There is so much I love about this piece Markael. The wheel of the year, with its unique patterns is a devotion for me. I found it interesting to look at the honeybee’s wheel and consider our conversation thread about new year’s and the renewal of cycles.
I resonate with your words here:
“I do not believe we can truly reconnect by simply adopting the old ways, even if those ways were created by our own distant ancestors. I feel we must instead become rooted in place, cultivate immersion and curiosity, and ultimately develop our own traditions that connect to our own rhythms, our own experiences, our own sacred places.”
Yes, I feel this.
I love the idea of creating a personal wheel of the year like you have shown. That seems like such a sweet and meaningful way to bring more attention and awareness to the cycles. Would be a fun activity to do with children.
Lastly, your cricket concerto with your father truly inspires me!
This matches my experiences with how the seasons change too. I now want to follow your lead and make a wheel for myself, and include biodynamic rhythms as I’m beginning to understand them. Thanks Mark!
Oh, and what the animals do. For example the cats are wanting more food and their coats are fluffing up. The spiders are starting to move in to houses and buildings, the chickens are changing their laying patterns. The dog is pretty much my constant companion, but that’s her! She is fluffing up too though.
Our cat is definitely wanting more food - I hadn't thought of that as having a seasonal connection. The spiders moving in are OK; the rats not so much :-). But you remind me that there are many more dimensions to include.
I find this incredibly inspiring, as an invitation into intimacy.. and also a kind of accountability to the body/earth. I really love your personal wheel, and the honeybee’s wheel 💔 it gives me so much to think about, particularly now as the cycles become so evident again. 🙏🌌🌀
Thank you Kate! An invitation to intimacy, to noticing and experiencing each transient passing - I hadn't thought of it quite that way. Also that there are times in midsummer and (especially) midwinter when we can lose track of the cycles in a certain stability, until the moment that they reassert themselves.
I have always gravitated toward work and activities that exist within a yearly cycle - gardening, seed farming, birdwatching, astronomy, foraging - and at the same time I've felt something of an aversion to activities that are more consistent and repetitive, like the daily milking of goats or growing a continuous succession of greens for market. I think it is just in my nature to want to live cyclically.
Best of luck with your wheel practice — I’m also working on creating more ritual around these occasions this year :)
There is so much I love about this piece Markael. The wheel of the year, with its unique patterns is a devotion for me. I found it interesting to look at the honeybee’s wheel and consider our conversation thread about new year’s and the renewal of cycles.
I resonate with your words here:
“I do not believe we can truly reconnect by simply adopting the old ways, even if those ways were created by our own distant ancestors. I feel we must instead become rooted in place, cultivate immersion and curiosity, and ultimately develop our own traditions that connect to our own rhythms, our own experiences, our own sacred places.”
Yes, I feel this.
I love the idea of creating a personal wheel of the year like you have shown. That seems like such a sweet and meaningful way to bring more attention and awareness to the cycles. Would be a fun activity to do with children.
Lastly, your cricket concerto with your father truly inspires me!
This matches my experiences with how the seasons change too. I now want to follow your lead and make a wheel for myself, and include biodynamic rhythms as I’m beginning to understand them. Thanks Mark!
Oh, and what the animals do. For example the cats are wanting more food and their coats are fluffing up. The spiders are starting to move in to houses and buildings, the chickens are changing their laying patterns. The dog is pretty much my constant companion, but that’s her! She is fluffing up too though.
Our cat is definitely wanting more food - I hadn't thought of that as having a seasonal connection. The spiders moving in are OK; the rats not so much :-). But you remind me that there are many more dimensions to include.
Thanks Annette, and I would be curious to see how biodynamic rhythms interweave!
I find this incredibly inspiring, as an invitation into intimacy.. and also a kind of accountability to the body/earth. I really love your personal wheel, and the honeybee’s wheel 💔 it gives me so much to think about, particularly now as the cycles become so evident again. 🙏🌌🌀
Thank you Kate! An invitation to intimacy, to noticing and experiencing each transient passing - I hadn't thought of it quite that way. Also that there are times in midsummer and (especially) midwinter when we can lose track of the cycles in a certain stability, until the moment that they reassert themselves.
I have always gravitated toward work and activities that exist within a yearly cycle - gardening, seed farming, birdwatching, astronomy, foraging - and at the same time I've felt something of an aversion to activities that are more consistent and repetitive, like the daily milking of goats or growing a continuous succession of greens for market. I think it is just in my nature to want to live cyclically.
yes!! I 100% lost track of time passing this summer, and then suddenly the change caught me. And what a relief....
birdwatching forever.