Epilogue
My usual eccentricity, electric restlessness temporarily GONE. Just a monotone drone, a flat graph on the oscillator monitor, without a pulse. The monotone Deadening hum of DC voltage. A perfect, mind numbing, deadening hum of the ongoing Saturnine schedule. Which, somehow, after a gap of SEVEN YEARS, I have accidentally resurrected/ restarted..
Today, I kind of feel empty, vacuous, after all that movement. Now that Red hot Rising Retro phase has begun for the next two weeks, how will I handle it? How will I continue, with the retrograde process??!!
One side of me says: forget it! Leave it at 12 posts! Another side: it's NOT complete until this Red hot Rising phase is over!
Celebration and Poisoning
I'm at Wework 16th floor after a looong time. My sister/ colleague/ Architect Shweta is leaving for.. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 Japan🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🙏🏼🙏🏼 on Wednesday for a week, to attend a Architecture conference where she is going to be awarded for the nth, infinite time for her designs. Rajasic Retro Super blast!! 🔥🔥 as she's staying in..🗼🗼Tokyo 🗼🗼!! She might be visiting 🗻🗻🗻Mount Fiji too 🗻🗻🗻!!
Ahem, 😏😏😏😏, like I was saying, for Rajasic people..this time of 14 + 14 days! Gravitas + Red Hot Rising phase.. 27 jun - 28 July.. A time of Red hot crucial break through.. Window..
I got a chocolate cake from downstairs Modern Bazaar, to celebrate her victory. And was waiting for them for long time. Impatiently, angrily, I began eating the cake until this.. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Obviously, very soon, I started having the stomach cramps AGAIN!! Impatience, greed, rage, adrenaline, not working out too great.. 🤢🤢🤢🤢..
Bat from Beltola
I searched for some medicines in my bag, and all I found was this Bat Statue.. Which I got from a client in Beltola, hometown Guwahati. As part of 3 ghostly things not in place in her home. She couriered it to me in Delhi, long after I had left hometown. I constantly carried it around, in my bag.. and got checked at least 28 times in these past days, in the Metro, because of its size/ shape. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Later, out of boredom and stomach cramps, I started to click the Bat Statue with my favorite pendant, Tarot Card 12: The Hanged Man. BOTH UPSIDE DOWN in their natural state, BOTH Retrograde in their natural flow.
Then I started to remember my early childhood in Beltola..
Childhood in Beltola
In about 1980, we moved from a rented place in Kharguli to our own home in Beltola. It was all paddy fields, thatched houses, no electricity.
Father was mostly away in tours. During monsoon, Mother used to park her car at Hazarika uncles house, few houses from Tiniali, and walk muddy, raw roads to home. Much later we got electric poles and electricity. A giant house, raw bricks, massive windows. Village life. Playing with village children, paddy fields.
After dusk darkness fell. It became a place full of legends and ghosts..
" Don't go to the hillocks alone, it's got wild spirits" .
"Don't roam around after dusk." Etc .
Our maid reported many ghostly stories regularly. Neighborhood was rife with weird scary stories! It was part of our Daily Life!!
Amongst all of them, was the legend of Betala, a preta, hanging upside down from lonely trees. 45 years later, when I do the math.. Beltola - L = Be-tola= Be-tala.
But THEN... when all was Dusk and haunted. NOT NOW... the densely crowded, high towers, high priced real estate it's become...
And the beautiful crafted Bat statue, not from anyone,of my Delhi or Global friends or clients regularly romping through the world. But from a client, a resident.. from an inner by lane in Beltola..
...Yeah!! 🔥🔥🔥🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼!!
Prologue
My friend Egghead send me pics as he visited his childhood hometown in Golaghat. A 100 year old priniting press, vintage cars, a 100+ year old bicycle, his childhood primary school established in 1886...Still running. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
...It's as Retrograde as it gets..
🙏🏼🙏🏼Jai Shanidev🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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