A Pebble on the Beach

This then is the day of the eclipse between the 14th February 2026, and the 20th of February 2026; which some astrologers claim to be a period of time which marks a change point and a re-set. This site is about a poem called ‘A Scapeshifter’ which went onto the ‘Lol Cooper Band’ you tube channel on the on 30th October 2022 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the T S Eliot poem ‘The Waste Land’ along with a cliff notes poem called ‘Beauty Things’ which went out on the 22nd / 23rd November 2025 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the publication of the another T S Eliot poem ‘The Hollow Men’ which is itself cliff notes of ‘The ‘Waste Land’ and is also one of Mr Eliot’s finest achievements in poetry. Poems distill down to essence and can, if co-created and framed objectively convey something significant without unnecessary pedantry, though with the passage of time layers of meaning can also be found with an unfolding of process. Take ‘The Waste Land Line’ “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” There’s plenty to find from the line if one chooses to seek for a source but the line itself is enough first time around; it just says something on its own. The poem ‘A Scapeshifter’ also alludes to ‘The Movements’ of G I Gurdjieff; specifically the sacred dance ‘The Initiation of the Priestess’ which was a favourite of the gifted short story writer Katherine Mansfield. Mr Gurdjieff was a teacher of temple dance among’st other disciplines and we’ll have a look at a movement in the next item on this site which will go out on the 20th February 2026 to coincide with an apparently rare alignment according to some astrologers which is Saturn meeting Neptune at zero degrees of Aries. What does this mean? Don’t know; just keep hearing about choice points and re-set’s so keeping an open mind to see what can and cannot be verified as Mr Gurdjieff advised. Mr Eliot in his ‘Four Quartets’ also highlighted the dangers which abound in a lack of attention with the line; “distracted by distraction from distraction. So what did G I Gurdjieff and T S Eliot have to say about cosmology? Well Mr Eliot wrote a poem called ‘Journey of the Magi’ which is what those of us from a certain era will know as the three wise men following a star. And for those of us who do the Work of ‘The Fourth Way’ we study ‘The Ray of Creation’ and use the Gurdjieff Enneagram, which is a symbol in two dimensions when set out on a surface which when looked at and studied with the minds eye starts to look three dimensional. There are six planets of antiquity, and the Sun. The planets going clockwise around the enneagram being The Moon (Lunar), Mecury (Mercurial), Venus (Venusian), Mars (Martial), Jupiter (Jovial) and Satun (Saturnine). The planets and the Sun are connected to individual essence types and most people contain at least 5% of each type and all types are necessary. Most people have a predominance of two or three types; so an essence type might be Mars / Jovial, or Venutian / Mercury, or Solar / Saturn / Mars. Does that sound like mumbo jumbo? If you think so verify it for yourself, but keep this in mind: the System of ‘The Fourth Way’ is a practical teaching to be lived out for the harmonious development of man in real every day life; reality if you will. Now set down this; when an entertainer type with a honey toned voice, tidy appearance, quick clever repartee delivered by way of a sunshine type personality (which a times can be insincere) you know all this in one poetic word when they are described to you as being “mercurial.” Or if a stocky blunt type, with a red tinge to the hair flies into a rage because he’s discovered that he’s been lied to, and can’t handle what is taken to be a betrayal, and is moving ever closer to an indignation which could ignite into violence, one again gets an understanding of the situation from a single sentence; “he has a martial temperament”.