{"id":1257,"date":"2009-12-31T16:20:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T23:20:36","slug":"notes-from-underground-an-embarrassment-of-riches-new-years-weekend-20092010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2009\/12\/31\/notes-from-underground-an-embarrassment-of-riches-new-years-weekend-20092010\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from underground: from the Awful Aughts to a blue moon and an embarassment of riches (New Year’s weekend 2009\/2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

\"Breakfast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\"Psyngularity\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n

<\/td>\n\"NY<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Wow! The psytrance scene tends to be feast or famine, but this is ridiculous! With New Year’s Eve falling on a blue moon and a Thursday night, there’s so many options for the weekend that it’s hard to know what to do.\u00c2\u00a0 Good problem to have!<\/p>\n

2009\/2010 is also wrapping up a decade that was in so many ways the Awful Aughts: the dot-com crash,\u00c2\u00a0 9\/11, the Patriot Act , eight years of Bush\/Cheyney, two wars, FISA, the Wall Street meltdown …. bleah.\u00c2\u00a0 Glad we’re done with it.\u00c2\u00a0 And 2009 was tough. Like I wrote a year ago<\/a>, we may have turned a corner, but there’s still a long way to go.<\/p>\n

Then again, 2009 was also a great year in a lot of ways: getting started on Qworky and Computers, Freedom and Privacy; lots of focus on diversity (in conferences, open source projects, and activism); social nework activism with #p2 and Get FISA Right, and then watching\u00c2\u00a0 the Sea of Green in Iran <\/a>take things to another level; and much much more.\u00c2\u00a0 At least for me, it feels like we’re going into 2010 on an up swing.<\/p>\n

And the Awful Oughts had their upsides as well, both intellectually (computer science is <\/em>a social science :-)) and even more importantly personally.\u00c2\u00a0 In 2003 I wrote You shouldn’t exist\/And you?<\/a> a pair of personal ads-as-poems addressed to the universe.\u00c2\u00a0 The universe answered and the next few years kicked off a wonderful virtuous cycle<\/a> filled with incredible women,\u00c2\u00a0 goddesses so amazing that by all rights they really shouldn’t <\/em>exist.\u00c2\u00a0 As I had so optimistically hoped, we did in fact get along pretty well.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it any wonder I think I’m the luckiest person in the world?<\/p>\n

When I think about how to make my world even better, I notice that In 2009, I didn’t spend anywhere near as much time hanging out with the goddesses I know — or my other close friends either.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 That’s something to change going forward.\u00c2\u00a0 So #1 on my new year’s resolutions is to spend more time and energy with people I really care about.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah, we’re all ridiculously busy and the logistics are challenging … still, my intuitions tell me that it’s worth the effort.<\/p>\n

Five years ago<\/a>, close to the midpoint of the decade, we saw Astral Projection on a blue moon. \u00c2\u00a0 The Tarot reading<\/a> D did for me that night is really remarkable.\u00c2\u00a0 The two of wands reversed covering me conveys my boredom at the time and need for a new direction.\u00c2\u00a0 The two of swords at the heart of the matter spotlights my attempt “to maintain calm through your balanced rationality, which causes you to deny your intuitions.”\u00c2\u00a0 The Page of Cups and the Queen of Swords symbolize women who continue to transform my world.\u00c2\u00a0 And the final outcome is The Moon:<\/p>\n

Aim to evoke a conscious desire to go further than intelligence – the understanding of that which is and decide to make a “leap” into pure and simply creativity. Intuition of faith – participation in the becoming of what is to be. Bring inner ecstasy back into your consciousness. Allow your intuitive powers to guide you – the change has come, even though it does not show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good advice — and many thanks to the goddesses Aphrodite, Eris, Artemis, Metis, Kali, as well as D and everybody else who’s reinforced it over the years since then.\u00c2\u00a0 It hasn’t always been easy for me to take but I’m working on it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So tonight, and the rest of the weekend, I’ll be choosing desire over fear, trusting my intuition, trying not to analyze things too much, falling through the limitations of intelligence into pure and simple creativity, and bringing inner ecstasy back into my consciousness.\u00c2\u00a0 And hopefully that’ll set the rhythm up for the entire year — and decade.<\/p>\n

Happy new year, all, and here’s to a wondeful 2010 and a great decade.\u00c2\u00a0 “Terrific Teens” has a certain ring to it, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow! The psytrance scene tends to be feast or famine, but this is ridiculous! With New Year’s Eve falling on a blue moon and a Thursday night, there’s so many options for the weekend that it’s hard to know what to do.\u00c2\u00a0 Good problem to have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-psytrance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}