Brezsny says:

Taurus (April 20-May 20)

Right now you're like a sulking cherry tree that hasn't bloomed for years but then inexplicably erupts with pink flowers in mid-autumn. You're like a child prodigy who lost her mojo for a while and then suddenly recovers it when her old mentor comes back into her life after a long absence. You're like a dormant volcano that without any warning spurts out a round of seemingly prophetic smoke signals on the eve of a great victory for the whole world.

Ah, if only. It feels lately that even when I do the right, small things, even when I am mindful and appreciative of moments, the space around is me small and delicate, easily popped like a soap bubble on the harder edges of the rest of the world.

late to the Party

(or, "You Got Your Social Justice Anti-Capitalism in my Deep Earth Ecology!")

I'm not sure of the link jumping, but I ended up reading about ecosocialism today, and I think that's the first time a political movement has really clicked with me. I mean, sure, I'm down with various flavors of post-Marxist political thought, but that's always been an intellectual, "that makes sense" sort of enterprise. And, sure, I've been environmentally engaged to varying degrees and through varying personal and group commitments for a couple of decades, but I never felt like I had traction. Today, at least right now, it feels like I do, and that's kind of cool.

Because subject positional modifiers are almost expected, I think I'm pretty strongly dark green inclined. I think I'd like to be able to embrace the faith of bright greens, but I really don't see technological changes fixing social problems, no matter that a lifetime of exposure to science fictional utopianism has encouraged that in me.