THE MAP > THE BIODOME : 2 LET THE SAP RISE
This month’s Muse is presented from the bottom up.
This is to align the presentation of the Muse with its central theme of letting the sap rise.
It may well be a challenge to read in a different direction.
I’m reminded of the analogy that forging a fresh neural pathway is like hacking a new path through thick jungle. The first time it requires you to wield the machete, then the more and more you hack the path, the easier it becomes.
We invite you to notice your response to the challenge.
We hope you enjoy this alternative presentation of the Muse.
And you are invited to let us know how this format lands for you in the circle community...
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The next Muse will arrive at the New Moon of April 31st.
Let us remember what we have forgotten
Cat Moyle
Cat is obsessed with bodies, believes the heart is a magic portal that we can all learn to leap through and is slowly learning that she doesn’t need to do it all herself. Original seed, mostly Welsh.
Website: catmoyle.com Socials: @catmoyle
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Spring omnipotent goddess
spring slattern of seasons you
have dirty legs and a muddy
Petticoat, drowsy is your
mouth your eyes are sticky
with dreams and you have
a sloppy body
from being brought to bed of crocuses
When you sing in your whiskey voice
the grass
rises on the head of the earth
and all the trees are put on edge
From Spring Omnipotent Goddess by ee cummings
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Keeping the channels clear
Sap also rises as a response to the internal pressure being greater than the external.
The river flows fiercely when contained by its banks.
This implies being a container for ourselves as the external world affects, influences and inspires us.
Last months work of tending to our own patch for whatever wants to emerge, has prepared us.
Let’s move beyond the candle of March’s muse - what are you bringing with you to tend to your corner this month?
As we bring our focus to the rising sap, what tools do we need to bring to keep the channels clear?
What do you already know supports you with any work of self reflection?
So we can begin to channel what rises through us up and out into the world without losing ourselves in the width of trying to be everything to everyone at all times.
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What can I allow?
I realised a while back that the muse coming through was about the sensual nature of Spring, but I still spent some considerable time writing about some other things, writing around it, skirting the issue, edging in avoidance.
When I recorded the poem notes below, I was hesitant, I felt exposed sharing this part of myself. Because it’s loaded isn't it?
Sensuality, desire, pleasure, the rising sap, may be complex feelings to feel, wrapped in layers of patterns and judgement. And so you are invited to:
Take care of yourself.
Do what feels right to you.
Not rush.
And you are encouraged to meet the response you are having, the resistance, the judgement - with your laserlike presence, and to breathe with it like your life depended on it.
Because integral to the enquiry into ‘what causes my sap to rise?’, is the enquiry, ‘what is my relationship to allowing that?’
After any somatic enquiry work it’s important to hydrate, give yourself space for the integration and allow things to keep moving if need be.
You can journal about your experience or share it the circle here to keep allowing it to unfold/grow.
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How does your body respond?
The sensual nature of the poem reminded me that we are porous.
That what is outside of me, influences what I become aware of inside of me.
It reminded me too that pleasure is an act of receiving.
Of being with and responding to.
Of not chasing but allowing.
And that perhaps this is part of its power.
You are invited to LAY DOWN and LISTEN to this piece of music.
Can you receive it and notice what response you and your body have to it?
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Let it flow
Sap rises in nature due to a rise in temperature.
In the Northern Hemisphere, Spring is beginning to warm our bones and shed more light on the earth, so it felt timely for this muse to explore what causes the sap to rise in your own system.
And what is the quality of that experience?
I recently dug out the notes of a poem I began to compose after a night out dancing. I was trying to capture how the music had spoken to me.
I discovered that my experience was very sensory, sensual, full of pleasure actually.
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What wants to rise?
From the earth upwards
From the root to the trunk.
From the source through the stem.
The movement of this Muse takes us from the ‘In, Back and Down’ of March’s earthly exploration, through the Up Rising of April’s Sap.
We are channels through which things may move.
Porous to the outside world and yet containers of our own.
Moved by the external.
Experienced through the internal.
This muse is an enquiry into what wants to move through you and (perhaps more importantly) your relationship to allowing it.
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