sharat and bleeding noses

[Guest guest]

the period of time traditionally ascribed to sharat sometime between

Sept and Dec doesn't exist in seasonal or climactic pattern for

temperate and boreal regions of the world

 

the only time the qualities of sharat might occur in Alaska is during

an intensely hot summer, when the sun is still high in the sky and the

daylight hours are much longer

 

i think that if one had only ever lived in India or the tropics, closer

to the equator, they might find it quite curious how different the

seasons are

 

right now Alaska and similar regions are descending into the dominant

cold and dry season - and this necessarily aggravates cold and dry

qualities in the body, in association with the disturbed qualities

already present (perhaps from summer, e.g. pitta + vata)

 

in Ayurvedic medicine the summer solstice marks the beginning of the

dakshinayana period, the movement of the sun southward, under the

influence of yama, lord of death

 

i'm not quite sure of the link but dakshinayana also suggests the story

of daksha, the creator god that got his head lopped off by shiva for

being a mean, jealous old man, but got it replaced by a goat head:

essentially the devil in biblical terms, the personalized quality of

that which steals the light away

 

of course if you live in new zealand/australia then this is reversed,

and the dakshinayana is in fact the uttarayana, ruled by Kubera, lord

of wealth and abundance

 

basically the uttarayana refers to the sun moving northward to the

kingdom of kubera, energizing him

the dakshinaya refers to the sun moving south, activating and

energizing yama

 

given its northerly latitude, alaska is much more intensely dominated

by the dakshinayana and thus a greater exposure to the negative effects

of mr moth balls himself, lord yama, god of death

 

spending so much time in the proximity of yama however can make you

strong, but you have to be at least as determined as yama, who i hear

is very determined indeed

 

there is only way to live in such a place and be strong, and it should

be modeled at least in part on the traditional peoples that have lived

there for the past 20,000 years: the inuit

 

however if you have norwegian, finnish, swedish or russian blood it

might be helpful to look at some of the lifestyle practices of your

ancestors that allowed them to survive and be healthy and strong

 

the challenge of ayurveda is to understand the qualities of and

experiences, and not get hung up in rules and regulations that may or

may not apply

 

 

 

 

Caldecott

todd

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