New Moon
in Taurus
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+ the Tuesday 9AM Movement Research class guest spot is still available for anyone who wants it…let me know!
+ Ridgewood Qi Gong is swimming along. I have room for a couple more people to join in May. $100 for 6 classes email laurel.atwell@gmail.com to sign up.
+Red Hook Qi Gong starts Wednesday, May 7th (and is free!) Details for all the classes on the calendar.
+Only a couple days open for an April one on one session, May has a few days, and June is quite open…
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I’m listening to the most recent New Models podcast where they’re talking to Gideon Jacobs—whose play I saw without knowing it was his last week at Earth—and he’s talking about how Peter Thiel practices chaos magic. And one of the hosts—Lil Internet—makes a joke about building a sigil, cumming on it, and then burning the sigil to bring his next piece of writing into existence. Which reminded me that I was debating writing about how my qi gong teacher taught me how to do the now viral “O method” of manifestation (or I guess viral on WitchTok) and how what she taught me is directly linked to the sexual energy practices in qi gong…all this to say is that we’re entering a heating up period. And the people who are in charge are also practicing something chaotic.
What’s kind of fun about all of these practices is that they’re funny and they’re real. You can not take them seriously or use them. The energetic dynamics themselves are pretty mercurial and only go where they’re being used…a kind of being in the mood. And it’s funny to hear the way they’re talking about what chaos magic is based on what they know which is theatrical. I have found that over the years chaos magic is the kind of magic you do the least since chaos is basically physics and physics is the makeup of the universe. I find that chaos magic is more about tapping alllllllllll the way in, in the out. It’s part of the intensity of Spring expansion. We’ve spent all winter floating along our private wavelength in our own echo chamber and now we’re adding so much more input. Things have no choice but to get chaotic. The harmony comes when you are holding both. Hence the chaos and the magic. Anything is possible.
Wrapping Cleanse (27 min standing and squatting) is not about sex or chaos magic directly (I will add more videos like that in May.) This recording is very much in the physical body, somatic world: being in horse stance while holding tree and the golden urns. Continuing with spiral tendon wrapping in a deep squat for back of pelvis mobility (and open the back body). Good for at the end of an exercise practice to push yourself slightly and give a little more heat and opening for some strengthening and toning.