Mixtum Horoscope for week of June 7, 2012:
SYMBOLISM:
Spoon is a tool, or utensil, with a curved shape on one end and a handle on the other. Most often used to mix or scoop or lift food to the mouth.
Carpet is a layer of material which goes over the ground. Often made of animal wool or plant cotton, these fiberous shapes are woven together from many smaller threads to create a cohesive surface. In tales, carpets often are able to transform into flying objects, lifting a person to safety above the crowd.
Cactus is a succulent plant which tends to be covered by spikes and holds water within. Humans and animals use them for food, medicine, ornamentation and even protection.
YOUR WEEKLY TASKS:
A picnic on your favorite carpet while scooping out the insides of desert plants is in order.
A good way to conserve your inner water is to weave a shield by lifting the right food to the mouth.
Recognize which way you are being used by others:
1. Are you being handled properly and used to serve?
2. Are you being walked on?
3. Are you protecting by standing still?
About Mixtum:
Mixtum is a creative tool for randomly selecting a trio of symbols to help generate unexpected ideas. Mixtum comes from the latin term mixtum compositum. Siegfried Zeilinksi describes the concept in his book Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means as, “the mixtum compositum contains two elements that are far apart and strives to fuse two different worlds into one.” Mixtum falls into a long line of tools that utilize the truth and magic of surrealist and chance operations to create fruitful outcomes. Mixtum is a practice that promotes the necessity of chance in play, and also accepts chance intentions as an integral structural element of reality. Play real in chance times.
Learn more at: www.mixtum.org
About the Creators:
Mixtum was created and illustrated by artist/educator/research team of Heidi Gustafson and Yutaka Houlette. Mixtum forecasts are written by Heidi Gustafson.
Heidi Gustafson is an artist and futurist living in Baltimore, MD. She taught preschool for a number of years and directed the experimental Children’s Think Tank (a research group run for and by children). Currently she is making new works and traveling.
Yutaka Houlette is a freelance illustrator, teacher and musician who also lives in Baltimore, MD. He previously ran the art program at the Baltimore International Charter School and currently teaches Pre-K, and heads up curriculum development, at Bolton Hill Nursery School.
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Mixtum Horoscope for week of May 10, 2012:
SYMBOLISM:
Eclipse is formed when one body’s light is crossed in front of by another creating a darkening affect from an observer’s perspective. In some cases, it is when the shadow of the second body is cast on the first that it will be seen as darker.
Wand is not much different then a stick or rod, except when the word “magic” is added to it. As a rod, it has the properties of a conductors baton, a police weapon or a masturbation device. Add Magic in front of it and the wand transform into an instrument of the imagination, able to create anything out of thin air.
Lightning is a powerful, hot electric discharge, some say from the imbalance of positive and negative ions. Commonly depicted as a weapon of the gods, we revere it’s intensity while fearing it’s hit.
YOUR WEEKLY TASKS:
You are Zeus darkening.
Put it in your hand, add the word Magic, and viola! you’ll be creating electric discharge bright enough to cast a shadow on the sun.
The transforming instrument is the crossing of the two bodies, waiting for the imbalance of ions to be just right.
Mixtum Horoscope for week of April 26, 2012:
SYMBOLISM:
Mirror, ie “looking glass”, is a surface that reflects wavelengths of light (sometimes sound). Projecting back an image, one will see a certain perspective on reality in the mirror, depending on both the surface material and the viewer’s position.
Teepee is a transportable dwelling. Covered by material from Earth’s creatures, it protects the inhabitants and allows them to feel at home while in continual transition.
Seaweed is an ocean or marine species of algae that looks like a plant or mermaid’s hair. It provides sustenance for humans while being a hiding or living place for many creatures. Additionally, it is important to note that most seaweeds need a secure place to attach themselves to survive.
YOUR WEEKLY TASKS:
It’s a good week to gain perspective by living in an algae teepee.
There two sources for seeing your reflected image: one is firmly attached and underwater, and the other is carried with you, built and unbuilt each time.
What is a reflective surface that is both made out of and hides Earth’s creatures?
Mixtum Horoscope for week of April 19, 2012:
SYMBOLISM:
Fire is a source of heat and light hidden within certain (some say all) things, let out through combustion. Producing flames and colors, this magical burning entity can destroy in seconds, bring light, create heat and make smoke, all essential elements of the life cycle.
Sword a sharp weapon made of metals. Used to slice things into parts or to stab through. It creates chaos from wholeness. Sheathed it implies hidden power, exposed it is the partner of mythic heroes, leaders, samurai and rogue vigilantes.
Crutch is a tool to support an injury. It can support healing or create depression in the user, as it primarily restrains or holds back the injured part from being used too soon. Associated often with a forced change of pace, or altering of habitual movements.
YOUR WEEKLY TASKS:
Your injury is a hidden source of power, find a way to make it come out of the sheath as a burning flame.
To support healing, consider putting yourself in a more crippling position: hold up the source for all to see?
Put your crutch thing directly in the fire to create a weapon of chaos.
Mixtum Horoscope for week of April 12, 2012:
SYMBOLISM:
Butterfly is a winged insect, who lives in a constant transformational state – from an egg to a caterpillar to flying beauty, to pollinator or ant destroyer. A butterfly is our primary example of metamorphoses on a visual scale.
Bed a man-made place for the body. An intimate space built for protecting the instinctual or mysterious experiences of life: dreams, sex, sickness, dying, sleep. A place where one can be restored, usually only by submitting to the body’s natural processes.
Blood is the elixir of life. A drop of blood can tell the entire story of a creature, an innate autobiographer in the form of a liquid vessel. This red substance carries all abilities within it: the ability to bring poison or dispel it, to circulate health or deliver sickness, to give life or take it.
YOUR WEEKLY TASKS:
Add wings to each drop of your blood for a smoother transition while dying, dreaming, or sleeping.
Lay down your most intimate autobiography to complete your transformation.
Be more metamorphic with your blood circulation while in bed.
Mixtum Horoscope for week of April 5, 2012:
SYMBOLISM:
Infinity means limitless, unboundedness or a belief in the unending. A symbol associated with strange mathematics and the expanse of the universe.
Map is a symbolic aid to understanding landscapes. Sometimes they are physical landscapes, other times they are complex invisible networks of particles or waves. Bees make maps to pollen sources by dancing, humans make dances by drawing their actions and places on the stage – both show a way of identifying stuff in relation.
Rain, water which falls to Earth, fertilizes, sustains and destroys life. A flood from rain, means emotion, tears, intense or cleansing release from things held within. A part of many rituals, this kind of water, is often seen as a divine intervention, bringing a sense of nourishment, a sense of washing away…
YOUR WEEKLY TASKS:
Find a limitless, symbolic aid to catch your tears.
Using cartography, become an infinite, divine intervention.
Capture a drop of rain and look within to see a map of the expanse of the universe, from a cloud’s perspective. (For the extra ambitious, you can then create a map of what you see in the raindrop).
Mixtum Horoscope for week of March 29, 2012:
SYMBOLISM:
Balloon is a holder of breath, a signifier of different kinds and temperatures of air. A skin and a substance together, the balloon body is a temporary dismissor of gravity, always first ascending, before losing air and returning to the nearest thing that will catch the remains.
Rope is made of many smaller strands bound tightly together. Often mistaken for a snake in the night, or ‘cut in two’ by a magician, the rope can be an illusion in the mind of man, a tool or a weapon in the hand. An object of restraint, it holds things together or holds them back. An object of duration, it frays and loosens.
Centaur is half horse, half man, a conflicting “world of half-selves” manifest in a single creature. Characters of our mythic imaginations, they represent qualities of living, dwelling in deep caves, a representative self from the other side.
YOUR WEEKLY TASKS:
Pay attention which you want to be doing: restraining or releasing your more gravity defying half-selves?
If you are bound together tightly and feel as though you are forever floating, perhaps you should consider what your hooves are going to do once you hit the ground.
Remember it is an illusion, and you are really just special air and myth.
Mixtum Horoscope for week of March 22, 2012:
SYMBOLISM:
Whale is the largest creature, with the biggest brain. A producer of nuanced underwater frequencies, occupier of the underworld, ancient and powerful.
Satellite is a distant communicator, our first defender and a macro and microcosmic spy. Made by man’s hands, encircling the planet, it is the primary cartographer of the Earth’s skin.
Ghost is clearly invisible to most. They are the most controversial of the dead, left-over energy, messengers and perhaps even costumes, which cover another, more hidden, shadow of reality.
YOUR WEEKLY TASKS:
Create a hidden reality that maps the ancient occupiers of the underworld.
Wander the oceans in search of nuancing your distance communications with the dead.
Look to produce frequencies that can invisibly infiltrate the micro and the macrocosm.
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