alchemy of prana

... the beauty and power of aligning aspects of our psyche to the four seasons of Earth, four times of day, and associated four directions, innately moves our psychology past duality constructs and into a relational and ongoing field of existence.

What I carry with me now, into this changing of the light and emergence of the seasons, is this: I am a student of the ceremony and all who walk themselves into and through such potent endeavors. What I found in the basement, in the fertile unraveling, was just that: being a wilderness rite of passage guide is not about teaching; it is about apprenticing oneself to the ceremony and all who enter.

A soft cloud covered the sun today, I saw it from inside the canvas tent. Within that cloud, a full rainbow circling the star–-radiance created in collaboration with the frozen canvas of white above. Nearby, the questers were doing their work, easing their way into their third day on the land in ceremony.

There is a false dichotomy between nature and the human world, a persistent story for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years that asserts that we humans are somehow outside of, beyond, or greater than and different from the wilder-than-human world.