Honoring Stephen Buhner, practicing botanical animist, polymath, who went back-stage, December 8th,
and re-guesting Stephen’s herbal bardic colleague, Sean Padraic O’Donoghue
that we may embrace the assignment Stephen be handing to us…playing excerpts from 2 shows with Stephen (included in our premium audio collection…) and touting his fantabulous book, “Plant Intelligence & the Imaginal Realms.” (also offered as premia….)
About Stephen Buhner
https://www.stephenharrodbuhner.com/about/
“I am an interdisciplinary, independent scholar, polymath, autodidact, Fellow of Schumacher College UK and have been head researcher for the Foundation for Gaian Studies for the past thirty years (gaianstudies.org).”
to cross-correlate insights from multiple and widely divergent fields into usable knowledge that can address some of the problems we face as a species,
“I am and always have been interested in the invisibles of life, those meanings and communications that touch us from the heart of Earth and let us know that we are surrounded by more intelligence, mystery, and caring than our American culture admits of; how to re-inhabit our interbeing with the world; how to sit in the council of all life as kin rather than dominators; and how to live sustainably on this Earth that I love more than I know how to say.”
Yo Team,
how fitting on this yester-day of honoring Stephen Buhner, that the Moon is in Virgo, Witches/Wizards Moon of language crafting, plant lore…
and Moon trines Uranus, out of her conundrum T-Square…
The way out of wired is relaxed presence with sensual animistic Trickster Intelligence…
We be now in Mercury’s retrograde shadow…(Dec 12th , Mercury was at 8+ Capricorn, “angel carrying a harp,”- Thank you… Mercury then retrogrades on Dec. 29th, 24 Capricorn, then retrogrades back to station Direct January 18, 2023, at 8+ Capricorn… ta-da!)
So, I did find myself, pre-show in a tizzy….this recording is kerfuffled,,, these many details have gremlins…
And, as I wrote the above, was possessed by a stressed urgency and a dreamy impulse to follow my own advice…
must seek taco, and a walk with dogs in rain, and antique Agatha Christie movie…
for grounding and soothing…
and now am back…replenised-ish…or heading in that direction…
Let’s remember – tis not where we are, so much, as where we’re headed…
This still-point- Solstice time is for gathering our wits, and re-calibrating our dedication.
Tis soon – the Saturnalia…
which queries us “to what are you/we dedicated?!
That all tasks before us be, rather than obligations (elicits rebellion)-
be opportunities,
eliciting – enthusos (“that which makes the divine within us dance”)
Tis a time for replenishing re-enthusing….
and then slowly relaxing back into the embrace of Trickster… and feeling the jolly sobriety and self-possession of Stephen…
with whom my spirit now feels suffused, with fresh appreciation…
(having listened to the shows, so deeply, to extract the segments we played…)
which are pretty darn full of nourishment…
Our collecting of many past Visionary Activist Guests is named
“The Intelligence of our FloraFaunaFungi Kindom:
Dedicated Voices guiding our rogue species to collaborative humility.”
May we dedicate to being such voices on behalf of what we love…
Pluto has returned to exact degree of US Pluto….so we be delving,
into history (“the womb of time” hence, quite Cancerian,
as be Stephen and Sean, both Suns at 23+ Cancer…and dark o Moon lads
Glad they had the fellowship of reciprocal kind encouragement, for the assignment of being Cancerian Guy/Gaia – in the world…)
Death charts, often so heartening… Ascendant a hidden choir is singing.
Sean says, “Let’s see the long-ago dead, emerging to welcome the recently dead…”
And in their embrace feeling their embrace, “well done, lad!”
MC = secret soul of America 9+ Scorpio, “fellowship supper reinites old colleagues.”
Sun is a joyous re-birth festival
Mars is “person gives rousing speech on behalf of the Earth.”
I like thinking of the dedicated dead as still available for participation, from back-stage…
Sun, Uranus Venus in Cancer — Moon exalted in Taurus with Jupiter… unabashed participatory animism…
as you will hear…
