Welcome to this highly Leonic, possibly Plutonic and definitely retro-tonic week.
Today's Channel dives into a preview of its powerful stars as we welcome Leo season with the sun and new moon now joining Merc's retrograde. And of course rippling with my regular suggestions to cultivate your revolutionary front.
And now, the inclusions noted in the pod...
The fabulous extract I came across this morn from 2021 that had me musing on how and why we have been disconnected from the cycles of nature, sun, moon and sky.
“There is a sense that people of the Middle Ages did not feel space in the same way we do, as an empty expanse through which we move, or as a box in which we are contained. In Saving the Appearances (1957), Owen Barfield suggested that medieval man did not feel he was within space as if it were a container. Rather, for Barfield, medieval man wore the world like a garment. Medieval man, Barfield suggests, saw the world quite differently than we do. For him the air was “filled with light proceeding from a living sun, rather as our own flesh is filled with blood from a living heart.” The night sky was not a “homogenous vault pricked with separate points of light, but a regional qualitative sky . . . from which . . . the great zodiacal belt . . . the planets and the moon . . . are raying down their complex influences on the earth.”16 Barfield says that although he may not have heard it, medieval man believed in the music of the spheres and he took for granted the correspondences between things on Earth and those above: the moon’s correspondence with growth, the sun’s with gold, Venus’s with copper, that of Mars with iron, and Saturn with lead. For Barfield, this meant that our medieval ancestors lived in a much more “participatory” relationship to the world than we do. They were “in” the world in a way that we are not, much more like figures in a painting than objects in a box. There was, we can say, a felt continuity between themselves and the world around them.”
― Gary Lachman, The Secret Teachers of the Western World
This right here is why we Coven! All of my work is dedicated to reconnecting us to this inherent wisdom, always on offer in this world.
In the spirit of Trying New Things - a lesser known retrograde spell all of its own - this month"s Dark Mooner will be this Wednesday 23rd at the new time of 6.30pm AEST (Sydney time) and include a long imaginal journey to meet your shadow oracle. All the glorious details and tickets are here.
Love to hear how this week's Channel finds you, darklings and how the sharp edge of revolutionary reckoning is arriving in your world.
Kerrie xo
Readings and sessions available this week on Friday, Saturday & Sunday as I journey through the dark moon.
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