#Here Come The Monkees

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THE MONKEES (1966-1968) ↳ 1x10 Here Come The Monkees (The Pilot)

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Let's Dance On From Season 1, Episode 10 - "Here Come the Monkees (Pilot)"

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“I’m Peter Tork, here I’m coming”

[mickgaydolenz]

so, i was reading 17° Aquarius which is what Micky's Mars is in and it was... interesting. i mean it's main theme is egotism and being dependent on others for stimulation; corruption and selfishness at its very worse. there's some merit to this but i only say that confidently because his Mars is in his 12H.

while the 4H represents the hidden life, and 8H represents the hidden mind, the 12H represents just being hidden in general; whether its abilities, emotions, opinions, the past, whatever is placed there. it's only accessed/activated -- other than for a profection year -- either willingly, or being forced to tap into it. especially so if there's aspects to it. it's also the last house which often represents endings and closure, answers given, and healing from old wounds.

majority of the time people will either totally ignore whatever's in this house or they'll escape into it to avoid reality. sure, you can ignore or run to your 12H placements for as long as you want, but they will always come back to bite you in the ass. everyone like's to throw karma around here, but that word has become so overused that it overtime lost it's original meaning, to which i cannot even define, as it's been bastardized to fit the white person's spiritual lexicon (thank you colonialism very cool /s). soooo a better way of describing this house is a house of personal retribution.

the reason im bringing this up is not to talk so much about Micky's 12H, since it's only his Mars there ...so sorry worldwide Micky girls nation <\3. although i will say, when i read "susceptibility to physically illness if frustrations grow intense" i got worried, so my eyes are closer than ever on that old man. watching him like a hawk as we speak.

i'm bringing this up because i've mentioned before about Mike's 12H and how that might've came into play when he had that "i got it" moment in his life. we actually have some telling placements here. he has three: his South Node, and asteroids Vesta and Pallas.

im actually not gonna talk about his asteroids because it's not why i'm here in your inbox. why i'm here is to discuss his South Node. this is extremely important, Mike girls. you should take notes. its gonna get melancholic.

in astrology, we have these things called Moon Nodes. you have a North and a South Node, and they will always be opposing each other in opposing signs, because they're supposed to; the North Node represents the present life, the quest, growth, while South Node represents the past life, the resource, our blockages. do you see where this is going?

i could explain the Nodes themselves, as it does give way to fully realizing their curriculum in his chart, but ive honestly hadn't gotten around to fully understanding them just yet because i'm still stuck on degree theory. i'm only sharing what i know and what i'm currently reading on them so that i can explain this correctly. you can read here and here if you sincerely need to know the details. all you have to know for this is that his NN is in Leo 6H and his SN in Aquarius 12H. i've already explained the 12H, but the 6H deals with daily living, organization, service and health. now you are bueno *whip crack effect* 👍

tw death mention coming up here//

i've been quietly busy piecing things together to see what important placements were there in-around the times of death for the three. mistakenly, at first, i would focus heavily on their profection year they died and the aspects to it, without even considering the years before that would lead up to that. those prior years do in fact play a role here. what i've found is that there's no one important placement, aspect or degree that can encompass a death-like sentence to someone's astro makeup. while astrology cannot predict when or even how someone will die, what we can do is posthumously see what important factors lead to their passing.

in Mike's case, he passed in his 7H profection year; the year before, he was in his 6H; to note, he actually has a stellium here, which are all entirely retrograded, but that's not important to this. and guess what was there? because this was the year of 2020, when everyone was isolated and recollecting themselves; this was his Node's last attempts to sober him up before it all ended, and it had to do so by sheer force.

you know what happened next? he stopped hiding.

even after Davy had passed and he gave in to touring with his surviving band members, he still seemed to isolate himself after the show was over. barely showing for interviews with the others. didn't spill himself too much that wasn't about what was going on around him. he kept to himself as always and no one tried too hard to pry him. the usual Michael Nesmith routine.

but after Peter had passed, i think something just snapped in him. for some reason i feel like he found himself more comfortable being vulnerable after Peter was gone... really strange stuff. almost like he was afraid of being or feeling similar to him? ffs i wish he was still alive so i could ask him cause it's gonna kill me otherwise.

but now, amidst the chaos of 2020, instead of running away into comfort and escaping from being vulnerable, he brought those vulnerabilities out instead, especially so on stage. if i had to guess anything about Mike during this time, is that he just wanted to heal. he so badly wanted to mend things even after things were too late & far gone, which i would also include his physical health here too, as 6H rules physical health -- Micky did say he had health issues for a long while. but his struggles trying to communicate that among other things made it a too-little-too-late issue (uh-oh girls, it's his Saturn Rx 3H eating him alive!).

but what he could mend at that moment, he did, and what he was able to mend was his relationship to his audience. remember when we talked about this before with Peter? sighs. Mike went YOINK and took those lessons without directly discussing him, whether he knew it or not. he is sooooo irritating ❤

i'll end this off by sharing this: in one of my sources i have that actually talks about the Nodes, there's a section where the author explains the Nodes through the lens of different religious and cultural mythologies. of course, since we're talking about Mike, the Christian version stood out to me most for this case, which brings in the story of Adam & Eve. at first i passed it off cause it's only a short paragraph in a sea of much more lengthier mythologies, but the more i read it the more enlightening it became to me.

here's the direct quote:

"Eve draws Adam into the world of duality, relationship and further incarnation, by listening to the serpent. Later, Eve having given birth to Mary, God enters mankind through her, thus bringing the Christ out of Adam. Here I would understand Eve and Mary to be representing two different facets of the cosmic feminine principle. So by listening to the serpent, we move further into duality and the world of form, and by listening to God, we are reconnected with unity."

and in the end, Mike finally listened to God. properly. for once in his life.

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Ann Moses and Bridget Hanley flipping through an issue of Tiger Beat Magazine, 1969

[sweetyoungthingy]

IT FINALLY CAME

I ordered the damn thing so long ago from a record shop out of state (Risky? Yes. Worth it? Extremely.) and was never given a tracking number,, I thought it got lost in the mail BUT IT ARRIVED . AND NOW I HAVE IT . WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

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a day in the life of gia: i was walking out of the library just now, headphones on, exhausted and ready to go home, and then i see some guy motioning to me and waving and we don’t know each other so i’m like ????? and lift off one of my earphones and he goes “i saw your hair from over there in the library” and i’m like ok??? and then he says to me “my english isn’t very good… when i first came to america on the plane i went to the library” and i’m like okay he needs me to help him with something in the library and then he CONTINUES with “AND GOT AN ID CARD BECAUSE I WAS DEFINITELY CHECKING YOU OUT” and i’m like DUDE! so i lie and say i have a boyfriend but thank you so much anyways even though that wasn’t a compliment to me but you know what the WORST fucking part of this is. through this ENTIRE exchange i have THE MONKEES playing in one of my ears and mike nesmith just keeps singing “and it looks like we’ve made it once again” and the entire experience was surreal and tldr DON’T ACOST PEOPLE GODDAMN!

[janemerkin]

I JUST THINK HE'S THE LAURA PALMER OF THE MONKEES

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I Wanna Be Free From Season 1, Episode 10 - "Here Come the Monkees (Pilot)"

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Mary, I love you Sandra, I love you Well I see all kinds of sorrow Wish I only loved one Look out, here comes tomorrow..

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I made this a while ago but I figured I’d put it up cause I just found it and I think it’s very silly.

It’s a kind an out of context video, a view of how weird 33 1/3 is. I’m a 33 1/3 fan despite my better judgement because it was one of the first monkees things I watched.

But these are a bunch of moments that started out as a peter compilation and evolved. It gets silly??

and as a bonus, since it’s my birthday today, here’s two images that make me very happy:

Insanely gorgeous Micky with my favorite sideburns of his

and Mr. surprised by a flashbulb or something.

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was trying to remember the name of the fourth beatle and i was like "john, paul, ringo.....peter?"

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Michael Nesmith Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors embroidered and rhinestone-accented stage outfit, hat and boots (circa 1967-69), photographed by Bob Delevante.

An influential outfit if ever there was one in the genre. Nesmith was country-rock when country-rock wasn’t cool, when he was still in the Monkees. This rhinestone-accentuated suit — with chain-stitched peacocks, orchids, musical notes and American flag motifs — also came from Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors, circa 1967. It predates the famous Flying Burrito Brothers suits of a similar nature.

“He wore it to the premiere of ‘Head,’ and on the last Monkees television special, ’33 1/3.’ As soon as we decided to do this exhibit, this was one of the first artifacts we thought of, like, ‘Oh, we’ve gotta have that.’ You know, we had a little bit of a relationship with Michael because he was featured in the Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash ‘Nashville Cats’ exhibit that we did, and he came and played an album release party for that, and we got to know him a little and had a relationship going. We asked if we could borrow this, and he made it clear that he absolutely wanted it to come here. And then just with the timing… by circumstance, the same week he passed, we’re getting notices that the shipment is on its way to Nashville. It was just interesting timing.”

— Michael Gray, The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum {x}

[mickgaydolenz]

oh boy! new astro observations!

this tweet made me go insane for the sole reason that Peter, Micky and Mike have this; Peter doesn't have a water rising (his is Libra, which is air) but it's in 27° and his 1H is primarily ruled by Scorpio, so very close. Davy is just on another level and doesn't have this ability, but we love our oblivious girlie anyway 💅❤

i aint got no spoons to go in-depth, so ill let the monkees nation give me some of their own observations on this fact, if any.

NO OKAY SO……I CAN SEE THIS!?!?!? i’m just going to speak on micky, BUT it really seems like he WAS very in tune with what was going on around him and the emotions of everyone else. just so much of what he has said about the guys, himself, and especially the tidbits in his book, makes me think that micky was always more aware than what he ever let on to but i think that awareness/being so in tune is also what allowed him to maintain such positive relationships throughout his life (even with his ex wives)

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hey! hey! we are the Monkees! you know we love to please, a manufactured image with no philosophies. we hope you like our story, although there isn't one, that is to say, there's many that way there is more fun! you told us you like action and games of many kinds. you like to dance, we like to sing, so let's all lose our minds. we know it doesn't matter, 'cause what you came to see is what we'd love to give you and give it one, two, three! but it may come three, two, one, two. or jump from nine to five. and when you see the end in sight, the beginning may arrive. for those who look for meanings in form as they do fact, we might tell you one thing but we'd only take it back. not back like in a box, back. not back like in a race. not back so we can keep it. but back in time and space! you say we're manufactured. to that we all agree. so make your choice and we'll rejoice in Never Being Free. hey! hey! we are the Monkees! we've said it all before. the money's in! we're made of tin! we're here to give you more!