As promised to spinner - One of Bob Dylan’s God songs.

If you want the history on this… Bob Dylan being booed in concert when he came out with these songs circa 1979 and the like you can see part of a documentary here The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan.

I can tell you first hand this is what happened because I saw him in concert in the era and he was in fact booed, long and strong.
They were yelling names of his old songs, throwing paper cups on the stage as he sat on a stool bathed in purple light and played humbly while I cried. Venus Neptune and all, it ripped my heart right out. He played this… Gotta Serve Somebody…

On the blog controversy, there is another analogy that comes to mind. I have been a Bob Dylan fan since I was 11 years old and there was a point in the late 70’s he started writing God music. Now I like God music and I liked Dylan’s God music but people went absolutely nuts. They had a way they liked to see Dylan and they did not appreciate his moving outside their paradigm one damned bit.

Dylan has a stellium in (mutable) Gemini and he is going to morph whether people like or not but maybe you can see the Saturn / Uranus energy here. Dylan was experimenting (Uranus) and the people rejected him (Saturn) in an attempt to control him (Saturn) and make him stop (Saturn) progressing (Uranus).

What’s curious is these same people if you asked them, would probably have told you they were progressive. Er… they liked his protest songs, see?

Ha ha ha.

Sun square the Moon, it’s always something. Saturn in Virgo is very well aspected and most are getting their work done though finding joy in it may be a stretch. Conditions are worsened for those who opt to invest in the idea there is something wrong with them because their work is merely work these days.

Meanwhile Venus slowly moves into a square with Pluto and on that note, this is my favorite Venus Pluto song mostly because it has all the elements but does not take itself too seriously.

The lyrics here: Bob Dylan’s Lily, Rosemary and the Jack Of Hearts

Or listen..

Yesterday I was talking to a pal about this pregnancy… it’s his wife having the baby and I told him I felt a woman has to die to give birth. The woman dies and is reborn as a mother as her child comes into this world.

And if you think this strange, just try to find a woman with a child who tells you the experience did not impact her. Find me a woman who says she is the same person going in as she was coming out the other side of this odyssey.

And this is a Pluto / Scorpio concept of course. That birth and death are inexplicably linked so on that note, check this from John Townley’s profile of Bob Dylan.

Townley writes:

“…And a final look at that solo water Mars afflicting Sun and Jupiter might come from what else happened under that aspect the day he was born: the famed Nazi battleship Bismarck unexpectedly sunk the H.M.S. Hood with a single shot in the Denmark Strait with appalling loss of life (1416 sailors), and 5000 people drowned in a sudden flash flood on the Ganges. The price of incoming talent on earth, perhaps?”

Very interesting…

Do you feel something must die for something to be born?

Well I listen when pigs talks and so does Bob Dylan. There is a bit in his book, Chronicles… where he describes a scene that took place in a hotel lobby when he was young and just starting out. Of course, Dylan was already someone who paid attention to pigs when they talk. He was basically born feeling he had a destiny, but anyway in his book he describes his encounter with boxer, “Gorgeous George“.

Now Gorgeous George was a flamboyant man. He was sort of a “Liberace of the boxing world” and he came swishing through the hotel lobby in full regalia with Bob as his witness. With a fur cape and an entourage, I mean. And flanked by beautiful women.

So Dylan is standing there, taking this in. He’s absorbing the scene when George speaks to him. Yes!

He tells him he’s going to be a big deal or something to that effect, and Dylan immediately knows this is real. And the comment shores him up, see. Now he knows all these things he thought… his dreams of his destiny were in fact real, because Gorgeous George just said they were!

And then Dylan goes on to write that he may have imagined this whole thing. George may have not spoke to him at all, actually and he has no real way of knowing. Did Gorgeous speak to Bob? Who knows? But Dylan makes it clear the effect of this event (which may not have even happened) had a profound effect on him. He redoubled his efforts or whatever. And of course at this point, his career speaks for itself. This week he has the #1 release in the world… quite an achievement, a forty year career and all. But here’s the point if it’s not obvious.

Dylan may have been flailing. He may have been at a low ebb on that day he saw George. And needing something he may have imagined that George, this total celebrity with his incredible presence tapped him, like some sort of God figure, to tell him he was special. And this energized Dylan. It became something he could refer back too when his energy failed him but he needed to keep on, keeping it up.

And maybe George did speak to him, but I can’t see where it matters, can you? What matters is Dylan believed (Neptune) this was real (Saturn) and so found himself supported (Saturn) by something completely nebulous (Neptune).

And “Cat”, on the last blog, asked how you’re supposed to know if an epiphany is real or not. And I guess I would say it doesn’t matter. What matters is if you believe (Neptune) it is real (Saturn).

Keep reading… The Original Talking Pig, My First Epiphany