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July 2025, Issue #286 ~ William Shakespeare The Tao of Now: Essential Nature  One arm of the cactus plant looked dead, so Arte reached out his hand to remove it. Ouch! That stem is still spiny. Its essential nature hasn't changed. As he ruefully removed the spiny points from his palm with tweezers, we laughed at this misperception. Cactus is cactus, in any state of being.How often do we attempt to alter our essence in order to attain some perceived prize - a plum position, a partner, admission to a coveted group - when squelching our spirit is the antithesis of growth? Like a sprouting seed, our true nature will always push its way to consciousness. Aluna Joy affirms, "This profound moment of self-reflection is shaping a new path for us. Our micro life reviews have been guiding us to lost corners within us that need our light to bloom...allowing us to remember who we have always been, and always will be, in a world where we have never been." The Pentagram and the Rose: Seeds of all Creation  Five senses. Five fingers on each hand, five toes on each foot. The golden ratio. The five-petaled wild rose. Roses are "the quintessential (which means 'fifth essence') symbol of both spiritual and romantic love," write Clark Strand and Perdita Finn in The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary. [This book is not religious, the authors emphasize. It's about remembering and reclaiming our Earth-based wisdom.]Yet the Rose - "older than civilization. Older than human beings. Older even than hominids," explain Strand and Finn - also bears thorns. Thorns offer protection - and a problem to work through. If we attempt to strip a rose of its thorns, metaphorically speaking, we miss an important opportunity for growth and healing. Strand and Finn also focus on essential renewal, "the eternal return." Like water, which is necessary for life to exist and which cycles endlessly in various forms as vapor, rain, snow, ice, rivers, and oceans, "Our souls, too, journey through vast cycles, like water moving from one body to the next. They don't come and go any more than the water does. Nor can a body contain a soul for long. Like water, the soul does not die. And like water, it won't stay put. Its nature is to journey, to be always on pilgrimage." Elemental, My Dear Watson  As above, so below:In Spontaneous Evolution, epigenetics biologist Bruce Lipton (a rock star for science) and Steve Bhaerman (alter ego of Swami Beyondananda) write, "We each consist of a metropolis of 50 trillion citizens, the cells in our body, which could each be considered sentient beings in their own right. Yet they act together as a community in harmony and peace." Resonant with these authors, I've long described us as cells in the body of the Goddess, slowly wending our evolutionary way towards unity.  Energy innovator Lanson Burrows Jones Jr. says the same is true of the Periodic Table of Elements. In an intriguing post, he illumines, "The periodic table isn't a chart. It's a wave. Not blocks of matter, but chords of motion. Every element is a musical note in a spiral of standing light." Music of the Spheres!Remember, too, that elemental five is especially powerful this year. Five represents ether, which is intangible to our untrained human senses. And according to this physics professor, Light is "a living geometry moving through ether - shaping space, charge, and force." We are elemental beings, cells in the body of the One. Water. Cactus. Rose. Five. Light. You. Me. Us. Here's to honoring our essential nature, thorns and all. One touch is unity. Here are four under 300-character posts. Select one, copy and paste: Shine On  Day Out of Time: Honor your essential self on July 25th, designated a "Day out of time," by José Argüelles, author of The Mayan Factor and progenitor of Harmonic Convergence. On the 13 Moon natural time calendar, this "green day" is a chance to shake off the shackles of 3D, sequester all devices, and commune with your wild self and Nature before the New Year begins with the heliacal rise of Sirius on July 26th. Become One with the All, alive and alove in your true nature. "Not all compasses point north. Some point inward." Suzanne Crippin translated the patterns she was seeing in everything from trauma to healing into a symbolic navigation system - a framework for emotional architecture. It's emotional cartography that reflects your essential nature back to you.Ready to thrive in 2025?  Soul guidance: Navigating the wild waters of personal evolution? I offer engaged, empathic support for a smoother ride through the rapids. 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