From Eagle´s finger tip
And Eagle Owl´s palm
Hawk and Night-Hawk rose
From Abalones´ womb
Sweetgrass and Wild Sage
In our dance of honour
Of the receiving and the giving
Your right hand comes into mine
While my head bows over thine
In blissful gratitude
As a black-red gleaming tulip
Anima unfolds my trembling chest
To freely feed on cool-sweet pearls
From bluish-white and sparkling night
Celestials of old
With feet and hands and intellect
I reach and grab their paths
And lightly laughing hold them tight
That know and see I might
When blindly I must sail
Dear Victoria,
Thank you so much for so enhancing ´my´ sailing metaphor. Even on the
largest interior lake of Europe, the Neusiedlersee, there seems to be
little need to tie into the celestial coordinates for orientation.
From Heyerdhal´s adventures, Weiner´s Trobrianders and Tolkien´s
Silmarillion I gained some understanding of the importance of stars
and planets for efficient orientations when navigating the seas at
night.
How precious to internalise the celestial paths, to see them even
when hidden behind clouds, or when vision must be elsewhere. Learning
what can´t be taught by thick volumes and still can be grasped in an
instant.
The Dutch philosopher Van Peursen discerns magic, ontological and
dynamic modes of consciousness. In the first, the boundaries between
self and environment are open and blurred. In the second the two are
closed and discerned, self stands opposite of the environment and
even of itself. In the third they are again closely and strongly
related and open towards another, without losing the own identity,
without forgetting the past.
The proposal to teach how to facilitate like a craft in an
apprenticeship may be part of an answer. For it requires not only
saturation with theory and according knowledge, but also a saturation
of praxis and saturation with the ´materials´ treated. Often, it
takes three years and more of daily work to make a journeyman...
Warm regards,
Franz
--- In ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sneh Victoria
<sneh.victoria@...> wrote:
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Hi Franz,
your metaphor of "sailing through a session" is more than helpful,
is precious.sailors
I would like to add a picture I found on Hawaii: the old true
knew how to find the moon and the stars (for orientation) insidebe
themselves, when the weather was such that no stars nor moon could
seen.challenging
To aim for learning how to do this in constellations could be the
most worth while endeavor for us to follow. And the most
one as well, as it cannot be taught with the tools we arecurrently
using. Good metaphors can be helpful, as is yours. I hope thiscould
be the beginning of a thread about how to teach constellation.
I am glad you took the time to write, please continue. Sneh