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Mythic
Prelude
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The
E Word
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What is the E Word?
It's "Evil"!
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The view and policy
of the Universal Festival Calendar changes
again this month, as it did a year ago,
when the UFC announced that it
"will no longer carry predictions of natural disaster, war, plague, racial,
social or religious conflict." See April 2002.
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The new paradigm that
goes into effect this month is the
No Evil Policy. From now on, in this
space, the word "Evil" will
no longer be used. It will be called
the E Word whenever it must be quoted
from another source. From now on, the
E Word will have the same status in
this Calendar as the N Word, used about
by and about African Americans; and
the F Word, used by and about homosexual
men of the lighter, funnier, more lovable
type. From now on, the UFC believes
that the more a person uses the
E Word in writing and speech, the more
he or she is likely to be an example
of the kind of behavior that the E Word
describes. It's even possible that a
person who uses the E Word excessively
may run a severe risk of becoming a
VEEP: a Very Excessively E Word Person.
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Is this use of the
popular short slang for "Vice President"
coincidental? No, definitely not. Any
suggestion that the powerful armaments
pusher Richard Cheney of the United
States may be a Very Excessively E Word
Person is completely intentional, but
it is beside the point.
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The truth is that
E Word does not exist, and Good does
not exist either, though nobody is ready
yet to start calling Good "the
G Word". Lukewarm apologies to
those who insist that opposing points of
view be handled with equal respect,
and that it's not right to treat Good
one way and E Word another way. Too
bad. I readily admit an unfair prejudice
in favor of Good. The word "Good"
will continue to be used here.
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Does
the UFC's new policy turn a blind eye
toward E Word and pretend that it doesn't
exist, and it doesn't happen? No. The
actuality is that there is no Good,
and there is no E Word. There is only
love, and the absence of love. That
is all. The actions of a person who
treats others with love, kindness and
compassion will have results that others
are inclined to call "Good",
and those who treat others with hate,
violence and indifference will produce
different outcomes that others are inclined
to call "E Word". But the
root actuality is that there is only
love, and the absence of love.
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The examples are instructive
in this month, which celebrates in the
Spring the return of the Earth's fire,
symbolized by Mars, until Venus brings
love and nature's beauty on April 20,
which is notable in 2003 as the moment
when the Sun enters Taurus, Venus arrives
and rules, and Jesus rises, all on the
same day that the city of Rome is said
to have been founded. The mythic point
of April is, however, that the male
warrior is only one of many mythic types,
male and female, who rule mid- and
late Aries month, April 1 - 20. Their
common trait is that they are all makers,
bearers and thieves of creative fire.
Among those who enjoy envisioning conflict
of Biblical proportions, April has long
been called the month when kings go
forth to W Word, and many have been
suckered for millennia by the scam that
April belongs to Mars the Warrior. It does, but
only in the sense that the warrior is
actually all men and women who practice
the virtues of courage, endurance, discipline,
patience, resourcefulness and protectiveness,
and the arts of building, saving, fire
making and mercy. This type is firm
in the practice of love.
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The
opposite type, which grows in the absence
of love, is well known. A boy's parents
are killed in a war. He grows up in
the care of tough, hard-hearted mountain
soldiers who steep him from infancy
in their beliefs and their hates, and
train him so well in shooting, running
and carrying that by 14 he's a master
sniper who's never seen a woman in his
life: no mother, no aunts, no grandmother,
no sisters, no girls at all, no talk
and training in love. He knows only
the skills of violence and hate. He's
grown into a Taliban fighter, who, like
his enemies, seems to use the E Word
continuously about others, but cannot imagine how anyone
could use the E Word about him.
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There are now two
kinds of people in the world:
The
Twos: those who believe in Good
and E Word, and see the world as a conflict
between light and dark, us and them,
in and out, take it or leave it, now
or never, and every other dream of duality.
Twos believe that all human beings are
corrupt and sinful, and therefore need
to be corrected and controlled, ideally
by a savior, but by the police is nothing
else is available. The Twos are afflicted
in these times by a terrible epidemic
of Insight and Sudden Awareness that
reduces their numbers daily as more
and more of them awaken, and unexpectedly
become:
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The
Ones: those who believe only
in Love, and in creating love when it
is absent or in limited supply. The
Ones believe that human beings are good
and loving, and share a common dream
of creating beauty in freedom for Mother
Earth and all her people, who are always
One in the hand and the river of God.
The numbers of Ones increase daily on
the planet, and once a Two becomes a
One, he or she doesn't go back, and
fall asleep again. The awakening is
radical. It transforms the person into
closer alignment with soul. The Ones
are expected soon not only to outnumber
the Twos decisively, but to pull and
lift them all suddenly into sight and
freedom.
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One thing that will
really happen sooner or later, and we
could live long enough to see this if
human beings expend effort, is that
all people will give up their illusions
of Good and E Word altogether, and will
realize that if their choice is between
Love and the Absence of Love, there
is really only one choice, and it may
as well be made now. There is only
Love. Keep holding that Frequency. Here
are a few astral notes:
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4/1: The New Moon may be a point
of rapid and not altogether pleasant
awakening, of the kind one feels at
the moment of realizing the hurt done
to others. This is a Healing Moon of
the alchemical and astringent type,
with Chiron in Capricorn square (at
a 90° angle with) the Sun-Moon conjunction
in Aries. Neptune in Aquarius is sextile
(60° from) Sun and Moon. Awakened
persons may encounter and have to address
the dramas and public pain of others,
and, if careless, may wound others,
and wounds or not, deep perceptions
await..
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4/5: Mercury enters Taurus, where
he'll be for a long two months, until
he enters Gemini on June 12. Mercury
is "retrograde" April 26 to
May 20, and delay, misconstruction,
blockage and confusion occur not only
in Mercury-ruled areas of transportation,
communications and commerce, but also
in Taurus-ruled areas of finance, speculation,
art and investment, and works of beauty
and romance. The Tip: Be patient
with Earthbound persons who run the
books and the banks. They all want us
to smile in the last scene. Forget the
reviews, and get it in writing, until
late May.
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4/13: The Moon's North Node,
called the Dragon's Head, moves into
Taurus, where it will remain until.
interestingly, Christmas of 2004. One
way to imagine this backward transition
of the Dragon's Head from Gemini into
Taurus is to see the focus of groups,
and collective activities, passing from
the Gemini domain of communication,
brotherhood and friendship to the Taurus
territory of joint creation in the glittering
spheres of wealth, beauty and pleasure.
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4/16: The most intricate and charged alignment of the month, the Full Moon. Sun in Aries is opposite Moon in Libra, while Mars in Capricorn is at the center of a T-Square between them, and Saturn in Gemini is trine (120° from) the Moon, and sextile (60° from) the Sun, while Neptune in Aquarius is quintile (72° from) the Dragon's Head in Gemini. The spiritual power of this Full Moon, and its hidden potential for helping to integrate and transmute the collective lower self of humanity, is enormous. It is a moment when the idea of loving those whom one has perceived as enemies is not merely the kind of wishful pretty premise that it often seems to many, but is a practical and noticeably effective action toward a desired peaceful outcome.
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4/22:
Earth Day! Mars exits Capricorn,
where he is "exalted", and
Venus enters Aries, where she is "in
detriment", on the same day. The
easiest way to see this is in the political
scenarios of gods and mortals, where
Mars and Venus have now both lost power.
Mars has left Capricorn, the realm of
his mentor and teacher, and now enters
Aquarius, where he feels like a party
guest about to be sent into Harm's Way,
continually tempted to become a media
whore in a situation of creativity,
where one announces to both Mars and
Venus that games and excuses will
not work anymore. Mars is no longer
in front of his grandfather and mentor,
who usually counsels restraint. Shallow
conventional sex roles of both women
and men are at disadvantage now. For
those in relationship or looking: if
ever there is a time to be vulnerable,
this is it. There is going to be a huge
amount of love and sex on Earth Day
this year. Enjoy, everyone!
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