{"id":1029,"date":"2013-10-03T15:51:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2013-10-03T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T15:54:23","slug":"the-daily-forest-report-october-3-2013-nothing-new-under-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Forest Report October 3, 2013 Nothing New Under The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing New Under The Sun&#8221;&#8230;? Are you kidding me? You&#8217;d really have to be a diehard skeptic to think life on Earth right now is business as usual!<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it works as an attention grabber, and Twelve-Snake had his reasons for choosing the title, as he will explain shortly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-03-at-9.14.01-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-03-at-9.14.01-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-10-03 at 9.14.01 AM\" width=\"1156\" height=\"729\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-03-at-9.14.01-AM.png 1156w, https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-03-at-9.14.01-AM-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.nielskunze.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-03-at-9.14.01-AM-1024x645.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1156px) 100vw, 1156px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you may have guessed from the name I used, this is the twelfth snake of the season I&#8217;ve encountered along my path. To me, that seems like an unusually high number of snakes, especially since I have never actively gone looking for snakes. All twelve of them throughout the season presented themselves directly upon my path. I just about stepped on all of them! Fortunately, I&#8217;m not too deep in my 3D trance anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve-Snake was waiting for me on the Mesa, right where I always stop to take off my pack and dig for wild onions. When I arrived, he slid beneath the juniper bush I usually pee on every day. Don&#8217;t worry, I didn&#8217;t pee on him! (His general size made me uncomfortable to unzip at all&#8230; haha!)<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I was surprised to see him this day. It was cold out. Under the thick wool sweater my Mom knitted me I had an additional two long-sleeved shirts. The sun poked through only very sporadically&#8211; but that <em>is<\/em> what he was after.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dream closely with the Earth Mother. But it is Father Sun who provides my motive spark. For half the year I sleep; for half the year I sew (sow?) creative spirit into the waking dreams of all the other Earth creatures.&#8221; (I did not know that.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is, in truth, a great deal that is &#8216;new&#8217; under the Sun&#8230; but it has not yet been made visible to those still rubbing the sleep from their eyes. You have felt the pause of the preceding weeks&#8230; prelude to the unveiling to come. It is as though the Sun needed to take a nap, something He does periodically in an eleven-year cycle. He has been zeroing out his magnetic charge, allowing all within His light to release unwanted and cumbersome burdens from their emotional selves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am here on this blustery day hoping to catch a taste of the New Sun. Now is the time when He reverses His magnetic field by flipping polarities.&#8221; (Something the sun does every eleven years or so&#8211; apparently.) &#8220;Soon I will sleep through the cold, dreaming with the Earth Mother. When I awaken in the spring, it will be under a brand New Sun&#8230; We will All have new eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the meantime&#8230; pleasant dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Twelve-Snake!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing New Under The Sun&#8221;&#8230;? Are you kidding me? You&#8217;d really have to be a diehard skeptic to think life on Earth right now is business as usual! 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