Thursday, February 17, 2011
Southern Cross with lyrics - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
I've always wondered: when you see that Southern Cross for the First Time...Then what? I never really heard any of the other lyrics. When I did see the Southern Cross for the first time, pointed out to me by my now ex-spouse as we stood on the dock of our new home in the Florida Keys, finally close enough to the equator, far enough south, far enough Away, to see it. Only very close to the horizon and only certain times of the year (I was not the astronomer of the family so I can't be more specific) can you see the Southern Cross from the Florida Keys, Southernmost City in continental US
It was about moving on. Detaching. In the Buddhist sense. Going Away. Leaving.
But I didn't know it then. Now, the spirit calls me like the horns of Jericho and I cover my ears and cry. Tear down that wall, you fool. Tear it down. Tear it down.
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I've always found this song haunting and beautiful... the only lyrics I remembered clearly all my life were "When you see that Southern Cross
ReplyDeletenon-attachment/small and big as the sea
I have been around the world looking for that woman girl...no human will ever be enough to fulfill the need for Spirit. No love is ever enough. We need human love desperately--we can't survive without one another on a very primal level. Yet human love can never be enough.
And to expect that from someone, no matter how wonderful they are, is to do them a vicious deed. She will fail to make your life complete. And you will blame her. And she will believe you. So you run to spare her good for you.
On to the true mistress, the only she who can sate the artist: the Muse. Music. Artists are only alive when we are creating. The rest of the time is meh squared.
So some of us never stop. Creating. It gets out of control. It's too hard to maintain a fictional reality and an IRL reality. No wonder you are exhausted. But is okay because reality IRL is okay today.
You are artist. You don't have to be creating to prove it. You can just be. And create when you can/must. Believe me, you will create. You cannot be stopped long enough to pay a water bill for heavens sake thats what this is all about now, isn't it?
And you are desperatly trying to draw in peeps who can understand you. See where you are coming from. Commiserate. Understand your suffering and understand why you choose to cuntinue to struggle if it means you can continue to create.
A stern mistress, indeed. Art.
she is all that I have left and music (muse-ic)is her name...
Do not fall into Piscean disillusionment. Use this time of high spiritual energy (Leo full moon) to re-examine your projects,,,are they going to fulfill your and the Universe's needs? Or are you off track? Is a readjustment needed?
ReplyDeleteOf course. Inadmissable loneliness. I must be self sufficient. But you, Anna, take the concept of self sufficiency to its hard shell turtle extreme
Hide self when you know you blossom with other folks around you. But not too close. Some close some not so.
But you are suffering from lack of human contact. Yet you need to clear your head of distractions. Yet when you are alone, you hardly use any of the time for deliberate healing, deliberate focused thought about what this life is all about--my role in it. What I need to be happy. I get so afraid and it's hard to evaluate from under the covers. Or when I'm shaking so bad I can't hold the flashlight.
Self sufficient. 2000 years of brainwashing that some old man in the sky will reach down and save us. Phooey. It's humans that saved Merlin, Nimue, Arthur...gods--what gods??
Mice in the thatch. Not that there are no gods, only we've got the concept messed up. We've outgrown Yaweh yet we cling to him. He no longer serves human evoution at least not in the traditional fairy tale way the story is preented.
Scarlet--I'll think about that...tomorrow.