Uranus to Earth! Uranus to Earth! Can You Read Me?
Greetings and salutations all you fine earthlings! I'm dipping down to wish you the most wacky, wild, unconventional, mind bending, consciousness expanding, life altering, Full Moon in Aquarius with all your friends that you can possibly have. And BTW, watch out for Neptune. We'll be bumping him shortly. I have a Venus in Gemini in the third house conjunct Uranus. The top slot on my friendship list has ALWAYS been occupied by an Aquarius of the male persuasion. The girls have been Geminis. I love Aquarians. When I met my last one, he was standing on the street with his funky old car running making a great deal of noise. We started talking, and true to Aquarius, he didn't quite commit fully to the intimacy and kept his motor in motion. It ran for an hour at least(gas was cheap then). We then continued the conversation for 20 years, always enlightening, never predictable, and forever enjoyable. Most evenings went way past dawn. We came up with brand new theories about life and death, and saw a sliver of possibility in the future even recognizing the desperation and tragedy of the moment. We knew. I've always felt that good Aquarians are advanced creatures, and most likely from another dimension altogether. They are the best friends in the world, and although some people are uncomfortable with their lack of sentimentality and fundamental emotional detachment, I like these traits and feel freedom to be myself with them. They are scientists in life's laboratory and have keys to knowledge even they aren't fully aware of sometimes. I have often said that they know we are all stuck here together, this is the group we have to work with, so we might as well get along and help one another through it. The slot was empty. My dear friend left town 2 years ago to be with the sea lions in the Northwest. I miss him and had not replaced him with anyone in particular. Oddly enough, I have replaced him with you. Happy Full Moon in Aquarius! And may this conversation go on forever, in many forms.
posted by jm at 11:03 PM
40 Comments:
Beautiful jm, this time the litte tears in my eyes are sentimental ones.
Thanks for the lovely way you use language.
i adore the cartoons, the little tree deodorizer cracked me up entirely! Then i misread and thought you said Uranus would be by shortly to burp (instead of bump) neptune....hey that kinda works too.... or so says my Aquarian asc with a completly entrapped pisces in my first house, north node on the sign cusp between two, it surely does feel like uranus has been burping neptune since they found themselves in mutual reception.
i'm very curious about this lunation a step up from the 11 August 1999 solar eclipse.
i'm feeling optimistic. i love neptune..full faith that this lunation will shine well on creativity and saturn in Leo will be just what we need to bring dreams into reality.
warm thoughts flowing outward
tseka. I, too, got some sentimental moisture going after reading your comment. You have the Neptunian grace to the maximum, and I love it so much. I can't believe my good fortune in finding this group. It was such a complete surprise.
I also love Neptune. It's my favorite. I have so much to say on your Aquarius rising and NN in Pisces in the 1st and this thread is a good place. It is an advanced setup, with the mystical Pisces being the story. This lunation and the transits of Nep in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces are all for you.
The phrase for Aquarius is "I Know", and I think this is where we get a full understanding of what life is all about before we go back into the chaos of Pisces and the complete surrender after having suffered and learned our life lessons. Aquarius just gets it. To have these so prominent in the chart is often an indication of the wisdom of the ages and full experience coming with the person into the incarnation. It can be a big load. I think it can be hard to know so much, and what to do with the knowledge is the struggle, since people are often so far from being ready to receive. I've seen that often in my Aquarian friends.
The NN in Pisces is the guide, I think, without being a guide. It is so mystical and vaporous, but others are drawn to the mystique not knowing why, and not getting specific directions from the Piscean. So they have to pick up clues in other ways. The SN in Virgo is analysis, but that is being left behind so it's hard to explain to the seekers. It's all about some sort of osmosis I think. But people need it so much. This kind of spiritual example.
The Pisces with the collective resonsibility of the Aquarius is a lot. But it is a golden opportunity for us.
I do think the Saturn in Leo is going to bring some dreams into manifestation. I think we can see it already.
It's endless what can be expressed in these Uranus/Neptune days. We must have it as a reminder that we are more than what we appear to be on the surface.
The grace is what I love the most.
And also jm, neptune is very humbling, a couple of years ago, i stepped up to a woman who was very intent upon one of my paintings, i was going to tell her about wandering on the seracs on Elliot Glacier and hearing the groan of the ice moving beneath my feet, -how the painting came: i am the spirit of the unborn sea, ancient memories locked in blue icewalls, waiting for the sun's touch to release me homeward....as i came close tears were running down her face, no words were needed. i do not paint, i only hold on to the brush and let it pour through me. You are so right moving away from south node in virgo with my moon, finding that path with all you helpers...i am ever gratefull, you cannot begin to imagine how much so.
tseka, humbling is right. That is one of the most moving experiences I can imagine. The woman crying. I know the feeling when a creative piece of mine touches someone that deeply and honestly.
I was looking at your paintings the other day and I noticed how much abstraction there is in them. And patterns I didn't see the first time. They are not what they seem to be. Simple landscapes. Paintings are like that and it's amazing the journey the painter takes in one canvas. When a viewer experiences some of that richness, it feels like a miracle.
It's so good having you here, tseka.
What's so amazing about the emotional reactions to art is that they are so mysterious. When we see a sad movie the tears are connected to specific actions, and laughter, the same. Life's tragedies evoke similar responses in everybody.
But with art and music, it's impossible to define what makes people get past the barrier and let tears come. In music, one phrase of notes in just a certain combination can bring floods from someone's eyes, and leave another cold. With visual art it is even more illusive. Is the experience in another dimension altogether from day to day goings on? How are they connected?
This where I get peplexed. How to translate my experience to the audience, knowing it won't be identical, but needing response of some sort or else the sharing has no meaning. I can't control it at all, but I keep wondering if there are universals in the whole thing, that most will recognize. Probably not important, though. One person's real reaction is worth a million hands clapping just to be with the group. It's a challenge learning how to show one's work.
It's such a fascinating process. I have yet to get into the full interaction with the audience that I know is the completion of the work.
Perhaps the key is very simple? Both sight and love are mainly imagination, fragments communicated to the brain then processed by the heart.
In my own work, what is maybe not apparent, i cut the paintings apart after i paint the iniatial watercolour using traditional technique, then i lacquer -repaint each piece abstracting the image sometimes leaving parts out. This asks the eye to see differently. i have always believed that the work is not finished until it is seen (heard) by the viewer, it is our shared experience.
i recall going to an Andrew Wyeth exhibit about 30 years ago. i had read that he considered his work abstract...in photos they appear so illustrative, i had no idea what he was talking about. i walked into the room and was stunned. First by the size, much larger than i expected, at a distance they appear very realistic then as i drew closer they disolved into shapes, razor blade scratchings, catpaw prints, those pristine paintings are indeed abstracts, the light sources are coming from multiple directions, and it alerts our brain that this is something not of the rational mind, and re-directs to the heart for interpretation - magic i guess.
Yes, Tseka! Seeing paintings for real can be an entirely different experience! All the Wyeth family painters knock my socks off . . . and finding out there is so much there is so fitting. I was pondering the difference between the more tactile works I do & the primarily visual/auditory creations you & jm do. The warmth of wool, the cool, fabulous draping quality of silk and cotton comfort all enter in. I'm a big fan of the Bauhaus movement - creating beautiful, functional pieces to live with.
Hate to cut'n'paste'run but couldn't resist noting this article about the Edinburgh Fringe festival shows that there's movement afoot to satirize religious extremism and fundamentalists of all stripes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/ts_nm/arts_fringe_religion_dc
Ha ha! Cut'n'paste'run. Our lives have changed now that these new activities are so big a part of them. joe, we've got to get astrology fundamentals in your gray matter. The timimg for the fundamentalist blowback is perfect.
tseka, that's just what I noticed. Those odd patterns, and it alerted me, since I love unique ideas so much. That is facinating information. Do you recall how the idea came to you?
I work constantly within each phrase of music to find the subtle variations, but the whole looks simple. This is often hard for the audience, I think, as they expect more fanfare and cluttered nonsense. Just the way one note on the piano is pressed has a trillion variations. I need several more lifetimes at this rate.
I went theough a phase of fascination with Andrew Wyeth. This explains why I could look at the paintings repeatedly. Very interesting.
I think you hit on something with the idea of light sources being redirected away from the rational mind. Does the rational mind supercede to help us ascertain our concrete position in the world and the wander to the other parts when we realize we are safe for the moment? Or does the magical part occur alongside, equally strong, just in case our imagination is needed for survival? Any ideas? Does the artist automatically bypass some of the rational? This explains the tears from the viewer with no common trigger and association.
neith. That's why I got into sewing. To have the three dimensional tactile, color elements involved. So I could caress my work physically. That is a big difference with functional pieces. Pottery is a good one. There is an added intimacy when the body is completely involved. I think we elevate the other arts because they are more distant and perhaps have an added Godlike mystique, but the functional arts are probably equal.
It always amazes me that this artistic embellishmnet of stark reality is reqired by all civilizations, yet the artist is underpaid so consistently. I think there are reasons on both sides.
I just put 2 and 2 together!
Joe with his cut'paste, and tseka with HER cut'n paste.
Is this a universal activity to fiddle with reality and put our individual stamp on experience? Can we improve on the cosmic order?
Babies spend most of their time rearranging everything as soon as they can use their eyes and hands together. In no apparent order. The most unorganized organizers I've ever seen!
Ja Neith, i love bauhaus too, the european interpretation of zen. i am dying to see your textiles, to touch them, when you speak of them my hands long to touch. What i wish is that we as society would agree to a living wage for all working artists as some counties do, or at least a recognition of their importance to a vibrant culture.
jm-
i could tell you lots of possible reasons for the genisis of the technique but who really knows? and i am first to say it's advanced kindergarten -cut and paste.
i'm enchanted by negative space the silence, the void, the power of emptyness. it goes way back when i was a child and could walk with deer in the forest and speak with cedar trees....i spent most of my seventh year in silence by choice, rarely speaking, underneath everthing, beyond light, there is a pulse, when i paint i'm listening there, i hear the ash and wind speaking, birds and voices outside time. The paintings really make themselves and i cannot tell you how or why the technique developed. It has become a language now, a bridge between others. What you said so well about the NN makes sense to me. This is simply passion, i surrender to it.
I know what you mean about the audience looking for things that are
cluttered, they look for seduction. But in the past few years i have noted a change, ironically it was first the men, who could "see" (hehe Neith, they always, always think the painter is a man! as you said about the planets in masculine signs) They brought their women kicking and screaming. Years ago i painted abstract flowers, beautiful things and sold well to women....i've always said i'd rather be a prostitute to myself, and any painting is still painting! But now women come, they feel free to explore, open to experience, they often sense some power, conversations flow like the ones we all share here, interesting, ja? big shifting...
(hehe Neith, they always, always think the painter is a man! as you said about the planets in masculine signs) They brought their women kicking and screaming.
HuH?! Your paintings are wonderful, so full of colors, shapes...and texture in person. I was looking at them again, and noted one of my favorites, Narrow Gorge, was marked sold!! I always feel like I could just walk into them & disappear. It is my suspicion that more than myself of those in our community look at the world around us differently than most. Don't know if it's true but I believe some see more shades of color than others - or perhaps can distinguish more subtlety. And there is the whole subliminal response to our environment.
The Pisces man I work for is usually pretty responsive to suggestions in creating a better flow in house floors plans. He gets it lots more than most builders & that's why people feel more at home in the houses he builds. Does make my job a lot more fun to discuss colors & how to make a kitchen more user friendly, etc. :-)
BTW - this was one of the difficult full moons for me & those i interact with. I spent far more time redoing my work today than usual . . . little mistakes in perception mostly. Energy draining though, having to stay focused tightly when the flow says otherwise. Good time for the observing the big picture not having to check details & pay first of month bills . . . :-)
Neith -"HuH?" Sorry, not clear,this was re: over (on your blog?)the discussion of masculine vs feminine planets, we had a previous conversation about my chart being masc dominated...? so just affirming. Same thing happened to me on AW as JM, many there thought i was a man for a long time i was called he...and even though people can see my name on a painting and know i'm a woman there seems to be a desire to make me match what they perceive.
oh phooey, me tseka, not anon...bet you guessed.
Oh, man, you guys...you're so on my wavelength.
I too love the Bauhaus. I particularly love Klee and Kandinsky. But I had a very eery experience the first time I read an art book about the Institute. Everyone seemed truly familiar. (Even Moholy-Nagy) I KNEW these people. I don't give a lot of credence to those people who go around saying, "I was Cleopatra", blah, blah, blah. But the parties, the way people behaved, everything just resonated for me. I've since come to believe that I was somebody's little kid. That I was Jewish. That I went to art school. That I was shot in a woods sometime during WWII fleeing from Nazis.
I have since read a fascinating book called "Beyond the Ashes" by a Jewish rabbi discussing how quickly that generation reincarnated after the war and how they tended to have very specific imagery in their dreams. It chimed in me. I really recommend the book. It's one reason why I am so angry and horrified by the Israelis currently. They are behaving exactly the way the Nazis behaved. Beware who you hate, because you will become exactly like them.
But then I think: I HATE the Nazis beyond rationality.
However, as I mentioned on Neith's blog comments this morning, Aquarians and Geminis are the two signs I understand the least.
One last thing. I ADORE the Wyeths too. All of them.
Aww Neith, redoing is no fun at all.
these past few days have been high energy but very oddly experimental, i had to leave paintings i'm working on and do other things because i knew i'd blow it. So just got silly with paint. Wish that you could have done the same, what colours do ya figure would have come out of a dye cauldron these past coupla days? On the upside, i bet there is a crew which is danged glad for your keen attention!
yup . . . I guessed . . :-)
What I was surprised at was that the automatic assumption was that you were masculine from looking at your paintings! jm fooled me as to gender but you I always perceived as woman. Did you get a chance to read all the comments on the post "The Man", speaking of gender issues . . . it was a fun discussion! :-)
Wish that you could have done the same, what colours do ya figure would have come out of a dye cauldron these past coupla days?
Now that is exactly the correct activity for the current energy! Throw a bunch of colors on the wool & simmer gently . . . it will be OK, no matter what comes out . . . :-)
I ADORE the Wyeths too. All of them.
I remember seeing the illustrations done in the twenties for books & magazines & falling in love w/the use of color so effectively! And then the rest of the family just kept getting better!
Yep i did i read all the blogs and caught up on everyone. Good stuff!
isn't it just so interesting about the perception of gender? i was surprised that some mistook jm for a man...just shows how we all respond to each other so differently, what cues in our own charts, the empty spots probably play into it. Actually i kinda do understand why people think it is a man painting. the work is very large for watercolour some are 6 to 8 feet.
Casey, Paul Klee is one of my absolute faves. When i was at university, one of my instructors began showing early work of Klee, not knowing who it was, it could have been Rubens, the work was so tradional, representational, then slide after slide, a steady progression, dropping line and texture, more and more until that essential line and movement that says the whole story was left. i was breathless at the end....
traipsed off to Switzerland to get a good look later that spring. Simply awesome
the work is very large for watercolour some are 6 to 8 feet.
yah, I noticed that when I was looking @ the paintings . . . thinking to myself, this person is as nutz as me who rips out most of a sweater & rewashes the yarn to start all over again . . . hehe
It really does take a different mindset to do that - like jm sitting and playing her music until she gets the effect she wants. I wonder, does anyone else here have the ability to visualize in 3D? hmmmm, polarity related?
yepper, scored 100% on spatial reasoning!
we are not nutz just -Arsenical (homeopathic speak for polishing and refining -also well suited for ahem "crazy" people, obsessional, well uh ja....But honestly Neith, the world does not run without Arsenical people. They have the vision and the drive to get it to the end. And as long as we remember to garden, or yoga or...knit, we are fine.~~~<:p
And spin . . . spinning is a wonderfully relaxing activity - creates alpha waves in the brain. Perhaps I should amend that about spinning . . . learning to spin can be very frustrating! I do yoga breathing patterns to make the merry-go-round in the brain to stop so I can sleep . . . :-)
SIX TO EIGHT FEET!
My God. I missed that. That is fantastic, tseka. And it does remind me of the male polarity, that kind of grand display that men are so fond of, as if they weren't big enough already!
Probably women were trained to be picky and nice in so many ways. Not to make her presence too big of a deal. It is so very encouraging, tseka, to hear about the change in women you talk about.
I have trouble being solo and female and playing dance music. People always ask, "where is my band?". Maybe that's why it's important for me to stay solo as part of my artistic statement.
The visualizing in 3D is a great question. I'm still thinking. BTW, I also has a difficult full moon. Something to do with the square to Saturn.
Casey.
have since read a fascinating book called "Beyond the Ashes" by a Jewish rabbi discussing how quickly that generation reincarnated after the war and how they tended to have very specific imagery in their dreams. It chimed in me. I really recommend the book. It's one reason why I am so angry and horrified by the Israelis currently
I would like to really delve into this. I have a lot to tell you.
I think people like us who are seeking self knowledge naturally seek our counterpart internally polarity-wise. And I think all creative people do, as plugging male into female inside the self is a lot of the source of energy and artistic creation. The transforming of sexual energy that the artist does. Aquarius too is a gender bender.
I get the distinct feeling that with the Saturn in Leo what we are doing here is going to help us grow as artists. We mean business.
Just the word spinning evokes poetic feelings in me that covers all the fairy tales, and my own vision of dreams being fabric that is spun and woven. This imagery is all through my songs.
I wonder what the symbolism is. And in the stories, isn't it always women who spin?
I think the call has come for the crazy Arsenical people to emerge big time.
~let's just keep that a sotto voce shall we, just enough arsenical types is plenty. You could discuss it with Myrtle Rae, i bet she has an opinion.
I get the distinct feeling that with the Saturn in Leo what we are doing here is going to help us grow as artists. We mean business.
ja, and he, Saturn, knows Aquarius very, very well having once ruled it....i think this is a nice little exchange of info between planets. A lesson plan in getting the job done creatively.
Here's a little something that floated up while i've been reading in the edda's, about the frost giants that are mentioned - there are strong indications that they were refering to static memory a place where wisdom was "frozen" in space and what the sagas were maybe really describing was planets. Men went off to do battle with the giants, they always were victorious returning with wisdom of that source.
And here's another little factoid...
perfectly formed quartz (telescope?) lenses, existed at least 1,000 years ago in Sweden. They were discovered in a burial mound at Visby. This predates the first telescopes and optics by a long while. Not only did they exist but they are of very high laboratory grade even by today's standards.....ja think they knew stuff?
The evidence of advanced knowledge in ancient cultures is fact by now I think. So why do we constantly lose it? Could it be that we misuse it so it is taken away until we experience the loss enough to try and do better.
Very interesting thought about wisdom and the planets. It is so amazing how these bodies are locked into a system with us and have been given identities that all of us know even if we don't know astrology. Why the Roman Gods? We are forever in relationship to them because of this. The wisdom is everywhere.
I have an article about the naming of Pluto that will interest you. I'll post it soon.
JM
The beauty of the blogosphere is having souls like yours participating. The reflection on a time so dear to you is wonderfully put in your parable on the planetary alignment.
Pamela, what a beautiful comment. I think there is a dimension opening up for all of us who recognized the freedom and potential of the blogosphere. We're just getting started and I think what is just ahead in the road is going to surprise us, not to mention bring us joy. There are so many bridges to be built right now. This is an amazing experience and moment in our history.
I credit you with getting me into the positive part of it, Pamela. It's got to be that Moon in Aquarius.
Visualizing in 3D? Me. That's something I've learned over the past thirty years. When I was doing those aptitude tests back in high school, I was strictly a 2D girl. Flatland. But with the growth of 3D in the seismic industry, through courses in architecture in college, and by playing my little simmies, I'm now very comfortable with three dimensions. And today, I have to go hear a lecture on 4D in the seismic industry.
I think the female voice is unmistakable in the blogging world. I always know when I'm talking to a woman. Well, except for once. My very dear cyber-friend (the one that died in May) had an ambiguous-looking avatar on her SimPage. I always thought she was a "she" but one of her other cyberfriends was convinced she was a "he." She even mentioned that she was named after her father, right down to the Jr. So I began to have doubts. I kept e-mailing a mutual friend, saying "B91's a woman, isn't she?" And all she would reply was, "B91, a man? There's a thought!" Well, she was a she. Just not a conventional one. A lovely, quirky, witty, intelligent Capricorn. Miss you, B. Whereever you are.
4D in the seismic industry? I like that, casey. Good thing to be doing while others are running from terror and looking for answers that aren't there. The world of make believe vs 4D.
Excellent.
It's so good to communicate with our lost friends. Those few words you said about your gender illusive quirky Cap said everything.
I love my friends.
I also have found that my loved ones who died have not disappeared. I was amazed to find out the extent to which they remain in the air. It's almost like another incarnation started right here after their deaths, taking on unpredictable forms that are, to use your word, "quirky".
It's almost like another incarnation started right here after their deaths,
Elaborate, please?
joe, this might be a hard one to put into words.
The presence of these people is hard to describe but the difference and why I say it's another incarnation is that they are somewhat changed... more subject to my interpretation without all the distractions of their habits, agonies, demands, sensory output, etc. They come and go in unpredictable patterns, and sometimes it's almost like a scent the presence is so palpable.
It's probably a manifestaion of a memory, but the mind does strange things. Other memories don't have quite the embodiment that these do. And the presence has increased as the deaths gets further in the past.
I can hear them, see them, sense them in an altogether different way than when they were alive. They of course are far far less threatening. I guess you could say they are part of me now, and I've altered them to my specs to some extent.
I know this. My mother and I tangled constantly when she was alive and I often thought she didn't like me. soon after her death, I realized the extent of her love. I also love her now way more than I knew I would. I used to crave her approval when she was alive, and oddly enough, now when she's around, I don't feel the critical aspect. There's been a kind of leveling in death.
It's all about the internal mental world, imagination, and memory, and the deaths seem to have awakened unused parts.
When my man died, I felt at that moment his germ plasm entering my being and I knew he was giving himself to me permanently as his legacy, with all his creative talent. He entered all my cells for good.
I've found them to more like allies in death. Like they are more in harmony with me. Our greatest interfence in life is ourselves. We always get in our own way, and now I know now how much they wanted me close but human barriers can't be crossed entirely when in the physical incarnation. It's fascinating.
That's an interesting response, jm.
After my SO's good friend and former lover died unexpectedly of heart failure earlier this year, I could sense his presence frequently. This sensing tapered off as time passed, so I don't know if it's a normal, gradual "moving on" process or if his spirit moved on to either another lifetime or whatever it is souls do after they finish their post-mortem business here. I'm really curious about that sort of thing, which is why I asked you to explain.
I'm pretty much of the school that we are on our own after they die and the spirits we think we perceive our are own. death is actually a rebirth for the connected person. It's another umbilical separation.
I think the people dying know this and know the other can go on without them.
So after the moment of death we are in charge of the relationship knowing the memory bank will store it. That's when I think we rework it and call for their spirit presence for the task. It's a new way to know ourselves. the person gone knew us sometimes better than we knew ourselves having objective perspective. So I think we continue with them in search of self knowledge.
"are our"
Can you tell I don't know right from left? Literally. I always turn the opposite way and screw up my sewing because of it, with everything going on backwards. I need at least two lifetimes. I hope I get it.
<< Home