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Leo Full Moon and urgent call to action. 27 degrees Astrology
Please watch my Youtube video where I go in-depth into the Full Moon, the significant 27-degree placements and the current politics of the situation in Canada.https://youtu.be/7VztqXNH86E
If you are not aware Canada’s PM “pretty boy” Justin Trudeau is trying to force Emergency {war} Act on All Canadians as part of the WEF NEW WORLD ORDER takeover.
From the Wall Street Journal.
“This is not a peaceful protest,” Mr. Trudeau says, though in more than two weeks, there has been no violence. The protests have been highly disruptive to downtown Ottawa and to cross-border trade. But truckers have followed a judge’s order that they cease honking horns in Ottawa., and on Sunday, police were able to reopen the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit with Windsor, Ontario, without incident. Ordinary laws authorize police to clear illegal blockades. Why are sweeping emergency powers needed to get government and police to do their jobs?
Canadians need to phone, email and phone and email their local MP’s in their locality and at their offices in Ottawa and demand they VOTE NO TO THE EMERGENCY MEASURES ACT. The Trudeau government is illegally trumping up fines and arrests against peaceful truckers and freezing their funding. If this EMA passes the government can deem anyone a “terrorist” and freeze funds, assets or whatever they want to whomever they want. Look at the dictatorship going on in Australia and now New Zealand. They have concentration camps for the unvaxxed in Western Australia and fine the unvaxxed in New Zealand.
In Ontario Premier Doug Ford a Conservative made a 360 from supporting Trudeau to saying he’s through with all vax mandates and to stop segregating the unvaxxed and lets everyone get along and try to get some normal life back because everyone is sick of mask-wearing and restrictions. This is a great thing for Doug Ford to say and I want it in writing. Plus all QR codes are to be abolished and all travel sanctions lifted ASAP. There is an election upcoming in June and Ford wants to win the popular vote.
Oppose Trudeau’s tyranny over all CANADIANS of proposed Emergency Measures Act NOW. You can stop Trudeau’s illegal and misguided attempt at Dictatorship over all Canadians which will impact your freedom. Americans and other citizens of the world who believe in freedom can contact the Canadian Embassy in your location and lodge complaints.
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING CANADA.
Be part of the wave of freedom.
And they said it couldn’t happen here. But we are your vote away from stopping Canada from turning into a Fascist police state. This is how it started in Nazi Germany.
The HOUSE must vote on this within 7 days of Trudeau’s announcement. It was Trudeau’s Valentine’s Day gift of LOVE to all Canadians which could make anyone a terrorist, up to the government discernment.
Chrystia Freeland’s Financial Minister and stand-in for the PM is a tool of Klaus Schwab, who created the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, whose father was a Nazi in Ravens Bruck Germany under Hitler. Schwab Junior learned from his father. Google Schwab if you dont know who he is. And Agenda 2030 for the uninitiated too. You may have to go to alt channels as this knowledge is censored. Go to Rumble or Bit Chute. These are not conspiracy theories. These people along with Fauci are being accused of Crimes Against Humanity in a human rights tribunal in The Haag as you read this.
Bill Gates, whose father was a Eugenicist, Angela Merkel, Trudeau, Macron, Jacinta Arden, and many other influential world leaders, all graduated from his WEF school. The World Economic Forum has had a NEW WORLD ORDER AGENDA 2030 in place since 2020 where they initiated Covid. Their goal is totalitarian control over the world, implanting every person with chips and the METAVERSE is a way of monitoring social credits which they already have in place in China.
Christia Freedland is a Board Member of WEF announced changes to the former War Measure Act invoked by PAPA Trudeau which was used in the FLQ October crisis of 1970.
The new EMERGENCY MEASURES ACT would give the government the power to arrest without any warrants or reason anyone they deem “a terrorist” or seditious. This means you.
Ms. Freeland announced changes that allow the Emergency Measures Act, which would give the government unprecedented power to freeze your bank accounts or crypto assets of cash, from anyone who refuses to do what the Government says basically. This is what it all boils down to.
You too can become an enemy of the state for whatever reason, up to the discretion of Big Brother, for donating to or supporting a group of animal rights activists, for example, which could be deemed a right- or left-wing organization, up to them, or protest anything.
Anything you do that the state deems is against their party line is “ a conspiracy theory.” In their terminology, according to the Collins Dictionary of Socialism, who says Jaywalking can’t be a terrorist act? You don’t pay your parking fines could make you an enemy of the state.
This is a totalitarian attempt to make Canada a prison state, the opposite of what the Charter of Human Rights Guarantees and what our national anthem states. The True North Strong and Free. Freedom is free will beyond any party lines. Every human must have the autonomy to do what they think is right.
EMAIL your MP and phone their local and Ottawa Office and state the following
Canadians who oppose this latest provocation should call their MPs at both their constituency and parliamentary offices and send them an email. You can obtain contact information by going to https://tbof.ca/call-to-action-stop-the-emergency/
https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en and entering your postal code. •
Non-Canadians living abroad can still help by looking up their local Canadian embassy and/or consulate and calling them.
Opposing the Emergency Act
Here are a few points that you should make when speaking with and writing to your MP.
- Section 3 of the Emergencies Act spells out the circumstances under which it may be invoked. T
These are: a. A national emergency that seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it, or
b. A national emergency that seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of Canada.
• Neither of these conditions are met.
Opposing the Emergency Act What to Say
2. Accusations of widespread intimidation and violence on the part of convoy participants, or of racist or homophobic behaviour, are utterly false. They were first made by Mr. Trudeau and other government leaders to marginalize and vilify convoy participants and have since been repeated by so-called journalists who simply repackage what they have read from other sources without verifying the facts for themselves.
3. The issue before Canadians is no longer one of eliminating COVID-related restrictions. By invoking the federal Emergencies Act in the complete absence of any reasonable justification, Justin Trudeau is setting a dangerous precedent that threatens the right of all Canadians to peaceful assembly and protest.
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In a flash, Sun conjunct Uranus
April 30 at 12:54 pm PDT/ 3:54 pm EDT/ 8:54 pm GMT The SUN/ SOL consciousness our Stellar awareness, has its annual conjunction with shockingly weird URANUS at 10+ degrees TAURUS.
The Shock of the SUN conjunct URANUS reverberates out as an awakening to HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS and LIGHT at its highest expression.
URANUS rules many things
CRYPTOCURRENCY, NFT’s
Technology, Uranus was the first planet discovered using a telescope in 1781 by Hershel the planet was named after him originally and the symbol is an H for his name. Cryptocurrency, robotics, NFT’s, hi-tech is Uranian innovation, science, detached. The crypto market which has been hot as hell in 2021 will be highlighted even more. Have you bought crypto? I’ve been aware of Bitcoin since 2015, a hippie guy told me about it. The financial markets the BULL/TAURUS will experience radical shifts, be careful with CRYPTO investments.
Anything that is “weird.” URANUS orbits at a 90 degree angle. beyond the “norm” who knows what that is anymore? LGBQT people who are geniuses, hi tech, nerds, people who are not status quo, Frank Zappa comes to mind, who do things their own way-Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Non-conformists,
Radioactive substances, Uranium. Revolution, freedom, radical change, chaos, inventions, technology, Cryptocurrencies, hi-tech, robotics, thinking outside the box, challenging the system, LGBTQ and anyone outside of “the norm.”
There will be shocking revelations in the news.
“I’ve got chills.
They’re multiplying.
And I’m losing control.
‘Cause the power
You’re supplying,
Is electrifying.”-
“You’re the one that I Want’ from Grease is a great description of this energy.
Don’t need no caffeine or sugar in my cup with Sun conjunct Uranus. You will be wired.
This energy can be both beautiful and terrifying if you don’t do well with chaos, unexpected change and rebellion. URANUS is like a lightning flash of illumination that can destroy the ego and illusions clarifying your purpose. It is so full or radiant light, stay focussed on that godlike light which is love. Allow it to be your guide.
URANUS and the SUN are radioactive
This is aspect, brings chaos, revolution, freedom, a possibility of a Nuclear war or nuclear issues in the news or a spill. Also it can positively highlight Japan’s wanting to dumb toxic nuclear waste from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean which is basically Suicide for the ocean and for all of humanity and must be prevented at all costs. There can be danger of earthquakes. CME’s from the SUN, explosions, and earth slides.
In your own life the pressure of Uranus keeps breaking down old structures, awakening new ideas and new technology. This can be very liberating, Let go of anything that is holding you back from making a fresh new approach in any area of your life.
The Tower in the Tarot is a lightning flash of insight. Stay with the insights which come through your gut instincts and your body. Allow these to blast away all the old illusions.
If you have planets between 5-15 degrees TAURUS you will feel that Flash of brilliance lighting up your consciousness. Also pay attention if you have any planets angles or other celestial objects in SCORPIO, LEO and AQUARIUS for those blinding desires for freedom and liberation and to change things all up.
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Numerology of master Number 22
MASTER NUMBER DAY January 22 in a Universal 22 year
Note the number of the Muse Tarot I picked.
Moon is now in Capricorn, squaring Chiron In Aries, making us mask our wounds and want to fight for our independence, and Moon trines Uranus,
Moon sextile Venus in Pisces which is a nice practical romantic energy
and Moon conjunct JUPITER expanding the Capricornian restrictive nature.
but SUN squares URANUS late tonight in PST
January 23 in wee hours in EST and GMT
SUN Uranus square in Aquarius/Taurus on the 22nd at night and the 23rd! This is a “Blow your top” energy, volcanic explosions literally and earthquakes and mind blowing stuff. There has just been another earthquake in Cali. Revolutions, breaks for freedom, independence, Uranus is the planet of eccentrics. Restlessness. Should I stay or should I go?
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Light a fire trailblazing miracles,last Trine
An earthy Virgo moon now until late Tuesday keeps us in the mood for working hard, being organized, humble, attentive to the details and very disciplined. Virgo is concerned with health and especially the upper gut. Do watch what you eat carefully when the Moon is in Virgo as that part of your body tends to be sensitive.
Moon opposes Neptune in PISCES
A practical dream day which begs the question of what is reality and what the illusion? It’s a good day to come clean with addictions issues.
The Virgo hard work ethic may want to take the day off today. There are two power packed Trines and I would advise you to take advantage of them.
JUPITER in LEO TRINES URANUS in ARIES – FREEDOM and OPTIMISM
Jupiter and Uranus Last Trine June 22
their third trine. three times is the luckiest.
YES.
LIGHT A FIRE IN YOUR HEART
THAT BURNS SO BRIGHT
All DOUBTS ARE GONE
These planets beneficial aspect helps everyone to take huge leaps into their future while envisioning very positive outcomes. It’s easy to let go of old outworn habits, seeking freedom, justice, inventiveness, having faith and trusting. This is a huge gateway. De-clutter, make new intentions we are still on the Solstice energy for three days as the Sun appears to stand still. Build a big bonfire of the vanities.
Planets at 20+ degrees of fire signs get supercharged with Higher consciousness and positive optimism.
Moon also Trines Pluto in Capricorn
Go into the root of your own soul depths. A good day to meditate in nature under a tree. Go head, bet on yourself, realize your inner worth, let your soul speak to you through your gut instincts. The answers are in your bones.
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Fire Trine Wednesday early bird Inspiration
Moon enters Aries June 10- 12 Wednesday symbolizing a brand new monthly cycle. A new day…
Grand Fire Trine energy will make us feel upbeat, happy, optimistic, almost free from Mercury Rx.
Moon trine Saturn in Sagittarius very early in the morning when yogi’s, spiritual people and those who want to get ahead rise.
Moon then trines Venus in Leo at 4+ degrees in mid afternoon
all aspects are A-OK today.
Mercury Sweetly sextiles Venus also very early.
Mercury is very powerful now almost stationary. Say sweet things from the heart today all day.
Moon also sextiles Venus later in day
Sun sextiles Uranus so think outside the box.
Tomorrow is the day.
Remember to keep doing your Vesta Venus Saturn Grand Fire Trine heart flame initiation
Prepare for Saturn re-entering Scorpio June 14 @ 5:36 pm PDT/8:36 pm EDT
its goodbye Upbeat Sagittarius energy for three months.
Get ready for your voyage into Pluto Land with Father Time.
Inspirational Card of the Day
#20 Judgement Gilded Tarot
This version of Trump #20 shows the Angel Gabriel blowing the trumpet and the dead rising seemingly dancing to the music. Oh what Heavenly music Gabriel’s trumpet blows.
This is a wake up call, a horn blower, a card of release and freedom.
This card is very synchronous for me. It is my personality card. I had a majorly important dream years ago wherein a trumpet was blown in front of a judge and jury and Bette Middler stood in for Angel Gabriel. Andy Warhol was also in the dream. It was a BIG DREAM. I am free was the title of the dream. I also did some energy clearing work with a friend of mine today. Totally synchronous this was the entire theme.
Yes everything is synchronicity. Each one of us holds the energy of the Universe.
As each of us as do our inner work, we unlock the blinds, binds, fear and shame which keep us from being free of judgements. We free up the entire universe. We free ourselves. We are Holograms of the whole. Do you know what it feels like to be feee?
Listen to the trumpet blow,Think Aretha Franklin Blues Brothers
listen to it on the wind,
listen to it in the songs being sung,
Listen to it sounding deep in your heart.
Remebering Judy Garland born June 10, the perfect song. I sang this in a performance years ago.
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Cardinal Cross in effect, Ottawa shooting by Tara Greene
I am so sad to see the terrible shootings and innocent lives taken in both Ottawa and Quebec in the last few days in my country. Condolences to the families of the slain especially to young Corporal Nathan Cirrillo. I will just look at the chart of the October 22 Ottawa shooting and the city’s founding chart.
I have the chart of Ottawa as a city founded on September 29 1827.
The October 22 occurred just before 10:00 am at Canada’s National War Memorial in Ottawa where Corporal Nathan Cirrillo was shot by 32-year-old Canadian Michael Zehaf- Bibeau, a Muslim, with a previous police record. The shooter ran into the Parliament buildings where he fired 30-50 shots before being killed by Seargent at Arms Kevin Vickers ,a veteran. Canada’s capital city was on lock down for 12 hours. It made International news. It is now believed that the shooter acted alone and is not connected to a previous shooting in Montreal by a young man who was also Muslim.
Just wanted to have a quick look at whats going on in Ottawa. It was also under the Solar eclipse beams October 23.
You can see from the charts that the planets Pluto and Uranus are in the CARDINAL CROSS effect.
PLUTO in transit is sitting a couple of degrees away from Ottawa’s Natal Neptune at 13 + degrees Capricorn in the City’s own 12th house. What does this mean?
PLUTO
rules death, Plutocracy, fascism, power, Terrorists, control, secrets, war, slander, violence, terrorism, spying, armies. Pluto in Capricorn is literally corporate structures, historical buildings.
NEPTUNE
rules religion, and the 12th house is the house of hidden enemies, illusion, delusion, fantasy, addictions, drugs, oil, and by liaison oil rich countries.
Pluto is also opposite to Ottawa’s natal Saturn at 19 + degrees Cancer in the 6th house but on the cusp of the 7th.
SATURN
is also death, limitations, restrictions, order, time, testing, obstacles. Saturn is Father time, all Patriarchal religions and structures, the army, defenses, all organizations, well-disciplined structure.
Saturn in Cancer is the history of the family, the country, nurturing, emotional safety, home.
PLUTO in Capricorn in conjunction to Neptune and square to Saturn has caused the destruction of the feeling of safety and national security in this country. Canada has always felt SAFE.
URANUS in ARIES is in the 2nd house of resources, money, values. URANUS is exactly square to Ottawa’s Natal Neptune in Capricorn and is also square to Saturn in Cancer forming a T- square.
URANUS is chaos, radicalism, change, revolution, freedom, electronics, the internet.
Uranus is also widely opposed to Mercury in Libra which rules communications, and Jupiter in Libra which is International peace, justice, education, religion, fairness,which are in the 8th house of others money, resources, death, inheritance.
URANUS and PLUTO form a GRAND CARDINAL cross to Ottawa’s natal planets which evoked these sad realities at this time. These two planets which created the 60’s have just changed the safety game and the way our National Security will work from now on.
I have heard that PM HARPER has rushed through an undemocratic surveillance law while in the “terror” of these single lone ” self- radicalized” shooters. I cannot stand that Harper and his oil tar sand billionaire environmental murderers and his fundamentalist Christian beliefs are exploiting this. He has personally ruined Canada’s once honorable reputation as a non violent non-intervention country..
Tsk Tsk Canada being the U.S. hand maiden and blow job giver. Canada used to stand alone. This smacks of the same bullying and stealing of democracy as is happening in the U.S.
Canada has always been a nice country. We do always say I am sorry even if it isn’t our fault. We don’t allow citizens to own guns except by registry. We’ve had universal health care for 60 years.
Canada has always had an open door policy to refugees and allows 300,000 new immigrants into the Country every year. Some of that is a good thing. I do not wish to see democratic rights infringed upon because of this “opportunity” to create a further police state to protect citizens freedoms. Protecting Peace loving, law-abiding, integrated to Canadian values citizens. These groups,whoever they may be, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, anti-abortionists whatever that state that they will kill and terrorize innocent people who are not -whatever their belief systems are have no place living in Canada. Canada must not support and aid the very people who wish to destroyed peace, freedom and sanity in the name of liberalism and equal rights. It is feeding a cancer. Also the Conservatives downsized the budget for mentally ill persons. The times have changed and require different responses. It is very complex.
I wish we could start all over with a totally secular country and policy. Like John Lennon’s song Imagine. Religion would be a quaint antiquated archaeology.
Just as the Dutch did when Van Gogh’s grandson was killed by a radical Muslim. Holland in its Liberal sanity immediately set rules to every person immigrant and otherwise that if they did not want to abide by the freedoms that the Dutch wished to live by such as gay rights and women’s rights, sexual and drug legality, and if they did not speak the Native tongue they would have to be deported. It is simple straightforward logical. As you would discipline a child with proper behaviours.
Canada has to decide what it stands for. What its values are. What does the True North strong and free mean these days?
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Inspirational Card of the day, The World’s a gift
Inspirational Card of the Day June 8 NEW MOON in Gemini
MAJOR TRUMP 21 THE WORLD
The World Trump #21 is the last of the cycle of Tarot cards
although the FOOL being Zero and #22 is the first and the last.
THE WORLD is the world in all of its’ glorious reality. It’s end of the cycle. COMPLETION, Finish, the end. Maturing. The coming back down to earth after the entire spiritual journey. The WORLD is ruled by SATURN who rules everything that is solid, three Dimensional, the school of hard knocks, time, limitations, obstacles, hard work, aging, the material world. Learning to work within the confines of matter space and time. It’s also karma, taking responsibility for creating everything in our lives.
THE WORLD is the practical application, the life lessons learned, the wisdom gained through experience. That is why we are here as spirits and immortal souls in the dense physical dimension.
There are many variations on The World card. Usually they show a naked woman-or a hermaphrodite two sexes in one, also symbolizing the ANIMA or soul dancing freely unhindered in a VESICA PISCES- a sacred geometric figure. It is the VAGINA or YONI, we are each and everyone of us born through that physical structure. The Vesica Pisces may be formed of wreaths of flowers or other materials. This is the doorway into and out of life.
The dancer has one leg crossed over the other, she is the opposite and a compliment to the HANGED MAN, who has surrendered to her own Will and the WILL of Heaven.
The dancer holds a wand and a flask traditionally, symbols of the masculine and the feminine in balance, they are interpreted different ways but carry the same meaning.
THE Deviant Moon Tarot by Patrick Valenza
She is surrounded by the 4 FIXED signs in Astrology Taurus, Leo, Scorpio Aquarius and their symbols.
She is birthing the soul in the world. It is also a very sexual symbol. It can be interpreted as an orgasm, a female one. The world figure is also like the Hindu God SHIVA dancing the eternal dance of creation.
MEANING
After the journey you know you create your own experience of reality. You are thus free. In all cases. Taking responsibility for one’s actions in the world. RESULTS. Fulfillment, Discipline, working hard to attain one’s goals. Mastery of the material plane. Knowing the “profane” world and the Sacred are one and the same. Diligence, patience, persistence, maturing. Form, structure. Completion of a task, The end of one cycle and the beginning of another. Being the architect of your own life. Know that anything is possible, see it in all dimensions, actualization is just a dance.
MEDITATE on yourself as an immortal eternally wise soul temporarily residing in a physical body. Know that you are free to create your reality based on certain apparent limitations in the physical realms. Blaming no one and taking responsibility for your life sets you free.
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Venus in Taurus, art critics, true art
Venus enters TAURUS april 15- May 9
She rules the arts. She is the MUSE or divine Goddess of inspiration. That’s why Neptune is her “higher octave.” Venus is earthly fleshy real sex, art, money, luxury, relationships.
I started out as an artist. At age nine I told my surprised mother that I had decided to be an artist when I grow up, that was that. I had figured out that being an artist was a lisence for escaping the rat race, the normal expected, boring, unconscious way of life. I saw ART as FREEEDOM, ANARCHY. I went to OCAD which wasn’t a design school then. My first husband was an artist, my present husband is an artist, our daughter is presently at a performing arts high school.
I was born with a natal VENUS NEPTUNE EXACT conjunction in Libra the Sign VENUS rules. Yes art is a religion, very spiritual to me.
I happened upon this article in BLOUIN ART INFO -Canadian version. I will excerpt it and provide a link.
FINALLY someone with weight in the art world has spoken the unspoken! American ART Critic DAVID HICKEY
what do you think about contemporary art?
There are only a few great critics holding forth in today’s waning critical climate who maintain an element of danger in their invocations. These voices of authority and interrogation bend and veer away from our understood rails of art appreciation into rogue states of wicked qualification, correction, dissent – even revolution. It takes great bravery, in this moment, to call a thing a thing, and something even greater to be compelling and convincing in this effort. These critics tend to say things loosely, ham-fistedly, but with a pulpiteer’s command. They tend to interrupt the academic scaffolding of distance with oratory tempos that are stark and seemingly stupid in their abrupt profundity; they speak with adamancy, and they ring bells that feel assailing.
Among these writers are Peter Schjeldahl, Ben Davis, and Dave Hickey, the infamous and revered American critic who has carved out a voice in the Western art world akin to that of journalism’s Hunter S. Thompson. He has achieved storied laurels – seemingly despite but also because of himself – and has recently and very publically retired from the racket entirely. He has not done this from exhaustion nor age (he is 73) but because his subject has grown too insipid, too “stupid,” he says. It’s easy to believe him.
Dave Hickey did something to Canada, which should not have been unexpected; all the same, it was reviled. Hickey came to Guelph University for the annual Shenkman lecture, and offended everyone.
Importantly, on the eve of Canada financier Jim Flaherty’s federal budget reveal (in which general ‘skills’ were summoned to match the country’s available employment), Hickey produced an argument that had a special relevance for its tender audience, and its economic moment: as he took short aim at his crowd – comprised of provosts, university presidents, deans, professors, students, and former graduates – Hickey commanded we give up our institutions, relinquish our vain pursuit of accreditation, and summoned us to become artists again. “Demand that your students can perform a jump shot,” he said, in one of many references to an idealized world in which the art school was run like an athletic department. “Give up your three cars and pool, and the 4 o’clock meetings, and become an artist again.” But, he amended, if we are to continue in our endeavoring of an arts degree, or in our pursuit of a tenure-track professorship, demand of ourselves and our students skills, results, ambition, and that we kick the 90% that is shit, to the curb.
There are very few of us working from the art world’s bleachers, perhaps even fewer of us trading in its court, who would argue against Hickey’s main thesis: that the academe is destroying contemporary art. However the critic-cum-orator quickly established an antagonism towards his audience that was only further embossed by his seeming casualness.
Clad in a black sweat suit and runners, Hickey approached the podium – after no fewer than three introductions (a performance that would only serve Hickey’s later point on the academe’s overwrought hierarchy) – and very quickly descended into an 80 minute lecture that, while seemingly rudderless (he had no notes, and repeated himself frequently while veering off into anecdote and recurring metaphor) was in its sum a strident call for change. He was appealing to civilization.
“In America, and in Canada in particular, the balkanization of our universities has pretty much destroyed civilization as we know it. I think we’ve done it under the guise of control – as Michel Foucault would say, ‘care is control’ – and I’m here to argue for less of it,” he said. ”I’m here to argue for a little more benign neglect.”
The critic flitted between personal anecdote (quoting his friends Richard Serra, John Baldessari, and his nemeses, Clement Greenberg and Thomas Jefferson), near constant swipes at the academe, a few bigoted slags, and consistent, impassioned invocations for systemic change, though he maintained that “there is no deficit of quality work, it’s just that the world around it has changed.”
While figureheads like John Kissick, Dasha Shenkman, and Matthew Teitelbaum dropped their heads and rubbed their foreheads (with some gesturing wildly for moderator Robert Enright to close the lecture), others held hopeful expressions in a transparent commitment to the critic’s overarching thesis. The exquisite and painful moment of Hickey’s truth and brutalism brought to mind Peter Schjeldahl’s call to arms, of a few years ago, first issued at the New School, and then transcribed for Frieze (March 2011), wherein he spoke of the “irreligious gravitating towards art,” and how its “want tends to be lonesome and blind.”
Schejldahl goes on, “An educated common sense of the last three decades holds that all art is rhetorical and thus a game of pretenses and/or of exposing pretenses. This view is basic to the gaming of art. In fact, all art can be seen that way, but not usefully, if anyone’s experience matters. It ignores the fact that good art happens to us in ways that knock us out or our educations.” Complaining about contemporary art rhetoric and the ubiquity of the term “practice” in relation to an artist’s work, Schjeldahl demands, “When do you stop practising something and do it?”
Hickey would, over the course of his freestyle lecture, emboss this very point (“go pro,” he kept repeating), while damning every academic and art school attendee in the room in myriad ways – some clever (“theory is really easy: it’s like playing poker with no spots on the cards”) and some lazy (“if you are manic depressive, dyslectic, morbidly obese, have down’s syndrome, you end up in the art department”).
At the end of his talk, Hickey was, unsurprisingly, met with a question from an audience member, who began tremulously, “well I’m not afraid,” but went on, gaining confidence, to demand of Hickey just how “serious” he was, because “it’s a huge insult to us who devote our life to the academe; not everybody has the ability to become a basketball player in the NBA.” Hickey responded, “if I was being insulting it’s because I meant to be. There is nothing that I’ve said that I haven’t done. But we’re not talking about your benefits. We’re talking about Western civilization.”
Dave Hickey, a letch, a rogue, a dissenter, an exile, had effectively performed his point. With the very subject of his seeming disdain positioned firmly beyond his pulpit, he exhibited a tremendous affection for its cause and well-being by demanding of it something greater. The Canadian art world and its academe suffered the point, one all too rarely made in this sector, and one never issued at its establishment: be better. As Hickey refrained, “how do you be brave? How do you be brave?” Likely those most angered by Hickey’s lecture will be the ones answering him in spite, and to good effect, in the years to come.
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Kremlin or Church behind Pussy Riot Trial. I have the T-shirt| News | The Moscow Times
Kremlin Behind Pussy Riot Trial. Or Is It the Church? | News | The Moscow Times.
SUPPORT PUSSY RIOT! protests are gearing up world wide in support of FREEDOM of speech
feminist art punk rock band has gained support from MADONNA,The RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS And other major musicians,
I have created an OCCUPY PUSSY RIOT T- shirt in support,
a percentage of all the T-shirts sold will go to support
the 3 PUSSY RIOT members on trial
through Amnesty International.
to order:http://siriusteez.spreadshirt.com/women-s-heavyweight-t-shirt-A10591523/customize/color/2
e mail taragreene@sacredartscentre.com
Tara Greene,Tarot Reader, Astrology Psychic 