Time to Face It
He can be ferocious so I'd better start tickling the ivories more, or stroke the plastic of the synthesizers. Hate to be reminded of time, but I'm here and in it. It's a mighty roar.
Maybe he'll take one of his 18 hour naps if I get going and leave me to my methods.
Illustration by Chris Van Allsburg from Jumanji
posted by jm at 1:51 PM
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Handy items for a Saturn transit:
*one jackhammer
*A Houdini escape artist kit
*one ticket to an anti-gravity lecture
*Rock climbing gear and a course in rappeling
Well... those all sound sorta nice, jm... like a rabbit's foot, or a rap on wood... ;O)
LOL! About as effective.
I had no wood the other day so I rapped on some tile to ward off bad luck. Needless to day, it didn't work.
Degree of your Saturn joanna?
jm, fear is in the news again. Check out the November 30th The Frameshop.
http://jeffrey-feldman.typepad.com/
"Bush's Body Language Says 'I'm Afraid'."
It is indeed time to face It.
I saw it joe!!! Oddly enough. It popped out of the ethers earlier today. I love this kind of thing. I've always picked up clues from voices and body language. Couldn't happen to a better person:-)
But I've always seen this in him. And his voice ALWAYS has a high pitched hysterical edge to it.
It is indeed time to face It.
*Chuckle*
That's fascinating. My aunt and I were horrified the first time we caught sight of him on television. We kept wondering how people weren't instantly put off by his body language, and by the lack of substance in speech. Sure raised my hackles.
Horrifying is the word for it. His hands are among the worst I've ever seen and his arms aren't right. He pitches forward in a primitive way and his teeth are hideous.
People have recognized it, though, all along. The ape comparison which is impossible to miss.
I think many people were distracted by his childlike begging appeal and his foolishness. The whine in his voice and the way he ends his sentences with a question mark are what I found hard to absorb. But others must have found this charming.
Most of all I think the country was forced to backtrack with this evolutionary misfit as a prelude to a slight step ahead. I'm curious as to what the next president will reveal about this. If he will be built more gracefully.
The lack of substance is an ongoing cultural thing. It's everywhere. So they wouldn't notice anything amiss. I find most politicians lacking in substance but the speaking style can distract from it. The excitement of false feeling...ebbs and flows. People can be brought to tears by bullshit.
"People can be brought to tears by bullshit."
Absolutely! Among other things, it's the same corpo manufactured syrupy hallmark card "sentimentality" crap that's supposed to pass as real feeling. Go on! Go on! stupid sheep! Cry/weep over sewer sludge & blink no eye over... say, blowing up or poisoning children 'cause they're 'sposed to be the spawn of the latest n' greatest "bad guys."
I have a 7 degree Leo saturn, jm... right in the 10th house... lording it all over the whole chart. Thanks for asking. ;O)
That raging Lion forced to lay down & make nice on a piano of all things (imo) is quite exactly how I feel most of the time. Raging, raging, raging... & no jungle or savana in which to leap, roar, bare fangs, tear at bogus lying yammering flesh, or to run... run, run, run furiously furious under a full Moon that fills the sky!
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!
Joanna my word exactly! I'm on a huge jag with this right now.
HALLMARK CARD!
Every other minute I say it..."it's getting Hallmarky again"
You're absolutely right about the ignorance of the real tragedies.
Just like your mice!! Oh I loved that one.
In the 10th. No reason not to be out here...er, there..er, everywhere.
That raging Lion
That raging person up there in the last comment is doin all right.
Joanna, I know exactly how you feel. I've been raging for over half a century and still it remains inside of me. You've seen some of it. The responses lately made me realize how ineffective I was in it all so I decided to experiment with a new technique, instead of shooting my anger all around. I have no idea if it will work or not.
Your last comment was glorious in its expression. Not directed at anyone. just the real feeling inside of you. The words are the way with your NN in Gemini. And Saturn square your Mars, I believe, is making you hold back to some extent. I think it will find its voice and outlet as you go. It takes genius/experimentation to express our true feelings to the fullest in an uptight world.
Just being trapped in this frikkin' body is enough to make me rage for a lifetime. How many teeth do I have to brush to be all right? That's one advantage to being ancient and toothless.
You said it so well and is so much the dilemma of the Leo lion in us. My friend with all his Leo raged from birth till death with no restriction, roaring and shredding life with his fangs. He cared nothing about the consequences. He was so much like the beast you just described. I think you're right. We should be be unafraid of this. But we have Saturn to contend with. I'm stuck on top of the piano, and believe me, sometimes I'd like to shred the piano.
Then take an 18 hour nap.
"I find most politicians lacking in substance but the speaking style can distract from it."
I always remember the story about a group of deaf people laughing at a televised broadcast of someone speaking seriously. When they were asked what made them laugh, they said that it was too obvious to them that the speaker was lying. They could not hear him, and their brains were not tasked with processing his words of misdirection. Instead, they were sensitized to other levels of communication.
i "Just being trapped in this frikkin' body is enough to make me rage for a lifetime. How many teeth do I have to brush to be all right? That's one advantage to being ancient and toothless."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!
Bodies are great, jm... in fact, glorious!!! It's how we've tethered, tamed, & PUNISHED/TORTURED them that's the problem! No WONDER they act-out on us!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, rats! How do we get those HTML tags to operate?
"You said it so well and is so much the dilemma of the Leo lion in us. My friend with all his Leo raged from birth till death with no restriction, roaring and shredding life with his fangs. He cared nothing about the consequences. He was so much like the beast you just described. I think you're right. We should be be unafraid of this. But we have Saturn to contend with. I'm stuck on top of the piano, and believe me, sometimes I'd like to shred the piano. Then take an 18 hour nap."
Very well said, jm. And by-the-by, there are a couple of excellent well-done mystical werewolf films (foreign of course) that I occasionally watch with glee.
One thing you have to do, is to act like the lioness. After all, the lion can roar and growl all he wants, but it is the lioness that rules the pride. ;)
As far as the body language goes, I do believe that the boy king gets worse with every showing. The man is stark raving MAD! How can that person share the same B-Day as me and be so opposite as he is?
Bodies are great, jm... in fact, glorious!!! It's how we've tethered, tamed, & PUNISHED/TORTURED them that's the problem! No WONDER they act-out on us!!!!!!!!!!!
You are so right Madam!
Well that's true donnie about the lioness. But then, she does all the work!
How can that person share the same B-Day as me and be so opposite as he is?
Ain't it somethin'?
I stopped paying attention to him so long ago I have no idea if he's worse. The voice is still as weak though. I heard it on the radio tonight. Voices tell me everything. I never perceived any power in him at all.
Speaking of Leo & The Heart, read these two pieces & prepare to be amazed.
http://www.appliedmeditation.org/The_Heart/articles_joseph_chilton_pearce.shtml
http://heartmath.org/store/freeze-framer/freeze-framer-adult.html
The thing that annoys me is the constant demand of the body. It wants to eat, it has to pee, it hurts, it eats and then the waistband pinches. It wants to get out of its clothes. Its feet are cold. It's ears are cold. The music hurts. It stinks in here. It doesn't want to get out of bed. It wants a cigarette. It wants kool-aid. It wants company. It wants to be alone....on and on and on......
But it's an amazing machine, definitely.
On to check the links.
"Well that's true donnie about the lioness. But then, she does all the work!"
LOL JM, how true!! But then again, would you want the male running the show?
Shoot. Got a ways to go.
The saint part I've got:
Feel the condition of another's heart in profound empathy, the only way you can fully understand another.
Yup. But the next one--the expressive:
Send a magnetic wave from your heart that creates peace in the hearts of others and direct this into the world.
Maybe when Saturn gets his gear off my heart.
And the last one. The prophet:
Heal the heart of another by taking its whole condition into your own heart and returning the energy of its cure.
Maybe in 5 lifetimes.
HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
But then again, would you want the male running the show?
Don't rightly know. Never experienced that!
HeartMath research has shown that emotions are reflected in our heart rhythm patterns. Negative emotions lead to increased disorder in the nervous system and in the heart's rhythms, which adversely affecting our body and health. But positive feelings increase harmony and coherence in the nervous system.
I am totally into this stuff. My favorite area of study is metaphysical causation of disease. Old hurts and patterns. Deeply into it. And working with reactions to change negative patterns.
I've looked at this with music. Some rhythms match the heartbeat and seem to heal. So much is so far off and too fast and brittle, causing great distress in the body. It's everywhere in the marketplace and this is one of my crusades. It should be a walking rhythm and easy to absorb. The hard stuff is for personal consumption when each one chooses.
I always remember the story about a group of deaf people laughing at a televised broadcast of someone speaking seriously. When they were asked what made them laugh, they said that it was too obvious to them that the speaker was lying.
Of course. Man what they see.
Deaf people are amazing storytellers and attuned to nuance and subtleties in a way that hearing people rarely achieve.
jm, I saw a public TV documentary on heart rhythms (i.e., the lub-dub) put to music. A normal, healthy rhythm was a melodious harmony. A weak heart, or a diseased one, or one that had experienced cardiac arrest, produced a jangling, discordant melody. Very powerful. The author Madeleine L'Engle frequently talked of the universe being a grand symphony, or that everything is music in some form.
We are still learning to play our parts.
How can that person share the same B-Day as me and be so opposite as he is?
Umhum, and so does the Dalai Lama, the Sun may be our ego in a chart but the whole wheel turning seems to have a lot to say about how that Sun gets expressed.
I love all the thoughts on heart, rhythm, song, healing. I am off shortly to memorial service for my friend. A lot said here and in the articles Joanna posted are relevant to the way she died. No cardio-markers for heart disease yet she died of a massively wounded heart. The medical community calls it mysterious they forget we are not just physical beings.
JM, i figure that when you sing it will be for those who listen and hear. The audience is always smaller for the original. I'm completely confident that people will fall in love with your music, and that the audience will grow to support you. all of us who choose the creative over the commercial and our own voice over the mass voice wait longer, earn less but the rewards are greateer...imo.
A normal, healthy rhythm was a melodious harmony. A weak heart, or a diseased one, or one that had experienced cardiac arrest, produced a jangling, discordant melody. Very powerful.
Those article links from Joanna are pretty darn interesting! It seems so important to turn our focus inward regularly to check those rhythms. This is a reason I love those simple repetitive crafts of spinning, weaving & knitting. All create soothing rhythms in the body, translating into alpha waves in the brain which in turn supports heart health. The studies that say walking is just as good if not better for our bodies than jogging seem rhythm related too - walking can be a even, steady pace that makes it easy to breathe to. And we could go on & on on the positive effects of good breathing practices.
I saw a public TV documentary on heart rhythms (i.e., the lub-dub) put to music. A normal, healthy rhythm was a melodious harmony. A weak heart, or a diseased one, or one that had experienced cardiac arrest, produced a jangling, discordant melody.
Joe that is fascinating. Just wonderful. I have so much to do.
No cardio-markers for heart disease yet she died of a massively wounded heart.
Fascinating too. We can peek at her chart if you want to. Heart disease is our country's major one so it's good for us to know. That's why I think healthy ego development is so important.
Tseka, your comment about my singing is so timely and accurate. And so encouraging. I've been facing the difficulty I've always had getting through. It can be daunting. My wise one always said the exact same thing....If they just listen
The audience is always smaller for the original.
So so true. More real contact this way.
all of us who choose the creative over the commercial and our own voice over the mass voice wait longer, earn less but the rewards are greateer...imo.
And so is this. I feel that this route takes a very long time and requires a personal development as well to make it really work. But without a doubt, the preferred path.
This is a reason I love those simple repetitive crafts of spinning, weaving & knitting. All create soothing rhythms in the body, translating into alpha waves in the brain which in turn supports heart health. The studies say
No doubt whatsoever. You can feel it in studios, workshops, and all around people when they're involved in these activities.
These comments are rich and inspiring.
You are so intuitive tseka, bringing this up now. It all just dawned on me.
With Pluto opposing my 3rd house planets...my voice...this is big now. I'm confident about its quality, but not about the audience, and you said it so well.
I just realized. When we were at Astroworld, some people were listening to me. I was getting through in some ways more than usual. But at the same time there was an hysterical (violent really) effort to silence me.
This could have something to do with what you just said. That site is big and much more like the masses. I didn't fit in. So neith in all her wisdom led us here...the intelligent, sensitive, creative, artistic, original, soulful type of people. With an honest yearning for something good.The small group. Maybe uninterested in groupthink. More independent and self aware. I thought about the larger audience in contrast while this has been going on.
This is an exact playing out of what you described so well.
I have decisions to make about marketing and this is going to help tremedously.
Sometimes I think that the honest dedicated artist uses her work as a metaphor for her life and thus, the audience is part of it, but not the main grasp. It comes as a natural outgrowth of the evolution at the right time.
Very interesting developments.
Exactly. You just said it exactly how it felt for me at Astroworld, too.
Neith, another great thing about the rhythmical arts is that they facilitate insights and meditation. I don't weave or spin, but I can see how the monotony of it distracts the monkey-mind and lets wisdom and insight float to the top of the mind.
Many of the insights I've shared here over time have come to me while I was washing the dishes by hand. If dishwashing isn't monotonous, I dunno what is! :o)
I don't weave or spin, but I can see how the monotony of it distracts the monkey-mind and lets wisdom and insight float to the top of the mind.
Much of the time we try to force our thoughts into patterns. When doing these monotonous tasks, we can't do that. We have to go sequentially.
I think society suffers from a terror of monotony yet life is all about this. Repetition is comfort.
The familiar.
I think society suffers from a terror of monotony yet life is all about this. Repetition is comfort.
curious isn't that so many people frantically fill their lives with way too much stimulation, most to avoid really paying attention to what's going on inside. And here we're discussing the ways we CAN access that stream?!
Not that many years ago most people had their days full of simple, monotonous tasks, and jm keeps talking about how much richer & better the music was. As a matter of fact, there is a whole segment of music developed just to ease those tasks.
BTW, I got my Full Moon in Gemini post up and in the process it broke loose another thought . . . jm, with your packed 3rd in Gemini you are always transferring the larger picture from your Moon/Jup in Sag into words or music the rest can understand!
One word, Neith: muzak. Elevators, lobbies, waiting rooms, full of piped-in tinny music because people can't bear silence. Because then they might have to think, and we all know how dangerous thoughts are!
with your packed 3rd in Gemini you are always transferring the larger picture from your Moon/Jup in Sag into words or music the rest can understand!
You just described your nodes!
Hey joe!!!!! Togetherness is so sweet!
people can't bear silence.
It's amazing how this is so universal. I think the reasons are complex.
Muzak was supposed to be peaceful, but it was AWFUL! The violns were shrill and anything but soothing. And so oppressive. Piped in anything oppresses me. I like the really old days when the marketplace had live entertainmnet. Jugglers an' all.
I like the really old days when the marketplace had live entertainmnet. Jugglers an' all.
It's making a comeback, jm. If they're doing it here, then there's hope.
Rudolf Steiner, a mystic/writer/lecturer from Germany (and founder of the Waldorf Schools) in the earlier part of the 20th century, believed that recorded music was less effective, energetically speaking, than live music. I forget why, but something along the lines that live music has more beneficial effect on listeners than recorded music. The way I'm describing it makes it seem like a no-brainer, but there's a lot more to it... it's too early in the morning, I guess. hehe :o)
Hey Joe, here's a link to another Stiener article. I slogged through most of it, very interesting stuff but the language is so dense . . .
The Mission of the Individual Folk Souls in relation to Teutonic Mythology
http://tinyurl.com/ydjnma
Steiner is very esoteric. "Slogging" is a great word for it... he was very much ahead of his time.
Steiner was fascinating. I will revisit.
recorded music was less effective, energetically speaking, than live music. I forget why, but something along the lines that live music has more beneficial effect on listeners than recorded music
I've always known this and decided way back not to record. Strictly live.
This is what happened.
When I was a teenager I flipped a motorbike. I was unhurt but in some sort of shock. I got up and proceeded but when I looked at people they were far away and their voices sounded exactly like on a tape recorder. I got very sick and then slept for about 15 hours. Ever since then I've recalled some of this when I hear recorded music and voices. I can't help but think the recording itself is unpleasant to the senses.
Supposedly, there is a reciprocal flow of energy, back and forth between the performer and the audience. Golden chains between them that the performer will drink up. Such a high...supposedly.
A tremendous high. Good reminder casey and well said.
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