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--- dust_and_shadow:experiments [2018-03-17 02:00] – maja
+++ dust_and_shadow:experiments [2018-03-18 18:21] – maja
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 Proposition: We need a new form of geomancy to align with the reality of the desert. To better attune to our surroundings we can practice the craft of silence and heterogeneous hearing and become human receptors and listening devices. Deep listening and attunement can help us uncover sacred refugia and wild sanctuaries in urban surroundings of the everyday.
+<blockquote> Solvitur ambulando... </blockquote>
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 Proposition: It is possible to transform zombie utopias into fertile compost for regenerative eutopias. Myth-making and reactivating myths can animate inert cultural, geological and architectural markers. Conviviality and kinship includes diverse entities and different lenses of interrelation. We can draw inspiration from animism, panpsychism, shinto, shamanism, etc.
-Prototype: Equinox eve 2018 (March 19, sunset; equinox time: GMT Mar 20, 16:15)
+Prototype: Equinox eve 2018 (March 19, sunset; Spring Equinox time: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 9:15 am in Sonoran Desert.
-Feast: ~Equinox eve 2019 (equinox time GMT: Mar 20, 21:58)
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+Feast (?): ~Equinox eve 2019 (equinox time GMT: Mar 20, 21:58)
+In the dry and hot Sonoran desert, spring is a time of replenishment. A time to celebrate blossoming of plants and ideas alike. Days are slowly warming up, heralding the season of flowering cactus and renewed growth. The spring equinox - when light and darkness, the mundane and the sacred are (at least cosmically) equipoised - invokes a sense of balance, alignment and attunement. Time to celebrate the connections with all beings we share this season with...
 The feast could consist of the following elements:
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   * trance-inducing music, drums, movement, dance
   * participation of human and non-human entities
+  * build cairns
+  * walk in spirals or through labyrinths (purposeful meandering)
 Atmosphere
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   * scattered long communal tables (with table cloths)
   * stations for food prep
+  * rock formations that scatter/focus sunlight
 Storytelling, guiding
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   * economies of exchange, gifts, offerings
   * parting tokens
-  * totems
+  * totems, rainsticks
-  * "may you walk in beauty" (navajo)
 Food & Drink
   * breaking and sharing food together, abundance in collectivity
-  * end of winter foods in the desert (to research foods of the place; eg [[https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/health-wellness/spring-equinox-the-desert-is-reborn/|cholla buds]]), as well as dried/preserved seeds (for eating and planting), herbs, grains and flowers; pynion pine nuts, ocotillo flowers (tea), chia seeds, amaranth, sumac, sunflowers, mesquite flour, agave and aloe vera juice...)
+  * end of winter foods in the desert (to research foods of the place) eg [[https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/health-wellness/spring-equinox-the-desert-is-reborn/|cholla buds]], nopalitos, yucca, ocotillo and palo verde flowers (tea) as well as dried/preserved seeds (for eating and planting), herbs, grains and flowers; pynion pine nuts, chia seeds, amaranth, sumac, sunflower seeds, mesquite flour, agave and aloe vera juice...)
   * water
   * fresh, green, bitter