everythang you want in life has teeth.

9:46 PM - in my attic @ home. Sept 22, 2024.

Sun in Libra, Moon in Gemini - The Equinox & between eclipses. A cosmic closing & opening.

The beginning of this Libra eclipse season was during October 2023 and ends with another one this Oct 2nd. Libra is relationships and the scales of justice. South Node eclipses are about emptying out, a cleansing - a destabilization towards deeper more complete harmony - rebalance. What actually brings about justice?

your atoms are my atoms.

there is always a path.

“wind does not dry” you do not exist in a vacuum.

“water does not wet” i am responsible.

i think of the Jaguar & her rose floret markings i think of the Salt that stings and nourishes i think of the loopholes exploited to justify affording what Presence “buys”, what Presence “affords”.

To toil is inherent in living; it is the baking of the cake.

To institutionalize is to suffocate, to unjustly amputate, to ruthlessly manipulate -

the Ones that bore Us.

my atoms are your atoms.

We are forever capable.

i feel like writin’ now. a ramblin’ ponderin’ essay.

Academic to be sure. Argumentative to a fault, Poetic by default.

“Art” - design, more accurately - has been the spearhead of Capitalist Imperialism and all his nasty incestual offspring (gentrification, racism, classism, green washing, spiritual bypassing, white saviourism, the forced creation of “White” in the first place, the reality of “third world countries”, exploitation..) since the Renaissance. Here’s what i mean:

First: “Art” is not art, is not Art.

• “Art” = commercialized products, anything bought and sold (not traded), anything that solicits, advertises, or convinces towards a purchase. All design is “Art” - and i will be clear that this is a manifestation of evil to me. Evil is where love is intentionally rejected. Evil is everywhere but is not to be feared. Perfect love casts out fear - love, Being Whole, has no opposites. Anyway, [advertisement] is inseparable from [Othering]. Places like Hobby Lobby, culture resale stores (you know they go “somewhere exotic”, buy for cheap and resale for 4x the price and flatten ancestry into a boho Pinterest board), most galleries and institutions fall into this category as well. Most things we experience here in Amerikkka are “Art”. “Persuade with the Science of Consumer Psychology” foul a$* type beat. Spiritual bypassing, gaslighting, trend forecasting, tabloids, most contemporary cinema, coffee shops in church, “boys will be boys”, “I’m gonna die anyway”, hostile & brutalist architecture, the lasting impact of The Crusades, car-centric infrastructure, corporate personhood, civil asset forfeiture, places like the Louvre, Rijksmuseum, and British History Museum, MET, Fort Knox, are all the same - all rooted in this sugar-coated infantile self pitiful illusion of capital I Individualism. A paper thin facade of Righteousness to romanticize willful stagnation.

• art = all free things, reciprocity (trades fall here), children's work, play, nature, compulsive making, the catharsis of creating, flow state, trash, serendipity, rainbows, a good meal, an enlightening conversation, Divine sex, smiles, a good death, healing - physical, mental and emotional, expansive connection, stories, and communal grief are all art. This is what Was, what IS - sans Society. Community - Indigenous Ubuntu & Uhuru - is not Society. This is not a romanticization of or a nostalgia for a time nearly forgotten. This is not Futurism. art is the antithesis of English. Music and Dance are born here. Community is rooted here. This is presence, Being, crafting in mutual understanding that neither exist without the other because all is one. My atoms are Your atoms. A phone is a rock is a glass is fire is the air. Humans craft identity here. For me, graffiti - specifically it’s relationship to the context of Imperialism Today - is the highest form of art

• Art = this metaphysical idea of transcendence; of disruption to the point of a collective quantum leap. It is the grand experiment of Tao, balance, the alchemy that is Love - a constant, greedy explosion of star vomit and consumption. This is meditation, theophany, prophecies, Valhalla, intercession, miracles, The Fruits of the Spirit, enlightenment. The saying “ah, it was art” or “ah, it was just like art” refers to this idea. Mercy, quantum physics, philosophy (outside of the institution), practice, astrology and ancient things are truisms born of this…character trait of our Universe. The impetus to improve and maintain homeostasis, the compulsion to care - the very complexity of life is Art.

Oooohhh K - i expounded on some tings and made some edits, it’s Oct 1st, my month, i plan to post on the South Node eclipse in Libra tomorrow, the 2nd. right now i’m under a Libra sun, virgo moon and transcribing SOME of the insights from the Mercury cazimi —- a cazimi is an astrological term that refers to a planet's close alignment with the sun, which is believed to amplify and purify the planet's energy. The word comes from the Arabic phrase kaṣmīmī, which means "as if in the heart".—- Mercury is the planet of communication and is currently in Libra - we’re talking about relationships and justice - and Venus who is in-taking, rather than out-going, represents how we give and take love - she is currently in Scorpio, all about rebirth, transformation, alchemy and honoring the fullest self, so this transit is heavy on the internal world and then how, when, where, why we communicate that / relate to Outside. We’re talking about relationships and justice - we’re talking about Art. & instead of making a bunch of arguments, i’m going to do what i love and share some images of things that helped me think these thoughts and feel compelled to newsletter/make art in the first place :3

YouTube description: The Century of The Self - < 4hr documentary on Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud, and the significant influences on 20th Century Human expression in the arenas of Corporations and Governments.

Essentially, Edward Bernays (with a small cadre of other experts) created the notion of weaponized Propaganda and Public Relations... both in service of the Corporate and Government sectors around the world. There are few people who have had more direct impact on mass consciousness, behavior, and control of both political and corporate narratives, than Edward Bernays. The core elements of his creation of Propaganda and Public Relations had immense and disempowering effect on the global populace, and an outsized enriching and empowering effect for his wealthy and powerful clients in government and corporations. It is safe to say that many of our global predicaments and the chaos in governments around the world have been aggravated if not caused by Bernays' methods. We are just starting to sense the immense cynical power of the combination of Bernays core methodologies with AI. There are many who say this combination will be the end of civilization as we know it. For more on this track you may enjoy our inclusion of some of this exploration in our online Introductory course for the Collapse-Aware and Collapse-Acceptant communities... Collateral Beauty. For a deeper dive please check out our Sense Making course. All of that can be found in our online Community Space, https://living-resilience.mn.co

UPCOMING & FOREVER HERE THINGS:

Cincy Food not Bombs benefit show: Oct 5th @5:30pm @ dsgn cllctv - $10 entry

AxC (ArtistxCommunity) gatherings: Friday’s - October 11th & 25th @ 6 - 8pm @ 911 Evans st.

Family Dinner: October 14th @ 6pm @ 911 Evans st.

BLINK Renaissance Alley: October 18th & 19th , show at 7pm, in the alley of Madison & Crawford - Kungfood Amerasia in Covington KY.

RESOURCES

— NATIONAL NUMBERS - 911, 211, & 988: 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

DIAL 211 or 513-721-7900 to speak to a trained professional who can connect you to essential community services, a gateway to help. Our certified Care Coordinators are trained to listen, engage, ask questions, assess your needs and connect you to a community resource from our large database of local providers. Our database is more current than Google. Ohio is one of 3 states in the US where every county is not fully covered by the State. In Ohio/Kentucky we only serve the following areas: Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton and Warren Counties in Ohio; Boone, Campbell, Grant and Kenton counties in Kentucky.

https://www.uwgc.org/get-help/united-way-211

211 provides non-emergency assistance. For emergency help, call 911. For mental health crisis support, call 988. The triangle of community care <3

MORE:

Findhelp.org 

https://www.uwgc.org/get-help/united-way-211

https://artistcommunities.org/directory/open-calls

https://www.heyhuman.art/portals/

https://creative-capital.org/category/artist-opportunities/

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TrqfLp8DrCzCni58SB4-CEVSBlg0Kzq6

CINCINNATI:

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Follow @cincyccs on IG for community coalition updates and ways to assist those experiencing homelessness & displacement. The average age of homelessness in the US is 9 years old.

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