Month: Mar 2019

Happy Spring.
The blossom is appearing from many a tree, the lawns are a scattering of yellows, leaves are unfolding from the tips of of branches and brave seedling push themselves out into the air from the fertile earth, to dance with the bees.
May you feel enough spaciousness within, that you allow yourself to open to the life force that awakens at this time, within each natural being on this land, including human animals.
May you open to your sap rising and be tender to your own internal seedlings and plans that want to brave new paths with you.
May you give yourself space to go out and dance in the blossom, admire bumble bees bottoms and smile at bright new shoots.

•art by Phoebe Wahl•
•words by Brigit Anna McNeill•

Two peculiar ‘crop circles’ have recently been spotted in Japan’s Miyazaki Prefecture. Viewable only from above, they were formed by sugi (Japanese cedar) trees.

According to information from Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, in 1973 an area of land near Nichinan City was designated as “experimental forestry” and one of the experiments was to try and measure the effect of tree spacing on growth. The experiment was carried out by planting trees in 10 degree radial increments forming 10 concentric circles of varying diameters.

Part of what makes the crop circles so alluring are their concave shape, which was an unexpected result of the experiment that would suggest tree density does indeed affect growth. The trees are due to be harvested in about 5 years but officials are now considering preserving the crop circles.

https://goo.gl/maps/hRGDnJEP1QE2

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.”

~Terence McKenna