And now for a change of pace. Here is a post from Merrilee that offers some astrological reflections on Fex & Coo and what has unfolded since October 11, 2010. Over the next while, I will follow this up with further astrological observations. Comments and questions are most welcomed! (ral)
Dear Paco and Russ,Paco, I don’t really read charts, but consulting with my nephew and his wife (who were just here) gave me this rather free-flowing take on the chart you sent:Pluto is in the 1st House along with Sag & Jupiter. Sag & Jupiter bring inspiration to FEX & COO! Catch people’s attention right away?!And with Pluto in Capricorn in this house — along with the North Node (what we’re here for; the lesson we’re here to learn) — the reader is destined to make a descent and undergo a deep transformation. So in FEX & COO, while Capricorn keeps us grounded, Pluto removes Cap's earthly bounds and lifts the veil on other realms.In the 3rd House of the book we find Pisces, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune all in AQUARIUS!! An extremely life-changing combo!! Aquarius being the humanitarian with a perspective of the collective ... or the big picture. Aquarius/Pisces takes Jupiter, Uranus, & Neptune — and the readers! — deep.3rd House = not just family & home, but our inner life, mind & intellect. This gathering in F & Coo’s chart has the power to transform the way we think. It makes us answer anew the question: Who Are We? Jupiter & Uranus aid the reader in bringing in the Age of Aquarius!The Moon in Sag is on the Ascendent. Does this mean emotions are stirred by the book? Sag is the seeker, philosopher, artist, etc. Again this book will take people deeper than they realize.Do Libra & Virgo at the top bring balance to the intellect?In the 11th House (our relationship to the collective?) the Sun, Mercury, & Saturn are conjunct in Libra. Is the Sun the book itself? And Mercury how it comes across to the audience? Does Saturn hold the fears we face when we read it? And is Libra our need to find balance in all this? Balance between Fex & Coo? Between Russ & Paco, and their deeper personas as Owl & Heron man? Between the Unconscious characters of our musings and dreams — and our waking selves?Mars & Venus are conjunct in Scorpio in the 12th House (unconscious). In the book does Scorpio take us on ever deeper dives into the unconscious?
Comment from Estela:
I have a couple of comments to make on Fex & Coo starting with Merrilee’s astrological reflections. I don’t have much of a grasp of astrology but some of the information from the astrological reading seemed to coincide with my own experience of the narrative process. It seems that the astrological intersections point to the “reader [being} destined to make a descent and undergo a deep transformation,” and that Fex & Coo has the “power to transform the way we think.” I found these two statements quite striking and similar to my own experience of the deepening of the narrative process and its effect on my own consciousness, which reminds me of John’s “spiraling engine” description of the narrative pulling one into the center of it, where a portal has opened for the “release of wisdom” to us all.. Certainly the wisdom contained within the narrative has facilitated an expansion of consciousness, beyond the material level, and reconnection to the quantum level.
Pluto’s connection with Capricorn, which “grounds us,” “lifts the veil on other realms.” This speaks to Fex & Coo providing a foundation from which to begin to experience other realties beyond the material world, in which our ego consciousness exists. The wisdom in Fex & Coo enables us to experience different pathways into an expanded state of consciousness. For me, the narrative has provided an opening to these other realms, or perhaps “doors” that can lead one into these other realms.
The Mars and Venus conjunct in Scorpio was particularly interesting to me due to my own astrological sign. I did a bit of research on this conjunction and found out that Scorpio is ruled by Pluto which relates to destruction and transformation. The God who rules Scorpio is Hades – the God of the Underworld. Merrilee asks the following question: “In the book does Scorpio take us on even deeper dives into the unconscious?” Is there a deepening as the narrative progresses? I think there is and it seems to me that Not in My Nightmare is related to the descent into the unconscious. What that means and what will be required, I don’t know but it seems that the narrative may be at this point.
A quick comment on Scene 6: As I read it, I wrote down the following words that we are “going into uncharted territory.” It was a sense I got related to the quotes from Wittgenstein and Lewis Carroll regarding “nonsense.” In addition, there was a comment that Paco made about the readers being silent at this time, which might be a creative or pregnant pause for the moment.