Joyful Noises in Rohiṇī: New Moon radio, ritual objects, and embodied divination through yoga & tarot
Tune into Monday’s broadcast — New Moon in Rohiṇī. Luminous charms available. Last Full Moon playlist + links below. Tarot, Yoga, and Lily Dale, NY.
Greetings, folks, friends, kin—fellow drifters; seekers of something true, somewhere, anywhere… maybe here, at the edge of this strange place.
Since it’s been a while since I’ve written through this channel—hello. For those who don’t know or may have forgotten, my name is Spiro(s). I’ve practiced and taught yoga for a few decades and continue to offer one-on-one guidance in both yoga and augury. These days, I’m on a slow, ground-down, and regrouping kind of sabbatical, sequestered in a tiny tower outside Taos, New Mexico. It’s a semi-porous, rhizomatic hermitage—so my availability is limited, but feel free to reach out if you're drawn to connect.
I’m currently excited to share that a new episode of my radio show will air this crepuscular Amāvásyā Monday morning. The New Moon arrives that evening, in front of the starfield known as Rohiṇī. I share a bit more about that on the program.
Below, you’ll find notes on upcoming events, a handful of remaining talismans—ritual objects consecrated in the Ganges during Kumbh Mela—and the full playlist from the last Joyful Noises episode, with links to all the source material and music.
🎙️ RADIO SHOW RETURNING
JOYFUL NOISES — Season Two of Radical Light Transmissions
🎧 NEXT EPISODE
LIVE this Monday, May 26, 4:30–6:30am Mountain time on KNCE True Taos Radio.
Kindling a cadence of inner sparks in the dark— remembering our shared Moon’s absence of light in Rohiṇī nakshatra 🌚
(Or catch it later HERE)
OBJECTS TO SUPPORT & INSPIRE YOU
Many of you have heard from me and my friend Barry about the Gently Down Project—our ritual journey to Benares and Prayagraj (Allahabad), where the Yamuna flows into the great Ganga Ma. For a brief, luminous window, the magickal Saraswati River joins from other dimensions.
Within that sacred current, we asked the land, the rivers, the buildings, the people, and the great Deities to assist and guide us in the blessing of a handful of objects—for light, healing, encouragement, nourishment, inspiration, and support. The operation—though difficult—was successful. We still have a few of these blessed objects available. Not many, but a few. And in these “interesting” times, a small token from the deeper currents of our spiritual community can go a long way.
☀︎ If one speaks to you, you can find it here.
🧘🏾 CLEVELAND SUMMER TAROT & YOGA WORKSHOP
💛 Heart of the Sun 🌞 July 18–20, 2025 at Alchemy Studio
This hands-on yoga and tarot weekend is designed to help you soften, listen, and adapt—to the world as it is, and to yourself. To change and transform. To align with the noblest aspect of who you are—and in doing so, to come into alignment with your dharma.
We’ll focus on gesture, movement, and journaling—writing new narratives and learning to hear what’s hard, receive what’s true, and act from clarity.
You’ll move through a Sun Salute Spread (based on Ashtanga Yoga’s Sūryanamaskāra A), and spend focused time exploring perception and seeing—things like darśan, the gaze, dṛṣṭi, and focus. We’ll also discuss Patañjali’s pratyāhāra as a crossroads between inner and outer vision.
Here, I find a fertile nexus—between the landscape within and the world out there—where memory collides with imprints, visions, and the imaginal, alongside saṁskāras and vāsanās. Sorting through these nuances—our conditionings and inner textures—supports meaning-making and helps us engage the cards as tools: to work with symbols, perceive hidden dimensions, gain insight, and reorient ourselves along this journey through life.
Tarot is an elusive, “random” symbolic text—rooted in rich histories and layered cultural symbols. It is a contemplative fruit of the outward gaze, akin to painting, ritual, performance, or spectacle. In working with its imagery—which often reaches beyond the regular mind—we come into contact with deeper truths. The cards can interrupt habitual patterns of perception, opening a space where we can receive new knowledge of hidden things: from zones of imaginal cognition, truths that lie outside consensus realities—archetypal, intuitive, perennial, or otherwise.
Expect gentle yoga with note-taking, yoga gestures, visionary orientation, guided meditation, prāṇāyāma, mudrā, and deep time with the tarot. Along the way, we’ll explore the mythologies of the Heart and the Sun—from Indian and Western traditions—and consider a kind of symbolic string theory, using the ektar as a thread between ātman and brahman, the heart and the sun, microcosm and macrocosm.
📍 Details forthcoming
☕ LILY DALE (JULY 23–26)
The following week, I’ll be offering chai and practicing yoga in the early mornings by the river—just outside the gates of Lily Dale—during Shannon Taggart’s 2025 Annual Symposium.
This gathering brings together an eclectic mix of artists, scholars, and contemplatives for presentations and conversations focused on the paranormal, the weird, and various alternative spiritual, religious, and scientific ideas, practices, and histories—especially as they’ve unfolded in the American context and elsewhere.
➤ shannontaggart.com/events/2025
JOYFUL NOISES
This past episode was broadcast before sunrise on the day of the Full Moon—just after Mother’s Day and the installation of the Siddhi Ma shrine at the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram and Hanuman Temple in Taos.
May 12, 2025 | Full Moon in Viśākhā nakshatra 🌝 Siddha Ma’s Gateways
Each track listed below notes the starting point time and features a link to the music for your own perusal or purchase. Enjoy!
[0:00:00] Various Artists (Sublime Frequencies) - Night Lotus Pool
[0:00:48] Various Artists (Radio Is A Free Country) - Gong Banger's Radio (detail)
Download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RQq2I0NlocvxMMgkNhZ69QEVIRiutRJK/view?usp=sharing
[0:03:04] Deuter - Nada Himalaya
[0:06:15] Mark Dyczkowski and Kishor Kumar Mishra - Interview with Mark Dyczkowski (detail)
[0:07:18] Inner Lotus Music - Nervous System Reset (75Hz + 111Hz, detail)
[0:07:43] Ashish Avikunthak - Kalighat athikatha, AKA Kalighat Fetish (1999, detail)
Excerpts from this film: https://rarefilmm.com/2024/09/kalighat-athikatha-1999/
[0:07:43] Laaraji - Om Tryumbacom
Personal field recording at Hanuman Temple, Taos (May 10, 2025 & featuring Krishna Das) - Hanuman Chalisa | Email me
[0:24:00] Deuter - Nada Himalaya | Link posted above
[0:24:24] Keith Jarrett - Reading of Sacred Books
https://archive.org/details/keith-jarrett-g.i.-gurdjieff-sacred-hymns
[0:32:27] Sara Davachi - Chanter
[0:37:27] Merzbow - 007B1+Ah Corps (detail)
[0:40:43] Pan American & Kramer - Interior of an Edifice Under the Sea
[0:44:00] Hiroshi Yoshimura - Singing Stream (Spring Mix)
https://archive.org/details/hiroshi-yoshimura-wet-land
[0:44:00] Shelley Burgon - II (7-49-7-56 PM)
[0:44:00] Raymond Scott, Looping - Lightworks
[0:59:26] Suzanne Ciani, Johnathan Fitoussi - Pinwheel
[1:03:11] Jonny Greenwood, Shye Ben Tzur & the Rajasthan Express - Kalandar
[1:11:29] Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
[1:16:27] The Vernon Spring - Mustafa (Feat. Iko Niche)
[1:19:41] Modern Folk Electronic Ensemble - Sun Bear
[1:23:47] Aksak Maboul - A Modern Lesson
[1:28:22] Praed - Kaf Afrit
[1:41:32] The Invisible Hands - Dream Machine
[1:42:56] Various Artists (Radio Is A Free Country) - Gong Banger's Radio (detail) | Link posted above
[1:46:11] Larry Yes - Live In Harmony
[1:50:16] Boards of Canada - Open The Light
[1:54:10] Deuter - Nada Himalaya (detail) | Link posted above
[1:54:40] Chumbawamba - On the Day the Nazi Died
[1:59:59] Boards of Canada - One Very Important Thought
More to come! Peace.
-Spiros
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