Elianah
03-25-2006, 02:50 PM
As I write this piece the snow has almost disappeared from the ground from a very unusual but not very unlikely early spring storm. The joke here is that Mother Nature had her own idea of “March Madness” for us, although the storm is supposed to hit either during the Girls State or Boys State Basketball tournament. The Boys State tournament ended over two days before the storm rolled into Iowa and about twelve hours after the vernal equinox. The remaining vestiges of winter are having their last laugh after giving the state one of the warmest Januarys and Februarys on record.
What interests me is the Vernal Equinox: that time when the lightscape is in balance. The day is as long as the night. Latency and awakening dancing together in the threshold. Or, to use a agricultural metaphor, fallow land and cultivated land together as one. The land is not yet seeded yet ready to take the seed, ready for the infinite possibilities that surround it for another creative year.
Both equinoxes provide humanity a chance to stand in the shaman’s doorway of the netherworld, a place where dualities disappear, where all are connected and all are able to evolve to their highest and greatest good for this lifetime, if they so choose. Both equinoxes are important because they reconnect humanity to the cycles of the Earth, dimensions and the mutliverse and the cycles of human physicality: birth, creativity and latency.
Most of us move through all of these cycles pretty automatically without thinking about them because we believe we have more “important” things to do in this world. The cycles seem quaint, something not needed to be considered at a high level of consciousness because they will happen without any input from us.
Yet it is the time of the equinoxes where we are given the chance to realize that we are co-creators with all the possibilities of the multiverse: we are the shaman, we are the doorway, we are duality and yet we are beyond. We can connect with all possibilities to see the flow of creation as it passes by. We can choose where we want to dive into the unchannelled, unfettered, unregulated, uncontrolled, disordered stream of creativity and allow it to wash over us until we are ready to return to the beach with the bounty we have received from the seas of creativity.
Each equinox provides us a brief moment in this timescape we physically participate in to witness the creative flow in its purest state and allow us to become part of that flow, however long we choose. This flow is timeless in nature, encompassing what was, is and will be defined as “reality.” The equinoxes are the moments humanity has the chance to celebrate the planting and the harvest: one seed planted may generate incalculable possibilities until we choose the possibility that we believe at the moment best serves us and that possibility sprouts forth into a reality where it will generate incalculable possibilities to be harvested as seed potential for the next planting.
The equinoxes give us the shamanic threshold to see all these possibilities without any fear. We can choose to stand outside the door in the current created world, enter through the door into the next created world, or, if we are brave enough, to stand within the doorway and behold the collapse of both of those worlds into a singularity of unmitigated creativity. By standing in the doorway we hold the paradox of both worlds in our hands to be studied and experienced simultaneously. We can see the “realities” and “unrealities” and how they intermingle to create the “world” we “see” and choose to participate in on the physical plane.
For some, this beholding of the paradox is a wellspring of creativity. For others, it may engender what society calls madness. It all depends on how we choose to use the shaman’s tools as we stand in the doorway.
The equinoxes give humanity a chance for all to become shamans, if we so choose. The shaman’s way is not easy for it means we would all need to step outside our safe perceptual boxes and hold the “others” ideas as valid as ours ideas are. The shaman’s way, I believe, says that all ideas are possibilities which can manifest respectfully beside one another without deeming one being right or another being wrong, for all ideas will collapse back into the singularity of creativity. Different types of order will manifest for different types of people and groups of people. And different types of order can co-exist peacefully with one another as long as they are held as being equally valid for those who choose them.
Humans do not need to agree with one another to respect the validity of others’ choices. It is only when a person or group of people demand that their views and choices are absolutely right and that all should bow down to their version of the world as the only acceptable version of humanity’s vision. Each person’s or group’s world view is valid for them alone and others who disagree with them are also valid. That is another paradox of the equinioxes: everything and everyone is valid and has a role to play in the continuing evolution of the Earth and humanity.
The major paradox of the equinoxes is that all forms of order will collapse back into the singularity of creativity and that singularity will birth new forms of order. From fallow to cultivated and back, always in cycle, always in becoming.
What interests me is the Vernal Equinox: that time when the lightscape is in balance. The day is as long as the night. Latency and awakening dancing together in the threshold. Or, to use a agricultural metaphor, fallow land and cultivated land together as one. The land is not yet seeded yet ready to take the seed, ready for the infinite possibilities that surround it for another creative year.
Both equinoxes provide humanity a chance to stand in the shaman’s doorway of the netherworld, a place where dualities disappear, where all are connected and all are able to evolve to their highest and greatest good for this lifetime, if they so choose. Both equinoxes are important because they reconnect humanity to the cycles of the Earth, dimensions and the mutliverse and the cycles of human physicality: birth, creativity and latency.
Most of us move through all of these cycles pretty automatically without thinking about them because we believe we have more “important” things to do in this world. The cycles seem quaint, something not needed to be considered at a high level of consciousness because they will happen without any input from us.
Yet it is the time of the equinoxes where we are given the chance to realize that we are co-creators with all the possibilities of the multiverse: we are the shaman, we are the doorway, we are duality and yet we are beyond. We can connect with all possibilities to see the flow of creation as it passes by. We can choose where we want to dive into the unchannelled, unfettered, unregulated, uncontrolled, disordered stream of creativity and allow it to wash over us until we are ready to return to the beach with the bounty we have received from the seas of creativity.
Each equinox provides us a brief moment in this timescape we physically participate in to witness the creative flow in its purest state and allow us to become part of that flow, however long we choose. This flow is timeless in nature, encompassing what was, is and will be defined as “reality.” The equinoxes are the moments humanity has the chance to celebrate the planting and the harvest: one seed planted may generate incalculable possibilities until we choose the possibility that we believe at the moment best serves us and that possibility sprouts forth into a reality where it will generate incalculable possibilities to be harvested as seed potential for the next planting.
The equinoxes give us the shamanic threshold to see all these possibilities without any fear. We can choose to stand outside the door in the current created world, enter through the door into the next created world, or, if we are brave enough, to stand within the doorway and behold the collapse of both of those worlds into a singularity of unmitigated creativity. By standing in the doorway we hold the paradox of both worlds in our hands to be studied and experienced simultaneously. We can see the “realities” and “unrealities” and how they intermingle to create the “world” we “see” and choose to participate in on the physical plane.
For some, this beholding of the paradox is a wellspring of creativity. For others, it may engender what society calls madness. It all depends on how we choose to use the shaman’s tools as we stand in the doorway.
The equinoxes give humanity a chance for all to become shamans, if we so choose. The shaman’s way is not easy for it means we would all need to step outside our safe perceptual boxes and hold the “others” ideas as valid as ours ideas are. The shaman’s way, I believe, says that all ideas are possibilities which can manifest respectfully beside one another without deeming one being right or another being wrong, for all ideas will collapse back into the singularity of creativity. Different types of order will manifest for different types of people and groups of people. And different types of order can co-exist peacefully with one another as long as they are held as being equally valid for those who choose them.
Humans do not need to agree with one another to respect the validity of others’ choices. It is only when a person or group of people demand that their views and choices are absolutely right and that all should bow down to their version of the world as the only acceptable version of humanity’s vision. Each person’s or group’s world view is valid for them alone and others who disagree with them are also valid. That is another paradox of the equinioxes: everything and everyone is valid and has a role to play in the continuing evolution of the Earth and humanity.
The major paradox of the equinoxes is that all forms of order will collapse back into the singularity of creativity and that singularity will birth new forms of order. From fallow to cultivated and back, always in cycle, always in becoming.