We begin our adventure as Mars is stationing in eclectic Sagittarius. You are invited into the realm of animating, surprising, positive, political intrigue of Democratic Animism — the Path of Liberating Desire and Fierce Compassion.

Mars represents our relationship to animals and we will begin to assemble our inspiring team of wise allies — animals, humans, ancestors and plants. Caroline will share the Jataka Mala Tales of the Buddha’s past lives as animals and the Pancha Tantra, the oldest frame story in the world of guidance from animals.

We will adjust the energetic fuel on which we each run individually so we may transform societal fuel into that which is good for all life. Each of us will inaugurate this journey by answering the query, “What do I desire?” (An answer kept private until realized.)

In this first Council, we’ll:

• Cultivate the qualities of heroism to birth the Trickster Redeemer in our hearts.
• Tend to desire, eros, feistiness, heat, courage, dynamism, passion and kinship with life.
• Discover our animal allies through shamanic techniques whereby to broker desirable inter-species collaborative cahooting.
• Define leadership through exploring leadership models derived from nature and syncretizing our own unique form of leadership, allied with powers greater than our own.
• Honor the Trickster dynamic in Animism and Buddhism.
• Conjure our Money Animal so that we all can have sufficient funding to play our role in destiny.
• Mend our broken treaties.

The Sun is now in Taurus — the incarnational realm of Venus. This time is dedicate ourselves to acts of Beauty to invite power into the world. We join together to partner with Nature to make the world more beautiful. When the worst aspects of our species are being dredged to the surface of the body politic — like hives — ‘tis our task to invite the best. We’ll reawaken our eroticism and magnetize lovers (new or old).

Scheherazade said, “The world is run by those who do not know how to make love — and that’s why we’re screwed.”

In this Council, we’ll:

• Restore the art of courtship through studying nature.
• Explore Pragmatic Mysticism.
• Honor the Buddha’s Full Moon-Earth Day.
• Develop the art of magnetizing.
• Delight in the art of altars.
• Restore sacredness to money.

The incarnation of Mercury in Gemini invokes that our words be in accord with our dedicated desire. Language grants us access to the realm it describes. If you can speak of it, you can journey there! Astrology is one of the great guiding languages of antiquity and is now being called to its highest purpose. It is a language that describes our interior psyche and its connection to the collective. We live in a conversational creation — everything speaks to us by its song, its color, its rhythm.

In this module, Skookum becomes our motto, which means “connected to the spirits and completely competent for the task at hand.” By approaching the world with informed reverent curiosity, we rejoin the choreography of creation.

In this Council, we’ll:

• Consult with the Delphic Oracle: “Are my plans in accord with the divine? And if not, how shall I bring them into accord?”
• Explore the communicative arts of Call and Response and Chorusing.
• Cultivate irresistible eloquence.
• Become Skookum.

The incarnation of the Moon in Cancer is the return of Big Momma, in her Trickster garb as fierce protector of life and the Keeper/Protector of Democracy. Caroline will invite Permaculture guest experts to share the art of cultivating our literal and metaphoric gardens, as living metaphor. We’ll explore our plant allies, adaptogens, entheogens and the history of human-plant collaboration.

In this Council, we’ll:

• Journey backwards in time to heal the ancestors and thus the present.
• Recognize the power of memory to create the future.
• Explore our family, ancestors and history for clues as to our contribution.
• Break family spells and take new vows.
• Join with Big Momma to metabolize grief into beauty.

Every tree, plant and flower grows and flourishes by the grace and bounty of the sun .
– John Tyndall, 19th Century Scientist

Ally with the energetic, animating life force of all life — the sun. Hail to the Sun God! He is a Fun God! Ra! Ra! Ra!

When the sun is in Leo it is the confluence of all allies. In this module, we’ll study the solar myths and art, pyramids, altars on mountains, fertility symbols and the myriad depictions of the sun associated with snakes, lions, reindeer, goats, etc. We’ll also learn to cultivate solar power within and without and receive wisdom from Caroline’s guests from the solar power realm.

In this Council, we’ll:

• Participate in midwifing the emerging mythos of conscious kinship.
• Turn our clenched fists into the Buddhist mudra of reassurance — the outstretched open hand found on statues of the Buddha.
• Explore Joseph Campbell’s inquiry: “What is the new mythology to be, the mythology of this earth as of one harmonious being?”
• Collage our own solar mandala, as a source of strength.

The incarnation of Mercury in Virgo exposes the Magician Hermes/Hermia. In Hermetic Alchemy, alchemists were interested in coagulating or fixing the elusive Mercury spirit. ”Fixation of the volatile” is the alchemical term for the focusing of attention which would grant us the capacity to understand the language of birds and other creatures. Among other things, in this module we’ll explore P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins books as realms where liberating esoterica has been smuggled back into culture through children’s literature.

In this Council, we’ll:

• Realize the universe as telepathic.
• Engage in exercises whereby to increase telepathy.
• Cultivate the augury arts of Applied Divination.

To love disharmony back into harmony creates a greater harmony than existed before.
– Michael Gruber, Author

Magic is simply a willingness to cooperate with everything! The artist is the keeper of collective soul. Venus in Libra reveals the art of balance, how to let the pain flow through you — not into you. We welcome the disruption that liberates old circuits into larger vastness. One definition of our assignment is to discern the pattern of evolutionary intelligence that proffers the liveliest possibilities available at any moment and partner with them.

In this Council, we’ll:

• Discover what works now in the realm of personal relationships.
• Study manners in Nature.
• Ally with etiquette.
• Liberate Democracy.

In our finale, the time for sane reverence to assume a new cultural narrative is here. We’ll metabolize our adversaries into allies by inviting in the Unifying Story. We are electing Flora Fauna into office! We’ll lead the charge in resolving universal conflict. In this module, we’ll mobilize our relations with our dangerous allies! We’ll discover how to transform detective stories into strategic guides. Sex magic dedicated to spiraling positive energetics into group human mind will be our guide. Let’s make sure we have much for which to be grateful. Our intention is to leave you feeling “ready for action (ready for danger) — with glee!

In this concluding Council, we’ll:

• Journey through the underworld with jaunty aplomb.
• Turn adversaries into allies.
• Metabolize poison.
• Polish our storytelling skills to be effective voices for what we love.
• Actualize the art of directing cultural attention through the ancient craft of public speaking.
• Complete by magnetizing, cultivating, animating and spiraling forth into the memosphere the most irresistible, all inclusive guiding meta-narrative.

We are all augurs inaugurating Earth’s Dream!