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Dear travellers of rough waters You are warmly invited to join in this 3 YEARS PROGRAMME for the reGENERATION of our SOULS VOYAGE: a SCHOOL and SANCTUARY for the SOUL TWO RIVERS rivering through the 3 years programme Sept 2024 to Dec 2026 - Registrations are open until June - limited to 25 students ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TWO RIVERS rivering through the 3 years programme 1 - FEEDING and LEARNING of the LANGUAGE of SOUL Altar making - wild offerings - sacred postactivism - unlearning practices - feeding the soul - Grief Composting - fierce love - soul activism - intuitive writing - die the small deaths - welcome the rebirths - eARTh ART making beauty... 2 - BECOMING a DOULA for the birthing of ELDERS guided by a cohort of teachers and by my twin books: 9 passAGES to Die Alive and PathoSophy: A Living Art- Wisdom born of Grief and Suffering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The next Q&A session with Azul Thome the creative visionary behind it is this Tuesday 9th April 5pm EET (Eastern European Time) for 90 minutes max. CHECK YOUR TIMEZONE I am so moved to now be ready to present to you the hive of 2024 and part of 2025 after much dreaming, spinning and weaving through the winter and early spring. While the world is falling onto itself, Soul is like a great underground River of deep imagination. We will voyage to and with Her in much praise and offerings. I PRESENT TO YOU THE ENSOULING CREW that will guide, challenge, inspire, feed, teach, share and accompany you on the VOYAGE! They come to you with their Water Body and a Sentient Being. The cohort is not only human. That was also a long time longing, to see teachers and guides with their wider family of entanglement… Here they are! With profound gratitude for their souls and medicine.   FOR MORE INFORMATIONS |
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By the age of 10, I had already experienced 10 foster families, extreme violence, prolonged sexual abuse, civil war, abandonment, neglect and exile.
I also remember a voice speaking to my young heart that I had a lucky star and that all of these experiences of suffering would. one day or night. be used to help others. May it be so
In the pathologizing system of our modern world, I was 'fucked' - for life!
Or, at best, I would fit into a modern trauma recovery program, jumping through various government nets. I became... diseases, pathologies, medicines and institutions.
The story that I carried everywhere, as the framework within which all future experiences were to be woven into, was that - I was unwanted, unwelcome and illegitimate...
But the soul loves beauty and truth. She had other choreographies in mind for this precious life of mine..
In 1997, at 31, I found myself a single mother with a young boy.
After years of stumbling through a maze of trauma-based crises and behaviors, I experienced my first initiatique ceremony with others who were also stumbling through life with broken hearts and shredded souls.
There we sat in a circle with beauty placed at the center of everything. We lit a fire, we were enveloped by the night sky pierced with timeless stars. We sang, we drummed, we sobbed and roared. We danced and shared deeply and awkwardly our grief, our broken hearts from the generations behind and we talked about our longings..the longings of our Earth.
We were welcomed and felt that we were finally legitimate.
I didn't even know the names of the trees or their songs. My soul was so 'poor and hungry'. My soul was screaming from my conception. I was beginning to hear. For the very first time, I felt like I had a choice in how I was going to live, love and die.
It was the beginning of my initiation into the language and ways of the soul - the soul of me and of creation - Anima Mundi.
The framing of the story of my life, hitherto only a crude and brutal initiation, was now weaving a new blanket, that of the sacred initiations.
My life was starting to change from pathology to a life rooted in homecoming rituals, a widening circle of kinship, true beauty, generous myths, wise metaphors, ancient archetypes, wild imagination, Earth arts, deep music and a integrated entanglement with the visible, the invisible and the well and wise ancestors.
An apprenticeship in the sacredness of suffering is slowly embodied in me.
When I did a Master of Art at Schumacher College (UK) at 50, after leaving school at 14, I knew it was going to be another essential passage for the ripening of my offering.
The master's degree in Ecological Design Thinking led me to write and propose a ritual that I entitled: "The Art of Collective Grieving as if Life and Death really Matter. This was in 2016.
My suffering no longer scares me, it has become the raw material of the alchemist and artist in me. If suffering is inevitable, then it is the wisdom that can come from it.
My new book I'm writing talks about it: "Pathosophy: Wisdom Born of Suffering. A living Art" and will include the 6 Gates of Initiation
Today, in 2022, I propose a more mature version of the work of the last 6 years with the Cercles de Compostages de Deuil-
The 6 Portals of Initiation - an 8 month apprenticeship through Mourning and Gratitude.
It starts in English on April 3 and in French on April 10.
We will meet on the first SUNDAY of the month from 3rd April, 2022
on ZOOM-land with moments with soil and Earth as well as creative moments.
We will enter spaces of rituals, we will have moments of writing, we will explore and feel the 6 portals together and in our 'soulitude'.
For the maturing of our species through collective rituals - we become welcomed and rightful - in the company ofGrief, Love, the Death and Re-birth- the Four Sisters.
If you would like to join us, see below for more information and how to register.
Mamat Aye
Azul
The 6 Portals of Initiation - an 8 month apprenticeship through Mourning and Gratitude.
It starts in English on April 3 and in French on April 10.
We will meet on the first SUNDAY of the month from 3rd April, 2022
on ZOOM-land with moments with soil and Earth as well as creative moments.
We will enter spaces of rituals, we will have moments of writing, we will explore and feel the 6 portals together and in our 'soulitude'.
For the maturing of our species through collective rituals - we become welcomed and rightful - in the company ofGrief, Love, the Death and Re-birth- the Four Sisters.
If you would like to join us, see below for more information and how to register.
Mamat Aye
Azul
Words from Christina Jarc Stembal (heartfully assisting and inspiring Azul for many years)
 Christina Jarc Stembal by her beloved river Ljubljanica in Slovenia |  river Soča |
After my father’s death my heart burst open with pain, shame, loneliness and anger. Old forgotten feelings resurfaced and multiplied. The ones that have been pushed down in to the damn of my river. The ones that as a child have been swallowed so I wouldn’t gag in order for me to survive and breathe, to fit in and to be accepted with no place to go and no ground to lie down and rest. The heart heavy and broken. No witnessing or welcoming by a community. Only the echo of the world telling me that I don’t need to grieve so much in life all the time and that I will be ok if I just move on and keep my tears dry. To not think of Death. To not speak to Grief. To not sing and re-open my heart to life.
What a gift it was to receive the invitation to my first Grief Composting Circle held by Azul Thome in Slovenia in 2018. The mystery of the calling and the vision of my dreams.
Everything changed at that single moment as I entered the sacred space of Grief and Gratitude Ceremony. The wild in me came alive courting and honoring my sensitivity and allowing me to become a pilgrim in the landscape of my soul. Finding and hearing my own voice that has been silent for so long. Bringing so much beauty and awe in to my whole being. Fermenting the deep listening to myself, all the people that joined in circle and the invisible. Touching the thread of the wound holding us together. The embrace of the seen and unseen bringing me back to my roots and my own authentic self.
The gates of grief opened with an explosion of tears of love for all that has been taken away, killed, destroyed, lost, passed down, shamed and forgotten. The release and swaddling of my heart with a magnitude of soul medicine I have never felt before. The healing powers of love that widens our circle, interconnects us with all beings, drums and dances to the heartbeat of Mother Earth, breaks the illusion of being separate and brings us back home to the web of life.
The journey of becoming an apprentice to Soul and Grief has been forever awaken. And as it awakes in one it touches all of us. It is a seed that is forever planted. It is a harbor and a light house guiding my work as an End-of-Life Doula, as a holder of Grief and Gratitude circles. It is a living and ever-changing invitation and a conversation to go deeper and deeper while softening all that is hard, expanding and accompanying a culture that is dying.
Christina Jarc Stembal
What a gift it was to receive the invitation to my first Grief Composting Circle held by Azul Thome in Slovenia in 2018. The mystery of the calling and the vision of my dreams.
Everything changed at that single moment as I entered the sacred space of Grief and Gratitude Ceremony. The wild in me came alive courting and honoring my sensitivity and allowing me to become a pilgrim in the landscape of my soul. Finding and hearing my own voice that has been silent for so long. Bringing so much beauty and awe in to my whole being. Fermenting the deep listening to myself, all the people that joined in circle and the invisible. Touching the thread of the wound holding us together. The embrace of the seen and unseen bringing me back to my roots and my own authentic self.
The gates of grief opened with an explosion of tears of love for all that has been taken away, killed, destroyed, lost, passed down, shamed and forgotten. The release and swaddling of my heart with a magnitude of soul medicine I have never felt before. The healing powers of love that widens our circle, interconnects us with all beings, drums and dances to the heartbeat of Mother Earth, breaks the illusion of being separate and brings us back home to the web of life.
The journey of becoming an apprentice to Soul and Grief has been forever awaken. And as it awakes in one it touches all of us. It is a seed that is forever planted. It is a harbor and a light house guiding my work as an End-of-Life Doula, as a holder of Grief and Gratitude circles. It is a living and ever-changing invitation and a conversation to go deeper and deeper while softening all that is hard, expanding and accompanying a culture that is dying.
Christina Jarc Stembal
We are warmly inviting you to an 8 months ENSOULING APPRENTICESHIP THROUGH GRATITUDE and GRIEF to become ensouled guides.
6 GATES of INITIATION
- with Azul Thomé assisted by Christina Jarc Stembal -
we depart on the 3rd April 2022 on ZOOMland
Newsletter Summer 2021
Bonjour dear brave souls, it has been a while…my longing is to sit around the same fire with you all, for the time of a few heart songs and rooted soul stories…closing my eyes...imagining. I am in France still.
My present home “Praising the rooted standing ones and all the ones who have gone extinct. I am sitting on the Ancestors’ bones and on Death seedlings. The vultures are mentoring me to pay attention. Here in la Drôme in the South East in France the water flows from 1000 fountains, the water is well and drinkable, she reminds us…
I am in France accidentally as if spat out of England! I have not said good bye to England/Albion and have not been welcomed here in France while dictatorship is showing its flags... so I live where we all live…in between stories.
A very creative and chaotic place to court. My body is recovering from long covid thanks to you generous funders, the plants, healers and prayers. The heat, the mountains and the wild ones have supported me also.
Fear often grabs me at 3am when I wake up gasping for air, we both learn to dance and she leaves for a bit with the sun rays.
Who keeps you company I wonder… This full newsletter is a delicious basket of French and English offerings. May some of it feed you deeply and beautifully.
I am in France accidentally as if spat out of England! I have not said good bye to England/Albion and have not been welcomed here in France while dictatorship is showing its flags... so I live where we all live…in between stories.
A very creative and chaotic place to court. My body is recovering from long covid thanks to you generous funders, the plants, healers and prayers. The heat, the mountains and the wild ones have supported me also.
Fear often grabs me at 3am when I wake up gasping for air, we both learn to dance and she leaves for a bit with the sun rays.
Who keeps you company I wonder… This full newsletter is a delicious basket of French and English offerings. May some of it feed you deeply and beautifully.
What I am working on and
being worked by...
Completing a potent article for Dark matter: Women witnessing, titled: ‘Dead and Alive, Being with Ancestors’. I will share it on the next newsletter. :)
A series of 13 Paintings on old roof tiles, not yet finished: The Council of all Beings of the place I live on at the moment, in la Drôme, France. They will be part of the eARTH Soul ORACLE card set I am creating and collating for the end of the year.
Soon I will do a Podcast on ‘the sacred work of Grief’, with my own sister Carole and brother Mathieu. They created: Le Lave Linge: parle de développement personnel, de famille, d'amour... de la vie. Quelques podcast merveilleux vous y attendent. En Français , a bientôt! :)
Also with my brother Mathieu, who co-created KALIMA cercle de paroles, I will be offering circles in French. More soon…:) Kalima un mot arabe veux dire: 'mot'
My new book and the Oracle eARTh SOUL Card…for the end of the year, inshallah! :)
MY OFFERINGS FROM
SEPTEMBER 2021
Regular Grief Composting and Gratitude Tending Circles in English et en Français (NEXT NEWSLETTER TOUT EN FRANÇAIS avec des invitations trés revitalisantes!)
Many will be starting after the Equinox, to support us navigating when the darker times wrap itself around us.. We increasingly feel the ‘paradox of an absurd apocalypse’. The translation or rather the hidden roots of the words form a new meaning for me that I long to share for it could be the ingredients soul needs for our collective rough rite of passage.
“paradox of an absurd apocalypse” = “the very distinct from common opinion is out-of-tune while we are witnessing the great revelation of our time and of all time”. Thank you for your patience :-)
“paradox of an absurd apocalypse” = “the very distinct from common opinion is out-of-tune while we are witnessing the great revelation of our time and of all time”. Thank you for your patience :-)
Updates on “Pathosophy: Wisdom Born of Suffering and Grief”
Diving in. What I would like to share here is that the writing of my gestating book :Pathosophy: Wisdom Born of Suffering and Griefis demanding…everything from me!.
It might be time, to share the thresholds of my life story from the alchemist and medicine woman point of view. Of when I was pathologised and what happened to alchemise the suffering and grief. What are the ways that I called Pathosophy to sit at my Council. Am I 'passaged' initiated and mature enough, your response will tell when you read the book! Your welcoming will tell me if I have honoured my life in ways that can serve the healing, welcoming and legitimacy of you and of life herself.
Head to the soil I pray for rootedness and steadiness for the next few months.
It might be time, to share the thresholds of my life story from the alchemist and medicine woman point of view. Of when I was pathologised and what happened to alchemise the suffering and grief. What are the ways that I called Pathosophy to sit at my Council. Am I 'passaged' initiated and mature enough, your response will tell when you read the book! Your welcoming will tell me if I have honoured my life in ways that can serve the healing, welcoming and legitimacy of you and of life herself.
Head to the soil I pray for rootedness and steadiness for the next few months.
YOU CAN PRE ORDER THE BOOK IF YOU WISH TO SUPPORT ME
And here is the Message of Water again, as we approach its 5th and final anniversary...
...from the Water at the River Dart, Devon, England passed on to Azul on 2nd Dec 2016:
" My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe!
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling you Humans, to Us so we can Save your species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anaesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive Sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life."
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling you Humans, to Us so we can Save your species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anaesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive Sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life."
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Making eARTh ART as prayers for Life. This summer with Azul Thomé from the wild mountains of France.
4/6/2021
From Candace a previous participant
Azul, The journey through Earth Art filled my soul and brought to light so many ancient ideas. It was truly a gift to sit in community with you and people from around the world.
I appreciate your transparency with responses such as: “that is not my language” and modelling the gift economy.
With passionate embrace and heartfelt words, you held a gentle and deep container like none I've felt before. Taking these seeds out to our community will benefit so many.
I honor the sacred art, prayer and poetry combination as well as your service and wisdom! Many Blessings on your travels!
Words from Claire
Azul facilitated a wonderfully transformative experience. She created an inclusive and welcoming space that was held gently that allowed for good connection with each other, with ourselves and with nature. She is a weaver and embodies integrity. Even though I would prefer to work face to face it would only really be possible for me on zoom and I felt Azul created an excellent balance of on and offline working and created intimacy which is difficult to do online. I really valued this experience and would highly recommend to others.
In gratitude
Making eARTh ART as prayers for Life. This summer with Azul Thomé from the wild mountains of France.
Dear budding or mature makers and everyone in between and beyond ...
Are you longing to make arts and crafts as active prayers. Arts infused with rituals and practices that are kind to Life?Are you longing to keep creating sweet mischief and wild beauty, together, through the troubles ...
~ art as prayers... ~ craft inspired by Earth for Life... ~ that kind of making with hands and hearts...
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WHAT IS eARTh ART?
"Art infused with rituals, inspired by Earth, for Life..." Azul Thome
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HOW MANY: In a small group of 10 peopleWHEN: Sunday afternoons, starting 11th July 2021
6 Sundays ~ 3:30pm to 7pm (Europe time- Paris)
11 th July ~ 18th July ~ 25th July ~ 1st Aug ~ 8th Aug ~ 15th Aug21 Hours of eARTh ART .
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The investment for you will be as follow
INVESTMENT with financial conscious participation.ROOT (basic investment - for all) - £150 - TO PAY NOW
for the 21 hours of eARTh ART online
Azul hopes in that way to give a chance to people with little finance to be able to join her classes.
<<<At the end of the 6 weeks, there will be invitation to offer more to Azul if you feel moved to - in the spirit of gift economy, appreciation, flow, abundance and reciprocity.>>>.
If you are financially struggling to invest into the ROOT, you might wish to think of getting friends and family to sponsor you. This creative journey is for your well being therefore the one of Earth.
The REFUND of the course will only take place if Azul needs to cancel the course for unforeseen reasons. If for some reasons you cannot carry on Azul will not be able to refund you.
REGISTER and BOOK BELOW for the 6 WEEKS online course
Azul will then respond to you to CONFIRM YOUR PLACE once the money has arrived. First come first serve. Thank you!
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WHAT WILL WE MAKE?
~we will start with intuitive writing, checking in, following the movement of our creative Soul.
~we will make an eARTH POD with our allies to gather our sacred things into.
~we will work with clay or wood for the making of an Inner Council set.
We will gather on ZOOMland and spend time outdoors to our 'Courting place', away from the screen. We will be as close as possible to the way we could be in a workshop by the garden. We will not stare at the screen all the time promise!
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There are no tickets available for individual Sundays. We will start together and aim to complete our creative journey together.
There will be optional 'home-coming work' between the sessions.I am so very delighted to meet you all soon and create together the world of our longing through arts as prayers & sacred beauty!
Au plaisir...
Azul Thomé
[email protected]
www.souland.org
Are you longing to make arts and crafts as active prayers. Arts infused with rituals and practices that are kind to Life?Are you longing to keep creating sweet mischief and wild beauty, together, through the troubles ...
~ art as prayers... ~ craft inspired by Earth for Life... ~ that kind of making with hands and hearts...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WHAT IS eARTh ART?
"Art infused with rituals, inspired by Earth, for Life..." Azul Thome
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HOW MANY: In a small group of 10 peopleWHEN: Sunday afternoons, starting 11th July 2021
6 Sundays ~ 3:30pm to 7pm (Europe time- Paris)
11 th July ~ 18th July ~ 25th July ~ 1st Aug ~ 8th Aug ~ 15th Aug21 Hours of eARTh ART .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The investment for you will be as follow
INVESTMENT with financial conscious participation.ROOT (basic investment - for all) - £150 - TO PAY NOW
for the 21 hours of eARTh ART online
Azul hopes in that way to give a chance to people with little finance to be able to join her classes.
<<<At the end of the 6 weeks, there will be invitation to offer more to Azul if you feel moved to - in the spirit of gift economy, appreciation, flow, abundance and reciprocity.>>>.
If you are financially struggling to invest into the ROOT, you might wish to think of getting friends and family to sponsor you. This creative journey is for your well being therefore the one of Earth.
The REFUND of the course will only take place if Azul needs to cancel the course for unforeseen reasons. If for some reasons you cannot carry on Azul will not be able to refund you.
REGISTER and BOOK BELOW for the 6 WEEKS online course
Azul will then respond to you to CONFIRM YOUR PLACE once the money has arrived. First come first serve. Thank you!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WHAT WILL WE MAKE?
~we will start with intuitive writing, checking in, following the movement of our creative Soul.
~we will make an eARTH POD with our allies to gather our sacred things into.
~we will work with clay or wood for the making of an Inner Council set.
We will gather on ZOOMland and spend time outdoors to our 'Courting place', away from the screen. We will be as close as possible to the way we could be in a workshop by the garden. We will not stare at the screen all the time promise!
~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are no tickets available for individual Sundays. We will start together and aim to complete our creative journey together.
There will be optional 'home-coming work' between the sessions.I am so very delighted to meet you all soon and create together the world of our longing through arts as prayers & sacred beauty!
Au plaisir...
Azul Thomé
[email protected]
www.souland.org
Words from Katrina
This art/craft course was a joy on the path of creativity, not only a physical creation but a weave of souls also. Azul guided us along a beautiful and enchanted path to a place where we could drop into deep trust, care and nourishment. We also had a chance to meet the inner council and explore the many aspects of what it means to be a woman.
Words from Annette
Dear Azul,
Thank you for this eARThArt journey. I very much appreciated your presence. Although your spirituality and practice take a different form to mine, I felt your depth and authenticity, and I trusted your leading. You listened to each of us deeply, and really saw us, and that was a gift. From what I can see, you are a fierce and loving warrior for the earth who ‘walks the talk’, and I admire the way you live in trust of provision. I was very moved by your art that you showed us - you bring a depth and intention to your practice that I am trying to find for myself.
You held the zoom process with sensitivity and creativity, and were able to adapt when needed. Although it’s a course I imagine would be best held ‘in person’, I was happy for the opportunity to take part on line, and it was a delight to meet with a group of women dispersed around the world.
I wish you well in your time of rest and reflection, and I thank you for your contribution to the life of the planet,
| The astonishing place where I am living at present, in la Drome in France :-) Azul |  See you soon dear makers of beauty! |
..."When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is, then you will realise with a massive sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us - who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you
belong to Life ."
2nd December 2016
eARTh art by Azul Thome
FULL MESSAGE of WATER
" My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe!
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling you Humans, to us so we can Save your species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anaesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life "
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2nd December 2016 - www.souland.org
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The Message of Water was given to Azul Thomé on 2nd December 2016 by the River Dart, Devon, UK after she fell on her knees asking the river how to love when there is so much loss?
The Message of Water is 4 Years old today... we have reached the last year of its guidance, what does it mean to us humans?
TO SUPPORT YOU WHEN YOU READ THE MESSAGE and AFTERWARDS...
TENDING TO OUR HEART AND SOUL when reading the MESSAGE
This message of deep entangled Love might touch you in unexpected ways. Perhaps it will bring up some deep emotions to your hearts and eyes.
May it be so.
I invite each one of you to set up a sacred ritual space to unburden your heart and bring flow to your emotions. To set up before during and after the reading.
.
It is inspired by a Dagara ritual:
WHAT TO BRING
<<<Fill half of a bowl of water
<<<gather a few small stones that you place around the bowl (see drawing above)
WHAT TO DO
When you feel that your heart gets heavy, that emotions want to move...pick up a stone and tell her of your pain, your grief, your anger, your sorrow, fear, numbness., heaviness, paralysis ~ when you have told her that first wave of feelings...place the stone in the bowl of water. Do that as many times as you need to, alone or with other humans.
AFTERwards
You might want to keep the bowl, the water and the stones set up that way for 2-3 more days to keep doing that little ritual.
Then ...give the water to a living plant/trees, return the stones to where they came from and make your thanks. I pick mine from the river Dart.
DECOLONISING our RITUALS
A way I practice when I want to 'take' something.
<<< I arrive presenting myself with my full name, I state my intention, I make an offering of flowers, seeds or song
I then ask for what I came for and need.
If it is a 'yes' I will pick them up and make a pledge to return them with our human heart a little bit more entangled with all we love than before... they like that, so do I !
It is a way to decolonise our rituals. It transform the old appropriation in all we do into a reciprocal, intimate and animistic way of being. The heart of all living beings benefit from these actions. >>>
Finally Grief does not wish to seat alone, she is part of Four Sisters: Grief, Love, Death, reBirth... So make sure your have enough cushions for them Four Sisters of the Last Forest on Earth
Inshgaia!
Azul-Valérie Thomé
This message of deep entangled Love might touch you in unexpected ways. Perhaps it will bring up some deep emotions to your hearts and eyes.
May it be so.
I invite each one of you to set up a sacred ritual space to unburden your heart and bring flow to your emotions. To set up before during and after the reading.
.
It is inspired by a Dagara ritual:
WHAT TO BRING
<<<Fill half of a bowl of water
<<<gather a few small stones that you place around the bowl (see drawing above)
WHAT TO DO
When you feel that your heart gets heavy, that emotions want to move...pick up a stone and tell her of your pain, your grief, your anger, your sorrow, fear, numbness., heaviness, paralysis ~ when you have told her that first wave of feelings...place the stone in the bowl of water. Do that as many times as you need to, alone or with other humans.
AFTERwards
You might want to keep the bowl, the water and the stones set up that way for 2-3 more days to keep doing that little ritual.
Then ...give the water to a living plant/trees, return the stones to where they came from and make your thanks. I pick mine from the river Dart.
DECOLONISING our RITUALS
A way I practice when I want to 'take' something.
<<< I arrive presenting myself with my full name, I state my intention, I make an offering of flowers, seeds or song
I then ask for what I came for and need.
If it is a 'yes' I will pick them up and make a pledge to return them with our human heart a little bit more entangled with all we love than before... they like that, so do I !
It is a way to decolonise our rituals. It transform the old appropriation in all we do into a reciprocal, intimate and animistic way of being. The heart of all living beings benefit from these actions. >>>
Finally Grief does not wish to seat alone, she is part of Four Sisters: Grief, Love, Death, reBirth... So make sure your have enough cushions for them Four Sisters of the Last Forest on Earth
Inshgaia!
Azul-Valérie Thomé
And here to keep you in good company, is a beautiful ceremonial song ~ inspired by the Message of Water ~ by our dear Ayla Schafer
Thank you for your company.
All eARTh are by Azul Thomé
You are engaging in madness.
I feel obliged to accompany you.
Alejandro Jodorowsky ~
eARTh art by Azul Thome - PATHOSOPHY series
"The human soul is hungry for beauty… When we experience the Beautiful, there is a sense of homecoming". 
 the Ash tree under a microscope, sorry!
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 eARTh art in the forest by Azul Thome | This morning I would like to write about the toxic spell I am under with COVID19, the proposed journey from pathology to pathosophy through the sacred work of grief composting and the vital feeding of Soul. What happens if we move from allopathy to allosophy? What is the root of the collective terror and disorientation we feel? Can the disappearance of our nomadic freedom be the awakening call for loving more furiously and for radical generous cœurage? I am writing so when I forget again and fall under the strong spell cast on us, I can at least return to it. May it be so, inshallah and inshgaia! I have no answers. I am sharing my experience of the last 2 months when I was not sure I would come back from madness and illness. The last 9 months has seen me feeling dis-eased, very disorientated with a brain unable to do simple tasks I have been experiencing deep physical and psychic pain while feeling uncontrollable raw emotions. I am deeply exhausted with cough and breathlessness. The above list holds the perfect materials for an alchemist and a medicine person to be born and/or practice. The above list also holds dangerous materials and definitions for a corrupted system to use to control us and put on under a spell...the spell of terror, blind obedience and of course increase isolation from all that matters... DEPRESSION in OUR SYSTEM unable to grieve I took a risk to seek support from the allopathic system of my gp practice 2 months ago. I was immediately put on antidepressant, painkillers and valium. I took it all and walked again on that path of medicated pathology. I had to find something I had lost the last time I was there. So I put the pills on my altar and prayed for a safe return. After a few days of swallowing the pills I gradually stopped crying, the pains in my body dulled and a feeling resembling a voiceless stupor wrapped over me. I became controllable again, pacified and numbed. WILD GRIEF, MOVEMENT and FOREST After a few weeks I stopped it all and allowed myself to feel what i had parked for the experiment. First my immense grief, sorrow and rage moved again. I allowed my body to move and paint, stitch and embroidered through the many stages of pain and I relearned to lay on the forest skin while breathing with the trees, my kins. I needed to leave the home of Soul to return to it with some refreshed clarity. I am unsure if it is wise to use myself as the raw material but sometimes we are required to be the laboratory, the alchemist, the temple, the dangerous path, the prima materia and the patient all at once. PATHOLOGY and PATHOSOPHY Being conditioned to pathologies, our experiences of pain, strong feelings and suffering all our life we seem to look for something to fit these symptoms into. ME, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, depression, psychosis, bipolar, autism, manic, etc... When tired and alone we just want to rest there, for a moment, for a sense of veneered belonging, a home, however dysfunctional it is. I noticed that when I think of dying it gives me the same feeling of rest and belonging!!!? That makes me suspicious, it awakes in me to the possibility that something dangerously unfriendly is going on in our world right now. A world that makes us want to rest and belong in the arms of the system that harms and controls us... Are we part of a human system that would rather see us dying than living? Looking at the evidence, it is probably the case. After all our healing system is all about illness, not about well being, kindness or the thriving of life. People who are truly alive are dangerous! Perhaps because they are fearless, interconnected to the web of life and compassionate... These pathologies were named and defined by whom and for whom? Why have we accepted them with such docility? Same question can be transferred onto every part of our society, politics, laws, truths, all over the world ... These pathologies become prison cells, they take away our freedom, stifle our imagination and crash our dignity. They enable medication to be passed on without proper check about its true effect. Power is never shared with the sick and the suffering one. Our return to the web of life, to our wild grief, to our songs, dance, art, poetry, old stories and empowering myths are never part of the prescription. We are never asked about our relationship to our visible and invisible allies and to our well and wise ancestors. All of these threads are never spun by doctors and patients.. They are bellitelated, shamed and laughed at most often. They are flipanteley and dangerously named as irrelevant matters and discarded. If you have ever been in a psychiatric hospital you will know what I mean. Hospitals are the same. We love you nurses and some docs. It is the system and the anesthesia I am addressing here. OTHER WAYS I am reminded of a few of my mentors. Francis Weller about depression: " depression is a plea from the soul to stop all you are doing and go down on your knees to feel your grief" Martin Prechtel who said to a director of a psychiatric hospital: "Aha this is where you keep your shamans!" and of Malidoma Somé : What a real shaman sees at a mental institution So if we look at the spell of ALLOPATHY: "treatment of disease by remedies that produce effects opposite to the symptoms," The definition says it all. How can I break the strong spell of allopathy . I call on Sophia, I call on Allosophy: "wisdom born of the other" "Allo" means 'other..."Al": means 'beyond'... Where is 'Pathosophy' in this? where is "the wisdom born of suffering, of feeling" Where does she reside? Why is the breath of freedom and respect that come from the enquiry not encouraged by our medical system? I let you guess. SOPHIA Sophia is the feminine aspect of divine wisdom. You can see that She is not what the people in power will want to foster in the people they are meant to serve and protect. Recently I have been offered another emerging pathology : "long covid or post covid, or covid syndrome". In the uk the medical system is setting up a series of test at the end of November to identify us and create a new illness. The illness will lead to new medications . I rested there for a few days, in the seat of being part of the reffered one for the new experience. My ego and love of pioneer adventures got confused. I even felt relief again to belong to some study of suffering even if unknown. To fall into the void, to fall into the unknown frightens me, so I grab prematurely onto some offered solutions, like a shocked amnesiac, anaesthetised zombie. I realised this morning that I had given up the fight for beauty. That by being offered a comfortable and easy solution my whole being was weakening even more, divatilasing. By being offered a pathology woven in the terror of Covid19, added to the growing control of our lives, the world wide authoritarianism and a mad making system I became even more unwell. I was under a spell. I am under a spell. And the forgetting keeps happening, the falling asleep - again and again. It took me to look into the eyes of a painting I made in the forest to wake up to my strength again. That tree is becoming my temple. |
eARTh art by Azul Thome : "PATHOSOPHY"
SPELL
Yesterday after watching a very disturbing french documentary - Hold Up - about the possible horror happening behind the scene of covid I saw my giving up, my wish to die rather than having my freedom taken away even more.
I did not want to see what will happen to me or the beings I love. I was horrified to not be able to see my family. I am experiencing the crumbling of my livelihood. Feeling the loneliness and powerlessness...but worst of all what could I DO in the face of such a worldwide sickening and so frightening madness ? I think we have passed the hummingbird story of doing individually all that we can. It might be a time for the murmuration of starlings now, working together in unity. And the teaching of mycelium is coming into our psyche again through books, talks, psilocybin and the return of the fungi. It is time to get together, go underground and create a mycelium of support and resistance.
ALLIES and GUIDES
I remembered my childhood archetypes/sheroes and heroes like Boudicca, Mandela, Tree, Pocahantas, Hypatia, Robin Hood, Kali, Gandhi, River, Lords of the Ring, Le Petit Prince, the Suffragettes, Raven, Dr King, the courage of the people of Beirut, the Jumping Mouse story, the Four Sisters of the Last Forest on Earth story...
MADNESS and WILD GRIEF
Last night I howled and screamed in ways that could have got me 'locked up and down'. I felt fury, rage, lostness, fear, sorrow with stretched claws and thick fur, with sharp long teeth eating the moon.
I felt in ways that no city dwellers can allow themselves to do or can dare remember how. For the fear of going mad or being ostracised and locked in is too great. So we take the blue pill even if its promised bliss is a slow killer. I remember days taking both the blue and the red pill. I propose a third element...
CEREMONIES and HIDING
I still hide to enable my wild grief to bring me back home to the wild truths, unless I'm in ceremonies with other humans. These ceremonies have stopped due to the 'lock down' and restrictions...it costs our psyche and our heart greatly. So they must be internalised, they must go underground, they must keep happening in secrets, in the forests and in our psyche.
The touching of madness, the crashing down beyond the level of gravity, the rage of my nomadic soul to be locked down, the disorientation and terror of the lack of congruence in our leaders and neighbours, the pains and suffering, the sleeping and waking in a state of torpor...they all become a gate toward the deepening understanding of my human family.
LONG COVID
These are not just personal states of being. may we not be caught in the emerging net of the next pathology: Long and post COVID.
I now see that these experiences of dis-ease are a response to our freedom being taken away from us.
A gagged scream due to the trauma of knowing our elders are locked in their room with a key, unable to be touched by their grandchildren or by the sun. Future mothers are giveing birth with a mask, the children are beaten up and masked and forbidden to touch and be touched in kindness! Many of us cannot travel to see our loved ones.
We know that what we are obeying does not make sense and that the root of the word obey means 'listening' not losing our humankind rights . Yet we want to be good citizens... But when a situation is called a war with an enemy to win over...we have lost our freedom. A very madening dynamic.
We know that there is a fat great lie seeping into our daily cup of tea. That there is no more debats, no press with integrity left, no freedom of speech about the situation of covid. If we say - hold on a minute, let's challenge this - we are called conspi-racists...or...or...
I let you fill the dots with your own experience...
It is deeply disturbing, I long to sit with each one of you unmasked in the forest around the same bon-fire to share our uncensored truth. But fear has sipped in our own hearts now. It will take great practice and discipline to stay awake!
So this morning I woke up pledging to fight for freedom and fearlessness until the day of my death.
The words came this morning:
I will die in the fight for life and freedom composting terror when it comes.
I will find my tribe in the mycelium of resistance and join them in service to all that matters,
I will not live and die in pacifying comfort . I will live and die for Sentient and Civil rights.
I will keep feeding my well and wise ancestors while seeking their support,
I will keep seeking the solace and wisdom of the trees, the children, the mycelium, the ravens and the river.
I will let the bird songs remind me of mine.
I will keep my appointments and gasp in joy at the rooks being on cue at dusk and dawn announcing the shift in things.
I will keep painting and making the conversations beyond words to listen to our beautiful mamatay.
OUR FOR-GETTING
The memory of our ancestors were kept and passed on to the children through songs, stories, ceremonies and rituals. They also had the sonlines and the ways of seeing the invisible gold threads of the mycelium of connections of the great web of life.
Yesterday after watching a very disturbing french documentary - Hold Up - about the possible horror happening behind the scene of covid I saw my giving up, my wish to die rather than having my freedom taken away even more.
I did not want to see what will happen to me or the beings I love. I was horrified to not be able to see my family. I am experiencing the crumbling of my livelihood. Feeling the loneliness and powerlessness...but worst of all what could I DO in the face of such a worldwide sickening and so frightening madness ? I think we have passed the hummingbird story of doing individually all that we can. It might be a time for the murmuration of starlings now, working together in unity. And the teaching of mycelium is coming into our psyche again through books, talks, psilocybin and the return of the fungi. It is time to get together, go underground and create a mycelium of support and resistance.
ALLIES and GUIDES
I remembered my childhood archetypes/sheroes and heroes like Boudicca, Mandela, Tree, Pocahantas, Hypatia, Robin Hood, Kali, Gandhi, River, Lords of the Ring, Le Petit Prince, the Suffragettes, Raven, Dr King, the courage of the people of Beirut, the Jumping Mouse story, the Four Sisters of the Last Forest on Earth story...
MADNESS and WILD GRIEF
Last night I howled and screamed in ways that could have got me 'locked up and down'. I felt fury, rage, lostness, fear, sorrow with stretched claws and thick fur, with sharp long teeth eating the moon.
I felt in ways that no city dwellers can allow themselves to do or can dare remember how. For the fear of going mad or being ostracised and locked in is too great. So we take the blue pill even if its promised bliss is a slow killer. I remember days taking both the blue and the red pill. I propose a third element...
CEREMONIES and HIDING
I still hide to enable my wild grief to bring me back home to the wild truths, unless I'm in ceremonies with other humans. These ceremonies have stopped due to the 'lock down' and restrictions...it costs our psyche and our heart greatly. So they must be internalised, they must go underground, they must keep happening in secrets, in the forests and in our psyche.
The touching of madness, the crashing down beyond the level of gravity, the rage of my nomadic soul to be locked down, the disorientation and terror of the lack of congruence in our leaders and neighbours, the pains and suffering, the sleeping and waking in a state of torpor...they all become a gate toward the deepening understanding of my human family.
LONG COVID
These are not just personal states of being. may we not be caught in the emerging net of the next pathology: Long and post COVID.
I now see that these experiences of dis-ease are a response to our freedom being taken away from us.
A gagged scream due to the trauma of knowing our elders are locked in their room with a key, unable to be touched by their grandchildren or by the sun. Future mothers are giveing birth with a mask, the children are beaten up and masked and forbidden to touch and be touched in kindness! Many of us cannot travel to see our loved ones.
We know that what we are obeying does not make sense and that the root of the word obey means 'listening' not losing our humankind rights . Yet we want to be good citizens... But when a situation is called a war with an enemy to win over...we have lost our freedom. A very madening dynamic.
We know that there is a fat great lie seeping into our daily cup of tea. That there is no more debats, no press with integrity left, no freedom of speech about the situation of covid. If we say - hold on a minute, let's challenge this - we are called conspi-racists...or...or...
I let you fill the dots with your own experience...
It is deeply disturbing, I long to sit with each one of you unmasked in the forest around the same bon-fire to share our uncensored truth. But fear has sipped in our own hearts now. It will take great practice and discipline to stay awake!
So this morning I woke up pledging to fight for freedom and fearlessness until the day of my death.
The words came this morning:
I will die in the fight for life and freedom composting terror when it comes.
I will find my tribe in the mycelium of resistance and join them in service to all that matters,
I will not live and die in pacifying comfort . I will live and die for Sentient and Civil rights.
I will keep feeding my well and wise ancestors while seeking their support,
I will keep seeking the solace and wisdom of the trees, the children, the mycelium, the ravens and the river.
I will let the bird songs remind me of mine.
I will keep my appointments and gasp in joy at the rooks being on cue at dusk and dawn announcing the shift in things.
I will keep painting and making the conversations beyond words to listen to our beautiful mamatay.
OUR FOR-GETTING
The memory of our ancestors were kept and passed on to the children through songs, stories, ceremonies and rituals. They also had the sonlines and the ways of seeing the invisible gold threads of the mycelium of connections of the great web of life.
“I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision was gathering in my eyes, not entirely clear just yet. This was the same look people saw in your eyes when you have died for beauty and come to live accepting nature as life with no promise of paradise, and mad at people who couldn't see that.”
― Martin Prechtel,
An other musing
When we 'become ill' there are choices opening to us. Important and vital choices of how to position ourselves within the constellations and systems available to us for healing.
We can identify with the ill-ness or/and identify with the Alchemist, the Medicine person in us who is longing to be initiated into their full beingness.
WHat I am saying is that - We can identify with Pathology or 'Pathosophy'!
I have been deep diving with the word Pathosophy and its medicine for many months now...an astonishing and opening journey...
When we become dis-eased we must remember that it is not a failure, something to fix, to hate, to even adore, to shame, nor something to use as currency for all the past suffering never composted...
Illness is NOT an invitation to the insane medical industry, that grew around our suffering, to join in...not always and mostly not.
Our suffering is absolutely NOT a permission to be owned through the naming of our pains, by pathologising it, medicating it, categorising it and essentially owning and gagging our freedom&capacity to become intimate with the ecosophy of our living world!
I see too many people profiting and making insans fortunes by keeping people entangled in a system that is rooted in fear of grief, terror of death, dismembered from soul and beauty.
A system that has no more filament of connection to the living world, the invisibles worlds and the well and wise ancestral world.
I propose that -The illness and the disease can become the raw material, the prima materia that the Artist and Alchemist within us can create a workshop, a forest, a lab around .
.All is there to initiate us to become a fuller, wiser, ripened human being.
I have been ill most of 2020. It has become an experimental event. I am becoming the alchemist through also being, the ill one, the illness, the lab, the paintbrush, the paint, the howling, the despair, the delight, the awe for it all, the suffering and the wisdom born of it all. It became an entity and a deep exploration which is still going on.
I call Her
"PATHOSOPHY: The Wisdom born of suffering"
I drew a triangle with Pathos (suffering/feelings) Logos (reason/study/logic) Sophia (feminine divine wisdom)
Within the triangle lives an interrogation mark. Anima Mundi stepped in for a while, then the Field of Rumi and today it is empty again.
I thought that Pathosophy wanted to be away from pathology but today she turned back towards it and a marriage of the three, PATHOS, LOGOS and SOPHIA has taken place.
I am curious to know how this lands on your hearts, bodies and souls.
I sense that there might reside something here that could be of benefit to many ill and pained people right now...
To move from an over identification to suffering, to the wisdom born of suffering...to move from the illness within to the medicine person longing to be initiated within the ill one using the illness itself to make gold out of lead...and in that way we initiate our world a little.
Azul Thome
When we 'become ill' there are choices opening to us. Important and vital choices of how to position ourselves within the constellations and systems available to us for healing.
We can identify with the ill-ness or/and identify with the Alchemist, the Medicine person in us who is longing to be initiated into their full beingness.
WHat I am saying is that - We can identify with Pathology or 'Pathosophy'!
I have been deep diving with the word Pathosophy and its medicine for many months now...an astonishing and opening journey...
When we become dis-eased we must remember that it is not a failure, something to fix, to hate, to even adore, to shame, nor something to use as currency for all the past suffering never composted...
Illness is NOT an invitation to the insane medical industry, that grew around our suffering, to join in...not always and mostly not.
Our suffering is absolutely NOT a permission to be owned through the naming of our pains, by pathologising it, medicating it, categorising it and essentially owning and gagging our freedom&capacity to become intimate with the ecosophy of our living world!
I see too many people profiting and making insans fortunes by keeping people entangled in a system that is rooted in fear of grief, terror of death, dismembered from soul and beauty.
A system that has no more filament of connection to the living world, the invisibles worlds and the well and wise ancestral world.
I propose that -The illness and the disease can become the raw material, the prima materia that the Artist and Alchemist within us can create a workshop, a forest, a lab around .
.All is there to initiate us to become a fuller, wiser, ripened human being.
I have been ill most of 2020. It has become an experimental event. I am becoming the alchemist through also being, the ill one, the illness, the lab, the paintbrush, the paint, the howling, the despair, the delight, the awe for it all, the suffering and the wisdom born of it all. It became an entity and a deep exploration which is still going on.
I call Her
"PATHOSOPHY: The Wisdom born of suffering"
I drew a triangle with Pathos (suffering/feelings) Logos (reason/study/logic) Sophia (feminine divine wisdom)
Within the triangle lives an interrogation mark. Anima Mundi stepped in for a while, then the Field of Rumi and today it is empty again.
I thought that Pathosophy wanted to be away from pathology but today she turned back towards it and a marriage of the three, PATHOS, LOGOS and SOPHIA has taken place.
I am curious to know how this lands on your hearts, bodies and souls.
I sense that there might reside something here that could be of benefit to many ill and pained people right now...
To move from an over identification to suffering, to the wisdom born of suffering...to move from the illness within to the medicine person longing to be initiated within the ill one using the illness itself to make gold out of lead...and in that way we initiate our world a little.
Azul Thome
And words from Khalil Gibran on
PAIN
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break,
that its heart may stand in the sun,
so must you know pain.
Much of your pain is self-chosen
.It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings,
though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter
has moistened with His own sacred tears.”―
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
eARTh art by Azul Thome: "PASSAGE"
eARTh Calendar 2021 by Azul Thomé
is AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
A BEAUTIFUL GIFT FOR YOU AND AN OTHERWISE
Original eARTh by Azul-Valérie Thomé of some of her Dark Matter, Archetypal, Soul and Dæmons Series made into a beautiful quality CALENDAR 2021
Easy to Hang on any flat surface
POSTCARDS
Including 12 removable and usable POSTCARDS
MOON
With the DARK MOONS and the FULL MOONS marked each month
SIZE when hanging
slim A4 ~ L30cms x W14cms
PRICE
£19 for a year CALENDAR and 12 removable POSTCARDS
It will arrive to you in a CARDBOARD envelop
eARTh by Azul Thomé
SOULand: Making the World of Life's Longing
www.souland.org
is AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
A BEAUTIFUL GIFT FOR YOU AND AN OTHERWISE
Original eARTh by Azul-Valérie Thomé of some of her Dark Matter, Archetypal, Soul and Dæmons Series made into a beautiful quality CALENDAR 2021
Easy to Hang on any flat surface
POSTCARDS
Including 12 removable and usable POSTCARDS
MOON
With the DARK MOONS and the FULL MOONS marked each month
SIZE when hanging
slim A4 ~ L30cms x W14cms
PRICE
£19 for a year CALENDAR and 12 removable POSTCARDS
It will arrive to you in a CARDBOARD envelop
eARTh by Azul Thomé
SOULand: Making the World of Life's Longing
www.souland.org
The Four Sisters of the Last Forest on Earth
The books have arrived after a 5 years journey and a rich collaboration !!
We Azul and Stu welcome you to an online launch
On this equinox
Monday 21st September 2020
8pm (uk time) until 9pm
We Azul and Stu welcome you to an online launch
On this equinox
Monday 21st September 2020
8pm (uk time) until 9pm
| THE LAUNCH - 8pm welcome (door will open at 7:50pm) - 8:20pm the Story will be read by Azul around a virtual fire until we can meet again, accompanied by the beautiful illustrations of Stu - 8:40pm a bit more ... :-) on ZOOM here is the LINK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ this Story is by Azul Valérie Thomé and the Forest of Devon, England (Albion) It is available in English and soon in French. 13 illustrations. 42 pages. For adults and older children. Illustrated by Stu McLellan September 2020, Devon, England Self-Published by Azul Thome at SOULand: www.souland.org |
EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK |
The making of these drawings began last year in a conversation between Azul and I at Seed Festival about a collaboration. We didn’t know that it would be making images for this story, and even when that became the focus, we didn’t know that it was becoming a book. But this is how it has unfolded. A huge honour to be part of bringing this to life, in honour of Life.
Stu McLellan
PRAISES
“Thank you for this exquisite tale. It will open heartminds the world over. Thank goodness.
This tale is no fantasy, it is as true as a potato. The utter bleakness of our world is true. So is the last forest – as real as remembrance and longing. And the four sisters, they are the realest thing about us. They only need to be set free. Everything depends on it." –
Joanna Macy, author World as Lover, World as Self
“We are in need of a particular form of medicine in these uncertain times. It is a soul medicine and it comes to us through beauty, through sorrow, through poetry and it comes through potent stories. Traditionally, fairy tales carried the ability to enchant us and stir our imaginations in ways that enabled us to see with different eyes. The Four Sisters is a tale of such magnitude, inviting us to listen deeply and to pay attention. It is the kind of story that reminds us of another way of knowing the world through an intimate and tender encounter with the sacred. Azul-Valerie Thome has gifted us with a story that does just this; it brings us back into an embrace with the living forces of the world.”
Francis Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow
"A tender bitter-sweet story that floats, gliding between sunset and sunrise, a story that whispers truth into the shadowed silence of indifference, and then pauses, alert, intent, listening for the sound of love awoken to action.”
Mac Macartney, author of The Children’s Fire: Heart Song of a People
“With skilful words Azul takes us on a subtle journey rich in meaning and discovery. The artwork is exquisite.”
Dr Stephan Harding, author of Animate Earth
“This story of HAmsat and her four companions, of her visit to the Four Spirits of the Last Forest of the Earth is heartfelt and beautiful, inspiring and deep, grounded, and real. It’s a dream made manifest and if you let it touch your soul, the dreams of your life will walk themselves awake.’
Manda Scott, author of Boudica: Dreaming Series
~~~~~~~~~~~
"The Fours Sisters of the Last Forest on Earth"
A plea, a story, a book, a map and a prayer...
this Story is by Azul Valérie Thomé and
the Forest of Devon, England (Albion)
It is available in English and in French.
13 illustrations. 40 pages. For adults and older children.
It is dedicated to my father Nano Thomé,
who was born from the land and waters of Lebanon.
Illustrated by Stu McLellan
September 2020, Devon, England
Self- Published by SOULand: www.souland.org
PRAISES
'Thank you for this exquisite tale. It will open heartminds the world over. Thank goodness.
This tale is no fantasy, it is as true as a potato. The utter bleakness of our world is true. So is the last forest – as real as remembrance and longing. And the four sisters, they are the realest thing about us. They only need to be set free. Everything depends on it." –
Joanna Macy, author World as Lover, World as Self
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"We are in need of a particular form of medicine in these uncertain times. It is a soul medicine and it comes to us through beauty, through sorrow, through poetry and it comes through potent stories.
Traditionally, fairy tales carried the ability to enchant us and stir our imaginations in ways that enabled us to see with different eyes.
The Four Sisters is a tale of such magnitude, inviting us to listen deeply and to pay attention.
It is the kind of story that reminds us of another way of knowing the world through an intimate and tender encounter with the sacred.
Azul-Valerie Thome has gifted us with a story that does just this; it brings us back into an embrace with the living forces of the world."
Francis Weller, author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"A tender bitter-sweet story that floats, gliding between sunset and sunrise, a story that whispers truth into the shadowed silence of indifference, and then pauses, alert, intent, listening for the sound of love awoken to action.”
Mac Macartney, author of The Children’s Fire: Heart Song of a People
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“With skilful words Azul takes us on a subtle journey rich in meaning and discovery. The artwork is exquisite.”
Dr Stephan Harding, author of Animate Earth and professor in Holistic Science at Schumacher College
| TITHING 10% of the profit will go to a project that loves Life, . It is part of the sacred way of tithing (giving 10% of your profit to a project that tends to Life to keep the sacred energy flowing) | THANK YOU To the Forest of Devon in England to entrust me with her vision. To dear Stu for his art, his gentle grace and courageous willingness to be touched and transformed by the story and the Four Sisters. Thank you so much for his gift of the 13 illustrations. I want to thank also my brother Mathieu Thomé for his steady holding and feedback. Valerie Teller and Lut De Naeyer for their ongoing support and Shante Zenith, Helena Ter Ellen, Carole Thomé for the proof reading, the french translation and generous presence. |
WHO ARE WE?
| AZUL VALERIE THOME To create a first book is an incredible experience of reciprocal transformation and learning! To have carried the original vision for 5 years, to see it change and transform and to accompany it to is full maturity has changed me indeed. These Four Sisters are good company for our troubled times. They offer the wisdom we might all long for from our Elders. The story, or rather the vision, first came to me around 5 years ago, while walking in the forest in Devon, England. I 'saw' the last forest on the Earth, I saw the Four Sisters (they were not called that then) . It was like a day dream, deep time where the past, present and future are a whole experience. I did not realise then that the vision longed to become a little book, a prayer, an instruction and a way to bring soul back to the frontline of our lives. The story has ancient and new guidance. It can be read to children and adults. It can be used as a way of journeying in systemic constellation , a community ritual or a solitary map to feel more alive and in life. When in 2017 the original vision was activated by 18 women in Belgium, I held an all night vigil guiding us all through the meeting of the Four Sisters: Grief, Love, Death and Rebirth... Each of the Four Sisters were dressed up and placed around a circle of empty logs in a forest on the north of the country...it was touched by Grace and brought Soul to the frontline of our lives. I knew then that the vision now brought into form needed to be shared wildely and widely...but how? 9 months ago I contacted Stu to see if he would do the illustrations. He said yes and we went on a journey that needs to be heard. Here is my BIO and WEBSITE | STU MCLELLAN Stu McLellan is the talented illustrator who created and gifted SOULand with the 13 illustrations. We worked for 9 months to birth what is now an integral part of the story. Our working together was alive, rich in heart. WITH STU's WORDS (the text has been shortened- you can find it in full on his website) ...Azul's work embraces that, and much more, that invites us into life in fullness, welcoming love and grief and death and rebirth. This invitation presents both deep sighs of relief and a stirring to courage in the face of things our culture often mutes or runs from, that pokes a finger into our fears. And so the possibility of working on drawings to accompany this story was something that I felt I wanted to accept... ...To represent four Sisters, as a man. To feel the depth and vitality of the story and. To present a story that involves encountering wildness and shadow as well as the fire of community and intimacy... ...Encountering life and finding that these Sisters are longing for us to sit with them, they are longing for our company, for our conversation, for our vulnerability and willingness to offer ourselves in service to all life. There is something the resonates deeply about that circle of empty logs. I feel the truth of that image for us as species and I know that what they ask is communal, yes, and also deeply personal. .... ...The non human presence, of the raven and badger and fox and dragonfly also grew over time. And so they are here. They still invite me to make eye contact with them. To ask me what it is I will do, what will we do, to walk into that forest with Hamsat, in meeting those sisters and allowing our eyes to meet. In returning to those empty seats and adding our offerings to the fire. It is a very beautiful, moving, achingly poignant story. I'm struck by Azul's courage in seeking to live out Hamsat's example and with extraordinary energy offering waymarkers for all our journeys. May this story be such an offering." Stu's BIO and WEBSITE |
More info www.souland.org
The Four Sisters bow to you!
Thank you for your support.
May this story find you in good company.
Azul
Listen... Water brings a Message (We belong to Life)
| The Message of Water was given to Azul Thomé on 2nd December 2016 by the River Dart, Devon, UK after she fell on her knees asking the river how to love when there is so much loss? | "I was deeply touched by this message and felt the water call me to translate her words into the spirit of a song, that Mother Water could speak through music to our hearts and call us home... |
LISTEN...WATER BRINGS A MESSAGE (We belong to Life)
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The lights in the sky tell the story
of a tribal people that listened to the voice of the earth
The fires on the land tell the story
of a human kind that got lost and forgot what was sacred
Mother water brings her message
“Wake up and remember your birthright belonging to the Earth
If you don’t stop sleeping,
if you don’t come home soon
Then there is not long left now, there is not long left now, there is not long left
My dear child do not worry about me
I recover quickly with the song of the birds and the love of the trees
With prayers moving around the Earth, I regain balance with your tears
So remember you songs, do not focus your energy on saving me
Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen and learn
Bring the change to your hearts first
All of us
Ancestors, soil, water, plant, air and animals
Are calling you humans to us so we can save you
Sacred beauty,
sacred beauty
Open you heart
to what love truly is
You were loved all along,
always have been and forever shall be
By all of us who you think that you are saving
You were loved all along,
always have been and forever will be
By all of us who you think that you are saving
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
Ayla Schafer
www.aylaschafer.co.uk
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The lights in the sky tell the story
of a tribal people that listened to the voice of the earth
The fires on the land tell the story
of a human kind that got lost and forgot what was sacred
Mother water brings her message
“Wake up and remember your birthright belonging to the Earth
If you don’t stop sleeping,
if you don’t come home soon
Then there is not long left now, there is not long left now, there is not long left
My dear child do not worry about me
I recover quickly with the song of the birds and the love of the trees
With prayers moving around the Earth, I regain balance with your tears
So remember you songs, do not focus your energy on saving me
Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen and learn
Bring the change to your hearts first
All of us
Ancestors, soil, water, plant, air and animals
Are calling you humans to us so we can save you
Sacred beauty,
sacred beauty
Open you heart
to what love truly is
You were loved all along,
always have been and forever shall be
By all of us who you think that you are saving
You were loved all along,
always have been and forever will be
By all of us who you think that you are saving
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life
Wake up, come home, remember in your bones
That you belong to life"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
Ayla Schafer
www.aylaschafer.co.uk
The River Dart, Devon, England
THE ORIGINAL ~ MESSAGE OF WATER was given to Azul Valerie Thome on 2nd December 2016 by the River Dart, Devon, UK: It is the guide of all SOULand's offerings to our passaging world.
" My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe!
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling you Humans, to us so we can Save your species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anaesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life "
This was followed by a series of interviews :The message of water in Conversations with Grief & Water was read to each person activating a unique response.
So far I have spoken with and recorded Joanna Macy, Jon Young, Francis Weller, Manda Scott, Pat McCabe, Megan Hollingsworth, Stephan Harding, Pablo Servigne, Stephen Jenkinson, Simon Be, and Li An Phoa…
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Here the full Message of Water is spoken by Azul Thome
With care and attentiveness for all who matter... Azul
" My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe!
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling you Humans, to us so we can Save your species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anaesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life "
This was followed by a series of interviews :The message of water in Conversations with Grief & Water was read to each person activating a unique response.
So far I have spoken with and recorded Joanna Macy, Jon Young, Francis Weller, Manda Scott, Pat McCabe, Megan Hollingsworth, Stephan Harding, Pablo Servigne, Stephen Jenkinson, Simon Be, and Li An Phoa…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here the full Message of Water is spoken by Azul Thome
With care and attentiveness for all who matter... Azul
SOULand: Making the World of our Longing ~ has recently become SOULand : Making the World of Earth's Longing
in response to Corona Virus insights.
While being sick with the virus, in the last few weeks, I saw that much will be changed after this phase of lock down.
Personally and collectively we are going through an initiation, a collective Rite of Passage.
My identity, positioning, offerings and responding to and in our world are now all in the sacred compost heap of Soul, of Anima Mundi, at her service.
This post is to honour and celebrate, in your good company, all of the active prayers that moved through me in the last 5 years. Bowing in front of them all, while thanking each vision and projects for the unravelling, initiating and the tempering medicine they carried so generously...
Thanks to you all for your part in it whether that is as an apprentice, a mentee, a participant or a supporter of all kinds, forms and species alive and dead. In awe and wonder!
With gratitude, grit and attentiveness ~~~
Azul Thomé ~ active visionary of SOULand
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SOULand is an ensouling response to our uninitiated, traumatised, collapsing and transforming world.
It is a growing programme of nature-informed rituals, a mycelium of trainings&apprenticeship, eARTh and mentorship. To restore and weave our humanity back to a deep & wild relationship with the Earth, mature the human soul and co-create the world of our Earth's longing. It is a vision of sanctuary, a great giveaway. It is soul activism.
Making the World of Earth's Longing
Longing is the language of SOUL. A current moving through us, whispering wildly to us how to come back Home.
Most of us behave as if we were homeless to our SOUL and orphaned to our Earth with great consequences.
When we feel deep longings moving through our bodies and through our dreams we are blessed by SOUL. So what happens to these Longings? Why are we in such dire state if SOUL constantly speaks through our imagination, hearts and dreams? Are they like seeds falling on concrete? What does our SOUL need?
These longings moving through us... could be bringing us to one of the initiatory gates of grief. Grief of not being welcome, wanted, enough, or of not knowing enough, have enough support, money, skills etc...Paralysis, shame and envy can become the new guests in our beings.
Grief is a gate that most of us want to avoid at all costs, even if it costs us our lives ~ therefore we never move beyond the call of SOUL. An initiation to empower us to create the world of our longing is miscarried.
We stop, numb and stay small not to feel our sadness, our numbness, our fears and anger. We are not skilled in Grief neither in Love. A terrible poverty takes place in our heart and imagination.
SOULand provides collective spaces for the release of our sacred grief, so we can meet ourselves as creative gifted human beings ~ a little more empowered and resourced to make the World of our Longing as a great gift...
Initiation
Initiation is a invitation to wildly court and lean into the SOUL of four Sisters - Grief, Love, Death and Birth. There is no true initiation without the ‘small’ death of our personality, our set positioning in life or our childlike naivety.
A well held initiatory ritual will bring us closer to a homecoming, a return to our interconnectedness with all of life, transforming our sense of being homeless or orphaned into belonging. Most importantly we move from being zombies in our lives to being fully aware of our death and therefore offering our lives fully for the thriving of Life...
https://www.souland.org
Facebook Page
Grief Composting Circles and Apprenticeship
The Grief Compositing Circles are communal rituals of 4 hours infused with beauty and connection with all beings, humans and all others.
Grief in this context is the welcoming of anger, fear, sadness, despair, numbness and the mystery of all these emotions as we welcome them in a collective safe space.
The Circles hold an important part in total darkness as if in a compost heap, a womb or a kiva. Sounds and wailing are freely used to encourage our wild and sensuous selves to be present. Wild means of nature, not feral or out of control!
CIRCLES: https://www.souland.org/grief-composting.html
TRAININGS: https://www.souland.org/training.html
FACEBOOKGROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefcompostingcircles/
The Message of water
Water is SOULand’s main guide.
One grey day of December I found myself by the river Dart in Devon who gifted me with an astonishing message of Love.
‘’My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe!
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling you Humans, to us so we can Save your species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anaesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life "
https://www.souland.org/water.html
Conversations with Grief and Water
Conversations with Grief of Water is a series of interviews with women and men engaged fully with our collapsing world, our dying systems and our grief. People engaged with deep love and longing to fully participate in our world in ways of soul and beauty. They respond to the message of Water received on 2nd of December.
So far I have spoken with and recorded Joanna Macy, Simon Be, Li An Phoa, Jon Young, Francis Weller, Manda Scott, Pat McCabe, Megan Hollingsworth, Stephan Harding, Pablo Servigne and Stephen Jenkinson… each one bringing a thread for a cloth weaving in the past, present and future… I anticipate mystery and our bone memory to be awakened by it.
https://www.souland.org/conversations-with-grief--water.html
Earth Temples on the edge of cities
I have a vision of an Earth Temple at the edge of every town and every city. A circular womb-like place of astonishing beauty celebrating all of creation .. a place to rest into, reflect, pray, listen, speak and sing to all sentient beings and restore our animist selves.
After a year of dreaming, drawings of the Earth Temple have arrived. It is 25 Meters wide. Blessed by 2000 generations of ancestors. 4 living entrances and a Kiva in the centre. A Feminine shaped Temple for all. Made of the local material found on site.
I am calling for a meeting with anyone who resonates with helping create the first Earth Temple - Makers, Cobbers, Strawbellers, Glassmakers, Carpenters, Alchemists, eARTh Artists, Planners, Weavers of Natural Laws, Shambhala Warriors, and other cracked and called human beings.
https://www.souland.org/earth-temple.html
Longing is the language of SOUL. A current moving through us, whispering wildly to us how to come back Home.
Most of us behave as if we were homeless to our SOUL and orphaned to our Earth with great consequences.
When we feel deep longings moving through our bodies and through our dreams we are blessed by SOUL. So what happens to these Longings? Why are we in such dire state if SOUL constantly speaks through our imagination, hearts and dreams? Are they like seeds falling on concrete? What does our SOUL need?
These longings moving through us... could be bringing us to one of the initiatory gates of grief. Grief of not being welcome, wanted, enough, or of not knowing enough, have enough support, money, skills etc...Paralysis, shame and envy can become the new guests in our beings.
Grief is a gate that most of us want to avoid at all costs, even if it costs us our lives ~ therefore we never move beyond the call of SOUL. An initiation to empower us to create the world of our longing is miscarried.
We stop, numb and stay small not to feel our sadness, our numbness, our fears and anger. We are not skilled in Grief neither in Love. A terrible poverty takes place in our heart and imagination.
SOULand provides collective spaces for the release of our sacred grief, so we can meet ourselves as creative gifted human beings ~ a little more empowered and resourced to make the World of our Longing as a great gift...
Initiation
Initiation is a invitation to wildly court and lean into the SOUL of four Sisters - Grief, Love, Death and Birth. There is no true initiation without the ‘small’ death of our personality, our set positioning in life or our childlike naivety.
A well held initiatory ritual will bring us closer to a homecoming, a return to our interconnectedness with all of life, transforming our sense of being homeless or orphaned into belonging. Most importantly we move from being zombies in our lives to being fully aware of our death and therefore offering our lives fully for the thriving of Life...
https://www.souland.org
Facebook Page
Grief Composting Circles and Apprenticeship
The Grief Compositing Circles are communal rituals of 4 hours infused with beauty and connection with all beings, humans and all others.
Grief in this context is the welcoming of anger, fear, sadness, despair, numbness and the mystery of all these emotions as we welcome them in a collective safe space.
The Circles hold an important part in total darkness as if in a compost heap, a womb or a kiva. Sounds and wailing are freely used to encourage our wild and sensuous selves to be present. Wild means of nature, not feral or out of control!
CIRCLES: https://www.souland.org/grief-composting.html
TRAININGS: https://www.souland.org/training.html
FACEBOOKGROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/griefcompostingcircles/
The Message of water
Water is SOULand’s main guide.
One grey day of December I found myself by the river Dart in Devon who gifted me with an astonishing message of Love.
‘’My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe!
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling you Humans, to us so we can Save your species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anaesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life "
https://www.souland.org/water.html
Conversations with Grief and Water
Conversations with Grief of Water is a series of interviews with women and men engaged fully with our collapsing world, our dying systems and our grief. People engaged with deep love and longing to fully participate in our world in ways of soul and beauty. They respond to the message of Water received on 2nd of December.
So far I have spoken with and recorded Joanna Macy, Simon Be, Li An Phoa, Jon Young, Francis Weller, Manda Scott, Pat McCabe, Megan Hollingsworth, Stephan Harding, Pablo Servigne and Stephen Jenkinson… each one bringing a thread for a cloth weaving in the past, present and future… I anticipate mystery and our bone memory to be awakened by it.
https://www.souland.org/conversations-with-grief--water.html
Earth Temples on the edge of cities
I have a vision of an Earth Temple at the edge of every town and every city. A circular womb-like place of astonishing beauty celebrating all of creation .. a place to rest into, reflect, pray, listen, speak and sing to all sentient beings and restore our animist selves.
After a year of dreaming, drawings of the Earth Temple have arrived. It is 25 Meters wide. Blessed by 2000 generations of ancestors. 4 living entrances and a Kiva in the centre. A Feminine shaped Temple for all. Made of the local material found on site.
I am calling for a meeting with anyone who resonates with helping create the first Earth Temple - Makers, Cobbers, Strawbellers, Glassmakers, Carpenters, Alchemists, eARTh Artists, Planners, Weavers of Natural Laws, Shambhala Warriors, and other cracked and called human beings.
https://www.souland.org/earth-temple.html
Life Cairn in Totnes
Every 24 hours, between 100 and 150 species of animals, invertebrates, fungi and plants go extinct. They will never court, sing, nest, seed, or dance their life-bringing rituals again. They are not dead - Death being food for the birthing of new life, no they are extinct! ...
Can we ponder on the difference in our own heart and the impact on our soul?
We are increasingly noticing that we need to gather and rise up in circles and community groups to meet the enormity of the consequences of our long term disconnection to the interconnectedness with all of Life thus bringing up an immense grief, un~skilled and feared in many of us.
On the 1st December, the Totnes community is invited to create a Life Cairn, a memorial for the honouring of Extinct Species. Please join us if you are touched by the 6th massive extinction of Life on Earth and want to give Away your gifts, broken hearts and talents to this offering.
Artists, singers, musicians, children, elders, mothers, fathers, lovers of all sorts and all two, three and four legged welcome!
https://www.souland.org/life-cairn-in-totnes.html
See Life Cairn in Totnes Event on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/events/1773741646245298/
"WomBelt: Weaving Women back into Matter"
Our womb is a place of great wisdom for ourselves and one another, to stand soulfully and maturely on and for our Earth's wellbeing. Any trauma will create a dam and a great blockage to the river of our lives.
A Wombelt is made using the backstrap weaving method. Making a Wombelt is a ritual, a rite of passage, a way back to mattering, to honour our womb and the space holding it. We are weaving ourselves and our stories back together for one another, to skill up, to mend, to actively pray for one another.
Because we Matter, we are matter, mater, mother, Earth...
Life Belts
A day ritual of backstrap weaving for men and woman called to make the world of their longing by weaving the soul threads of their lives around a tree.
Collective Wombelts
WomanFest, the first All Women Radical Participation festival.
Azul wove for three days. She invited the women to respond to the question ‘What is your deepest wildest longing?’. 73 women wrote their response onto a roll of fabric. Each scroll was inserted into the weaving, therefore creating a collective Wombelt of our deepest and wildest longings. At the closing ceremony, the belt was given away and wrapped around the hips of Tanya Jacut, the visionary woman of this festival.
Oxford Storytelling festival
Azul was invited to weave her Wombelts. She decided to create only one ~ a collective Life Wombelt weaving people’s longing into it. She invited people to respond to ‘What is the world of your longing and belonging?’. Their responses are written on little fabric scrolls and inserted in the weaving. There is 108 responses offerings in this belt. The belt is to be given to a cave yet to be found. A cave, a Kiva is an Earth womb able to listen to such a soulful gift.
https://www.souland.org/wombelt.html
https://www.facebook.com/wombelt/
Inner Council of a Woman Queen
The archetype of the Queen when welcomed in its entirety is in service to something bigger than herself. The Queen with her King learns to listen and protect life both within the inner council and within her community of human and non-human beings.
The other 8 archetypes of the woman are then at her service. They are the Mother, the Child, the Nun, the Maiden, the Lover, the Huntress, the Magician, the Crone.
Listening to our inner council brings us to meet our inner archetypes, to welcome their lights and their shadows, to nourish decision-making for the thriving of Life.
Each flag became an invitation for the Daimon of one archetype to find the place to belong and share their deep wisdom. The meeting of the archetype and the other than human invites and welcomes an animist understanding of our archetypes.
This is a generous response to a prayer for soul sanity.
https://www.souland.org/inner-council-of-a-woman.html
Inner Council for men and women to come 2019
Returning to Earth what was stolen
Returning to Earth our silver, gold, precious stones, diamond, ivory, coral, platinum.
All those have been extracted with terrible violence and destructive impact to all living beings. The mining destroys rivers, people, animals and whole ecosystems to feed our greed and addiction to power.
I invite us to join me as I also return the result of my time as a goldsmith and silversmith in our mountains, forests, rivers and seas. To feel our sorrow, say sorry and make amend to come back momentarily to some resemblance of sanity.
We can then honour our creativity and the alchemist in us by using local and renewable material in a sacred way again.
https://www.souland.org/returning-to-earth-what-was-stolen.html
Every 24 hours, between 100 and 150 species of animals, invertebrates, fungi and plants go extinct. They will never court, sing, nest, seed, or dance their life-bringing rituals again. They are not dead - Death being food for the birthing of new life, no they are extinct! ...
Can we ponder on the difference in our own heart and the impact on our soul?
We are increasingly noticing that we need to gather and rise up in circles and community groups to meet the enormity of the consequences of our long term disconnection to the interconnectedness with all of Life thus bringing up an immense grief, un~skilled and feared in many of us.
On the 1st December, the Totnes community is invited to create a Life Cairn, a memorial for the honouring of Extinct Species. Please join us if you are touched by the 6th massive extinction of Life on Earth and want to give Away your gifts, broken hearts and talents to this offering.
Artists, singers, musicians, children, elders, mothers, fathers, lovers of all sorts and all two, three and four legged welcome!
https://www.souland.org/life-cairn-in-totnes.html
See Life Cairn in Totnes Event on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/events/1773741646245298/
"WomBelt: Weaving Women back into Matter"
Our womb is a place of great wisdom for ourselves and one another, to stand soulfully and maturely on and for our Earth's wellbeing. Any trauma will create a dam and a great blockage to the river of our lives.
A Wombelt is made using the backstrap weaving method. Making a Wombelt is a ritual, a rite of passage, a way back to mattering, to honour our womb and the space holding it. We are weaving ourselves and our stories back together for one another, to skill up, to mend, to actively pray for one another.
Because we Matter, we are matter, mater, mother, Earth...
Life Belts
A day ritual of backstrap weaving for men and woman called to make the world of their longing by weaving the soul threads of their lives around a tree.
Collective Wombelts
WomanFest, the first All Women Radical Participation festival.
Azul wove for three days. She invited the women to respond to the question ‘What is your deepest wildest longing?’. 73 women wrote their response onto a roll of fabric. Each scroll was inserted into the weaving, therefore creating a collective Wombelt of our deepest and wildest longings. At the closing ceremony, the belt was given away and wrapped around the hips of Tanya Jacut, the visionary woman of this festival.
Oxford Storytelling festival
Azul was invited to weave her Wombelts. She decided to create only one ~ a collective Life Wombelt weaving people’s longing into it. She invited people to respond to ‘What is the world of your longing and belonging?’. Their responses are written on little fabric scrolls and inserted in the weaving. There is 108 responses offerings in this belt. The belt is to be given to a cave yet to be found. A cave, a Kiva is an Earth womb able to listen to such a soulful gift.
https://www.souland.org/wombelt.html
https://www.facebook.com/wombelt/
Inner Council of a Woman Queen
The archetype of the Queen when welcomed in its entirety is in service to something bigger than herself. The Queen with her King learns to listen and protect life both within the inner council and within her community of human and non-human beings.
The other 8 archetypes of the woman are then at her service. They are the Mother, the Child, the Nun, the Maiden, the Lover, the Huntress, the Magician, the Crone.
Listening to our inner council brings us to meet our inner archetypes, to welcome their lights and their shadows, to nourish decision-making for the thriving of Life.
Each flag became an invitation for the Daimon of one archetype to find the place to belong and share their deep wisdom. The meeting of the archetype and the other than human invites and welcomes an animist understanding of our archetypes.
This is a generous response to a prayer for soul sanity.
https://www.souland.org/inner-council-of-a-woman.html
Inner Council for men and women to come 2019
Returning to Earth what was stolen
Returning to Earth our silver, gold, precious stones, diamond, ivory, coral, platinum.
All those have been extracted with terrible violence and destructive impact to all living beings. The mining destroys rivers, people, animals and whole ecosystems to feed our greed and addiction to power.
I invite us to join me as I also return the result of my time as a goldsmith and silversmith in our mountains, forests, rivers and seas. To feel our sorrow, say sorry and make amend to come back momentarily to some resemblance of sanity.
We can then honour our creativity and the alchemist in us by using local and renewable material in a sacred way again.
https://www.souland.org/returning-to-earth-what-was-stolen.html
EARTH WISDOM TENDERS - DECLARATION AND PRAYER
OUR DECLARATION, ACTIVE PRAYER and VISION STATEMENT
Earth Wisdom Tenders is
FOR ALL SOUL ACTIVISTS WHOSE FAITH, BELIEFS AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES ARE ROOTED IN EARTH WISDOM.
Earth Wisdom Tenders
We are Tending to all life on Earth in our troubled time, we are an eclectic group of people who are learning to deeply listen to the Earth, to the visible, the invisible and to the non human world ~ to honour their wisdom and knowledge, and to hear what they need from us right now at this time of crisis and extinction.
Honouring the wisdom of the Earth and Indigenous cultures, we work with the cycles of nature and the cosmos, and what we perceive as the great mystery.
Longing for a place of healing and connection, we seek to create a re-emergence and a rewriting of these ancient ways, through ceremonies, rituals, initiation and rites of passage, to enable our deep soul connection and wisdom to reawaken.
We sit in Council of all Beings, we Tend to the Children of all Species, we Initiate our Young ones, we claim our Elders, we Ancestralise our Dead and we recreate Community as a service to all of Life.
"We are Earth Wisdom Tenders…...
When all sentient beings are our sisters and brothers
When we actively remember that we belong to the living web of Life
When all laws and decisions consider the wellbeing of the children of all species
When we trust that our Earth can talk through us of her deep knowledge and wisdom
When we stand for all land, water and all beings to be free from ownership, colonisation and commercialisation…
When we understand that we are all re-apprenticing to these ways
Our dear Earth is 4.5 billions years of age, she is our Wise Elder whom we learn from and tend to”.
With Love and Cœurage
Earth Wisdom Tenders
www.earthwisdomtenders.net
FaceBook: GROUP
OUR DECLARATION, ACTIVE PRAYER and VISION STATEMENT
Earth Wisdom Tenders is
FOR ALL SOUL ACTIVISTS WHOSE FAITH, BELIEFS AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES ARE ROOTED IN EARTH WISDOM.
Earth Wisdom Tenders
We are Tending to all life on Earth in our troubled time, we are an eclectic group of people who are learning to deeply listen to the Earth, to the visible, the invisible and to the non human world ~ to honour their wisdom and knowledge, and to hear what they need from us right now at this time of crisis and extinction.
Honouring the wisdom of the Earth and Indigenous cultures, we work with the cycles of nature and the cosmos, and what we perceive as the great mystery.
Longing for a place of healing and connection, we seek to create a re-emergence and a rewriting of these ancient ways, through ceremonies, rituals, initiation and rites of passage, to enable our deep soul connection and wisdom to reawaken.
We sit in Council of all Beings, we Tend to the Children of all Species, we Initiate our Young ones, we claim our Elders, we Ancestralise our Dead and we recreate Community as a service to all of Life.
"We are Earth Wisdom Tenders…...
When all sentient beings are our sisters and brothers
When we actively remember that we belong to the living web of Life
When all laws and decisions consider the wellbeing of the children of all species
When we trust that our Earth can talk through us of her deep knowledge and wisdom
When we stand for all land, water and all beings to be free from ownership, colonisation and commercialisation…
When we understand that we are all re-apprenticing to these ways
Our dear Earth is 4.5 billions years of age, she is our Wise Elder whom we learn from and tend to”.
With Love and Cœurage
Earth Wisdom Tenders
www.earthwisdomtenders.net
FaceBook: GROUP
For all the people who have died of Corona virus without company or honouring and who are dying in mass now.
Bones to be returned to Earth on Wednesday 8th April
BURYING THE BONES ~ FOR ALL CORONA's DEAD
WEDNESDAY 8th APRIL 2020
Burying the Bones
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/502217333779590/
Here is a vision and an instruction given to me while I was in and out of sleep with Coronavirus last Monday.
It was clear that I needed to pass this message on, one to large for one person to hold. As usual it bring fear into my system to share such messages and yet I must ~ as a duty of care and to honour our dead.
I ask that you keep a soft eye and a wide listening as you read . Thank you!
The vision connected originally with the thousands of bones washed over low tide on a beach in London...but to get anyone to harvest these and send them to Devon is almost impossible. So we will stay local.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/502217333779590/
Here is a vision and an instruction given to me while I was in and out of sleep with Coronavirus last Monday.
It was clear that I needed to pass this message on, one to large for one person to hold. As usual it bring fear into my system to share such messages and yet I must ~ as a duty of care and to honour our dead.
I ask that you keep a soft eye and a wide listening as you read . Thank you!
The vision connected originally with the thousands of bones washed over low tide on a beach in London...but to get anyone to harvest these and send them to Devon is almost impossible. So we will stay local.
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"It is time to Bury the Bones back to the Soil of the Earth.
Gather the bones on your shelves, in museums and all discarded bones.
Bones of all beings need to touch the soil again.
This includes also all gold, silver, precious stones and all stones mined and stolen from the Bones of the Earth.
All Bones must return to the Ground, to the Soil and to the Soul of Gaia, Mother Earth.
The Earth needs her Bones back to support all the dead coming in mass and fast.
As you return them you could:
~ Sing to them songs of praise and grief to sooth them
~ Rub them in red ochre and oil if you can
~ Place them in beauty on soil or bury them .
~ Ornate them with flowers, spices and seeds.
~ Light a candle so they can see the way back home
~ Sing to them again.
This action will free the flow for all the new dead.
If you have many bones, when you bury them placed them in a circle preferably in a forest or wood.
As mushrooms and mycelium grow their filaments, by burying the bones their 'filaments' start forming and weaving a net of connection and recognition for the recent dead of Coronavirus to feel held in love ~ for all to rest in peace and honoured.
A ritual to support them all to not feel alone as they passage to the shore of their well and wise Ancestors.
By burying all the bones that have not been honourably and sacredly buried in the past ~ we open the passage for a blessed and an easier flow for the recent dead of the Corona Virus.
We are in a time of Great Reconfiguration, each of our actions and spoken words are seeds for the garden of the future. Whether we eat from it or not. Our duty of care."
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With care, attentiveness, support and service
Azul ThomeAzul-Valérie Thomé and good company
for SOULand: Making the World of Her Longing
and Earth Wisdom Tenders GROUP
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT AGAIN if you would like to be in good company.
"It is time to Bury the Bones back to the Soil of the Earth.
Gather the bones on your shelves, in museums and all discarded bones.
Bones of all beings need to touch the soil again.
This includes also all gold, silver, precious stones and all stones mined and stolen from the Bones of the Earth.
All Bones must return to the Ground, to the Soil and to the Soul of Gaia, Mother Earth.
The Earth needs her Bones back to support all the dead coming in mass and fast.
As you return them you could:
~ Sing to them songs of praise and grief to sooth them
~ Rub them in red ochre and oil if you can
~ Place them in beauty on soil or bury them .
~ Ornate them with flowers, spices and seeds.
~ Light a candle so they can see the way back home
~ Sing to them again.
This action will free the flow for all the new dead.
If you have many bones, when you bury them placed them in a circle preferably in a forest or wood.
As mushrooms and mycelium grow their filaments, by burying the bones their 'filaments' start forming and weaving a net of connection and recognition for the recent dead of Coronavirus to feel held in love ~ for all to rest in peace and honoured.
A ritual to support them all to not feel alone as they passage to the shore of their well and wise Ancestors.
By burying all the bones that have not been honourably and sacredly buried in the past ~ we open the passage for a blessed and an easier flow for the recent dead of the Corona Virus.
We are in a time of Great Reconfiguration, each of our actions and spoken words are seeds for the garden of the future. Whether we eat from it or not. Our duty of care."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
With care, attentiveness, support and service
Azul ThomeAzul-Valérie Thomé and good company
for SOULand: Making the World of Her Longing
and Earth Wisdom Tenders GROUP
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE FACEBOOK EVENT AGAIN if you would like to be in good company.
| On Monday while being ill I received few messages from the Coronavirus. If you have not switched off then welcome , and I hope you can keep a soft view and a wide listening throughout what I am about the share with you. There is fear in my body as I write and yet I must pass this on. | Gaia’s evolution is initiated and activated when Corona’s DNA enters the DNA of a human. |
Intuitively it was also clear when the temperature rose and the lungs filled up that I needed to fast immediately, which is not something I ever really enjoy doing. Through high temperature, going in and out of sleep and deep dreaming I would come back as if I dived deep into the ocean ~ bringing back a treasure each time I woke up. This is one of them. But first an other portal.
Being an "intuitive geneticist", a deep dreamer who travels through planes is a gift that has its price. | Being an "intuitive geneticist", a deep dreamer who travels through planes is a gift that has its price. However there is also a duty of care to share the messages if I feel that they might be of beneficial use. See for yourself and let me know in the comments section what it ignites in you if you wish. I would be delighted to read them. Any rudeness will of course be erased. |
2 THIS IS THE MESSAGE and THE VISION DESCRIBED AS ACCURATELY AND SENSITIVELY AS I CAN .
I 'saw' the 2 DNA (coronavirus and mine) meet in a dance, as they did something got activated and initiated into an other state of being.
then this came.
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~ The SACRED MEETING OF DNA –
"Gaia’s evolution is initiated and activated when Corona’s DNA enters the DNA of a human.
What is happening now is part of the Dream of Life of Gaia.
There is no stopping it.
What we are required to do is to facilitate, to witness, to ease the suffering, and to alchemise this rough experience into a sacred passage for all beings.
Each person that falls ill with coronavirus is being initiated into a new experience of self. Each dead is part of the evolution of our world and our re encounter with Death.
Here in this scenario, the field of right and wrong does not exist. There is a threshold to another way of seeing and engaging with this time.
The Sacred work of Grief Composting (compassion: suffering with) and Deep Gratitude (interconnectedness with all of life) is part of the alchemical process that facilitates the dream of life of Gaia to come through.
She (Gaia) is needing to move to the next phase.
It is happening now.
It is part of the evolving Natural Laws of the Earth and of our Cosmology.
There is no return to where we were and who we were, we have now left all that is familiar.
Our personality and identity that was not connected to Soul’s longing is now disintegrating.
Any part of us that is not aligned with Anima Mundi, the Soul of the Earth will need to decompose, to become sacred food for the world to eventually re-emerge and be reborn.
Right now we are in the liminal stage as is with the process of total transmutation of a cocoon before the butterfly forms. We are in the “soup”,
There is a longing and a way to meet our collective rite of passage before rebirth and the welcoming of our new world. May it be so."
Gaia’s evolution is initiated and activated when Corona’s DNA enters the DNA of a human.
I am obviously no geneticist nor biologist. But it is time for all kind of deep knowledge rooted in the living Earth to be taking their rightful place in the diversity of voices and perspectives required today.
SINCE THAT DAY I HAD DONE SOME RESEARCH ONLINE to add threads of other fields to reassure the left brain part of us.
Our Genome’s Viral Graveyard
LIVE SCIENCE
Our complicated relationship with viruses
An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness
New York TIMES
Ancient viruses are buried in your DNA
SINCE THAT DAY I HAD DONE SOME RESEARCH ONLINE to add threads of other fields to reassure the left brain part of us.
Our Genome’s Viral Graveyard
LIVE SCIENCE
Our complicated relationship with viruses
An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness
New York TIMES
Ancient viruses are buried in your DNA
Thank you for reading that far. It was important to find a way and a platform to share this with you. I am now recovering from the virus attentive to what will and has happened.
With gratitude
Azul Thomé
SOULand: Making the World of Her Longing
www.souland.org
With gratitude
Azul Thomé
SOULand: Making the World of Her Longing
www.souland.org
~ Perpetual Choir for the Ash ~ WHAT HAPPENED AND WHEN?
WHAT : AN INVITATION for all who love the Ash Tree to sing her healing and regeneration for 24 hours
24 hours of singing for the Tree of Life, the Worlds Tree ~ Yggdrasil
WHEN: 2nd February 2020 6am to 6am 3rd February (Imbolc)
WHERE: Everywhere on our Earth where ever you are
You can choose a slot of an hour or more ( in the calendar ~ see link below ~ so there is always someone singing during the 24 hours)
CALENDAR : ADD YOUR SLOT in the doc so we cover 24hours together:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bWtg03Kwd5aBn76tQcba5k0an5Dd92ZF7_M3fBG8v6M/edit?usp=sharing
WHY: The Ash tree is very sick on the Islands of England, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland and in parts of Europe.
Words flying like spores announce 95% of our 90 millions Tree of Life- Yggdrasil - dying back due to a fungus who travelled from East Asia. The spores of the mushroom Chalara enter the leaves and stop water moving inside the trunk of the Ash tree especially the young ones, they then die.
So let’s actively Imagine a "Perpetual Choir" for the Tree of Life, for the Ash to sing her back to health, through also singing to the Water, to the bacterias, to the soil and to the fungi Chalara.
Imagine a "Perpetual Choir" of humans singing for 24 hours non stop across our Earth for the healing of the 90 million Ash tree and all her relations
You bring your Choir, your family and friends to an Ash tree and sing song of beauty and healing.
We create together a wave of beneficial and regenerative sound
<<<<<Let us know where you are and when you will sing for the Ash tree.>>>>>
DEVON: Perpetual Choir for the Ash Tree ~ Devon
SUSSEX: Perpetual Choir For The Ash Bognor Regis West Sussex
OTHERS CHECK: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bWtg03Kwd5aBn76tQcba5k0an5Dd92ZF7_M3fBG8v6M/edit?usp=sharing
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24h is a start, in the past they use to sing 24h a day 7 days a week for the healing of our Earth...let's start with 24 hours
INFORMATIONS on the ASH DIE BACK
WOODLAND TRUST: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/tree-pests-and-diseases/key-tree-pests-and-diseases/ash-dieback/
YGGDRASIL
Yggdrasil: The tree of life
In the middle of Asgard, where the Gods and Goddesses lives, is Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil is the tree of life, and it is an eternal green Ash tree; the branches stretch out over all of the nine worlds in Norse mythology, and extend up and above the heavens.
ORIGIN of PERPETUAL CHOIRS
Here a little about the origin of The Perpetual Choirs of Britain
https://www.soundtravels.co.uk/e-The_Perpetual_Choirs_Tour_of_Britain-1822.aspx
What are The Perpetual Choirs
Evidence has been found in Britain, Egypt, India and other countries around the world of an ancient tradition of perpetual choirs where people would gather in groups to maintain a continual chant of sacred songs to bring harmony to people and the land.
In recent times people have tuned into this idea again and people are coming together in increasing numbers to share in the power of sacred sound.
JOIN US WHEREVER YOU LIVE AND SING< CHANT< SOUND to support the TREE, the SOIL, the FUNGI, the WATER, the BACTERIAS, the MYCELIUM to grow a capacity for DEEP ADAPTATION and REGENERATION
with Love and Cœurage
Earth Wisdom Tenders GROUP
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/1007936169560128/
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” Mary Oliver
WHAT : AN INVITATION for all who love the Ash Tree to sing her healing and regeneration for 24 hours
24 hours of singing for the Tree of Life, the Worlds Tree ~ Yggdrasil
WHEN: 2nd February 2020 6am to 6am 3rd February (Imbolc)
WHERE: Everywhere on our Earth where ever you are
You can choose a slot of an hour or more ( in the calendar ~ see link below ~ so there is always someone singing during the 24 hours)
CALENDAR : ADD YOUR SLOT in the doc so we cover 24hours together:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bWtg03Kwd5aBn76tQcba5k0an5Dd92ZF7_M3fBG8v6M/edit?usp=sharing
WHY: The Ash tree is very sick on the Islands of England, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland and in parts of Europe.
Words flying like spores announce 95% of our 90 millions Tree of Life- Yggdrasil - dying back due to a fungus who travelled from East Asia. The spores of the mushroom Chalara enter the leaves and stop water moving inside the trunk of the Ash tree especially the young ones, they then die.
So let’s actively Imagine a "Perpetual Choir" for the Tree of Life, for the Ash to sing her back to health, through also singing to the Water, to the bacterias, to the soil and to the fungi Chalara.
Imagine a "Perpetual Choir" of humans singing for 24 hours non stop across our Earth for the healing of the 90 million Ash tree and all her relations
You bring your Choir, your family and friends to an Ash tree and sing song of beauty and healing.
We create together a wave of beneficial and regenerative sound
<<<<<Let us know where you are and when you will sing for the Ash tree.>>>>>
DEVON: Perpetual Choir for the Ash Tree ~ Devon
SUSSEX: Perpetual Choir For The Ash Bognor Regis West Sussex
OTHERS CHECK: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bWtg03Kwd5aBn76tQcba5k0an5Dd92ZF7_M3fBG8v6M/edit?usp=sharing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
24h is a start, in the past they use to sing 24h a day 7 days a week for the healing of our Earth...let's start with 24 hours
INFORMATIONS on the ASH DIE BACK
WOODLAND TRUST: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/tree-pests-and-diseases/key-tree-pests-and-diseases/ash-dieback/
YGGDRASIL
Yggdrasil: The tree of life
In the middle of Asgard, where the Gods and Goddesses lives, is Yggdrasil. Yggdrasil is the tree of life, and it is an eternal green Ash tree; the branches stretch out over all of the nine worlds in Norse mythology, and extend up and above the heavens.
ORIGIN of PERPETUAL CHOIRS
Here a little about the origin of The Perpetual Choirs of Britain
https://www.soundtravels.co.uk/e-The_Perpetual_Choirs_Tour_of_Britain-1822.aspx
What are The Perpetual Choirs
Evidence has been found in Britain, Egypt, India and other countries around the world of an ancient tradition of perpetual choirs where people would gather in groups to maintain a continual chant of sacred songs to bring harmony to people and the land.
In recent times people have tuned into this idea again and people are coming together in increasing numbers to share in the power of sacred sound.
JOIN US WHEREVER YOU LIVE AND SING< CHANT< SOUND to support the TREE, the SOIL, the FUNGI, the WATER, the BACTERIAS, the MYCELIUM to grow a capacity for DEEP ADAPTATION and REGENERATION
with Love and Cœurage
Earth Wisdom Tenders GROUP
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/1007936169560128/
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” Mary Oliver
England, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland, France, Belgium, Slovenia, Canada, America all joined see below some of the Ash trees and honouring.
from Grief Composting to Deep Belonging
4 one day ceremony through 4 months in 2020 with Azul Thomé in Devon.
Grief is a wild lady who asks much of us, in exchange she might guide us to a place a deep belonging, to the eye of the hurricanes.
I do not think nor feel that we are doomed...this would be to mediocre an answer to the miracle of being gifted and entrusted this precious Life.
To be lived, touched, tempered and breathed by the Mystery that weaves it all is astonishing and excruciating most days. Suffering is the raw material with which we can mature as humans and find out who we are and act as if we are needed..
Grief, Love, Death and reBirth as the backbone of our Life are calling us to become initiated into a place of Deep Belonging.
Through my own tempering journey of leaning and engaging into Grief, fierce Love, Extinction, Death and reBirth I was taken to the fertile void of Deep Belonging.
I invite you to come with me to the eye of the Hurricane. It will cost you much, there is not certainty, no hope nor positive solution outside your self...but there is the awaiting of the swelling and longing of Soul and her wild companions ♥
I invite you to be touched through deep ceremony by the 5 Gates of Initiation .
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Grief Composting to Deep Belonging ~
4 one day ceremony through 4 months 2020
4 DAYS to be taken either individually to feed a personal soul calling or as a set of 4 days as a way of apprenticing to the sacred work of Grief Composting.
WED 11th March
WED 15th April
WED 13th May
WED 10th June
11am to 5pm ~ arrive at 10:30am each day
Near Totnes, Devon, England (venue tbc)
LIMITED to 15 people
£60/70/80 per day depending on your financial capacity
Potluck Lunch - Bring food to share
<<<£30 deposit to secure your space>>>
To be lived, touched, tempered and breathed by the Mystery that weaves it all is astonishing and excruciating most days. Suffering is the raw material with which we can mature as humans and find out who we are and act as if we are needed..
Grief, Love, Death and reBirth as the backbone of our Life are calling us to become initiated into a place of Deep Belonging.
Through my own tempering journey of leaning and engaging into Grief, fierce Love, Extinction, Death and reBirth I was taken to the fertile void of Deep Belonging.
I invite you to come with me to the eye of the Hurricane. It will cost you much, there is not certainty, no hope nor positive solution outside your self...but there is the awaiting of the swelling and longing of Soul and her wild companions ♥
I invite you to be touched through deep ceremony by the 5 Gates of Initiation .
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Grief Composting to Deep Belonging ~
4 one day ceremony through 4 months 2020
4 DAYS to be taken either individually to feed a personal soul calling or as a set of 4 days as a way of apprenticing to the sacred work of Grief Composting.
WED 11th March
WED 15th April
WED 13th May
WED 10th June
11am to 5pm ~ arrive at 10:30am each day
Near Totnes, Devon, England (venue tbc)
LIMITED to 15 people
£60/70/80 per day depending on your financial capacity
Potluck Lunch - Bring food to share
<<<£30 deposit to secure your space>>>
From a point of SEPARATION,
we come through a GATE OF GRIEF,
into a space of INITIATION of maturing practices
to come back through our GRATITUDE to our natural state of BELONGING.
THIS IS THE FRAME OF THE JOURNEY WE WILL GO ON to COURT and FEED a STATE of DEEP BELONGING through Grief Composting :
Five Gates of Grief, Initiation and Belonging
Invitation and guidance into our Grief Composting Circles
ACTIVATED VISION by AZUL THOME with FRANCIS WELLER's MENTORING
We will also weave in the WORK that RECONNECTS (Joanna Macy ) and the sacred work of Sobonfu Some.
From a point of SEPARATION,
we come through a GATE OF GRIEF,
into a space of INITIATION of maturing practices
to come back through our GRATITUDE to our natural state of BELONGING.
1 - From the Separation we have created between Life and Death, where we have pushed the pause button on youth to demonise and mock death, we have created a world out of balance. Our relationship with the autumn and winter of Life has been abstracted from our embodied imagination. Therefore the transition between life and death is something feared in stubborn denial. From here we enter the first GATE of GRIEF: What we love we will lose - calls an INITIATION into the mystery of death and into the GRATITUDE of our capacity to love within that mystery.
2 - From the Separation between what is ‘acceptable’ with what is shameful and ‘unwelcome’ in each of us we enter the second GATE of GRIEF: The Places That Have Not Known Love - That place calls for an INITIATION into the mystery of adulthood and maturation and into the GRATITUDE of being able to welcome back home to our Soul all that has been outcast and sent into exile.
3 - From experiencing the Separation between humans and the other than humans we enter the third GATE of GRIEF: The Sorrows of the World which calls for the INITIATION into the immutable bond with all of creation and with deep GRATITUDE that we Belong to our Living World.
4 - The Separation between our Stone Age ancestry and our great effort to eradicate our deep time memory calls us to enter the fourth GATE of GRIEF: What We Expected and Did Not Receive. It calls for an INITIATION into our Deep Time lineage and into the GRATITUDE of Remembering Who we are and Where we come from.
5 - The Separation with our Ancestors created by various unspoken traumas, illnesses, secrets and unreleased suffering is another fracture in our presence here on Earth. We enter the fifth GATE of GRIEF: Ancestral Grief - calling for an INITIATION into Elderhood and into the GRATITUDE that we can Restore and Renegotiate our family tree.
Azul-Valerie Thome's research and exploration with Francis Weller about how each Gate of Grief call for a sacred and witnessed Initiation into Maturity and Deep Belonging
with Love and Cœurage, join me.
Azul Thome
www.souland.org
Five Gates of Grief, Initiation and Belonging
Invitation and guidance into our Grief Composting Circles
ACTIVATED VISION by AZUL THOME with FRANCIS WELLER's MENTORING
We will also weave in the WORK that RECONNECTS (Joanna Macy ) and the sacred work of Sobonfu Some.
From a point of SEPARATION,
we come through a GATE OF GRIEF,
into a space of INITIATION of maturing practices
to come back through our GRATITUDE to our natural state of BELONGING.
1 - From the Separation we have created between Life and Death, where we have pushed the pause button on youth to demonise and mock death, we have created a world out of balance. Our relationship with the autumn and winter of Life has been abstracted from our embodied imagination. Therefore the transition between life and death is something feared in stubborn denial. From here we enter the first GATE of GRIEF: What we love we will lose - calls an INITIATION into the mystery of death and into the GRATITUDE of our capacity to love within that mystery.
2 - From the Separation between what is ‘acceptable’ with what is shameful and ‘unwelcome’ in each of us we enter the second GATE of GRIEF: The Places That Have Not Known Love - That place calls for an INITIATION into the mystery of adulthood and maturation and into the GRATITUDE of being able to welcome back home to our Soul all that has been outcast and sent into exile.
3 - From experiencing the Separation between humans and the other than humans we enter the third GATE of GRIEF: The Sorrows of the World which calls for the INITIATION into the immutable bond with all of creation and with deep GRATITUDE that we Belong to our Living World.
4 - The Separation between our Stone Age ancestry and our great effort to eradicate our deep time memory calls us to enter the fourth GATE of GRIEF: What We Expected and Did Not Receive. It calls for an INITIATION into our Deep Time lineage and into the GRATITUDE of Remembering Who we are and Where we come from.
5 - The Separation with our Ancestors created by various unspoken traumas, illnesses, secrets and unreleased suffering is another fracture in our presence here on Earth. We enter the fifth GATE of GRIEF: Ancestral Grief - calling for an INITIATION into Elderhood and into the GRATITUDE that we can Restore and Renegotiate our family tree.
Azul-Valerie Thome's research and exploration with Francis Weller about how each Gate of Grief call for a sacred and witnessed Initiation into Maturity and Deep Belonging
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