Sinéad O'Connor and the Full Moon in Aries
Dear Diary
Dear Diary,
Oct 17th, 2024.
Today there is a Full Moon in Aries. It brings to fruition what began at the Aries New Moon Solar Eclipse in April, six months ago. Because the star sign of Aries correlates to the Greek and Roman God of War, this full moon is illuminating secret enemies and hidden wars against the innocent. It made me think of Sinéad O'Connor and her performance on Saturday Night Live on October 3rd, 1992. She performed a powerful rendition of Bob Marley's song, War. You could hear a pin drop. The audience was in complete silence.
Three weeks later, on Halloween night, Sinéad and I sat at Sin-é, a small Irish cafe and music venue on St. Marks Place between 1st and Avenue A. We were introduced to each other by a mutual acquaintance and we sat at a tiny table listening to the performer on stage right next to us.
I was sixteen years old. She was twenty-five.
She was sweet and shy. I was shy too. She began to put on some perfume. A tiny sample-sized glass tube that she pulled out of her pocket. She put some behind her ears, on her wrists, and even on her shaved head. Then she offered me some and I put it on too. She told me she liked the leopard vest I was wearing. It was my favorite leopard vest that I wore often as a teenager. I wanted to ask her so many questions. I wanted to know more about "the real enemy" that she referred to in her SNL performance. I wanted to hear her story. But soon she was whisked away from the venue. Paparazzi had found out where she was, and there were a lot of angry reporters after her because of her recent protest performances.
That October in 1992, there had been a Full Moon in Aries, just as there is right now. Aries is about the face that we show to the world. It's our identity. That same year, I also ran away from home. Just for one night. On the day I left home, I found a sparrow at Tompkins Square Park in Alphabet City. He stayed on my shoulder all day long. He went uptown with me. He snuck out with me. He went all the way to Poughkeepsie with me on the train with my two friends. And he camped out in the woods with us. I woke up a few times overnight to find that he was still there, on my shoulder, nestled in my long hair. But when the sun rose he had finally flown away. I thought, how poetic that he is making a new life for himself in the woods, away from the city, away from the makeshift patch of nature in between the slabs of cement and brick. He was finding his authentic self.
That's what Sinéad was doing that year. Finding an authentically new identity. She also appeared at Madison Square Garden that fateful month. She was invited to perform at a tribute for Bob Dylan. But when she approached the microphone she was met by a relentless mix of cheering and jeering. She doubled down by singing the same Marley song that she performed at SNL. And when she walked away Kris Kristofferson was there by her side and comforted her, telling her not to let them get her down. She was sensitive, but always stood strong.
I think cultivating mastery over ourselves - our bodies, our minds, our emotions, is the only way we can get on an even playing field with the institutions that have been built around us. It's only fair and just when the leaders are leading the strong. But since we are constantly divided and pitted against each other, we are always weakened. We are not in our full strength and power. And we are divided because we aren't seeing the actual truth of what is going on. Everything is hidden. Until it's not.
So much is being illuminated with this full moon in Aries. And so these revelations bring a new face to the world. A new dawn to old systems. When it comes to who should lead America with the presidential race, in the political arena, in the warring worlds of the left and right, between Kamala and Trump, the only solution is love and compassion. Instead of pointing the finger at the perceived guilty culprit, the truth is somewhere inside the spiritual training of blazing forward into uncharted territories and pouring love into it all. Whatever is to come, whatever the outcome, God will take care of the details. God will restore balance wherever it is needed.
It's an exciting time. It's an adventure, to be constantly surprised and elevated into new ways of thinking.
Love, Kala
In Jesus' name.
Amen.