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Blessed Lughnassa
Museum News Circus, Circus, Circus July 29, 2006
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July 28-Aug. 3, 2006
Today (Friday), Mercury goes direct, and all our reflecting can turn into thoughtful speaking. Checks, letters, and packages lost in the mail shall find their way home. Plans on hold shall now come clear. Whatever confusion there is in life will be defined. Mercury goes direct 6:40 p.m. MST. The last day of Mercury retrograde is even more confusing, so wait a couple of days for final decisions and contracts.
The changing planets creating the grand trine in western water signs continue to bring revelations, understanding, and joy.
The t-square with the nodes Rahu and Ketu squaring Pluto at the galactic heart still gets closer. Destiny will help us find our dharma and face the things that keep us from our truest path.
Chiron, Jupiter, and Saturn are still in a square with opposing Neptune-to-Saturn. Whatever we thought was real may disappear, and that which seems impossible can happen. Things are moving along.
Friday, July 28: The main event is Mercury going direct. We can come out of the reflective mood, make plans, and speak our truth.
Saturday, July 29: It’s a good day to be a perfectionist. The Moon squaring Pluto, later, can be pretty emotional. Remember your dreams. Mugwort pillows aid in dream memory, as well as eating an orange at night.
Sunday, July 30: This is a surprising and fun day with Venus-trine-Uranus. Not a dull moment. Take love potion for added enhancement of the heart.
Monday, July 31: Chittra nakshatra today is a good day to take care of beauty and health. Exchange massage, go to the hot springs, and take herbs. Monday (Moonday) is always good for weeding the garden, and doing laundry and domestic stuff.
Tuesday, Aug. 1: Nakshatra of wisdom, Swati, presides over this day of study, especially spiritual teachings.
Wednesday, Aug. 2: This is the traditional Lughnassa (lamas) day, one of the fire festivals. The real astrological day for Lughnassa this year is Aug. 7, when the Sun is exact midpoint between Summer Solstice and Vernal Equinox (15 degrees Leo). In Europe, people congregate around a big fire, play music, tell stories, and enjoy life well into the night. The pueblos here do the corn tassel dance at this time. It’s a celebration of the first harvest: in Europe, barley, oat, and berry; in New Mexico, corn tassel and chokecherry, cherry, and apricot. The squash are coming in. The grasshoppers may be munching the corn silk this year, which means the pollen may have trouble finding its fairy way into the husk to create the seed. A remedy for this is to shake the pollen into the corn. Bother, the grasshopper. Creepy little alien beasts. What is the purpose of the grasshopper outside of causing vexation—anybody know? I saw one painted on some Mimbres pottery. Did they paint this out of honor or appeasement?
Also Lughnassa is a day when the veils are thin—listen to your dreams, whispers in the wind, observe cloud formations, etc.—for THE ANSWER. (especially on Aug. 7). This is also a day of gratefulness for what has already been harvested, and prayers for weather and creatures to promote more harvest in autumn.
Thursday, Aug. 3: The Moon in Scorpio in either tradition brings about our deep feelings—love, but longing, too.
Happy Lughnassa! I'll be at the Farmer’s Market with herbs and fresh chai tomorrow (Saturday) and doing astrology at Sustaining Culture Tuesday afternoon. Both in Taos. Remember, I'm always available at Avala (home) for herbs, flower and stone remedies, and readings of East and West. I ship products and do readings by phone, too.
Blessings,
Lucy
www.avalamesamiracles.com
At the TCA
On Sunday, July 30, at 7:30 p.m., the TCA presents a Taos School of Music concert featuring the Miami String Quartet and Robert McDonald. Tickets are $20, $10 for 16 and under at FX-18 Gifts & Jewelry or at the door beginning at 6:45 p.m.
Sunday, July 30 at 2 p.m. and Monday and Tuesday, July 31 and Aug. 1 at 7 p.m., Movies at the TCA presents “TEMPORADA DE PATOS/Duck Season.” Tickets $7, TCA members and students with ID $6. Box office opens 45 minutes prior to screening time.
Harwood Curator Presents Lunch Program
The Harwood Museum presents its regular series of monthly Brown Bag Lunches Friday, August 4 at 12 p.m. This hour long program delves into rarely seen areas of the museum's collection. For August’s program Curator Margaret Bullock will share a treasure-trove of artist books and artist illustrated books. Included in this collection are classic books illustrated by such artists as Robert Motherwell, Jacob Lawrence and Alice Neel as well as artist books by Ron Cooper, Sabra Moore, and others.
The Harwood’s Noon Brown Bag Lunch Program is designed as an interactive discussion with audience participation encouraged. This program is free to Alliance Members or with museum admission. Attendees are encouraged to bring a sack lunch. This noon brown bag series continues the first Friday of each month and features different speakers on topics ranging from art in the museum's collection to more hands-on programs with visiting artists.
For more information call 758-9826 x 105. The Harwood Museum is located at 238 Ledoux Street. 505/758-9826 or harwoodmuseum.org.
Peñasco Kids Circus Show
15046 St Rd 75, Penasco NM, 87553
505 587-2726. mail@wisefoolnm.org
On Saturday, Aug. 5, 2 p.m., Wise Fool presents Peñasco Kids Circus Camp Final show! Kids Art show in lobby. This is the fifth summer Wise Fool New Mexico and Art for the Heart have collaborated to do a free summer camp for Peñasco and surrounding youth. This year’s show is better than ever! Over 30 stilt walkers, trapeze artists, clowns, acrobats, and shadow puppets will fill the theatre! The theme for the camp and show this year is Permaculture. Bees will buzz around on the trapezes, giant grasshoppers will dance on stilts, and so much more! After the show visit the new beautiful garden that the kids planted in between the theatre and Peñasco Foods.
Other upcoming events at the theatre include a Saturday, Aug. 12, 8 p.m. “Hidden Circus Cabaret.” New work curated by Thomas Soule, rumors of stilts and robots and puppetry … hmm, don’t miss this mysterious mix of performers! $10 suggested donation.
On Aug. 26, 8 p.m., circus atists from around the country. $10 suggested donation.
Drinks in lobby before shows.
Curator Candidates Give Talks at Millicent Rogers Museum
The three candidates for Curator of Collections at the Millicent Rogers Museum will talk on aspects of the museum’s collections during the second and third weeks in August. Diana Buchanan will speak on Tuesday, Aug. 8, followed by Dr. Rebecca Hernandez on Friday, Aug. 11, with Fred Nahwooksy wrapping the series up on Tuesday, Aug. 15. The talks are at 6 pm and are free. For more information, call 758-2462.
Art in Museums – A Free Art Program For Pre-Schoolers
The Museum Association of Taos presents its regular FREE Wednesday pre-school program Art in Museums on Wednesday, Aug. 9 at the Martinez Hacienda from 11-11:30 a.m. Enjoy a short story and art project related to the museum collection. This free program is designed for kids age 2-, but all ages welcome to attend and parent/caregiver participation encouraged. Art in Museums continues every Wednesday from 11 – 11:30 at different Museum Association Sites. Call for directions, a schedule, or to sign up: 758-9826 ext 105.
The Museum Association is comprised of the Millicent Rogers Museum, The Harwood Museum of art, the Taos Art Museum @ Fechin House, the Blumenschein Home & Museum and la Hacienda de los Martinez.
A Gallery Talk on Fritz Scholder at the Harwood Museum of Art
The Harwood Museum of Art presents a Gallery Talk, Thursday, Aug. 10, by Curator Margaret Bullock on artist Fritz Scholder. This program is scheduled for 7 p.m. and is free to Alliance Members & UNM community, or $7.
Fritz Scholder (1937 – 2005) had a long and prolific career as a painter, sculptor, lithographer, teacher and bookmaker. An exhibition of his paintings and prints is on view at the Harwood Museum through Sept. 10.
Scholder received his B.A. from Sacramento College in 1960, and afterwards attended the Southwest Indian Art Project at the University of Arizona, an experimental summer program in arts education funded by the Rockefeller Foundation which brought together Native American Students from all over the US – a model that continued in the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe.
In 1964, after receiving a Master’s degree at the University of Arizona, Scholder moved to Santa Fe to teach art history at the IAIA. As a teacher he was greatly influenced by his students who shared their unique perspectives based on their varied Tribal backgrounds and histories. Scholder taught contemporary art history and for five years, until retiring from IAIA in 1969. The mutually supportive relationship between teacher and students allowed for Scholder’s growth into areas of untraditional, experimental work.
In 1967, Scholder began his “Indian Series” which was a subject that he continued for most of his career. While some found his depiction of Native American life disrespectful, others saw it as fresh and contemporary. Blending a pop-art take on his subjects with an expressionistic sense of color, line and texture Scholder established a place for himself with the contemporary art scene. His work ruffled some feathers by challenging not only the romantic version of the Indian popularized by 19th century illustrators and the Taos Society of Artists but also was a far cry from the stylized Indian subjects promoted by Dorothy Dunn and the Santa Fe Indian School.
The importance of Fritz Scholder along with fellow IAIA instructors Allan Houser and Charles Loloma lies in how these artists changed Native American Art forever – allowing for a multiplicity of subjects, styles and methods which placed their work within the context of not only contemporary Art History but also forming the backbone of contemporary American Indian Art.
For more information please call 758-9826 x 105.
Hypnotherapy Open House
Join Zaria Prem, CHt, and discover the basics of hypnotherapy, the triune mind, and how it can help you meet goals, heal, and much more, Thursday, Aug. 10, from 7 - 9:30 p.m., Whole Foods CommUnity Room, 753 Cerrillos Road. Call 699-4743 for more information. Visit www.HypnotherapyinSantaFe.com.
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