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PETER ADAIR PRESENTS

2015 CALENDAR

What is this delight-filled universeinto which we find ourselves born?

What is this mysterious awareness shimmering everywhere within it?

What are these energies

undulating through our bodies,pulsing us into action?

And this matter out of which our forms are made— what are these dancing particles of condensed radiance?

What is this power we call Life,appearing as the play of flesh and breath?

This body is made of earth and gold,sky and stars, rivers and oceans

masquerading as muscle and bone.

How may I know this mystery and enter it more deeply?

Vigyan Bhairav Tantra (9th century), The Radiance Sutras, trans. by Lorin Roche

IMAGE INFORMATION:Cover – Interacting galaxies in the Andromeda constellation.NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage TeamInside cover – Boomerang nebulaNASA, ESA, R. Sahai, J. Trauger, WFPC2 TeamJanuary – Extreme Deep Field in Fornax constellation. Each light spot is a galaxy, some spanning back 13.2 billion years. NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, et.al.March – Star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy.NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage TeamApril – Aligning galaxies in the southern hemisphere constellation Hydra.NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage TeamMay – Planetary nebula: Red Giant star.NASA, Hubble Heritage TeamJune – Orion nebula: swirls of supernova-enriched gases.NASA, ESA, T. Megeath, M. Robberto GRATEFUL APPRECIATION TO:Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe StoryConnie Barlow and Michael Dowd, www.TheGreatStory.orgPauline Le Bel, Becoming Intimate With The EarthDuane Elgin, The Living UniverseLorin Roche, The Radiance Sutras, www.Lorinroche.com

Days of the week icons by Maureen MonnetCalendar graphic design by Julia Jandrisits | juliajandrisits.com/design

ABOUT THE NAMES OF THE DAYS OF THE WEEKExcept for Saturday, all of our usual weekday names derive from Germanic and Norse gods. Sunday and Monday are from Norse gods of Sun and Moon. Tuesday is named after the Saxon Tiw, god of love and war. Odin, king of the gods in ancient Scandinavia, is the Saxon Woden, whose day is our Wednesday. The god of thunder and lightning, Thor, is the namesake of Thursday. Freya, a Norse goddess of love and death, is the origin of Friday. Saturday is from the Roman Saturn.

There are exactly seven named days because each of these gods represents one of the seven heavenly spheres visible to the naked eye. The correspondences are: Sunday-Sun, Monday-Moon, Tuesday (Tiw)-Mars, Wednesday (Woden)-Mercury, Thursday (Thor)-Jupiter, Friday (Freya)-Venus, and Saturday-Saturn.

Because Norse gods and planetary cycles no longer have meaningful reference for us, we are indifferent to their named days. The weekday names used in this calendar derive from the traditional names, and are daily reminders of the natural elements that compose our lived experience.

This calendar is authored by Peter Adair in collaboration with Caitlin Adair. They live at Sanctuary, a small retreat center in Westminster West, Vermont. www.sanctuaryvermont.com Contact us at pcadair@sover.net.

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DARk FERtiLE GRouND: thE Womb oF CREAtioN

Within the vast emptiness of expanding space, and within the emptiness at the heart of atoms, percolates a rich soil of quantum loam. Quantum loam is the fertile ground of effervescing potentiality, from which arises magically a world

of stars and planets, life and love. The exuberant darkness of quantum soil suffuses and sustains the cosmos.

In every instant an ever-germinating womb of creation renews the qualities and forms of a wondrous universe.

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thE GREAt RADiANCE: biRthiNG oF thE uNivERsE

As a complex human organism evolves from a microscopic speck, so our multifaceted universe grows from an atomic speck of unimaginably extreme heat and pressure. Fourteen billion years ago, mystery unfurls. In a radiance of elementary

particles and light, the marvels of matter and energy, time and space, gravity and quintessence (the ecstatic energy of expanding space) flare forth. Brimming with sensitivity and innovation, our developing universe unveils a splendor of

galaxies and comets, mountains and oceans, forests and humans.

Each human is the self-aware embodiment of radiant creativity.

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FiRst ANCEstoR: hyDRoGEN, stAR-mAkERAfter four hundred thousand years, our expanding and cooling universe forms its earliest stable element, First Ancestor, Hydrogen.

First Ancestor comprises three quarters of all atoms in the universe and is known by many names. Foremost among these is Star-Maker. In a flowering of the heavens, First Ancestor blossoms as trillions of stars, each an echoing of the Great Radiance.

Creative and empowering, First Ancestor is Water-Former, becoming with oxygen the liquid cradle for life’s emergence. When life seeks sustenance through photosynthesis, First Ancestor becomes, with carbon and oxygen, Food-Sourcer, enabling

the conjuring of carbohydrates for life’s nourishment.

Warmth and light of the Sun, life-giving water, nourishing energy: First Ancestor is ever with us.

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musiC oF thE soNGLiNEs: GALAxiEs EmERGEStrewn throughout the heavens in transparent mycelium-like networks are unifying fields of ‘dark matter.’

Comprising one quarter of the total energy of the cosmos, the fields compose the songlines of the universe. Hundreds of billions of galaxies mushroom along the filamentary pathways, each galaxy fostered and maintained by the uniting energy of the songlines. Forming an enveloping halo ten times the size of the galaxy, the songlines

permeate and cocoon each chorale of stars. Galaxies are the myriad voices of a resonant universe.

As quantum loam sustains the unfurling universe, so songlines sustain galaxies of stars and planets. A nurturing presence pervades and supports the creative expressions of the cosmos.

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thE FAbLED skysCApE: RED GiANts, WhitE DWARvEs, AND bLACk hoLEs

Stars are born, flourish, age and die. They are distant relations, inhabiting far-away realms. Stars of a certain mass, such as our Sun, after exhausting their self-contained nourishment, enter the autumn of their years. They swell and glow as red giants.

Most stars, their fuel dissipated, end as white dwarves, shrunken extremely dense pale echoes of a former glory. Should the density of a vestigial star be great enough, the remnant collapses upon itself entirely, rending the cosmos as a black hole.

Black holes are places where light and matter return to the dark fertile ground of the universe.

Like the crowning stars, our lives shine in an outpouring of love and delight. In death we seed the universe with a radiant legacy.

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sEEDiNG thE hEAvENs: supERNovAsEach of the hundreds of billions of galaxies painting the heavens is a star garden. Galaxies with spiral structures such as our Milky Way galaxy, containing 300 billion stars, are perennial gardens, continually cultivating and growing new stars.

Amid the gardens are supernovas, seed bursts of perishing stars, producing and scattering oxygen, carbon, magnesium, iron, and all other heavy elements found in the universe. As our fledgling solar system forms, our sun’s gravity gathers these elements and sculpts them into planets. In its death throes a single supernova may outshine an entire galaxy, forming in its dust many

of the organic molecules essential for the emergence of life. Supernovas lavishly pollinate the galaxies.

From supernova-enriched star gardens emerge a flowering of planets and the many-petaled sensitivities of Life.

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EARth AND WAtER: stiRRiNGs oF LiFE 4.6 billion years ago, a swirling cloud of unknowing composed of primordial hydrogen gas, heavy elements of supernovas, water-laden

dust particles and a smattering of molecules, encircles our fledgling star. A gradual creative coalescing brings forth a dynamic solar family of comets and asteroids, planets and the sun. Soon after Earth’s formation our molten jewel receives a glancing blow from a

sizeable intruder, spewing a portion of Earth’s body into space. The remains of the interloper, now enfolded in Earth’s gravity, merge with the scattered material of Earth and become our Moon. The impact ruptures Earth’s water-holding magma, releasing

into the atmosphere dense clouds of vapor that cool and condense to form the oceans of our world.

Under the Moon’s midwifery, Earth births the single-celled organisms that transmute water and mineral earth into the metabolism of life.

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FiRE AND AiR: LiFE’s bLossomiNGA billion years after life’s emergence, single-celled organisms embrace the fire of the Sun. The gift of energy from the sun stimulates

the development of water-based photosynthesis, enabling life to produce its own food in abundance. Oxygen, the castaway of photosynthesis and a destructive gas, becomes a dangerous pollutant of the seas and atmosphere. Life harnesses oxygen’s reactive

fire, transmuting it into a potent ally fostering the emergence of multicellular life and complex organisms. In the upper atmosphere oxygen transforms into ozone, serving as a shield protecting burgeoning land life from harmful radiation. Under the aegis of sun

and sky, a vibrant outpouring of diverse animal and plant life becomes a visible presence on Earth.

From a union of fire and air, Earth magically births embodied life forms with shape, sight, color, sound, and depths of feeling and wonder.

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FLoWERiNG oF CARE: ADvENt oF mAmmALsLike a flower delicately opening its petals, the quality of caring gradually unfolds in the universe. When most fish and amphibians deposit and fertilize their eggs, the female overlooks them briefly and then swims away. Reptiles perfunctorily guard their newborn,

and birds conscientiously nest and provide for their hatchlings. Sixty-five million years ago, with the development of mammals, nascent traits of caring, kindness and concern become prominent aspects of animal life. Mammalian young are formed and nurtured inside the mother’s body. After birth, the bond of caring between offspring and parent, and ties of cooperation and companionship

among adults, may continue for years in species of whales, elephants, walruses, wolves, chimpanzees and many others. A new quality of connection blossoms on Earth.

Through the mammals, the universe begins to reveal and feel others as itself.

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DEEpENiNG oF LiFE: viRusEs AND GRiEFViruses are Earth’s most ancient biological forms. They are present in the oceans, atmosphere and land, and within bacteria, plants and animals. Viruses are ten times more numerous than all other life forms combined. Requiring hosts to reproduce, viruses are

entirely relational entities and play a central role in the early evolution of life by contributing protein innovations to cell make-up, facilitating gene exchange and enhancing biodiversity. A minute number of viruses are ‘enemies’—unintegrated facets of creativity—harmful to humans and causing loss of life. For the human, loss is the severing of a bond of caring. Emotions such as anger, guilt, fear, and sadness are our responses to loss, and each is a moment of grief. Grief reveals a sundering and depth of connection, and

the stirring of life toward its heart of relatedness.

To be human is to be a deepening sensitivity to the gifts and losses of a wounding and wondrous universe.

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opEN miND, opEN hEARt: thE WoNDER oF ExistENCE

Hundreds of billions of galaxies bloom in the immense field of our expanding universe. Supernovas burst with heavy elements coalescing into planets. Earth and Moon midwife the emergence of life. A widening awareness and appreciation of the cosmos

reveals a universe of magical becoming. Every aspect of nature is a vibrant poignant mystery, within which the human heart, abiding in an everyday grief of separation, longs for safety and connection. As we relate to our world with loving attention, we encounter

the radiant depth of life and an awakening sense of wonder.

As the miracle of being suffuses the texture of ordinary life, we recover a grateful belonging.

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thE humAN uNivERsE: iNtimACy With ALL thiNGs

We are born from magnificence. The immensity, grandeur, and beauty of the universe are outward expressions of our essential nature. We are the vast universe in the form of a human. Earth is our body, where water and mineral earth

compose life’s foundation, where fire and air infuse life with energy and diversity. Earth is the ecosystem in which we are entwined and in which life flourishes. Awakening to our living planet, we discover that love is life valuing itself,

and a caring responsibility is the natural expression of intimacy with Earth.

For the magical human, to be unconditionally intimate with Earth is to be aligned with the pulsing heart of the universe.

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Our hearts, minds and bodies are shaped by the evolutionary voyage of the cosmos. Elements of this stunning journey are:

January: Dark Fertile Ground: The Womb of CreationFebruary: The Great Radiance: Birthing of the UniverseMarch: First Ancestor: Hydrogen, Star-MakerApril: Music of the Songlines: Galaxies EmergeMay: The Fabled Skyscape: Red Giants, White Dwarves, and Black HolesJune: Seeding the Heavens: SupernovasJuly: Earth and Water: Stirrings of LifeAugust: Fire and Air: Life’s BlossomingSeptember: Flowering of Care: Advent of Mammals October: Deepening of Life: Viruses and GriefNovember: Open Mind, Open Heart: The Wonder of ExistenceDecember: The Human Universe: Intimacy With All Things

The universe is a single reality—one long, sweeping spectacular process of inter-connected events....We are fashioned from the same stellar dust, energized by the same star, nourished by the same planet, endowed with the same genetic code, and threatened by the same evils. This story, more than any other, humbles us before the magnitude and complexity of creation. Like no other story it bewilders us with the improbability of our existence, astonishes us with the interdependence of all things, and makes us feel grateful for the lives we have.

– Loyal Rue, Everybody’s Story

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WE ARE THE CREATIVE,

SCINTILLATING, SEARING,

HEALING FLAME OF THE

AWESOME AND ENCHANTING UNIVERSE.

– Brian Swimme, The Universe is a Green Dragon