Burning Peacock’s Blog of Magick

Hey, it’s the Bird. The Summer Solstice popped up a few days ago. In Philly, the weather’s been uncharacteristically breezy and cool. I mean, I’m not complainin’ or anything. The thing is, the weather in Philadelphia tends towards extremes of Crock Pot and Freezer Burn. Either way, it leaves most everyone feeling like old turkey leftovers.But that’s all just talk. The deal is, the Peacock just got some stones and some incense, finished writing a treatment for a comic, and began this blog all within a really short while of the Solstice. Some of these seem to be indicative of the solar event, yet the stones and incense seem to be a biiiit more cued into the beginning of the month of the Lunar-ruled Cancer.Cancer’s mundane rulership of the Moon, and with Neptune ruling both its esoteric and hierarchic spheres, lends the sign towards matters that are more towards essences of inactivity. Its associations with home are tied into the concept of where someone or something seems at its most inactive state, or what Einstein described as the zero-point energy state. The zero-point energy state is when a system is at the lowest point of energy in which it can sustain itself. Any lower, and the system dissipates. We can see this as sleep, on a total scale, and we can see it in the diffusive consciousness states where an individual works on tasks that don’t require much intense thought, such as household chores, meditation, listening to music, or just relaxing. This is the height of the childhood summer, when school isn’t much of a consideration, and the weather’s just warm enough that basking like lizards isn’t a bad idea.

That said, what goes along with that state are all of the thoughts and feelings that don’t always rise to awareness when we’re active. Not all of them are big gleaming grins, or Hallmark card, The Secret-esque wisdom. Sometimes, things like secret emotional wounds, soul-longings, and painful realizations creep up on us while in this state. It’s why some people seem so tense all of the time, or unable to relax; when it’s not clinical mania, the person’s just afraid of what comes out during that period of inactivity.As ugly as it is, that state’s where consciousness gets all of its juice. The better that it learns how to calm down and listen to those weird whale-songs that hum in the deep, secret lobes and folds in the cerebrum, the better equipped it is to understanding itself in totality, to move forward with a clearer sense of its own actions.I can’t say how that state’s going to affect any single person in particular. I’m not going to say “Cancers are this or that.” As far as I know, cancer can be benign or malignant, and start anywhere. A person is a person, just as any other, who happens to have been born when the planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, and stars happened to be in a particular position. So, I’d recommend just taking a look at that whole idea of getting to a zero-point state, and if it’s tough, perhaps asking yourself why, what’s making you itchy, and what’s do damn scary about yourself? You’ve been there the whole time.