i have warm vest and long sleeves on today, and my radio says 88 degrees on friday.. still not time for corn or basil to endure this elevation and persistent afternoon showers. we are moved indoors with the precip, not such a bad thing, as this farm has internal landscape for craft and creativity.. etching with electricity has become the rabbit hole for me,, creating a new spinner (moving, twirling little lovely) where images spin together to become one. something of a theme with my metal smith self game place i love to explore. My metalsmith hat competes with my farmer hat,, long time this way, still so.. rain gives me the justification for in door world..
john's art from a winter and rainy dayz......
- john’s art from a winter and rainy dayz……
the galactic perspective has long been the best place for john and i to muse for many a decade, and as archeo astronomy and our prehistory has long been a wonderful place for us to go and explore in thought, academic research and travel. it is one of the vibrant places john and i share as we walk the farmer path, and maker’s way..
the alignments of astronomical events through this spring, are those which many calendrical systems from the time before writing as we know it, have very precisely successfully informed us that THEY knew this current astronomy was to occur now.. whether you have an opinion as to what they were telling us,, please add yours to the many,, still the truth is,, they did know of these astronomical times, and built great structures to assure we would notice down the time line, no matter what.. that!! by itself is spectacular.. and is enough for me to rethink my place in time and space… maybe we are just waking up as to who we are in the bigger picture of things.. at least that is my hope and where i choose to support with my heart and daily agenda.. for my self for starters..
you might say there is a song going on in the heavens,, with more than one note to the phrase.
in april venus joins alceyone, center star of the pleiades,, could happen every year about then, but rare to be right on,, very rare.. some say, this is the stars as feathers of quezecoatl.
just past, our ring of fire solar eclipse, which was visible from around the ring of fire of the pacific, also eclipses of the pleiades. ancients built their buildings to honor the return the some stars to the morning sky after the sun moves enough for us to see them again rising ahead of our star..
just before our summer solstice, the pleiades will return to our sky, as a morning constellation.. the sisters bring the seeds from the heart of the galaxy where they sit at the exact spot our solar system meets our galaxy’s ecliptic.. all over the world this is very special time, and if planets rise with the sisters, take note, these will be “interesting” times.
this year, after venus has joined the pleiades, a solar eclipse has also joined the same stars, followed by lunar eclipse and venus (our giver of time for mayans and many other long agos time metranome, and ! at sky’s return arises with venus and jupiter closely embraced. astronomy that acted as base of this chapter of mayan calendar 5125 years ago included an eclipse and venus rising with pleiades.. this time add jupiter to the alignments for gusto.. might we re member we are a feminine species that comes from a nurturing place, and knows of connection all way round!
we are tree frog bird sky self
As we know our thoughts create our realities, as water accepts our thoughts and responds, so does everything. the sound of the gentle rains nourish our mountain forest and creeks known to the cherokee as the long human being.. cleansing and enjoying the cycle of waters through the nature of green earth and sky. the broccolis love it!! lettuces too. might even get some fava beans this year!!
gardens are full of spring fare.. still cool at night for true summers. like basil and 3 sisters,
A teaching from the Ancients tells us that it is the women who create and hold the space that healing happens within. Just as we carry a physical womb, women can weave an external energetic womb and maintain it for entire communities. this land here called sunswept is an energetic embrace of the energy Eiwah, earth mother of this land, so greatly fought for and protected here in the smokeys. may she live long and prosper with our selves open to hear where we are from the resonance with the subtle energies..
In fact, holding space is what we do..and is what we do whether we are conscious of it or not. If we are not aware of this then the space we create can be warped, weak or “leaky”. The more aware of this process we become the more we can not only weave a strong web but continue to keep positive energy flowing into it.
daisy now among a herb with our neighbor's herd, happy for life, we love you
This process does not cost us or feel hard. In fact it is just the opposite. We enjoy all the benefits as well and giving gratitude as response is a wonderful thing to feel. It can improve our health in every aspect to be connected to the larger picture..
Many have awakened to the fact that life is much more than what we experience with our five senses. We are also aware of the shifts and changes happening all around over the face of the entire planet.
new etching technique to make small spinners that move, and make art
Now is a good time to step into a brighter awareness. It is a good time to shed the illusions that we are separate from each other and that we are anything less than one great human family. It is time to include the stones, the animals and the plants in our family and make Earth the home she was meant to be by caring for her in the ways she is meant to be cared for. With this energetic anticipation, we welcome the Juneberry Lovefest this weekend,, http://juneberry.joshfox.com/ the venus eclipse of the sun and the great awakening connections we all share through vast time and all space.. We begin by caring for ourselves, then our families and communities and it spreads as we heal the world.
season’s reseeding
Our swedish relatives are in town, or right now, in the states, in joying the sun from a lower latitude than their homeland provides. for as low as the sun rides this time of the year, those long shadows harbor the contrasts along the side of the warm sun rays of our mountain sky.
let your little light shine
i love this time of the year, when the sun’s circle so clearly radiates on every forest branch around that moments location of the winter sun.
you can see deep into the forest. the leaves no longer rattle when you move over them.. now they are damp and quiet. now you can walk in the woods and remain as invisible as you might like to find out you can be, part of the woods, as blended as the deer.
the seeds have matured from this years growing, and with the hand of the cold north wind release many of these seeds down to the earth, covered with the scatter of leaves blown, and the frost’s upheaval through the night. the growing time is now resting in these seeds, the next generation of growing. one plant makes of itself all it needs, to live and thrive through its time, and, abound with so many seeds!! enough to grow self again and again in the following year, and also enough to feed the bird, and mouse enough to give to those too who will now live too through the winter’s long nights.
to live on a farm is to touch daily these simple truths every day. today i picked lettuces, arugula, and spinach from the seeds of last years plants, planted in late summer to give us fresh greens now. and as i pick to eat, i stir the earth again to prepare for seeds again as the forever circle is near on a farm..
raphael shot 2 deer this year, and we eat well from the land in this way too. the clean drop of the doe gave us delicious meat, and a skin to tan for clothing, a vest to mark the day as deeply gifted with the life of a deer, for our family for winter wellness. we make bone soup, cooked for several days, so the marrow will release into the stock and feed our bones made from the land.
we have met many in circle and gathering here on the farm and this area this year’s season. as was the way of the turkey clan, who hold this area sacred, it is a summer place to celebrate connection with land and water, sky and the connections with the heart of community. we had weekend long celebrations with one another, and the peaceful connection with the warm earth and our farm community here made up of cows, horses, chickens, pigs and us two leggeds who steward food and water needs as they need be. something happens for folks who come from an unnested life when they come here, and find the food we will eat right outside the door, whether as milking the cow, collecting the eggs, or working and picking greens from the garden, there is something beyond grounding that occurs, as words of wisdom are spoken by our retreat leaders, the visible starscape, and land connection works its way up through the soils to the heart of those who come here. i know i see the softening as these weekends progress. we love seeing the smiles broaden and community connections growing more solid and are carried away from here to live on in the minds and hearts of those who have shared a love moment here sometime through the season of the sun.. already we have dates marked to return plans of gathering circles bent on sharing and learning. this next year i have got to get in on the spontaneous song writing and proforming workshop, too much fun.
as asheville continues to unfold as a nature centered city, we will have the first wild food tail gate market starting this spring 2013.
in 2012 we got out in the woods and picked reshi mushrooms, chicken of the wood, morrells, hen of the wood, chanterelle, to name most of what we found. some were sold to local restaurants, as we continue to educate the market to these delicious delights. here in the mountains, we can literally eat well from the woods and pastures before ever planting a garden. true freedom comes with these facts, and adds great nutrition to what does come from the garden and the store. seems people who move through this sunswept farm place find how much fun all this can be. i hope at least some of this rubs off.
we have built, this year, a seed of sorts in our metal working studio.
this year we have build a system of making a pulley pendant that will allow us to move efficiently into the market place near and far. raphael has joined into the making place in our metal shop and helped perfect this little system which will allow us to make this piece as a production item allowing more folks to come to the farm and participate in this young cottage industry we are growing here. talk with some is already underway.. but for now, it is sleep moment here on the farm.. the metal working is put to bed, the cow is dry, the chickens have molted and will eventually lay eggs again.. all is with the long night. as i am too.. we are all but a cycle of life in the ever reseeding that occurs.. if we have made seeds that feed the future with a little nutritional wisdom, we have done our part. if we hold with old ways worth continuing to keep as they allow us to find the holy in nature, this too is a good thing, for these are the seeds of the wellness we can plant for ourselves and our children to grow strong on.. let it be so. happy new year,, we move from 12/12/12 a symbol of completion, to 13, a prime number feminine and whole again born unto itself…
as part of this reseeding, let’s get it on ………. here we come