Another amazing interview with Annick Magac. This one really gets to the heart of the matter. It is worth your time. We explore patterns of living and how we as humans operate in the world.
We had such a good time discussing acupuncture and living in this interview. Thank you Annick. I think this may have been the best interview, that I have ever done.
Totally Loving the sentiment of Transformation. Especially the trends of (inner) emotional imbalance into Revolution-al Action. It is about time, Baby. This is based on the work of Thea Elijah, Lonny Jarrett and a tiny bit of me. Transformation of The Spirit Energies- imbalance into action. SHEN/FIRE- Apathy into Spark- Sovereignty of the Heart directed action. HUN/WOOD- Anger into Vision- Constructive action. YI/EARTH- Worry into Integrity- Ecological action. PO/METAL- Sorrow into Virtue- Righteous action. ZHI/WATER- Fear into Wisdom- Forceful action.
The scent of Spring: smells like wet dirt, birds are loud and chirpy, the sun is stronger and there are signs of green life brewing at our feet. There is also this feeling, one of movement and an impending push forward. The season of Wood, growth and generated energy that transforms into Form. Some people rejoice here, “Ahh, I have been waiting for this and now I can breath and expand.” For others, “I want to stay in the quiet Winter stillness and hide there, do not push me.“ How do you respond to the beginning of Wood time?
“..because medicine always reflects cosmology, the values, beliefs and assumptions that a culture holds about the meaning of nature of life, the universe and being human.” – Thea Elijah So nothing, not even Science is absolute, everything can be re-written. All understanding is at the mercy of the inquisitor.
I had the pleasure of teaching a class on the Five elements to students and faculty at Hudson Valley Sudbury School. It was a great pleasure and lots of fun. Everyone learned a lot.
“The microcosm of mankind was associated with the macrocosm of the universe, which were said to demonstrate the systematic correspondences between the visible and the invisible worlds. Human pain and pathology were attributed to disturbances in the flow of Qi..” – Terry Oleson My interpretation, the single human is a reflection of all the integrated energies that surround us within the environment. These forces can not be separated. All of “mankind” or should we say all of “people-kind” need to move with the flow of life to be healthy, not get stuck. Very basic way of looking at this, but I think some of the simplest ideas are the wisest. This will also support a healthy environment.
Try this exercise: say this “I am precious and you are precious. I am precious, you are precious. We are all precious”. This is based off, Chogyam Trungpa’s concept of Basic Goodness, we were all born whole, with no marks to defect us. As we grow up here in this Western culture, they tell us we are defective, mostly because someone wants us to be weak, so that we are easier to control. They told us we were not precious because they want to make money off us. They wanted to abuse us and let us flatter their shallow egos. If we knew we were precious and could rely on our internal power and guiding principles, then we cannot be swayed easily. We would not be nearly as gullible. I know this as truth and yet I still can not totally surmount the hurdle of precious enough. I am a…
The lovely wise and fierce Hag. The one we are all afraid of finding in the woods, because she will eat our hearts or the one that we shudder to become ourselves. The Hag is not limited by romantic love, she is not bound to her children for an identity. She is not even successful in the world of business and money. She is not intelligent or a good girl, she is not a nurturer. She will not mimic the power dynamic of any externalized source. She is embodied and empowered from within and that is not dependent on her actions. She is precious from the beginning until the end of her spark here on the planet
“Authentic and lasting healing does not come prepackaged as sweet and syrupy wisdom to spoon-fed to lost souls, nor does it aim to fix what we perceive as broken. True healing is born of both awareness and integration- nothing more and nothing less. True healing is an eternal, often cyclical process through which we discover the roots of our unique passions and wounds, framing them not as, respectively positive and negative but, rather as interconnected gifts that, when brought out of the cavernous depths where we buried them during childhood, cast a clear gleam on precisely whey we are here.” Danielle Dulsky There is something about the tone, the lull, of this style of writing that reminds me of Tom Robbins’ literature. A window deep within my cranium is opening slowly and connecting the dots. I think the sound is that of the primal feminine, dancing with the linear language.…