The first in a series of posts responding to content produced by the Deep Time Network. I’ve signed up for their Cosmology, Consciousness and Birthing the Ecozoic course, which begins on 23 September 2020. Here I’m responding to an Equinox special event presented on 10 September 2020.
all the light at the centre of a tulip
It’s good to know that darkness and light are only in balance twice a year. It’s good to know because that means the rest of the year is in process, balancing rather than being in balance. This feels familiar, like the everyday wrestling of shadow and light in Jungian terms. The presence of the unconscious shadow not always in equal, knowable measure in relation to consciousness, but more of a mixture and muddle most of the time. That’s my lived experience, anyway.
image from the Equinox Gathering with Stephan Martin and Maureen Wild, Deep Time Network 9 Sep 2020
The Deep Time Network equinox gathering via Zoom was geared towards celebrating the light and this blip of balance. Content that caught my attention revolved around the process of sunlight as absorption and emission: when we see a tulip, we see it radiating rather than reflecting. The tulip’s atoms absorb the sun’s energy and emit it afresh in constant relation. Everything is aglow with its own heat and light, absorbed in relation to the sun, as can be seen in images coloured to show infrared heat signatures of people on a city street at night.
This is enough for me: to feel part of this process of light. Like a tulip.
