Ides (A Spotify Playlist). [To listen click HERE]
The new moon in Pisces approaches, in the midst of the Ides of March, the 74th day of the Roman calendar, celebrated with picnics and revelry. Ides marks the occasion—which begins seven days before the 15th or 13th day depending on the specific month—with 69 minutes of music by Guem, Martin Circus, Theo Vaness, Peter Jacques Band, Elias Rahbani and His Orchestra, Lama, Dinosaur, Tantra, and—celebrating her 75th birthday, which is today—Liza Minnelli.
Infamously the date when dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated via 23 stabs, the Ides of March ostensibly marks the date of Mamuralia, a festival of late antiquity celebrated by dressing an old man in animal skins to then be beaten with a stick and driven off town—the spirit of the old year departing…
Last year, the Ides personally kicked off the 2020 Portal, the entry into a time of accelerated evolution of humankind. Planet Earth has already entered the 5th dimension—an awareness of all-being-one. Humanity is invited to follow suit.
Many revelations are to come in this exciting month of March 2021: the Eastern seaboard has already been dazzled with a summer-like week yielding to the wind…
On the cover photos, I am wearing a Blue Cat Family Deluxe Sweatshirt by J. Morrison in front of wallpaper of image prints from his first Homocats fanzine. The photos were taken by the artist at his recent Homocats 10th-anniversary exhibition.
Photos by J. Morrison
