Eclipsing
Eclipsing
An awakening to wonder and inquiry as we “eclipsed” on April 8, 2024…
Did you notice that the birds went silent? They, along with the entire woods, dipped into waiting. All of creation settled into deep stillness, as all bodies silently spiraled through space toward the momentary alignment known as “eclipse”.
Did you see “the eclipse”? Look – there it is!
It became a thing – the thingification of a moment, when it is really a movement. It’s a dance of heavenly spheres – sun, moon, earth, and let’s not forget, human eyes are spheres too. It’s a co-arising turn of everything breathing into an ephemeral spiraling alignment.
You could have watched “the” eclipse on television, the Internet, or TikTok. You would have said, there “it” is or there “it” was. But if you weren’t there, wherever “there” was, were you actually eclipsing?
Did you notice the silence and stillness of the birded wood? The undusk-like dimming of the daylight. The slow ghosting of shadow. The sky’s shift from shades of cornflower to baltic blue to an iridescent washed-out black. Venus quietly made its appearance along with a few sparkling companion stars. And the sun’s flaring corona scorched the rim of a burnished new moon. In their dance, the heavenly spheres invite us into a dimensional turn where that which is hidden in the ordinary becomes illuminated in the darkness.
As quickly as it came, the moment dissipates. The blue sky awakens and the birds begin to sing. The ghosted shadows reinvigorate and the busyness of daylight surges. Everything is as it was except, different.
Did you notice the tree branches are now eclipsing the sun? Did the trees move? Was it the sun arcing to the west or the new moon pulling east? Was it me? – have i not been standing in the same spot for the past hour? All of creation is eclipsing moment to moment to moment and me with it. Shifting, dancing, breathing. There is no “there” there.