The March Equinox ‘Worm Moon’ 2019
I wonder what this means coupled with a Sun solar flare. It redoubles the energy of the receptive and expressive energy. I perceive the equality of day and night as balance or zero point. Interestingly this article below speaks of ‘witches’ ordinarily I wouldn’t delve into this but lately I’ve been coming across information on pagans and how they were living in equality and harmony. So it feels important to explore this. They understood the nature of energy, the nature of balance, the nature of rebirth and harmony. I have been speaking of abundance in my videos. Joy is the key to peace as we feel inner gratitude for nature and all that it brings, free of charge. I did look for more information but my feeling is to stay with this.
I am contemplating the ‘worm’ and the image that came up for me was the spice worms from Dune. I saw this a long time ago and it left an impact. Dune was a desert planet. I am going to have a look. As below from Wikipedia:
Introduced in Dune (1965), sandworms are colossal worm-like creatures that live on the desert planet Arrakis. Arrakis, also known as Dune, is the only known source in the Universe of the spice melange, a drug highly prized for its medicinal and mystical properties. Melange deposits are found in the sand seas of Arrakis, where the sandworms live and hunt. Anyone who attempts to extract melange from the sand must do so quickly and flee before a sandworm, attracted by sound, inevitably attacks. Sandworms are accepted as an inevitable hazard of melange harvesting, because they are nigh-indestructible and melange is in fact a byproduct of their life cycle. The natives of Arrakis (the Fremen) regard sandworms as sacred.
The sandworms in Dune were inspired by the dragons of European mythology that guard some sort of treasure. Favorites of Herbert included the dragon in Beowulf which guarded a hoard of gold, and the dragon of Colchis which guarded the Golden Fleece from Jason.[2][3] Like these dragons, the sandworms of Arrakis “guard” the melange deposits and are a perpetual hazard for those who wish to harvest this treasure. In the novels, the sandworms are occasionally referred to as “dragons of the desert”.[4]
In the plot of Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune, sandworms provide the danger and mystery of terra incognita, and the transformational experience that the protagonist Paul Atreides must go through to triumph over his enemies. Herbert believed great power and knowledge must come at some sort of price, and so Paul must risk being devoured by a sandworm and then madness after consuming sandworm extract (the Water of Life).[5]
The elements of any mythology must grow from something profoundly moving, something which threatens to overwhelm any consciousness which tries to confront the primal mystery. Yet, after the primal confrontation, the roots of this threat must appear as familiar and necessary as your own flesh. For this, I give you the sandworms of Dune. […] the extension of human lifespan cannot be an unmitigated blessing. Every such acquisition requires a new consciousness. And a new consciousness assumes that you will confront dangerous unknowns — you will go into the deeps.
— Frank Herbert[5]
In Children of Dune, Leto II‘s prescient visions illuminate his Golden Path, his plan for the continued survival of mankind and the sandworms. After consuming massive amounts of spice, he allows many sandtrout to cover his body, the concentration of spice in his blood fooling the creatures:
The sandtrout squirmed on his hand, elongating, stretching … becoming thin, covering more and more of his hand. No sandtrout had ever before encountered a hand such as this one, every cell supersaturated with spice … Delicately Leto adjusted his enzyme balance … The knowledge from those uncounted lifetimes which blended themselves within him provided the certainty through which he chose the precise adjustments, staving off the death from an overdose which would engulf him if he relaxed his watchfulness for only a heartbeat. And at the same time he blended himself with the sandtrout, feeding on it, feeding it, learning it … He located another, placed it over the first one … Their cilia locked and they became a single membrane which enclosed him to the elbow … This was no longer sandtrout; it was tougher, stronger. And it would grow stronger and stronger … With a terrible singleness of concentration he achieved the union of his new skin with his body, preventing rejection … They were all over his body now. He could feel the pulse of his blood against the living membrane … My skin is not my own. — Children of Dune[16]
The Golden Path is a term in Frank Herbert‘s fictional Dune universe referring to Leto II Atreides‘s strategy to prevent humanity’s ultimate destruction. The Golden Path is the main driving force in the Frank Herbert-written novels Children of Dune (1976), God Emperor of Dune (1981), Heretics of Dune (1984), and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985), and it is brought to a conclusion in the novels Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, who sought to complete the series following the elder Herbert’s death.
Leto named the necessities shown in his vision the “Secher Nbiw”, which is “Golden Path” or “Golden Counsel” in an ancient language (ancient Egyptian)[1] known only by Leto II and his twin sister, Ghanima.[2]
Through prescience, Paul Atreides and his son Leto II foresaw several threats to the human species. They saw the Imperium’s dependency on melange and the superhuman tasks performed by specialized groups such as the Spacing Guild, Mentats, and the Bene Gesserit as threats to any species-wide evolution. Also, because spice could be produced only on Arrakis, human development was constrained by its dependence on the planet.
They interpret this lack of exploration and growth as stagnation and an eventual threat to the survival of humanity. A much more imposing threat, known of only through prescience, was Kralizec, the mythic battle at the end of the universe, which is first directly described in God Emperor of Dune[3] but not fully revealed to the reader until later.
Being pre-born, Leto II inherited his father’s prescient abilities. Whereas Paul had sought a way to save both the human species and his own humanity, Leto’s prescience led him to decide that the path to surviving Kralizec needed a much more threatening predator of humans than the twelve-year Jihad which Paul had taken as his “terrible purpose”. The first important step of the Golden Path, which Paul sought to avoid,[2][4] takes place in Children of Dune, when Leto takes a skin of sandtrout as his own. This act begins both his transformation into the half-man, half-worm God Emperor and the transformation of the spice-rich desert planet Dune into the paradise of Rakis.
By monopolizing the only remaining supply of the spice and ending further production, Leto II became an unrivaled power in the Imperium. By keeping the Imperium stagnant and contained in a Golden Age, Leto set the stage for a severely difficult age, which would become known as the Famine Times. The stated goal of Leto’s predator-aspect was to “teach humanity a lesson that they will remember in their bones“.[5] Leto sought to teach the human race through a bad example: by becoming the greatest predator, his goal was to immunize the race against overcentralization, which resulted in The Scattering.
A number of technological advances by the Bene Tleilax and the Ixians could be credited to their drive to escape from the oppression of the God Emperor. The fruits of this oppression appeared in the Ixian navigation device (a substitute for living Guild Navigators) and the Tleilaxu artificial spice, while the God Emperor himself also encouraged the Ixians by specifically ordering them to create certain technologies.[6]
During his lifetime of 3,500 years, Leto’s body transformed into a hybrid of human and sandworm. One later side effect of this combination was the gift to the sandworm of “human adaptability”.[citation needed] By driving all of the original sandworms of Dune to extinction, Leto became common ancestor to any new worms which would arise from his eventual death and release of sandtrout back into the environment of Arrakis.
Interestingly enough I can see parallel’s with what we are confronting today. I see us on the precipice of empowerment or some form of technological revolution of hybrids. I can see metaphor in humanity learning from a bad example, perhaps artificial spice is AI. Who knows, I just felt to go there. The Super Moon feels important as I keep remembering not to forget it is happening. My intuition tells me to envisage the future I want. That is not hard to guess, world peace is in the oasis that appears a mirage.
https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2019/03/227517/super-worm-full-moon-spring-equinox-march-2019