Cosmic Artist in times of Pandemic

Roles for Cosmic Artists in times of Pandemic

Sharing what we know about how to do, see, be

1. Describe what’s happening from the energy workers point-of-view:

Using our practiced ‘other’ sensibility, (Imagination) to help us understand and

describe Life before, after, during, instead of and beyond The Facts       

There’s been a Flutter between figure and ground,

It’s an unexpected gift/shift in time/space. Jumbled Order/Disorder 

“The Center does not hold”    It’s Interstitial!

It feels like a Kaleidoscope, a Mandala, a snow globe

Oh, The Ambiguity of it all!   

           

2. Work on your Book of Shadows, that record of encounters with Life Force    

Welcome Emerging Archetypes; Thank the Receding Ones   

Speak to/Listen/Watch your feral/liminal mind. It’s raw, vital, maybe perverse.  

Honor The Ambiguous, that which is many-at-once

Practice and explore what it means to be “Pro-Passive” ie knowing when and how to Wait.

also called “non-doing”

3. Model/Practice/Teach skills/attitudes of Solace, comfort, beauty, solitude,

Community, ritual, surprise, delight, gifting, updating,

Offer help making Creative Distractions, holy amusements, profound Play

Using Loose Parts as empowerment

4. Make Public Altars, in unexpected places, to the emerging small gods and household deities;
Invite others to add or take. Always looking for ways to surprise, delight, involve, Share           

5. Empower Others, (not just jonesing for recognition, catharsis or money)  

Encourage them to explore how they are taking care of their Big Four Needs: for Awe and Wonder, for Story and Community, for Contact with Nature and the Feral and The need to Make (and unmake)

Encourage them to consider all their “Versions” There are at least 18:  How are you: extroverted?, introverted?, perverted?, What’s your relationship to subversion?, etc

Another Form of This