Ooooh magic! Songs start running through my head! I won’t lie I have a little thing for druids lol. Thank you, this was an amazing read to wake up to.
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
~Roald Dahl
As a poet, I totally understand, what Elizabeth Gilbert and the Cree of Manitoba both said. The words just show up sometimes. Honestly, I’ve seen those exact words released by somebody else. So I always do my best to release them as they show up as an honoured gift. I write them down as quick as I can and that is the gift of this phone. It’s much easier than a pen and paper. Some days I’m lucky enough to catch a poem by a tail. Other times the wind moves those words on. Keep catching those words Veronika. We need you. 🙏❤️
The quote from Yeats really resonates with me. As the weeks go by, the Symbiopaedia postings are not just a star-cluster but revealing a whole universe of enchantment. This is the world that 'science' does not believe in and (as Roald Dahl suggests) will never see - the cult of hard-science is trying to drive the magic out of town.
It's time to plant a new community and live happily ever after under a different sky, one where trees and rivers can tell their story and offer up their wisdom uninterrupted.
I particularly like the magic of Nature; and yes I do talk to trees, especially large old ones who have witnessed so much and can tell us stories.
The oral, as we know, has a much longer tradition, than the written. Even so, I no longer see the written as fixed in time or in space. There is magic in the written. When you read a story over a span of time, it reads in a different way.
Some of that difference is due to perception, but some of it is due to something else intangible. Loved the article.
Oh yes! I love that!! We should all talk more to the mother trees. 💕🙏
And I very much resonate with your observation of reading stories at different times. Isn't that interesting? It shows us how much the reader is involved in 'making the story' too. As Ursula LeGuin said "A book (or story) is not finished until it's read" (or something along those lines). In other words, the reader finishes the story that has been written.
Great piece, Veronika. Not only did you teach me some things, but also your delicious spell-casting words managed to pull at some deep inner knowing inside me....awakening the powerful ancient connection to magic that this current realm we inhabit has tried so hard to bury and cause us to forget is there....so thank you! xox
Love this Veronika, thank you. The whole universe is magic … all these sentient beings, those we see, those we feel, those we imagine 🙏💜🤗. I think l am a fairy 🧚♀️🤣
I'm so glad I've found your Substack Veronika. A wonderful read. Letters, numbers, symbols...just a few squiggles that when arranged in a particular way can convey all the language that we can speak -I've always thought that was magic since I could first write...I used to bleat on about it to my parents, asking who chose the squiggles, but back in the day we just had to keep practising writing them until they looked good and we could spell.
Yeah, right?! To think that they all have a history... older than us, or our parents and teachers... Warm Welcome to Symbiopædia! ❤️🔥 as we squiggle on ₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ˖𓍢ִִ໋
You always find the BEST quotes, Veronika. I'm in love with just about everyone I've read from you so far. Do you collect quotes? Or are you an avid researcher?
I'm also in love with the idea that reading is magic, that we're practicing doing something rather remarkable, which reminds me of a book I read about reading. I wish I could remember the title, but I do remember in the span of history, humankind has not been reading long, and there's a lot of fancy stuff going on in the brain when you read.
OH, boy. How's that for a summary? Cringe!
Lastly, the idea of true seeing, true listening and so on = magic reminds me of finding more ways to bring awe into your life. Awe/magic has wonderful benefits like creating peak positive experiences and slowing down time.
Avid researcher! I'm collecting quotes too as I go along researching, but then I can never remember where I put them, so I research all over again...😅
" a lot of fancy stuff going on in the brain when you read" sounds like a great summary to me. And not just in the brain, I might like to add. But the whole nervous system, which affects all other systems too. Think of goosebumps, butterflies or creepy crawlers in the stomach, heartflutters etc.
Thank you for a lovely feedback and ongoing magical support 💖🙏
I read David Abram's book The Spell of the Sensuous in 1996, and had the opportunity to meet him in a Deep Ecology workshop that same year. Thanks for the encouragement to check out his work again. I am feeling invited by what you've written here back into the magic of both words and the world.
Same here! I probably read the Spell of the Sensuous around that time. It's still in my bookcase. Came across his newer ventures last year and was fascinated by his work all over again. Lovely to meet you here 🌻
Did I read “myomancy”????? I shall forever interpret the way our cats stare at walls, listening to mice scurrying this way and that, as myomancy. Their intent listening/sensing is divining messages from beyond through mice! 😂
Ooooh magic! Songs start running through my head! I won’t lie I have a little thing for druids lol. Thank you, this was an amazing read to wake up to.
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
~Roald Dahl
As a poet, I totally understand, what Elizabeth Gilbert and the Cree of Manitoba both said. The words just show up sometimes. Honestly, I’ve seen those exact words released by somebody else. So I always do my best to release them as they show up as an honoured gift. I write them down as quick as I can and that is the gift of this phone. It’s much easier than a pen and paper. Some days I’m lucky enough to catch a poem by a tail. Other times the wind moves those words on. Keep catching those words Veronika. We need you. 🙏❤️
You are a Druid, Jamie!
Trees are talking to you 🌳🌲 and you are listening.
"Catch a poem by the tails" ~ I love that.
I know exactly what you mean (when not writing, you might find me running around with a net, catching ideas 🦋)
He IS a druid. And I was also going to say that I love "I’m lucky enough to catch a poem by a tail."!!
great hearts love alike 💕
The quote from Yeats really resonates with me. As the weeks go by, the Symbiopaedia postings are not just a star-cluster but revealing a whole universe of enchantment. This is the world that 'science' does not believe in and (as Roald Dahl suggests) will never see - the cult of hard-science is trying to drive the magic out of town.
It's time to plant a new community and live happily ever after under a different sky, one where trees and rivers can tell their story and offer up their wisdom uninterrupted.
A whole universe 🌏 of enchantment! ~ how beautifully put 💖🙏
I can see our symbiopoietic community already, 🌱 sprouting under that enchanting sky ✨
The river is talking to you and I am listening to the stories of trees 🌳🌲
I particularly like the magic of Nature; and yes I do talk to trees, especially large old ones who have witnessed so much and can tell us stories.
The oral, as we know, has a much longer tradition, than the written. Even so, I no longer see the written as fixed in time or in space. There is magic in the written. When you read a story over a span of time, it reads in a different way.
Some of that difference is due to perception, but some of it is due to something else intangible. Loved the article.
Oh yes! I love that!! We should all talk more to the mother trees. 💕🙏
And I very much resonate with your observation of reading stories at different times. Isn't that interesting? It shows us how much the reader is involved in 'making the story' too. As Ursula LeGuin said "A book (or story) is not finished until it's read" (or something along those lines). In other words, the reader finishes the story that has been written.
Great piece, Veronika. Not only did you teach me some things, but also your delicious spell-casting words managed to pull at some deep inner knowing inside me....awakening the powerful ancient connection to magic that this current realm we inhabit has tried so hard to bury and cause us to forget is there....so thank you! xox
you are most welcome, Jacqueline.
As we now know ~ ideas come to find us. So I am learning by writing them down. It's the least I can do to honour their magic 🪄
Love this Veronika, thank you. The whole universe is magic … all these sentient beings, those we see, those we feel, those we imagine 🙏💜🤗. I think l am a fairy 🧚♀️🤣
that makes two of us 🧚🏽 🙏🩵 😊
I'm so glad I've found your Substack Veronika. A wonderful read. Letters, numbers, symbols...just a few squiggles that when arranged in a particular way can convey all the language that we can speak -I've always thought that was magic since I could first write...I used to bleat on about it to my parents, asking who chose the squiggles, but back in the day we just had to keep practising writing them until they looked good and we could spell.
Yeah, right?! To think that they all have a history... older than us, or our parents and teachers... Warm Welcome to Symbiopædia! ❤️🔥 as we squiggle on ₊‧꒰ა ☆ ໒꒱ ˖𓍢ִִ໋
You always find the BEST quotes, Veronika. I'm in love with just about everyone I've read from you so far. Do you collect quotes? Or are you an avid researcher?
I'm also in love with the idea that reading is magic, that we're practicing doing something rather remarkable, which reminds me of a book I read about reading. I wish I could remember the title, but I do remember in the span of history, humankind has not been reading long, and there's a lot of fancy stuff going on in the brain when you read.
OH, boy. How's that for a summary? Cringe!
Lastly, the idea of true seeing, true listening and so on = magic reminds me of finding more ways to bring awe into your life. Awe/magic has wonderful benefits like creating peak positive experiences and slowing down time.
Avid researcher! I'm collecting quotes too as I go along researching, but then I can never remember where I put them, so I research all over again...😅
" a lot of fancy stuff going on in the brain when you read" sounds like a great summary to me. And not just in the brain, I might like to add. But the whole nervous system, which affects all other systems too. Think of goosebumps, butterflies or creepy crawlers in the stomach, heartflutters etc.
Thank you for a lovely feedback and ongoing magical support 💖🙏
I read David Abram's book The Spell of the Sensuous in 1996, and had the opportunity to meet him in a Deep Ecology workshop that same year. Thanks for the encouragement to check out his work again. I am feeling invited by what you've written here back into the magic of both words and the world.
Same here! I probably read the Spell of the Sensuous around that time. It's still in my bookcase. Came across his newer ventures last year and was fascinated by his work all over again. Lovely to meet you here 🌻
Did I read “myomancy”????? I shall forever interpret the way our cats stare at walls, listening to mice scurrying this way and that, as myomancy. Their intent listening/sensing is divining messages from beyond through mice! 😂
I know! Quite some surprises in that list...
I appreciate when a story finds me and compels me to share it. I feel humbled.