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Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'Sojourns in a Parallel World', by Denise Levertov
We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our...


Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'Learning from Trees', by Grace Butcher
If we could, like the trees, practice dying, do it every year just as something we do— like going on vacation or celebrating birthdays,...


Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'On Pain', by Kahlil Gibran
And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain. And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as...


Seasonal Poetry & Prose: 'Wild Geese', by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...


Is time your friend or master?
'We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.' - H.G. Wells....


Filaments of Connection - from the Macrocosm to Microcosm, and back
When it comes to mythology and ancient indigenous wisdom it is generally accepted that the stars, constellations, and the cosmos itself...


How can an Owl catch a Mouse underneath a foot of snow in total darkness?
Owls do have excellent vision, but one would need either infrared or x-ray vision to see a small mammal under snow. Instead, owls do much...


Ten Love Letters to the Earth, by Thich Nhat Hanh
In honor of the passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, we are sharing his Ten Love Letters to the Earth. These meditations are an...


Wintering, and how Trees illuminate the Art of Self-Renewal in difficult times
“Wintering… is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a...


The Complex Root Systems of Plants
Winter is the season of the earth element and earth, and it's hard to speak about earth without speaking about physical roots, our...


On Smoke, Mirrors, and Shadow Play
One of the interesting qualities of being human is, by the look of it, we’re the only part of creation that can actually refuse to be...


The Miracle that is the Earthly Vessel
The earth element/winter season relates with, amongst other themes, the physical body and your relationship with it. So as a little...


What can we learn from how Nature spends Winter?
Life's adaptations to the cold and dark part of the year demonstrate how time and patience, in the end, teach us how to survive....


Vision
If we will have the wisdom to survive, to stand like slow growing trees on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it... then a long time...


Hibernation
It’s that time of year when the call of winter invites us to retreat here in the northern hemisphere. To rest deeply into the boundless...


Fear and the Earth Element within
Fear is one of the themes that destabilizes our root, the earth element within us. Here are a few powerful words to consider on fear, and...


The Magic of the Earth Element
The forest breathes, it lives, as one. Primordial, intricate, wild. Wild in it's impossible terrain, teeming with life; buzzing, dancing,...


The Cycle of Form and Formless
We are taken into winter, when the leaves are fallen from the trees and the branches are bare. Winter is this barrenness that belongs to...


The Long Night
The ‘Long Night’ feels true of our wider collective experience. Layers of underworlds. Journeys through grief, fear, loss and sickness...


Perspectives on Death and Dying
This months BIOPHILIA Mentorship focused on themes of death, funerals, grief composting and trauma amongst other earth element...
