THE WEAVE:
Lilith gets her hair cut
by a straight white man
in his 40’s. He pauses
his thought, and takes a breath.
Lilith breaks into the conversation,
"Are you a Gemini?" "Yes, what makes you say that?" "Well you mentioned your ability to see many sides of a situation, a capacity to have the conversation, without needing to come to an agreement, and the desire to speak honestly, which if you betray creates internal indignation. Collectively, we are moving through this theme, as the North Node passes through the realm of which you speak, and a desire for the Transparent Many Truths rises. It is strong in those with Gemini placements." "So, would you say you run in circles where everyone speaks the same New Age language?" "I don't speak, anybody's language, or run in circles, anymore, but I can speak to you, mytho-logically, our souls, like characters in scenes, if you like stories. If you're a witch the language is in felt sensation, and magick. If you're a scientist, we might talk in chemistry, electrons, and photon consciousness. If you practice medicine we can speak in cells, the muscles, and neuro-transmitters. If you're a musician we can talk in chords, harmony, dissonance, and rhythm. If you're a maker, we can talk in finding methods, and the math of madness. If you're an Absurdist, we can talk in how the ideal Void might be in bed. If you are brightly lit, we speak on multiple levels at the same time." "Sounds sexy." "I like to think of it as COSMIC LARPING. With Astrology, we can grab a hold of our myths, and ride them through the Universe." "Do we have to?" "No, you don't have to." "But you're going to." "I do." "Why though?" "For me, it is the Way that suits me."
Later, Persephone and Lilith
drink tea, and think
about belief…
“Do you believe in Astrology, Lilith?” “The first thing I was taught about Astrology is that, it is not something you need to believe in. That is limiting language. It is a practice of movement and noticing energy, and making your own meaning. Most notably, you can ride the waves coming and going. You are rock-hopping. Your world will never fully meet another’s. There is Nothing to do about that. But it does give you a reference for finding self -meaning and inter-connection. Once you become familiar with your chart, you begin to see how you are woven into yourself, like protons, neutrons, and electrons. You learn where you end, and other people begin. Like any science, over time, meaning makes it’s own webs. With someone who has not studied an ephemerus, there is no point in entering by that Way, further than that. When you speak you will always sound like a drunken alien.” “So you do not believe in it, Lilith?” “Belief is a trap, Persephone. You will waste your whole life, arguing a belief, if you get too attached to the fear of being wrong. Astrology is not that. It is a context of collective myths; a story to be read, and changed, like any other. The most intriguing part of it, is when you can learn to use the electrons as a magnet, and I prefer my life potent.” “What do you mean?” “Conduct your own experiments with it, and you will no longer need belief.” “And what’s the most useful part?” “The most useful part of it is understanding how a myth is culturally embedded in the psychology of the collective, as it gets pinged and electrified, asking to be reshaped, by the subconscious Ocean. You can turn the story into something else, but first it needs to be brought forward, to the cusp of awareness, in enough minds, and targeted. Personally, if I was a benevolent sociopath, I’d study Astrology, and use it to shape minds, in a direction worth the expedition.” “You should tell Lucy that.” “I just did.” "He still reads your shit?" "Yeah, I guess."
Planetary Signatures 