My departure to South America is approaching. I feel pretty good about that, though I’m slightly nervous to go to such a distant place!
I have been able to relax quite well in the past few days. Today I visited a close friend of mine, Gabríela Friðriksdóttir, who made my favorite Björk video, Where Is The Line. She treated me with a strong cup of coffee and Turkish delight, and showed me her latest video (this time with original music). It looked pretty powerful. Gabríela has a Scorpionic element that resonates easily with my own (her Moon is in Scorpio, close to my Sun).
I don’t quite know how to define that element any better, except with a piece of poetry by the occultist Kenneth Grant:
For there are Thrones underground
And the Monarchs upon them
Reign over Space and Beyond
Invoke Them in Darkness, Outside
the Circles of Time
In Silence, in Sleep, in Conjurations
Of Chaos, the Deep will respond…
I’m often asked why we don’t perform Where Is the Line more often. According to Björk it doesn’t really work outdoors. It needs special acoustics that is most easily obtained indoors. I would love to perform it more often though!
There is a Lovecraftian madness to Where Is the Line that is so capturing. And with the organ instead of a choir, it gets even more so…
Conjurations of Chaos indeed!
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