♥️🌞♥️ Pluto is leaving Capricorn once and for all in just another few short days. He will make his home for many years in Aquarius, empowering collective will. May this Will that he empowers be the one all humans share, whether they know it or not. It is Love. Love is the Law, May he bring with him the strength to know the good in the heart of those who “know not what they do.” May a reckoning be kind and occur in the heart and not in the streets. We are so much better than how we appear today, angry, afraid, and intimidated. There is hope in seeing how much we can lose when guided by animal impulse. We are meant for greater things. Thank you, Todd. The good work of loving is upon us. Lear’s rise to its urgent demand.
Thank you for your presence and your peace, Todd. It's frightening, but your work encourages me.
I was thinking today about how empires (including, especially, fascist ones) rely on the cosmology of the holy mountain: the conceit that we live in a world apart from God, where truth only comes down from the peak and can only be interpreted by those able to ascend. Fascist thought depends on the illusion of separation from absolute purity, beauty, and goodness, and the promise that a purge (or a climb) can reconcile the worlds.
I don't dismiss the mountain as a helpful concept. I think it can be very meaningful for individuals and societies that can temper the ego response to it through, perhaps, initiatory rites or class consciousness, but I wonder what it would look like to base a cosmology within the world tree instead.
It is hard to be charitable toward people who are actively seeking a world without people like me in it, but I am truly trying to sit in their hearts and understand what drove them there. As best as I am hearing, when I am listening as faithfully as I can, there is a persistent disconnect they feel with the natural world and with their neighbors. There is a sense that we all are living on isolated islands in a rising and unforgiving sea.
I think your work - the work of rooting into place in a living, animated, and responsive world - is a remedy to this. A cosmology centered around the world tree invites all beings into itself as a great composite, unified by the divine dance instead of being sun-bleached into sameness. What do we get to open up to when the good and holy not only descends down from the branches, but is also embodied in the roots?
I don't know the answer. Maybe thinking there is a single "the answer" is also a construct of absolutist, isolated, top-down thinking. As much as I wish a paradigm shift would "fix" it, it seems the world tree is as vulnerable to weaponization as the holy mountain is, whether by Odinic Rite white supremacists or, in its incarnation as the cross, by Christofascists. So, for now, I'm putting my hope and my faith into the network of roots - of people like you who are rooted, and in my own ability to do the same. Even if the tree as a symbol won't heal us, the act of living into the reality of the tree (or the cross), may.
Thank you for insights, Clay. I especially like the comparison of the cosmology of the mountain vs. that of the tree. Unfortunately all mythologies can be vulnerable to weaponization, if we allow them to be, even as you say our beloved world tree. But a forest is a network of trees, all connected by roots and fungus, insects etc. The tree only lives in relationship and so do we. Thank you for being here and being you❤️
♥️🌞♥️ Pluto is leaving Capricorn once and for all in just another few short days. He will make his home for many years in Aquarius, empowering collective will. May this Will that he empowers be the one all humans share, whether they know it or not. It is Love. Love is the Law, May he bring with him the strength to know the good in the heart of those who “know not what they do.” May a reckoning be kind and occur in the heart and not in the streets. We are so much better than how we appear today, angry, afraid, and intimidated. There is hope in seeing how much we can lose when guided by animal impulse. We are meant for greater things. Thank you, Todd. The good work of loving is upon us. Lear’s rise to its urgent demand.
Indeed, Robert. Now is the time. Let’s make something good come from all of this chaos,
Thank you for speaking out to how we are all feeling. Allowing oneself to grieve, then stand up and fight!
Thanks love❤️ The grieving is an important step.
Well said Brother.
Thanks David!
Thank you for your presence and your peace, Todd. It's frightening, but your work encourages me.
I was thinking today about how empires (including, especially, fascist ones) rely on the cosmology of the holy mountain: the conceit that we live in a world apart from God, where truth only comes down from the peak and can only be interpreted by those able to ascend. Fascist thought depends on the illusion of separation from absolute purity, beauty, and goodness, and the promise that a purge (or a climb) can reconcile the worlds.
I don't dismiss the mountain as a helpful concept. I think it can be very meaningful for individuals and societies that can temper the ego response to it through, perhaps, initiatory rites or class consciousness, but I wonder what it would look like to base a cosmology within the world tree instead.
It is hard to be charitable toward people who are actively seeking a world without people like me in it, but I am truly trying to sit in their hearts and understand what drove them there. As best as I am hearing, when I am listening as faithfully as I can, there is a persistent disconnect they feel with the natural world and with their neighbors. There is a sense that we all are living on isolated islands in a rising and unforgiving sea.
I think your work - the work of rooting into place in a living, animated, and responsive world - is a remedy to this. A cosmology centered around the world tree invites all beings into itself as a great composite, unified by the divine dance instead of being sun-bleached into sameness. What do we get to open up to when the good and holy not only descends down from the branches, but is also embodied in the roots?
I don't know the answer. Maybe thinking there is a single "the answer" is also a construct of absolutist, isolated, top-down thinking. As much as I wish a paradigm shift would "fix" it, it seems the world tree is as vulnerable to weaponization as the holy mountain is, whether by Odinic Rite white supremacists or, in its incarnation as the cross, by Christofascists. So, for now, I'm putting my hope and my faith into the network of roots - of people like you who are rooted, and in my own ability to do the same. Even if the tree as a symbol won't heal us, the act of living into the reality of the tree (or the cross), may.
Thank you for insights, Clay. I especially like the comparison of the cosmology of the mountain vs. that of the tree. Unfortunately all mythologies can be vulnerable to weaponization, if we allow them to be, even as you say our beloved world tree. But a forest is a network of trees, all connected by roots and fungus, insects etc. The tree only lives in relationship and so do we. Thank you for being here and being you❤️