Wild Hunt Risen

To Those In Power

The Moon of the Hunter is full as I move through the forest leaving slots in the leaf litter, a gale of a wind is blowing the last of the leaves off the trees & I'm covered with them, they become part of me. Many scents are on the wind tonight, some, not wanting me to find them. They have no fear, I'm not hunting, yet. In this forest, the trees & I are one. I feel their roots & their crowns, the wind bending their branches, the shot of pain as a bough breaks in the gale. The animals I'm also at one with, for my name is Cern, Lord of the Wychwood, Son of the Goddess. All the beasts & plants look to me for their protection and at this time they have a great need of it, for there's an animal who thinks itself above all others. A most dangerous situation.

I have slept for far too long and I have missed the Land, the Sun & Sky, & the Life that lives between. The Christ people called me their devil the Horned One. Antlered One please. And yes, I do have cloven hooves, four hooves for the woods & forests but two when I wander through your hard towns & cities. The priests drove me underground, contained me within their Hell, all because I honour the Goddess and not their God, yet to me She is my Mother, Gaia, your Earth. Yes, her skin moves and her many breasts may erupt from time to time, yet She gave birth to me, & you, & to all the Life that lives on & in Her. It's little wonder you were turned away from Her by the men of the cloth, you are weak. They had no need of a female yet She gave them their cloth. Their God has no physical presence, they cannot touch their God yet I walk with mine everyday. I can lay with Her, touch Her and admire Her beauty & the Life She brings forth.

Now the time has come, the Mother has called and as Her Huntsmaster, I've raised the Hunt. My hounds, those the Christ people call the Hounds of Hell, are not to be feared if you walk with the Land but they are the Nemesis of those who don't. They appear in many forms to bring down their prey. I look on my hounds as Regulators, for that is what they do, they regulate all Life of the Mother, and with you humans there seems a great need for regulation. In less than 100 years you've doubled your population, and it's still growing. With your rush for profit & progress an imbalance has been created, you have brought so much on yourselves that my hounds have to take you down to size. You are helping in this as you seem to enjoy WAR and because of your greed the very Breath of Life has become polluted, the Blood of Life, water, has suffered the same fate. Your waste is even more dangerous, diseases are becoming more virile & vicious. You are making my hounds work that bit easier but if left to yourselves you will destroy your species, & many more besides.

Recently, I've been keeping an eye on your wheelings & dealings, your stocks & shares, & your currencies. Interesting developments to come. Your greed will be your undoing for if you turn a blind eye to the Mother's troubles you'll lose all your wealth long before you are put in the ground, after all, you can't take it with you. By then your species as a whole will be suffering & you will have caused this to happen. My hounds are now moving through you all, they may come as storms, floods, drought & famine, millions will be cut down, men, women & children, of all races, colours & creeds all because you did nothing. You have stayed your hand when you should have acted & all because of your greed for more profits. Over the next few years you'll feel the pinch, it's even possible there will be global currency collapse, if you don't play your cards right & my hounds will drag you down if you don't. Gold is very heavy as is Greed, but you may see you have to make changes to your lifestyle as your shares tumble & the belt is tightened. It's an odd fact that people take notice of things when it hits them in their pockets, I hope it hits hard and that it hurts. For you have hurt the Mother & all Her offspring and it will take many years for all the wounds to heal. We all need a healthy mother to look after our needs.

The Weaver, in his yarns, has told you many times what's happening & what's to come yet you take no notice. You have, at most, ten years. If you don't act in that time future generations will despise you, hate you, for what you left them with. I will do my best to see their lives fulfilled, that is why I have released the Regulators. It is dark inside the Mother, you are born from Her into the light and it's to the dark you Will return. Be it in a box or ashes.

You who hold power in your countries hold power over your people not with them whether you are a President, Prime Minister or Dictator. I do not see much well-being amongst your electorate, you should be looking to your people & their needs. Give them back their power so they may raise themselves out of poverty & gain their health. It doesn't matter whether it's in China, Africa or the United States of America, vast numbers still live in poverty & poor health. The USA spends more money on it's military than on the health of it's people & their quality of life. I smiled when that storm of storms, Hurricane Katrina hit as now the American people would see their so-called government act, but it didn't and is still not acting. At the same time as I smiled there were tears for those who suffered, and are still suffering. Today there are thousands of environmental refugees homeless after the destruction of New Orleans. Greed, corruption & racist attitudes have seen to that.

You Shareholders & CEOs of multinational companies, in many cases you have more power than your governments, you hold them to ransom as well as other countries so they do Your bidding. Anyone true to Gaia is ruthlessly & illegally put down. No one can be allowed to upset your plans for more Profit, even if it be at the expense of future generations. You laugh as you count your billions of dollars, for you won't be around when the shit really hits the fan so you don't care. My hounds are after you. Keep an eye over your shoulder you may see them coming but then again, you may not. For as I have said, my hounds, & I, can take on many forms to bring you down. If only you could see the Whole Picture, the Web of Life that surrounds & weaves through us all. The drought in Australia was felt in many different ways around the Earth, locally there were bankruptcies of famers, internationally, products from Australia rose in price on the shelves of the importing countries. One event. There's more to come. Though the Web of Life is under threat from you it is you who will not survive, your greed is all too consuming and it will consume you. Broken bodies on the side walks of Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York & London as the Hang Seng, Nikkei, DJ & FTSE fall over a precipice, may well be your demise. Act & show me you care, care for all not just yourselves, your Grandchildren & their descendants will thank you, & so will I, until you do the Hunt continues.

You leaders of countries & industries, the state of the future of the world is in your hands. Change your ways and I will call off my hounds, don't & they'll bring you down, along with others who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. As I have said, tens of millions of people are already suffering because the bioshere is out of kilter, & many, many more will do so in the future. I do not want to see the suffering of the innocent but if you don't act I have no recourse. If it means the extinction of your species, so be it. Life on Earth will carry on.

ROOTED

I took root in this land some 1100 years ago, at the time of All Hallows but in me there is a memory of a much older festival, Samhain, an Ancestral Festival. Interesting to note that, a festival for the ancestors, the same as the Christian festival, they couldn't beat us so they joined us, as they did with many of our ancient festivals.

Today my ancestors wouldn't recognize the land where I dwell, in their time it was wild & free, not like now, slowly being covered with tarmac & concrete. Even I have memories of wild wolves, bears & wild boar, where are they now, apart from those boars that escaped from captivity? They have become extinct here by the hand of Man.

There are many of my kind far older than I, some far, far older than the Christians' godling son. They tell of a time when Man lived with the land, it's seasons & by the Sun & Moon. The seasons meant so much to the folks who lived then, in fact their lives revolved around the seasons just as the seasons' wheel turns through the year. First there was hunting & gathering, then, as folks began to settle down in larger groups farming began. More so the cycles of Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter became very important to the farmers, be they farmers of crops or livestock. Life in general goes through cycles, and having awareness of these helps the farmer plan his year. Where are the farmers now, who live with the land, and where are the seasons? My branches haven't felt snow on them for many a turning now.

Once I, a humble Yew, was honoured, now I have been given a dark image, just like Halloween, which is all horror, witches, ghosts, demons & devils. Where is All Hallows in this? I don't see it. Back then in the past, I was revered, the Tree of Life & Death, a tree to journey with, into the realms of the other world. For that we have been darkened by the Christ people, they cut my kind down to make their pews & other church furniture, & kept the odd one or two in their graveyards. Death being the operative word, Life forgotten. Very few people these days respect their ancestors, their past. Most look to the future but are afraid of what it might hold. And so they should be, seeing what they have done to get to where they are today.

You humans seem to have lost that most important sense of Being, the Joy of Life. Where is your Spirit, your essence, that which pervades all Life? You have lost your smile, you walk on the Land without being aware of what is beneath your feet, looking glum your faces downcast. Your governments hold you in thrall through fear, they separate you from your own kind no longer working together for the betterment of Life. They have created an us & them society. Are you with us or against us. Where is your honour for Life if you stand against each other, cannot you work with your fellow humans, to bring about well-being for all? I think not. You are too set in your ways, afraid to step outside of your comfort zones & experience the vast cornucopia that Life has to offer. Yes, you face many dangers that you have brought on yourselves, if only you had worked with the Land rather than against her. Still... that's your path.

Do you want to change the course you're on? If you do, then Samhain is a good point to start, the going down, to repose, to gather inward through to Winter Solstice with the Sun's rebirth. You too can be reborn on a new path, that will help your Mother, my Mother but most of all, yourselves. I have seen much history & I would like to see more, to double my age but I & all Life can only do it with your help. To coin a phrase, “With the going down of the Sun, we will Remember them.” Is that what your descendants, your Grandchildren will say when they see what you, their ancestors have left them? I think not, they will be asking themselves “Why the hell didn't they act quickly when they first knew what was happening to the Earth? Couldn't they see that if they did nothing we would be left with a world vastly depleted of Life, both animals, including humans, & plants?

My Kingdom of the plants wouldn't be able to feed you all in the future, if you don't do something about all your pollution & CO2 that you are putting into the atmosphere, warming up the planet. All you grain producers, beware of rising temperatures if you don't then you'll see the species of grain move northwards, the wheat belt of the US, over the next few years, will gradually move up country, states who have had the cream of the crop, will find it slipping away. Even in Eurasia you are not safe. Already countries in the Southern Hemisphere are finding it hard to feed their people, & worse is yet to come.. All because of your inaction when you had the chance to make a difference.

Samhain is all about new beginnings, learning from your past, your mistakes, moving into the the New Year with positive direction for you & the Earth. If you do not take this chance then not only will I not have a history, nor will you. For your species will suffer as well. Do you want this on your conscience. I'll leave you with yourselves as I give of myself to my ancestors on this night. I honour them with my heartfelt thanks. I hope you can honour yours & that your descendants will be able to honour you.

To you all I wish Samhain Blessing. May you choose the right path into the future.

When I'm moving around the on-line forums of Environmental, Wildlife, Climate Change & Earth Sciences websites, I find folks analysing a particular theme, and never looking at the whole picture. How everything is connected. You may think this is strange, I often visit Stock Exchange sites, to see how global currencies are doing, checking the price of wheat & rice, oil & fertilizer, how's the Yen behaving with the $, all because I'm interested in Earth & Her environments. And I like to know what's making it all work. Or not.

Keeping my eyes & ears open to conflicts around the world. How they are being used by the adversaries on the media & political stage. In all of these conflicts there is starvation & lack of fresh water, & it's going to get worse. For a long time now, I've been saying that with Climate Change there'll be more & more conflicts over food & water.

With food prices rising dramatically around the world because of failed harvests & grain being grown for biofuel & not food, we will see the poor suffer even more than they do now, and with rainfall patterns changing, more drought & floods, making food production even harder for the poor.

Now, at long last, the US Intelligence Agencies have done a major assessment on Climate Change, and how it will effect US security. They say that action has to be taken or the security of the USA will be put under severe pressure, as nations around the globe become unstable because of conflicts & environmental disasters. It's a pity no one listened in the '80s, when this was first put forward to the governments of the world. At the time the US government said it wasn't a problem for them. Some joke. A case of “I'm alright Jack”.

Now they're not alright and they know it, but will they get their fingers & heads out of their arseholes & act now, because if they don't, the rest of the world won't either. Sadly, we need the US to take the lead in really cutting back on CO2 emissions & changing their energy production & policies away from fossil fuels. As I've said before, sod the shareholders it's the common people that count, for without their buying power profits will fall.

It is up to us, the Common People, to bring about the change. Hit them were it hurts, their profits. Look at how you shop. Where does the product come, is it local, national, or does it come from half way round the world. Use energy-saving light bulbs & other white goods, sod the dish-washer, you've got hands, do it yourself or get the kids to do it. When not in use, switch off all appliances, don't leave them on stand-by. Every little thing you can do, matters. In journals before, I have mentioned Prof. Eugene Odum, & my meeting with him. Prof. Odum was being interviewed by a US PBS station journalist who asked him what was the worse case scenario with regards the environment. He replied...

Life doesn't always give you the space to move around, even on the web. Hopefull now, I'll have that space to pop over here more often.
To all, my apologies for not being around. I have been traveling  in another world.