Dear Eric,

Was walking in the very wet mountains yesterday and realised that rape in the old myths is usually about submission to a higher power. Persephone is stolen by hades and raped and taken to the underworld, but that is an important part of her journey. Its a purging from the summerland down into the depths of her psyche, and in that way hades/nessus is playing the old pan role.

I was watching v for vendetta last night, if you haven;t seen it i’d highly recommend it. Evie has a powerful connection to a masked man V, who is fighting against the government. Her parents were freedom fighters and murdered by the police, so she understands his plight but cannot let go of her respect for authority and the desire to be ‘normal’. In essence the only thing she has left is her survival. She escapes V, but he recaptures her in disguise and takes her down to the dungeons where he interrogates her as a government official, cuts her hair and leaves her in a cold cell with only rats for company. he repeatedly tells her that she can have her freedom if she tells them where V is. She does not submit, and says she would rather die than tell them. And thats when the hooded figure says, you have lost all your fear, you’re completely free. And she walks out of the cell, past what she thought were armed gunmen but were actually dummies, back into V’s sitting room.

By stripping her of everything, she faces her own death and realises there is nothing to fear any more.

Heracles could represent that controlling bluebeard part of the male psyche, violent and controlling, un-nurturing. We castigate nessus as the baddie, but he is trying to show deianara a deeper level, ferrying her across the overflowing river. Nessus’ dying act is to help destroy the bluebeard element, so that the female can continue with her journey.В  With her initiation into the underworld incomplete, she is operating with a naive psyche, and prone to jealousy, fear and manipulation. The poisoning of heracles is secretive and cunning, a very spidery end. Some versions of the myth say that the cloak of nessus was suffused with sperm and blood.

I think the centaurs get a very raw deal in all of this.

Did you hear about the fires in the aragorn region of spain?В  The conscious pan is rising.

Love,
Sari

Every now and again, polyamory gets run up the flagpole in the national media. It’s just appened again — this time in Newsweek.

I was at a poly conference where a Time writer by the name of John Cloud was there; he interviewed me and he used the occasion to mock polyamorous people as the kind of folk who believe in…astrology. I did not get quoted.

I’m never sure whether to feel vindicated or scooped when one of these magazines tries to take up such a personal issue; undoubtedly they politicize it, and the coverage is never quite personal enough; this leaves lots of room for Book of Blue.

Note the reference to Tristan Taormino, whose anal sex video you read about in this space back in April or so. No…not all polys…well, ok…haha…anyway…

Now the thing is, without compersion, there is no such thing as polyamory. It would just be torture. Compersion (as emerged in a conversation with my buddy Jane) translates loosely to, “Your fun is my fun.”

If we can do this we can live our lives.

Here is a sample of what Newsweek has to say. Next stop: South Park.

Researchers are just beginning to study the phenomenon, but the few who do estimate that openly polyamorous families in the United States number more than half a million, with thriving contingents in nearly every major city. Over the past year, books like Open, by journalist Jenny Block; Opening Up, by sex columnist Tristan Taormino; and an updated version of The Ethical Slut—widely considered the modern “poly” Bible—have helped publicize the concept. Today there are poly blogs and podcasts, local get-togethers, and an online polyamory magazine called Loving More with 15,000 regular readers. Celebrities like actress Tilda Swinton and Carla Bruni, the first lady of France, have voiced support for nonmonogamy, while Greenan herself has become somewhat of an unofficial spokesperson, as the creator of a comic Web series about the practice—called “Family“—that’s loosely based on her life. “There have always been some loud-mouthed ironclads talking about the labors of monogamy and multiple-partner relationships,” says Ken Haslam, a retired anesthesiologist who curates a polyamory library at the Indiana University-based Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. “But finally, with the Internet, the thing has really come about.”

With polyamorists’ higher profile has come some growing pains. The majority of them don’t seem particularly interested in pressing a political agenda; the joke in the community is that the complexities of their relationships leave little time for activism. But they are beginning to show up on the radar screen of the religious right, some of whose leaders have publicly condemned polyamory as one of a host of deviant behaviors sure to become normalized if gay marriage wins federal sanction. “This group is really rising up from the underground, emboldened by the success of the gay-marriage movement,” says Glenn Stanton, the director of family studies for Focus on the Family, an evangelical Christian group. “And while there’s part of me that says, ‘Oh, my goodness, I don’t think I could see them make grounds,’ there’s another part of me that says, ‘Well, just watch them.’ “

Here is the rest of the article.

The Moon passed first quarter yesterday — we are now a week from a lunar eclipse. As we have been reporting this would be the third eclipse in a month; and the second lunar eclipse. Currently the Moon is in Scorpio, at this moment crossing the midpoint of that sign. This puts the Moon square Nessus in Aquarius — remember that this eclipse is conjunct Nessus so we are, and will be, exploring that energy for a while.

Valencia, Spain. Photo by Eric.

To sum up, on the most basic level of the functioning of relationships and society, Nessus is about what a bunch of treacherous little shits we can be, if and when we feel like it, or when we have a lapse of attention. There is a healing dimension: we get sick of it, the battle gets exhausting, we work out the karma or we get shot in the ass by our own poisoned arrows one too many times and get the idea that perhaps there is a better way to do things. Nessus can get someone to change their ways.

Nessus operates in two modes: when you understand karma and when you do not; or let’s say, since nobody really understands karma, when you are sensitive to it, and when you are not. Let’s contrast to Pholus, which is “small cause, big effect” — it has an inadvertent quality. Nessus operates by design. There is a plan; it may include revenge, or an intentional transgression; more often Nessus hangs out in that hazy area of what is potentially inappropriate. The plan may or may not work well; but one way or another there will be an effect.

With Pholus one is generally clueless or curious; Nessus takes us into the land of hazy ethics, side deals and secret deals: the stuff we think nobody is gonna find out about. It’s also about the kind of abuse you cannot easily see; it’s in the realm of supposedly normal behavior.

Nessus invokes the question of how we act when we think there might be consequences; when we don’t think there will be; and when we ignore the issue entirely. If you want to know why Nessus shows up so often around situations involving sex abuse, it’s because this is precisely how we handle not just sex abuse but most aspects of sex. What is not said is usually more important than what is said; and as for what is not said, we night well investigate the reasons. They will be telling.

Today we have a Nessus aspect with the Moon in Scorpio; that highlights sexual truths and what we say and don’t say about our sexual history. When the eclipse happens in a week the Moon will be eclipsed in Aquarius, which brings the story to the social/cultural level. This eclipse is about how we react to all the pressures exerted on us by our peers, by advertising, by vague and unspoken cultural rules: all the stuff that tortures us but which we rarely name and nary have a clue how to deal with.

How is a good question. Generally one does not do anything until one’s vital force exceeds the level where it’s comfortable to be held down. And that, unfortunately, is generally never. The most frequent approach to the whole issue is a mix of deception and anesthesia: apropos of the dark Neptune vibe of Nessus. The reason we generally get stuck with it is not just because we’re usually unwilling to do something about it, but because it’s a kind of indulgence. Hypocrisy is a drug.

January 2012

With the economy finally looking up, the Obama administration, re-elected for a second term, is now able to fund the social programs it’s pledged to invest in. President Obama has promised to find ways to decrease the cost of education to make a college education accessible for “everyone who wants it.” CNN has reported that special grants will be available for young women, but no further details are available at this time.

February 2012

The Feminist Majority Leadership Foundation is teaming up with The Astrea Foundation to conduct research on infertility. After over a decade of research on dioxin exposure, there are now official statistics demonstrating a decrease in ovum production among women born before 1990. The combined $2 million grant will focus on solutions to negotiate this rise in infertility.

June 2012

The FMLF/Astrea infertility grant has published its first list of solutions: at the top is a request to advance fertility resources, particularly to encourage younger women who aren’t ready for pregnancy to freeze at least one of their eggs for possible adoption. The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) has announced that it has enough funding to continue its current level of compensation per-egg. The average payment per egg is $8000.

July 2012

The Coalition for Christ, the largest evangelical Christian organization in the country, has condemned Obama’s plan for a 50% tuition refund for younger women who donate an egg to When We’re Ready, an organization that coordinates egg transfers to infertile couples, including women in same-sex relationships. “It is not the right of When We’re Ready to play God,” The Coalition lashed out, “homosexuals are not able to have children for a reason…and heterosexual infertility is part of the greater plan.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has called this a “breakthrough, both in facilitating the reproductive cooperation of our country and for affordable education for women, a minority group that have historically been prevented from accessing the most elite universities in our country. Less than 100 years ago, women couldn’t even vote,” he concluded.

August 2012

The first surgical removal of a uterus, followed by a safe and vibrant re-implantation, has been deemed a success. Sarah Doyle of Springfield, NJ is comfortably recovering in her home with her husband Todd and three-year-old son, James. Nestle has funded the research behind this medical breakthrough, and pledges millions of dollars towards technology to freeze and store uteri. The ability to perform temporary hysterectomies has been lauded by reproductive rights supporters as a further step towards family planning and reproductive freedom. Gloria Steinem, poster-child for the Second Wave of feminism, calls this, “a milestone. I never thought I’d see the day.” She is 82.

October 2012

Nestle has invented a pod that can house a woman’s uterus for up to 15 years without noticeable damage. The pod looks a lot like those Nespresso machines that were so popular in Europe 5 years ago. Anyone remember those?

Guilt is something we discovered we have in common: a long legacy of guilt. I learned that in the few days before our Thursday night adventure, she had been wracked with guilt about the potential for having to choose one of us; for having to hurt one of us. And some guilt for being able to have both of us – the strange guilt you feel when you love someone and then feel something for another person. That emotion needs a name, so we can identify it when we feel it.

This is the same guilt that makes it difficult to make a simple decision; the guilt we feel for enjoying life; for doing something for ourselves; though here, when we reach the branch of the road where we may choose to love, to actually love who we will, I think we’re pretty close to the core source of this emotion. Here, we are looking at one of the deepest divisions against ourselves.

Continued in Book of Blue

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Aquarius. Photo by Eric Francis.

A year of incredible activity in the sign Aquarius reaches another peak with an eclipse of the Moon on Aug. 5. Think of the Moon as a veil and an eclipse as drawing back the veil. When this happens, a small, meaningful planet called Nessus is revealed. Nessus orbits our Sun, buzzing in the space between Saturn and Neptune. It was discovered in 1993, and was the first planet named at the suggestion of astrologers. Nessus is the thrd discovery in the Centaur group of planets, preceded by Pholus then Chiron. We live with Nessus energy every day, but like most of the facets of astrology we don’t give it a name in real life. In Aquarius, Nessus is about the tendency of people to hold one another to harsh codes of social conduct; to brutally enforce rules on one another; and to outcast anyone who dares to show a little individuality — this, regardless of the alleged belief systems of the group. Powerful influences are inviting us to step out of our narrow boxes of limited self-concept, which we tend to live in like crates that define our whole reality. There are people who can individuate in the face of harsh adversity from their peers, but not everyone is strong enough. You may not be strong enough to do it without support, and the planets in their courses are saying: we’re all in this together. Give to the world what you need the most. We will all be better for it.

Aries (March 20-April 19)
In our society we don’t generally see the ambivalence we have around the concept of ‘friend’. We accept that friends might betray us, hold us down, con us out of our values and enforce the laws and expectations of our parents. The past year of your life has had, as a dominant theme, redefining the concept of friendship. Events this month invite you to look directly at the shadow side of that concept, and give it a name. Look at the ways that codes of conduct are enforced; expectations are placed on people; and the harsh punishment for daring to exceed the limits that others place on themselves and try to enforce on everyone else. The thing you may fear the most, being an outcast, is at the moment your most potent ally. Before we can actually accept ourselves and be accepted, we have to confront this one. Think of the alternative: you spend your life, in ways direct, subtle or both, avoiding any possible situation where you might potentially face rejection. And rejection for what? For being who you are. The result of this would be a life of pretending to be someone else. It worked for a while, but it’s not going to work any more.

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Taurus (April 19- May 20)
I don’t think we can ever question the theme of self-esteem carefully enough. First a simple definition: self-esteem is how we feel about ourselves that influences every other aspect of existence, what we do, how we feel, how we relate to others and how we judge our worth. Putting it mildly, this has been a theme for you lately: specifically that you seem to have two entirely different opinions of yourself, that you try to maintain simultaneously. What tends to happen is that you alternate from one value system to the other; one judgment or evaluation to the other. Lately the split grows worse if you aim your ambition upward; in a sense this inner division is revealed when you aspire to something better than you currently have. This does make sense; if you want something better you’re going to tend to evaluate whether you deserve it or not. I’m here to tell you that one side of the story is not inherently true. It was taught to you initially, and you continue to teach it to yourself: this, through any experience of guilt. If you experience guilt, you can be sure of one thing — you are responding to someone’s early conditioning. You are playing back an old tape that says you’re powerless; and it will help if you recognize this fact and see if you can determine who put it into you. Then, take it as a question rather than as a true statement.

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Gemini (May 20- June 21)
I’m sure things have gone weird more than once with Mars slowly working its way across your birth sign. Odd bouts of panic, conflict, doubt, guilt and confusion are all potential developments. This is the necessary result of finally reaching for your will, your intention, your voice. If, every time you reach, you get psychic blowback, that’s not a very good advertisement for continuing the endeavor; I am here to offer you some encouragement. I won’t call the blowback a natural result, but it is a consequence of purging unnatural, self-defeating ideas. It is these concepts that exist at the core of your extremely restless inner dialog, which appears to be coming to a peak in these very days. You may rightly wonder how you can think in the much greater concepts that attract you if you cannot settle a simple score within yourself. This is the issue you need to put to your advantage. It’s not that you resolve this and then move on to a perfect life; it’s that you work with your conflict and your tendency, subtle or not, toward cruelty to yourself, and explore this with the full awareness of your mind and body. Asserting your will is not an option. If this has consequences, they must be dealt with directly, and in this case, directly means constructively. Here is a clue: you are much bigger than any conflict you perceive.

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Cancer (June 21- July 22)
Part of how you measure your value is your value to your community. Perhaps you’ve never made this a conscious process; it may be lurking in a back room. It may be hiding behind other ideas about relationships, which tend to be dominated by the one-to-one special relationship; those arrangements rarely make room for a greater level of commitment or responsibility in life. Significant sharing is presumed to end with the significant other; if there is not a significant other, the search for one generally consumes any energy not required to acquire food, rent and getting around. The time has arrived to think bigger: to see yourself as part of something larger than you are, but as an essential part. This theme has been growing in intensity for many months. You’ve experimented with methods for going forward; now it’s time to investigate what is blocking your way. Consider your most intimate relationships carefully. Is the person you must be in those relationships a big enough person to contribute to the world around you? Is that value shared and supported as part of the culture of the relationship? And if it’s not, why not? Relationships are based on two things: shared values, and trust; which in turn facilitate an honest exchange. Settle for nothing less.

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Leo (July 22- Aug. 23)
Maintain your focus clear through the end of your current agenda. Don’t let yourself be distracted, even if you get the feeling you have to be overly narrow in your approach. Set aside everything unnecessary, or that does not support this single goal that you know is dear to you. The piece where actual progress occurs happens after you feel and confront the resistance to the very progress you are trying to make. That resistance may feel like doubt; it may feel like you’re making the wrong sacrifice of certain other goals; you may be questioning whether you’re approaching your objective with your usual positive attitude. There is a double ending here: by practicing a kind of over-focus (that by the way is a therapy term used to describe people who take things a bit too seriously) you pass through a narrow mental opening and come out in a different place with a new goal. I suggest you be both sensitive to this transition, and welcoming when it occurs. This is a fairly typical step in any creative process. The time spent on the prior activity is never wasted; the information you are gaining right now is precious; the skills you are acquiring will reincarnate with you from goal to goal. Keep your focus — whether what you’re planning seems like it will take days, months or years.

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Virgo (Aug. 23- Sep. 22)
You are entering the final push in a process that has taken you a couple of years to set into motion; and to establish the validity of, in your own mind. You may need to check your method and infuse a new idea or two. In fact, by the time you’ve already moved on into the future, you will have already done so: that is what constitutes moving on. As usual, the idea or seed of action can come from you, or it can come from circumstances around you. You currently are in possession of the idea. This could even be called original. The meaningful thing is that it comes from inside you. I cannot overemphasize how important this is, particularly since you are surrounded by so many people who are extremely powerful in their innovations, concepts and creative talent. The value is to your self-respect, which is your key to any future collaboration. You seek stability, but that is not really the answer; what I suggest you seek is a sense of movement and innovation that is self-activating and has sufficient momentum to match the energy of what enters your awareness from outside. You’ve yet to learn that you are as brilliant as the most talented and ingenious people in your life. Events this month may not prove the point, but they will give you sufficient clues to do so yourself.

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Libra (Sep. 22 – Oct. 23)
The privilege of exploring a creative passion is countered by the necessary risk that you will encounter shadow psychic material. This is the vital difference between creative process and a hobby. Creative process turns shadow material to fuel; art would go nowhere without pain, doubt and deep self-reflection. The reward is that you get to process these emotions, on the spot, into beauty. This is the part not to doubt, and the part where trust is essential: stick to the process and let yourself be free of any concerns about the potential results. From the look of your charts, you won’t be able to see those results for what they are for a while: they will slowly pour out over the next two to four seasons. The simple key to this process is embracing points of darkness rather than avoiding them. By doing this you will see what they are made of; but the most significant change that will occur is the fixed mental patterns that are the single most significant block to your free expression of your ideas, your sexuality and in truth your sense of personal identity. Exploration of the kind I’ve described above is designed to do one thing, mainly, which is to teach you the kind of spontaneity without which true self-expression verges on impossible.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23- Nov. 22)
Does it have to be that in every arrangement someone comes out ahead and someone comes out behind? Yes, if you consider no other possibilities; or if you’re content to live in a world where this is the first and only rule. You see alternatives to this, but I suggest you consider the reasons why they are less than appealing. Look carefully at the deeply rooted notion of competition, and consider why you retain any vestige of it in your heart. One possible reason for it is a sense of entitlement. I recognize that in a capitalist society we are all seemingly inbred with this attribute, but it’s a good idea to take out that part and put it on the workbench. Is it really sustainable? Does it even work? Then there is the way that competing makes us feel alive; but this is a substitute for actual achievement, which tends to stand apart from all competition. Finally there is personal insecurity, which we are taught to compensate for by figuring out how to tell ourselves we’re better than others. This does little other than reinforce the belief that we are somehow less; that we are undeserving of the most basic attributes of existence rather than ‘being the best’. You don’t need to be the best: you need to be you, which fortunately you already are.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 22)
Part of why you’ve been living in a state of potential more so than a place of accomplishment involves seeing the larger implications of your ideas, your efforts and your dedication to a healing process. The most noticeable results will come during the next year or so, but you’ve now got a chance to take a concrete step toward something you recognize. You need to think about whatever it is you’re doing as having implications further from home. It’s not a stretch to say there is clearly an international angle that opens up later this month; or it will open if you knock on that particular door. This may involve a specific person, location or point of interaction, rather than a general idea or approach, though in any event something that opens up around the time of the Leo New Moon on the 20th. It may seem odd or overly restricted at first; your idea may seem to be reduced down to a fragment of its original form. Think of it as a formula: reduce before you enlarge. Get a small part of the process right before you move onto reproducing it in a larger way. Keep track of your seed idea, and remind yourself again and again what it is. An idea is something at the essence of one’s motivation or effort; as you experiment you will have different notions of what it is. They all have something in common.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22- Jan. 20)
You have returned as far back to the beginning of a process as you can; you are poised at a point of origin. Stay there for a while; look for the thought that got you started, the idea that reminded you that you could renew your entire existence, and focus on that idea. Notice your impulse to evolve and grow, notice your willingness to change and more than anything feel the passion that is swimming at the center of all of this. As you go through this, be mindful of the values that guide your life from day to day, in ordinary consciousness. Be aware of your routines; the ways you respond to yourself and to others; notice how you feel every time you handle money. Notice what you are and are not willing to invest in, particularly as relates to yourself. You are dealing with two distinct layers of who you are. One is deep at your core. The second involves a layer where everything is or was imposed on you. Your core layer is far stronger, more informative and more likely to get results, but you have to work with the process of learning and teaching in the mundane sense, because so much of your energy is trapped in what I will call unquestioned values. You tend to assume things must be a certain way, in denial of another property, something so much more potent and authentic: but so much more is possible.

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Aquarius (Jan. 20- Feb. 19)
Continue to inventory what has shaped your psyche and how it continues to do so. Many people go through existence as if how they are stands without a cause. Cause and effect are inseparable, and if you want to understand the effect, look for its origin. It will become so obvious at a certain point soon that if you’re not seeing it you really don’t want to. The issue may be connecting a particular result with a specific root source; the link will be made by your intuition and verified by your intellect. One reason you want to observe and heal this issue is that you feel so much more potential within yourself than you are able to access. You feel the grandeur of your mind, and then it seems like something intractable is in the way. It’s not intractable as long as you recognize that you don’t need to become anything different than you are; rather you need to identify and come to terms with what is not you, and the effects that it’s having on you. The karma it would be most helpful to witness is how your own thought patterns create, reinforce and in a sense blind you to anything besides a certain kind of negativity that is entirely, as in 100%, unnecessary. This same cosmic property can inform you that your creative and loving thoughts can have just as powerful results; but the results are far happier.

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Pisces (Feb. 19- March 20)
Wouldn’t it be beautiful to live in a world without betrayal? You can, but you have to hack into the code of a psychological pattern that’s in a blind spot of your awareness. You don’t need to take this personally: it’s a pattern in society, though it would appear that this thing we call society has a diversity of microcosms that reduce down to groups, families, couples and the people who interact with them, and finally the shape of an individual’s mind. If you believe the research of a therapy process called Internal Family Systems, our minds represent a model of our family of origin, which is based on a model of society; we carry around the whole thing. It may sound like a lot of responsibility, but the beauty of this condition is that we have access to the deepest levels of programming if we are willing to see the inner-outer connections, and go in and make the adjustments. You can afford to be daring now. You can take the risk of leading with love and seeing what happens when you allow yourself to feel in an expressive way. Your love is bigger than anything that it might encounter; it’s more powerful than any form of culturally engrained negativity, and can handle any potential other than love. Trusting this is your bridge to freedom.

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