Psychic Weather Report
10.04.2025
Martyn Cross, First Made World 2024
I was listening to the latest episode of Against Everyone with Conner Habib who in conversation with Are Thoresen spoke of the problem of inevitability. As Conner says “The language of inevitability is upon us, and it is a cruel language, one that allows no discussion of freedom or our ability to direct things.”.
It was a helpful perspective when the problems we face personally and on a world scale seem like the odds are stacked against a lot of us.
My outlook had been that the path that is the most humane, the most supportive of freedom is one that is by necessity crafted with hard work and determination while being thwarted by villainous capitalist interests along the way.
But now I’m thinking, maybe having a determinist and inevitable outlook shoots yourself in the foot before you’ve even begun..
T. S. Eliot writes
“Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present”
Seems like reality is a game of probability, and objectively the path that leads to your most free future already exists. That conversation between Habib and Thoresen helped me to reframe my perspective. I don’t necessarily have to build that future from scratch but I have to work toward discovering it, like a track in the forest overgrown that will clear when I can stop and look into the finer details.
I feel that the last month in particular has been about editing and filtering through fragments of memories and even physical ephemera. The amount of fire/ Aries energy has been at time regenerative and at times felt destructive. Just like controlled burns of the forest can be harmful if not done with a thorough understanding of the nature of the land though if done correctly is an essential way to care for it into the future.
I had this image come into my mind of trying to tune into a radio station late at night, I used to slowly turn the tuner switching between AM and FM, hunting for something strange and interesting. Often I would come across something but it would be impossible to get a clean sound, it would fall into static after a while or then get overly loud and fade away. To me that’s what the energy of the last month in particular has been like.
Listening to the radio late last night they were playing discordant classical, I was trying to imagine who would want that while trying to sleep. I thought about the taxi driver and the passenger looking out the window in traffic, a parking lot security guard slowly watching the sky grow brighter as their stomach growls for something warm. It’s nice to feel connected like that.
no real astrological guidance this time but will write soon, I’m reminded of another passage from T. S. Eliot’s four quartets, as I try to maintain a sense of comradery and connection to my fellow human being.
“All manner of thing shall be well.
If I think, again, of this place,
And of people, not wholly commendable,
Of no immediate kin or kindness,
But of some peculiar genius,
All touched by a common genius,
United in the strife which divided them;”
anyway my recommendations………..
smell of roasted pine nuts esp. freshly ground
dirt, all kinds but the type covered in dry leaves esp. pine needles and compacted from being close to the base of a tree
quilted fabric, art of quilts
radio, ham radio , live broadcasts pirate radio and tv and movie stations
trying to sleep before midnight
comfort of repetition
minerality in flavour profiles,
animal communication videos.
this koi pond
The link to Against Everyone with Conner Habib,
https://www.patreon.com/posts/against-everyone-125576888