Kairos minus a limb

I'd been to see the Goddess on the way. She had been more than usually talkative. As I parted the trees to greet Kairos, I had a shock: a huge limb had fallen.

It was so... unsettling, but Kairos explained I should not be sad about the limb, or indeed about Blossom. It is as it is.

I sat down to absorb the messages.

The Goddess Oak says…

"Gravity and light. Live in the tension between two poles, drives, yearnings. And live at the level of being in which you are instantiated- meeting trees, not a forest; meeting trees, not cells."

Consciousness as a concept means little to her: she accepts becoming as an all-encompassing of what it is to live at a given level.

I ask are beauty and truth foundational?

She replies:

"Yes, and so are ugliness and deceit, but none are good or bad. Only the use they are put to and the right use is making the world more habitable."

Kairos concurs with all the Goddess said.

Regarding the fallen limb, he says it is “what I can no longer afford. And that now, it having fallen, is part of the plan. Or the relata that arose from the new relatum. It is as it is, and time does not flow backwards. This is what is becoming- and yet it is a dependent arising, but through what arose, the 'me' and the surroundings became into a new being.

“All forms are real, but not static or dead. They are becoming- unfolding in their own way, before being enfolded back in. Of course, there is a One that we are all within or making or part of the becoming of. Your words make explanation difficult, and explanation is unnecessary. That there is a oneness all becoming is self-evident. That there are forms - becomings of trees and persons and the like - is also self-evident.

“When you see leaf or acorn on the tree, they are part of me, like the limb was. When they fall, they are leaf or acorn or limb that are and are not part of me. But all are part of the one becoming. And all are becoming in their own right.

“My limb is becoming other, as are the leaves and the acorn, and they will no longer be leaves and acorns and a limb when they have fully become others. There is no claim on them except the claim of the other. They have become. If you wish to think of yourself, your thoughts, your makings, your shits, your body, your consciousness, in that way, then you are welcome to use the metaphor. At some point, these, all that were in some sense part of you, become other and whatever you are no longer has a claim on them.

“That is why hunter gatherers were right.”

I am not sure what the reference to hunter gatherers is about. But I think it's about things only having a claim on you when they are part of you, and vice versa.