MOON SHADOW – A documentary about the Amami eclipse in Japan 2009
Amami traditional song & dance cultures meld with techno dance music, while priests light ceremonial fires as a cosmic drama unfolds in an exotic setting.
Chasers elucidate the passion for chasing eclipses and the significance of the conjunction of the Moon with the Sun, astronomically, astrologically, culturally and personally.
Appearing are spiritual scientist, Kohsan Handa, eclipse theorist, Yuichi Ishikawa and new age guru, Keichi Ueno.
World wide, an outdoor dance party culture movement has evolved around eclipses each year. The distinctively refined outdoor party culture of Japan is reflected in this artistic, multi cultural event on a paradise beach, which is also home to a mystical poisonous snake, habu.
Director, writer: Ray Castle
Previous films about Japan: Tokyo Techno Tribes & Manga Mad
MERCURY THE MENTAL TRICKSTER HITS REVERSE
Mercury – planet of communcation – goes retrograde until end of September. Communications are complicated, travel and technical issues can get you into a tail spin. Expect delays & hitches. What you hear is not what you get. Filter all infor with extra caution. Mercury, now in relationship sign, Libra. Revise arrangements and commitments with others. Mercury reverses into 'techno sign' Virgo from Sept 18th. Back up all data. Cleaning up unfinished paperwork and reconnecting with people from the past are constructive ways to utilize this period effectively.
ELECTRO MANGA COSPLAY PARTY
Shibuya J-Pop Cafe from 11.30 pm Saturday Aug 22nd
TOKYO DECADANCE themed party nights are a burlesque masquerade fusion with Japanese cosplay fantasy fetish, produced by Adrien from Paris.
It is a celebration of individuality and self expression. Party goers wear exotic flamboyant – often scantily clad – hybrid styles, amidst performance artists, live acts and DJs. The audience contributes to the psycho drama of cameo theatre acts with dramatic role-play and dancing.
A fashion, fiction, aesthetic, synthesis of Tokyo cyber wear with sexual voyeurism. An electro exotic managerie cavorting to a sensoria of evocative grooves and decor-enviro-tech projection visuals. Socially it is an eccentric mix of foreigners with risque Japanese. Which has always been an imaginative, uninhibited, cross pollination mix within the underground fashion-music milieu of Tokyo.
I have been contributing with a tasty selection of electro and my personal theatrix-mythos. Definitely the most entertaining, artistically engaging, interactive club party event I know of.
Rumoured appearance @ TOKYO DECADANCE PARTY next Sat.
ELECTRO MANGA COSPLAY PARTY: Shibuya J-Pop Cafe from 11.30 pm Saturday Aug 22nd. Last performance/spin by Ray Castle in Japan this summer.
Totally wired LUNAR ECLIPSE in spark plug AQUARIUS
Full Moons are always a time of emotional intensity. Break out and do something original. This Lunar Eclipse Weds Aug 6th awakens the relationship of the individual and the collective. How you fit in with group dynamics: friends/colleagues/club affiliations. Community involvement, team work, consensus principles. 'We' as apposed to 'I' (Leo). High voltage Aquarius has the potential for extreme dramatics or disruptive behaviour. Think about the greater good and collaborative creativity. Unexpected emotional reactions can set off a chain reaction which can trigger innovation and new perspectives. Be fearless to express your most craziest, extreme, ideas and future vision.
Performance & Spin @ TOKYO DECADANCE PARTY Aug 22nd
This is the most flamboyant vamped-up theatrix club event in Japan. Stylistically, a hunky dory dandy-delight, peachy-pastiche psychedelic cosplay party. The theme is a melange mangafication of the performers, including myself. And weaves mythos threads from my last movie: MANGA MAD. Now available on iTunes. The venue has a dome glass roof for sunrise in the heart of pop-surreal Shibuya – Tokyo.
"The Devil Is Dancing Naked On Drugs On Anjuna Beach"
I remember headlines in the local Panjim newspaper when they were starting to band the parties in Goa in the early 90s. "The devil is dancing naked on drugs on Anjuna Beach"
METAPHYSCIAL ALCHEMY OF THE BLACK DIAMOND IN THE SKY
Eclipses
are accelerators & consciousness awakeners which can break old
patterns and bring spirit down to earth. They can also freak people
out, as the dark side of the Moon obscures the life giving light of the
Sun, as we confront our dark side.
Off to Amami Island to film MOON SHADOW. A metaphysical story about the July22nd Solar Eclipse. This will be a 2nd new Moon in Cancer. The element of water, the emotional body. The Moon represents the Great Mother, goddess of the mysteries of life, growth and death. New Moons represent new beginnings. To stand in the MOON SHADOW is to meet the unconscious dark side of the metaphysical emotional 'Self'. The shadow does not only contain darkness, its essence is PURE GOLD. As in psychological alchemy, there is the potential to integrate the shadow, thus bringing wholeness.
Spunky MARS in mental GEMINI for the next 6.5 weeks.
Lusty speech cums easy.
Talk your way into or out of any situation. Energy can get scattered in too many directions.
Tonight: FULL MOON CAPRICORN LUNAR ECLIPSE
Security & biz issues are on the front burner. A smooth aspect to pragmatic Saturn in practical Virgo offers a competent
bridge of intelligence and resourcefulness. Uranus shimmying with Mars conjures savvy solutions and originality.
VIVACIOUS VENUS INTO WITTY GEMINI
Vivacious Venus into witty Gemini till the end of July. Colorful conversations are a turn-on. Playful chit chat turns keys to the heart. Be a chameleon as you satisfy social curiosity. Bob Dylan has Venus in Gemini.
ECLIPSE SEASON starts with FULL MOON Tues.
MERCURY IN THE EMOTIONAL WATERS OF CANCER
Mercury transits thru the soft sensitive waters of Cancer for the next 2 weeks.
Words become emotionally charged. Thoughts & conversations become infused with more feeling and intimacy.
REBOOT YOUR BELIEF SYSTEM ABOUT YOURSELF
Uranus 'the awakener' goes retrograde in the oceanic Piscean waters of collective beliefs & faiths: The revolution starts within. Freedom is something you can give to yourself that no one else can take away.
LUMINOUS AIR LIFT
The electo-spiritualised superconjunction – Chiron-Neptune-Jupiter – in futuristic Aquarius is triggered by a high frequency Mercury (in lucid Gemini) trine over the next few days. The flood gates of imagination split irons in the ether. Luminous conversations and fresh mental vistas gyrate the collective brain on a fast-forward transpersonal vision quest. The sensual, close tango riders – Mars & Venus (in Taurus)– make an energising square to this magnetic cluster which spices the creative mind-body fermentation even more.
"THE TERRORIST INSIDE MY BODY"
70's –Aquarian– icon, Farrah Fawcett, commenting on her on-going battle with cancer, which she succumbed to today, said: "It's the terrorist inside my body"
SATURN the COSMIC COP task MASTER
Saturn the cosmic-cop, task master, calls the shots this weekend. Excellent for mental focus and fixing things. Down side is negative thinking and sensitivity to criticism. Moon in analytical dutiful Virgo. Practical, perfectionist, productivity over-rules play time.
NEW MOON IN NURTURING CANCER OPPOSITE PLUTO
NEW MOON CANCER – Tues – opposes dark lord of the underworld – PLUTO – setting the transformational tone for the next 2 weeks culminating with
the first of 3 eclipses starting on July 7th Full Moon. Deep mid-year,
post Solstice, stirrings for change, break down of structure,
elimination of things no longer needed and a potential for power
struggles with others over resources ($) or emotional security needs.
Themes of nurturance, the
personal & collective mother pervade the feeling-scape with the
Moon in her home sign, Cancer. Saturn trines Mars/Taurus on this
lunation. Good time to launch new projects.
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Scruptuous celebratory SOLSTICE WEEKEND
Scruptuous celebratory SOLSTICE WEEKEND June 20/21st with sexy cosmic lovers – Mars & Venus – coming together in touchy feely sensuous Taurus. GET DOWN & PARTY!
URANUS SHOCKINGLY ZAPS. NEPTUNE NUMINOUSLY SOOTHES.
Uranus, the eccentric shocker planet, zaps hot head Mars and the proud Sun in mental Gemini: Pent-up tensions unexpectedly can swivel relationships as the Moon goes into short-fuse Aries. Spark plug brilliant ideas. Ride on a flowing inspirational, artistic, fantasy-rush as numinous Neptune harmonises with the creative Sun, Weds.
LAST X-RAY ted radio show in the current series tonight.
Preparing for film shoot of July 22nd Total Solar Eclipse Amami Island, Japan: Capture the cosmic-rapture-union of the Sun (male) with Moon (female). Last X-RAY ted radio show on George fm tonight in the current series is themed around COSMIC LOVE.
Mercury – 'the messenger' – into home sign: Clever Gemini.
Mercury, the messenger, goes into clever Gemini, its home sign. The pace of social life picks up. The mind becomes more elastic and curious, ducking and diving with dualistic versatility.
Jupiter Mercury square
Get swept along by grandiose plans, excessive talk and frankness of mind, as expansive higher-minded 'guru' planet – Jupiter squares Mercury.
Logic–Mercury...Imagination–Neptune...Invention–Uranus
Analytical Mercury aspects intuitive Neptune & innovative Uranus: Blend logic with imaginative, inventive, originality.
Mars into Taurus
Heightened sensual, earthy, attunement.
Mercury goes direct
Mercury – planet of the mind – goes direct. Its forward movement brings increased traction to turn ideas into action. Data flows better.
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A salacious sizzle of carnal cuts, flirtatious frequencies, raunchy rhythms, cunninglinguistics, explicit bass.
Move your arse and feel the beat on a smorgasbord of evocative, erogenous, lick-tronica; including colourful, lustrous, entertaining, guests.
Comedian, poet, sexologist, scintillating commentator, 'hot pink' Penny Ashton, is now my regular accomplice in vice on the show.
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Its not just a sleazy listening show. The muse for the show is, Aphrodite, the spy in the house of love. She says: “Music is a love drug. The chemistry of romance and physics of sex is an ocean of emotion, the final frontier in the pursuit of pleasure and happiness.”
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