My Purpose and My Journey To Find It No. 3

I drew the Whale card today.  I've drawn this card before.  My ego was going "ho hum a boring card why can't I get a really interest one?"  I decided to read the whole meaning behind this card and it was talking about feeling the rhythm of the environment and planet.  I got thinking about that and I thought I'll give it a go.  One of my first jobs for the day was to check out a BBQ area at the Lagoon.   Nige had already walked down there with our friend Jono.  Once I parked the car and got out I listened and I could feel and hear a rhythm that sounded like a whole lot of owls "hooing".  When I looked up into the trees I was walking under I noticed the noise was coming from these whitish birds that looked like doves.  When I looked up at the trees for the first time I noticed how large and awesome they were.  I couldn't believe that for the 5 months I'd been in Cairns I hadn't stopped and noticed the magnificence of these trees and the incredible feeling they exuded.  That got me thinking about what the Whale card was trying to tell me.
People, (me included) go through our day with total disconnection to nature and the environment.   We're disconnected to something we are apart of.  That's crazy!   

I visited Tjapukai the other day for work.  Tjapukai are the local aboriginal tribe.  This is a show of sorts for the tourists but they were showing how the used to live WITH the land, what food the would eat from the forest, how the cooked in the ground, their tools and ways of hunting and dealing with people in their tribe who would do something wrong. 

Unlike we westerners, to the aboriginals the land was their house (no need to build houses and skyscrapers ),  the trees and bushes and water supplied their food  (no need for fridges), their punishment for doing something wrong was so bad people stayed on the straight and narrow  (no need for too many laws, lawyer's, judges, police, jails, social workers and every other bloody justice system tentacle we produce!).  The current Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is trying to stop the Aboriginals learning their native language!  If she succeeds (I hope she doesn't ), the dreamtime stories passed down from generation to generation about the land will be so much harder to access.  These people were so connected to the environment and the land,  they never had to worry about being hungry or losing their homes or jobs etc.  This is something we westerners continually worry about.  Maybe not consciously but sub consciously it's there.

So the whale card wasn't so ho hum after all... it will be a mamal that reminds me when I forget about bring connected with the land and all its animals and most of all that rhythm I felt. 

I remember a time when I was talking to a homeless man at Bondi Beach who slept in a small "cave".  He talked to me about the rhythm of the sea.  "When I  first got here, he said, I  heard the waves crashing and sometimes the wind each night.  But, he said, after a while here I heard and felt a rhythm from the sea which was more than just the sea, like the rhythm of the earth."