Today I stood still in the middle of the path I was trailing and just 30-40 feet from where I was a juvenile goshawk remained perched on a low branch regarding me intently.
It did not fly away when I attempted a couple of closer paces, it just tilted its head in that particular and familiar falcon way and spied as I came towards it.
Taking my jacket off and extended my arms to mimic a bird in flight, I started to dance in a clockwise direction occasionally looking up to survey it, it turned to get a better look and this is how we remained for a good minute or two, me dancing it watching, then it flew off low into a neighboring field that was being ploughed.
Jumping over the rusty tracks I was following I quickly made haste in order to steal another glimpse of my bird admirer but it was gone. Fleeting delicate moments of magick that dissolve in the River of Time…
I can see Pluto, Charon, Saturn and Jove tonight, behind me Aphrodite shines the brightest. It is a little after dark and the dusty clouds that covered the skies today have now blown away, it is time for the stars to make their appearance. My fire is blazing orange in the night, popping and hissing as the flames lap the sides of the large log I have just deposited.
My time to return to Babylon draws near with the knowledge that these moments are treasures to cherish and recall when the madness gets too much, but the madness not only seems to be getting ‘too much’, it is most likely taking over.
A week ago Afghanistan returned to violence and darkness with the Taliban taking over after the recession of the Armed Forces that were there to maintain peace, but peace did not seem to want to stay. And so in acts of malicious madness the executions, beheadings and stonings returned with a vengeance; children and women paying the highest price for daring to dream the most. Jesus wept.
Fires are ravaging South and Central Europe with Siberia also seeing the highest temperatures on record. Central America is also aflame and Earthquakes are claiming thousands of lives in Haiti, this world is being annihilated by human vanities and there is nothing we can do.
Perhaps if I petition the stars could there be something they could do? And how does one discourse with stars? Occasionally the books I read reference certain sacred languages although many times I find myself questioning the authors of these dialects and how is it they came about? Apparently the words are fashioned in such a way for me to be able to make sense of a system created to marry the stars with the human form, namely Adam Kadmon, but why am I to believe something a group of men generated in a paroxysm of their self-importance and delusions? And yet there is nothing similar I can employ or work with in my endeavor to appeal to the constellations and heavenly bodies that have been with us since our inception.
I have started dreaming in this language now, often my dreams are accompanied by visions of a White Hawk, I am clueless as to how to interpret this, but I assume my psyche is shedding the language of Babylon and adopting something more befitting, I am simply worried that I am investing precious time looking for tools in techniques that have no actual function, just entertaining to the intellect, akin to creating structures in the mind that are just that, solely in the mind. Were these men deluded or is there method to their seeming madness?
In the middle of the Australian Outback my principal lingua franca with the galactic forefathers have been my emotions and feelings as I encounter the beauty of Gaia and the majesty of the Cosmos, everything else seems to be futile, my only genuine connection with the All are the chemicals produced in my nervous system and brain when beauty appears in my reality.
Perhaps these ancient languages have been created to prepare the mind for the eventuality of Death and give it structure as to how to maintain some semblance of human familiarity for when the Veil is drawn. But if we can commune with celestial bodies and events in the thereafter perhaps there is some way to call for help whilst we are still corporal.
The clouds have returned but my fire is bright and hot and although all the other stars are hidden in the darkness now, Chronos and Venus are still with me and so quietly I intreat them to look down and take pity.
In some of the texts I am studying Saturn is the abode of Fire known as Shin and is the Mouth of Adam in anthropo-astro associations, whereas Venus is East or West according to which system you are studying, and is associated with the left nostril. These nexuses are relative and open to personal interpretation and study.
Should I refrain from the temptation to breathe out fire and incinerate everything I know to be Evil or do I simply use the Fire to encourage the Serpent known in lay terms as Kundalini to ascend the Central Column?
And yes these simple mediations are all I have all I can offer in the face of this adversity that is Humanity and that I am part of.
My fire is now ambers and even the last stars have deserted me and my musings.