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I am feeling this hard after reading this yesterday:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html

It’s very long, but it gives the background in very readable story form of the history of the awareness of climate chaos and how we got to the point in the conversation we are at now - and how often it was taken seriously, but not.

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Now, the question that is absolutely basic for all human beings is, “What have you left out?”

– https://www.organism.earth/library/document/18

Out Of Your Mind 03: The Web Of Life (1998)
Alan Watts

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Deck: The Druid Oracles
Spread: Card of the Day
Date: Mon Sep 09 08:14:33 EDT 2019


Today's Card
Poppy (Upright)

Meilbheag

Papaver sp.

upright
Redemption • Motherhood • Remembrance

reversed
Languidness • Excess • Indifference

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The Common Poppy, also known as the Field Poppy or Corn Poppy, probably came to Britain with the first Neolithic farmers. Growing about 30 cm (1 ft) high with flowers of rich scarlet, each plant produces an average of seventeen thousand seeds, many of which will lie dormant for years in the earth before springing into life.

The card shows a Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) growing on a hot Midsummer’s Day. In the distance we see a round barrow with its entrance open, symbolizing both tomb and womb: death and the Mother Goddess.

Upright Meaning   Like the best of mothers, the Poppy combines vigour and tenderness in the most beautiful way. They seem to disappear forever, then one season, as if out of the blue, Poppies can return to a hillside or field to astonish us with their beauty. This card may suggest the reappearance of someone or something that you thought you had lost forever.

Alternatively, it may indicate that a quality or feeling you felt you could no longer access will become available to you again. Sometimes things have to be forgotten or hidden for a while before they can return like a new dawn to surprise us. And, in doing so, a redemption occurs. Just as we speak of redeeming an investment that has matured in value out of sight, so we can sometimes redeem a situation or relationship by forgetting it, letting it go, or simply not attending to it for a while, so that it has a chance to grow. It takes skill to know when to pay attention to something and when to leave it alone. Some situations require action, vigilance and even confronting; others require forgetting or ignoring. Raising children often requires us to know when each of these strategies is best.

Reversed Meaning   Any quality in excess can have a negative effect. Selecting this card reversed may mean that you risk being seduced by the apparent benefits of being anaesthetized to the difficulties of life. There is a reason why we have the psychological defence of denial, and we all need to protect ourselves at certain times from the harshness and pain of being in the world. But, in the end, we need to be able to find a source of comfort, well-being and protection that is rooted in our essence or our spirituality rather than in an external agent. Chronic pain or certain other disturbances may need to be treated with medication, but there is a distinction between the valid use of substances for medical reasons and addictive self-medication or sedation.

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The Flower of Life and Death

So delicate are the petals of a Poppy that you can’t pick them as a flower for display. No-one is sure of the common Poppy’s origin – it is as old as agriculture and has sprung up wherever the soil has been tilled. Poppy seeds have been found in Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian tombs and archaeologists have found traces of the Common Poppy’s relative, the Opium Poppy, in sites in the western Mediterranean dated to 4000 BCE.

The Poppy’s blood-red colour combined with its seeds’ uncanny ability to remain dormant in the ground for decades – only to reappear as a blaze of crimson – led to its natural association with ideas of death and rebirth, and the fertility of the Mother Goddess. Before the introduction of herbicides, Poppies grew among the corn, further reinforcing this connection with fertility, and with the harvest and cyclical rebirth.

The Opium Poppy arrived in Britain later than the Common Poppy but, due to the climate, produces negligible amounts of narcotic. Opium was treasured by the Persians, Greeks and Romans for its powerful painkilling effect, and was often combined with Mandrake. Both these plants would have been traded between mainland Europe and the cooler regions of Britain, and may well have been important ingredients in the medicine bags of early Druid healers.

Centuries later the Physicians of Myddvai used an anaesthet

ic that contained the fresh juice of Hemlock, Mandrake, Wild Lettuce, Ground Ivy, Sea Holly, Orpine and Poppy. This potion was dripped very slowly into the patient’s nostril. The Hemlock and Mandrake would have contributed the major anaesthetic effect, while Wild Lettuce and Poppy, even in its common variety, are mild sedatives and would have counteracted some of the more unpleasant side-effects of this powerful combination of ingredients. The Physicians also recommended the bruised heads of Poppy infused in wine to induce sleep.

Symbolically the Poppy unites the worlds of sleep and wakefulness, birth and death, in the way that it can act as a sedative and remain dormant for years, and yet at the same time appear bright red in the Summer as a symbol of vigorous life.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Tam O’Shanter



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