Kati Thanda -(Lake Eyre)
It is my hope that with the start of Cancer season and the movement of Jupiter into Cancer, our ability to feel tangible benefits from expressing our emotional states to each other will be heightened. It seems like there is opportunity for movement and shifting of emotional states and stagnation, aided by the moon in Virgo we have the opportunity to edit and parse fragmented or shifting emotional states. Avoid being overly possessive or ruminating on issues of pride, rather turn to enjoying matters of the home and taking time to enjoy self expression through conversation or journaling.
These behaviours rooted in human history like tending to the home and close relationships will be a balm and can help carry some of the philosophical and moral weight of understanding our place in a rapidly changing world.
I was thinking recently of the possibility that the past is happening now. Maybe overlayed on our reality, in and amongst us, yet impossibly far out of reach, and sometimes a crack allows us to see through. I had conceptualised “the past” as a place where those everyday people who lived before us faded into the void of obscurity, unless lucky enough to somehow be recorded and celebrated as notable or known to us through personal histories. That time propels us forward along the corridor of progress, leaving people to fall further into that unknowable place.
But as I looked back I saw the past looking at me
and thought we are to the past, ghosts as they are to us.
I’m no historian or…computer engineer or …expert, but AI will undoubtably allow us to translate and understand more texts and to process information in a way that will give us access to knowledge that has been lost to time. And this surely will help humanity to understand and witness itself.
These broader ideas that we have seen with larger and slower outer planetary movements that usually define bigger global experiences are having a more internal and personal toll on us as individuals as we use these technological advances in our daily lives and see the ramifications of its applications on other people around us and around the world.
When writing I was reminded how Jim Carrey is saying he is no one and has achieved the state of -No self-, where years ago in a red carpet interview he was describing how he was merely consciousness created to experience consciousness itself. “Consciousness having a human experience” While it’s curious to see his character arc from silly guy to enlightened individual, I couldn’t help but contemplate how complex the human need to be witnessed is.
And when, in the recent Art Angle podcast, they spoke about an application of VR to create a simulacrum of yourself, I wondered, why we are seeing so many examples of people turning to technology to be witnessed.
In Jordan Wolfson’s, Little Room, you as a participant in the work, are paired with another viewer and taken through an experience where your body is scanned and fed into a VR program. Through the use of a headset a replicated image of your body takes the place of the person in front of you, and their image over you. There is a mirror in the space and you see yourself as the other person, and the other as a simulacrum of you. Described as horrifying but to achieve clarity of self perception is such a human urge.
the trick is , to try stay present, grounded, connected when everything feels like some phillip k dick ass reality. what’s the antidote to that?
in the meantime my recommendations are…….
footbaths, herbal or mineral, feet in a river/ sea.
lemon drinks
asking yourself the 36 questions for emotional intimacy. or asking people you know if you feel like it.
https://amorebeautifulquestion.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Arthur-Arons-36-questions.pdf
being with trees, like realllyyy spending time with them. they are so like… in the earth you know.
imagining yourself floating on a pool of water the perfect temperature in your favourite weather
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