Metaphorcast 7/19-25, 202
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There is a Full Thunder Moon headed our way this week, on Friday, July 23rd. As the season shifts from the mysterious electricity of Cancer to the bright and obvious light of Leo, it seems a perfect time to ponder the phenomenon of thunder: the electric rumble born out of light itself.
The sound of light comes in two distinct forms: the long low rumble and the sudden loud crack.
The long and low rumble is heard when the light is far away. Rumbling like the grumbling of hunger. But this hunger is a spiritual appetite, a “hero’s call” for adventure. The farther away the light the more the blood stirs.
The sudden loud crack is when light is astonishingly nearby. It’s what propelled Archimedes to jump out of the bathwater yelling “eureka”, which is Greek for “I found it!”. Finding such a light can seemingly stop the flow of time. It’s the nature of a peak experience; a bubbling over of sheer delight.
In both instances, light is making sound, and in special cases, it is recorded to allow the sound to become a second birth of light.
A record player is a perfect example: the light of Louis Armstrong is expressed through sound, which is captured on record, to be played for someone who enjoys it. The record is like thunder, the sound of light, it may come again as a loud crack or distant rumble to the right set of ears. One of those sets of ears belonged to the 12 year old Billie Holiday who, in between scrubbing the halls and kitchens of some neighborhood apartments, first heard Armstrong’s “West End Blues”. Whether it was a low rumble or a sudden crack we may not know, but as her nickname Lady Day suggests, she rebirthed the light.
Rebirthing the light is a virgin birth. As Joseph Campbell explains it, “The virgin birth has nothing to do with a biological accident,”. It symbolizes instead “the awakening of spiritual life in the human animal.”
Our job then, is to tune in to those low frequencies of rumbling thunder that are so often unheard so that we can give attention to a faraway light that “calls”. We must also be ready to seize the light if we are lucky enough to hear the sudden loud crack and yell Eureka, I have it! I have in my possession the light that found me.
Just like a record player, one can learn to get into the habit of recording light; paying attention in those times of rich warmth and bright meaning, then committing them to a precious bank of memory within. Letting these instances of warmth, meaning and light fill up a personal account. Drawing from an inner currency that answers to the highest of gold standards; that of light itself.
Nikola Tesla famously said “Everything is the light.”
He said “I am part of a light, and it is the music.”
When asked by the journalist interviewing him whether he heard this music he replied, “I hear it all the time. My spiritual ear is as big as the sky we see above us.”
Make big your spiritual ears this week!
As always, happy astro pondering
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