Episode 9: Centering the Clay

Emma Liles

(the birch to my doug fir) returns for our monthly double dive, and true to the impromptu pottery theme, we begin with blobby lumps and develop them into various useful or pretty pieces.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• the yinward turn

• we discover a new mutual interest that sparked the same insight

• I rave about a pottery show (and the crying featured on it)

• the orange hand towel aka the wisdom of the napkin

• feeding (or subconsciously dosing) ourselves the colors we crave

• Chiron in the realm of communication

• being the clay

• a dose of serenity (my unusual takeaway from the film “Titanic”)

• the resonance of basins, guitars, and truth

• sunrises and sunsets as energy packs

• “straight up whale time”

• integration of the material

• forest communication (the importance of diverse feedback)

• two kinds of silence

• “all strings resonance”

• Emma shares her pottery song!! (53:15)

• allowing the wheel to turn

• the lie of fear being wisdom or a safety feature

• detoxing from worry

• walking ourselves back from the extremities of our own psyches

• my Jenga tower analogy which “eventually breaks down” (pun not intended)

• finding the essence in different places

• the root of all suffering (two translations with the same core)

FOOTNOTES

Amongst other things, we reference the teachings of Abraham Hicks, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg, and The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Also I misspoke regarding Chiron, which stays in a sign for 1-9 years—not as long as Pluto does.

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