Soul and soil, plant and planet

The Voynich manuscript

I am slowly taking down notes of the Agri lectures and thinking about them over night. And through the day and trying to draw connections which what is conveyed in them. Somethings already make sense to me. Such as the soil and the different qualities in it. Other things, i am keeping an open mind. I am generally brought round to the important of the cosmos to the Earth. That is very clear. That what is above us has an effect on our soil and plants is clear. The soil is not the source of nutrition for the plant life on it. The soil is the conductor of those planetary forces and what is in the soil is the conductor for it. The planets radiate down on us - the outer planets into the soil and the inner planet into the atmosphere. The soil helps to bring these forces to the plants. Our task as gardeners is to understand how the soil does this and help it to do it in such a way that it does not trash the soil. In the light of this, if this is true, the abuse we have been giving our Earth is terrible.

As an interesting aside, i find it fascinating that in English plant is one letter away from planet, and soil is one letter away from soul.

So, i am now keeping a close close eye on the lack of rain. WATER - specifically rain - brings down the growing forces of the moon. Part of doing this is seeing the world transformed of a materialist interpretation to a... what can i call it? a sacred understand of life - but not mystical - not worshiping the forces of nature, but working as an equal beside them. Just as it is nice to think of working alongside the angels as equals. But in order to do this it would be a good idea to try and understand them as equals, not subjugated to our selfish needs. I think that in this view of nature, water is not just something which is wet, and dissolves the minerals in the soil, and then the plants take it up - it also has connection to the cosmos - and that connection is that, the moon is responsible for the warmth in the soil and the water brings this down. So, according to biodynamics, the rain that falls before a full moon heralds growth forces and plants respond to this. It is now the last quarter and i am hoping it will rain because thus far, nothing has really grown in my garden. Small things here and there but nothing really. And more worryingly, there are plants which are beginning to become yellow - because of this cold and dryness.

Warmth brings down the powers of Saturn - so it is important for us to open our minds to the possibility that it is the planets which help our plants to grow. Saturn is responsible for all the perennials - anything clothed in bark comes under the influence of Saturn. Warmth is what conveys the powers of Saturn to the soil and it is silica which enables the warmth to be conducted in the soil as well as the air. What spooky action at a distance has now made it possible for us to entertain as a reality, rather than as a weird practice, is that if you potentise the silica prep, this helps the soil, without having to trash it full of 'dead' minerals. That is the other thing about the prep - it is alive because it has received all the forces from the cosmos as well as having been potentised. This is needs to have had done using human beings. It was made very clear that it should be human beings who do this, not machines. Because we too have an effect on the prep.

So this year we have had no warmth, nor have we had rain in the past two weeks. Instead we have had this strange cold wind. It is very worrying. This standing still - this holding pattern. It needs to be broken and how it will be broken. We now feel so small - so much of our practice thus far has been like the visit to the hospital. Or the doctor. We have given over our independence, not just to the supermarkets, etc but these organisations are practitioners operate on an emergency footing. WE have been operating on an emergency footing. Rather than strive for a middle, for the balance, we have worked on the extreme - pushing every 'resource' that we have - including human beings - to the extreme. More this and more that - and as a result we have not managed to build up a store for bad times, instead we are exhausting every single thing we have on maximum blow out constantly. We are a civilisation and culture that is living on the edge and as the decade has progressed we are heading closer and closer to it. We are the lemmings of our time. How come our politicians do not understand this?

Instead of building up our soil we have depleted it. And thinking that we can pump chemicals into it is wrong - as soil quality weakens, the soil itself loses the ability to hold itself together. The rains wash the top soil away, they leach the nitrates into the waters and we have no soil - and managed to poison our own waters to boot. Forces which were once life giving have now become forces of death. Think about the embodiment of the Hindu Trinity - Shiva too has a dark side - we have played with his dark side for took long.

It cannot be too late - for us to recognise that we are equals to the planet and equals to the angels. We work alongside them, with them. They work with us, alongside us. Through us, they roll up their sleeves and they care, tend to, look after, speak, dig up, bring down. Through us they dream, understand, discover. We are all on a journey, the cosmos and us - it is a great and noble thing to be a human being. Let us not diminish that as we work with our souls for the planet.