Perhaps it is because I've most recently been living in the upper Midwest -- I am not used to day after day of rain (something that was rare in Duluth). Indeed, until a week or so ago, upstate New York seemed to be abnormally dry. Turning a corner as quickly as other factors in our life, the weather has made a sharp turn. The trees are covered with a layer of green lichen, and excessive rain has also caused the disappearance of my beloved raptors and other birds; a quick search just told me that wet feathers make it hard for them to fly. Yes, flowers are coming up like crazy, seemingly early. It's beautiful, but I'm finding it hard to fully appreciate the beauty, and not because of the rain, per se. Unprecedented changes are making me physically (and hopefully temporarily) soggy and logy. My own body is changing within me. Such intense energetic changes could hardly be taking place in the environment and in society around us, without their taking place within our actual physical selves. As with everything else, I expect enormous change, but need to stay as calm as possible, and connected to the Goddess, when everything is in transformation.
If what I've been saying all along is true, Nature is doing what She needs to do to bring earth back into some semblance of balance. And at the risk of over-anthropomorphizing the Goddess (which clearly I am doing here), I often experience rain as Her tears. With all the forms of information all of us have access to, I can still only see or feel the tip of the iceberg of the myriad tragedies unfolding on the earth, but She experiences it all. She has been at the receiving end of most of it. She grieves. She knows how joltingly hard human life has always been for too many, and will continue to be during this transition upward. For the moment, in the Capital District, rain is a minor inconvenience, making it hard to get outdoor exercise (or even from a house to a car) without getting soaked. But around the country and the world, water is reshaping the physical landscape in a major way. The only way to make the process slightly less humanly painful will be to allow this reconfiguration to happen, not to blindly "rebuild" or return to our earlier vision.
