Learned & listening for: Kitty D. will become a breathwork facilitator and must have a living situation that includes space for a garden. The Lavazza dark roast that I rejected before is now my favorite coffee. Listening for what is emerging (I forgot that I learned it a while back). For an online meeting, some people are comfortable winging it while others need structure, ground rules and agreements. Will have new upstairs neighbors soon. 3+1+1.
Neptune opposition Sun: Snares and Delusions – End of May 2022 until mid-March 2024:
If others have any reason to misunderstand you, they will, and they are likely to work against you because misunderstanding easily turns to fear or mistrust. The road to this understanding is full of snares and delusions that you must carefully find your way through. Give anyone who enters your life now plenty of time to prove that he or she is honest before you place a great deal of trust in that person. If you are not careful, you may come out of this period feeling very badly about yourself.
Grateful: that I do not follow a horoscopic view of life, i.e., that I am outside of the conversation of astrology and am not susceptible to its superstitions; that I can stand in love, forgiveness, being with, etc., and really stand there; for the freedom of a stormy Tuesday Afternoon. 3.
Accomplished: had a great catch-up with Kitty D. Took ladder out to the garden to get cleaned by the rain. Attended a sense-making meeting that was about the sense-making meeting and made a little sense of it. 3.
Thinking about: the dream last night where I was in Australia; that I know what would be good for me, but I don’t always do it; that I use some undistinguished excuse of weakness or hindrance to get out of having to do my life the right way; that some of my beliefs, exposed, would make the believers of astrology and such dislike my company. 3+1.
Watch & learn:
Reading/Listening/Watching right now: It turns out I was working nights when the early 2000s Battlestar Galactica came out, so I am watching the whole series. No wonder everyone’s so freaked out about AI and The Singularity. It isn’t a feel-good drama. I might not finish watching the whole series. I like Star Trek better, but could also be looking into other things or simply relaxing.
Listening to “How to Stand Up to a Dictator” by Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize winner. She is an honest person, therefore, an honest journalist. Some of the stuff in her book is a little horrifying, but not surprising.
Seems (dropped down to here as I am collecting these instead of collaging):
like I get body aches when a storm hits, and it takes me many moons to recover;
like I have agreed to some “good” superstitions that may no longer apply;
Previously:
like the things I do that involve giving money make little difference;
like I’m trapped in a network of conversations for remembering/forgetting;
like I have, of course, forgotten a lot of the practices that “made me what I am”;
like I’m going along fine, and then BAM, something happens;
like there isn’t any knowable way that “it is”;
like life comes at me hard and fast, and I always need a longer break than I get;
that my healthy choices still aren’t healthy for my situation;
like I used to be able to eat more than I can now.
3+.
New Habit(s)(dropped down to here as I am collecting and updating these):
Black coffee for months now and intentionally bringing JOY to it, but alternating with Oaty milk and a little sweetener.
Still going toward dairy-free, plant-based information for my body’s cells, allowing for some animal proteins as we change the pantry contents and absent-mindedly use butter instead of its substitutes.
Increase capacities slowly, and they might stick.
Checking messages and replying on Emergent Commons – this is not as frequent as some may like!
Ecology of Practices: MOVED TO HERE: