Sun in Scorpio skrying, wine cohobation

Sun in Scorpio - Cabernet resurrection

10:52 PM 11/1/2009

It's All Soul's Day! Sun in Scorpio is closely conjunct Mercury, and both are just past the square of Mars. Moon in Taurus is full, six degrees from the opposition. Moon is culminating, Sol in the 4th.

I soaked grape ash in purified water all day, and tonight poured the water into three carboys full of wine, as well as three gallon jugs full of what was left over and two glasses of the wine we most recently pressed. So far this new wine is interesting. We added oak spirals to it, and that increased the tannins noticeably. Other than that it has no sweetness or sourness, is almost watery. Steve thinks it will age well, and he's probably right. It is a dark, opaque purple. I think it has good energy, also, gentle and dignified, and very relaxing.

I see a silver Mercury-head dime. On the back is the image of a capitol building. The gods and monuments that stand over the symbols we have invested with our wealth bless us with the protection of our national angels and spirits, a form of magic considered a matter of national pride more than idolatry or totemism yet which does call intelligences who protect our interests. Assigning states and nations birds, trees, flowers and flags is as ancient a form of tribal magic as any, no different from the magical correspondences of the planets. That something as vulgar as national politics calls the spirits of the land to its aid shows that there is nothing humans do on a large scale which is not also of the natural or spiritual world, and even as we displace spirits from their natural settings we give them new purpose in the man-made world we replace them with. There is nothing not woven of the body of God, nor nothing profance that can endure.