S03E24
If you have a tin helmet, or even a tin foil hat. I’d strap it on tight. Also Fairies and Love Spells.
Links:
H2 2020 ASTROLOGICAL FORECAST WITH AUSTIN COPPOCK: https://runesoup.com/2020/06/h2-2020-astrological-forecast-with-austin-coppock/
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Midsummer
On Jan 2nd of this year manstrologer Austin Coppck wrote his year ahead. He called 2020 it the year of The Bridge. I bring this up as we have some terrible space weather directly ahead. And I’ve also just finished listening to Austin Coppocks half yearly appearance on Gordon White’s Rune Soup to speak about the second half of 2020 so it’s front of mind as I sit down to write today’s script. (Link in the show notes)
I suppose it’s important to just say that we are where we are. We are a live at the ending of empires. This year sees the ending of the Jupiter-Saturn cycle. Since 1802 Jupiter-Saturn have conjoined every 20 years in an Earth sign. But from December onwards they will begin a new cycle in Aquarius. Air.
The last 200 years have been absolutely dominated by Earthly Pursuits.. Empires, Wars, Resources, Coal, Oil, Territory, Maps, Borders, Industry, Farming, and Topsoil.
So we really are at the end of an era. But it’s important to remember that when the color on the tip of the brush of history changes, the water that the brush gets cleaned in remains dirty and cloudy, full of pigment and shade from the previous flavour.
Aquarius is associated with many things: electricity, computers, flight, inclusiveness but nonconformity freedom, humanitarianism, idealism, modernization, astrology, nervous disorders, rebellion, philanthropy, veracity, perseverance, humanity, and irresolution. And air sign.
Zooming into the rest of the year, we are still under the influence of Jupiter in Capricorn.
I said in December last year, that all the big dreams and plans that Jupiter in Sagittarius laid in 2019 would have been executed now with graft and effort. A heroic trial. A fitting description for 2020 if you ask me.
Jupiter’s time in Capricorn also ends 1 day away from the end of the wider earth cycle. Again there is no change like a light going on in a dark room. But instead it will be like a multi month and year long dawn. Fortunately we already had a preview of what 2021-2023 looks like with the short period of Saturn in Aquarius. So the future looks very much like Q2. And we all know how that went down. Speaking of Saturn, this September brings us the worst weather of 2020. So hold onto your hats this summer. It’s going to be long and hot. There’s a storm brewing. Avoid unnecessary conflicts.
Now, with that extended forecast out of the way my word count tells me that I’m only half way through the episode. Just as we are halfway through the year I suppose. Ah Ah see what i did there? it’s called a segue. haha
Midsummer. So many influences we could talk about. It is the most romantic day of the year. A day that romantic souls can divine their future loves. A cornish tradition hold that “if a woman, blind-folded, plucks a full-blown rose, on Midsummer day, while the chimes are playing twelve, folds the rose up in a sheet of white paper and does not take out the rose until Christmas day, it will be found fresh as when gathered. Then, if she places the rose on her bosom, the young man to whom she is to be married will come and snatch it away.”
Meanwhile in Somerset on the night of Midsummer Eve a girl must go to the church-yard and wait for the stroke of twelve. She must have rose leaves, and a herb such as rosemary in her hand. At the first stroke of midnight, she must start to run round the church, scattering the leaves and singing softly:
Rose leaves, rose leaves,
Rose leaves I strew,
He that will love me,
Come after me now
All my reference books on flowers,herbs and their histories are packed with love potions at this time of year. Edible Orpine, with its fleshy bluish green leaves is supposedly at its best in midsomer, for only 1 week a year the leaves apparently have a sharp tartness at this time of year. But i’m not from cumbria so i’ve never eaten ‘midsummers man’
Lastly, midsummer of course is a time for fairies.
My nana used to say they lived in pansies. Flowers that bloom in spring and autumn. So in summer I presume they are abroad. She told me that you put salt outside the back door to keep them away. Happy to have them hanging about, just not so welcome to come inside.
A couple of years ago Eriol, god rest her soul and I chatted at length about Faerie Queens and Fairy Law, Eduardo Kohn’s, Country, and Spirits of place after she published her blogpost FAERIE LAW (link in the show notes).
I wonder as more and more people emerging out of lockdown are re-engaging with the world around them. Perhaps this summer we could all try and walk around our local areas, with fresh minds and bodies. Every place everywhere makes you feel something, you just need to find the places that make you feel the most. Midsummer is a good time as any to find them.
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