ST Healing Love-IntoBalance October2022 - Flipbook - Page 48
Illustration Key:
Ant Nest: A nest of ants works as one self-organizing, self healing
system building ant-scale underground cities that demonstrate
applied collective power, decentralized organization, and belowthe-surface structures designed for every body.
Cave: Our oldest humxn ancestors used the resonance in caves
to amplify prayer. Our deep wellsprings of rich underground
mineralized water, that which has dripped inward, containing the
mysteries of vast internal darkness.
Water Cycle: The life giving rain blesses the canopy, collects at the
feet, carves deep underground caverns. Water is co-creative, lifegiving, ecological wholeness.
Amatl Paper: Made from the pulp of the Amatl tree, this fibrous,
woven paper descends from an ancient papermaking tradition
that was used for thousands of years to make records of Nahua
cosmology in painted codices. The legacy of recording peoples’
knowledges lives unbroken in the present day.
Sunflowers: Faces devotionally following the light, sunflowers are
one flower made of thousands of tiny flowers, generously giving
pollen for the pollinators and seeds for the birds.
Perspective: We look up on ourselves, a moss-eye-view of things.
The feeling of aliveness lives in this threshold of above and below,
sand between toes, the forest’s delight in muddy bare feet soaking
up the dirt’s minerals. Our connection to the Earth is erotic, it
restores us to life.
Pedestals: The pedestal stands empty, there are no worshippers
around. In the web of relations at the foot of the tree, power is
amongst us, not over us.
Moon: Our oldest teacher of rhythms, cycles, waxing and waning,
death and rebirth, rising and falling waters, and balance of it all.
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