Black Jaguar and the Green Knight
I sat down to write this post and the shadow of the resurrection fell across my mirror. Resurrection, or reincarnation? Rebirth, even? The Lady of the Lake has declared herself and Black Jaguar visited on the night of the 18th March He was lounging on the limb of a tree, barely visible in the green gloom, the dark solidity of his body brought into definition by his bright yellow eyes. “Hello again,” he growled and then he was gone. Black Jaguar and the Green Night? So many loose threads. Be still.
The last time we had seen him was on a sunny afternoon around five years ago, bounding across the field behind our house. Dean and I both saw him and so did the dogs. We didn’t have a fence then, so they chased him into the field barking like crazy, as the creature turned and leapt over the hedge onto the track. The dogs followed until just out of sight and then the dogs came back, quietly, sheepishly, as if nothing had happened.
The creature we saw in the field was black, cat-like with a long tail and about the size of a donkey. It was not one of the animals we usually see around here; it was definitely not a boar or a large dog. I even looked for reports of escaped big cats. When you see something that is so clearly out of place, that does not belong in that situation, the mind struggles to make sense of it. What if the borderlands of our sensibility are more porous than we had previously thought?
I identified him as Black Jaguar because I already knew him. A few years earlier, we were sitting in the cabin when I sat up and told Dean that I felt a feline energy. At that moment, both windows flew open and there was a thump, like a big cat landing on the floor and then a whoosh a he went out the other window. “That’s him,” I said to Dean, “Black Jaguar.”
The morning after I wrote my tentative title, Black Jaguar and the Green Night, I received a message from a little bear. He described an adventure in which he got arrested and lost his favourite green shirt. Unexpectedly, just a few days ago, he found another one that was a little tight but thicker and organic cotton, great. Then a third shirt showed up, same as the second one but a size bigger, even better. His friend said it reminded her of The Green Knight….ping! Earth magic, back on track.
He wrote, “Just one of those 2020 echoes – and connection with the Grail story – I don’t know what to make of it. I hope the shirts keep getting upgrades.”
Yes, the threads are coming together and more than the shirts are being upgraded!
The Tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a magical poem dating from the 14th century, penned by an unknown author. Magical tales are repeatedly lost and recovered, to unfurl into a new setting where and when the conditions are ripe.
The pretext of the story is that King Arthur and his company are celebrating the new year, when a huge and awesome green knight on a green horse bursts into the castle. Everything about them is green, richly woven with gold, right down the the massive axe he wields. He challenges the company to play a game with him. The deal is that he will give his axe to anyone who dares strike him with it, and he will not defend himself from the blow. That same knight must then seek him out in a year and a day to receive the return blow. No one responds to the offer and he taunts the knights as cowards, so King Arthur takes up the axe to save face, calling it is a foolish game. Sir Gawain, the youngest knight, steps up to take the King’s place and after confirming the details of the deal, decapitates the green knight with a single blow. The green knight then picks up his head, mounts his horse and tells Sir Gawain to find him at the green chapel, in a year and a day.
Gawain meets various challenges along the way and finally fulfils his quest, only to discover that the whole thing was set up by Morgan the Goddess, as a test and rite of purification.
(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.)
This story has been analysed to death, but the feminine Earth magic it exudes is immortal and always shows up after ‘decapitation’. In other words, when the thinking, the programmes, the mental models, the projections of the old control system, gets cut off from Nature, it’s not the end of life, but a new beginning with different rules.
The magician-architects of the empire of brutality used lucid dreamers to create a feedback loop that maintained the split in the mind of the Earth, causing her to generate the many layers of interference that formed their empire. The split occurs whenever one party cheats on an agreement and then tries to cover it up, creating stories (lies) that were no longer anchored in actual events. Agreements became transactions for profit that didn’t serve life and morphed into the ‘deal with the devil’ and part of the Luciferian overlay imprinted on Venus Morning Star. To the Earth, anything said ‘aloud’, is ‘allowed’ which is why some things must never be said, and why Morgan’s skills were hard-won from Merlin and why lucid dreamers were forced into hiding.
The Black Jaguar comes into play via Venus. Gawain had a pentacle on his shield, which is a reference to the five-pointed star Venus makes over an eight-year cycle, as seen from a geocentric perspective. Black Jaguar has been stalking me for a while and showed up just after Venus left her Morning Star apparition, when she disappears for three months or so before returning as the Evening Star in the west, just after sunset. There is hardly an ancient culture that did not track Venus and take note of her appearances as the Morning Star and the Evening Star and the intervals in between, but Christianity turned the underworld into hell and made darkness evil and animals something less than human.
The seers of the past knew that the Earth uses Venus to bring ideas into our awareness, what I refer to as the dream-streams. Their stories, told through art, literature and monuments, are subject to interpretation and can’t be accessed by anyone blinkered by belief – the shadow of magic. However, the animal references remain true. Animals are always, without exception, emissaries of the Great Mother and the gifts they bring are encoded into their bodies and behaviours. Black Jaguar enabled me to discover my magic mirror back in 2017. ( The Warrior Priestess)
The magic mirror is a technique, a way of seeing into the mind of the Earth, which is also our mind. All our thoughts and dreams are projected onto the black mirror and inter-mingled with those of the Earth. Some of these thought-forms emerge into our physical reality. The skill is developed through the simple meditation of following your natural breath and observing the contents of your mind. Initially, your mind will throw up all sorts of important or interesting things to grab your attention and, after a while it will give up and there will be nothing but black silence. Eventually, images form on the mirror that come from your true self, in alignment with the mind of the Earth. This process used to take years, but now that many layers of interference have been cleared, it is easier and faster to get to drop into the clear and lucid mind.
Black jaguar the animal. Is also known as the panther and is only found in south and central America. It is slightly larger than the leopards, who are native to Africa and some parts of Asia. It is a keystone species, necessary to maintain ecological balance, but increasingly threatened due to loss of habitat. Jaguars are solitary animals and highly territorial. The gestation period is 91-111 days, interesting numbers. During the day they will lie low in caves and lush undergrowth, or take a swim to cool down, they are excellent swimmers. They hunt in the liminal periods of dusk and dawn, stalking their prey and waiting for the right moment to launch a blind-side attack, instantly crushing their skulls in their powerful jaws.
Black Jaguar the Nature Power, brings us the abilities of the apex predator, to hunt alone in the dark, in unknown territory. He does not function as a guide; this is our innate ability to satisfy a need, to find fulfilment, conclusively, without guilt or fear of consequences. The human values of compassion and forgiveness have their place, but natural lore also accepts ruthlessness and decisive action, without the need for permission.
This Nature Power is essential for the green knight, who is another iteration of the Green Man. The Green Man is the masculine principle of Nature, who holds himself to his own moral code, that is fully in alignment with Nature’s lore. It is an activation of the natural predator-prey bond that is necessary for our survival. The ancient archetype of the Green Man was reborn into our conscious awareness at the Saturn-Jupiter Grand Conjunction of the Winter Solstice 2020 and he is about to be reborn into the consciousness of the general populace. He is an active principle in men, outward moving and more part of the inner landscape (Venus) in women. https://freefinca.org/winter-solstice-2020-rebirth-green-man/
After Venus met with Saturn, on the 22nd March, in the flow of the Water Bearer some remaining obstructions that prevented us from receiving the flow of energy from the Nature Powers were cleared. The global interference layers have all been dissolved. However, some of their energy patterns remain in our individual memory fields, so there is still some flicker effect, but the impact is now limited to the individual concerned. This applies to the ‘former management’ as much as anyone else; their dark magic no longer works, however, for as long as they control the hardware, organisations and systems of their empire, there will still be challenges to navigate. (The Venus-Neptune conjunction on 3rd April might be a surprise.)
There will always be challenges and better the ones we set for ourselves. Thankfully, the intelligence of the Earth knows more about what’s going on than any of us and she’s ready to play – the feline energy is as playful as it is lethal. In this new ‘operational mode,’ our subtle anatomy is stronger and more sensitive, so we can pick up signals that were previously undetectable. We’ve already received the golden antlers, a real part of our subtle anatomy, often depicted in ancient art, that extends out from the ears and above and enables us to detect danger – as in animals knowing when to run to the hills, even though they don’t know what a tsunami is. Black Jaguar comes as an ‘instruction’ from the Earth and your true self, that is part of the Earth, BEFORE you know what it’s for. When we pick up its signal, we don’t need more information, It calls for stillness, to stalk in silence and to pounce at the right moment.
There’s still a bumpy road ahead, but the tables have turned.
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