Reported first meeting with Cassady December 1946, NYC

Kerouac's progressed Moon in Leo warmed the sunny side of his street with the Orange-gold wave during the last several months in 1946 and carried over into 1947.

Jack Kerouac - excerpt from Steve Allen Show, link to the factoryschool.org

Jack Kerouac has an 11  Destiny Path, go Super Numbers
 

     Kerouac published ON THE ROAD in 1957 under the influence of a serene and profound Blue Lunar Ray, one that bears upon every facet of Truth and enters border territory on the edge of Theurgy; Blue is associated with healing [see "Blue Baby Ward"], an antiseptic, soothing, and cooling effect. Blue is used for absentee healing more than any other ray, with the possible exception of the Green Wave. Remember Kerouac's exact Lunar/Asc conjunction in the sign that governs health and maintenance of the physical temple, Mercurial earth - Virgo. Today the  scholars in search of the "true" Kerouac may find some help locating the soul of the poet within the ray of faith, sympathy, and the boundless sky.

     It is no surprise deeper personal motivation for some writings would pertain to a service and healing aspect directly aimed at Kerouac's immediate community at the time. Mercury/Hermes has been a symbol of the transcendent principle since the civilizations before Olympus and Asgard. His staff acquired the wings of the 'wisdom' birds above the entwined serpents in reference to the healing art. His winged sandals and hat represent the power to fly to any region in search of deliverance and bliss, and with Caduceus, reach transpersonal spheres of influence. The Blue Wave is meditative, spiritual and trusting. It's frequency is that of the great question, "What is Truth?"

Allen Ginsberg reads from Kerouac's THE DHARMA BUMS
Ginsberg's "celestial homework" is the reading list that he handed
out for his course [Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
at Naropa Institute] as "suggestions for a quick check-out & taste
of antient scriveners whose works were reflected in Beat literary
style as well as specific beat pages to dig into."

Graham Parker reads from Visions of Cody

A friend who delivered mail to Kenneth Patchen when he lived in Palo Alto
loved his home because a colourful hand painted walk led to his mailbox.
 

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

-Kenneth Patchen


 Walt Whitman   Song of Myself   [read by Orson Welles, 1953]

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Kerouac, The Movie Directed by John Antonelli
Narrated by Peter Coyote,  1985

*LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO - A Pictorial History From Its Beginnings to the Present Day, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy J. Peters. If you love San Francisco you'll love this one, it's full of tidbits and golden nuggets about Pacific Coast notables Alice B. Toklas  [b. 922 O'Farrell Street, later lived at 2300 California Street near Fillmore], Isadora Duncan [b. NW corner Geary and Taylor], Dashiell Hammett, who plotted The Maltese Falcon in San Francisco, Irving Stone [b. Washington Square], Robert Frost, and many more.

ON THE ROAD - Film Status Unknown

Reported TOD: 4 FEBRUARY 68 San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

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• Carousel Poster - BBHC

• Ginsberg in Golden Gate Park

• Ginsberg Reading - Fillmore

• Ginsberg - Avalon Ballroom - Krishna Consciousness

• Invisible Circus - 3 days at the Glide and GO to Digger Space
   

    When ON THE ROAD was published in 1957, Neal Cassady's Lunar Ray was an Iridescent-Aquamarine Blue [the colour of his eyes] in the combined air/water wave similar to sea mist floating above the surface of the ocean. The Blue Wave, often linked with the Mercurial capacity [speaking and listening well; Neal Cassady radix Mercury-Venus-Sun combust in Aquarius indicates clairvoyance, telepathic ability, and radar] emphasized his power of communication in 1957. Cassady personified Odin [Wotan] with a rap - the 'new way of thinking.'    

     Neal Cassady's autobiographical installment, THE FIRST THIRD was finally published in December 1971; he first consulted with  City Lights BOOKSTORE folk in the early 60s concerning the disposition of the manuscript. His Lunar ray was an Icy-Blue Wave in 1964, the airy modus operandi governed by Mercury. It can be difficult to read this colour [intuitively and using computer, left brain, function]  when it dominates the personal charisma, in part because acceptance and processing of Saturn's duty and destiny themes are so quick they seem non-existent to other people. Few people can comprehend the capacity to instantly absorb significant data and radiate pure energy back into the atmosphere without missing a beat. There is almost no weight attached to this colour - it is buoyant and trouble-free, suggesting low karmic content to a casual observer.
 

     Cassady's level of intimacy in THE FIRST THIRD [and other works] certainly introduces the reader to Cassady as a comprehensive mover and shaker in his most candid style. Basically the bad news that year was that Neal, a living legend, prophet, father and godfather of the alternative 50s and 60s, could not bring in a profit. Naturally, THE FIRST THIRD would eventually guarantee musical registers in bookstores across the country; Cassady just wouldn't be in town to appreciate it all. Neal's favorite impromptu dance-rap guy, James Brown, usually stopped the show, for every situation, whatever was going on. Everything stopped - the recording - the tape - even the chess game (once in Paly I watched Neal working chess, pitted against two Stanford students) while he spoke to several groups of people around the room - seven conversations at one time - different topics - all complex subjects. But then James Brown came over the radio. Instantly, the atmosphere in the room transformed into a high school gym sock hop and Neal danced between the moments to James Brown. When the song finished, the game was recovered and so was Cassady's rap. The seven conversations previously suspended momentarily while James wailed resumed. After those surreal ten minutes, we all piled into his car and went to see Kesey in La Honda. This phase of Neal's enhancing communication reminds me of Pollack's "Shimmering Substance In The Grass."  Later, Neal decided to take on the "Drive Tapes" voice-overs from Kesey's Oakland rock soundtrack, and they seemed tame by comparison! 
Neal Cassady Rap

Reported first meeting with Kerouac December 1946, NYC
     Neal's December 1, 1946 star chart reveals his progressed Sun @ 9 Pisces had moved into the sign of poets and interpreters almost a decade before. As always, his Sun and Moon established self-acceptance themes as one top priority, however there was quicksilver spontaneity in 1946 unlike anything Cassady experienced before, fed by a higher pulse rate calibration, typical of New York's core beat environs. The Piscean [Neptune ruled] frequency, global consciousness at it's most sensitive zenith - walk on rice paper and leave no trace, grasshopper - would prove ready once Cassady and Kerouac met. Cassady's Mars @ 14 Capricorn, trine Kerouac's radix Ascendent and Moon in Virgo, agitated the desire to take on big magic, preferably a gargantuan task like climbing the great mountain. Things already churned within Cassady the year before when he lived way out in Colorado 'rough it' ranch country. That was a wholly liberating experience intellectually to the point of fascination with The Standard Dictionary of Facts during a year of dazzling Mercury in Pisces sextiles and trines. Cassady's Mercury @ 21 Pisces was trine Saturn in Scorpio [industriousness, the application of method and thoroughness] and his North Node @ 23 Moonchild [exchange of ideas, common or joint plans, intellectual interests, tendency to form associations for the pursuit of the same interests and goals.] Progressed Mercury also teamed up with Neptune to form a quincunx, enhancing the power of sympathetic and compassionate understanding with regard to other people and in depth perception.  However, modern conveniences were lacking back at the ranch, so with just the battery run radio and firelight for reading, tests of memory proved an amusing pastime while social options were kept to a minimum. 

     The Pisces/Virgo combination pertains to Soma, an intoxicant produced during spiritual revelation and illumination. According to legend, certain mantras combined with the stirring of Soma produce a liqueur [probably like the Cordial prepared by Lord Elrond of Rivendell] usually thought to be reserved for immortals. Both Kerouac and Cassady checked the menu when they met, and ordered the Soma. Plans for their adventure together instantly took off. Emotional output was revved on full throttle simultaneously as Kerouac's Venus was on the cusp of Taurus [0Taurus00 on December 10, 1946] probably crossed over from Aries the day he first encountered Cassady. Cassady had been attracting [Venus in Aquarius quincunx mode is magnetic, passive attraction] people who either would not meet him halfway or refused to accept him whatsoever. Cassady had been conditioned to live in a disapproving atmosphere or one with an unimaginative social engineering mentality. That year his Moon was on a frequency of Lapis Lazuli Blue, a universal colour - one of the most potent of the full spectrum for men. This would continue through early Spring of 1947. So the moment these two beatniks met was perfectly karmic! They could both escape manipulative people. 

     The Lapis Lazuli Wave is involved with one of the greatest of dream scenarios in alchemy. Carl Jung was so fascinated with this process during his later years his last books were devoted to it, almost exclusively. Across America the quantum physics rule worked on churning Atlantis [Cayce] under the waves, The Lost Continent of Mu [Churchwood] and the lives of Buddha [over 650] most beats felt compelled to research.

     The quest and great work, as in Star Wars and Star Trek, is a modern day sci-fiction favorite - even Babylon 5 the little space station that  could, is a spinning Lapis Lazuli cylinder somewhere out in space! So what better prevailing energy for the meeting of minds? Cassady and Kerouac joined forces and began their adventures on the road with the Philosopher's Stone as their quest... and they never looked back.

     Others with their Sun in Aquarius and Moon in Scorpio, from a variety of different walks of life, who remind me of Neal, are James Dean, Richie Havens [with a 0 Aquarian degree cusp], Paul Scofield,  Jules Verne, and Elijah Wood [as Frodo Baggins in certain Lord of The Rings passages, especially pondering his role as ring bearer in Galadriel's Golden Glade.] Richard Brautigan, considered a  San Francisco Aquarian beat [January 30th, 1935] wrote, "Trout Fishing in America" and sometimes assumed a pondering mood, similar to Neal when in his rare silent way.