Monday, December 31, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Friday, August 31, 2012
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Entering Aquarius with Battlestar Galactica
Aquarius –
Mentioned here over time two things: One starting past Jung’s UFO myth essay we
have entered a “returning to earth” mythology with pop culture like “Lost” and
a TV show “Survivors” – they show earth as newly discovered and strange, like
planets were in the early UFO culture. And in this period all last century we
rise – assuming here that the pop culture is the naïve dream of the times – up to space with Captain Kirk and
find the Tao in Obie wan Kenobi – but there in our times an end piece and
companion piece to these two. Battlestar
Galactica. What is fascinating about Galactica is that it is searching
for the strange planet “earth” so it is a primary “returning” myth. My kids
gave us Netflix at Christmas and we have been watching it. It is addictive. (We put it off
for years because it sounded “Mormon.” But the current version with the elegant
Number Six in the red dress was written
by someone else.) The story is about an ancient race of humans in space seeking
earth (this story was originally conceived by a Mormon and humanity coming from
space is coherent with Mormon philosophy). The “others” are called cylons. They
are a race created by “humans” who took their own freedom and then declared war
on the humans. Throughout, there are people on the ship who discovered that they are “really
cylons” much to their chagrin, and they try to be more “human.” And
incidentally, this is a primary Aquarian myth as the commander is named Adamo
and his son Appolo; Adam and Appolo seek
earth. Then at the end of the third season a melody infects the ship and
certain people are affected by it as if led as if by a muse. The song is Bob
Dylan’s “All along the Watchtower” – made popular by Jimi Hendrix. The cylons
are the hippies; the redeemers of the humans or the distroyers. This completes
the “returning to earth” mythology and begins “time” again on the planet as per
lore of Battlestar Galactica.
Sunday, July 15, 2012
Galactica - a myth of "returning"
RE white buffalo in
Connecticut. Amazing how this has gained popularity in the last 15 years since
the birth at Janesville. There are a number of what I call Aquarian myths in
our times most all about rising to the sky then returning to earth, the
"return" said Whitman, when ". . . The true son of God shall
come singing his songs." We rose up with Star Trek and encountered the Tao with Star
Wars while away from earth. We have been watching the current Battlestar
Galactica - seems like Star Trek was rite of entry to the new era Galactica
is the rite of exit of sky period. Most interesting, the Galactica journey is
journey home, to the mysterious planet "earth." This birth in
Connecticut seems likewise a "rite of exit" of the beginning and
transitional period of the new millennium.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Polar bear in "Lost" - symbol of rising Aquarius
Much I wrote
about “Lost” a few years back but failed to mention that this, primary of
Aquarian myths in the first days of the millennium, contains not only the
essential pouring of the water; Jack’s final act in “the unconscious” is
unstopping the water to bring the curing waters, as per Pegasus’s role, but the
singular totem animal of the age. As fish identified the Christ in the age of
Pisces, bear – Ursa Minor - the constellation which in our times swirls around
the North Pole, in Lost, the mystery animal is a polar bear, symbol of the
rising age (see below). “She bear moves the world, Jung carved on his crypt.
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