1: Jupiter on the Move
2: The Sea Priestess of Avalon
3: Dion Fortune: Astro-Biographical Details.
4: Mars and Jupiter in Aquarius in the 5th
5: The Changeling Story
6: The Avalonian of Glastonbury
7: The ‘Magical’ Battle for Britain
1: Jupiter on the Move
If you are still recovering from the eclipses on the Scorpio-Taurus axis then you are not alone- the energy has been dark, turbulent and possibly traumatic. It could have triggered deep-seated fears and primary insecurities. and we may yet feel the sting in the tail. But, in November and December we have a surge of Sagittarian energy. This is pretty usual at this time of year. But this wave of galloping and arrow-pointing is turbo charged. It brings up superabundant hope, optimism and visions far-flung cultures, of travel, multi-cultures and higher learning. It triggers potentialities that need the right seeding to grow and this is the time to do it. This return of hope would be fine if only Jupiter did not get so carried away. It may need to be held in place. But if you can contain him, there could be a powerful wind in your sails during this time.
Venus entered Sagittarius on the 17th, and she loves a rollicking adventure there; Mercury joined on the 18th giving us extra verbal zeal on the soapbox but Mercury here should never be underestimated, it can pull off Herculean feats of communication. Jupiter still in Pisces trines the Sun on the 20th November and then goes direct on the 23rd so plans and opportunities can flood back in view after being stalled. A day later there’s a New Moon in Sagittarius at 1° . Then the Sun and Moon in Sagittarius trine Jupiter in Pisces – and it is stationary so the force of that is magnified. This is definitely the time for Sagittarians to establish their intention for the coming year, but equally for anyone to look at their Sagittarian placements, the house it resides in in their chart, and to formulate a Sagittarian style arrow of intention to channel that energy within to a far-distant goal.
To top it all Jupiter returns to the fire sign of Aries right on the December Solstice, December 21st. This is powerful too. Make sure to do some kind of journey or pilgrimage on this day as that honours Jupiter lord of journeying and it will set the tone of truth-seeking for the coming months. Cardinal energy is boosted by any planet at this point as it is the world axis. It starts a new cycle for the Sun returning to the light and for Jupiter as it won’t be back in Pisces again until 2033. Jupiter stays in Aries until May 16th 2023.
All this Jupiter movement bodes well for some beneficial effects to become embedded if you celebrate that appropriately. A new moon and a solstice marked by a Jupiterian theme is very significant. These are all crucial points on the celestial calendar and they can be hugely influential. It is an Olympian amount of zeal for law, religion, philosophy and wisdom which will be very welcome after the sun being in Scorpio which for Sagittarians occupies their 12th house and is where dark transformations occur in dreams.
A caveat to all this Jupiter energy, would be that Mars in Gemini is opposing any planets you may have in Sagittarius; and for Gemini sun signs, Mars will no doubt cross your Sun at some point in the next weeks, if it hasn’t already done so. Mars is retrograde so it is pulling back on any initiatives and goals, needing a recharge. The drive you have many encounter bumps on the road, or take much longer to achieve and require more physical energy than you imagined. It may put the brakes on the forward-moving energy, all the fresh hope, and it may feel that you are swimming with clothes on so the environment is heavy or fraught with sudden conflicts, so caution is still necessary with new plans, or at the very least try to be ultra-flexible if those plans go awry. There’s also the baleful influence of the Mars square Neptune aspect that peaked on Nov 19th, creating distortions that ties energy into impossible knots and then dissolves then but leaving us none the wiser.
Jupiter energy is also once again on tour across Europe as Marina Abramovic performs her show ‘The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas’. This demonstrates through arias, video footage and clever staging a drama of what is almost an invocation of the spirit of Maria Callas on to the stage. Abramovic, whatever else you may think of her*, has a special affinity for Maria Callas and reenacts each of Callas’ tragic roles in which she either went mad or died. It also includes Callas’ own death in her room in Paris in 1977.
Marina (30/11/47) and Maria (3/12/1923) share the same sun sign. They both have the Sun conjunct Jupiter, ruler of Sagittarius, in the first decan of Sagittarius ruled by Mercury and Jupiter which has magnified their message to the world; they both have Venus at the same first degree of Capricorn; and they have a Mars placement at the anaretic 29° just in different signs. They were both born in the early degrees of Sagittarius, so both female centaurs, like Dion Fortune. They both have powerful combinations of Mars, Saturn and Pluto and have a turbulent force within them that needs expression. Callas magnetised controversy towards her and faced it head on; similarly Abramovitch has courted controversy and manages somehow to transform that fulminating energy into something she can manipulate. Callas lived for art as in the famous aria from Tosca; and Abramovic would appear even to take any risk, and even die for it.
Where is Dion Fortune in all this? She had the Sagittarian archetype. Callas’ most iconic role was as a druid moon priestess in Bellini’s Norma singing Casta Diva which means ‘chaste moon goddess’ This is a prayer for peace, but which ends in a death by fire. Callas brought Norma alive with more intensity of feeling than almost any other soprano. If any role expresses what Dion Fortune as Vivienne le Fay was about then it is in Norma, the druid priestess. The degree of the Moon at the first ever performance of Norma in 1831 at 12° Libra aligns remarkably closely with Dion Fortune’s Ascendant at 9° of Libra- it was a pacifying moon.
2: The Sea Priestess of Avalon
So this is the backdrop to a mini-investigation into a larger-than-life Sagittarian personality- Dion Fortune. She was born December 6th 1890. She is not as well known as she could be considering she is regarded in occult circles almost as highly as Aleister Crowley. She has the status of being the most famous female occultist of the 20th century. Fortune and Crowley knew each other and, at least according to Kenneth Grant, talked enthusiastically of reviving the Pagan attitude towards cosmic and elemental forces at Netherwood. But Israel Regardie said the two probably did not meet. Yet Grant said she came to visit with Lady Frieda Harris the co-creator of the Thoth Tarot. Crowley was 15 years older than Fortune and was considered ‘dangerous’, but they both died within a year of each other.
Fortune wrote dozens of books and retained her independent spirit even while she was in any group or order- she carved her own unorthodox path as you would expect from a funky Uranus placement and her interpretations retain a highly personal and original slant. She did not write any book specifically on astrology, but it would be a given that she used a deep understanding of astrology to underpin all her rituals and to activate the planetary archetypes. She is linked to the legends of Avalon as she lived for part of her life in Glastonbury.
I became aware of Dion Fortune through reading Psychic Self Defence. It is one of the most practical books on how to protect yourself from psychic harm, ever more needed in these times when mental health of the collective is highly unstable and the wobble is affecting almost everyone to the point of being Renfielded. Some personal attacks can’t be explained in any other way than curses or that are psychic in origin. For physical attacks you need a spot of martial arts, for verbal attacks a quick wit might suffice, but psychic attacks are by their nature nebulous with a Neptune flavour, and as such, hard to diagnose. Yet they still cause untold emotional and psychological damage which is why they can easily be confused with mental health issues. The book offers several tips in a very practical way even down to using onions to ward off evil in the house if you don’t have any garlic. The reason she wrote it was that she herself was a victim of hypnotic psychic attack- that Pluto-Neptune conjunction. She had a conflict with female warden in a college who made inappropriate use of hypnosis, sapping away her etheric energy. There were hints of exploitation and Fortune said it felt like a ‘hole ripped in her aura’. She only healed through months of serious occult work.
When I look for an example of the Sagittarian archetype – the zodiac sun sign speaking through the native, I look to this comment in the book.
Remember that Sagittarius is the centaur half-man, half-horse, a hybrid; and that struggle between the human feelings and animal instincts – those atavistic urges- is felt very keenly in every Sagittarian; they feel the split between the physical and metaphysical. There are also depictions of female centaurs – centaurides– although they did not figure much in the myths.
We can start to see Fortune in this way. In the one or two photos we have of her, she looks somewhat imposing, not so much a female centaur, but almost like a Valkyre whose specific function was to guide the souls of heroes at their death. One of her biographers Janine Chapman said Fortune was ‘physically imposing’ like a rock. Sagittarians are often are athletes, performers, teachers, preachers, and even shamans, often with a restless, questing nature. Fortune was the sort to become a psychiatrist at an early age, unusual for a woman, known for her wise counsel to her inner circle. Sagittarians in general are often seen with their head high in clouds of ideas while their bodies operate on earth awkwardly. They are not so good at following the right instructions or social conventions, so they don’t always come across well. Geraldine Beskin of the Atlantis bookshop said Fortune was a ‘force of nature’ happy only when leading the way for others, but heavily defined by – whether for or against- the ideas of Theosophy. Fortune falls into this ‘maverick’ category (Uranus at 29° -that ‘tricky’ degree) but she was gifted as a communicator (Mercury In Sagittarius which compensates for its struggles there) as those books all still contain her ‘voice’ which is firm but never shouts.
3: Dion Fortune: Astro-Biographical Details.
Her actual name was Violet Mary Firth. She was born in Llandudno in North Wales, but the Frith family were from Sheffield. They were involved in Hydrotherapy and her mother was a Christian Scientist so already adept at using thought forms and spiritual healing. Her parents would attend her meditation groups.
There are very few existing photos of her, and on her death her followers decided to destroy her papers – probably to stop any scandal arising from her interest in Paganism. If the time of 2.11am is correct, the moon is in the 12th house so very hidden. There was no cult of personality to proliferate but this has kept up her mystique and it has not stopped people seeking out the burial location in Glastonbury cemetery. Her name is derived from the Latin motto, Deus, Non Fortune = ‘God, not Fortune (or Luck).’
While she radiated practical wisdom- that of a Pallas Athene -which for her is in Sagittarius conjunct her Mercury which is very apt since she wrote so much. Pallas is the strategist and independent woman who has a way with words. She said “Experience is a very good teacher even though her lessons are very expensive.” It’s not Jupiter that ranks as the final dispositor of her chart, but it is Venus, which is also her chart ruler as Libra is on the Ascendant. Here it is best to view to Vivien Le Fay Morgan, the character in her novels based on Arthurian legend, as the mouthpiece for Fortune and this mysterious woman she claims as an adept has ‘ageless beauty.’ She gives away many clues as to her real life personality in the novels which make good reading for that purpose alone.
With the Sagittarian sun sign, there is a lot of plain speaking about tricky subjects in her non-fiction work. The reason she is so valued today is that she could write about highly complex topics and make them easy to understand; she brought higher knowledge down to earth. In the novels she revealed in practice what is theoretical only in books such as ‘The Mystical Qabbalah’. She could however be bombastic and did not tolerate mystification for its own sake, but advocated for revealing the secrets of the ages. This garnered her several enemies whose cover was blown by this resolute attitude.
Furthermore, she did not indulge of the tricky rhetoric that Crowley- the Libran- was famous for- she just revealed her knowledge as if talking to a friend and taking you into her confidence. His Mercury was in Scorpio, so more twisted with satire; and hers was in Sagittarius more uplifted yet to the point. Still while reading her she seems coy and could have said more. But the hints even at sex magic are all there, but they are still ‘hints’ and you have to read through the lines of the novels carefully. That’s part of the appeal of a Sagittarian sun sign- you are getting the unvarnished truth, but with a wise old owl nodding and winking at you. Their ability to connect all the strands of wisdom together into a synthesis is remarkable.
Her books are still in high demand and for those who don’t like tomes full of technical vocabulary, her novels can trigger the very altered states she utilised to see visions. This may have been intentional. The reader can be subtly lead into a trance quite easily. She transitions from the concrete 3D reality, into dream imagery, and to conscious thought forms on the astral and etheric levels as she does in the opening chapters of Moon Magic (1938). She does this as if casually switching gears in a high speed car. She knew her stuff and this comes through in her work. The novels may not be regarded as having literary qualities, but they are not without merit, and in tone, similar in tone to the work of Iris Murdoch.
What set her apart was that she claimed an ‘inborn’ knowledge. She had inner intuition and heightened states of mind. She advocated that everyone should find their own inner ascended masters. She didn’t need any ‘lodge’ to validate her level or to ‘initiate’ her. Her South Node was conjunct the Sun. This points to the fact that she came in to this incarnation with prior experience of being a priestess of the old gods. This same degree is that of the Great Attractor. This gave her the impetus in 1919 to join what was then remnants of the original Golden Dawn. This was no longer the Golden Dawn of 20 years previously. This was in the early 1920 so not the same lodge to which Crowley and W.B. Yeats had belonged. That one disbanded but it was still being run by Moina Mathers, a Swiss-Irish artist and astrologer and the wife of MacGregor Mathers. She founded the Alpha and Omega order. It used the same material drawn from Hermetic mysteries as the Golden Dawn so it was a continuation.
Her teacher was a man named Theodore Moriarty who became the model for her character Dr Taverner in her short stories. Moriarty was an officer in the English Medical service based in India. This book is full of energy vampires showing how they work not just on the physical level. She expresses more of the female viewpoint in occult practices but this is not necessarily pandering to the Wiccan-we-are-goddesses’ culture that has sprung up via the commercialisation of ‘witchcraft’ for the selfie generation who often learn their instant-mix spells on Instagram and Twitter. She advocates as much for the divine Masculine to be restored as in The Goat-Foot God as the divine Feminine. She rated anima and amimus as having equal importance, not that one should bash the other.
In the Sea Priestess she states plainly also that “all women are Isis” in the highest sense, if they are aware of that, but that Fortune herself is the representative of “the cult of the black Isis” and a whole lot darker than people realise having rule over death as well as birth and similar to the worship of Kali in India. Isis reassembled her partner Osiris including the missing genital part cut off by his brother Seth. The original temple for the Golden Dawn was that of Isis-Urania. Isis of the depths of nature and Urania the muse of astronomy-astrology.
Why the Moon is so important for her was that her Lot of Spirit – her Daemon if you will- was at 26° of Cancer, ruled by the Moon. So her many promptings to make moves in her life come from the tidal shifts of lunar inspiration.
“I am that soundless, boundless, bitter sea.
All tides are mine, and answer unto me.
Tides of the airs, tides of the inner earth;
The secret, silent tides of death and birth.
Tides of men’s souls, and dreams, and destiny –
Isis Veiled, and Ea, Binah, Ge.”
Fortune exemplified the themes of a Libra Ascendant by marrying a man she involved in her rituals and taking that marriage seriously although some commented that the husband, Penry Evans, allowed her to do all the talking. But also that she wrote a book called The Esoteric Philosophy of Love and Marriage. Here it is achieving balance between inner masculine and feminine and she said that a man and a woman, when doing astral work together become soul mates as they would have synthesised their anima/animus.
Her Moon is also in Libra, and normally this is the pacifier, the people pleaser, good at settling disputes in marriage and in love, or in business contracts, and though it was noted by Israel Regardie that she ‘henpecked’ her husband in group sessions, she probably appeased and compromised with him as she did not find relationships very easy. She apparently allowed him to cheat, though it is not known if she also did that. Perhaps that it was at 0° Libra that meant she was an ingenue in relationships with such a lot to learn and put into practice. But the search is always for perfect equilibrium. This degree is also significant because it is one of the four world axis points so it is powerful in its own right as it represents the Equinox- hours of equal day and night.
And even the degree of her Sun seems to indicate she came from some lofty goddess realm -Diana of the hunt- with that Venus in Sagittarius- having an authority that comes from roaming the wild forests. At 13° of Sagittarius the Sabian symbol for her Sun reads Sphinx and Pyramids stand, remains of a glorious past. This is on her South Node when she talked a lot about past lives. For her to be Sphinx and revive the worship of black Isis was a natural position for her to adopt.
She was one of the Pluto-Neptune conjunction generation. These two planets only come together every 500 years but early that decade they were dancing together in Gemini. The previous time Pluto and Neptune were in Gemini was at the beginning of the Renaissance- itself a resurgence and rediscovery of hidden knowledge. Others born in this decade were Osbert Sitwell (1892) and Robert Graves (1895) who wrote ‘the White Goddess’ a tribute to moon rites in ancient Greece. It was also known as the ‘mauve’ decade where Symbolist artists incorporated decadent and taboo themes such as demon possession in their work, and the turn-of-the- century madness where cult-like behaviour comes to the fore. coming to the fore. It was the decade in which Oscar Wilde had his heady rise and fall from grace, and it was the decade in which dark themes of split personality and self transformation appeared in literature – very appropriate for the conjunction appearing in Gemini- such as Picture of Dorian Gray, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and of course at the end of the decade Bram Stoker‘s Dracula. We get a sense of these psychic transformations Fortune’s novels written mostly in the 1930s.
So to have this conjunction in the natal chart exerts a powerful influence towards the combination of spiritual and therapeutic modalities of any kind. These profound levels of psychism continued even after her death when her amanuensis Margret Lumley Brown who worked aside Fortune while she was alive, was said to have still been in communication with her to complete unfinished works especially Moon Magic. This was said partially to have come through automatic writing. Lumley was a fellow Sagittarian born December 7th, 1886.
4: Mars and Jupiter in Aquarius in the 5th
There are no planets in water signs, they are mainly in Air, Fire and Earth signs. There is a grand trine in Air from Jupiter in Aquarius, Pluto-Neptune-North Node in Gemini and the Ascendant in Libra. This points to her intellectual gifts and the ability to play with ideas with ease. She tried hard to understand feelings but her primary interest was in psychology was well known as she became a lay psychiatrist. She made the mind her number one subject but quickly saw that even Freud’s delineation of the subconscious pulling the strings of the conscious mind was not enough to explain how two minds can converge, so she focussed on the western mystery tradition. But even then when discussing occult practices she gave them a psychological flavour by using terms from psychology.
Jupiter would give full flight to creative ideas in Aquarius in the fifth underlining her ability to communicate and join groups. Mars there would give a lot of drive to become the leader, but also make her a tad contentious in any group. She was not averse to any dispute and could fight like the best- Sagittarians have a fiery nature- about what was right according to her. One such fight was in the Christian Mystic branch of the Theosophical Society around 1930 where the members ganged against her for her insistence on Western practices when they preferred ideas sourced from the Vedas as per Blavatsky. So she was obliged to branch out on her own, something she often did. Another was her famous fight with Moina Mathers ousting from the lodge of the Alpha and Omega of the Stella Matutina pushing her to found her own group which was the Society of Inner Light- still in existence. Mathers claimed that Fortune had revealed too many of the inner secrets of the order. But Fortune said she could not possibly have known since she had not been initiated to that high a grade- she just knew it anyway. So they parted ways. Mathers’ Saturn was at 29° of Libra exactly on Fortune’s Uranus- so the fight was a clash of epic proportions with flashes of heightened electricity. Fated elements were also involved as Mathers’ North Node is close by at 2°of Scorpio adding to the intensity of that clash. To add to the mix Fortune’s North Node in at 14° Gemini is conjunct Mathers’ Mars at 15° Gemini.
With both Mars and Jupiter are in the 5th House of Aquarius she had that drive to create running numerous projects simultaneously with business-like precision, but always insisting on high standards. She loathed idle volunteers who whimsically floated in and out of her group meetings and expected equal respect. She sent them packing. And Jupiter probably gave each of her pet projects total lift off. Even an early book of poems she wrote garnered attention and her early novels received reviews in the mainstream press at a time when no one was obliged to pay her any attention as she was an unknown. She wrote them couched in ordinary romance terms- almost genre style yet they are much more than that.
What also lifts these energies towards the creative side are these supportive sextiles she has from the Sagittarian placements in the third house of communication. Venus-the Sun in Sagittarius are sextile to Jupiter at 9° of Aquarius; and Mercury at 24° of Sagittarius is sextile to Mars at 21° of Aquarius so in any war of words with Fortune, we might pity the opponents. Fire and Air go well together as air feeds fire. She could proselytise for her unusual ideas with ease and people said they followed her because she imposed her will, but because she had an authority that people naturally believed. But she had the skill to put all this into words. The most forceful expression of this martial style persuasion is contained in Psychic Self Defence which is a manual of the Kung Fu/Ju Jitsu of the mind.
5: The Changeling Story
The Changeling StoryIn her case Pluto and Neptune are conjunct her North Node in her 9th House, so she herself realised her compass point in life, her ‘dharma,’ was to bring this knowledge of channelling, altered states and other realities into the world, and to become a vehicle to teach others how to access them. She accepted that messianic role with relish. Pluto and Neptune bring on ‘stranger’ things- hence the need for psychic protection. So there was incident when she was but five months old- a near death experience. She did not remember her NDE personally, but was told it later in life around the age of 33.
On April 6th 1891 she was declared dead but a nurse wasn’t having it, and kept her on her lap overnight praying for her to live. Apparently, little infant Fortune revived -so a kind of miracle. What is truly fascinating is the chart for that day shows a powerful Grand Cross configuration in the sky- all in Mutable signs. This is a potent shifting, changing, turbulent energy that could have gone in any direction. She claimed this as a ‘changeling’ event. She was not the same spirit that popped back into to the baby some grand swapping of souls was afoot. The Pluto-Neptune-North Node were all still in Gemini opposite the South Node in Sagittarius; there was a triple conjunction of Venus-Jupiter-the Moon in early Pisces opposite Saturn in Virgo. So this could point to an incredibly benevolent spirit coming in from somewhere, These planets these are all locked tight into to grand cross squares ramping up the tension.
On top of that Uranus at 29° of Libra is directly opposed to Mercury at 29° Aries. Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury so again a download from the outer realms is suggested. This formed a T-square in Cardinal signs to Chiron, the wounded healer, at the apex. All this interlocking of energies suggests something highly unusual was happening. A fight for the healing spirit of Dion Fortune to come through? It sounds fanciful, yet I look at the astrology and think, we should not close our minds to the possibility. This chart could form the second birthday of Dion Fortune as an Aries sun sign, less the philosopher in this mode and more the warrior spirit.
6: The Avalonian of Glastonbury
Although she died at St. Mary’s Paddington, her body was taken to be buried in the small town of Glastonbury. She lived at Chalice Cottage which is now a guest house. She was very familiar with the cathedral, the well and the Tor and the surrounding landscape. She had made Glastonbury her territory not just on the physical level but activating its Arthurian archetypes. She wrote a book called ‘Avalon of the Heart’ in which she identifies three ways to understand Glastonbury. She says it is like a ‘golden thread’ and ‘the holiest earthe in England’. The most obvious confrontation with Glastonbury is the physical land and the Tor. She said ‘None go away as they came’ from its geographical terrain in the fields of Somerset where one of the world’s best known music festivals takes place.
In Fortune’s eyes the first way is through History; the second way is through the legends and folk stories; and the third is the Mystical approach though the imagination. She calls this the ’gateway to the unseen’ and where ‘the poetry of the soul writes itself at Glastonbury’.
Glastonbury she said has an unending tradition of Druidry, that many feel is still alive today. She had a vision of a luminous chalice hovering above Glastonbury Tor and through channeling she devised her style of teaching divided into three branches: the Orange Ray ray was the Hermetic, achieved through intellectual study and Magical Knowledge; the Green ray was through elemental forces and interaction with earth magic. The Purple Ray is through Mystical devotion. This has an esoteric Christian flavour as she talked of the ‘Christ’ force, and some may not agree that should belong in Paganism, as it may not ring true, but her ‘Christ’ was not the Christ of the Christians but an Ascended master acting way beyond any historical or even allegorical figure. She chose the Mystic way for herself as that Pluto-Neptune would have kept her in contact with the outer spheres of the universe.
Fortune nods towards Frederick Blythe Bond who wrote the Gates of Remembrance. He was a psychic archaeologist who did readings at Glastonbury cathedral. This was through automatic writing where he contacted a monk. He mentioned the mysterious ‘watchers’ or guardians of the land.
But also the Glastonbury Zodiac is layered into the land. Where the astrology is said to be embedded across the fields and lanes. For people walking these lines it is in itself a quest and a way to connect to the land. Fortune’s house while she lived there was at Chalice Orchard close to the Tor. She created an altar in the garden. The revival of interest in and continued fascination people have for Glastonbury is larger than just one person. But Dion Fortune has been instrumental in reassessing its importance and enhancing its mystique.
7: The ‘Magical’ Battle for Britain
One of the more intriguing episodes in her life was during WWII when Fortune worked to protect England from the Nazis. This was not a personal hatred of Hitler and she was the first to say that ‘no nation is completely evil’. And it was certainly no physical battle where she volunteered to join the army or navy or air force. She did not encourage anyone to take inappropriate action putting them at risk. These workings were done at the archetypal and imaginal level performed from armchairs in realms invisible to most people. Yet she worked energetically to activate the Arthurian archetypes and esoteric Christian symbolism much as in the way that Blake said that this land of Albion contained the beginning and end of all mysteries. Her own headquarters in London were bombed leaving just a statue.
These Battle for Britain meetings were joint meditations on Sundays at a specified time- the kind we are very familiar with today with the experiments in intention and thought fields by Lynn McTaggart. It was about feeling rather than reason. She sent instructions for people to use visual thought forms of angelic presences armed and clothed ready to guard the coasts of Britain, not allowing anything to penetrate this force field. Fortune believed that the war had to be won on the psychic plane before it could ever materialise on the physical plane.
Sept 15th in 1940 was the turning point of WWII. After this time she said the war was already won- at least of the psychic level and she faded away quickly. The effort had taxed her strength as all the dead spirit contacts. It was troublesome too because the propaganda of the time said they were winning when they were not. It was a war of information then and that much has not changed. This is especially resonant today where the perception of who is the enemy has changed considerably and is far more difficult to pin point from a time when simple geographical borders were easier to understand. Yet the fight may still have to be fought to prevent an actual physical invasion.
Paul Weston’s work on this gives the details of Fortune’s struggles and he organised an event in 1996 called ‘War in Heaven’ on Fortune’s birthday, December 6th. He worked on the Glastonbury Qabbalah and has reactivated interest in Dion Fortune and he said of her that Christian and Pagan elements can come together by meditations on the Tor and it is largely because of Fortune.
While I’m inclined to think well of Dion Fortune and enjoy reading her books, I do have some lingering doubts and questions about her. That she falls under a Sagittarian archetype we can have no doubt, she was a galloping female centaur, irascible and unstoppable, way ahead of her rivals and able to outwit most of them. But I wonder what she was really up to working at the Tavistock clinic with its involvement in social conditioning experiments. With the battle of Britain workings she most likely have come to the attention of MI5 and the Intelligence services, yet I have seen no mention of this in any sources. Perhaps they thought her an innocuous eccentric tinkering in things she did not understand. I’d like to believe that she was beyond all those machinations of politics but nevertheless the question must be asked if she ever acted as an agent. With Crowley there was a link to suggest that he was at the every least an occasional spy in exchange for supplies of heroin. He played around on the liminal borderlines at every level. So perhaps Fortune may also have been in that category.
What remains is of a towering personality who exuded the mental strength to initiate the revival of interest in the old gods, and it seemed it was what she was born to do. She was the classic ‘seeker’ of truth that the Sagittarian sun sign predicts. Her work is constantly in print as she can still inspire people to join small groups and do intention work in this manner together. Violet Firth’s grave can be visited and a green chalice used to be there is in a shop in Glastonbury. She has helped to feed the idea that Glastonbury is a place worthy of spiritual pilgrimage- which brings us back to the Jupiter energy we mentioned at the beginning. This would suggest that the actions of her followers upon her death to stem the tide of a cult by burning all her letters and papers has probably failed. There is no cult as such but the tides have shifted in her favour.
© Kieron Devlin, November 21st, 2022, All Rights Reserved
* this is not the place to go into Abramovic’s other allleged nefarious activities i.e. spirit cooking events. The focus is the astrology and on how it emphasises the early Sagittarian astrology. The first ever performance of Norma has the moon at the exact same degree as in Callas’ natal chart.
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