Bringing Balance to the Dynamics of spring in the wake of disaster

What do these events have in common?

Three mile island March*28, 1979

Chernobyl disaster 26 April 1986

Fukushima I nuclear accidents 11 March 2011


I was thinking today about how all of these major nuclear accidents happened to have occurred in the middle of spring. Then i thought about nuclear energy and how similar it is to the Wood Dynamic of TCM for it is the constant expansion of radioactive materials that create the immense heat used to spin the steam turbines. I then thought about how the major problem facing nuclear safety is the containment of this “ever expanding” highly energized material. To do this power plants use the Metal dynamic to limit the movement outward of the radiation and concentrate it within the reactor. Much in the same way that a seed coat keeps the growth of a plant controlled until the environment and season for optimum growth has arrived. We call this ideal time for expansion and “breaking out of our containments” spring. I say all this to ask the question: is it really a coincidence that these “accidence” have all occurred in perfect synchronistic with the natural cycles of the northern hemisphere? And if not, if we are really witnessing the power of natural cycles to effect even the most “human controlled” systems would it not be wise to use this same cyclical understanding to address the issue?

If it is true, as i believe it is that what faces us now is the spread of an imbalanced overly expansive (wood) energy across the globe, then we have an opportunity here to step up as alchemists and harness this potential energy for change. Let us imagine that the earth our homes, bodies and all living creatures are protected by a celestial alloy, composed of the stars and powered by their refracting that reflects and does not absorb the overly expanded material being released but instead transforms it into the life giving Growth dynamic of spring. Let us further imagine the overly expanded energy to be the fuel for the fires of change: shaking the status quo of governments and institutions who have removed themselves from stewardship of the earth. Let us use this expanded energy to overthrow our own self deception and see ourselves and the world for what it is: our home, inseparable from the vessels we call our bodies. Let us not give into fear of these changes, let us stand up more ourselves and act within our duty as human beings who care to be involved in living. Let what does not serve us be taken, our true nature left brighter to shine.


Much love

-Jonathan Pinkston