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🌖Blood Moon Menstralia 🌔

Posted on January 2, 2019April 8, 2019 by Deep.Earth.Dreaming

Painting with my moon blood is a reclamation practice for me... One of the many ways I have found to change my relationship with what used to be 'the red curse'....

Posted in Art, Music and Expression, Women's MysteriesTagged #menstruation #periods #mooncycle #cycles #seasons #bloodmysteries #redcurse #blood #menstralia #bloodart

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We are thoroughly trained to be ashamed of and avoid what mechanicalists call anthropomorphism; that is, the “projection” onto other life forms or even inanimate objects of human attributes. This dynamic, the accusation of anthropomorphism, has only one function: to shame and shut down any innate recognition of the livingness and intelligence of anything other than the human. It keeps people oriented toward the belief that the world is just a collection of resources there for our use, that humans are somehow exceptional, different, more valuable than the rest of the natural world. - Stephen Harrod Buhner Artist Unknown
"The mystical experience invites us out of the story-of-self and the story-of-the-world that we’d taken for reality itself, but there has been no firmly established new story to greet us." "We emerge from the experience surrounded by the infrastructure of the old story. The apparatus of modernity shouts that story at us from every quarter." "No wonder vivid mystical realizations gradually fade: into principles one must strive hard to remember and practice; into memories of another realm seemingly sundered from our own; finally into a formless ennui that mutes every ambition and punctuates every accomplishment with a question mark." _____ "Why does this happen? One might cite a psychospiritual explanation: that we are flown to a place that eventually we must reach on foot; that we need to experience the territory in between, and thereby rework the habits and heal the wounds that maintain the inertia of who-we-were." "Yes, but there is an equally important outer explanation that, we shall see, mirrors the inner: No experience can magically extricate anyone from the matrix of institutions that scaffold our society." "We come back from the trip into the same economic system, the same physical surroundings, the same social pressures as before." _____ "The Story of Separation has enormous inertia. Its forms surround us and pull us relentlessly toward conformity, however unreal and unworthy of our wholehearted participation they may seem." "In other words, a mystical experience may invite you to quit your job, but even those who have the courage to do it usually face the reality that our economy does not reward the modes of creativity that draw them." "I know I am generalizing here, but no one can deny that generally speaking, there is more money to be made by destroying wetlands to build ports than in striving to protect them; more money marketing product than rebuilding community." "Leaving the old, there is not usually a “new story” to greet us with ready-made positions, livelihood, and social identity." _____ - @charles_eisenstein , Author of "The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible" and others.
I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW. Feeling into the larger patterns unfolding on holonic levels beyond view...leaning into that place of not knowing what I don't yet know. Moving between the disorientation of chaos and roiling uncertainty and the exhilaration of change and space opening where once there was none. Finding myself both frightened and excited, frozen and moved by these wild times... There is a quietness, a gathering inside- and also a bracing for the tsunami... I feel both relief and concern... I feel fear, contraction, holding... and also release, opening and a letting go. I feel my fingers itching to make... to make food. Medicine. Art. Gardens. Music. Love. And also to grip tightly onto what is known. I feel my dreams spilling over from a place deeper than myself... and songs itching to be born from the flowers and bees I adore. I feel the decomposing fingers of death at the edges of my awareness... caught between my reluctance to look and my compulsive inability to look away. I feel the whispers of ancestors long passed, and their tales of worlds ending... each dismantling making way for the birth of my own world. I feel the tug of the myriad bodies that nourished this one, and an even deeper pull of the larger body that my small life will fold back into. I don't know. I don't know. But I do feel. I feel a hum moving upwards from the deep and an unexplainable longing to softly touch my world. Artist Unknown
Making beautiful medicine🌹 I'm calling in the support of these two beloved allies, Rose and Passionflower. I feel so turned on by both of these beauties, not only are they gorgeous but they smell out of this world and both have a calming effect on the nervous system (nervine). With all the chaos in the air at the moment, it feels especially important to care for overactive nervous systems... Grateful to @loveandlara for turning me onto the magic of roses a few years ago- they are deceptively potent medicine for the times 🌹🌹
Has anyone else noticed the 'apocolypse gardening' trend? Literally ALL the seeds and seedlings for winter are gone, even a bunch of online websites are sold out!! Suddenly everyone has realised how important it is to grow food and medicine🙌🌱💚 Can't decide if I should despair or rejoice, but it definitely makes more sense than the ridiculous toilet paper hoarding crisis 🤣 So fess up, who of you are apocolypse gardening?? We definitely are!! I reckon the next step is to create neighbourhood food security networks where we can trade produce, seeds and products we make... resilience building in action 💚
DREAMING WITH THE PLANTS 💜 As the rat-wheel of Industrial Growth Culture winds down... as the uncertainty, fear and anxiety heighten... as spaces open up where there was none before... This feels like a really good time to lean into other-than-human relationships, both seen and unseen. I've been experiencing a real sense of holding, inner support, resourcing and regulation with the plant's during this wild time. Those who know me, know I've had a love affair with Passionflower for the last 6years... We have traversed many layers and continents together and this being is always revealing new aspects to me, always calling me back into connection with my wider earth body. I've had several dream visits from Passionflower recently and felt called to gather a fair quantity to make some flower essence and elixir for the weeks ahead. I also just love to sit and sing, pray and meditate with the plant's, which is such good medicine in and of itself. Wondering if we can use this time to skillfully deepen into these other-than-human relationships? To widen our network of belonging to that which goes beyond this shaky human-made world? To slow down and listen. Really listen. Feeling gratitude to the deep well of ancestral intelligence and the vast network of relationships that have allowed me to exist as the fruit of this crazy moment. Remembering that we are, each of us, made for this time and that we have gifts to offer up in this great unravelling... Praying that we don't rush too quickly to fill the space that's opened... that we can take this chance to let what's happening work on us... that maybe, just maybe, this can be another step- maybe even a big step toward another kind of world. That's my dream 💚💜

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