Happy Orchid, Moving Earth & NOW

It's been 10 days since the Pacific Coast Quake. Since the 7.2 rocked the ground here, there has only been 5 hours of quake free activity. By Sunday 4/11, there had been over 3000 logged quakes. It's very edgy living with ground moving so much. For me, it feels like I am standing on a dock moving with the waves. My two furry buddies, Thomas & Lilah, have been very nervous cats. My hummingbirds and other bird friends have been very lethargic and quiet. Only the ravens are chattering, with the occasional hawk "scree" chiming in.

My orchid is very happy and just opened it's 6th bloom today. I know next to nothing about orchids, so I thought I'd check out the symbolism. It turns out that they are very temperamental to grow. They represent fertility, but also can symbolize the death of a child when the blooms are cut. They also symbolize abundance and luxury. On a deeper level, they symbolize purity and spiritual perfection (Chevalier & Gheerbrant/1994). It has cheered me up a bit to see the happy orchid in the morning.

At this time, my body is very achy and tired, day after day. The word for how I am getting through life is this: I feel like I am slogging through. Though I wake up in the morning with the idea I'd like to read something, or write something, or maybe DO something... the reality is that I am too tired after breakfast to keep moving. The next challenge is to shower. So, you see that I don't get very far.

The advantage to moving so very slow in life is that I get to see the process of the orchid blooming. I get hear the ravens talk, and what their different tones might mean. I get to watch the hummingbird babies grow up. And I get feel the earth move during quake clusters. I get to be here when my husband comes home from a long day at work. I answer the phone when my daughter calls.

I am here.
NOW.

Earthquake Experience

This is a re-post of my blog entry on mythic musing. I didn't start having physical symptoms BEFORE quakes, tsunamis & and volcanic eruptions until 2004.


Sunday, April 4, 2010
7.2 and a Cluster of Quakes
Last night I started having dizziness, headaches and a feeling of malaise. My ears felt plugged. I had a disturbing night, and felt terrible when I woke up. I told my husband that something was very wrong with me, but I didn't know what it was. I even felt disconnected from my body. We agreed that if it got any worse we would go to urgent care. Then I did something I rarely do: I went back to bed. I couldn't function! I dozed in and out all afternoon. I had earplugs in so I didn't have hear the neighborhood noises. Late in the afternoon I was alerted by a sound that was similar to wind chimes. I knew there are none nearby, so I ignored the sound. Then the bed started to shake. I realized we were having a quake, but this one wouldn't stop. I got out of bed and opened the bedroom door. My husband wasn't home... he had gone to the store. I heard the whole building CRACK. I ran outside to find all my neighbors outside as well. The shaking kept going on. When the ground stopped moving we all went back inside.
This quake was 130 miles away and it was a 7.2. We're still having aftershocks with different epicenters up and down the fault line that the original quake was on. This is the worst quake I've experienced and the first major quake in my local area since I became sensitive to quakes. To read more about these experiences click here and here. Trish & Rob MacGregor have written about others who are sensitive to earthquakes on their SYNCHRONICITY blog: click here and here.
Damage assessment is still in progress, and reports from the epicenter in Mexicali are just starting to come in.
I didn't see Reindeer Woman (which may signify an axis shift)-- unless you count the book Creations Heartbeat: Following the Reindeer Spirit, by Linda Schierse Leonard. It was in may mailbox late yesterday afternoon...