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( 9alf of 11)
Much has already been remembered regarding rain and the fact that everything has patterns and is part of multiple rhythms.
1. I love it when it rains so softly you can't hear it, and often can't see it falling as if all the clouds are slowly dripping. You must look elsewhere to know it's raining or you just have to be outside.
2. Then there's the rain that sounds like a steady urgent marching like a long shower.
3. Then there's the rain that pours down in forceful sheets as if trying to rapidly fill a swimming pool with a fire hose.
4. Then there's the wonderful wonders of electricity called lightning and thunder that can accompany any of the three types above.
I get more excited when it rains in bunches of days, often more than once in the same day. It is reminiscent of the equatorial rainforests of a much earlier birth.
Fast forward to today and now I am in a part of the world categorized as Zone 6b. Here it will rain for a seven to ten day period once or twice a month. During this time there is no more than two days of no rain. This is largely due to the enormous amount of trees in these mountains of West Virginia. See trees and rain.
Water in the form of rain is a signal and catalyst. Rain's rhythmic patterns must coincide with a multitude of life cycles moving to the next stage. Of course, one of those stages is germination (birth, rebirth, awakening). All this is to remind us that it is a good general rule to plant seeds and seedlings, bushes and trees when it is expected to rain several times.
Every season and sub-stage has its signs, patterns, rhythms and listeners who march to the fanfare that often escapes human attention. These rhythms help us move spiritually in sync. Whether or not we are trying to plant plants, we can benefit from the advantages and avoid the worst of the disadvantages of periods of frequent rain if we learn to read, heed, align and march with rain's rhythms.
As stated several times, none of this blog is a grandiose soliloquy just for the beauteous sound of words. Layered in every message are many messages to help us gain understandings and to know what to do right now. You can't get the nutrition you want and need if you depend on someone else to do the planting, harvesting and making it available to you. Begin planting things on all levels so you can control your own nutrition. The trees of all societies are long in the tooth, declining and dying due to inner rot of cancer. Your society has never been healthy. And if you don't know this by now, you will never ever know this. And the rain patterns will be the least of the things you'll miss.
