WAKING THE WITCH
Sometimes you just need to listen to a Witch.
The other night while I was cooking dinner, I popped on one of my favourite Kate Bush albums, Hounds Of Love. I was pottering away chopping the vegetables and soon found myself sobbing uncontrollably. You can listen to the same songs 1000 times over, yet the poetry will always find new ways to reach you where you need it. I like to think of Kate Bush and her work as a magical bridge between this world and another.
TAURUS, the BRIDGE, and SCORPIO
The last seven tracks on Hounds Of Love were originally on side two of the album release, and subtitled The Ninth Wave Suite.
They tell the story of a woman lost at sea. She drifts in the darkness and shifts between mental states, fighting against the tide and for the strength to keep afloat.
Listening and crying, I walked over the bridge made of song lyrics and found myself journeying back through memories of the last 18 months, my body finally willing and able to release.
The Hounds Of Love are hunting
I travelled back
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Ooh, their breath is warm
And they smell like sleep
And they say they take me home
Like poppies, heavy with seed
They take me deeper and deeper
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There's something moving under (under the ice)
Moving under ice through water
Trying to (it's me)
get out of the cold water (it's me)
Something, (it's me)
someone help them
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I question your innocence
She's a witch (help this blackbird, there's a stone around my leg)
Ha, damn you, woman (Help this blackbird, there's a stone around my leg)
What say you, good people (guilty, guilty, guilty)
Well, are you responsible for your actions? (This blackbird)
Not guilty (help this blackbird)
Wake up the witch
Get out of the waves
Get out of the water
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There's a ghost in our home
Just watching you without me
I'm not here (You don't hear me)
But I'm not here (you can't hear me)
But I'm not here (you don't hear what I'm saying)
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Where on your palm is my little line
When you're written in mine
As an old memory?
Never, never say goodbye
To my part of your life
Oh no, no no no.
Never, never, never!
Never, never let me go!
She said
C'mon and let me live, girl!
The grief pulled like seaweed as I rolled with the clutching undercurrent of Scorpio, holding out hope for stable ground in Taurus. Goodbyes. Too many Goodbyes to those gone too soon. A final release and then a clearing. Calmer waters. Hello Earth. Hello Life.
Scorpio Lunar Eclipse May 6th 2023
I get out of my car
Step into the night
And look up at the sky
And there's something bright
Traveling fast
Look at it go
Look at it go
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I am falling
Like a stone
Like a storm
Being born again
Into the sweet morning fog
D'you know what?
I love you better now
I crossed the bridge safely back to my kitchen. Awake. Alive, with the gentle memory of my friend Julia telling me
“I’m grateful for the way Death can really open us up to Life.”
The Final Eclipses in Scorpio and Taurus will arrive on May the 5th, and October the 29th of this year.
Hours before the Sun enters Taurus tomorrow on the 20th of April, it will be gobbled up by the head of the Dragon, forming the first Eclipse in Aries at 2:16pm AEST. The opening chapter of a new story, as we prepare to finish the last.
I have a comforting feeling that something good is going to happen friends. I don't know when, but as Kate always said, “just saying it could even make it happen.”
