You are an Interstellar Being

What can we hear when we listen for the vibrations beyond the words? Mary Grace walks us though the astrology for the beginning of March 2021 and urges us to contemplate interstellar/magic sound, creativity and regeneration.

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mary grace allerdice: 0:15

My name is Mary Grace and you're listening to the homebody podcast. Here we explore what it means to practice embodiment, which is practicing home inside our own selves and also within our wider body which is the earth. These spiritually and artfully minded conversations center healing, magic, astrology, intuition, art, wellness, creativity, social and environmental justice as the practices that help us witness more relationship, meaning and purpose. We are here to approach life as a conscious process. And my hope is to enliven you, encourage you to hone your intuition, connect to your own center. So together, we can cultivate more wisdom and self trust and be dynamic agents of beauty. People who are fully awake, and with our power and tact. We're here to be more intentional as we approach the creation and caretaking of life. And we are here to make room for inquiry, sensitivity, and joy. Thank you for listening. Welcome, welcome to the homebody podcast. Thanks for joining me this week. This is kind of our first episode that I'm putting out on YouTube, in addition to having it available on an audio platform. So that is exciting. It's also new for me in a little bit. But thank you for being here. So the normal trajectory of a solo episode, as I often spend most of the time talking about astrological transits, or jumping in and out of other topics. And before we jump into the episode today, I would love to say two things could you take 10 seconds to leave the podcast a five star rating or review, it is totally free, helps the podcast so much. And it's if it's something that you've been enjoying that is just such a small and very practical way that you can support the show. And also feel free to share. If this is not your favorite episode, you don't have to share this one. But if there's one that's really landed for you in a potent way, then share that one. Those are just really free and small gestures that really do collectively make a big impact on the show and the sustainability of it. Speaking of free, always be sure to check out the show notes. There are links to everything that I mentioned in the episode usually or as much as I can track down. And there's always a section devoted purely to things that you can get for free. And I'm always trying to think of things I can add to that pile. So scope out the show notes, gift yourself some accessible goodies that are of interest to you. And speaking of those the prompts for the transits for March are now live so you can get those they help you sort of get a lay of the land for the major transits happening within a month, and help you become aware of them in a more reflective and personal way than just the logistics of what the transits are. So if you don't already get those in your inbox, be sure to head below and get those. And today, what I'm going to talk about is I'll briefly meant talk about Mars just moved into Gemini, which happened last night as of the release of this episode. And then I'm also going to take a brief look at the sun conjunct Neptune, Neptune and Mercury's conjunction with Jupiter. Like what day is it. And then we're going to take a deep dive into some things that just really landed themselves like a spaceship into my awareness this past week that really felt important and timely, at least for me the way things kind of bubble up and it feels like it's ready for right now. And I'm talking a little bit about aliens and telepathic communication and music and one of these things even made for us about life and what we're doing here. So, to kick it off with the transits, we're taught Mars is entered Gemini as of last night on March 3, around 1030 in the evening, at least here on Eastern time. And so we had Mars in Taurus for a long time. And so this transition into a new sign is closing out a rather long story actually, where we had Mars and Saturn sort of sitting at odds with each other. For a long time since the end of June of last year. Actually, they've been in this ongoing square relationship, which is one of conflict and tension, kind of with varying degrees of intensity throughout that period. So Mars moving into Gemini sort of closes out that chapter because now they'll be moving into a more symbiotic relationship and these signs where they will help each other or have a sense of flow between them and I sort of see Saturn here is like the disciplinary eye that's going to help Mars and Gemini try to be focused and to see things through which it will likely have a harder, hard time doing just because these are not Gemini as strengths. So as Mars moves through this sign, I think they will potentially try to do a lot at once take in a lot at once. And even to the point of feeling overwhelmed or confused or anxious even because Mars in the sign tends towards a lot of unfocused energy and decision making and actions. So before we go shooting arrows all over the place, because we're feeling energized At first, I think taking the time to aim, gather your focus and attention to sort of help you make a map for the month for your energy for your decisions that you can return to throughout the month could be really helpful to help you like organize yourself and sort of regroup and things start to feel too scattered. Mercury rules Gemini. So Mercury is like hosting Mars, so to speak. And so this sign by definition, is really interested in communication and ideas and curiosity. And Mars will be adding their flavor to this, which may have some of the messaging that we're interacting with a bit more Marshall more accelerated and more pointed speech, so to speak. So I think that this transit will ask us to be agile, and adaptive with how we are moving and pointing our communication and our plans. And it will be consistently inconsistent probably, and it may require ongoing practices of grounding or collecting ourselves and kind of coming back to task, or whatever our orientation is. And then the following day, which is today, if you're watching this when it comes out is Thursday, March 4 at 1030 in the evening, and Mercury is going to conjunct Jupiter and Aquarius. So mercury already did this once Mercury Retrograde is over Jupiter again. And now this is the final and third pass for this particular segment in time. So, this sort of boosts mercury and expands Mercury's agenda for this moment. So Jupiter can sort of help provide big picture solutions to Mercury's information or request and help Mercury's final untangling process. And on a more optimistic constructive note, with perhaps some grand promises, or some helpful information or some beneficial news from the Kings potentially is how like thinking of messengers coming out from the king, that's like being communicated that is good news for the male or from the males. On Wednesday, March 10, at around 7pm, the sun will conjunct Neptune and they're both currently in Pisces. So it's a very watery moment and week or a sudden few couple of days that we're headed into. So Saturday, March 13, there's a new moon in Pisces. And for me, on the 10th of March when we have the sun and Neptune coming together really is like the beginning of this very watery weekend that we'll be kicking off. So Neptune tends to blur our attachment to the material world and also our definitions of the material world. And this could go of a few different ways, which I feel like I'm always saying with Neptune, like it could go this way could also go this way, which makes sense. It could be sort of like fun and enlightening and a sense of like having an opportunity for transcendental or creative or spiritual experiences. Or it could also leave us feeling potentially like rather ungrounded or prone to escapism or feeling disillusion. So I think, you know, if we experience it in a constructive way, he can grant us some access to the mystical or to the imaginal, or the creative a sense of a deeper understanding of our spiritual identities, and connected to maybe more nebulous ideas about who we are, I will pick up more about the new moon in Pisces in next week's episode, because for now I want to jump into this other wave that sort of feels like a stork dropped it on my head last week, and I just want to talk about it with you. Before I jump into this, I do want to acknowledge that this sort of all just felt like it kind of swarmed around me all at once the other evening, which I love when that happens. But of course, we're always seeding ideas from what is in the air, the conversations and the people around us. So I do want to acknowledge some of the folks who I really feel like they felt kind of present in this assimilation. None of this synthesis is theirs that I know about. And I'm not saying that they would necessarily like agree all the way or be a fan of it. But these are some of the swimming pools that I've been in a conversation lately and so some inspiration is no doubt coming from there. I just want to acknowledge Carl Sagan and Maria proposed Peter gray, Dr. Zack bush and my new friend, Michelle, I feel like these are some conversations that really kind of helped coalesce some of these ideas for me, even though this is not what we were talking about, really. So most of this is a juxtaposition around the importance of sound or the value of sound. And also thinking about expanding our framework around how we think about life or intelligence beyond this planet. I also want to acknowledge that it feels important to say that I am not necessarily a huge sci fi fan, I don't live for it in a sort of like obsessive way, not that sci fi fans are obsessive, but I feel like there's a, a category or some characteristics of them. And I'm not always just swimming in that that deep end, I'm not always talking about aliens, it's not something that I'm prone to think about. If ever, I appreciate good fantasy and sci fi, when it helps us understand like complex ideas, or essential artifacts of the human condition, or to help like kind of propose new ways of imagining what our world could look like. And I think it can be really helpful with those things. And the destination of this little talk is not this is not going to be aliens. But I do want to start there, because that was sort of how like, It provokes me to want to assimilate some things. And that's what provokes some of these thoughts coming together. So at least when I think about aliens, or extraterrestrial life, it's sort of I jumped to images from the movie alien, or men and black or Star Wars, or, you know, this alien message of like, we come in peace and some like robotic synthesized voice. And so I think it could be helpful to substitute words for like extraterrestrial or Interstellar beings, which for me feels better. I historically, think of the possibility of these kinds of beings as something that's really like separate from me and not something that I think about and it feels a little too spacey for someone like me who likes to live in the forest, so but I want to take a moment to talk about it for the sake of learning a little bit more about listening. If we think of ourselves as surrounded by a wider intelligence, or a higher intelligence or consciousness, so to speak, which I know many of you listeners do, I do, it isn't really that far of a stretch to think of beings who exists in extended realms of space, who could potentially a know that we're here and want to communicate with us to bring a message or messages. And so it's with this language we actually see that is similar to how we often talk about guides or ancestors or individuals spirits, or deities or diamonds, energies that we are actually more comfortable. At least in more mystical spaces, you know, potentially being in communication with a we're more familiar with thinking about. And somehow for me, sort of adding these under an umbrella of like extra terrestrial beings, kind of make the idea that we generally call like life out there, you know, like life out in space, it feels a little less far fetched, to those who are used to thinking of the mystical, when we think of it as just Interstellar, or extraterrestrial, at least for me, because all of these other things that we're more comfortable talking about, or talking about talking with, can also live under that definition. And it reminded me of a movie called arrival, which came out in 2016. And it was based on a story by Ted Chang called story of your life, which if you haven't watched the movie, I would recommend it. It's, it is about aliens landing, but it's actually about language and time and how these extraterrestrial beings come to earth to sort of unlock new understanding of that. And I often these days, find myself caught with so many longings and heartbreaks for the world, that there is something in me that once that wants these aliens to land. I heard someone mentioned how like if you know, they really made their presence known, our relationship to reality would totally change our relationship to ourselves to the planet would change instantly. And it really thinking about that kind of made me wish that they would come, what problems that could solve. Because we do have a limited time within which we need to make some radical changes as a creature on this planet. If we would like to see, life is worth we know it continue. But maybe those beings don't have to come. Maybe they're already here, hovering, listening, watching, communicating. But we have these preconceived notions or ideas about what landing looks like or about what communication looks like. Culturally, we're really used to communication That is also marketing, with like, we're always being sold to in some way so that a lot of our collective senses are really dialed down if someone's not just like radically selling us something, and we've had sort of as a culture lost in awareness of more subtle communication. And so what if the extraterrestrial beings don't have to come? Whatever, they're already here? And maybe they're not arriving here on a spaceship? Because we're already on a spaceship, which reminds me of the episode from two weeks ago, where I really talked about that. And so when would they communicate with us? why, how, and how are they would they be trying to get to us or speak to us or deliver the messages that we would need to hear in this moment. And I just recently watched a documentary on Netflix that was on the BGS, which was really random for me. But lots of folks recommended it. So I finally caved in, I actually ended up enjoying it, which surprised me. But one of them said something that really stuck out to me. And they said something along the lines of music is just there, music is everywhere, music is out there, and you just sort of reach out and catch it. And that's something I relate to like within my process as an artist, that that, you know, there's this sense that like something is coming through you and it's, it's already out there, and you can see it coming, and you're merely just catching it. And the artists job is sort of just to like recognize it into form. It's already there. It's like catching music from the ethers and what is in the ether changes. And, you know, I think astrology also is one of the many ways that we try to think about the changing of the ethers and understanding what's in the air, so to speak. And we have words for these things of catching something like Zeitgeist like this, which is means the spirit of an era or the ghost of a certain time or this ineffable expression of a certain moment, when like when suddenly a bunch of songs or poems come out around a certain topic or thinking about something or a lot of books come out, and they are really unpackaging. You know, X, Y and Z. Some of it is marketing, I'm sure. But what if we could think about it outside of these more human constructions and really get to the root of it? How are the musicians catching it? Not the fake artists, not the people who are just commodifying the shit out of everything that they look at, but the people who are really catching it, the poets, the artists, usually the folks who are less concerned with how popular they are, and are more concerned about how true the work is how authentic the expression feels? How are they catching it? And how does the ether communicate? And if the Extra Terrestrial is all around us, on this spaceship with us, the spaceship of Earth? How are they communicating? And it really lands for me that its sound, and its vibration, and its frequency. And then I thought of Carl Sagan and Andrew and Golden Record project where they put a bunch of like music and poetry sound onto a golden record and send it out into space. In case anyone was listening in case someone found it or something found it, you know, what would we want them to know about? Being Human? What would they want? What would we want them to know about us about our life here on earth, and it brings up questions about like what could be decoded or translated beyond actual words, if our words wouldn't work, really, in that situation? What could potentially translate through space, which is also time, what communicates beyond our human encoded language and ideas. And its sound, its vibration, its frequency, and ways we can communicate that are less reliant upon the words because words can lie. But vibrations do not frequencies do not they are what they are, they are as they are. And if you have a practice through which you channel or Intuit, or serve as a medium, or conduit in some way, at least in my experience, that you understand that it can sometimes feel like a disconnect between what makes sense in my language and my way of knowing the world. And what makes sense on the other end of that telephone. And we feel this in our every day, often too. Sometimes, especially folks who are sensitive, right? We feel something about someone's character, perhaps that they are untrustworthy, or that they don't mean what they say. But then we bypass that and we just listen to their words and we will know their words said that they were X, Y and Z so it must be true. But words can lie and frequency does not They are not necessarily they're not necessarily the same thing. It can happen the other way to where potentially someone says something that we think is crest questionable, but then we feel like there's someone that we can trust. And we go for that. And so I think there is a call here to become more refined in how we are listening, and what we are listening to, to increase our subtle expression and our ability to communicate subtly. Who in the culture is listening in these ways, is it the intuitives, and the psychics and the artists at the meditators, the mages, it's those whoever it is, they may not fit neatly into a box, those it's those who can listen into the silence and know that it's not emptiness. What is telepathy, but a transfer of energy, which is vibration, which is current, and it's not actually spoken through the mouth, and but it's communicated in some other way, via some other means. And I think of all the songs all the singing and the chanting or the language traditions, where words only have vibrational value like Sanskrit, or when we use the voice as an instrument, as opposed to just what the words that can say, you know, think about how the Vegas nerve, the nerve in our gut literally tones when we sing. And so instead of the voice always talking about something, one of the voice is something. And there are things that can only be communicated without our words, or beyond our words. And I think, and this is speaking mostly of over culture, which may or may not, you know, it all affects us to varying degrees. But culturally and habitually, we're tuned into so many other things, right? Like, especially in America right now. And I know all of you are not, don't live in America, but it's where I am. We're so worried. And we're so concerned about like policing other people's language and controlling people's compliance to our agendas, that I think we are missing a lot of what is actually happening? Or what could actually be possible if we invested in different priorities. What if we didn't just listen to words, but if we listen to the sound, to the frequency to the vibration, which is more important to listen to, which is inescapably honest. And I think it will be this connection to the subtle and this ability to communicate via this way. That is imperative to interject onto how the world is going. I think it will take magic to remake the world. To make this idea of this like this, this regenerative, beautiful earth, we're on a path right now, where magic, the unseen, the vibration of existence is the nexus of future communication, which is why I built kin which is why I'm so invested in these tools and like bringing them together and talking about them. And because we need to become fluent in these silent languages, it becomes necessary to communicate Interstellar Lee in order to survive in the subtlety, in the the simultaneity in the frequency. And in the sound of it, listening is really imperative. And I say that a lot. But now, I think I know more about what I mean, right? Listening is imperative, but we're not listening about something, we're listening to something, not the words, but the sound and the vibration, and the frequency, learning the language of the silence and the subtle and the sounds and the stars so that we can think about our alignment or not only we want to say that so we can understand our alignment, our true place so that we can be more aligned with what is instead of what we think about what is and more connected to the alignment of life and flourishing in the planet that we're on and thinking about the Golden Record project you know, if I if I were extraterrestrial intelligence, which maybe I am what would I need to listen to? Well what I want to make what and Carl and and put on their record, right? Music, voices, brainwaves heartbeats, poems, people reading right thinking about the movie arrival again. Who did they send out to the spaceship to meet the aliens when they landed who was the ambassador? They didn't send the scientists. They sent the linguist they sent the student of sound of listening and translation, not the politicians, not the generals. In fact, they were actively the problem, surprise, surprise and acting War and war mindsets, when what was called for was listening, and patience, and they come in peace. The world comes in peace, It is we who make war, and we make war against the world who comes in peace. What is needed is the translation of the ineffable, that makes our human experience more beautiful and vast, and it expands our sense of consciousness. Because what if they are not coming? But what if they are already here? our humanity is not a matter of state, but it is a matter of spirit, something in earth, something that cannot be captured, but it can be whispered, I think through silence, through the wind, through poems through shapes through colors, like what is our way that we listen to the ineffable? How do we translate it into our lives and into our imaginations? How do we translate the ineffable into our futures? And we call it an intuitive sense that has, you know, only special people have access to these truths. Not that being intuitive is a special I don't think it is. Because it's really who we are. And it is a life sentence that has access to that kind of communication, everything that is alive has it, and also beings that are alive elsewhere or somewhere else or not necessarily alive in the way that we understand it. But this trans species communication, this Interstellar communication, and it makes me think that like astrology itself is a form of interstellar communication, whether it's via aliens, or ancestors, or guides or spirits of trees, and whales and birds, what are we listening to? And who are we listening to? You know, these are the waves. These are the vibrations, the frequencies of sound, it's a listening below the din, as Mary rueful says in order to hear the messages for the paths that could help us unlock this massive extinction moment that we are in to breathe the peace back into our veins lost from somewhere, to readjust our realities back into life instead of against life. The higher intelligence or the wider intelligence that we're surrounded by, whether or not some take a vehicle or a form that lands here on Earth, it is around us. And I want to be the necessary poet who gets to go into the spaceship and be the ambassador and receive the revelation. I want to hear the messages that they are teaching us about

Unknown: 27:48

life about who we are,

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and how we could continue, should we make the collective choices that are necessary to do that? And this, this brink, this moment that we're in this is when the interstellar makes a landing? Or the angels show up and say, Hark, do not be afraid. It's these kinds of moments. It's this moment, we are listening. We must train our ears. They don't have to land. What if they're already here? The numbers for continued human life on planet earth for the next 50 to 60 years? I'm not currently looking that great. And the answer is not more chemicals, more genetic modifications, more artificial injections. The answer is not better. Pesticides are sucking carbon out of the air via technology. It is about aligning with the blueprint for life on this planet, period. And we will either align with life or we will not as a culture, we can continue to choose to exist within products and systems and sanitizers, the structures and philosophies that are anti life. And if we do that, then the left life there will be and that is how it works. We're in a Promethean moment, that Iranian moment that I talked about in the episode on talking about Saturn and Uranus squares, right. And I've been saying for years now, and I'm sure others have to because it's in the ether, that it's not enough to resist, we must also create our evolution and our survival is now demanding that we evolve into this subtle ability into this subtle listening so that we can hear your listening is creative. It's not passive, your vibrational interactions and movements, they have an effect. Our actions and alignments must get more subtle. And we have to act like this is true because we know it's true, right? act like you're a major act like a wizard and that you have the power to turn lead into gold. It's not too out there right. We're on a pale blue dot floating through space or on a spaceship right now a fleck of dust in the sun. As Carl Sagan says, it's not too out there. We're already there. Right? And they are already here. So what is the sound we are sending? What is our own personal Golden Record that we're sending out into space? What are the waves that we are catching the waves that we're making? What are we listening for, because they're always emanating, and they're always exchanging. It's like casting your net into this piscean ocean of space where meaning must learn to swim. Whatever you make, do it with art, and with magic, which is where our listening converges with creativity and transformation. Treat your life as art as magic as something that is truly stellar and vibrational and has an effect. Most of us act like our lives don't matter, and that what we do doesn't matter. But it does. And after the fall of empires from their own self destruction, what will we have made, which is truly lasting? It's not our buildings, probably. But perhaps it is our magic, which is our listening and our response to our listening. Perhaps that is what will outlast the fall of empires. The answers are all around us, showing us how life can be if we choose to be a part of it. What do trees do when they get sick? What do trees do when they die? What do whales do for food and for a relationship? We're not unlike them, right? We should be following them. That is, in fact, where we got lost. We're on their planet, not the other way around. And I think all of our current problems stem from the separation from the force of life and so our solutions must be in mending that fissure are we truly have number days, we must live like trees like whales, we must speak like them. We must listen like them and we must listen to them because these are our solutions. wildness is who we are. wildness is who we listened to, and it is how we listen. Our wildness is our interconnectedness as Dr. Vandana Shiva says and we return to it, let it call to you. And if you don't know how, then immerse yourself in that which is wild. It wants to teach you. They are singing or sounding to you all the time, but we just have to stop talking. And we have to start vibrating. And we have to start singing and listening right like let the uncivilized waters wash over you find a way to stand naked outside how into the darkness of outer space and just listen for the silence that is not empty that comes back to you. Because we are the ones that we've been waiting for. The beings are already here. And they come in peace. Thank you so much for listening. If you enjoyed the conversation, please leave us a five star rate or review, subscribe to the show and share the episode with someone else who would enjoy it. Be sure to check out the links below the episode and the notes for more information about anything that we talked about on the show, free resources and also how you can join our free group where you can talk about the episode with other like minded folks. Thank you for being here. Peace.