From ANDRAS JONES: HARVEY KUBERNIK (seen in the pic above with his pal Keith Richards) is a writer with a lot to say. He joins our Pop Oracle session with SARAH KRAMER to ask a question about native Americans and the media. It’s an appropriate question to land in the window of the vernal equinox, which also happens to be a full (worm) moon, a super moon, AND the first day of baseball. Now, you may be asking, “Hey Andras. Didn’t you say you were going to be boycotting Major League Baseball in your session with Dan Epstein in response to the revelations that  MLB has been donating money to openly racist politicians like Cindy Hyde Smith?”

That is true. I did cancel my subscription to their product and I won’t be buying tickets to any games so they ain’t getting my money. And I will still be giving the game my attention because it has a deep pull upon my heart. The cliches about fathers and sons, the sounds and smells of the game, and my own esoteric interests in the baseball diamond itself as a generator of synchronicity just make the game too compelling for me to entirely turn away from. Y’see, the baseball diamond works as an overlay for the Kabbalistic Tree that I wrote about in my book “Accidental Initiations: In The Kabbalistic Tree of Olympia“. Today’s first game of the season was played in Tokyo between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics. The first pitch of the first game from Oakland’s pitcher Mike Fiers was to Mariners second baseman Dee Gordon who hit a line drive for an out to A’s right fielder Stephen Piscotty. Nothing particularly special about this play, right? Wrong, for you see, if we use the correspondences within the Kabbalstic Tree to de-code the play a whole new game within the game emerges.

Dee Gordon was playing second base for the Mariners in today’s game. Second base corresponds with Tiphareth in the tree, which corresponds with the heart and resonates with balance, beauty and compassion. Dee Gordon’s line drive was caught by right fielder Srephen Piscotty in right field. Right field resonates with Chesed in the Kabbalistic Tree, and Chesed corresponds with mercy. So we have the first play of the first game of baseball taking place in Tokyo between the M’s & A’s resonating heavily with the qualities of the buddha; balance, compassion & mercy. This is all very promising, especially as it also resonates with Sarah’s song in this session, which is Tender Heart. But it doesn’t stop there.

Today’s randomly chosen song from the R8B app is my own composition “The Firecracker Kid” from my 2000 album “A Curmudgeon For All Seasons” and is the story of a kid who is the worst kind of American. A kid whose brutal comeuppance for his crimes against nature is celebrated by his mother at song’s end. And while her celebration of her wounded son’s karma might seem to lack compassion, she could also be seen as having a far greater compassion for the whole of life than for her boy. Not just A mother but THE mother. SHE is suggested not only by the initials of the team’s names from today’s game in Tokyo (M’s + A’s = MA’s) but also by the story of the guy who caught the ball Gordon hit. Stephen Piscotty was playing for the Cardinals a couple of years ago when his mother was diagnosed with ALS. In a rare case of institutional compassion the Cardinals traded Piscotty to the A’s so he could be closer to his mother in what turned out to be her final year.

I bet you didn’t think one play in a baseball game could be de-coded to reveal a story of balance and compassion and the spirit of motherhood and the buddha. Well, now that you know it can, why not try decoding the last play? Maybe you’ll find something you never thought you’d see.

POP ORACLE Song of The Day (March 20, 2019): ANDRAS JONES “The Firecracker Kid”

TENDER HEART
©️Sarah Kramer

You came at me, I told you it was confusing
Still, you pursued and I was open
Then i had both feet in and
you were looking out
Why’d you take it this far if you didn’t want to go the distance?

Your tender heart, I couldn’t unwring it
Your tender heart, go out and sing it
‘cuz everybody loves you,
your tender heart everybody loves you,
your tender heart

You once told me you could be a powerful figure in my life
I think it was me helping you
But you boxed me in before you closed me out

How’d I end up here all muddled and broken?

My tender heart, I can’t unwring it
tender heart, go out and sing it
‘cuz everybody loves you,
your tender heart
everybody loves you,
your tender heart

everybody loves you, your tender heart
everybody loves you

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