strange experience (final draft)

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(oops! The other was a first draft. Ignore it))

 

Seattle Sue,

Oh questioning one, Happy Birthday!

I used to live Fairbanks, Alaska. On the shortest day of the year

the sun rose at 10:30 am and set at 1:30 (AND and the temp hovers around

-45 to -56 degrees during a cold snap). The different guidelines we

have about the Amrit Vela beginning "2 1/2 hours before sunrise" or

"during the last quarter of the night" just can't apply no matter how

much we wish they did. The part about the angle between sun and earth

being 60 degrees at the right time would have to apply in this case and

that happens at 4 am and again at 4 pm. The energy of the psyche is

tuned to this cycle even though the ratio between daylight and night are

completely whacked. I remember the energy of the darkness getting very

intense around mid November and not letting up one bit until mid-January

with the tangible sense that the sunlight was really on the return. It's

a great opportunity to tune in real deep to your inner space and

interrupt the old patterns. It is best to keep your self moving and deal

with things on one's own terms. I used to hunt or ski alot in order to

keep myself "on point" and relating to the elements directly. It's kinda

homeopathic in it's over all effect.

 

Side point: this sunlight thing is so relative. Many years ago I

remember driving south from Fairbanks and arriving in Seattle in late

Feb. and "drinking" the sunlight like a man who hadn't had a drop of

water in a week. It was like an intravenous injection to me.

 

Well, time to retire.

Bless you,

Dharam Singh

Millis, MA

 

 

seattle sue wrote:

 

> dear abinashi and everyone,

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> today is my birthday so i got up and did sadhana in the amrit vela. i'm

> a big girl now so i can do stuff like that!! but i must admit i

> wondered: if the sun doesn't rise until, like, 8am (it's dark here in

> the northwest u.s.a.!), shouldn't we do sadhana from 6 to 8:30? hee!

> happy holy-daze to all!

> happy birthday girl in seattle!

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