Jason Cunningham works with an angel named Kara to give advice on life issues in terms of spiritual growth and soul purpose.  He reads auras and uses astrological information to illuminate patterns of behavior, and also has attunements in Reiki, All Love, and Reconnective energies.  He has taken classes with [someone] and [someone else], and he is also a member of the Chicago branch of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, for which he is the bookstore manager.

I am so tired, but I had to record a few Buffynicities before bed.

Yesterday Venus entered retrograde and two things happened – I wore one of my old Lady Death t-shirts for the first time in years, because my weight is down to what it was 12 years ago, and still dropping.

The other was, in the Buffy episode I watched, Buffy dropped a pen and it fell down where Miss Calendar’s old disk had been.  At first buffy missed it but then she had “deja vu” which made her bend down and look again, and find it.  This was a relatively minor reference to Venus retrograde, but still cool.

Then as I remarked before I had been researching the Egyptian Ogdoad, with its ancient gods of darkness, and this was relevant to the experiences I have been having over the last week and how they related to Angel summoning the ancient darkness.

But more importantly, I have been using the Egyptian Lenormand card deck, and yesterday I “activated” card 33, “The Key”.  I wanted to attract into my life the key to understanding these nebulous energy states I get in where I see all kinds of things but don’t understand what they are.  It is sitting on my altar now.  Then in the Buffy episode everyone was telling Angel “You are the key”, and Angel even says “I am the key,” and it is his blood that makes the ritual work. I will have to think about what this means, but it was a definite Buffynicity.

I was watching that episode while Mars trined Saturn and I think that went very well with the clarity of my Angelic perceptions.

Then in the evening John’s circle took place during the buildup to Moon-Gemini squaring Chiron-Pisces.  It was very powerful and one of the women I worked with in the dream circle had a very definite vision of “The Blue Lagoon” in Iceland, where she had visited last year.  This relates to the Buffynicity I experienced yesterday, recounted in one of my most recent blog entries, the picture of Christopher Atikins showing up on my Pinterest feed, and then the joke about it in the episode “Go Fish”.

So that’s very nice, because I was kind of wondering if that particular Buffynicity was strong enough to matter, and this is validation that it was and that my Buffy adventure is truly shamanic.

So I was interested in being awake this early for the Mercury conjunct with Neptune in Pisces.  I think it was validating.  During that time I got a Google alert announcing the possibility of season 3 of Sense8, which is cool.  I had a lot of perceptions about the entertainment business and also the meaning of retrogrades.  Even now I’m doing a lot of work about finding the balance point between inner and outer for blogging.

The Moon is squaring Neptune tonight at 9:02 pm and I’m hoping this is fun, the way the Moon squaring the Sun is often fun. I’ll be keeping track of my day to see how these things go.

I’m very happy with astrological blogging in general, it’s helping me keep track of my own mind, and I can definitely see that it is a kind of practice for full trance channeling. 

This morning, right after the Venus retrograde, I had a kind of visual daydream of King Spa, where I haven’t been in 3 months, and all the really amazing experiences I had there.  I was thinking I should go back and then minutes later I checked my e-mail and saw that I’d received a “Groupon” e-mail for $15 off King Spa.  So even my spam is telepathic now.

There isn’t a lot to remark on from yesterday except that I felt pretty good and I am getting some control of my mind.  I am convinced now that I lived in the 1st Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, and worshipped the goddess Mafdet.  I did a lot of inner work on this, and I suppose I should associate these experiences with the Moon trining Pluto in the Morning.  My subconscious unlocked a key to the collective forces of evolution. 

I did get some inconvenient requests around the time the Moon inconjuncted Jupiter at 2:52, but I dealt with them and they worked out better than expected.  It is interesting because yesterday when Jupiter opposed Uranus I wasted an hour driving to an event that wasn’t happening, so I’ll watch out for negative Jupiter aspects in the future.

I wish I’d kept better track of what was happening at 6 pm when the moon sextiled Chiron in Pisces.  I was certainly shopping for my usual geek stuff.  I found a lot of cool stuff, like a figure of “Thunderbird 1” and an Anakin Skywalker Lego alarm clock, and a really awesome Smurf in a fencing mask, wielding a rapier.  I felt very happy with the visions I’d had during the week.  I think perhaps the Chiron-Pisces sextile was related to reincarnation and death, having a clear belief now in two distinct lives – WWII in Europe and 1st Dynasty Egypt, I’m getting a better handle on the meaning of death.

I woke up a few minutes before the Venus retrograde and I was daydreaming about a scene from a sci-fi movie in which the crew of a pirate ship hijacks one of the moons of a planet.  This could be a plot for an episode of “Firefly” maybe – I’m thinking about that show since I’m immersing myself in the work of Joss Whedon for the next several months.

I could definitely feel a shift in my perceptions along with the retrograde, I do feel I’m getting the clarification all the articles speak of.  I’ll have to work on it some more.  I also made the discovery right after that Saturn and Mercury are also gong retrograde in April.  This will be interesting, I’m sure. 

I didn’t realize until now that the outer planets spend so much time in retrograde.  It’s a useful thing to know. 

So there are going to be 4 planets in retrograde in April, ending 4 days before C2E2, and again there will be four in retrograde during Wizard Con.

Today I had been thinking about the movie “Network”, so during Buffy when Xander said a villain was “dead as hell and not going to take it anymore” that was a Buffynicity.

Then the episode was about magic happening on the night of the Sadie Hawkins dance.  this was foreshadowed by the vision I was having yesterday of my angels coming to dance before me to the sound of Akhnaten.  Furthermore, that night I had talked to John about the Egyptian goddess Mafdet and when he told me he’d been thinking about Egypt all day he said that he and I were “tracking” – i.e. syncing up.  Then during tonight’s episode when they were coming up with explanations for the ghost phenomena, Willow said of one “that tracks”.

And of course the episode was about ghosts and the blurring of time just as my vision of the dancing angels had been.  And Mafdet is the enemy of snakes and “vermin” like scorpions, and there were snakes and wasps in the episode. 

So that is a very dramatic example of resonance, especially since the dance ritual was about Tethys and I’ve also been focusing on the movie “Jaws” during the last week (as I’ve written about) and the next episode (which I haven’t completed, but only started) is about a cult of ocean monsters with a guy who has a shark tattoo.

Finally tonight I thought I had an event to go to, but I was mistaken – it’s on the 6th instead, but still during the entire runup to the Jupiter opposition with Uranus at 7:15 I was rushing home from work and then driving back up to Wilmette to catch this show.  I arrived up there and realized I’d made a mistake at 7, 15 minutes before the opposition. It was a very clear example of astrological synchronization.

First there was a Buffynicity from yesterday that I forgot.  For more than a week I’ve been half-recalling, half-imagining a conversation with somebody at a party years ago about mixed drinks and magic.  The Death Star was inspired by the moon of Saturn called “Mimas”, and I was suggesting “Mimasas”, which are like “Mimosas” – champagne and OJ.  But Mimasas would be red grapefruit juice.  If you were rich you could drink them with champagne that costs $23,000 a bottle, put back jello shots on the bottom and call them “Kroovies”.

Also in this conversation someone asked me if I’d ever made up a character named “Dru” – I’m pretty sure they were talking about Dru from Buffy TVS.  I told them I’d made up “Drew Scriver” years ago, a spoonerism for “Screwdriver”.  Drew was a good-natured comic book writer, “two thirds innocent fun, one third desperate need to get laid”.  This was the opposite of “Dru Id”, a dark, evil writer from the Saturn side.

Well at the end of the episode I watched yesterday, Buffy is recuperating from her illness and her mother brings her her favorite drink, “two parts oj, one part grapefruit juice”. 

Tuesday morning I woke up at 2:30 am.  The curse of Drusilla continues, it seems.  I lay awake feeling very uncomfortable because we had a big day planned at work, so I had to go in for this huge special event with all this moving of heavy equipment with only 4 hours of sleep.  However my co-workers took care of the most tedious aspects and even though I did most of the moving myself the vendor brought 4 more workers than they usually do so it worked out okay. 

I was feeling good but then I got home and fell asleep about an hour before the Moon conjuncted Venus.  All in all I just felt good like I was catching up with my life.

Now today what happened was pretty insane and I have to think about what it means, and what I’m supposed to say.  I had been planning for this day because of the conjuncts: Moon/Uranus and Moon/Mars, and then Sun/Neptune just a couple of hours ago.  I had been planning to do ritual magic and in a sense that’s what I did, but it was much more unexpected.

So now I’m sitting here, actually working with the spirit world to decide what to say about this.

The easiest thing will be to start with the 3 “Buffynicities” I experienced – things I’ve been thinking about over the last few days that showed up in the Buffy episode I just watched. 

First of all, Buffy goes to the hospital and wakes up there as the clock is showing 2:30 AM, which is when I woke up yesterday.

Second, I have been thinking about acquiring Juliet Landau as my mate, like having a second childhood because I’m watching Buffy TVS and just going out and “getting” her.  Yesterday or the day before I was joking to myself that Juliet would love being with me, the only problem would be that if she betrayed me I would summon invisible demons to tear her flesh apart in the village square. This is a reference to the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, but then tonight’s Buffy episode was about an invisible demon that actually tore a man’s flesh.

So that’s three thoughts that showed up in Buffy.

And thirdly I was thinking over the last couple of days about a time 10+ years ago when I was hanging out in a bar and joking with this girl so I grabbed her and made a snarling sound like I was a wild animal about to pounce.  I thought about this moment several times and even practiced the snarling sound.  Then in tonight’s episode a security guard made the same sound – although hardly as well as I did. 

And in more synchronicitous terms I spent all day thinking about 4 years ago when I was a security guard, myself, at a place that had a Catholic chapel in it, and one night I was sitting in there listening to Philip Glass’s “Ankhnaten” and my three angels came forth in a kind of cartoonish form and began dancing for me.  At first it was cheerful, but then suddenly the eerie vocals kicked in and it became like a scene out of “Omen” or “Apocalpyse Now” or something.  It was very fun, and I’ve forgotten it for years until now when Kara has emerged in full force and all my angels are becoming clearly visible.  So I’ve spent all day listening to this eerie minimalist music evoking Egypt, thinking about Sirius Black from Harry Potter, and looking up Egyptian cat gods and goddesses on the web.  I discovered Mafdet, the oldest cat goddess, who is a Lynx.

Then I went home and discovered John has returned.  We sat in the great room and talked for a while.  I told him about the goddess I’d discovered and he said that he’d been thinking intensely about Egypt for the past couple of days, and also dreaming about an Egyptian cat god he couldn’t identify.  So it shows we are telepathically linked.

I’m falling asleep now, so I’ll just stop, except to say that my reaction to this music and this visual of my angels has been so intense that it is like ritual magic so my hopes for the Neptune aspect are fulfilled.