Cultivating Wonder, Curiosity & Biophilia to re-kin with what remains of our Fauna
Caroline re-hosts Dan Flores, author of 11 books, including “Coyote America,”and his most recent “Wild New World- the Epic Story of Animals and People in America,”Flora Fauna from Pleistocene, 66 million years ago, to now…
“deep-time history of animals and humans in North America” detailing human-wildlife relations across the continent, the sixth extinction, and the odyssey of species recovery in recent decades.”
Elephants, Giant Buffalo, Camels, horses, giant Cats, have been found with arrowheads in their bones – humans on American Continent, hunting fantabulous animals 12,450 years ago….and destroying our fauna kin in cruel ways, especially the last 500 years…
Bre’er Rabbit: “Dere was times…when all de critters used to gather to segachuate, just like there ain’t been no fallin’ out, like there ain’t been no hard times, like they all remembered they were kin. ”
Dan Louie Flores (born October 19, 1948) is an American writer and historian who specializes in cultural and environmental studies of the American West. He held the A.B. Hammond Chair in Western History at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana until he retired in May 2014.
Welcome Dan Flores,
that our rogue species may have manners…!
Democratic Animism Now!
Here be fellow Libran Dan Flores, and this o, so lovely, and clearly embodied conversation between Libra and Taurus – the 2 Venusian realms, that we dedicate to being cultural ambassadors on behalf of what we love in Nature… on behalf of what we are in Nature…
And let me once again honor actualized quintiles, irresistible eloquence , and capacity to open portals between worlds and dimensions…
His Sun and Mercury (retro- let’s re-member to listen) quintile Pluto….
He speaks of horrific human cruelty, mass slaughters, Death and redemptive goodness…His Pluto is a “Volunteer Church Choir.” Let’s join the Chorus with the Carolina Parakeets (1 foot long, multi-colored, playful, vivacious, that we will never see). And the Passenger Pigeons whose huge flocks used to darken the sky – all gone, and the elephants and camels and giant cats that once romped across this continent..
Dan’s Venus in Virgo (language craft!) quintiles Chiron on one side, Uranus- trickster on the other, and a bi-quintile between Uranus and Chiron…
Whose symmetry is so beautiful, as tis lived and proffered to us…
Trickster… was glad I got to read him something, homage to Raven, from his friend William Kittredge, that he had not heard before…
Listen for the whole fantabulous quote that ends with:
“See, that Raven Rattle says, this is how we are, inextricably in with everything, however tricked, riding in fact on the back of trickiness itself.”
an Homage to Uranus – Trickster genius – stationing direct on Sunday the 22nd – New Moon In Aquarius. Chinese New Year of the Rabbit!
That democratic animism hum our endogenous kinship…
Holding a place for Pluto entering Aquarius, briefly – March 23rd – June 11th,
back into Capricorn… Full on entry to Aquarius January 20th 2024…
Essential that we bio-mimicry to self-organize, inclusively, Community of all the Critters, like so many of the beings we have wiped out…
Just like we remembered we were all kin…
And the amazing Nixon quote to remind us of nuance…
“This is the environmental awakening. It marks a new sensitivity and a new maturity of American public life. It is working a revolution in values… Wild things constitute a treasure to be protected and cherished for all time…The wonder, beauty and elemental force in which the least of them share suggest a higher right to exist – not granted them by man, and not his to take away.”
Read more on this quote from Dan Flores in Coyote America here: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-4-july-august/green-life/coyote-america-excerpt
May it be so, resonating in our hearts..!
And here we have Mars Direct at 8 Gemini , Mercury direct at 8 Capricorn…
The Gemini-Capricorn conversational alliance…To say deep things in a myriad of conversationally accessible ways… The Moon in Capricorn joins this alliance, bringing the Council of all past elders dedicated to protecting our kin, to add their voices…
Now we await Uranus’ station direct…
Sun and Pluto quintile Chiron… so yes, let us “craft the future by gazing at the Caravan of our past mentors.”
Chiron escorts us to his Aesclepions – cultural centers of Dream incubation, healing and theatre…
May we all journey there tonight…
