In the burst of news that came out of this weekend’s Mercury station direct in Taurus, two events have a correspondence that draws attention to our relationship with nature. By ‘our’ — I mean me and you and all of humanity here in the techno world. By ‘nature’ I mean the physical environment around us, in particular the one that was here before airplanes and cars arrived.
When Mercury stations direct, the news is often concentrated, and it was especially poignant over the weekend and into the early part of the week; the touch of madness that so many people were feeling. The shootings of both a prominent abortion doctor and two soldiers at a military recruiting post gave a flavor of what domestic terrorism feels like. General Motors filing for bankruptcy was a reminder of the transience of our society, as one of its supposedly great institutions acknowledged its failure.
Yet two of the issues to me had a special feeling of resonance. As the pieces of Air France 447 are recovered from the bottom of the south Atlantic Ocean, we see the potential of what a storm can do; we have an example of a potential force of nature. Alongside that for a while, story that surfaced for a moment was the dear leaping over a police car two before the crash in Indianola, Iowa.
Of course with 447, the torment of the relatives of those on the flight is not knowing whether this really was something like a lightening strike, or an intentional act. The story takes an extra level of meaning in that case, which is to express the uncertainty and loss of control we face on Earth, particularly around the most fateful matters of life and death. Was it a storm, which we could say was a natural event, was it terrorism (which few are talking about, but which is lurking behind the story) or was it a technical failure? I’m not sure what would make most people feel better.
In the midst of the early reports about the flight, CNN was airing the story about the deer, which takes a kind of unplanned flight over the police car, clears it by at least six inches, is not injured and continues on its way. To me the priceless part of the video is the cop saying that if there were a camera on his face, he suspects he and the dear would have had the same expression.
When you see an animal portrayed in such a stunning way in relationship to humanity, that is what I would consider a visitation; an encounter with a power animal. Animals in that way mirror part of the human psyche. The deer did something that defied human physical abilities, and made itself known in a vivid day, broadcast all over the country and worldwide on the Net. This is the image of a near-miss. We have these all the time; they are just not as elegant. But this is a reminder how close we are to the edge, all the time.
With the dear, we have the symbol of the animal — the dear is about the gentle luring to new adventures in life. Its calling is subtle, and there is a risk involved.
gaelfire. . .you’re right, it IS strange. I’m so suspicious of the tv networks and the cable news anymore that I wonder if that information wasn’t put out to quell our interest. It could buy them more time to study the “debris” and look for clues. I mean, how does a story like this get out in the first place? Nobody ever said it might be a passing ocean liner debris and not the missing jet. At least I never heard that on any news program.
CNN is now reporting that the missing debris, supposedly from the missing plane, does not actually belong to the missing plane.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/06/05/brazil.plane.crash/index.html
Strange.
when I see specific picking up of stories / events that happen in conjuction with astrology (or vice versa), I am reminded of something related to Terrence McKenna and his theory of time (can’t remember what it’s called, perhaps ‘novel time theory’?)
how it relates is that i heard of him giving a presentation about his theory, and trying to link the different conjuctions in his theory with real-life events to sort of try and prove the theory. but to the observer it felt as if it were forced and almost random, the linkage of the events with the different time horizons. and it was brought up that the real significant stuff that is happening might not be available to be known to him at the time, for instance someone being born, or whatever, and wouldn’t make it’s significance known for a long time, if indeed at all to the wider population.
so using a very splayed version of what is actually happening (aka the stories we get through mass media) to try and illustrate conjuctions etc may be an exercise that is predicated on some unexamined assumptions that lead us to be focusing on the wrong types of things. for example, just because the media reports a deer leaps over a police cruiser, does that make it more significant than however many other deer (or other animals) do things that are equally as amazing? or are we in fact simply analyzing what shows up in mass media and taking all our cues from there
i would argue that a plane crash really might not be all that significant either. i mean yes it’s a european plane crash, so more newsworthy etc than say one in a ‘third world’ country, but 300 or so people dying because of a natural event happens i would say fairly often in the totality of the world. and yet some are made into big ‘events’ while others just happen out of sight and out of mind
where do we direct our mind, and what do we allow to do the directing for us …. making meaning of the world is a prime part of living, and when we hand that over to a force that does so much distortion then perhaps we are losing some of our true humanity?
hey there —
i noticed you used “dear” instead of “deer” four times in this article. an interesting and lovely typo, and in the phrase, “the dear is about the gentle luring to new adventures in life. Its calling is subtle, and there is a risk involved,” actually quite apropos, in my opinion. was that one intentional? to call someone, “dear” is generally a sign of gentle affection being expressed in the adventure of a loving relationship. and in the sense of “dear” meaning precious, or holding significance/value, well, the risk involved in pursuing new adventures *is* quite valuable, isn’t it? and an act of love of life and self, yes?
the subconcious can be quite beautiful in its sneaky expressions, can’t it?
Deer is the Amerindian equivalent of Gemini in the Northern hemispehere and Sagittarius in the Southern hemisphere.
Yes! New adventures! What’s the t-shirt all the skydivers wear? No Fear!
Ironic, Eric; I spent a good long moment just a few hours ago contemplating how incredibly fortunate I am, especially these past couple tumultous decades when surely I should have “cracked”. I will never know what did NOT happen – and that is for the grace of God.