Caroline welcomes Ben Goldfarb, environmental journalist, author, editor, and a “Beaver Believer” – a growing coalition of scientists, ranchers, and other allies who”recognize that ecosystems with beavers are far healthier than those without them.”
Welcome Allies to Visionary Activist Show
aka as Democratic Animism Now!
Democracy Now! on mushrooms
re-wedding science and animism.
“Animism – not a belief – just good manners!”
Cooperators Are Standing By!
Before we bring in our most skookum guest, Ben Goldfarb
re minding,
We are shape-shifting “Fund Drive”into a beavery invitation, to construct a dam to hold the waters of life, good for all in the hood..
(Let’s all shape-shift in a beavery manner )
Yo Team, a worthy show, and a great book…
All stories lead us to all stories..
“Eager reveals that our modern conception of a natural landscape is wrong, distorted by the trapping of millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat.
Today, a growing coalition of “Beaver Believers” — including scientists, ranchers, and passionate citizens — recognizes that ecosystems with beavers are far healthier than those without them. From the Nevada deserts to the Scottish highlands, Believers are now restoring these industrious rodents to their former haunts.
Eager is the powerful story of how one of the world’s most influential species can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and climate change — and how we can learn to coexist with our fellow travelers on this planet.”
I was all feeling all squinched by many things, micro and macro ….that felt conflicting and overwhelming…
(Remember, Caroline, and all: being daunted means Saturn, our autonomy has been out-sourced to the circumstance… So we inhale it back in, call our gotten goats back…)
Animism encourages us to give everything a name, every task… thus forming a wittier, more fluid relationship…of collaboration (We “get to!” rather than “got to.”)
So I Tossed the I Ching, eager
for guiding auguries…
17. “Following,
move with the flow
Spirit moves into the world through us.
Yield to the path
Be guided by the way things are moving..
Let go of all old quarrels and sorrows.”
Good guiding.
So I went swimming before show.
Good move…
Light! Motion!
Changed to Hexagram 45. “Gather and ascend the sacred Mountain…Time for great projects…”
Biomimicry, democratic animism is the sine qua non…
Beavers help fire-proof the land…
Let’s become allies with all the indigenous Flora Fauna Intelligence around us…
Rosalyn LaPier, ethno botanist, member of the BlackFeet Tribe in NW Montana:
“Sky, Earth, and Water World, the latter inhabited by Soyiitepi, water beings…”
among whom Beaver be Blessed and honored..
“We were raised to be really respectful of the water world and the supernatural entities that lived there.”
Yes, well, that is what our chart guides…
Sun-Neptune conjoin in Pisces, Neptune’s Realm, of all the water beings…
That we all pour cooling waters of collaborative Peace on the conflagration…
Because of Beavers, much of the Earth was vast wetlands, seving as a giant sponge, good for all creatures…
Then the lucrative fur trade, hats….
Driven almost to extinction by human cruelty and greed….
Yet, they are returning…from the brink… and if we become more like them…so may world…
Cooperative Community Beings with vast architectural ingenuity…
no malice…
Great teeth…
(calling on them as I head into more dental adventures…)
and within them a vast microbiome – 1400 species of bacteria..
Community, without – community within…
and diligent maintenance of their homes and projects every night.
Inspiring.
The Sun- Neptune Squares Moon in Gemini, pretty cool dancing with square to give conversational – radio broadcast to Water allies…
quincunx Pluto… Situation dire,
let us converse with what we love.
Venus and Mars dance together in Aquarius…
Venus’ image is:
“The council of ancestors – a young leader listens to their voices.”
(To the ancestors – we’re all young.)
Mars – Restoring a lost condition of reverent collaborative cahooting to the world…
And so we pledge, vow, dedicate…
We are not alone
We have accomplices and allies …
