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Alacazem 2009.08.27

August 27 to September 3, 2009

Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter  Evening: Saturn

America's Most Accomplished Senator Enters in Dreamy Pisces and Exits in Virtuous Virgo

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die." - Senator Edward M. Kennedy

One of our country’s most famous, accomplished and influential politicians, Senator Ted Kennedy, passed from this world to the next in his Cape Cod home last Tuesday, Aug. 25th. Born Feb. 22, 1932, he died on a day when the Earth had reached a point in its yearly orbit around the Sun that was almost exactly opposite his own natal sun-sign degree, a point long ago associated by astrologers as a critical degree in one’s annual birthday to birthday solar cycle.

Today, modern astrology pays less attention to physical predictions of doom, gloom and possible death than it does to the more psychological, spiritual and emotional manifestations of planetary positions and aspects. One thing is certain, however, about Sun opposition Sun transits: we feel a certain amount of tension and pull, we are awakened to life’s inherent polarities and we are called upon to balance our perspectives, opinions, tendencies and behaviors with opposite views and forces. It’s the classical reflection of the internal self in the mirror of external relationship, the dance of inside with outside.

Davila and Crilly at Telluride’s Ah Haa School

Telluride's Ah Haa School for the Arts has long been a community resource for arts education.  Ah Haa's new home in the old depot building also has gallery space, dedicated this Summer to the school's founder, Daniel Tucker.

In August, the Daniel Tucker Gallery is displaying works by Kelvyn Davila and local artist Ally Crilly.

TIO says WOW to Boebel and Hobby

Telluride Inside... and Out is pleased to congratulate locals Amy Jean Boebel and Sue Hobby. Three garments the two women created from discarded aluminum screens were accepted into WOW, the World of Wearable Art Awards Show. The  big event, the most prestigious on the international design, fashion and costume calendars, takes place late September, right after Blues & Brews, in Wellington, New Zealand.

WOW has a developing reputation for inspiring and encouraging recycling, but why aluminum screen? The ladies say, like fabric, the screen is woven. The material is also illuminative, (gives off light), translucent, and abundant at the construction site next to Boebel's studio.

"The process of making these garments allowed for  the kind of experimentation that challenged both of us. (Actually, the biggest challenge was keeping enough band-aids around.)  Getting the screen to respond in the prescribed way was both frustrating and fascinating, "  explained Boebel.

Alacazem 2009.08.06

August 6 to 13, 2009

Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Mars and Jupiter   Evening: Mercury and Saturn

It’s mid-summer and we have just put the bookend on the 2009 series of summer eclipses. Whew!

From the first July 7th Full Moon lunar eclipse, to the second New Moon solar eclipse on July 21st, to the third and final Full Moon lunar eclipse on Aug. 5th, we have traveled many actual and metaphorical miles. We have experienced the metaphysical metamorphosis of ecliptic phenomena and its accompanying planetary change.

From the wild phantasmagoria of Michael Jackson’s death and globally covered memorial service, to the up close and personal passing of Captain Jack Carey and his touching, down-home memorial service at the Telluride Town Park, we have been awakened and transformed. And that’s what eclipses are all about.

Telluride 4th of July: 10th Mountain Division

Men of the 10th Mountain Division here for July 4 and Telluride Mountainfilm benefit showing of "Fire on the Mountain"

Telluride began celebrating the Fourth of July in the 1880s, about 100 years after Congress the day Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

The party got way out of control some time in the early 1970s, and Telluride cancelled the Fourth of July party until further notice. When the holiday was reinstated on the summer calendar a year or two later, the main event was a BBQ and fireworks sponsored by the Fire Department. Period.

In late 1980s, the Fourth of July parade was returned to its past glory, with almost everyone in town taking part, leaving only tourists as spectators.

Jagged Edge sponsors Ridgway River Festival

Just down the road a piece from Telluride, all day Saturday, June 27, the neighboring town of Ridgway is hosting an all-day River Festival, with activities for kids of all ages. One of the main event sponsors is Telluride's Jagged Edge, the kayaking hub of Southwestern Colorado.

Jagged Edge owner Erik Dalton and store manager Cari Mackey will be on site throughout the day with a fleet of demo kayaks and all the required equipment from the store available for anyone to use for free.

Hillbenders win Telluride Bluegrass band contest

Over time, there are certain facts of life around Town Park Telluride Festivarians have come to expect, like afternoon showers.

Park your attitude at the front gate. Noblesse oblige does not get you very far – certainly not back stage. 

Days at Telluride Bluegrass begin with the running of the tarp crack of 9 or 10 a.m.
(Diehards camp out all night for house seats.)

Alacazem 2009.06.18

June 18 to 25, 2009

Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter   Evening: Saturn

Returning Friends and Recurring Seasons - Happy Birthday and Summer Solstice

It’s Bluegrass in Telluride and for me that means music and motorcycles. It’s also one of my best friend’s birthdays [June 20th] – he’s the latest degree of Gemini possible - a “cusp baby” – which means he’s a highly evolved, clever and talented trickster [Gemini] taking his first “baby steps” into becoming a nurturing, loving, sensitive, willing to be vulnerable and get in touch with his “feminine side” [Cancer] kind-of-guy this time around.

Every year he makes the journey from Steamboat to Telluride, via Gateway and Redvale, stopping by our tree farm ranch to spend a night in the bunkhouse “cowboy room” or speed up to his rented condo at Riverside - depending on who and which toys he has in tow. It’s been a sweet sixteen years since we met him in Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, where he was staying over Thanksgiving in the house next to ours, with a newborn baby boy named after one of my favorite constellations – Orion.

Alacazem 2009.06.04

June 4 to 11, 2009

Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter  Evening: Saturn

Full Moon lunation: June 7th @ 12:13 pm @ 17º 07’ Gemini/Sagittarius

“Tibetan Buddhists, shamans around the world, and other spiritual practitioners observe New and Full Moons as windows or portals in time/space, where we can more easily see beyond the constraints of material reality. Veils part, clouds part, new realities are glimpsed as our awareness of higher dimensions expands. The days immediately before a New or Full Moon are especially potent for releasing the physical, emotional and mental blockages that prevent us from perceiving the greater truth of our being. The peak of this Full Moon coincides with Saga Dawa, the Tibetan celebration of the birth, enlightenment and passage of the Buddha, one of many great figures who taught that each of us is a Buddha, a Christ, an expression of the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Cosmos.”
          -- Stephanie Austin, The Mountain Astrologer, June/July 2009

As an astrologer, I often wonder whether or not I perceive the world as “cosmic” because I want to. My Mother and Grandmother introduced me to this divine science as a young girl, and it stuck. Over the years, I have been astounded, humbled and awed by the way celestial events coincide with, resonate to and actually constellate what I’m experiencing here on Earth.