nature's zodiac

After beating the heat with an afternoon matinee yesterday, Geo and I began to stroll back through the dense and muggy air. Our stroll was just beginning to take on the character of a shlump when Geo seized an opportunity: the fountain! “I’m going in” he said.

A moment later he was refreshed and re-zested. It spilled over to me as I sat in the shade. A car pulled over and an eager 3 year old girl approached him, her parents in tow. “We saw him as we drove by and she needed us to pull over”.

The two new friends played slow-motion-chase and giggled up a storm. Their lit-up eyes stayed playfully attuned to one another.

It’s nice to hit those moments when all feels right in your world, ordered somehow, lit up. 

Biophysicist, Fritz-Albert Popp says that highly-ordered light organizes all of nature. A system’s fine attunement to this light is what renders it healthy.

In the 1970s, he made a radical discovery; living organisms emit light. They emit light in steady, ultra-weak streams of photons, what he called biophotons. These photons are coherent, in that they display almost laser-like order.

Building on Popp’s work, Roeland van Wijk describes biophotons as essential to cellular communication, health and biological order.  In his book, Light in Shaping Life, he explains that we are not only receivers of light from our environment but also storers and transmitters of it.

In my torus model of nature, it is the light of meaning and zest (represented by Sagittarius) that stabilizes a system (represented by Taurus). The torus field is a system that draws this light in and radiates it back out. A biophoton is that emitted-light, calmly organizing our chemistry, just as a laugh might melt away tension.

Children hear nature’s invitation so effortlessly but adults often get sidetracked by noise. Just like a plant ‘understands’ the order of sunlight (emitting just a small 3 percent back out as heat and using all of the rest productively in growth), a child ‘understands’ the primacy of fun. They don’t waste an opportunity to jump back into those right rhythms of delight.

The research on biophotons shows that living systems are fields of coherence, tuned by light, shaped by rhythms and moved by meaning. The peace and happiness I feel while casually talking to the little girl’s mom and a shaded bench is a wave, an echo of coherence. My body provides a feedback of natural order in a natural world of gentle light.

Popp uses the term ultra-weak light. What if we permit ourselves to get poetic and call it gentle light? Subtle light?Dreamy light?

Watching the kids play, I could still hear the Honolulu dancer song in my head from the movie we saw (Lilo and Stitch). This wove into a golden moment from the day before, when Grandaddy was teaching Geo how to do the back float. “Go dreamy, picture Honolulu dancers.”

What a synchronicity. Is synchronicity a phenomenon born out of this rhythmic light we are so free to attune to?

Our ability to store light, through rest, ritual, delight, presence, and embodiment determines how clearly we can transmit it as meaning, direction and zest.

In these sweet moments, time truly flows and light takes its rightful precedence. I can feel my body reclaim its rhythms. Coherence comes not from intensity but from attunement.

A living system that stores light becomes a system that radiates it.

Like two gigglers in a fountain.