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Dawn's Whispers

Updated: Mar 29

Brigit Pour Ramazan


a remote valley embedded in ancient land and cultures in north-eastern Iran. image: bpr
a remote valley embedded in ancient land and cultures in north-eastern Iran. image: bpr

Dawn’s whispers

 

Pink sunrays on glistening snow

Mountains soft like dogs’ backs

Ravens still on tree tops

 

Dance of light and dark,

Seeing and not seeing

Known and unknown

 

Seeds asleep in earth

Covered by frost’s fierceness

Resting in the dark

 

Furry and other beings

Curled up in dark holes

Warming each other

 

Be the ravens –

Dive across the pale sky

Above the valley

 

Be alone or together

Sing your song

Swaying with the wind

 

As moon and sun turn

Dreams linger

Longing to be dreamed into the world

 

Brigit Pour Ramazan



I am living with my husband and son (our daughter visits us regularly) in a remote valley embedded in ancient land and cultures in north-eastern Iran. My greatest passions are my family, soul friends, poetry, being one with the land and getting enchanted again and again by Earth’s songs and mysteries.


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The 8th yearly Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus is on Tuesday, this coming Tuesday, 1 April wherever you are in Earth. Listen with Earthsongs wherever you are in the wave of sun’s return … “Sing your song” …


Join us afterwards in your nearest Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council to share your stories as we listen with Earth’s voices, with Earth’s and your rippling songs … what notes, poetry, dancing, music, art, wonder, silence, conversations, encounters, in grief, in horror, in beauty might you experience that morn. Might there be links between us …


You are invited to contact your time zone Council holder for Council links and any further information:


Time zones along AWST

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Wednesday, 2 April, 2-3:30 AWST


Time zones along BST

please note change of time:

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is now Wednesday 2 April, 4 - 5.30pm BST


Time Zones along EST

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Friday 4 April, 3 - 4.30pm EST


See Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus for further information on this yearly gift of reciprocal offering to Earth… feed the Earth.


You are also welcome to visit over 30 Visionary/Audinary previous conversations here on our website.


Sending Earthsong blessings to you and your kin around Earth. May you sing-in wildly on Tuesday 1 April. May you share this ‘other news’ on a deeper frequency far and wide.


In wild wonder,


Wendy


 
 
 

Holy Songlines Weaving Human Hearts and Heart of the More-than-human World

Wendy Robertson Fyfe




Where the awakening skylark rises song to clouds
the heartbeat of the world becomes visible
before a still and silent descent.
Cliff Walk, Dunbar, Scotland/Alba. wrf

We are moving closer to the 8th Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus in a few weeks time. The first of the beauty Earthsongwave Councils with their poetic prompts have been offered. All so deeply touched by them, rich depths to surface. The ‘actual’ self-organised Ceremony is on 1 April wherever you are in the Earth. There is still time to sign in for the post Ceremony Councils; to speak and withness stories, encounters, joys, heartbreaks, listening to Earth’s calls, sing; to wonder whether/where there are ancient-new songlines voicing, whether/where there are particular connections/reverberations from/with Earth’s songs in these times.


From the many lines we are connecting with here at Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus this year, and with particular ‘plans’ of noticing specific previous threads so far in our first Post, there are two beauties of many who feel important to ‘catch’ in our tracking today.


One beauty is from the Council in Western Australia, with permission and gratitude, a participant asks:


“Where is the wave?”


Isn’t that gorgeous, oh … the seemingly simple questions we ask …


Later Jenni imagines more into this with her response, though please do offer some space first to what your response might be to ‘where is the wave’ for you? Please do leave your musings, thoughts, imaginings here too.


Jenni, Southern Hemisphere: “it starts at the international date line, in the middle of the Pacific; rolls across NZ and on to Australia - the Eastern States of Queensland, New South Wales, Canberra, Victoria and Tasmania, over the middle with the vast desert and Uluru in Northern Territory and South Australia and into Western Australia picking up songs along the way and then joining with our songs, rolling on across the Indian ocean to Madagascar and South Africa and the southern countries of Africa before crossing the South Atlantic Ocean to the countries of South America. Finally, it moves back across the Pacific Ocean to the International Date Line.”


Perhaps you will imagine differently also if you are the Northern Hemisphere.


Imagination grows in Jenni …


“I am overawed by the magnificence of this mighty sound wave carrying the bird songs of all the different countries, the sounds of the trees, the flora, the fauna, and the underground fungi, mosses and lichens, the Maori haka and the Ancestors songs, the songs of the ancient deserts of central Australia, the didjeridoo, the clapping sticks, the ancients whispers of the Aboriginal Ancestors over the past 65,000 years, the songs of the migrating whales and their babies, the mighty Southern Ocean waves and the seabirds that spend most of their life flying and calling over the ocean, the drums and songs of Southern Africa and Madagascar peoples, the pipes and instruments of South America and the songs and dreamings of their Ancestors. Such richness, such splendour - so much to praise and bless, so much to give gratitude for. What a magnificent wave it is that reaches the middle of the Pacific after 24 hours. I imagine that it can be seen in other dimensions by other Entities and consciousnesses - such is its energy and beauty.”


On the approach this year, Amy, as stated in her previous Earthsongwave Substack, Beauty and Terror at the Edges is tuning in to the polarity of grief and praise that her dream planted. Jenni is being more present with the wave she describes.


Here we’re drawing attention to the power and reality of both dream and deep imagination, both who are, generally, marginalised currently in the everyday world. I have found in the way Earth invites me to sing in (l’m not alone), that languages such as these are the kinds of language an animate Earth sings with, is an Earth language; of mystery, of soul.


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The second beauty tracking of many is from the Northern Hemisphere where Council also goes deep in grief and praise, honouring, celebrating, feeding, listening to the voices of the others’; all as an offering to the ‘others’, about them, a gift. The depth of offering becomes tangible through the zoom portal. As we offer more and more deeply in circle rounds, we find our hearts opening, cracking more and more as a songline appears/sounds from and between our human hearts. Through grief and praise offerings to the ‘others’ and their wonder, our hearts begin to sing as if in animate response from them in song weaving enlivening the world. Songs re-weaving the worlds. Truly beautiful. What if this too is what happens in Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus as the worlds weave together once more? Grief song being a necessary part of the weaving watering.


What l have found, over and over, in Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus over the years is how the local is also the global, part of a bigger wave, a bigger song; is holy. The important thing is to sing our listening note into the wave wherever we are. We’re contributing to it anyway, so why not more consciously? I’m reminded of the singing tree who invited me to join in the song in 1995, taught me to sing in with her; how music is learned, how instruments are made with and from ‘the more-than-human’ world. Without the ‘others’ the human song lessens for maybe the human song was gifted as a way of awakening and weaving with Earth and Cosmos. As we approach Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus, l will be continuing listening for and singing in to the places reweaving between the worlds within and between the human and more-than-human. Not that we are ever separate, but that our holy attention makes all the difference with who and how we are in life.


Whilst continuing your tracking, do consider joining us in Council after the Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Ceremony which is on Tuesday 1 April, information on the dates/times below for those Councils.


Meanwhile here, with permission and gratitude, are a few lines offered from some of the folk in Alba/Scotland after our first Council. You are welcome to send in/share any poems, songs, music, dances, art who come your way:


Earth-song in awe

Comfort coming to the fore

Song lines along heart lines,

Tests the cloth of a tear unbidden,

Of mountains knowing

And bird song whistles

Singing to the heart of tree in us all.


Mike Moss


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A tree-heart, sings with moss

forehead touching badger fur,

keening, and slience ~ tears water the ground.


Eilidh Forgan


May you continue to wander, linger and listen with the lands and Earth Community for the songs longing to be heard again by our longing to hear; come alive, alive, alive in the reweaving between and within the worlds …


Please share with those who would also love to join in Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus this year. Earthsongwave has been visited by people in 87 countries since it began in 2018. Just this last month, Earthsongwave, a gifted ‘Feed The Earth’ Ceremony, has been visited by people in Australia, United States, Canada, China, Sweden, Ireland, India, Italy, Philippines, Germany, Argentina, Latvia, Poland, England, Scotland, Hawaii, and Romania. You are welcome to visit this post in our new Substack where most folk visit this year.



Heart of the Rainforest, Minnamurra Rainforest, Jamberoo, NSW, Australia. wrf

You are invited to contact your time zone Council holder for Council links and any further information:


Time zones along AWST

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Wednesday, 2 April, 2-3:30 AWST


Time zones along BST

please note change of time:

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is now Wednesday 2 April, 4 - 5.30pm BST


Time Zones along EST

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Friday 4 April, 3 - 4.30pm EST


Will you be singing in on Tuesday 1 April? Will you be joining us for Council in the days after? See Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus or Substack for further information and to subscribe to this self-organising, give-away Ceremony.



Sending Earthsong blessings to you and your kin around the Earth. May you sing-in wildly on Tuesday 1 April. May you share this ‘other news’ on a deeper frequency far and wide.


In wild wonder,


Wendy


 
 
 

Beauty and Terror at the Edges ~ Amy Tuttle



Recently, I had a dream of beauty and terror. 


In this dream of beauty and terror, I traverse the edges of earth and water, immersed in gorgeous pink and purple sunsets. Dancing in places where ocean and soil meet, the people of the world gather and we offer our songs. Beautiful, opulent praises of joy rise from us!  We sing like birds, on these edges, together. We sing the world’s songs, weeping and greeting the immaculate beauty presented to us.  We are enrobed in our many cultures, celebrating the lineages of life, singing in tune with the earth.  


Also, in this dreamworld is the presence of an invisible force of discord, a malevolence, which has us suddenly running, sheltering in empty palaces, fighting for our lives.  


In this dream, we weave between great global praise and great global destruction.  We weave between deep belonging and terror. 


This dream, when it arrived, landed in my spirit like an unshakeable truth. A truth which has needed great care and ongoing tending. I’ve offered this dream space to be grieved, danced, sung, written, and shared with loved ones. The prophetic imagination of this dream of unshakeable beauty and fear is feeling very “on point” for these times as we humans are gathering to sing our best praises, meanwhile there is the presence of discord in the music of the earth, as forces of destruction make themselves overt.


As we weave closer to April 1st and our delicious choice to join the wave, the chorus, the delight of earth’s song at dawn, I am tuning into the polarity between grief and praise that my dream has planted. It feels ever-audacious to lean into the birthright of beauty-making and reciprocal communication with earthsong, as the rise of human pain and struggle amplifies. To join the simplicity and depth of listening, listening, listening...and authentically responding to the chorus of delight that emerges at dawn each morning- is a participation in the cycle of things that feels ever-liberating and simply, necessary. 


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You can see more of Amy’s work https://www.instagram.com/mz._thunder/

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Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus is yearly Ceremony on 1 April where humans around the world sing in at dawn creating a wave of song with the ‘others’ around Earth. It is a ‘Feed The Earth’ song of reciprocity/gift in the 8th year reaching 87 countries. Self-organised. You can subscribe to continue receiving these posts. You can see an abundance of resources in this website. 


Will you also join us for Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council this year, listening in, singing out?

We are offering a Council in 3 times zones around the Earth. One before 1 April, One after as a way of listening/singing together; might there be responses, patterns, encounters …

One in Australia, in Australia has already sung, warming up richly into the world. Might you be in the next; both this coming week? The idea is not to sing songs you know, but to listen to the land, your body, for the songs that want to come mysteriously forth, wildsongs. Note the following dates.

Please contact your area Council holder for Council links and any further information:


Time zones along AWST

Pre Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Wednesday, 26 February, 2-3:30pm AWST - this one has occurred

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Wednesday, 2 April, 2-3:30 AWST


Time zones along BST

Pre Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Thursday, 6 March, 4 - 5.30pm GMT THIS WEEK!!!

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Thursday 3 April, 4 - 5.30pm BST


Time Zones along EST

Pre Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Tuesday 4 March, 3 - 4.30pm EST THIS WEEK!!!

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Friday 4 April, 3 - 4.30pm EST


Please offer some time for a dawn wander before Council. We’ll delightfully send a prompt with the zoom link


Alternatively, create your own gathering … your own Council …

You can also find Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus

here:


We look forward to seeing and hearing your voices


Wild Earthsong blessings ~

 

 
 
 
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