... the latest from Johannes Ayres
THE METAVERSAL LIGHTCRAFTHYPER-ABYSSIC ASTROLOGY FORECAST
AND LIGHT SPECIFIC YOGA PLATFORM
LUNAR CYCLE #1 - SUN IN ARIES
FRIDAY APRIL 8thGreetings Fellow Immortals and Happy New Year!Metaversal New Year begins on the first New Moon after the Spring Equinox, and it is of course, always in the first sign, Aries. This is a special New Moon in that it is also a Solar Eclipse (at 20 Aries , 1:37 p.m. PDT). It is also a tesseract entry/exit point, with another entry/exit point on the Scorpio Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, due in two weeks. Tesseract Moons catalyze the temporal areas of the Metaverse that they contact, in this case, the Aries domain of "all about me" or ahem... self-determination. I have learned through H.E.R. (Hedonistic Engineering Research) that the effects last a very long time. Very often particular signal events occur within a few weeks of the actual eclipse, either before or after, like backwards echos in space/time, and sometimes focused just on the day of the eclipse.
Often situations or people are literally eclipsed. As an homage to the Pope John Paul 2, lift your skirt or drop your pants in front of a Catholic priest today and ask, "What do you think of that?" (The era of legitimacy for such acts being over, apologize profusely "I'm horribly sorry, I don't know what got into me, I hope you're not insulted", etc. If arrest and/or torture looks likely, start speaking in tongues and thrash about on the floor: it may not get you off the hook, but if you're going down you might as well do it in style.
Solar eclipses signal the end of a karmic chapter; we have completed a major lesson and are graduating to the next. In Aries, we are doubly challenged to let go and venture into the unknown. Where this eclipse falls in your natal chart is where you are approaching a new frontier. This is a major planetary gathering, with the Sun, Moon, Venus, and North Node closely clustered in Aries, forming squares to Saturn and oppositions to Jupiter. Venus square Saturn is a Mr./Mrs. Poopy type of deal: this "nobody loves me" pair likes to rain on parades. So while the wild boys, Mars and Jupiter, are partying and getting down with a trine, the Venus-Saturn square (20° 40' Aries-Cancer) is telling us that we shouldn't be having this much fun. A more evolved Metaversal expression of this hedonist-puritanical hoedown would be a real appreciation of costs and consequences and a re-examination (Mercury is retrograde) of long-range plans and goals. We'll go much farther if we combine our efforts and refuse to settle for anything less than a win-win for all concerned.
This Aries Tesseract eclipse works in tandem with the Libra eclipse of last October. Many partnerships (Libra) began to wobble then, and now the individualistic end (Aries) of that polarity comes to dominate. People are all full of piss and vinegar, more fired up, more independent. One obvious example is the great downward shift in popularity of W since his second stolen election last fall. Another similar public example is the growing unpopularity of Gov. Schwarzenfucker here in California. He took office with great promises of getting "special interests" out of Sacramento. Since then he has made it clear that for him, special interests are groups such as nurses, teachers, and firemen. What an asshole. Many voters are now becoming disillusioned. Sun and Moon are now supported by Venus, which is self-appreciation, a retrograde Mercury who is rethinking the Libra-Aries balance of self-other, and North Node, which shows new pathways into the future.
The ruling planet of Aries, Mars, is traveling through Aquarius, turning our heads toward alternative (or even radical) directions. The Warrior asks us to be courageous and not blindly defer to convention and conformity. Mars is just a few days away from conjuncting Neptune at 17° Aquarius (exact on April 13). Neptune, the God of the Sea, steers us in the direction of compassion, collaboration, and community. Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will finally harness the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, humanity will have discovered fire. This is an active new moon day, with stimulation all over the world.. Stand and salute the defecating dogs you see this day.
The Sabian Symbol for 20 Aries is:
"A YOUNG GIRL FEEDING BIRDS IN WINTER. Overcoming crises through compassion. THE TRANSMUTATION OF LIFE INTO LOVE."
SATURDAY APRIL 9thAt 8:50 a.m. PDT, Moon enters Taurus, and we can assimilate yesterday's intense eclipse energy. With Taurus, it's more pasture, less bullshit so this is a fine weekend to plant your garden and let it unfold into its new season, to copulate delicately amongst the Mesozoic ferns at the Sovereign Botanical Gardens, or to ride a squadron of tiny black horses through the shopping mall, or to get into a series of nipping duels with some badgers down at the grain elevators This is a good metaphor for then we giving a crash course in ESL to some local wolf-children adopted by the mayor and receive the key to the city but we've already picked the lock so we sell it to a posse of renegade urban planners experimenting with the geomantic cultivation of organic concrete. Ahhhhhh fresh beginnings. See if you can see the brand new delicate crescent moon low in the west tonight.
SUNDAY APRIL 10thMoon is in productive Taurus. Sun forms an exact square with Saturn, adding a tone of seriousness to the day. The key with hard aspects involving Saturn is whether we allow obstacles (psychological or physical) to stop us - or commit ourselves to making the extra effort required to overcome them. The very new moon should be apparent tonight. Look for it as a bright arc, with the dark part filled with blue-gray earthshine.
MONDAY APRIL 11th Moon travels VOC in Taurus until 3:54 p.m. PDT, when it enters sparkly Gemini. Nevertheless, there is an aspect of strong love and creativity which prevails all day thanks to the healing energy of a Venus-Pluto trine (24° 27' Aries-Sagittarius). The creative alignment of the planets of love and death helps us to let go of values that have served their purpose and to recover those worth restoring. Lost relationships and forgotten talents can reappear to be experienced in new forms now. Heaviness is lifted when the Moon enters Gemini at 3:54 p.m. This placement correlates with emotional inconsistency, but it does provide flexibility for rapid adjustment to changing circumstances. You could charm a snake from a cat's vagina just by snoring or you could steer a tank with your diction even if you numbed your tongue with a lethartonic unguent. And yet even the slightest breeze seems to send you into a blazing legislative fury.
Call everything names, and when you run out of names you can call them numbers, and when you run out of numbers you can call the police. They'll give you a series of classified numbers in exchange for a suitable amount of disinformation, and off you go again, railing spools of numerals at countless items. Certainly you will want, at the least, to stimulate your minds. Mercury turns direct early tomorrow morning, and we may be wakeful. Moon tonight is near the Pleiades-should be a beautiful sight.
TUESDAY APRIL 12thMercury makes its direct station at 1° Aries on, feeding the flow of new ideas and fresh perspectives, although its semi-square to Mars can lead to impatience and perhaps language that crosses the line between humor and aggression. However a tantrum in a tantric tremendum could breathe new life into a squalid marriage consecrated by the usual mundanities. The usual tendency is to take a cylindrical organic object - say, a weasel or a zucchini - and plunge it into the soft yielding folds. To be doing so is not unlike the doing of anything else entirely distinct from everything on earth.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 13thThe Mars-Neptune conjunction at 17° Aquarius today is a tricky aspect because it combines the most focused planet and the most diffuse planet. Anger and actions can go off track, wasting energy with bad aim and poor planning. Yet, there's a magical side to this pair that can infuse activity with imagination, initiate spiritual practices, or serve other's with compassion. In streams like these, motions turn up that cannot be replaced. Generate terrific monuments made of coloured steam. Two solar aspects tonight bring the other two outer planets into play. First, the Sun semi-squares Uranus (24° 18' Aries - 9° 18' Pisces), perfect for pushing against authority. With maturity, the need to assert one's independence can be expressed in inventive ways, but it is destructively rebellious when handled with childish insecurity. In hail we could storm the edifices of a dream more incredible than the bursting of a thousand hearts amplified through vacufazers at full speed.Then, a Sun-Pluto trine provides the glue to reconnect the broken pieces of identity and purpose. Resources are discovered by weeding out bad ideas and concentrating on what is most worthy of expression now.
THURSDAY APRIL 14thAt 2:03 a.m., when the Moon enters Cancer, there is a more intimate mood and an emphasis on security and safety. The Moon is at home in Cancer, symbolizing the ability to connect with core needs and take steps toward fulfilling them. Yet, strong emotions can stir strong reactions out of proportion to current events. The ripples of uncertainty can easily spread out on waves of worry and doubt. Ultimately you could get two staircases out of it, but initially there's just the fog... And you will be the one who has been pumped full of ghosts, every hour coming through the pipe, like a suntarnished egg tumbling from its chute into the ignorant and diffidently gluttonous pond below. The city, on the other hand, grows soft and porous within the storm. I cry before your dumptrucks and sausages and skyscrapers. It's helpful to recognize the difference between external reality and one's reactions, especially when fears keep growing.
April 30, 2005
A short tale about a kurmudgeonly forest creature named Bitey, who goes for a little stroll to the river for some adventure with a few of the nearby occupants (called Prowlies) and gets a little more than he bargains for...
A family is threatening a lawsuit after a videotape showed police handcuffing a 5-year-old girl in Florida.
A new exhibition by Cosey Fanni Tutti will be at the VAN ABBE MUSEUM library, Eindhoven, Holland from 7th May to 21st August. 
SF Folks! Peter will be playing the Fillmore on May 24th
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The Brothers Grimm 
Tideland 
Very exhausted from our little performance in Union Square Park this afternoon, but it went very well. I had to just jot out a few kudos here while I am still lucid enough to do so:
File under Bizarro-Czech Surrealism Cinema...
I love the name of this blog. Finslippy. 
In all the languages spoken in Pakistan, Kafir means "Infidel" and Kafiristan means "Land of the Infi-dels." (Kafir also means "infidel" in Arabic.) Yet, ironically Kafiristan in Pakistan is believed to be a paradise located in the northwest part of the country: lakes, waterfalls, green forests teeming with wildlife, snow and a mellow sun.
What do rusty stovetops, exposed male butt-cracks, Norway and a cheesey 80's rock ballad all have in common?
Kabbalah Centre energy drink banking more on buzz from celebrities than caffeine
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2003: 
One of the women from Red Shift Mantra just contacted me about submitting a piece for WTBTN.
The "oerckhestreah" continues to bleed for you...
