Tonight with No Moon Yet

I am sitting here tonight because it's dark outside.
I am sitting here cleaning out the desk and throwing away unworthy items with abandon.
I am sitting here looking at a photo taken near Hans Gulch on the west side of Arches in Utah.
We were way way in to the limit of no water left unless we dug deep and added iodine, a flavor I've gotten most used to and actually enjoy, associating it with feeling well on the trail.
There was the petroglyph 30 feet high up on the towering cliff hidden by a mature cottonwood in an obscure dead end canyon. I wondered how bad the blisters were getting when I saw it. There were fresh cougar prints so I had lunch next to them. In time I might even post the image here for you to see. It's a spaceship with 5 little oval windows and a tractor beam with a horned figure appearing beneath the ship. The ranger said it was carbon dated when I showed it to him. It's my one and only Class IV Glyph. It's almost time to share it. Maybe that's on the equinox if I'm so inclined although spring skiing might seduce me again. Just thinking about it I have to go out to the deck on the moonless night to admire Sirius above the snowy peaks. Bet it looks just as fine in that remote Moab canyon. I have spring fever in January.

I did save the bronze wind resistant lighter, the triband radio and Bhutanese coin collection.
I didn't save the scorpion remains nor the mouse nest made of green and red raffia and remnants of a sheepskin rug.

Where I Am Now

I have relocated to another dimension.
You can reach me telepathically.

Seal

Seal of treasure.
Seal of concealment.
Seal of entrustment.
It is simply that.
Is it nothing?
Is it something?
In that stillness?

Earth dissolves in water.
Water dissolves in fire.
Fire dissolves in wind.
Wind dissolves in consciousness.
All dissolves.

Into that luminous emptiness.
Samaya.
Seal.
Seal.
Seal.

Song of the Stars

Ayahuasca sings in the refrigerator.
She changes your blood, replacing it with the blood of the stars.
You are everyone, anyone, no one, some one.
The inner ghost dance lasts through the night.
In the morning you awake and look into the mirror.
No one is there.
And life is filled with new hope.

Eightfold Method of the Sacred Tortoise

Today is Stem 1 Branch 1, Jia Zi, the first day in the 60 day cycle Chinese calendar. A new acupuncture point based upon the 8 Extra Meridians opens every 2 hours on each Stem and Branch day. This one and sometimes, two, point (s) is capable of curing everything according to Taoist acupuncture theory. Recently at Chengdu College of Chinese Medicine, an experiment was conducted with animals to assess effectiveness of Stem and Branch point selection. Group A animals were treated with Stem points. Group B animals were treated with branch points. Group C animals were treated with conventional points. Over 20 objective indices such as pain threahold and histamine release were used. Results showed that treatment effects of Groups A and B were statistically much better than those of the last group but that there was no significant difference between the first two groups. Come on in and get your Stem and Branch treatment. The stars have spoken.

Obliquity, What's That?

Is it earth's obliquity or eccentricity cycles that are predominant causes of global warming? Obliquity, another anomaly of the earth's axis, ranges from 22.1 to 24.5 degrees. Right now we're at about 23.5 degrees. Our elliptical orbit changes from more circular to oval. With an oval configuration, temperature difference between the two positions of perihelion and aphelion can be 20-30 percent. The concern is what happens when these two cycles coincide, with the most perihelion and the most extreme tilt. Extremes of hot and cold, right? Now add crossing the galactic equator, which happens only every 30 million years. We're passing the outer edge right now. The part I like best is the eclipse of the galactic center by the solstice sun in 2012. The Mayans had over 20 different calendars, all synchronized. They knew all this about 3000 years before we did.