Spring Hare Moon
Tucson. The Horse Latitudes.
The second of the three workshops, this one focusing on depth work, finished this afternoon. Again, because of the nature of the workshops, they’re hard to summarize and its difficult to convey their spirit except to say its most like a contemplative secular retreat. Which is, come to think of it, just what it is.
I can convey the spirit of this workshop by transcribing here the results of the next to last exercise. This one was to create a spontaneous statement, a testament, of what we believe to be true right now. This was written following a long meditation, with no forethought.
Here are the things I know to be true:
Love forms the cross on which we all live. The soil is the foundation of life. Our ancestors hold us up, have our backs. (FYI: those of you at Frank’s will know how this came to mind.)
The sun is a god who gives of himself wholly. The light of the sun is holy and blesses what it touches.
The soil embraces the sun, marries the sun, goes into throes of ecstasy with the sun producing, producing, producing.
As the earth turns the soils embrace of the sun weakens and strengthens, weakens and strengthens and from these rhythms we get life eternal, abundant, gracious and undeserved.
We celebrate each other as moving, loving sons and daughters borne of the sun and the soils embrace-nothing more and nothing less. We owe ourselves fealty to these two, our parents, our true god and our true goddess without whom we are nothing-brittle, cold, frozen, shattered.
We need no other religion, no other philosophy, no other politics than fealty to sun and soil. They have given us what we need, they will give us what we need-unless we change their marriage to one which can no longer include the human family. If we do, it will be the final anathema, the true apocalypse and the end of a long love affair.