The Free Radical

This week’s topic was Spirit/Animal Totems.

That’s kind of my primary path! (Probably because I find it easier to get along with most animals than with most humans.)

It’ll be two years in June when I began writing the Daily Forest Report. So far, I’ve written 317 issues of the Forest Report… so not quite daily; more like every-other-daily.

It was the Vedic teachers who first told me that all is consciousness… and I believed them.

It was Don Juan who first told me through his scribe that everything in my surroundings will continually advise me on the viability of my intent… and I believed him.

I first identified with our Native Americans when I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee… and I couldn’t believe it! (We did what??)

It was Ted Andrews in his classic text Animal Speak who first provided my framework for working with animal totems and spirit guides… and I couldn’t believe how awesome it was!

Nature is intelligent– all of it, all of the time.

Despite what some might have us believe, Nature has achieved everything through communication and co-operation… I believe in that.

As I began writing the Daily Forest Report, I began to think of myself as a forest intuitive, and suddenly– quite abruptly– I ceased being a visitor and a tourist in the forest, even though I had always spent enormous amounts of time in these mountainous woodlands; now, I was finally a participant in the actual Forest Life.

As I was prepared to receive, the Forest engaged with me… with intriguing deliberateness.

The Forest waits for the ear to ask, not the mouth; Nature cannot answer inappropriate questions. The ear first learns the language, while the mouth insists upon its own gibberish as law.

Real communication is always learning.

I can only bring aspects of Forest teachings through this civilized vernacular– these words, my Reports. I have had startling and memorable encounters beginning with my initiation by Wasp, and ranging from extremely close interactions with Cougar, Moose, Deer and many others, to the remote and intriguing possibilities suggested by a single giant footprint left in a field of mud, strongly hinting at Sasquatch.

The Daily Forest Reports have their own category on my blog, so the archive is easily accessible.

I try to keep them short, to about 350 words each. And each one is always couched in the greater context of the days coming before… aspects of the Forest narrative being linearized.

I do carry my contemplations into the tangled woods with me, often. The Forest will affirm or deny the veracity of my musings, often ‘correcting’ my thinking with startling insight.

Of course I will include a Forest Report here. And the best one can only be the current one. Here’s what I most recently posted:

The Daily Forest Report March 17, 2015 The Return of Hawk

The first thing I need to report is that we were suddenly thrown right back into full-on winter… which is perfectly typical for March weather in these parts. Nevertheless, it still kind of caught me off guard.

The place where we take these daily walks is about 5km from where I live. On my own deck there was about a half inch of rapidly melting slush when we piled into the truck. My footwear was appropriate for up to an inch of snow… not for the six inches we immediately encountered! Talk about microclimates!

I’ve been telling you recently about the Forest seeming somewhat distant lately. The eagles would circle in the sky conspicuously for us, but at a tremendous distance. The other forest critters too seemed to be keeping their distance. I’ve chalked this up to the need for establishing brand new relationships with the entire natural world, an engrossing and comprehensive task.

The feeling this day, as we walked through the heavily-draped overhanging trees, was one of oppression or even claustrophobia. We couldn’t see a mountain anywhere– despite being in the middle of the mountains; the sky was pressing down on us visibly and figuratively. It was quite a relief when we suddenly spotted Hawk on a power-pole.

He let me snap a couple of pics before flying off into the east toward the Rockies. (I’m assuming a male because it is usually the female who is the larger of the two– being the primary guardian and protector of the nest– and this individual didn’t seem overly large.) Here he is at maximum zoom (200x).

As I’ve indicated, the Forest energy has been rather out-of-the-ordinary. The incredible amounts of coyote poop scattered everywhere has sewn an energy of betrayal and deception throughout the landscape. We are being prepared for revelations of deep betrayal and trickery.

Hawk’s presence, therefore, came as a blessed relief. The Guardian and Protector who was with us nearly every day last spring has returned with fierce reassurances. There is a promise of revelation here… and now. Hawk will keep us from flying off into passionate insanity as we all digest new information about the particulars of this earthly reality… suddenly coming to light.

Astrologically, we are completing and tying up loose ends from things initiated way back in 2008. This includes aspects of personal relationships as well as global events.

These are interesting times indeed.
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