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Messenger of the Heavens
Heavenly grow trees
out of the obcure
into the promising light;
The last shadow flees,
the last darkness may be to endure
into its allmother, dark eternal night;
The blind seer sees,
dares the very risky venture
between what is and is not right;
He dares to fight the fight,
‘cause balance can only be attained
not by fighting,
rather by understanding and compassion.
The messenger of the heavens,
- they tell us
to look back at our roots,
because we are all one,
one earthly consciousness,
one living organism…
We are one,
each of us embedded
in this very divine tesselation!
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God is dead. All hail nature.
If you suffer from resting bitch face (like me), enchant your lipgloss or lip balm so that anyone that makes you smile receives a blessing.
Conversely, enchant your lipgloss or balm so anyone you frown at receives a curse.
For when you’re a space witch but you’re also a scientist and your data need a magickal intervention.
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Ἡλιος, Σεληνη & Ηως
Helios, Selene & Eos were the children of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. They were the Titan god and goddesses of the Sun, the Moon and the dawn, “who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless gods who live in the wide heaven”.
Eos is heralding the breaking of the new day and her brother’s arrival. She is said to not only open the gates of heaven for the Sun to rise, but she would often accompany Helios as well on his daily swing across the skies. In the night Selene is driving her moon chariot across the heavens. While the sun chariot has four horses, Selene’s usually has two, described as “snow-white”.
Regarding quarantine, I feel the deep resonance to the thought of the philosopher of ecological aesthetics Gernot Böhme that for a long time we were involved in environmental degradation and this affects our own nature. We are talking about the ecological continuum, where the boundaries between human and nature are illusive and nominal, nature does not lie outside of us, as it is usually represented in our anthropocentric philosophy. An important point, in his opinion, is that the destruction of the external nature becomes a conscious problem for us only when it affects us and becomes perceived by our own bodies. And any destruction sooner or later concerns ourselves.
Historically, this is exactly the moment when at the physical level almost all the inhabitants of the planet felt a lack of stability, at least through an extensive narrowing of their living space - which is also very symbolic that we closed up to the purely anthropogenic world of concrete boxes and technologies - who we are without nature? As a maximum it concerns us through a real threat to life. I think this awareness and holistic body-psychic collective (!) living-through of this experience can have important potentials for all of humanity to somehow rethink itself as a natural being and part of a single ecosystem, and be able to recognize that the dominance of nature is impossible - and need to change it and establish the partnership with the nature. For such a qualitative leap in consciousness, a universal “planetary” experience is probably necessary. Virus is very natural, logical and even “reasonable”, it solves some global problems and looks only like an evil from the standpoint of anthropocentrism.
Maybe we are just a new romantics. But it’s not an escapist strategy. We believe in Nature and Harmony. Relationships with Nature based on Love are possible and required. Ecology can be poetic. We have souls and the Nature have the soul too. We are natural beings connected to the Earth. We can co-exist and co-create with nature. The part of the beautiful wholeness. We are free to choose whatever to believe (as our survival depends on our settings) and if some myth should resurrect - we will re-enchant the Earth together. For ones it’s just tales on noosphere, animism, pantheism, ecocentism but these tales nowadays can heal us as the society which used to oppress and abuse the nature. For some (like me) it’s complex and multidimensional reality. Facts doesn’t matter here! It’s the matter of culture, collective awareness and ecological consciousness. Let’s imagine the world of human-nature harmony and then let’s make it real! We need to believe something bigger.
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I said in a previous post that I’d talk about nurture more. This is going to be a bit of a tricky one because it combines basically all of my blog topics, and I haven’t tried to do that yet.
My primary goal for most of my behavior is to be nurturing. I want all my relationships, with my friends, family, partners, neighbors, communities, ecosystems, to be nurturing, so that everyone involved feels appreciated and encouraged to grow. And most of the important lessons I’ve learned about nurture are most apparent in gardening.
The thing I most often consider about gardening is that I don’t do any of the growing. I can’t make plants grow. Plants do that all on their own. Similarly, I can’t make plants thrive, or heal from injury, or bear fruit. They do that on their own, too. Most of my actions are restricted to manipulating the environment around them, and the means I have at my disposal for doing so are fairly limited. I can plant them in spots where they get good sun. I can clear weeds from around them that might hinder their growth. I can water them when it’s too dry. Almost all of my effort in gardening is one of those activities. So, the act of gardening is to identify the needs of the plants and read their current health through observation, and enrich their environment as I am able in ways that help them to grow and thrive. If they are thriving, they will bear plentiful fruit, which enriches me.
With humans, it’s not that different. Different humans thrive best in different environments. Just like some plants need more sunlight or rain, some humans need more of certain kinds of affection and validation. Just like different plants prefer different soil, different humans thrive better in different home and social environments. I want to help my friends thrive, to be a part of a nurturing environment for them. Luckily, humans can tell me how they feel easier than plants can, but that doesn’t mean listening is always easy. But through communication, consent, and observation, I can learn what kinds of love, affection, and support my friends prefer from me. Following a strict formula for how to care for someone, like heteronormativity or amatonormativity or cisnormativity, is not ideal, even for cis heterosexual alloromantic people, because people have unique needs that are constantly changing. So, I always consider what would help my friends thrive, and this directs me to love them in unique ways that hopefully will nourish them. If I’m succeeding, they will thrive better than they would have if I was not in their life. If that’s not the case, then I need to reconsider my actions and understanding.
The previous post asked how I view relationships. I think about relationships a lot beyond just interpersonal relationships with humans. The way I see the world is many systems of relation, interconnected, nested, always changing. I see myself as a set of systems, biological organs, emotions, thoughts, memories, actions, and I see myself as a part of many other systems, families, communities, personal relationships, clubs, cultural groups; this is what I mean by “my environment”. Likewise, I’m a part of some relationships with other people, and part of their environment, and my actions help shape their environment. Much like an environmentalist would aim to leave a place better than they found it, I want my presence in someone’s life to improve their environment. Much like gardening, I would like my love for my friends to be a little extra sunlight and rain in the amounts they need. And just like attempting to claim the sunshine and rain would be an act of hubris, love also should not be claimed or possessed, and instead freely given (this is where my fondness for the culture of polyamory comes in).
One of the techniques I use in my garden is companion planting, or coplanting. Coplanting is when two or more plants, when planted together, benefit each other in some way. The best coplanting matches are when the plants actually thrive more than they would on their own. The most famous example of this is corn and beans. Beans return nitrogen to the soil which the corn needs to stay healthy, and the corn stalk is a good place for the bean to climb to reach sunlight. Companion plants can provide a lot of other benefits, like covering the soil to retain moisture and deterring pests. So, when I enter a committed relationship, I think about the relationship that companion plants have with each other, how they each improve the local environment for the other. I wish to improve my partner’s life, and I would like my partner to improve mine, so that most of the ways we interrelate are mutually beneficial, and our shared love helps us to thrive.
“Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it but part of it. Its health is our health.”
~ Thomas Moore
Original photo by Phil Snyder, Flickr
Revering the Universe. Caring for Nature. Celebrating Life.
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The Dance at Alder Cove -Youth/Father/Geezer - I see you
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Minerva of Peace, Minerva of War
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
But they couldn’t understand why she was seeing at the sky, saying: “thank you very much” ‘cause they knew she didn’t believe in God. I told them: “She is God and that’s the reason she can communicate with herself”
They didn’t understand.
-pantheism influence-
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