A Warriors Creed

I have no parents- I make the heavens and earth my parents.
I have no home-I make awareness my home.
I have no life or death-I make the tides of breathing my life and death.
I have no divine power-I make honesty my divine power.
I have no means-I make understanding my means.
I have no magic secrets-I make character my magic secret.
I have no body-I make endurance my body.
I have no eyes-I make the flash of lightening my eyes.
I have no ears-I make sensibility my ears.
I have no limbs-I make promptness my limbs.
I have no strategy-I make"unshadowed by thought" my strategy.
I have no designs-I make"seizing opportunity" my design.
I have no miracles-I make right action my miracles.
I have no principles-I make adaptability my principles.
I have no tactics-I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
I have no talents-I make ready wit my talent.
I have no friends-I make my mind my friend.
I have no enemy-I make carelessness my enemy.
I have no armor-I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.
I have no castle-I make immovable mind my castle.
I have no sword-I make absence of self my sword.

Anonymous Samurai,14th Century

Freedom to Be Yourself

Sun's
Upcoming Transit

Surprises & Breakthroughs
Uranus Sextile Jupiter
Fri, Mar 13, 2009
Influential Duration:
03/06/09 - 03/27/09

Freedom to Be Yourself
The keynote of this aspect is "freedom to be myself". Freedom will be important to you during this time in every way. Restrictions that have been holding you back from activities that would enhance your personal development may be suddenly removed now. Your physical energy will be high and you will be able to work hard at any task you may want to do. Your patience will be short, and you may feel like lashing out at any obstacles that threaten to interfere with your progress. Remember, with Uranus in a configuration, you can expect the UN-expected! The energy will demand action, and this is where caution is recommended. Avoid impulsive action, but do be ready to take advantage of sudden opportunities to move forward. Removing some of the restrictions could be painful, but, remember that they did not happen all by themselves. You played a part in putting them there. Change is usually difficult, but the freedom gained from taking advantage of the opportunities under this aspect can certainly be worth a little pain.

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Tiger beat. 2/7/74

It was intergalactic, interplanetary vibration-heavy hiphop that Jay Dee channeled into our world. He was a deft collagist of sound, collecting and weaving together his thousands of transcendent found moments of black noise from old artifacts- dusty 45's, lp's and the like. I hear in his music a gumbo of muscular beats blended with negative space and air, along with his own sly instinct for teasing damp sensuality out of the funk like a strong, smart tongue or maybe a searching forefinger. Never too fast, not ever too slow, just smack the skin until the flesh vibrates and then the little death descends. The specially talented strippers understand. Love me some J Dilla.

Committed love ..graceful, vulnerable, omnipotent.

MY FIRST LOVE
2/14/52 - 5/16/07

ol' mason jars

Yes! This wicked phobia about touching my own personal power is as real as a fit of paralysis. Beneath dem indigo waves of consciousness it floats, detritus-like with all of my other useless things- regrets, grudges, obsessions.

Lifting this enormous power to the surface means that I'll be responsible for its ravages and its failures. Mommy's always responsible for her child's wrongdoing...

So I keep my little visions hidden away inside of cruddy ol' mason jars. Just let them sit there festering in the hot sun all the day long, like my dead granddaddy's pickled onions, okra, tomatoes. Sometimes I might pour off the pot liquor straight into my mouth, and let a volcanic river drip down my neck.

Now my creative impulses they shake me, violently, out of a good night's sleep. Rage and envy, yearning freezing rotten desire, none of it will leave me alone. So I go, there I go. Grief throws me against the river rocks, and my momma's face is reflected in wet sunlight above my head.