'Soween ' for 'us down here ' ; Feast of the Dead , All Saints Day, Halloween , Ancestor Night ... etc all are similar .
A blast this year . A lot of stuff has arisen, huge stuff actually , with the indigenous here . Of course , they hold the connection to ancestors through the land here we live on and my unknown indigenous ancestor ( we used to cover up 'stuff like that ' here ) . Then there are my own known ancestors , with them I include my 'helpers', those friends that I have also shared physical life with , while they were here .
Grandfather's ancient picture is in its place on the little ancestor window shelf / alter - we had a chat , he is the one 'cool and still communicating ' ancestor I have . He smoked a pipe , so I lit one up had a puff , 'smoked him ' * with it and left the pipe there on 'slow burn ' **
Next to him is ..... 'the lovely one' , a moment with her . sometimes at dinner , we might have a big feast , with friends and their ancestors at the table , but tonight it might just be me and mine ... thats a huge family as it is
We need to take time and appreciate that ... we ALL do have a huge family as we all came from LOTS of 'somewheres and someones' .
Also it is the time when 'the veils between the world's are thinnest ' ... this can manifest in various ways ... this year it seems to be about the outer selves coming into contact with the inner selves . ... but that could be a local 'influence'.
What are you other southerners doing on this day ?
Of, course, you other guys 'up there' are rolling burning wheels down hills and bonking each other .
The 'Great Wheel ( Sphere ) turns , and thus one balances the other .
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** 'slow burn' is the way the indigenous managed country here . Otherwise; bad bushfires. The practice is slowly being acknowledged and returning ... even commercial farmlands paying Aboriginals to conduct it . It requires a deep understanding of locality, nature , timing , fire ..... etc. etc .
The teaching for the self associated with it is ; we all hold a fire burning inside ... make it a slow fire , a fire that safely burns away the old and unhealthy, yet preserves your own internal 'ecosystem' while allowing healthy uninhibited 'new growth' . Do not let it get fierce and destructive and burn the valuable and break out and burn others with your out of control fire .
A blast this year . A lot of stuff has arisen, huge stuff actually , with the indigenous here . Of course , they hold the connection to ancestors through the land here we live on and my unknown indigenous ancestor ( we used to cover up 'stuff like that ' here ) . Then there are my own known ancestors , with them I include my 'helpers', those friends that I have also shared physical life with , while they were here .
Grandfather's ancient picture is in its place on the little ancestor window shelf / alter - we had a chat , he is the one 'cool and still communicating ' ancestor I have . He smoked a pipe , so I lit one up had a puff , 'smoked him ' * with it and left the pipe there on 'slow burn ' **
Next to him is ..... 'the lovely one' , a moment with her . sometimes at dinner , we might have a big feast , with friends and their ancestors at the table , but tonight it might just be me and mine ... thats a huge family as it is
We need to take time and appreciate that ... we ALL do have a huge family as we all came from LOTS of 'somewheres and someones' .
Also it is the time when 'the veils between the world's are thinnest ' ... this can manifest in various ways ... this year it seems to be about the outer selves coming into contact with the inner selves . ... but that could be a local 'influence'.
What are you other southerners doing on this day ?
Of, course, you other guys 'up there' are rolling burning wheels down hills and bonking each other .
The 'Great Wheel ( Sphere ) turns , and thus one balances the other .
*
** 'slow burn' is the way the indigenous managed country here . Otherwise; bad bushfires. The practice is slowly being acknowledged and returning ... even commercial farmlands paying Aboriginals to conduct it . It requires a deep understanding of locality, nature , timing , fire ..... etc. etc .
The teaching for the self associated with it is ; we all hold a fire burning inside ... make it a slow fire , a fire that safely burns away the old and unhealthy, yet preserves your own internal 'ecosystem' while allowing healthy uninhibited 'new growth' . Do not let it get fierce and destructive and burn the valuable and break out and burn others with your out of control fire .