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Thoughts on the ordering mechanism; in light of Virgo


The split from good to bad, awesome to lame, interesting to boring, is the test all the time... under Liberalism, which itself is just a name for pure judgement, Saturn/Osiris in the garden, deciding. To wit: as soon as there is memory, there is association, and thus, wisdom standard. Saturn/Shiva is, after all, just Time itself (Chronos) and thus where memory and experience, the beginning of the scale, happens. The G-d experiencing themself is the all consuming, all self-aware except for noticing gloriously the "delusion" or more directly, "delugion" as in G-d's consciousness noticing creation into being constantly, Shroedinger's infinite noticer, of only that which is, deciding.

This is the consumer under this-stage capitalism and every other, no? Liberalism itself, Right or Left but neutral into the violent, direct center, defending reason and pragmatic operations, keeping the markets open and the products moving by any means uncircumvented. The self that notices, prefers, and thus, defines itself in terms of its pursuits. This is the Osiris that we all are, judging the dead, the products themselves, packaged for our timely, unhurried consumption, but summoned from beyond and chosen like the first and last of agriculture alike. This is fine lol. If it's not, we will complain, however feels most effectively. Can we speak to a manager? If not we will just leave.

This is the ordering mechanism that helps define Virgo, and in Jewish Kabbalah, it's a time for self-assesment and, like many other times, especially "nowadays" for working things out with people as immediately as possible, by taking responsibility as effectively as possible. Notably in the Bible and in any of the functionally martial moments in canon ever after, this has taken a pragmatic, violent pivot, so much so that the rest of the social expectation and responsibility narrative tends to express itself in those terms-- but deliteralized into the range of pragmatic oral violences endemic of the later prophets and preachers, still in the hopes of aspiring to take responsibility for something maybe a little out of anyones hands. Just in the hopes of drawing good conclusions, so as to live well rather than not.

The ordering mechanism in Virgo is so about noticing and remembering the difference between the wonderful and the ugh. Hassidic master Tzvi Elimelch of Dinov connects it to the relationship between Gimmel and Daled,
beneficence and poverty.

Whereas Wisdom and it's inevitable corruption (in time, through space) into it's opposite, Ignorance, is sometimes associated with the first two letters in the Aleph-Bet, and the Bet of Bereishit (Genesis) is the collapse into Ignorance that made the world possible, within the bubble of ignorance that congealed in loving contrast to the Divine and complete original Wisdom so that there could be extremes to the world and possibility itself. This is the first X Y axis, before the physical directions congealed and took off into the Six directions of space, first there was before and after, then there was better and worse. Here associated with Wealth, Beneficence, all the good that the camel brings ברוך הגמלני כל טוב is that third letter, the Daled that follows it is poverty, created by its opposite, mostly in memory and association. Remember when we used to have so much that we don't have now? Sorry.

This ordering mechanism is associated with G-d creating the world, deeply, differently than the New Year of Aries, Passover time. Virgo as the divine Maiden is specifically not the Mother, but the esoteric truth that the "mother and the maiden are one," arguably the main revelation of Eleusis as far as Demeter and Persephone being One in Aphrodite Urania. That's all in the absence of creation, and this is argued for why the letter YOD " י " is the letter associated with Virgo and Elul in the Sefer Yetzirah. The Yod is the tenth letter

but somehow also the beginning of all letters, a little dot/slash, the atomic element in all letters to follow. Yet somehow only expressed into the beginning of all that is ever the Sixth month of the Twelve, the judgment-assesment-take care of it part of the year and of the self, the Yod that introduces and resolves so that we can notice and do, finally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcM4nYKtV58

This video beautifully picks apart the moment where one of our collective favorite directors (because Batman was so universal of course, like the space between Halloween and Christmas) is analyized for when and why he stopped being good or fun, and the parrallel with the process of individuation into obnoxiousness in the cartoon cinema industry is too beautiful, deep, and sad not to share. The process will see all our limitations, and the sooner we see it ourselves, the more responsibility we will be able to take for what's possible next and now. Enjoy the agency, feel welcome to get on it, be sorry, notice what we're still proud of and/or mad about, and see what we can do to take responsibility for all the next steps, before the rains come and it's too wet and cold to do anything lol

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This one aged well! The mystery of the organizing mechanism, it’s triumphs and dysfunctions.

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Cancer’s vicious criticism: the return of the unexpressed resentment (Garth Ennis Blessed Assessment)

Cancer’s vicious criticism: the return of the unexpressed resentment (Garth Ennis Blessed Assessment)

Bring on The Boys: Success, Supes, satire, cynicism and Garth Ennis - The Comics Journal (tcj.com)


A) I’m so glad the Comics Journal is still running strong



This article is too short and I want to build on it:


An entire firmament in the range and depth and realness and art to which comic books could aspire is certainly experienced and made realizeable only in the works of Garth Ennis, in the aspect of Netzach{Gevurah, war as humanization, humiliation into knowledge. The informative cynical that cures and schools and trains our idealisms to be more properly informed, by the gross and well calculable/experientable real itself.

Relative to a parallel source of comics wizened impact divinity through a realism applied to the magic of the thing, Ennis’s first major works defined the entire transition of the 90’s Dark Age into the 2000’s Diamond age (as ends go; Diamond as the Entirety of the Future [because distribution] until paper comics ends.)

The pending doom that animates war comics as well as film noir and horror, the insecurity inherent in being– also informs the works of the other major horror/fantasy comic writer, this week fallen asunder, Neil Gaiman, instead Hod{Hesed so vulnerable to the vulnerability of the other, a priesthood that gives over without –enough– boundary.

As kids one generally wanted to respect Gaiman more, and the adaptations of the works of both are telling regarding the nature of adaptation from medium to medium, the main hallmark of the cartoon innovation. His adaptations have been notably often closer, the return to reverence where Ennis’s realism, informing a genuinely prescient tho perennial resurgence in Socialism itself in it’s dark absurdism. I like all his later stuff best, romances and horror/mystery/war for a range of tiny and large comics companies, an ethos and, again, humanism echoes through the vulgarity attesting what the world really is, if we’d just open our eyes and stop ignoring. This is, of course, Heschel’s definition of prophesy.

The two claws of the Crab/Turtle are the two pillars of prophesy, the integerated previous shining of Gemini given way to the claws of Cancer, the judgemental Moon ressurrected through pivot from side to side, until renewed, a small Mars aspect in the strike and the rest so new in the individuation that is the original Lunar, hence the Moon/Cancer association, despite the cancer animal, crab or turtle, ultimately being a force of Hera, between Mars and Jupiter. Notice the inversion and thus flexibility in whether or not judgement/vengeance actually injures or doesn’t even ever exist… the infinite criticism that gives way to satire and contempt as individuating force.

This is part of what works about The Boys and i’ll say more soon.

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X-Men in the context of Israel/Palestine and Queer Pride: Mystique and Destiny’s Wedding

Everyone knows X-Men is progressive AF but how radical can it be when it’s a corporate product? Maybe more radically accessible, but what is to be done with the art of resonance and catharsis managment, amidst wider active conflicts, and danger of mis-romanticizing into atrocity? Was Magneto Right?

Two X-Men canon inovations/resolutions reviewed amidst the crisis in Jewish National identity, as well as Liberal priority, as all our prides rear their raging joyful head, at the crossing of solar and lunar Gemini season. Xavier and Magneto are compared and contrasted with Ben Gurion and Jabotinsky, and the knowledge that any and all of us could and can’t be mutants that lets the metaphors be a bit more insidiously unplaceable, amidst these very partisan conflicts

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Encampment redemption: Taurus grounding

Whereas Aries tends to “be” invasion/initation season in the perennial Roman conception, Taurus is Demonstration Season: Rallying, encampment, the steady and localized appreciation of the sitting within The Movement. This is the power of the of course engages conflict with both the impulse to move on and the impulse to not be moved, an entire grounded stability shifted some distance away from where and what it had been.

Part of what’s charming and profound about the Columbia protests is the hope of demonstration against something far away as engagement of something actively waiting to occur more locally. By being somewhere overtly hostile, on principle, the nature of the hostility is drawn out into expression, and thus, more deeply digested into the fabric and operating principle of a fundamentally stable situation, the bedrock upon which any and all institutions build, signal, and identify.

Part of what is startling for “normal” people about the Columbia protests and the reaction to them is the surprise at both how much is tolerated, and then, immediately, at what the nature of violent intolerance really is, when performed in the defense of a stability. Conventional wisdom experiences these kinds of definitive conflicts as shocking, in light of how much conventional wisdom depends on a sort of committed myopia towards convention. This is part of the popular confusion at the absence of consequences towards disruption that somehow never threatens a stability enough to draw consequences. This is Israel, this is Trump. This is white collar crime, this is the legalization of drugs on the ground before the decrim on paper: the moment when enforcement gives way to despair, and eventually, embrace.

This is why Venus rules Taurus: the intimacy of the repeated, of the lean in that tests, and offers to prove, the rules. This will emerge as Pride parades, ethnic and otherwise, the independance days that are somehow so much more ethnic and human than martial or nationalistic, despite and because the heraldry pretends to be so much otherwise.

It looks like i’m going to be in NYC this weekend. I tend to miss the NYC Cannabis Parade most years, despite it having been so much the focus of my love and enthusiasm as a teenager volunteering at Cures Not Wars on 9 Bleeker, once upon a time. But this shabbos it looks like i’m going to be around. Anyone want to come for dinner Fri night, and then march on over in the late morning to Union Square? I know we won and this particular war, the cannabis one, is nominally over, but maybe the protest patterns we build our lives and priorities, identities and orthodoxies around are worth checking into and devoting through, even when it turns out that change comes from some strange other equasion.

I hope the Yay for the triumphals, especially the ones all a'coming, the future holidays built around successfully resolved conflicts and freshly embedded sensitivities. Lets see how much expressing and organizing around the fundamental problems and pending crisises helps us to build community, family and everything around better ways every day. The degree to which this does feel like what my communities ARE, my friends and families, like the living alternative to everything deeply wrong with how people do and don’t resolve conflicts and imbalances, overt ones that evolve into institutions of nothing but oppression and exploitation, and the little ones we’re trying to heal out of ourselves being.

Here’s hoping we get better at noticing which work and which help, which trip and which frumkeit, actually make anything nicer at all. Noticing and feeling are the core virtue of Taurus, and the traditional post Passover work of Sephirat HaOmer: just noticing the ways we are, the ways things are, and building every new clarity around the noticing.

I was reading: how much of the whole Passover trip is understood just from Sabbath itself, the moment where we can stop from the compulsive to just taste and feel for a moment, together and ourselves. It’s hard to describe how precious all protest movments are for giving us a step out of the heartbreaking conventional to just be with and notice how much and how many other people care like we care, and can be nourished with us, together. Yay for more accessible heavens every day, and better ways to build them.

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This aged pretty good.

Like every good end, the funnest month and the most tragic sign.
Yum!

In the context of “the Four Weeks” x the four trumps!

Popcartoonkabala: The Last of Pisceses | Patreon

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Pisces in the context of the tragically under appreciated Madame Web. I’ll tell you the trick: it’s a movie for maturity about motherhood so it’s for people who have daughters, in whatever capacity. Responsibility and weird jungle drugs are the operative metaphor that transition and inversion is what Pisces is all about. you’ll see!

Madame Web is Awesome; Spider-Man is Ayahuasca-: Pisces/Adar amidst moral(e) disaster | Patreon

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Sagittarius is already turned towards Capricorn, but here are some thoughts, VERY VERY FOCUSED AND COHERENT THOUGHTS YOU SEE on how Scorpio swings down into Sagittarius, to understand the winterification of Earth and the Self, in many ways. Capricorn is where the dawn breaks, and change gives way to the beginning of an inversion. Ten and not Nine, but this video is about Nine and not Eight, or Seven, in order to understand some systems tendancy, the Zodiac that emerges wherever. Because I feel like I understand Seven and even Eight lol, but not quite Nine, and so i’ve never quite understood Sagittarius, but here’s as close as I get… Listen, it makes sense if you just hear how I say it lol.

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Years ago but now again
The horse that runs comes round the bend
with strength ascends co-operative
to bring some presence to his friends

In snow and sleet and horseshoed feet
remove the beat, to break the street
Jupiter co-opts the nine
to Ben-yamin’s weird palace in time
in sleep and dream in peace
in dripping cups of clear grease
in the heat that pops the oil
in the wick that holds it all

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Thoughts on the ordering mechanism; in light of Virgo


The split from good to bad, awesome to lame, interesting to boring, is the test all the time… under Liberalism, which itself is just a name for pure judgement, Saturn/Osiris in the garden, deciding. To wit: as soon as there is memory, there is association, and thus, wisdom standard. Saturn/Shiva is, after all, just Time itself (Chronos) and thus where memory and experience, the beginning of the scale, happens. The G-d experiencing themself is the all consuming, all self-aware except for noticing gloriously the “delusion” or more directly, “delugion” as in G-d’s consciousness noticing creation into being constantly, Shroedinger’s infinite noticer, of only that which is, deciding.

This is the consumer under this-stage capitalism and every other, no? Liberalism itself, Right or Left but neutral into the violent, direct center, defending reason and pragmatic operations, keeping the markets open and the products moving by any means uncircumvented. The self that notices, prefers, and thus, defines itself in terms of its pursuits. This is the Osiris that we all are, judging the dead, the products themselves, packaged for our timely, unhurried consumption, but summoned from beyond and chosen like the first and last of agriculture alike. This is fine lol. If it’s not, we will complain, however feels most effectively. Can we speak to a manager? If not we will just leave.

This is the ordering mechanism that helps define Virgo, and in Jewish Kabbalah, it’s a time for self-assesment and, like many other times, especially “nowadays” for working things out with people as immediately as possible, by taking responsibility as effectively as possible. Notably in the Bible and in any of the functionally martial moments in canon ever after, this has taken a pragmatic, violent pivot, so much so that the rest of the social expectation and responsibility narrative tends to express itself in those terms– but deliteralized into the range of pragmatic oral violences endemic of the later prophets and preachers, still in the hopes of aspiring to take responsibility for something maybe a little out of anyones hands. Just in the hopes of drawing good conclusions, so as to live well rather than not.

The ordering mechanism in Virgo is so about noticing and remembering the difference between the wonderful and the ugh. Hassidic master Tzvi Elimelch of Dinov connects it to the relationship between Gimmel and Daled,
beneficence and poverty.

Whereas Wisdom and it’s inevitable corruption (in time, through space) into it’s opposite, Ignorance, is sometimes associated with the first two letters in the Aleph-Bet, and the Bet of Bereishit (Genesis) is the collapse into Ignorance that made the world possible, within the bubble of ignorance that congealed in loving contrast to the Divine and complete original Wisdom so that there could be extremes to the world and possibility itself. This is the first X Y axis, before the physical directions congealed and took off into the Six directions of space, first there was before and after, then there was better and worse. Here associated with Wealth, Beneficence, all the good that the camel brings ברוך הגמלני כל טוב is that third letter, the Daled that follows it is poverty, created by its opposite, mostly in memory and association. Remember when we used to have so much that we don’t have now? Sorry.

This ordering mechanism is associated with G-d creating the world, deeply, differently than the New Year of Aries, Passover time. Virgo as the divine Maiden is specifically not the Mother, but the esoteric truth that the “mother and the maiden are one,” arguably the main revelation of Eleusis as far as Demeter and Persephone being One in Aphrodite Urania. That’s all in the absence of creation, and this is argued for why the letter YOD “ י ” is the letter associated with Virgo and Elul in the Sefer Yetzirah. The Yod is the tenth letter

but somehow also the beginning of all letters, a little dot/slash, the atomic element in all letters to follow. Yet somehow only expressed into the beginning of all that is ever the Sixth month of the Twelve, the judgment-assesment-take care of it part of the year and of the self, the Yod that introduces and resolves so that we can notice and do, finally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcM4nYKtV58

This video beautifully picks apart the moment where one of our collective favorite directors (because Batman was so universal of course, like the space between Halloween and Christmas) is analyized for when and why he stopped being good or fun, and the parrallel with the process of individuation into obnoxiousness in the cartoon cinema industry is too beautiful, deep, and sad not to share. The process will see all our limitations, and the sooner we see it ourselves, the more responsibility we will be able to take for what’s possible next and now. Enjoy the agency, feel welcome to get on it, be sorry, notice what we’re still proud of and/or mad about, and see what we can do to take responsibility for all the next steps, before the rains come and it’s too wet and cold to do anything lol

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The Kabbalah of Barbie x Openheimer

Venus vs. Mars(?) amidst the fire of Summertime Shabbos.

There is tremendous public enthusiasm i’m noticing from within the communities about Barbie this year, something that hasn’t been possible for a long time in light of the imbedded nature of exploitation and eros-as-product. Now the public discourse is changed, and a new pseudo-innocence is possible, that of a knowledge that does not disrupt.

The Leo mythology is rather scant within Hellenism, the Lion itself understood as Solar King and yet completely unfamiliar in Greece, where they had none. From Babylon and Egypt, again, come the insight-association of Leo-the-Season (late July, early August) with the Lion.

Again: the King but the absence of mythology implies the Omnipresence of the narrative in ur-antiquity. I need to assume that the Egyptian metamyth parrallels the Babylonian, in that at least: The Babylonian Lion at the gate of Ishtar is what Ishtar rides, parralleling the Left Eye of Ra that emerges with hostility against mankind in the form of the cruel firey goddess Sekhmet who comes with the judgement of the Left Eye to destroy all the people UNTIL she’s sated with beer dressed as blood, dyed with ochre, and then becomes Ra’s other eye, the nice one, happy dancing erotic cow goddess Hathor
                                                                  The house of Hor(us)
 Another Venus, split between joyful rewarding fecund and punishing, vicious burning, and I suspect, this is precisely the Lion depicted in Leo: ultimately accommodating, as is the Venus/Aphrodite/Lilith nature.

This brings us back to Barbie, The Bar of Bee rather than the House of Hur, the dreamhouse vessel that reflects aspirational capacity.

Years ago, noted mystic artist, farmer, editor and publisher Jorian Polis Schutz released a wonderful book of Illustrated Greek Myths as devotional psychological/spiritual exploration. Amidst this he wrote about Aphrodite, relating her to the Barbie concept, as accomodating and devoted product producer of the plastic fantasy that makes ideation possible, spirituality itself:

The challenge of Lilith/Leo, ruled by the Sun as urgent solution to the problem of neglect and indulgence, gives way to the love that wants to be expressed through it.

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THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH & US (100 minutes)

the complete musical show, 100 minutes. this video presents a history of the cave of machpelah (cave of the patriarchs) in hebron, israel, from genesis to the present.…

This is actually the most amazing and divine piece of media I’ve ever heard/seen. A long form radio movie midrash giving over the sublime genesis midrash as domestic cosmic psychedelic comedy. This might be the greatest version of the thing, with a range of somatic depth and cartoon glory. Everyone deserves to hear this, like they deserve to hear Mel Brooks, Bugs Bunny, or the Beatles.