Our first Resonance Circle is on Sunday, 25 January, 8-10am.
Here are the mythic resonances and astronomical alignments for our first meeting at the growing Dassie moon.
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First-quarter moons are when we feel weird fidelity with the not fully formed. The moon is mostly both, always trans: waxing and waning; flirting with fullness and emptiness for a brief, tenuous moment before slipping into change.
Mantis Moon / Jan 1 / Capricorn Sun
The year began with a the Full Moon in Cancer on January 3; a deeply emotive luminary phase that softened the hard edges of Capricorn’s structuring energy — work, deadlines, responsibility eased as the holy days of New Year invited the heart into deeper listening and attunement.
Within Southern African mythic traditions, this moon has also been called the Mantis Moon, invoking the trickster and threshold figure ǀ͡Kaggen — a being who shimmers between genders, between species, and between worlds of known and unknown.
Like the passage of ‘Three Eye’ Atlas through our solar system, figures who walk between realms carry both warning and revelation, shadow and light. ǀ͡Kaggen’s slow, deliberate motion, like that of the praying mantis, contrasts with the sudden intensity of its strike and its complex mythic associations with creation and destruction.
Dassie Moon / Feb 1 / Aquarius Sun
🌙 Themes: Morphic fields; our nervous system; collective sensing.
🌙 Mythic tone: Threshold beings; systemic fracturing; dwelling in cracks.
🌙 Practice: Attuning body; magnetic resonance; anima as animal.
Our first meeting, on the 25 January, honours the Dassie Moon, which reaches fullness a week later on 1 February, with the Sun opposing it in Aquarius.
This lunation invites fidelity to the dark, the unfinished, the trembling echoes of uncertainty. We meet in a mountain cave, like rock creatures, to discover what it is like to dwell in cracks and find resonance with the between.
In /Xam cosmology, Dassie (the rock hyrax) is ǀKaggen’s wife, the feminine counterforce to Mantis’ trickster excess and restless shape-shifting. She does not oppose transformation, but slows it enough to be lived in relation. Where Mantis breaks taboos, Dassie ensures continuity of life after rupture. She is the one who knows how to attune with the consequences of change.
Living in crevices in sun-warmed rock, she embodies a quiet, chthonic intelligence. Moving between surface and depth, she knows how to listen rather than act; a gestational patience that can hold potentiality in stillness. Where Mantis ruptures form, Dassie grounds and incubates.
As the closest living relative of the much larger African elephant (Loxodonta africana), their kinship speaks of a shared ethic: relational resilience without domination, listening rather than mastery, earth-bound presence without spectacle. In southern African cosmologies, Elephant carries memory, ancestry, maternal law, and the long duration of land. If Elephant is the archive of deep time, Dassie is the keeper of micro-time, tracing the fractures in stone and reading the subtle vibrations of wind that tell you when to move and when to remain still. Where elephant holds the ancestral path; Dassie teaches how to survive inside its cracks.
Following the threshold pair Mantis & Dassie, we cross from Capricorn into Aquarius on 20 January, as cracks appear in the hierarchies shaped by long-term strategy, institutional power, banking systems, and cumulative wealth. Where Capricorn builds by consolidating; Aquarius calls in a love focused on something beyond itself.
The Moon is conjunct Uranus, sparking a current of popular unrest and creative disruption, coinciding with the arrival of the Fire Horse year in the Chinese zodiac—an energy last mirrored in 1966, when we had a Uranus–Pluto conjunction. This period of 1965-66 was marked by radical cultural upheaval that initiated changes in the social imagination that are now coming into fruition. For many born at this time there is an urgent sense of ‘It ends with me’.
Uranus is also in dynamic relation with Moon, Sun, Mars, Mercury, and Venus, catalysing rapid shifts—particularly around digital currencies, the value of the dollar, and evolving economic alliances. This planetary line-up is further complicated by a trine to Sedna, the deep-sea goddess who speaks of metamorphosis, collective sensing, and kinship between beings.
Pluto’s slow ingress into Aquarius continues to fracture systemic imbalances. Orbiting with other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt, Pluto governs deep transformations in power and wealth, and as Lord of the Underworld oversees death, rebirth, and the surfacing of what has been hidden.
On 20 January, Pluto conjuncts Venus, intensifying the tension between love and power—particularly around control, jealousy, desire, and the freedom to choose what makes your wealth beautiful and your beauty rich.
On 22 January, Pluto meets Mercury, igniting revelations and uncompromising truths.
On 23 January, Pluto conjuncts the Sun, amplifying Aquarian themes of freedom, rights, and collective power. All eyes on Greenland.
By 27 January, Mars conjuncts Pluto, concentrating will and force. This alignment can manifest destructively—or grant fierce, focused capacity for transformation. Pluto does not negotiate. What constellates in these days is irreversible.
The day after we meet, Neptune enters Aries, followed by Saturn on 13 February. Their exact conjunction at 0° Aries on 20 February marks the threshold of a new era: the seeding of spiritual forms into action, vision into matter. It is time for making the dream real.
Aligning our nervous systems with planetary relations draws us into a wider relational field. As old orders fragment—often dramatically—we are invited to disengage from the noise, and practise magnetic resonance. This is not withdrawal, but attunement: like Dassie and Elephant we listen deeply to Earth to hear which frequencies revitalise and which exhaust us.
We are living a revolution of choice.
Resonance operates subtly, beneath visibility, linking living systems in unexpected ways. Fields are not localised, Rupert Sheldrake proposed: they are holographic, distributed, carrying information throughout their entirety.
Every living being contributes to the field of information, influencing and being influenced by others. What happens in one part of a system can be felt elsewhere. This is how bodies repair, how memory travels, how patterns repeat without instruction.
Living systems also carry form-memory—a tendency shaped by what has come before. Experience accumulates. Capacities learned in one place alter what becomes possible elsewhere. Intelligence migrates. What one body figures out, others can sometimes access—not by transmission, but by morphogenic tuning.
In vibrational healing arts like Jin Shin Jyutsu, body is not a machine but a chorus of energetic depths and pathways, each with its own timing, tone, voice, and responsiveness. Ancestral nerve energy enters at the head as a breath-like consciousness, informing matter with pattern, design, and direction. As this current descends, it shapes structure. Ascending it mobilises blood, circulating food-essence for the nourishment of every cell, and differentiating into networks that create the manifest system.
Exhaling and inhaling, the body is a web of evolving relationships. In ordered systems, behaviour is predictable; we learn and apply rules. In complex systems, there is no fixed position— pattern emerges through interaction and feedback. We navigate not by control, but by listening.
When systems move in proximity, their rhythms naturally begin to synchronise. This phenomenon—entrainment—is an energetically economical way of moving together. Cooperation requires less effort than isolation. In relational terms, resonance is how cells, organs, ecologies, and communities communicate.
When we live in harmonic rhythm with planetary, lunar, seasonal, animal cycles, a profound vitality becomes available. Cells emit coherent biophotonic light that conveys regulatory information, coordinating thousands of biochemical reactions, and exerting repair effects. With electromagnetic disturbance, acceleration, and chronic overstimulation, the body’s signalling capacities become overwhelmed. Signals fragment; communication falters. Energy pathways become burdened by excess or deficiency, and can reverse, overflow, stagnate, or change course. Symptoms appear—not as failures, but as messages.
Nature has always spoken this way. Now it speaks from cracks and collapse.
Join me on Sunday to practice resonance, not as harmony or agreement. As staying responsive inside uncertainty. Listening from the cracks.
As sustainability consultant Nicola Robbins, writing about the indigenous science of uncertainty, reflects:
“In Southern Africa’s Ngoma system diviners stay in conversation with interconnective presences who attend to the flows of meaning that binds the world together. These spirits function as channels through which feedback flows, amplifying relational sensitivity. Diviners help keep people in touch with the emergent, the nonlinear, and the unpredictable— to what arises through relationship rather than through control.”
We will meet on Boyes Drive and follow a crooked path up to a cave on Muizenberg Peak. Practising a fugitive orientation, lifeways will emerge from what we do not yet understand, from the dark, from inversions and ambiguities.
As we sound, sing, and restore reciprocity with world through sensing, gesture, posture, pacing, repetition, rhythm, we will consider:
What arrives sideways—unplanned, inconvenient—yet insists on being born through you, despite resistance or confusion?
How do you remain in relationship while refusing the habits that keep you small?
How do you respond without taking on what is not yours to carry?
How does earth offer you shelter, like Dassie, in times of upheaval?
Awkward, situated, embodied, perception moves alongside sound, immanent to the felt beauty of light pulsing through body. This is the imaginal intelligence of the animal body we discover in encounter.
Awakening to this different creatureliness, we explore new ways for responding to vibration, elements, tracks, and traces of what exceeds our categories. Less certain, we become more available to subtle tendencies, minor gestures, movements in the cracks.
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References:
Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.essentiafoundation.org/morphic-fields-natures-hidden-memory/seeing/
Next Resonance Moon Circle:
22 Feb — Harvest Moon / Full March 3 / Pisces Sun