June 20, 2021 : Luna enters Scorpio and Jupiter turns Retrograde - today is a John Ashbery poem
welcome to episode 93 in season five of kristo's astrology...
here's my reading of the Zeitgeist for Sunday, June 20th, 2021
**all times reported here are in UTC-0 (Universal Coordinated Time) or GMT (Greenwich Mean Time)... please adjust according to your own Time Zone... if you're not sure about the time zone difference, you can find that here: Time Zone Map
just a reminder: don't sweat it if the numbers or hours are confusing... I'm with you on that...
calculating the times for these transits requires simple arithmetic, which is something I have absolutely no intuition for…
just know that each of the planetary influences wax and wane over hours, days, and sometimes months or years...!
let your Intuition own the changes, and so whenever you observe a synchronicity that jibes with what you’ve heard from me…
perfect…! because it shows that YOU and YOUR Intuition are on the money...
just a reminder: episode 13 of the Hansel and Gretel Code is now out there in the wild...
In this episode we ask lots of tough questions, there’s an ominous knock on the door, and we all end up on Saturday Night Live...
I call this episode: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat...
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The Libra Moon reaches a Quincunx to Piscean Neptune (in his Trine to Cancer Mars) @1:36 AM GMT / UTC-0
okay, so today seems to be a genuine reference to the kind of poetry and word play that makes no obvious or perhaps even genuine logical sense...
I'm talking about the kind of poetry written by John Ashbery...
stuff that I was personally interested in 30 years ago...
poems that I bought and began reading and thought that some day I'd sit down and figure out exactly what they were trying to say...
here's an example:
To pass through pain and not know it,
A car door slamming in the night.
To emerge on an invisible terrain.
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Luna Squares Capricorn Pluto (in his Quincunx to Gemini Sol) @6:37 AM
You almost get the sense that this stuff makes sense...
or at least it does to someone else...
someone in authority...
Here's some more; the next few lines of the same poem:
So the luck of speaking out
A little too late came to be worshipped in various guises:
A mute actor, a future saint intoxicated with the idea of martyrdom;
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Luna BiQuintiles Neptune (in his waxing Sextile to Pluto) @11:36 AM
Hey this stuff is starting to make some actual sense...
even if it's only in the context of my own experience...
expect something to come into beautiful focus and make sense to you today as well...
something intimately personal, and something only the people who know you and care about you the most would understand...
here are the next couple of lines of that poem:
And our landscape came to be as it is today:
Partially out of focus, some of it too near, the middle distance
A haven of serenity and unreachable, with all kinds of
People and plants waking and stretching,
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Luna begins an unusual Air / Water Grand Trine with a Trine to Sol (in his Trine to Piscean Jupiter) @11:52 AM, and goes Void of Course for 1 hour and 6 minutes
weird isn't it, how disparate ideas and words seem to belong together and make something near perfect, even if that perfection has nothing to do with making sense...
and then the next lines of the poem:
...calling
Attention to themselves with every artifice of which the human
Genre is capable. And they called it our home.
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Luna enters Scorpio @12:58 PM
okay, so the plot thickens...
secrets abound...
something tempts you to attempt your own appropriation of someone else's poetry for the sake of getting your own thoughts out from between your ears and out into the world...
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Jupiter turns Retrograde (until October 18th) @4:06 PM
this amounts to just over 17 weeks...
4 months...
let's see where the poetry we've been gifted takes us...
certainly to some important place within...
a kind of memory palace, in fact...
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Luna completes that unusual Grand Trine with a Trine to Jupiter @4:35 PM
expect to feel moved by something you read that takes you back to the first time you read it...
I first read this poem over and over 30 years ago, and then stopped for the next 28 years or so...
re-reading these lines brought me right back there...
here they are:
No one came to take advantage of these early
Reverses, no doorbell rang;
Yet each day of the week, once it had arrived seemed the threshold
Of love and desperation again.
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Luna BiQuintiles the Gemini Dragon's Head (in its Sextile to Aries Chiron) @7:17 PM
this is the line that made the music that took me where I needed to go...
expect to get there yourself today:
At night it sang
In the black trees: My mindless, oh my mindless, oh.
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Luna Squares unaspected Leo Mars @10:29 PM
okay, so I could never write this stuff myself...
I just want to...
actually I was able to...
in high school...
for a very short window of time...
much too short...
something got cut off...
expect to remember the same sort of wonderful, but lost, capacity from your own youth...
here are the next couple of lines:
And it could be that it was Tuesday, with dark, restless clouds
And puffs of white smoke against them, and below, the wet streets
That seem so permanent, and all of a sudden the scene changes:
okay, so that poem is called A Wave...
it's by John Ashbery — the art critic and poet who died in 2017, and is considered one of the finest American poets of the 20th century...
it's fairly long at about 700 lines...
I don't think I'll be reading much more Ashbery on the podcast...
although I'd actually love to...
you can read about him on wikipedia or on the website devoted to his work...
but I don't recommend either...
borrow one of his books from the library and try reading him for yourself...
reading him is a bit like looking at a very enigmatic abstract painting...
he's worth spending time with...
little snippets of time here and there...
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and here’s another fairytale flash:
well Episode 13 of the Hansel and Gretel Code is now out there in the wild...
I call this episode: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat, and it takes us deeper into the third sentence of the fairytale with our woodcutter having a full-blown panic attack... Why not come on along for the ride...?
you can find transcripts and links for each episode on the website at betweenthelines.xyz, or just look for the link to the Hansel and Gretel Code in the menu at the top of every page on kristo.com...
and just as a reminder, I'm giving away pdf copies of the manuscript version... it's the text I'm using for the podcast...
you'll want a copy so you can follow along with me and even work on your own interpretation...
it's the oldest complete version of the original Hansel and Gretel story out there, and my own translation of it into English was the only available until just about a year ago...
just sayin'
hit the talk to me link on the website or right here talk to me... and ask for your free copy... easy peasy...
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no matter what anybody has already told you about Hansel and Gretel, get ready to be surprised...
this podcast is gonna take you on a rollercoaster of psychological depths and heights — not to mention informative twists and turns — all of them designed to entertain the hell out of you…
you can find out all about it on the website betweenthelines.xyz, or on whatever podcast app that floats your boat…
and please take a listen to my art podcast, kristo.art it’s my take on art and art appreciation that aims to take the snoot and attitude out of museum and gallery going...
it actually let's you own the damn place...
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okay, well, that's it for today... thanks for listening... have a great day, and I'll see you tomorrow...
Alrighty then... ciao a tutti...
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don’t think of it as old news... use it as an exercise...
look for things that sound like descriptions of events from your day — uncannily direct is great, but oddly familiar is even better... astrology is all metaphor, you know?
as your intuition grows, you’ll learn to trust it more and more — and that’s when you’ll start appreciating the synchronicities for what they really are: affirmations from Psyche telling you that you’re on the right track...
then, like Hansel and Gretel’s breadcrumbs, all you have to do is see where they lead....