A Reprise

"Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit" I thought hard about re-recording this, because at times I feel like I'm being too forthright. ;) But I decided to keep it for the passion and sincerity, and of course there is Olive's cameo.

Here's my first ecto post... we'll see how this goes. I have been trying to find an offline editor for ages since I got the Mac. Well I read another interesting thing in The Fourth Turning : apparently what our vision of the future can define our generation. The book goes back over the kinds of futuristic movies that were made at the turn of the century all the way up to now. Sometimes these movies present a marvelous space-age world, and sometimes a dystopic post-apocalyptic wasteland. I think it's fascinating that our vision of the future hundreds of years from now actually reflects the way we feel about our present world. Till I thought about things this way I did not really see the literary value in science fiction. Now it makes science fiction seem really important to me. The Age of the Confessional Self. This is our present literary age which began in the early 60's when the first Gen-X'er's were born. I have been reflecting in my reading, that even ...

I have been dividing my time between The Fourth Turning  and Moon Magic . The Fourth Turning  is fascinating the way it talks about what is going on right now, even though it was written in 1997. So far everything it's predicted about the media and social attitudes has come to pass. The Millenial/Gen Y still has not come forth and expressed itself. According to the book, the "hero" generation doesn't do that until the time of the crisis itself. Until that time they don't have a collective identity. Last night I drew the 6 of cups. The 6 of cups is about nostalgia, childhood. This is the second time I've drawn a card like this querying for strength and what will help me get through. Moon Magic  continues to be a turning-point reading for me. I identify most with the author simply for creating a character like this and learning from her. I feel I have done this with Lady Hildegarde, and I reflected on her yesterday to see what she is "doing." I w...

One thing I learned in the Enchanted Diary is that I am clairsentient. It is a nice way of saying that I am too easily affected by other people's moods and can get too involved in their business. I think this is true, and I think it's also true that I can sense the moods and presences of things that aren't even people, and I've been experiencing that more lately. In my loftier reading I am learning about the Astral Plane. Sometimes when I feel like I have been fighting but it's like the memory of a dream, I think the invisible aspect of me has been fighting something invisible, and it only dimly reaches my conscious mind. But now that I am working with these energies I am starting to sense it.

I found this in Half Price Books a few weeks ago, and I felt so upset when I saw it. I thumbed through it and felt, I should have found this when I was a teen, it's not fair -- just not fair-- and I had the feeling Molly has when she sees the Unicorn, "How dare you come to me now? When I am this?" but the unicorn says, "I am here now," in the half-startled, half-cold way that is hers. I bought the book, and I have been reading it and doing the work as time allowed, and I will share some of it when I can.