The day was very dark overcast with wind & intense dampness. 29deg but bone chilling. When our friend Gina arrived to do the stirring, she brought the Sun. I had cut willow (for Water, from the creek bank), oak (for Air, had to climb the tree to get it), vine (for Earth, a horizontal branch of wild grape) and apple (for fire, hot burning wood & red fruit) rods to stir with. A small Arbor Vita spoon was fashioned to scoop the small amount of " 3K syrup". We do not have a pond nor any rain water unfrozen so I borrowed from the creek with SeuSeu's blessings. She had marked the proper eddy pool with crossed angelica stalks.
We opened a Coning asking in the Elementals, Mother Earth, Sol, Luna and Grandma Moon. The Christ consciousness was called & came very strongly as did others. Stirring started at ~1:30pm aware that that others had and would and assumedly were doing the same. We spoke of the Elementals role in our lives & there meanings to us. I read aloud Hugh C. writings and Wolf Storl's writing on the preps. As we took turns stirring. At 2:30 the solution was placed in the sprayer for Four o'clock. We new it would be a race to actually finish before dark, the timing was best for many reasons and again to be doing it mindfully when others were also was of import. We were spraying only the 5.6 acres of Othala Valley. A good portion of Moen Creek is up for sale so it was not appropriate to spray there though many of the gardens could be in service this year. In listening & praying on this prep I hear clearly that the sprayed area is a safe haven & refuge not the only area in which they will work. I am confident that they will work on all the area mapped for the field broadcaster, but here is home base. Being such a small area I had checked in as to the 55 yards and got that 15 paces was appropriate. We started at directly north from our kitchen door this is where the creek comes into Othala. The property is pie shaped with the small face on the road. The creek (a branch of Moen Creek AKA SeuSeu) enters on the East West side 5/8 the way to the point & nearly perfectly bisects the short side. Linda paced the 15 strides & I sprayed. Ned & Gina could not stay, but two of our cats walked the whole circumnavigation with us. Stand-ins I guess but interesting and joyful non the less. The fence line is old & heavily wooded & brambly so tuff going as the light fell also very steep so now luckily the small amount of snow we have had was less & the frozen ground a surer scrambling. We finished with several stars showing. I found it harder to keep the focus spraying then while stirring but this is in part why stirring is done. As I sit here writing you the Sylphs are playing woodwinds and horns out the windows it's a very peaceful melody. Blessed Epiphany to you all & thanks for the help these seven days. In Love & Light Markess
