Holy Songlines Weaving Human Hearts and Heart of the More-than-human World

Wendy Robertson Fyfe

Where the awakening skylark rises song to clouds

the heartbeat of the world becomes visible

before a still and silent descent.

Cliff Walk, Dunbar, Scotland/Alba. wrf

We are moving closer to the 8th Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus in a few weeks time. The first of the beauty Earthsongwave Councils with their poetic prompts have been offered. All so deeply touched by them, rich depths to surface. The ‘actual’ self-organised Ceremony is on 1 April wherever you are in the Earth. There is still time to sign in for the post Ceremony Councils; to speak and withness stories, encounters, joys, heartbreaks, listening to Earth’s calls, sing; to wonder whether/where there are ancient-new songlines voicing, whether/where there are particular connections/reverberations from/with Earth’s songs in these times.

From the many lines we are connecting with here at Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus this year, and with particular ‘plans’ of noticing specific previous threads so far in our first Post, there are two beauties of many who feel important to ‘catch’ in our tracking today.

One beauty is from the Council in Western Australia, with permission and gratitude, a participant asks:

“Where is the wave?”

Isn’t that gorgeous, oh … the seemingly simple questions we ask …

Later Jenni imagines more into this with her response, though please do offer some space first to what your response might be to ‘where is the wave’ for you? Please do leave your musings, thoughts, imaginings here too.

Jenni, Southern Hemisphere: “it starts at the international date line, in the middle of the Pacific; rolls across NZ and on to Australia - the Eastern States of Queensland, New South Wales, Canberra, Victoria and Tasmania, over the middle with the vast desert and Uluru in Northern Territory and South Australia and into Western Australia picking up songs along the way and then joining with our songs, rolling on across the Indian ocean to Madagascar and South Africa and the southern countries of Africa before crossing the South Atlantic Ocean to the countries of South America. Finally, it moves back across the Pacific Ocean to the International Date Line.”

Perhaps you will imagine differently also if you are the Northern Hemisphere.

Imagination grows in Jenni …

“I am overawed by the magnificence of this mighty sound wave carrying the bird songs of all the different countries, the sounds of the trees, the flora, the fauna, and the underground fungi, mosses and lichens, the Maori haka and the Ancestors songs, the songs of the ancient deserts of central Australia, the didjeridoo, the clapping sticks, the ancients whispers of the Aboriginal Ancestors over the past 65,000 years, the songs of the migrating whales and their babies, the mighty Southern Ocean waves and the seabirds that spend most of their life flying and calling over the ocean, the drums and songs of Southern Africa and Madagascar peoples, the pipes and instruments of South America and the songs and dreamings of their Ancestors. Such richness, such splendour - so much to praise and bless, so much to give gratitude for. What a magnificent wave it is that reaches the middle of the Pacific after 24 hours. I imagine that it can be seen in other dimensions by other Entities and consciousnesses - such is its energy and beauty.”

On the approach this year, Amy, as stated in her previous Earthsongwave Substack, Beauty and Terror at the Edges is tuning in to the polarity of grief and praise that her dream planted. Jenni is being more present with the wave she describes.

Here we’re drawing attention to the power and reality of both dream and deep imagination, both who are, generally, marginalised currently in the everyday world. I have found in the way Earth invites me to sing in (l’m not alone), that languages such as these are the kinds of language an animate Earth sings with, is an Earth language; of mystery, of soul.

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The second beauty tracking of many is from the Northern Hemisphere where Council also goes deep in grief and praise, honouring, celebrating, feeding, listening to the voices of the others’; all as an offering to the ‘others’, about them, a gift. The depth of offering becomes tangible through the zoom portal. As we offer more and more deeply in circle rounds, we find our hearts opening, cracking more and more as a songline appears/sounds from and between our human hearts. Through grief and praise offerings to the ‘others’ and their wonder, our hearts begin to sing as if in animate response from them in song weaving enlivening the world. Songs re-weaving the worlds. Truly beautiful. What if this too is what happens in Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus as the worlds weave together once more? Grief song being a necessary part of the weaving watering.

What l have found, over and over, in Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus over the years is how the local is also the global, part of a bigger wave, a bigger song; is holy. The important thing is to sing our listening note into the wave wherever we are. We’re contributing to it anyway, so why not more consciously? I’m reminded of the singing tree who invited me to join in the song in 1995, taught me to sing in with her; how music is learned, how instruments are made with and from ‘the more-than-human’ world. Without the ‘others’ the human song lessens for maybe the human song was gifted as a way of awakening and weaving with Earth and Cosmos. As we approach Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus, l will be continuing listening for and singing in to the places reweaving between the worlds within and between the human and more-than-human. Not that we are ever separate, but that our holy attention makes all the difference with who and how we are in life.

Whilst continuing your tracking, do consider joining us in Council after the Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Ceremony which is on Tuesday 1 April, information on the dates/times below for those Councils.

Meanwhile here, with permission and gratitude, are a few lines offered from some of the folk in Alba/Scotland after our first Council. You are welcome to send in/share any poems, songs, music, dances, art who come your way here:

Earth-song in awe

Comfort coming to the fore

Song lines along heart lines,

Tests the cloth of a tear unbidden,

 Of mountains knowing

 And bird song whistles

Singing to the heart of tree in us all.

Mike Moss

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A tree-heart, sings with moss

forehead touching badger fur,

keening, and silence~ tears water the ground.

Eilidh Forgan

May you continue to wander, linger and listen with the lands and Earth Community for the songs longing to be heard again by our longing to hear; come alive, alive, alive in the reweaving between and within the worlds …

Please share with those who would also love to join in Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus this year. Earthsongwave has been visited by people in 87 countries since it began in 2018. Just this last month, Earthsongwave, a gifted ‘Feed The Earth’ Ceremony, has been visited by people in Australia, United States, Canada, China, Sweden, Ireland, India, Italy, Philippines, Germany, Argentina, Latvia, Poland, England, Scotland, Hawaii, and Romania.

Heart of the Rainforest, Minnamurra Rainforest, Jamberoo, NSW, Australia. wrf

You are invited to contact your time zone Council holder for Council links and any further information:

Time zones along AWST

with Jenni: jenniyork@southernphone.com.au

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Wednesday, 2 April, 2-3:30 AWST

Time zones along BST

with Wendy: info@earthsongwave.com

please note change of time:

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is now Wednesday 2 April, 4 - 5.30pm BST

Time Zones along EST

With Amy: tuttleamyj@gmail.com

Post Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus Council is Friday 4 April, 3 - 4.30pm EST

Will you be singing in on Tuesday 1 April? Will you be joining us for Council after? See Earthsongwave Dawn Chorus for further information.

You are also welcome to visit over 30 Visionary/Audinary previous conversations here on our website.

Sending Earthsong blessings to you and your kin around the Earth. May you sing-in wildly on Tuesday 1 April. May you share this ‘other news’ on a deeper frequency far and wide.

In wild wonder,

Wendy