warp and weft
textures
yea
directionality,
yesterday I was reading Steve Cozzi’s Planets in Locality (the book unlocked on CAELi’s IG advent cal), and he talks about all the ways various cultures have placed geometric grids on the earth to measure themselves in space, and all I could think about was how pretty they are, like, webs, lattices, not all x/y axes but like, crazy vector nests and ley line cages and goodness, it was all so inspiring to think about cutting up surface spaces in non-square ways.
death to the square grid! long live dotted paper (you know the type)
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anyway, surface adornment through lines, woven or not.
Venus is the bound ruler of the Sun right now, and she’s in the confusing first bit of Sagittarius that is ruled by Jupiter (his bounds as well) and yet contains the face of Mercury. We get a lot of new words here. Right now, they’re sweet-talking new.
tall tale telling, another good way to spend the next week.
not in the malicious ways we see unfolding in the outside world, no. something a bit more exuberant, effervescent, giddy-making. Jups being in the centre of that Cancerian hyperchambre of family (chosen or bio), these tales are around personal fires. Something to keep the encroaching winter cold at bay.
In other variations of SUPER big and very SMALL… Camm Cassidy and I just plotted out the CAELi Weekend Intensive schedule for all of 2026, and released the good news on this glorious Full Moon in glittery Gemini. Go check it out. I hope to see some of you pop out of the woodwork and into the intellectually nutrient-rich environment that are the CAELi labs. We’ve compressed the six-weekers into three days because sometimes you want to just eat and run, and not dwell. Dwelling options will emerge again. Right now, I think we have to gather with the speed of the oncoming air/fire age. The good thing about air is that is circulates, which is why there’s monthly (mothly?) offerings, to warp your way back to the CAELi weft (see, full circle, in all that Sagiterrible glory).
Comparative astrologies. Like a foraging feast for your mind to devour ALL the ways people have tried to link stars to life. Maximalism in mini bites. Amuse buches… It’s dinner time.
See you on Dec 8, 2026, and in those new labs! It’s a crime not to sign up for one.
-j
living on
the fringe
the oscillating tantric scaffold
the foundational thread
upon which the carpet
is woven.
1st thought early morning last week..
This makes me think of something I saw just yesterday about how the humain brain apparently responds especially well to seeing curved lines reminiscent of nature in architecture, and that's how Art Nouveau feels so good!