Waxing Full Moon Saint Patrick’s Day
and Pi day…
(that was the quip, about the latest Corona Virus evolution, from Omicron to Pi, ‘twould begin on 3.14 – and go on forever…)
To begin brewing St Patrick’s day,
Sean Padraic O’Donohue will be joining us this evening…
He writes:
“The Irish idiom so eloquently describes the reality of these times in a way that the English idiom does not: tá brón orainn. In Irish you do not say “We are sad,” you say “grief is upon us.”
Grief is heavy upon us all, whether we name it or not. The suffering caused by the wars of humans and the war on the Earth impact every heart. I am not speaking metaphorically. Our emotions change the electromagnetic fields of our hearts, and the electromagnetic fields of our hearts change and are changed by every living thing.
Collective grief cannot be borne alone. And it can be eased and healed by our wild kin, the plants.
The aromatic compounds of all plants, the light molecules that they exhale, tells us that our wild green relations are present, which resets the connection between the brain and the heart, and allows our heart rate to come back to the variability that allows it to change its rhythm with the rhythms of life.
In times of grief, I am drawn most to the evergreens. I spend time among Spruce and Pine, eat Spruce tips, brew teas with Pine needles, gather and burn Spruce resin and Pine resin. They help me move the grief I hold in my lungs.
The goal is not to suppress the grief or separate from it, but to allow it to move through. And to find the support in connection to be able to respond to loss and destruction with presence and creativity.
We are part of the Earth become individually conscious. We can heal ourselves by weaving back into the living web of consciousness from which we evolved and emerged. And we can begin to do that just by breathing with trees.”
And let us speak further of the Mystery of Death, and its sacrament of grief.
I learned of another great friend, essential part of my team, my animistic gardener ally, Laura Foster, died recently, and young, and we had so many plans for Spring.
As a friend said, “Now she is Spring!”
… a huge jolt of surprise, and yet there is a symmetry of solace in her transits..exact Saturn return at my North Node 19+ Aquarius, “A white dove descends bearing a message of Peace.” And exact Uranus trine her Moon in Virgo…
So, I presume no certainty re the Big Mystery- but I feel to image the beautiful dead as helping, continuing to contribute their gifts to us….
and Sean further writes:
“I don’t know if you ever came across Renny, but he was a grand soul indeed.
My second or third arrest was with him in 1997, climbing the fence at Seabrook to plant Sunflowers on the Chernobyl anniversary.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/obituaries/renny-cushing-dead.html
all homage, a fellow water dragon… July 20,1952
And Brent Renaud, killed yesterday in Ukraine…
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/obituaries/brent-renaud-dead.html
The waxing Moon soars overhead in Leo, quincunx Jupiter in Pisces,, at the Eleusynnian degree… I love the Leo Pisces conversing: Tis not “performance” tis ritual magic…
and tis a conversing betwixt worlds….
The Sun Neptune-Jupiter conjunction, encourages: surely , we can, with the Dead, spiral forth imagined blessings…(sextile Uranus in Taurus, which squares the Moon…)
That all be done with and for the earth…
Jonathan Pie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAblAQENQhE
Here’s the deft diagnosis….
For us to wonder the Cure
Manly P Hall’s birthday tomorrow…
Calling in Manley…(and am dusting off his books)
March 18, 1901
Wikipedia Manly P. Hall: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manly_P._Hall
and this, for ruminating
Your Brain Is Not a Computer. It Is a Transducer
A new theory of how the brain works — neural transduction theory — might upend everything we know about consciousness and the universe itself.
Robert Epstein · Aug 25, 2021 · Discover Magazine https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/your-brain-is-not-a-computer-it-is-a-transducer
