Cool Monday morning

It is acool, bright and sunny morning here in Augusta Maine. The morning temps were in the very low 30's, below freezing at 4 a.m., with today's high  to reach the high 50's. We will end up with another very typical October day.

This morning's readings are:

a relative humidity of 92% with a Dew Point of 40.3ºF.

The temperature is 42.3ºF, with no wind chill.  

The wind velocity is presently between 0.0 mph and 1.4 mph out of the North (when it pugs).

Winds are expected to increase slightly as the day goes on.

Our Barometric pressure is 30.04 and rising.

Visibility today is clear at 10 miles.

There was no rainfall in the past 24 hours, with none in today's forecast.   

Just  in case you are of native American heritage, I thought that a mention of weather spirits and web sites related to them might be of interest. Enjoy.

From "Working with Weather Spirits at Earth Drummer.com

http://earthdrummer.com/classes/deepening-your-path/working-with-weather-spirits/

 And:

Shamanism and the Spirits of Weather, Page 2

By Nan Moss and David Corbin

© Shamanism, Fall/Winter 1999, Vol. 12, No. 2

 

Other indigenous cultures around the world also know that everything has spirit: rocks, animals, plants, trees, places, rivers, storms, mountains, and oceans. Many of these cultures recognize and work with spirits of weather. Wise ones—Elders—of widely separated cultures understand the need for humans to honor and relate to the spirit world for the overall maintenance of harmony and balance and for the good of one's people, including the good of individuals. They see it as a special duty for humans to work in this way and they attend to this responsibility through the enactment of community rituals such as the Iroquois mid-winter world renewal rites. They also realize this through attitude: in expressions of love, honoring, and gratitude for life and for all the relations, seen and unseen, who share life on this beautiful Earth. In the 1800s, Alexander Carmichael wrote of the Scottish Highlanders:

The old people had runes which they sang to the spirits dwelling in the sea and in the mountains, in the wind and in the whirlwind, in the lightning and in the thunder, in the sun and in the moon and m the stars of heaven.

Elders of the Athapascan Koyukon peoples of the northern forests of contemporary Alaska have noticed signs of disorder, both obvious and subtle, even in their local wilderness environments. Animals are behaving abnormally, such as ravens coming into the villages and — begging for food, "like orphans with no self respect." The Koyukon attribute this apparent imbalance to the loss of medicine people—to the loss of those willing and able to work with the spirits of the animals and the elemental forces of nature.

 

(Remainder of article to be posted tomorrow)