Healing Symbiosis June 23 2020

Symbiosis is one of my favorite words. Apart from just liking the sound of  it, I love the concept it brings to mind. It reminds me how people have forgotten to live together even with their diversities and differences, we should be loving, understanding and/or giving each other space to grow. Growth is sure to come from these principles and that can bring healing and strength for all of us today.

In the world of biology symbiosis means organisms living together mutually, commensally or even parasitically. This speaks volumes as to how all life live on the planet and the type of energies they exude to replicate or construct communities. COVID-19, a virus, which needs to host in living bodies/cells to survive, is an example of a symbiotic relationship and our coexistence has brought us a chance to see beyond the veil. Untruths, false egos, psychic manipulation and old wounds are still yet to be healed beyond the veil. Part of symbiosis as simple earth creatures do, is to live together with mutual understanding by neither benefiting or harming one another or gathering with like minded to benefit alone in our diversities. (This requires an open mind and committed work, whereby respect for a group of people who are like-minded need to be together alone, separated from others different from them to resolve their wounds and healing before they integrate back into the larger world). I believe that life is founded over these principles which can translate into positive, neutral and negative aspects of energy.  As indigenous medicine people we don't view this within the binary of bad and good, rather as a circular fields where the flow of transference of energy happens. Every participant has their role within the transfer to bring forth symbiosis.

I am writing this during an auspicious time of a Solar eclipse, Summer Solstice, New Moon, intermittent earthquakes, a large pandemic, as well as a thick blanket of Sahara dust over the Caribbean. (See above picture which embodies all). These are all celestial and terrestrial significant events that are micro and macrocosmically related. You see now that the veil is lifted, the reflection of what is hidden has come out, all-the-way-out! And now, it needs to be dealt with; perhaps the benefit of parasites in symbiosis! It needs to meet reconciliation, the benefits of mutual reasoning, and most importantly, it needs to allow space for new growth, the benefits of commensality.  See, there is healing in symbiosis; something that nature alone does fantastically.

This reflection was inspired by the Sahara dust heading for Southern states USA. Am looking at my fan and tables and wiping off red dust with my fingers, am wondering what this all means...now am writing....  Earth being school...I know there is a lesson here.... 

Sahara dust comes from West Africa, particular to Chad a large West African country north of Nigeria and Cameroon, and neighbor to Sudan and Niger. With the dust we get a bit of Africa everywhere as it lifts all the way to the Amazon rainforests and into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. As people cuss at the dust, because they are fixed on the sediments they would have to clean later or bigger health related concerns like allergies, asthma, and cardiovascular problems, the dust does carry microbes too, and with the possibility of muddy red rain a toxic shower of pollutants could be imminent; am choosing to look at this  differently.

Sahara dust is supplying the entire planet westward, minerals. Minerals that are coming from decomposed human, animal and vegetation all lovers and enemies of life. First and foremost carrying quartz to clean/clear energy, next iron, phosphorus, potassium and calcium, which are all foundational minerals of bone and blood. Goodness knows how much the Amazon forest, aquatic life and all plants need this right now. Yes, and you and me too! As dust settles it leads to fertile ground. Enriching the earth, plant medicines and our food sources. Iron is the leading mineral that makes our blood rich and red, it's a primary source of oxygenation ensuring nurture and prosper. Iron is also a strong forager of the way, opening new paths to creativity. pH is additionally important here. The dust is carrying an alkaline pH therefore improving acidic bodies and soils and changing an acidic constitution (hot, angry, excess masculine expression) to an alkaline one (cooling, sharing, feminine expression). Imagine all the acidic pollutants on the earth; in personality and in material form! Thank you Sahara dust, please settle here.

For us in the Caribbean this is the good news. The ocean gets to benefit. Iron will supply mineral richness to marine algae, feeding many deep water organisms. The iron competes with carbon dioxide by trapping excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere balancing water systems, air quality, and the ecosystem at large. And lastly, if you live in hurricane prone areas like me, the Sahara dust is a blessing! It intercedes storm formations and cools land and the ocean floor with its red blanket. The deity of hurricanes is not happy with this dust right now. The bones of our African ancestors reprimand it to cool down the waves of rage this season. After all, that's what symbiosis is about.