once we’ve awakened, what can we do?
When I was young, I had a deeply romantic and naive vision of enlightenment. Occasionally, I still do. I thought that enlightenment was the key to true magic and the conscious application of man’s and God’s will in a perfect execution of integrated energies for truth, beauty and service. I still think this to some extent, but what I never quite factored in on the enlightenment side of the equation was waking up to the horror of the world and the attendant suffering, then deconstructing the architecture of the invisible prisons that we inhabit, how we got there and who helped erect and stand over them. That’s the not-so-fun side of waking up.
There’s the initial rush, you know, the one where you get to live in a Robert Anton Wilson epic for a while and then realize that it’s just another step in the process, a seductive Bardo that can yield some really surreal and juicy nuggets. There’s a high that comes along with it. It’s the inverse of solving light’s riddle, but comes with the attendant giddiness that “you’ve figured something out.” There’s plenty of black diamonds in that mine, trust me. But my wandering soul is restless again and I’m not wholly satisfied with discovering that Barack Obama might be the son of Michael Rockefeller and Cleopatra. After a while, uncovering more illusion only begets more illusion.
Perhaps this is the dialectical dance between my Sun in the 10th and transiting Pices Moon in the 4th. I’m doing my best to ground the arc between the spark of mystical unity and the practical tools of building a better world than the one we allowed to go to hell. Part of me wonders if it’s even possible at this point? I’m considering surrender as the most efficient move-letting go of all my strategies and systems, letting the flood just crash over me. I’ve been here before. I know it. I feel it.
On the other side of letting go is a sense of freedom and release that I can only begin to articulate. The dynamic push/pull between the Sun and the Moon is creating a tension, a torsion, a bi-polar magnetic field that holds the flux of possibility.
The Pisces Full Moon wants us to get cozy at a cellular level, while the Virgo Sun wants to know if it’s a phillips or a flat head? The Pisces Moon is full credit in faith, diving head first into the ocean of oneness, swallowing duality whole. Dick Cheney and Tony Hayward are merely dark angels on the road to redemption. Aware of the depths of the darkness, the Pisces Full Moons beckons immersion and trust. The Virgo Sun wants to make sure that you’ve got a map for the backroads out of town, a tent, sleeping bag, water, a couple of weeks of food and tank full of gas. This is kind of where I’m at. An uneasy station on the cross. But I do know this–there is plenty to live for. I’ve had glimpses of a very different world coming our way and trust me I want to be there. Surrender does not mean giving up–it’s more like giving away.
It’s been a while since I’ve done some Full Moon Scopes, so in the spirit of giving practical form to the numinous, here’s some light bon-mots of astro-advice for each sign over the next 24/48 hours.
I love Gemini. Since most of my 7th house is Gemini, I have always been attracted to Gem women or women with Gem Moon, for better or worse. Usually both. Usually both at the same time. But more than the Gemini Anima, it’s the overall vibe. I’m fascinated by twins, dopplegangers and clones. I find it interesting that the uber-strange and creepy, Olsen twins are Gemini. The six degrees of Olsen and Gemini an also apply here. The Olsen twins of course, made their mark and fortunes on “Full House” which starred Dave Coulier, who would later go on to date Alanis Morrisette, Gemini, who would make her mark and her fortune, screaming about how much she wanted to castrate Dave Coulier in her hit song, “Ironic.” Of course, Morrisette was a child star in her own native Canada, much like “The Olsen Twins.” Hmmmm? It’s that crazy, intertwined and knotted world of strange attraction that makes Gemini so fascinating. Let’s look at another, totally strange example.
Most people know Gemini, Chuck Barris (June 3) as the wild and whacked out host of “The Gong Show.” Prior to “The Gong Show,” he was the godfather of game shows, giving us rich cultural institutions like, “The Newlywed Show” and “The Dating Game.” But Chuck also had a very odd and disconcerting habit of telling people that he was also a hired killer, an assassin for The CIA. In fact, they even made a dark and pretty hilarious film about it, Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind starring Sam Rockwell as Chuck Barris and George Clooney as his CIA contact. Sharing the same June 3 birthday as Barris is Anderson Cooper, the young and dashing first man of cable news. Anderson of course is the son of jean queen, Gloria Vanderbilt. His involvement with The CIA is far from secret, even pop culture sites like Radar have written about it. Chuck Barris/Anderson Cooper, Geminspy. That’s the strangeness that abounds in the sign.
On a slightly more personal note, I have a really good friend that has been through some rough patches in his life. He and his brother were adopted at the age of two after an event that brought child and family services into the picture. I’ll skip the details, but trust me, his adoption was for the better. In his mind, he always had two brothers; one that got adopted out with him (now deceased) the other that got left behind. He never had much contact with that brother, since said brother has been sadly unable to conduct his life without the aid of alcohol. The parents that adopted him had also passed. In his mind, he was alone–or so he thought. Just as transiting Venus in Cancer was about to move into his progressed third house (brothers and sisters) and trine progressed Chiron in Pisces at the end of his twelfth house, out of nowhere, a woman with the last name of “Fisher” connected with him through Facebook to tell him that she was his half sister and that he had four other half siblings that he did not know about. That’s a total of five new people that just showed up! In his progressed 12th house, shared by Aries and Pisces, there’s a veritable family in there. Yep, 1-2-3-4-5, five planets, five new half-sibs.
Miss Fisher (Pisces/Chiron) made the call, but it happened when transiting Uranus moved into Aries and conjuncted his progressed Mercury in Aries, 1 degree. Are you following me here? In the month of Gemini, sisters and bros, he just found out that he has a whole new tribe out there. Gemini is high strangeness indeed. I’m happy for him and hope that somewhere in the mix of five new souls entering into his world, that his aloneness will be somewhat abated and a small part of himself can be put back into place.
Of course, we’ve got this great big, freaking cross coming up at month’s end, but as we get closer, I’ll have more details for each sign
Some of you might be aware of the whip-smart Willow, from Willow’s web. She’s indicative of the new astrologer, one not tied to convention or any of the other New Age trappings that astrology has been saddled with over the last 50 years. There is a new genre of astrology emerging and it’s astrology with an edge (Just wait till Uranus lands in Aries) and she is right at the forefront. No fluff, polite cushioning, just potent, undiluted observations and keen analysis on her end–she’s also a helluva writer. I was blown away when I discovered her blog–a kindred soul indeed. Once a month, I have her on my radio show, it’s called, “Wednesday With Willow” and on it we discuss what’s happening astrologically as it relates to the culture at large, taking a scalpel to our examination of the greater milieu. In the second hour, I’ll fly solo and will be giving free, mini-readings. Please join us live, tomorrow, on FAR.
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On Sunday night, you might have heard the intense, powerful and profound conversation with Jay Weidner and myself. If you haven’t, you can simply go to the player to the right of this post and listen in. There are two streams to our talk; One is the evidence that Jay provides regarding the hidden messages in the films of Stanley Kubrick, messages that range from a faked Moon landing that he had filmed, to an expose of the dark forces of psychic and material manipulation that have been at work for at least the last 3,600 years.
Jay’s a Gnostic alchemist and draws a lot of his info from Indian scriptures such as “The Vedas.” His main thesis is that we have been managed and manipulated by a group of beings known as “The Aryans” or “The Ariens” or “The Archons” and their middle management, for a very long time. While we did not establish their original source, we did more or less agree upon the Annunaki as their origination.
It’s Jay’s premise that after every Yuga cycle, The Sun experiences something called, “Mass Coronal Ejection” meaning that there is a solar burst that scorches The Earth and Terra hits reset on consciousness and species development, a way for it to experience a new level of complexity and diversity, but Jay thinks that when these coronal ejections have taken place, “The Aryans” hoof it to Mars and chill out until life on Earth comes back a bit and voila, they get to run things all over again.
We also discussed the possibility of our Moon as an artificial spaceship, placed into orbit. While we did not talk about how it got there, theories abound regarding the destruction of our first moon and even the fact that we originally had no Moon at all and it was placed there to help balance our cycles with tides, menstruation, solar orbits and seasons. If that’s the case, then The Moon might have very different properties than we know aside from gravitational pull. Perhaps there are technologies within The Moon itself that regulates biological function from a distance. If that’s the case, then we cannot dismiss it’s impact upon us during it’s cycles, especially at it’s peak and decline. In it’s fullness we are in the most direct line of contact with an energy it generates to heighten our sense awareness, both defined and subtle. In it’s decline, we are in a state of lesser conductivity and are closer to the circadian rhythms of our own world.
What does this meaning terms of astrology? How does a piece technology impact where it lies in your birth chart? How can we account for such perceptive and accurate info when looking at The Moon’s influence? . When I was younger and just getting my feet wet with astrology, I noticed that both my parents have Virgo Moons and that their natures were by an large, critical, both of self and other and yet, they found refuge together in their shared and generally agreed upon criticism of the world and the shortcomings of others. It was a very small club and they were both founding and elite members. If one decided that a person didn’t live up to their standards of being a friend, the other would quickly follow suit, as they shared an emotional harmonic that was clearly played out by the critical nature of their Virgo Moons. This was my first and most immediate lesson in the accuracy of astrology.
I was born at the very end of Virgo, which also showed me the connection between Sun/Moon, Moon/Sun in terms of offspring relationships. I’ve done a number of charts where children share either a Sun or Moon sign with one parent. In my case, my son shares a Libra Moon with me, just a few degrees apart. Clearly, most people that have a basic working knowledge of astrology can see The Moon as emotional antennae as being legitimate. There are far too many cases of this being played out.
So The Moon moves through various constellations, usually over a 48 hour period and while in the sign of that constellation it is assigned a value based on the mythic or archetypal qualities of that constellation. Today, The Full Moon is in the constellation of Libra. Ironically Libra was first considered Scorpio as the Arabic word for scales and claws is roughly the same;
“In earlier times, Libra was represented not by a balance, but as the claws of a scorpion. The reason is a confused translation of the words zubānā in Arabic and zibanitu in Akkadian, which mean both ‘weighing scale’ and ’scorpion’. In ancient Mesopotamia, a weighing scale was often the arm and the pans without a stand, and was hung up by a string tied to the midpoint of the arm, resulting in a close resemblance to a scorpion hung up by the end of its tail with its arms stretched out. The double meaning of zibanitu resulted in the constellation being called Chelae Scorpionis (the scorpion’s claws), and it originally formed part of the claws of the Scorpius. The modern Libra is the youngest of the Zodiac signs and the only one not to represent a living creature. In Greek mythology, Libra is considered to depict the scales held by Astraea (identified as Virgo). (Wikipedia).
One would think that if that were the case, then Libra would line up with Scorpionic time and it does actually in tropical astrology, but not in sidereal, where it resides from 9/23 to 10/22. How did it downshift from not just Scorpio to Libra, but to another month backwards in time?
In my last post, I discussed “The Kolbrin Bible” and there are a number of references in that book that states that the world actually had 360 days in it’s solar cycle but an extra five days were added somewhere along the way. Did the extra five days push all the signs forward thirty days? Did Libra used to occupy the space where Virgo once was? Scorpio where Libra used to live? Did we actually add days, or did something happen where the Earth shifted it’s geocentric relationship to those constellations enough so that they actually appeared in different places in our skies?
Libra is a pretty interesting constellation unto itself, let alone the mythic meaning it might portend. It is home to the first planet that was discovered outside of our solar system that was found to have Earth like conditions:
Libra is home to the star Gliese 581, which has a planetary system consisting of at least 4 planets, including, Gliese 581 c, the first Earth-like extrasolar planet to be found within its parent star’s habitable zone, Gliese 581 d, discovered in 2007 to be another Earth-like planet, and Gliese 581 e, the smallest mass exoplanet orbiting a normal star,[1] both of which are of significance for establishing the likelihood of life outside of the Solar System.(Wikipedia)
So let’s get back to this Moon/Constellation thing. Let’s say for a moment that The Moon is a spaceship, a piece of technology, one that amplifies and magnetizes, then it could theoretically account for it’s interactions with star systems and planets, acting as a device that accumulates and disperses energy based on alignment or misalignment. We know that planets have pull on another and this is how a number of planets, especially the outer planets were discovered. There was a wobble on the orbit of Saturn, which led to the discovery of Uranus, which had a wobble of it’s own, where we found Neptune exerting it’s influence. So we can agree that the planets themselves have force. Most astronomers and skeptics would say it’s not enough to influence our lives and that astrology is mainly superstition. But how did astology get here and why does it hold such a powerful influence on our lives today?
People like Jordan Maxwell attribute astrology to “Astrotheology” in essence making our myths out of planets and constellations. The Electric Universe guys have a similar theory. But it had to come from somewhere. In my exploration of death and time as it relates to “The Epic Of Gilgamesh” it’s fairly clear that astrology was prominent during the heights of the Mesopotamian and Sumerian empires. Certainly, it takes root in Babylon and later Egypt, where Ptolemy, a Roman living in Egypt becomes the first westerner to organize astrological principles in great detail. So the debate becomes, does it truly exist and exert an influence on our lives and how?
Here are four plausible theories:
1) The Planetary Pull Theory
Discussed in some detail above, the planets in our solar system exert an influence on us by their mass and general physical properties. As they square off, oppose and trine one another, the energies and elements create harmonic or dissonant relationships with one another. The constellation or star system they are aligned with acts like a Cymatic pattern that is an aggregate of the energies of that system. The ancients knew this and created a nomenclature for the lay person to understand this via agrarian or elemental attributes. So in essence, the planetary pull theory is like a shifting, kaleidoscopic mandala that is always moving and modulating energy on an individual and collective level.
2) The Accumulated Belief Theory
This theory presupposes that since we have been living with astrology for so long and have poured so much of our beliefs into it, that it has literally taken on a life of it’s own. In essence, we have created it through our continued attention and focused application of it’s principles. Now we may look to the planetary pull theory as a justification for the belief in astrology, but our own interest animates it into a social construct and a way for us to understand the ineffable with a language and set of guidelines and principles.
3) The Elemental Theory
While talking with Jay the other night, he discussed how the Archons returned from Mars, sans melanin, with red hair. Jay claims that this is the result of iron oxide in the blood, accumulated from time spent on Mars. If that’s the case, then perhaps we have an elemental connection to all the planets in our solar system; elements of Mars, Saturn, Mercury, Pluto, etc, which biologically predisposes us towards certain influences and inclinations. If we are heavily aspected by certain planet, there might be also be an underlying correlation with our own biology and accumulated star/genetic stuff.
4) The Past Life/Interdimensional Theory
I first discovered this in the writings of Edgar Cayce. According to Cayce, there is interdimensional life taking place on all the planets and that the energies of each planet experienced intensely on those plane(ts). For instance, if you needed a lesson in love, it’s off to Venus you go between lifetimes. If it’s sobriety and order, a little timeout on Saturn is just the tonic. So, theoretically, by having these experiences between lifetimes, we actually become attuned to the influences of these spheres and the impact they have on our lives based on time of birth, soul agreements, etc.
In some ways, I’ve undertaking this little sojourn to demonstrate how Moon in Libra works. It takes an issue (usually emotional) and looks at it from a number of different angles to come up with a fair assessment of the situation or dynamic at hand. That said, how does the Libra Moon play out for you in your sign over the next couple of days? In order to better understand, I’ve assigned you each a guide of fairness, balance and wisdom to guard you and light the way for the next 48 hours: Read the rest of this entry »
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Today’s Sun/Mars trine at 1 degree is a brilliant catalyst to get things done. There’s martial/jovial energy in the air. With the Moon in Gemini, conversation should be lively and sprightly. Get out and make the most of the fresh Spring energy. As the moon shifts into Cancer on Wednesday and for all of you gardeners out there that did not get the jump on the Taurus Moon and planting on Friday/Saturday, The Cancer Moon gives you a nice second chance to get things in the ground.
On the Healthcare debate, whatever happens today during the fiery exchanges held on the house floor, the repercussions will be felt mainly on Wednesday as the Cancer Moon will oppose Pluto in Capricorn. Expect everything from out and out crankiness to passive/aggressive acts of civil disobedience. All-in-all, the energy today sets the stages for a week of initiation and making tinges happen. Put your passion into play.
Speaking of the Gemini Moon, we’ll have Alan Tower (Gemini) on FAR tonight. He’ll be with me from 9-10PM PST. From 8-9PM PST, I’ll be doing live, free mini-readings. Alan will be discussing his latest project inspired by “Avatar” as well as his remarkable theories around natural resonance and sound integration. Please join us.
The sweet tension between being emotionally correct and effusively expansive is in play right now, as The Moon crests in Virgo, opposing the Sun and Jupiter, both in the immersive energies of Pisces. There’s piety and propriety, passion and promise swirling in the ethers. Politeness and and circumspection can transform into humility, which is the gateway to understanding. Sun/Jupiter is a portal, a stargaze to mystery that is accessible by entering into them at the same speed at which they vibrate. This is not the speed of light in the physical sense, but rather in the metaphysical sense. There is an abundance of potential in the skies, but The Virgo Full Moon is the attitudinal barometer for entry into the gates of mystery.
On the practical front, this is a great day to make sure that you are coming from emotional integrity in all of your relationships. The Virgo Moon is want to be uber-critical but it is softened by the pillowy cushion of Jupiter/Sun. Ease up on yourself, but don’t checkout. Notice. Check-in. Re-correct, gently. Stay close to the purity of intent without submitting to the puritanical tyrant within.
On a macro-level, The Virgo Full Moon allows the self to see the world and it’s institutions clearly, without projection or sentimentality. Virgo is deeply invested in health, which in The US, means of course the ongoing soap opera with health care, one of the biggest drags and distractions on the planet right now. There will also be s light sense of panic for those that are depending on urn-employment benefits, which could run out, thanks to the irascible Jim Bunning (Scorpio) this should last only for few days though, so don’t clench that anal sphincter too tightly and remember, there is profound possibility in the air if you enter the space openly with humility.
While the worst winter in recent memory blasts it’s hoary breath across the planet, The Sun and Jupiter co-mingle in the deep and faith filled waters of Pisces. I was speaking with a friend today and he was working out his challenges over the phone, grating and grinding them down to size. I listened and saw his plight as one of millions that we’re all experiencing on some level right now and if not us, then someone close to us is going through the soul wringer. Then it dawned on me: “We are in the time of tribulation.” It made sense to me from a biblical perspective obviously, though I am not a cheerleader for Revelations, but I could see the connection. From a purely energetic and experiential stand point, trials are the order of the day. We are experiencing the tribulations and tests of our everyday lives. Add them all up and the world is going through it. Even though we cannot see it clearly, we’re all gong through it together.
The early conjunction of The Sun and Jupiter allows for us to have spiritual insight, deep spiritual insight into our current sets of challenges we all face. As I type, the Sun is at five degrees Pisces while Jupiter is eight. The Sun is gaining on the second sun. On SUNday, the two will be in exact conjunction. Circle the 28th on your calendar. It portends a day where a divine sense of grace can really enter into our affairs. If we surrender our fears and our limitations, place them at the entrance to our higher selves and leave them behind, while ascending into the “upper room” we can see our spiritual expression as being greater and having far more power than our circumstances and the world that wants to limit them. Venus will also be in Pisces, within a five degree orb of Uranus, thus making them conjunct as well. This is symbolic of quantum healing for all relationships. If you are a believer in the “power of intention” then set your inner compass to gentle expectancy. Patiently and faithfully wait on the magic and power of divine love to move through your relations.
This coming weekend is a deep and accelerated time for shifting and deeper alignment. Don’t sleep on it.
Stalking Tiger
I would be remiss if I did not comment on the resurrection of Tiger Woods. He met the media on Friday, Guys in blazers, mute witnesses to the “robotic” confession offered up by Woods. I can’t tell you how many sports writers used the word “robotic” over and over again when discussing The Woods presser. Bill Simmons of ESPN, one of my favorite sports writers continually made reference to the fact that Woods displayed all the emotion of a doorknob. Read the rest of this entry »
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Feels like we’re about to be shot out of cannon. There’s so much happening in the heavens. The Sun is heating up again, more solar flare activity in the past thirty days than in the past two years. An asteroid came pretty damn close to The Earth on Wednesday, there’s a new moon in chilly Capricorn, Saturn goes retrograde in Libra and we’ve got a solar eclipse on the 15th. This from NASA on the eclipse.
“The first solar eclipse of 2010 occurs at the Moon’s ascending node in western Sagittarius. An annular eclipse will be visible from a 300-km-wide track that traverses central Africa, the Indian Ocean and eastern Asia (Espenak and Anderson, 2008). A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbral shadow, which includes eastern Europe, most of Africa, Asia, and Indonesia.”
The annular path begins in westernmost Central African Republic at 05:14 UT. Because the Moon passes through apogee two days later (Jan 17 at 01:41 UT), its large distance from Earth produces an unusually wide path of annularity. Traveling eastward, the shadow quickly sweeps through Uganda, Kenya, and southern Somalia while the central line duration of annularity grows from 7 to 9 minutes.
For the next two hours, the antumbra crosses the Indian Ocean, its course slowly curving from east-southeast to northeast. The instant of greatest eclipse [1] occurs at 07:06:33 UT when the eclipse magnitude [2] will reach 0.9190. At this instant, the duration of annularity is 11 minutes 8 seconds, the path width is 333 kilometers and the Sun is 66° above the flat horizon formed by the open ocean. Such a long annular duration will not be exceeded for over 1000 years (3043 Dec 23).”
That’s a lot of activity. Can we expect more challenging circumstances on the planet in those regions? What does all of this mean?
The New Moon in Capricorn will square Saturn as it moves backwards. This could be a very interesting time for relationships. Look for the pst to be -re-animated. Old lovers come out of the woodwork, issues that were once thought of being resolved are back on the front burner again. Power plays and ultimatums should be avoided at all costs. For anyone involved in legal issues, stay on your toes, especially if it involves any government agency or a corporation. Don’t buckle or cave in immediately. Of course, this affects Capricorn, Cancer, Libra and Aries Sun signs, Moons and ascendants. Check your coordinates. Strive for win/win, but don’t back down either. Buy time and try to ride it all out until Mercury goes direct. Things will shift.
The solar eclipse is the first of this young decade. Of course, since it’s in Capricorn it will aspect the US chart, exactly conjuncting the US Mercury in 24 degrees. The shadowy Sun will also conjunct the US Pluto, with a four degree orb. What generally happens on Fridays? Heavy economic news is released. With the conjunction of the eclipse on the US Mercury look for challenging language and forecasts. The US seems to be broadening it’s presence in North Africa via the ongoing soft conflict with Somali pirates, Nigeria (oil) and even Yemen, as it sits directly across from Somalia. The eclipse will cut through the center of Africa, but it touches the motherland and then heads east.
The next solar eclipse will occur on July 11th, which would place it at roughly a mid-point between The US Sun and Mercury. So what takes place during this eclipse, could very well be part of a two stage activation, culminating during the Summer.
The eclipsed Sun will touch The New Moon, conjuncting it and Venus as well. As we have seen during the past year, Pluto in Capricorn has really flexed it’s muscle in triggering the coporacratic DNA that has initiated buyouts, bailouts and sellouts. This eclipse will either reveal its shadowy nature in greater detail, illuminating some aspect of the (de)evolving paradigm or it will trigger yet more of the same in terms of plane/plain power grabs in the midst of more chaos.
It all starts today.
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LUST IN TRANSLATION
I ran across this woman in all of all places a basketball forum (thank god for the internet) She was a photo and a tag iine to a post for a website called, mexicanlust.com. Intrigued I risked spyware and viruses and held my breath as I crossed the border of curiosity. I was as my son is now fond of saying, "flabbergasted."
This woman is the most ostentatiously, over-the-top, manifestation of a fertility goddess that I have ever seen.
The picture shown above is the most modest on her site, subtitled Aztec Goddess. In one series of pictures, she's dressed as a nun, others, dressed in as little as possible.
Her name is "Maritza" and her bio states that she's a Taurus, May 1, this automatically qualifies her as having mythopoetic status, as a living archetype of Venus of Willendorf, The May Queen and the earthy Empress of the major arcana.
She lists her favorite authors as Paul Verlaine and Charles Bukowski, along with her favorite positions (the arc, the wheelbarrow , the hammock), how many times she orgasms (usually 4-7) and her current occupation (accountant). She lives in Jalisco where she listens to Sade, Everything But The Girl and Toto.
If you want to see a lot more of Maritza, you can go to her website mexicanlust.com.
From The Vaults — Interview With Kool Keith Circa 1998
I did this interview way back in 1998, when I was The Music Editor for MONDO 2000 and a contributer to Getting It, an edgier, West Coast version of The Onion.
Getting ahold of Keith Thornton was no easy feat. Talking with him appeared to be almost nearly as elusive.
Looking back at it I am struck by his honesty and trust, a trust that almost borders on naivete'. He's extremely complicated, really trying to define himself against the grain of his culture, genre and music industry. Kool Keith, Dr. Octagon, Dr. Dooom, Me. Gerbik, all his various personas comprise a strategy; part marketing, part psychological survival tool kit.
I caught up with him on the back end of his tour with DJ Spooky.
GETTINGIT: How was the tour?
KOOL KEITH: Oh, it was cool, yeah.
GI: How was it working with Spooky?
KK: He's an eccentric guy. Takes walks. Every city he would get off the bus and say that, "he wants to feel the city." [Chuckles] Then he comes back three hours later.
GI: Where are you now?
KK: Los Angeles.
GI: Is that where you're living now?
KK: Sometimes. I stay in Miami. I'm in New York for a minute sometimes.
GI: When you were in San Francisco, did you go to the Mitchell Brothers [XXX-theater]?
KK: I didn't go there. But I like it. But I also like the Pelican in Miami.
GI: Were you ever in a porn film?
KK: Nah, that's what people say. A lot of porn stars are my friends. I'm basically a cameraman -- a photographer for models with different looks.
GI: If you could star in a porn film, who would you want to do it with?
KK: Stephanie Swift.
GI: What's special about her?
KK: She looks real pretty, her eyes and stuff. She has a real different type of look. She has an innocent look. I get turned on by girls that aren't actually acting sexy. They are turned out by stuff like that.
GI: Is it the concept of turning them out and getting them freaky that turns you on?
KK: Yeah, like if I met a regular girl who got into something for the first time, something new... it's like if I had an exclusive photo of the girl instead of someone in Hustler that fifty thousand guys get to look at. It destroys the secret. It's not exclusive. I get more girls who are not fully exposed in the industry; they're more a collectible type item. It's like if you had a picture of Britney Spears in lingerie for yourself, versus her stripping in Playboy. It's something like that.
GI: Is that why you have all the different personas -- keeping the identity fresh, exclusive?
KK: Well basically, I enjoy the music industry in a different way. I have to constantly break myself down. One side of me wants to go to the mall as Kool Keith, and then there's another side as Black Elvis that I can show the world and they can take pictures and camera me. I have an image so that I can go to the mall and shop. I'm not obsessed with being recognized. It saves me from a lot of hassle. I want to be known for my art and creation of music.
It's like a Batman and Robin thing. With Alfred and them, they were always upstairs chillin', havin' cups of tea and talkin'. When they went to see the Joker and stuff, they were Batman and Robin. I kinda like that. I don't need the world in my business. I don't need secret cameramen walkin' around takin' pictures of me like "hey there's Keith in his baseball cap eating cake." That's why I wear the Black Elvis wig and glasses. I'm givin' that energy out to the world. It's like Peter Parker, Spider-Man, and Adam West.
GI: Why Black Elvis?
KK: The height of my career. I have to give my own self credit and props. I had to give my own self leverage so people could write me up in issues and columns and books and stuff. I had to fill my own time, blow my own horn. At the end of the day they might not put me in categories. They might not put me in categories and rate me high up as the top or greatest rappers or top MCs. I had to do it myself. Because if I hadn't done it, people would have acted like they couldn't see it. They see me as Black Elvis, cuz I had deserved to be Elvis, not Elvis Presley, but the Elvis of rap.
GI: Have you been to Graceland?
KK: I need to go over to the auction and get some stuff.
GI: If you could get anything of Elvis', what would it be?
KK: The car and the belt.
GI: The Cadillac?
KK: Yeah.
GI: Have you ever been in a movie?
KK: I did one movie, Champions with Ken Shamrock. It was on Showtime. Danny Trejo was in it. It was a movie about kickboxing -- fighting Octagon-style. Remember when it was that type of fighting, when dudes had to die?
GI: Yeah.
KK: So it was a movie like that. It was kinda crazy. You can rent it at Blockbuster.
GI: Nothing other than that?
KK: Nothin' but those Sprite commercials.
GI: What kind of movie would you want to be in?
KK: I would want to play a role other than a typical rap guy. I want to play roles that people wouldn't think I would play. I want to be in action films... do somethin' different. Like a horror film, a lawyer, an ill doctor or somethin' like that.
GI: Did you really get a million dollars from Sprite?
KK: Yeah.
GI: What did you do with all of that money?
KK: I enjoy my life.
GI: On Spooky's Riddim Warfare, you did a track called "Object Unknown." It was about seeing UFOs in Brooklyn. Did you really see one?
KK: [Laughter] I seen different shit walkin' around the Bronx at night. I mean I've seen different things. But I had no witness to cover me.
GI: What did you see?
KK: I seen some flyin' shit. It wasn't no airplane.
GI: What did it look like?
KK: It was round, like some Saturn shit around it. It wasn't no blimp either. It was ill; it was like, "what the fuck was that?" It wasn't a fuckin' airplane.
GI: So when you saw that object in the Bronx, was that your inspiration?
KK: It was some fuckin' crazy shit. It bugged me out. I thought it was some kind of naval testing thing. They have stealth shit. But it wasn't that.
GI: Have you ever met David Bowie?
KK: No. I've seen him a lot. Different places. He goes with Iman right?
GI: Yeah.
KK: He's lucky he came up on Iman. I had a girl like that once in Amsterdam. She was an Ethiopian girl -- little smaller.
GI: What was she like?
KK: She was nice.
GI: Do you like bowlegged women?
KK: It depends. I've been with a lot of different culture type people -- from black girls to white girls. There's a difference in both. Some girls are open-minded, some are very standard. Women have an American standard that's boring sometimes. The corny movie thing, the going out to dinner, that proves to me that you like me. Nobody goes to do something different, like play pinball. Everybody's family-programmed.
GI: What are some of the differences between black women and white women?
KK: From my experience, black girls are more materialistic and wantin' to know what you have -- what you own. And they have big expectations, which makes it hard for a black guy because he has to go to extremes to impress. They're more into the name of what's on the back of your shirt tag. You can't wear nuthin' without inspection,[femme persona] "ooh is that made by Calvin Klein?"
White girls are very open. I notice a lot of [black] guys datin' white chicks. A white girl might help you out because you don't have to go to the far extreme to impress with clothing. You could drive a Ford Pinto. They could care less. It's a total difference. Like with black girls, you could be a college football player and they won't know nuthin' about you. But when you get in the NFL, now they know you.
And then there's geographic differences -- like between California and New York. These girls in New York expect to be with NBA players and they have these bullshit weaves sewn in. In California, you're talkin' to a beautiful model -- you're used to talkin' to beautiful at like the Beverly Center, and then you go to New York and see some ugly girl with high expectations. I was just in Miami. I just left a beautiful place with beautiful fuckin' models and they were talkin' to me, treatin' me nice, givin' me respect and havin' drinks. Then you get to New York and there's some ugly bitch with a messed up weave with some bullshit shoes on, fat stomach, out of shape. And she's actin' like she's the shit. It takes you down. I learned that from music and travelin' around the world.
By me bein' Black Elvis, it's like some algebra problem [black women] can't solve. That is so hard to comprehend -- a black rock star. I'm not a materialistic person. Just because I'm not like Boyz II Men, that doesn't mean that I'm not black. Or I'm not runnin' around murderin' everybody -- they're materialistic. I just think it's ignorant.
GI: Did you ever see [John Sayles'] Brother From Another Planet?
KK: Yeah.
GI: What did you think about it?
KK: It was just some different shit. It was a nice movie. Like maybe blacks didn't support that film either. He didn't do a typical simple-assed movie. It was just low budget. He was just walkin around -- [laughs to himself] kinda like me.
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