The Cow by Christopher Guilfoil
Here we are starting on the fourth month of the year – April. We have already welcomed Spring with the Equinox in March. A year ago we were getting used to saying the word coronavirus and wondering what the future would bring. Who would have thought that something invisible to the human eye, could change our lives so thoroughly?
What have I learned in this past year? Very small particles can have large effects. Very simple actions can bring balance back to the tilted, topsy turvy world. I can’t count how many times going outside and looking up at the sky, breathing in the greenness of leaves, the generous flower colors, set me back on track.
As we enter the second year of covid (aack, you know how much I hate to have to write that!), what can we do? How about we set up a celebration of the ethereal, imperceptible world? Why should a virus get all the attention? Much that we do with bio- dynamic preps also comes under the category of unseen. Most of us do not have the instruments developed, yet, to perceive what exactly is going on when we stir and sprinkle a prep on our garden soil or in our yard.
We can throw a party! Outdoors, with a bucket of water, BD#500 and a long stick! Stirring and remembering that the invisible world is with us!
Dr. Steiner gave this verse to help us:
Apply the Ancient Principle: Spirit never without matter, Matter never without Spirit!
These words from Rudolf Steiner give us biodynamics in a nutshell. Hmm: where did the word Spirit come in? Another word for the unseen world, yup. Here is the fleshing out of those potent words:
Strive for the truly practical in material life.
But strive for it in a such a way,
that it does not dull your sensitivity
to the Spirit which is working within it.
Strive for the Spirit.
But strive for it not out of supersensible desire, not out of supersensible egotism.
But strive for it because you wish to become selfless in practical life,
in the material world.
April is a great time to get BD#500 onto your garden soil. Or give your whole yard a boost with a sprinkling of BD#500. Re- member you can order all the preps from the Oregon BD Group: https://www.oregonbd.org/. When we use BD#500 to enliven the soil organisms we are taking practical action to nurture
the earth with a substance that involves unseen beings and processes. Biodynamics gives us the way to do both – live on the earth in a world of matter, while also remembering and engag- ing with the spiritual world. For sure a reason to have a party.
