tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post7546103964445376341..comments2023-10-28T04:53:32.505-07:00Comments on View From The Northern Wall: The Last Wolf, Coyote Griefchristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-33316289657583557102009-10-18T13:10:43.234-07:002009-10-18T13:10:43.234-07:00Rachel, I changed the last line. Thank you for th...Rachel, I changed the last line. Thank you for the honor you have bestowed on this poem.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-69624676360875175562009-10-17T09:44:34.654-07:002009-10-17T09:44:34.654-07:00Coyote grief has got to be one of my all-time favo...Coyote grief has got to be one of my all-time favourites of yours. I still have it in my sidebar, for safekeeping.RachelWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18225401230724459199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-15155178293582058922009-10-14T19:37:55.214-07:002009-10-14T19:37:55.214-07:00I know. However, the astronomical event is intrig...I know. However, the astronomical event is intriguing to some. There is no science in it in this sense: about 26,000 years ago this same event occurred and there is no clear record of it, not like the Yucatan meteor that seemingly wiped out the dinosaurs and even older impacts and world wide extinctions, not like the ice ages themselves, which we are still in actually according to some.<br /><br />I am not one who makes a big thing out of 2012. I am one who committed to astrology for a long time and still respects it in certain ways. I am not really a practitioner now but still know how to cast a chart, even by hand, since I learned by hand. Back in the late seventies I thought astrology might turn out to figure in my profession. It never did. I come at 2012 and these cycles from the basic understanding that we are never not in them. Why only conjunction? That's what this alignment is, earth, Sun and the so-called center of the galaxy. But why decide that the first degree of Capricorn is the precise conjunction? Why not the opposition or the trine or the square? Why not something like a double quincunx, often called the yod? Or other grand crosses and trines and even more complex geometric figures formed out of the traditional bodies with this center of the galaxy?<br /><br />I feel like there is a crossing of realms, the symbolic with the scientific in a way that reifies the issue too much. You see? There is an arbitrariness in all this that can't be denied.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-29233308083514844872009-10-14T16:18:16.167-07:002009-10-14T16:18:16.167-07:00Thanks for sharing the Tallmountain one, and thank...Thanks for sharing the Tallmountain one, and thanks for your own as well... both ring with such a kind of bittersweet beauty.<br /><br />As for 2012: the Mayan calendar runs on a much longer cycle than people realize, and 2012 is not a big deal. It will signify a change, but not the implosion of the Earth (or whatever that film they're making is about). And the Maya themselves are saying, "come ON, guys": http://www.sltrib.com/Nation%20and%20World/ci_13534048 :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-44356495671615568522009-10-14T15:41:47.567-07:002009-10-14T15:41:47.567-07:00I have been known to utter those words too...take ...I have been known to utter those words too...take me now. Mostly though, I am just conscious that everything essential is done. I have nothing I must fight to stay for. I say I have taken on a spiritual task here. For this reason I am not permitted to actively seek a way out, but instead to live as best I can until I can't. I just know that in a radical way, all that is in God's hands.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-47121679998517637272009-10-14T15:01:18.494-07:002009-10-14T15:01:18.494-07:00Ha! I took Y2K seriously, well kinda. I was prepar...Ha! I took Y2K seriously, well kinda. I was prepared with my cupboards full of necessities and oil lamps. Still have the lamps. Just waiting for an excuse to use them. Oh, and the poop pot (bucket with loads of plastic liners). Still have that too. Thankfully never used. I can be such an idiot. Bring on 2012. I am no longer concerned. Take me. Take me now.Wine and Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778785233226804217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-59697619243266474162009-10-14T09:35:44.584-07:002009-10-14T09:35:44.584-07:00W&W, It feels like that, doesn't it. I am...W&W, It feels like that, doesn't it. I am nearly 64. The first one of these "uh-oh we're all going to die!" for me was Sputnik (1957). Of course, my Dad and Mom both felt they were fighting to save the world in WWII. I got into astrological circles and found there are periodic cycles with end of the world written on it. Now 2012 figures large. I know people who really took Y2K seriously. Having gone through so many of them I wonder.<br /><br />The apocalyptic sentiment seems widespread, but I would say not necessarily universal. Not every religious system holds with it, or at least not as centrally as we are used to in Christendom. I don't know what I really think anymore except to know that I have an inner state that is apocalyptic. This basically welds to "Oh shit, <b><i>I</i></b> am going to die!"christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-55174546846678893772009-10-14T07:26:40.080-07:002009-10-14T07:26:40.080-07:00It's more like prophesy than poetry. In our qu...It's more like prophesy than poetry. In our quest to conquer, to know, to push...we will oneday un-do ourselves. I'd kinda like to be there for the reboot.Wine and Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778785233226804217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-25999570100061193882009-10-14T07:15:23.438-07:002009-10-14T07:15:23.438-07:00I would stand at your side, and snuff the dead sta...I would stand at your side, and snuff the dead stars with you.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04201537517464996231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2377252801421681569.post-62915384728673192472009-10-13T22:57:39.838-07:002009-10-13T22:57:39.838-07:00I am her today, that coyote....
xI am her today, that coyote....<br /><br />xMichellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816138640432897870noreply@blogger.com