{"id":36256,"date":"2011-03-28T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=36256"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T17:13:11","slug":"all-the-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/all-the-way-home\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Way Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

Its been awhile since I’ve used that beginning in my articles. Recently though, in a conversation with Eric about writing, we came to the agreement that a good blog is really a letter from the heart, which often begins with “Dear.”\u00a0 I liken this one today as a letter to home.<\/p>\n

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When you look at the planetary snapshot of present time — Jupiter and Saturn in opposition, Uranus and Pluto leaning into their historic 90-degree meeting — what do we see? To me, this looks like the balance between exuberance in the new and unexpected and the limitation and constraints of our reaction — or relationship to that new experience. The Aquarius Moon, as Len points out, reminds us that right now these feelings of duality are shared on a community scale.<\/p>\n

Maybe right now you are feeling a little lost at the moment, like a taxi you’ve been riding has left you at the curb of an unknown neighborhood — maybe the landmarks are different, the people have changed. The lack of familiarity — the exit from routine — leaves us at a loss as to who and where we are. Add to that a vague sense of threat from something unknown but powerful and one cannot help but feel helpless, far from home. But what is home? Who is there?<\/p>\n

The current nature of the times we live in is that change is coming in waves in our personal and global experience. Sometimes days like these can scare me shitless too, because I don’t know how to react. There is no gauge from previous historical reference to begin naming the new experience. If you have no words to describe how you feel at the moment because the situation and the feelings and reactions it invokes are unfamiliar, how could you verbalize or share what you’re experiencing with others? How can you get some comfort that you are not alone?<\/p>\n

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When our theater company develops new work, we usually start by having a meeting, checking in on where each on of us is at. Since we work with women from highly sensitive communities — incarcerated women, women with life-threatening illness — the answers to the question, “Where are we at?” take on a life of their own, becoming the prima materia<\/em> — primary matter — of the art we create. It’s in those meetings that we confront personal stories of our demons and redemption, fear and astounding courage in the face of life and death. As a group — a coven of women — we work to throw these thoughts and feelings into a crucible, creating stories, poetry, song and dance. We transmute mud and lead into gold by naming what scares us most, confronting it, and in the process losing our fear.<\/p>\n

Some people call our kind of theater art therapy, relegating it to a form of cultural second-class citizenship among denizens of art and culture. But that’s a refusal to recognize that most great art comes from answering the hard questions of the world. There are others who do understand the importance of the ancient traditions of storytelling, when tribal shamans found ways to characterize and guide their community’s comprehension of a new experience. That way, they helped heal the tribe of their fear of the unknown.<\/p>\n

My recent article “Reclaiming Radical, Nanny and Pussy” was actually\u00a0the starting block on discussion that’s long overdue. How do we stay real with ourselves, our feelings,\u00a0our reactions — our authenticity —\u00a0when so many want to strip it from us? How do we hold onto it\u00a0now that the old and familiar of the world\u00a0is radically changing? Dictatorships are getting toppled, old forms of energy\u00a0are being overhauled that were long overdue, the actual value of money is worthless, and the planet herself is reacting violently to everything we’ve built for over a century. We each need to ask ourselves what does\u00a0this actually mean to us as individuals and as a global community. A planet and its people: These are not two separate units, but one. All of us are affected, no matter where you are. So where are you at? How are you feeling? What do you need to feel safe, happy and whole? What are you doing to attain that? Will those needs and attainment of those needs hurt someone else?<\/p>\n

I know I am throwing you all the questions that require more than a simple multiple choice answer. But it’s time. There are many out there who are unsure whether or not we have a future, let alone gauge what kind of future we’ve got. They don’t know where to turn, and can’t decide what to do. But perhaps the answer can be found in the quandary itself. The one tool we need to appear that may help re-assure the future is your choice. Your choice. There is power in those words. I’m writing this letter to you as a letter to home and family, my dear ones, because each and every one of you is. You are all a part of this planet, all a part of our human family, all a part of what is home.<\/p>\n

I want and choose for my home to be filled with art and learning, loving, music, good food, a clear sky and sweet water. Maybe it’s overly optimistic — Jovian — to do so. But Saturn is there to temper my choices to the most basic and essential needs. I choose to get down to basics. I will write and talk and sing and dance to rev up the best energy possible to make it so, because this is what I’m good at and choose to do. I hope it makes a difference.\u00a0But I don’t want to do this alone. I need you, me and us. We need each other to make\u00a0our choice together, choosing for the beauty and safety of this world and our people in our future; choosing to\u00a0do whatever it takes to make it happen,\u00a0and going the distance\u00a0all the way home.<\/p>\n

Yours & truly<\/p>\n

Fe Bongolan
\nSan Francisco<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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