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I tried to cram everything Sagittarius in that there title.
I think I got it. This is what Sagittarius does, it tries to get everything in
there. Go ahead, ask them a question. They may or may not give you an answer
but they’ll give you a lot of something with bonus features.
Join Margherita Tisato and I at Juniper on November 14th
at 7PM as we prep for the all-encompassing action in Sagittarius! By mid- month
Sagittarius will be host to the Sun, Jupiter (Sadge’s home planet), and retrograde
Mercury. Talk about a shift in energy! Look forward to very, ahem, spirited
family get-togethers!
Sadge season promises indulgence and cutting loose for sure,
but the fun and games can get turn into some over-blown scenes of self-righteous
zeal if we’re not careful (which it will be incredibly hard to be). Jupiter
expands everything it touches and is blind to boundaries. On its own, holiday
time can be socially sensitive, but mixed with the current socio-political climate things
could get very inflated.
Mercury’s retrograde on the 16th makes communication sloppy
and charged with bias. A worldview is not a fact. A belief is not knowledge. Sagittarius
is Mercury’s least favorite place to be, never mind the drunken backspin. Mercury
(the planet of objective reason and clear cognition) gets distracted by the
roaming nature of Jupiter, its enthusiasm and ideologies.
Perhaps we can lean on some of Sadge's virtues like mercy,
lenience, and faith in higher goodness to soften and forgive some cringe worthy
moments. Maybe we can band together in the name of optimism and inspiration as
we begin to set our aims for 2019.
EMBODIED Sagittarius
Body
parts: Hips and thighs. All that ambulates. Especially up and out
and covering a large distance. A lot of astrologers include the liver because
of the indulgence aspect of Sagittarius.
Key
words:
The “Ex” Factor: Explore, expand,
exaggerate, extra, expound, exotic, experience, exuberance, extrapolate, extravagance,
excitement, exploitation, exult, export, excess, exclamation points!!!!!
Covering Ground: travel, traverse, adventure,
trek, spread, dissipate, scatter, scattershot, disseminate, disperse,
publish, updraft, aim and trajectory.
Good Time Charlie: hope, faith, belief,
luck, laughter, fun, buoyant, boisterous, party, indulgence, loud, optimism,
careless, tactless, freedom, wild, brazen, naked, abundance, sports, games,
jokes, run-on sentences, and stories that go nowhere. TMI!
The Higher Mind: learn, teach, study, religion,
philosophy, law, the quest, the inspiration, dogma, the abstract mind, academia,
xenophilia, international business & culture, the journey, the truth.
Belief.
Polarity: Yang. Sagittarius
sprawls. It takes up space. It grows outward and floats upward. It’s
extraverted.
Modality/Element: Mutable fire. The
course of a wildfire can change with the wind, the fuel that’s available, and the landscape. It’ll go wherever. It’s wild and will spread its
warmth, destruction, glory, knowledge…anything it picks up along the way. It
literally knows no bounds. It destabilizes the fall season so we can move into
winter.
Ruled
by Jupiter:
Jupiter rules both Sagittarius and Pisces. It’s the largest planet in the solar
system. Sadge's symbol is the centaur or archer, or centaur as archer with an eye
on the prize that’s off into the future or off in the distance. It’s Sadge’s
nature to traverse that distance in search of….
The mythology of the centaur comes into play as
well. The half-beast-half-human represents the journey from the “low” bestial
expression of Sadge, (drunken,
carousing, sloppy, wasteful, squandering of time, resources and gifts, revelry
and raucous behavior, indiscriminate, and debauched) to the “high” human
expression of Sadge (education, law &order, religion, moralistic virtue, and
all other abstract notions of human(e) existence, and the higher mind).
Embodied
explorations:
Propulsion and all locomotor movement. Jump for
joy. Travel through space.
Moving through and taking up space (external
size and space)
Finding space in the body and in the mind
(internal size and space)
Strengthening, stretching and stabilizing the
hips and thighs so we can cover a lot of territory, have a long journey
Laugh
Supersize it! (a gesture, an idea, a feeling, a
thought) make it a big deal.
Stabilize it! (Can you tell when you go too far,
over indulge, lose your sense of direction?)
What are you learning on your journey? Are you
too invested in your destination? Have you forgotten where you’re going?
Walk, run, gallop, prance. Use your legs.
Climb that mountain, run that race, see what you’re
made of. Internal and external adventures and explorations!
What uplifts, inspires, creates buoyancy? Think
trampolines, hot air balloons, getting out in wide-open spaces. Skydiving anyone?
Go beyond a limit or threshold. Go into
uncharted territory. Make a discovery.
Target practice: Archery, darts, shooting hoops.
Practice your aim so you know when you’re traveling toward your vision or if you’re
scattering energy. Follow a trajectory.
Expose yourself to the language, art, food,
music, traditions of another culture.
Expand your mind. Study the many embodiments of
truth from around the world and throughout time.
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Sagittarius poem #2
Brick-red lispstick
stained leaves. These aren't trees
they're overgrown flowers. I've
written four thousand
poems walking
along Glen Street. Gleaming copper
pennies
in the sun, chocolate coins
wrapped in gold
foil shimmering their sweet fake
money and falling
to the ground like a
cracked
open
piggy
bank. I wanna harvest these
treasures, stomp ‘em
with a smash-crackle-crunch.
This is everything! To wonder
what's what. What's real? What's
too fucking fuchsia
to be true?
To be challenged by a fathomless
beauty
that gives
birth to all possibilities by crushing
rust-hued
assumptions like,
This is how things are.
This is who I am.
This is what I know.
The senseless fluorescents and kaleidoscopes
on Glen Street make me scream.
And the trees scream back in neon:
YOU! KNOW! NOTHING!
