Patterns in the Cosmos. - a podcast by Rich Lister

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Patterns. 

 

I like patterns, how things influence other things, how actions cause other other actions, and so on into a beautiful dance of the cosmos.

 

I find this fascinating. One thing our human brains are great at picking up is the subtle patterns that repeat and resonate with our bias, our interests, our desires. This is why we celebrate holidays like Halloween, or its Celtic name Samhain, (I say sow-wen to pronounce it, maybe I’m wrong, I don’t mind). In the northern tradition this period is called the wild hunt and it’s the time gods go to war across the sky’s. They go to war against the Jotun who want to freeze and batter the lands of humans into wind ravaged splinters, sea torn ruins or simply freeze us solid. 

 

In the stories of celtic, northern tradition and Christian it is a time when you honour the dead and the saints/heroes. The veil between worlds is thin now. 

 

This is where our pattern perception picks up in our humanness. We sense the ancient changes in the environment around us, we put up icons to ward against the creatures that dwell in the darkness. We light candles, carve effigies to scare off negative influence, we hunker down in our houses warm, eating things that make us feel safe. This is primal and mammalian. Our nervous systems is picking up patterns that we don’t have the social tools to deal with, so we use carved pumpkins and candy to buy off the fear, the spirts. 

 

The patterns of the environment around us are super subtle, maybe even too subtle to notice until they are screaming you in the face. This is where tradition and ritual have a place. Because the sensitise people, those who could realise the super minute changes in the cosmos wanted to tell everyone there is a threat around, but everyone ignored them until it went wrong. So what did the sensitive people do? What did the Witch, Shaman, Priest, Gothi do? They made rituals and known dates. When the rituals they came up with to keep people safe were enacted, by people who did not realise completely why. 

 

And you know what? 

 

It does not matter why the ritual was done to keep you safe, to appease the spirts, to honour the ancient dead, it just matters that it is done. Of course, it’s better to do it with intent. But the repeated actions of generations bring generational intent with them. This is why we have collective rituals, to satisfy the pattern reignition of the Seer, the Sorcerer, the Oracle. To keep their community safe. 

 

So honour your ancient dead, the heroes and gods, leave out a carved pumpkin or swead, burn the candle and give the candy or mead. Satisfy the patterns, of the cosmos. 

 

Feel safer, and have a pumpkin spice latte. 

 

 

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