The Far End of the Zodiac
Circus Sojourn II by Trish Woodford | Fotografia aquática
We make our way through the far end of the zodiac as if underwater. An odd surrealism permeates the landscape. We are between beginnings and endings, then and the next now. Things are hazy, lines are blurred slack. Worlds are overlapping, mingling in brackish corners. Even with the perfect storm of our next eclipse season looming on the far horizon, a strange hanging calm belies these powerful turning point days. The ides, whisper the ancient sages with a knowing nod.
This is the drawing out of many old tides, a slow and tender ministration that turns slow in our bodies almost without notice. A kind of osmosis whose salt calls your oldest deepest to surface. Nostalgia lurking like a large shadow, a pull back, a drag. Its current confounding the magnetic pull of the future.
The star year is leaking already over the equinox falls and waiting for us to hover trembling at its slippery precipice. We seek the lure of fine balance and our next action stations simultaneously, the strangest bedfellows that ever there were. Still a week and change to go. Still we float and wobble and wonder what and wonder why.
The ramrod riddle of balance is that it requires dynamism to obtain. We imagine a perfect fixed still point but only find its true meaning when we tip wildly, or stumble or crash. Better to float just a little while longer, gazing at a true north star that will keep heavy heads looking up not down.
Even with everything everywhere all at once, this is Neptune's fluid terroir and a realm all of its own. There is so very much flashing by in schools of possibility that catch your eye and the light just so. The dreamscape explodes, a fresh galaxy of stories and codes and keys that glimmer. All about you if you tune yourself to what's most pressing on your soul.
The only compass that works is internal. Time means less than space for just a little bit longer. There is much to be said for the getting of these strange sea legs.
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2023