Balsamic Moon - Wednesday 10th March

Balsamic Moon - Wednesday 10th March

I said goodbye today, leaving behind the Bosque. An Eco Farm, dreams of a Village one day. Only till leaving did i really understand their main goal their. They do not explain it in the beginning, Brain and Marie the owners. Most likley that is because they are not really ever present truely in your experience at the Bosque. They have created a beautiful project, but have now faded into the darkness of their home. Spending all day inside on computers, in the cyber world, verses the world theyve created outside Mexico. The wonderful eco experiment. Watching and observing what will grow with earth water as its food. As they have rain catchment as their sole water source, they are not ready to use it all on just plants. Thus what they are doing, is planting, planting, planting. Planting everywhere, to see where plants, vegetables, fruit tree´s... will come up with Mother Earth watering her alone. It is a very beautiful experiment, only if we had been clear of this is the begininng, when arriving to the Bosque.

Hitchhiking, hitch a hikin, a hitchin. Pedir un Ride, Autostop, Hacer el dedo gordo.
I left with my friend Naima from France today, we left hikin outta the forest and onto the road to look for rides going up north to San Miguel de Allende.
First time since i have hitched for a while now. I lost my confidence to do it alone. Thought it was maybe i am getting older and not so CraZy... But i think its just ive been sheltering Fear on my shoulder for a while now. And woowwww its gone. That shadow of negativity has finally left from this last year of insight, learning, and emotion. And now im free. A free Spirit again.

It took us all day to get to San Miguel de Allende. I think we had over 6 or 7 rides to get there. It was a journey. And once we were there, we spent the next few days exploring the streets of Spain. I mean Mexico.... I´ve been taken back to my years in Europe. There are no dusty, rocky roads here. Its all coblestoned and i feel like im back in Spain. The articecture is beautiful, just outstanding. And full of life, each house vibrantly painted a different color. And the Catholic Church in the Center square is comparable to Europe´s finest in my opinion.

¨Great Mystery lives in everything, is everything, and encompasses everything in creation. It created all things in beauty, harmony, and interdependence. Each facet of Creation was, is, and will always be. The energy of Creation is self-regenerative and eternal.
Great Mystery created Great Spirit to direct the creative flows of the Uniworlds, which include all unvierses, all levels of consciousness, all understanding, and all life. Trying to figure out all the answers to the Great Mystery is foolish and impossible because we are a part of that infinite, progressive Creation.¨

Last Quarter Moon: Sunday 7th March

Last Quarter Moon : Sunday 7th of March
Moon in Sagittarius – Fire
(Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon)
Harvest

Soy mujer de la tierra
Brillando con luz de la luna
Mi corona son las estrellas
Y las diosas viven en mi

Soy la fiesta de la vida
Danzando con el universe
Mi alegria es medecina
Y las diosas viven en mi

Soy hermana de los nubs
Y todos compartimos
Que todos es de todos
Y todo viven en mi

Yo soy un arbol
Con raices en la tierra
Vivo con la lluvia
Y los animals viven en mi.

Dissementing Moon : Thursday 4th March

Dissementing Moon : Thursday 4th of March
Moon in Scorpio – Water
(Moon rises 1 hour later each night, after sunset and sets in morning)
Fruit

We are all in this together
“We all come from the earth and return to her belly. We are all made of the same substance, same as the sea, the soil, the stars. Birth, growth, death, development, change, adaptation, transformation, evolution, it is all really just about recycling.
We breathe the same air as our cave-dwelling ancestors-inhaling and exhaling, exchanging carbon dioxide and oxygen with our plant relatives untold billions of times over the millennia. And the same holds true for water. We drink the tears of crocodiles and elephants. It rains, it pools, it evaporates, it rains. We drink, we pee. Again and again and again, in a grand scale cosmic round robin.
All borders and boundaries and separations are pure illusion. Each time we touch someone, we leave some particles of our skin atoms behind and pick up a parcel of new ones. Thus we merge, literally becoming part of each other. I am you and you are me and we are we.
We are all in this together, inextricably bound on our beautiful blue planet spinning through space. Remember that extraordinary photograph of Earth taken from the moon? We are one family, one community, one world, one living, breathing entity. And the sooner we realize it, the happier, safer and saner we will be.” -excerpt from Mama Donna Henes (we’moon)

Full Moon: Sunday 28th February

Full Moon : Sunday 28th of February
Moon in Virgo – Earth
(Moon rises as the sun sets, and sets as the sun rises)
Flower

I can remember the full moon in February a year ago. It was a cold, frosty night in California. I was in a long Elven cloak, chanting Earth Mother songs, while lying out my crystals in my Faerie garden. Blessing the crystals I work with, with the magic of the moonlight. The moonlight of the Virgo, of me, of Earth. There was a magical mist that night, just as a year later it returns. This night as well, I danced to the moonlights glow and swayed in harmony with the Earth.
Just as last month, Jupiter has brought forth an opportunity, another Tamascal. Along with two other volunteers, my friends Mathois from Germany and Naima from France, we embarked on a spiritual journey thro time…Or just to another farm, outside Erongajacuaro. At this place, they actually hold Tamascal’s twice a month. Their sweat lodge was made of cement and was a beautiful picture of the Earth’s belly. It was a small ceremony, with around 10 people. The experience was quit different from my last, and I had a very hard time not comparing it. Naima was going thro the same as well. Fortuantly Mathois had never been, and thus didn’t have our problem. The actual Tamascal didn’t heat up for some reason to its fullest, and it acted quit like a mellow sauna. Before we had sweated head to foot for 3 hours and in comparison we only heated up for about 1 ½ hours. We did do some mantras within the Earth’s Belly and a Snake, Serpente almost took me within its grasp. Yet I never fully was entranced as before. What was very different, and hard to overcome was that it was quite Catholic/Christian as well. It was interesting indeed to see the combination of Hale Mary’s and chants of our Earth Mother, but overall it wasn’t exactly my place. Tho we had an amazing day anyways! I suppose especially for my company. That evening when we returned to the farm, we had a bonfire and ceremony for the full moon. We listened to music all night and danced to the beams of the moonlight. Connecting as one with the Earth. Watching clouds pass by in creatures of dragons, boats, and creatures of the old world. Sinking within, becoming one body, the Earth and I, we are all connected. The Moon dance and sang in peace and beauty. Words are nothing, nothing to what was. To the moment of the night. To the stars lite above as I slept by the campfire. The moon is within all of us. Within every women. We come from the moon, I am the moon. I am moonlight. The balance of the night of this Earth.

La tierra es nuestra madre, Debemos cuidar la.
La tierra es nuestra madre, Debemos amar la.

Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada
Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada

El fuego es nuestra hermano, Debemos cuidar lo
El fuego es nuestra hermano, Debemos respecter lo

Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada
Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada

El aire es nuestra hermano, Debemos cuidar lo
El aire es nuestra hermano, Debemos respecter lo
Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada
Nace la vida, en esta tierra sagrada

La agua es nuestra hermana, Debemos cuidar la
La agua es nuestra hermana, Debemos amar la

Gibbious Moon: Wednesday 24th February

Gibbious Moon : Wednesday 24th of February
Moon in Cancer – Water
(Moon rises before sunset and sets before sunrise)
Bud

Bosque Village – This has been my work schedule…
Cob
Tierra de Encino (Raking Oak leaves, wheel barrel to “Barranka” empty creek bed and dump into for soil)
Basket Weaving Class (Local native art form of weaving pine needle baskets)
Market (Local Tuesday market with veggie farms, fresh food…)
Plant Seeds (Pine nuts, anise, and cactus)
Cob
Grafting (Cut Mazanillo tree’s to graft pear and quince tree’s)
Cob

Here is just an idea of what I have been doing at the farm, work wise. Cob is defiantly overall my favorite project. Working with mud to build houses is just the simplest yet extraordinary idea out there. We are using Red soil that’s quit fine (not too heavy in clay) with pine needles, as they are extremely long here (in replacement for straw) and sawdust; which they get for free at a local sawmill (replacing sand). While here I have been reading a book: The Hand sculpted House, to learn a bit more. Well, frankly a lot more. Tho since the first day we have had the 2 local Mexican Brothers (they work here) Chileano and Beto help guide us with mixing the cob. But still, if I want to build my future in cob, gotta learn bit more.
We haven’t done any other natural building here yet, tho an Earthship is in its beginning-beginning stage. Pounding dirt into the tires with a sledge hammer, I suppose I don’t have to do that right away. And I hope I might be able to learn some straw bale or earth bag building later on.
Besides working, I have been learning pine needle basket weaving, reading on cob and eco villages, yoga and hulla hooping, eating far too much, building fires and singing around fires, cards, and making new friends.

Song:
Brother Sun, Sister Moon-
If you want your dream to be
Build it slow and surely.
Small beginnings, greater ends
Heartfelt work grows purely.

If you want to live life free,
Take your time, go slowly.
Do few things, but do them well.
Simple joys are holy.

Day by day,
Stone by stone
Build your secret slowly.
Day by day
You’ll grow too, you’ll know heavens glory.

First Quarter Moon: Sunday 21st February

First Quarter Moon – Sunday 21st of February
Moon in Gemini – Air
(The moon is visible from noon to midnight)
Growth

Destination: Bosque Village (Eco-Farm), near Yotatiro Pueblo, 20 minutes from Patzcuaro, on the lake, North Michocan
Mission: Wwoof Volunteer and to learn Natural Building

http://www.bosquevillage.com/

I left on the 18th from the beach to finally head into the mountains of Mexico for most likely a few months. I needed a breath of fresh air from sandy beach after sandy beach and now to have a few missions… This is my first Eco Farm that I am going to visit in Mexico. Here it runs a bit differently than most. It isn’t really a family run affair nor an eco village as their name clams. It is an American couple with a large piece of land in the mountains that host about 5-20 volunteers at a time year round. As volunteers we actually pay to stay and work here, unlike most Wwoofing farms, yet by the looks of their webpage, I was quite excited to check it out anyway. And as a plus, my Goddess friend Emily, from Sweden was already there. Thus from the 19th I will be here the next 2 weeks. My first day I arrived just before lunch and met all the other volunteers, thou not till the next day did I begin work with the others. On a daily schedule, we wake up before 8 to have breakfast in the Casita (Volunteers house with living room, library, bathroom, and kitchen) and begin work at 8:30. My mission is to learn about natural building while in Mexico and on my first day of work here, we worked with cob to build a cob house that is already half done. Yet we had no one leading us and only one girl who has a bit of experience with cob, trying to do her best to instruct the rest of us. Longer I stay here, the more I realize the lack of teachers and the majority of self teaching. As many complaints I have, along with the other volunteers, in general the place is great. What I am trying to do is focus on how my future community could run better. And with each day I know more with what I want and don’t want.

COMPOST TOLIET

Song:
Amor, Amor, Amor, Amor, Amor
El mensaje es el amor
Amar tus Hermanos… (La Luna, El Sol, Los Arboles, Los Plantos, Los Animales, La Tierra Madre)
Como tu mismo
Y yo soy amor