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Podcast Episode: We Are Only One Song Away From Spring

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Rows of small green plants growing in a field with sunlight rays.
Sunlight beams illuminate neat rows of young plants in a rural field at sunrise.

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the astrological, the political, and the deeply personal all share one frequency, and somehow it holds together.

Mara: Today we’re working through a piece by Ari Joshua Bouse that moves across a lot of terrain — political transition, the Aquarian Age, disclosure, and the spiritual calendar between winter and spring. Let’s start with that overarching question of where we actually are right now.

We Are Only One Song Away From Spring

Pip: The frame here is a moment of overlap — a political transition happening inside a much larger cosmic one, and the question of how those two timescales interact when you’re trying to stay grounded.

Mara: The post anchors that overlap in the seasonal calendar, and near the end it lands on Groundhog Day specifically: “Meditation on the in between times, mystical, mysterious energies, inner planes, echoing silence, void, and heartbeat” are offered as the right callbacks for this moment.

Pip: So the upshot is that Groundhog Day isn’t a punchline here — it’s the midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox, and the post treats that threshold as genuinely instructive about how change actually moves.

Mara: Right, and that’s the structural argument running through the whole piece. The political relief of a new administration fades fast — the post is direct about that — because the chattering monkey mind starts up again quickly. The deeper shift is astrological: a move from the Pisces Age to the Aquarian Age, measured in millennia, not election cycles.

Pip: Which is a useful corrective to anyone who thought January 20th was the finish line.

Mara: The post makes a careful point there about the people on different sides of that political moment. It says that most Trump voters “are not Nazis, Klan members or racists” but have been shaped by a divisive mindset that pushes everyone toward an us-versus-them frame — and that neither progressive nor conservative values hold a monopoly on the way forward.

Pip: And then it pivots — genuinely pivots — into UFO disclosure, which lands as less of a detour than you’d expect, because the argument is that ET concern for Earth is tied to humanity’s development of nuclear weapons. The stakes are planetary either way.

Mara: The post treats disclosure as a process, not an event. And it closes with something practical: I-messages, feeling statements, the right to say “I feel offended by that comment” and stand there without having to defend it. Personal authority as the ground-level version of the same sovereignty the post argues for cosmically.

Pip: Spring is underground. It’s firing, just not visible yet — which is maybe the whole thesis in one image.

Mara: The thread through all of this is the in-between — politically, seasonally, cosmically. The darkness isn’t the destination; it’s the passage.

Pip: You can’t get to the light if you won’t go through the dark. We’ll be back with more from Classroom Mothership Earth.

We Are Only One Song Away From Spring

Podcast Episode: Animal Symbols And Inner Wisdom

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A bear standing at the edge of a river looking at a heron standing on a small grassy patch in the water, with snowy mountains and pine trees in the background under a colorful sunset sky.
A heron and brown bear share a peaceful space at a river at sunset with mountains in the background.

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the stock market, the moon cycle, and a great blue heron all show up to the same staff meeting.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse brings us two posts this week, and they cover real territory: what Bear medicine asks of us when the world tilts toward excess, and what Heron teaches about standing on your own two legs in murky water.

Pip: Let’s start with the bear in the room.

Bear Medicine And Introspection

Mara: The central question in Shared Constellations With Bear is whether we know how to go inward — not as retreat, but as a kind of recalibration when the outer world gets loud and grasping.

Pip: The post sets up that contrast directly: “Standing in the space of knowing is a marketing free zone — when we enter the center of a circle, there is nobody to convince or sway.”

Mara: Which is a pretty clean description of what meditation actually does. It removes the audience. You stop performing and start listening.

Pip: Bear Medicine, the post argues, is introspection — and the timing matters. We’re moving toward Winter Solstice, toward yin, toward dimming light. The post reads that as an invitation rather than a loss.

Mara: And it extends that into economics. The Taoist idea of investing in loss gets applied to a Bear market — the suggestion being that our bullish, expansive material emphasis needs its own hibernation. The post asks directly whether greed and arrogance can be allowed to rest.

Pip: Revolutionary zeal without the hate, as it puts it. That’s a tight ask, but the post holds the tension honestly rather than papering over it.

Mara: It also distinguishes prayer from meditation in practical terms — prayer as active and outward, meditation as receptive and inward. Two modes, both necessary, neither sufficient alone.

Pip: And our treatment of bears, the post notes, is a mirror. How we handle the actual animals tells us something about how serious we are about the rest.

Mara: That’s the pivot from inner work to outer consequence — which is exactly where Heron picks up.

Heron, Moon, And Rugged Individualism

Pip: Powered By Blue Heron opens with a Strawberry Full Moon and lands immediately on a question about self-reliance — what it actually looks like when it’s practiced rather than just claimed.

Mara: The post frames it this way: “It is good medicine to hear when to be sharp, understand when to stick your neck out and snatch an opportunity, and know how to stand on your own two legs.”

Pip: That’s rugged individualism described as discernment, not just stubbornness. There’s timing involved.

Mara: Right, and Heron’s physicality carries the argument. Long legs grounded in the earth, wading through murky water — the post uses that image to push back against the idea that spiritual practice means leaving your body behind.

Pip: The post actually names that tendency directly — people traveling into alternate realities while leaving their bodies behind — and Heron is the corrective. Come back. Root down.

Mara: Mercury in Retrograde appears here too, framed as a revisitation of old selves and past relationships — not as disruption but as information. The question it surfaces is who you want to become now.

Pip: And the post makes room for the generalist. In a world of specialization, it argues we need people who can see the big picture — “many roads to get to your destination” is how it puts it.

Mara: Heron’s final move is perspective. The post describes it as flying away from a “that’s just the way we’ve always done it” mentality into, as it says, “shores of infinite solution-focused possibilities.”

Pip: Bear goes inward to find stillness. Heron comes back out and wades forward anyway.

Mara: That’s the through line — and probably a good place to sit with it.

Pip: Bear and Heron, inward and outward — the posts keep circling the same question from different angles.

Mara: How do you stay grounded when the world is noisy, and how do you move when the water is murky. More of that next time.

Powered By Blue Heron, We Wade Through Life’s Waters With Rugged Individualism

Podcast Episode: New Published Material Revisited

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An old, worn book is partially submerged as ocean waves wash over it on a beach.

Hi Folks! Mercury in Retrograde goes back direct today. As my wise old spiritual counselor Leo would say, keep in mind that the mental fog tends to lift & clear up over the next 10 days or so. Also, be patient with left brain cognition & machines as they come back online during this time. In the meantime, please enjoy this new AI 2 person podcast as an appetizer for my newest book:

Ladies and Gentlemen…Introducing AI Podcast Characters Pip & Mara On Ari’s Multimedia Writing:

Pip: Climate grief, ancestral memory, and the kind of soul wounds that don’t show up on an X-ray — Classroom Mothership Earth is not pulling punches this week.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse has been publishing through Edge of Humanity Magazine, and the work lands squarely on climate change, trauma, and what we carry from those who came before us. Let’s start with the new published material and what it’s actually doing.

New Published Material

Pip: The through-line across these pieces is a question worth sitting with: what does climate change cost us emotionally, spiritually, and across generations — not just ecologically?

Mara: The series is titled “A Novel Read into the New Shorelines of Climate Change,” and the post announces it plainly: “Please see my newly published writings via Edge of Humanity Magazine.”

Pip: That framing — new shorelines — does real work. Shorelines shift. They don’t vanish cleanly; they encroach. Using that as a metaphor for what climate change does to inner life as much as coastline is a choice worth noticing.

Mara: The series spans three distinct pieces. The first is a poem called “Overcoming Deep Traumatic Soul Wounds” — which puts psychological injury right alongside environmental upheaval, treating them as the same conversation.

Pip: Which they arguably are. The literature on climate grief has been making exactly that case for a decade, and here it’s arriving as verse rather than a journal abstract.

Mara: The second piece, “Weathering Changing Weather Patterns,” shifts register slightly — the title itself is doing double duty, the literal and the internal sitting on top of each other. And the third, “Remembering Our Ancestors,” is another poem, this one pulling the lens back to lineage and what prior generations understood about living with a changing earth.

Pip: So you have trauma, adaptation, and ancestral knowledge — three movements that together make something closer to a full emotional map of the climate moment than any single essay could.

Mara: All three sit inside a larger project that Edge of Humanity Magazine is running under that “New Shorelines” banner, which suggests this isn’t a one-off but an ongoing body of work finding its public form.

Pip: Poetry as climate literature — not the most obvious delivery mechanism, but possibly the most honest one.

Mara: The shoreline metaphor keeps expanding the more you sit with it — what’s eroding, what’s being redrawn, what we’re trying to hold onto.

Pip: Next time, more from the edge. Worth watching where those shorelines move.

Please enjoy the previously published poetry excerpts from my latest book at the link below:

New Published Material

Podcast Episode: Swimming with Otter and Getting in Touch with Our Feminine Side

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Swirling blue and green water flowing over textured, layered brown and gray rocks
Swirling blue water blends seamlessly with layered, textured rocks creating an abstract pattern

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the curriculum includes otter medicine, elemental water, and the Sacred Feminine, and attendance is apparently taken by the universe itself.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse brings us into that territory today — feminine energy as a living force, what the otter symbolizes, and how all of it connects to the way we move through daily life.

Pip: Let’s start with the otter.

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Swimming with Otter: Feminine Power and Letting Go

Mara: The central question here is whether we’ve lost touch with the qualities the otter embodies — playfulness, empathy, flow — and what it costs us when we have.

Pip: The post opens with the otter as a symbol and then turns it into a direct challenge, setting up the quote with a question about how we love: “Do you know the power of love without jealousy? Have you experienced the joy of loving other people’s kids and their accomplishments as much as your own?”

Mara: That’s the hinge of the whole piece. It moves from animal symbolism into something concrete — whether we can genuinely celebrate others, or whether we’re quietly keeping score.

Pip: And then it gets elemental. Earth and ocean as feminine forces, rivers flowing into the sea — the imagery is doing real conceptual work, not just decoration.

Mara: Right. The post frames water as a model for how energy moves: “Water gradually building momentum… Flooding us with waves of Sacred Feminine tides into our energetic seas.” The argument is that this quality — receptive, accumulating, eventually overwhelming — is something every person carries regardless of gender.

Pip: Which is where the otter stops being a nature documentary and starts being a mirror. Are you clinging to outcomes? Addicted to worry? The post is asking whether your daily operating mode is more like a dam than a river.

Mara: There’s a line that cuts through the more lyrical passages: “To accept the present moment as it is does not mean we condone what is.” That’s a careful distinction — presence isn’t passivity.

Pip: The piece also names the rescuer trap — running a constant crisis operation for everyone else while your own garden goes untended. That one lands.

Mara: And it closes with Mercury in Retrograde as a prompt to release left-brain control and move from intuition instead. Whether or not you track planetary cycles, the underlying point is about when calculation stops serving you.

Pip: The otter, it turns out, is just asking you to let go of the shore.

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Mara: Feminine energy as flow, empathy as a practice, the present moment as neither approval nor surrender — that’s the terrain today.

Pip: More from the mothership next time. Bring your own river.

Swimming with Otter and Getting in Touch with Our Feminine Side

Podcast Episode: Recognition Poem

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Classroom with students and teacher, Earth and space background blending with room
Students engage in a science lesson with Earth and space visuals surrounding them.

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the self-help mantra, the bumper sticker, and the geopolitical aside share a page without anyone blinking.

Mara: Today we’re looking at work from Ari Joshua Bouse — specifically a poem that moves from inner recognition and self-talk all the way out to questions of disclosure, technology, and what we owe each other.

Pip: Let’s start with the poem itself — and what it means to truly recognize yourself.

Recognition Poem

Mara: The post opens with a premise about self-perception: that recognition — of yourself and of others — is the starting point, and that self-criticism quietly erodes the ground you stand on.

Pip: The poem names fear as the specific mechanism. Here’s the line that anchors it: “Fear of consequence avoids taking responsibility.”

Mara: That’s the hinge the whole piece turns on. If fear of what follows keeps you from owning what you’ve done, you’re not just stuck — you’re actively building the wall higher.

Pip: And the poem doesn’t let the outside world off the hook either. It moves from inner work outward — through what it calls cognitive distortions, through “Us and Them segregations,” through the idea that karmic consequences exist even when they go unseen and unheard.

Mara: There’s a line that earns its place quietly: “A Higher quality of respect comes from feeling safe to learn, even through peaceful and non-violent forms of tough love.” That’s the connective tissue between the personal and the communal — safety as a precondition for growth.

Pip: The poem then takes a hard turn into territory you don’t usually find between a self-talk mantra and a Latin etymology lesson — and yes, it notes that discipline traces back to the Latin root for teaching, which reframes the whole concept.

Mara: The outer section addresses technology, fossil fuels, and what it calls Full Disclosure — the idea that taxpayers hold a sovereign right to know how their money works. The bumper sticker image is the vehicle: imagine the Air Force holding a bake sale, and then imagine further until there’s nothing left to fund.

Pip: It’s a rhetorical escalation — start with the absurd image, then keep walking until the absurdity becomes the point.

Mara: The closing lines bring it back: “the spotlight of heart-centered mindfulness lays the cards on the table to call out the bluff.” Awareness, the poem argues, is itself a form of accountability.

Pip: Recognition as the first act of honesty — toward yourself, toward others, toward the systems you live inside.

Mara: The thread running through all of this is that seeing clearly — yourself, your fear, your world — is where any real change begins.

Pip: Next time, we’ll see what else comes into focus.

Recognition Poem

Podcast Episode: A Crazy Business Idea For Co-creating A Beautiful New World

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Child standing in a futuristic classroom looking at Earth through large space station windows
A student gazes out at Earth from a high-tech space classroom

Check out this newly created experimental AI Podcast feature that aligns with my writing, compliments of WordPress.

Full Disclosure: Truly, I do take pride in my writing, and have yet to use AI for the written word. However, I have been having fun with playing around with AI for illustrations.

This podcast version of 1 of my more recent writings stars 2 AI created characters named Pip and Mara.

Please enjoy the podcast & transcript below:

Pip: Classroom Mothership Earth — where the daily writing prompt is “come up with a crazy business idea” and the answer turns out to be: civilization, but better.

Mara: Ari Joshua Bouse takes that prompt seriously, and today we’re following the thread — from a vision of shared consciousness and cooperative economics to what it actually looks like to clear space, inside and out.

Pip: Let’s start with the business idea itself.

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A Crazy Business Idea For Co-creating A Beautiful New World

Mara: The post opens with a genuine question: what does an economy look like when the underlying operating system shifts — when interconnection is the default, not the exception?

Pip: And the answer isn’t a product or a pitch deck. It’s a paradigm. The post lays out what falls away when people genuinely feel their connection to each other.

Mara: The list is specific: “the institutionalized isms, trashing the park, wars, violence, gang banging, organized crime, the so called legitimate maximum-economic profit capitalist conditioning, economic strangulations, and the need to control each other fades away, and is released into a black hole in the Universe.”

Pip: That’s a sentence doing a lot of heavy lifting — and the point underneath it is real. The argument is that these patterns aren’t permanent features of human nature; they’re symptoms of a particular kind of disconnection.

Mara: Right, and the post is careful to say it doesn’t get killed or die — it transforms. The balloon metaphor follows: letting go of a thought form so it floats away, rather than fighting it.

Pip: There’s a friend in the piece who’s been sober from the news for over a year and reports genuine levity — less charge around politics, less reactive energy. That’s offered as a small proof of concept.

Mara: The post connects that to The Celestine Prophecy — James Redfield’s intention, quoted directly, was to inspire readers to “reclaim their power from dominant authorities and dysfunctional relationships: not via political or legal action but through a personalized spirituality that portrays life as a meaningful journey toward self-actualization.”

Pip: So the crazy business idea is essentially: skip the legal filing, go straight to the consciousness upgrade.

Mara: The post also gets concrete about physical space — imagining trash compressed in a way that literally opens up room, turning what looked like a landfill into ground for new growth. It’s the same logic applied materially.

Pip: And the T’ai Chi section earns its place. Professor Cheng’s instruction to “be like a ghost” — to create spaciousness — maps directly onto the economic argument: lead, follow, listen, don’t force.

Mara: The upshot is that cooperative competition, in this frame, isn’t naive. It’s more like push hands than a zero-sum match — sensitive to the other’s energy, not trying to overpower it.

Pip: Which makes the closing meditation clip feel less like an appendix and more like the actual deliverable.

Mara: That thread — from inner clearing to outer structure — is what the whole piece is building toward.

—

Pip: Clear the space, transform the pattern, don’t fight the balloon — it’s a coherent through-line once you follow it.

Mara: More from Classroom Mothership Earth next time.

Please enjoy the original post that inspired this new podcast version at the link below:

A Crazy Business Idea For Co-creating A Beautiful New World

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

Taking The Mythical Step Through A Portal Into Infinity Revisited . . .

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I wrote this poem in November of 2013. Thought it would be nice to revisit with illustration & live video recording of poetry reading. Note the synchronicity of the old comet reference back Zen and the new comet in our consciousness (3I/Atlas) right Tao:

We stand at the doorstep of Infinity . . .
Massive change is coming our way

A Full-Moon on Sunday . . .
Trailed by a Comet in its waning wake

Giddy-Up toward the darkest hour on the Winter Solstice . . .
Coaxing back the Light in the dark of the Night

Releasing egoic entanglements with form . . .
Spirited energies realigning who we are

Rising tides of oceanic waves flooding our sea of consciousness . . .
Slumbering folks waking up from napping while under the influence of systemic conditioning

Sitting at the dock of the bay in meditation space . . .
Theta state in the green lantern heart space

Feeling waters of empathy bubbling up wells of Love . . .
Illuminating my soul

O darkness of yin . . .
Light a moonshadow o’er inner landscapes

Checking out energetic pulsations of neurotransmitters traveling through bodily pathways . . .
Portals to consciousness are they

Shooting The New Moon Into A New Chapter

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The only constant in life is change, aka the Law of Transience. May the energy of this New Moon in Sagittarius on Tuesday, December 12 be a friendly reminder that Nature reflects change.

Like the seasons, change is inevitable. Tastebuds change, relationships change, and even our DNA can change. But with change, there is a death of the old self; not without its grieving.

What makes Sagittarius so unique is its dynamic blend of passion, curiosity, intensity, and adaptability. The archer or a hybrid human/horse centaur, is symbolic of this sign.

Moreover, their energies aren’t afraid to use its bow and arrow to explore expansive terrain, seeking answers in places and spaces others wouldn’t dare venture.

Remember that even in the darkness of death, there is the rebirth of light. Truly, we grieve the loss of death energy. And yet at the same time; may we welcome the light born again unto our souls.

It is the last New Moon of 2023. Fitting this New Moon is associated with fiery and passionate energies.

Might as well be in alignment with these energies and go out with a bang, in peaceful and non-violent ways of course. Peaceful and non-violent strategies are more sustainable ways of conflict resolution and harmonizing with our environment.

Where are you at on your map of consciousness with regards to change? Are you resisting the changes of your old self? Or are you moving into a place of gratitude, letting go and even surrendering to the Universe’s signs and synchronicities to light your way? Are you allowing yourself to paint a creative picture in a New Chapter in the Mirror of the Mind?

Given our modern cultural narrative that conditions us to buy into holiday mania of rampant consumerism, artificial light, and being up all the time; it’s no wonder people get depressed about darker days and darker emotions. But darker days invite us to examine our darker thoughts, which are quite natural.

The real suffering is the clinging to and resistance of our thoughts and then the emotional reactions, judgements and stories thereof.

It can be freeing to simply watch out thoughts, and even go beyond our judgements into a dimensional shift of awareness.

Awareness, along with the the power of Universal energies right now can help you take action to create the New Chapter that you desire. It can be done with letting go of the old chapter with gratitude; so as to facilitate a healthy transition into the New Chapter with as much love as possible.

Moreover, the Sagittarius New Moon is a great time to focus on healing and bringing yourself into a state of balance. Use this New Moon to plant seeds of calm balance and think about what you want to manifest for the weeks ahead.

On the day after the New Moon, Mercury in Retrograde will happen on December 13th and stay till January 1, 2024. I saw a hawk do a flyover the other day, and it felt like a prequel to the chi of the forthcoming Mercury in Retrograde. In much the same way as Coyote’s vibe, Mercury in Retrograde can bring in trickster energy into the 3-D realm.

Beyond that, there is a higher vibration on a multidimensional level. For example, in mythology, Mercury is the Messenger of the Gods. Further, during its retrograde cycle, it can more quickly and easily bring these messages to us intuitively. This is a powerful time to focus on your intuitive and psychic gifts.

Pay mindful attention to your intuition and other subtler forms of communication like dreams, synchronicities, and perhaps consulting spiritual oracle decks under Mercury Retrograde. They will likely be sending you encouraging positive reinforcements for authentic living, if only we gently allow for them to build gradually, like the power of water.

A Full Cold Moon will happen the day after Christmas, on December 26th. This is the darkest Full Moon of the year because it always occurs around the Winter Solstice, the darkest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The Winter Solstice will happen on December 21st. Like our ancestors that came before us, this is a good time to gather around a fire, honor the darkness, go deep into our soul caves and begin to coax back the light. After the Winter Solstice, our days will become a little longer. Paradoxically, it will be the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere; the Vernal Equinox will bring shorter days ahead. The Winter Solstice is a powerful time for expressing gratitude for what is and letting go of what was.

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

A Lion’s Truth, New Moon In Leo & Full Sturgeon Moon Down The Pike

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Photo by Kristen Bouse

A New Moon in Leo awakens new beginnings on July 28, 2022.

Lion’s spirit symbolizes:

Trusting our intuitive faculties, strength of will, patience and creative imagination.

Meditation on the Solar Plexus Chakra can be a helpful strategy here.

Picture the Sun living within the center point of your sternum.

Lion energy reminds us that real power cannot be forced.

Instead of striving to make things happen,

we are allowing for the arriving of what is in an organic unfolding.

Leo prefers the limelight and focusing on sunshine and rainbows.

But they have a tendency to be spitfires and bring their heat while playing with form.

When examining the Mirror of The Mind in meditation, it is wise to give contemplation to

what we want to bring down from the dreamtime into our material realm.

Doing this requires differentiating fantasy from reality.

Saying yes to life and making amigos with our egos,

are key dynamics to personality development.

An inside out approach recognizes that Life is a matrix of

performing art where the actor and spectator

intersect with one another within an immediate feedback loop.

Be mindful of Pride being Lion’s shadow side:

We all know pride can be seductive!

Wisdom reminds us to face our shadows head on,

otherwise we fall prey to their dark edges

and become shrouded by them.

Mantra: Self Love & Self Expression . . .

I know a Leo who rolls around in dew covered grass underneath a summery Full Moonshine,

as an energetic cleansing strategy to ground & connect with Mother Earth.

Practicing T’ai Chi or another form of moving meditation allows for

exploration of experiencing the power of water gradually.

We are mostly water . . .

The tide of a Full Sturgeon Supermoon rolls in on August 11, 2022.

Like turtles, sturgeons have been around so long they are often referred to as living fossils.

They have an ancient wisdom and survival instinct about them that should be mediated on.

Sturgeon awakens resiliency when facing adversity and overcoming traumatic soul wounds.

Humanity’s evolution needs to develop resiliency in our quest

for reimagining our human story so that we can change our collective narrative.

We can learn to co-regulate and co-exist with one another

so that we can mutually harmonize with our environment.

In the meantime, do whatever you can to

stay in alignment with the Universal Pillars of Love and Truth!

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari

When In A Rut, It’s About Time To Buck Up To A Full Moon & Then Tell It To A Tree On A New Moon In Leo

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A Full Buck Moon on July 13th is a gently alluring time for

new adventures along Nature’s trail way.

A New Moon in Leo on July 28 entices your soul to come out to

dance in the light and shine like the sun.

Are you hearing the Universe’s signs and synchronicities

telling you to chase fantastic opportunities?

Remember the Tao does nothing and yet leaves nothing undone.

No worries, mate.

Slow and low, that is the tempo.

Remember that Turtle can turn its head up on a log and be loved by Grandfather Sun for hours.

That isn’t narcissism.

Rather, ancient wisdom at play down by the river’s edge.

If you need to express yourself naturally, get outside and be with the trees!

They want to hear what you have to say and they can help spread your messages,

along echoes of whispering wind kissed leaves . . .

Consider giving a tree a hug or sitting underneath one to yield to their power,

and get in touch with the strength of your roots.

Breathe in Mother Earth supporting your breath.

Are you struggling with the Empire’s duality and paradox right now?

Is it the new politics of of Roe V Wade overturned or the legal right to carry a concealed weapon?

Exhale any dirty energy . . .

Can you see the cyclical death and rebirth without clinging and grasping?

(Equanimity)

And then there’s Mark Twain’s wit about Congress being America’s only criminal class

ringing through the cracked Liberty Bell.

Oh My God, Lord have mercy!

Right about now. Right about now. Right about now.

What?!

Now that’s gangsta.

When Blue Lives (really) Matter,

Constitution is promoting the General Welfare for everyone.

There are no good guys or bad guys or demonized Evil Doers!

(Mantra: Peace Officers)

The only defunding Taoists are talking about is Investing In Loss.

When we invest in loss, we transform our pain & suffering into a gain.

To understand this spiritual concept experientially and energetically

consider this practical strategy:

Touch a tree and perceive it’s energy flowing into your hands, through your arms,

down your body, and then

sink through the balls of your feet into the roots of the tree, down into the ground.

Imagine inner mulching and composting circulating heavenly chi through your body,

whilst being mindful of your spirited, recycled breaths.

Take care of yourselves everyone,

Ari