The Wandering Below

We’re diving into something that’s been a huge point of fascination for both of us this past year: Human Design! Learning this system has supported us as individuals, as a couple, and in the ways we interact with the world.

Davide is a 3/6 emotional projector and Stella is a 4/6 splenic projector, so we have plenty of insight on being in a projector-projector relationship – and an emotional + splenic relationship (!) – that we’ll share with you during this conversation.

We’re certainly not Human Design experts, but we’re deep into our experiments and will wander through the following in this episode:

During this conversation, we reference DayLuna a few times. If you’re interested in learning more about Human Design, we recommend you search for their site, book, and podcast. We’re not affiliated with DayLuna ourselves, but have found their way of presenting Human Design to be most supportive to us on our journey. However, there are many other teachers and creators we learn from too, so reach out to us at [email protected] if you’d like a list of our additional recommendations. To generate your own chart, visit this page https://www.daylunalife.com/free-chart.

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In this episode, we do a breakdown of seasonal energetics, focusing not only on the seasons themselves but also the phases of the moon. So much can be revealed about the nature of things when we have eyes to see the world around us.

This conversation was recorded in November 2022, so we dive deeper into the texture of autumn in particular and share personal stories about how fall feels to each of us.

We round it out with a characteristic rant about society’s disconnection from Nature and talk about how much more fulfilling harvest season feels when the metaphorical seeds planted during spring actually hold meaning.

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It’s easy to pick up a new phrase like “regenerative agriculture” and run full-speed-ahead toward implementing it without ever looking back. But the language we use matters. In episode 3 of The Wandering Below, we share the etymology of the words “regeneration,” “generation,” and “ecology” and reflect on the energetics of using these terms in the context of producing food and stewarding the land.

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In episode 2 of The Wandering Below, we tear up the term “sustainable” after diving deep into the idea that death is its own natural phenomenon. We talk about our tendency to distance our bodies from Nature’s cycles, where those tendencies come from, and how living lives infused with cyclicality grounds us into a sense of home. Based on its etymology, we see sustainability as a linear concept that denies the natural endings of things. 

There is an enormous conversation to be had around sustainability, and we realize that a single podcast episode can’t reach the level of nuance it requires. We intentionally shared our thoughts on this in such a way as to lovingly provoke a passionate response and purposefully left out some of the more obvious insights we usually hear talked about when it comes to this topic.

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"Regeneration" is not a process we can control because it's impossible to recreate what already exists. Maybe we're missing the point when we focus on regenerating ecosystems because it perpetuates a pattern of detachment from Nature.

We explore how guilt and other emotions might invite action from Earth's crusaders and wonder what it would be like if we felt our feelings and sank into our fascinations instead. 

We focus on regenerative agriculture, but we believe that how we do one thing is how we do everything.

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The Wandering Below: Messages of Healing for an Unbroken World

When we say "deep", we mean covered in soil, nurtured by darkness, and dancing (slowly) among the mycorrhizae.

These are our usual conversations. As playful as we intend to be, it tends to turn deep pretty quickly.

We're not seeking to fix anything. We're not even looking for answers. We're explorers traversing the terrain (and sub-terrain) wondering how the story will unfold. We feel most successful when we wander full-circle and land on another question.

It's funny how the "messages of healing" our world really needs do not contain solutions or secret formulas. The answer is always in the question - and in our willingness to be together as we look the question directly in the eyes. 

We're not trying to heal anything, but there's a chance that our conversations might lovingly provoke new ways of seeing and old ways of being.

There's lots of space if you'd like to join us in the labyrinth. All of you is welcome here, and we are here to hold your depth.

~Davide & Stella