Welcome to Theta Wave's Lunar Newsletter!
03.24.2020
on this aries new moon, amongst some significant global shifts, we wanted to share some love, poems, prompts, essays, resources & whatever else finds & fills us
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~ a theta wave is a high-amplitude but slow-cycling brain wave that is associated with intuition, dreaming, meditation and creativity — a wave we need now more than ever ~
we hope that in this newsletter we can offer a dose of theta waves to your brain and body. we hope to remind you of the importance of dreaming, creativity and intuition to our collective healing. we hope to remind each other that slowness is resistance and disruption. that dreaming is a radical act.
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a few weeks ago we shared a prompt about temperature and received a beautiful poem by Lily Wang ~ see both below :)
T E M P E R A T U R E how does the air feel? how does temperature affect you? how do you change when the temperature changes? today’s practice: ~ research three facts about temperature/weather ~ free write about temperature: places you’ve felt hot/cold/burning/freezing, situations that left you shivering ~ cut up ur words and shake them around! ~ write a poem with ur cut up words :) ~ share ur poem with us! or a friend :)
dew point
lying in the water of
a looped song
apartment hunting
iso heat
light
easy-to-lift windows
hardwood floor
i can mop
is it selfish
to want a plant
to care for
me
iso vinyl
friendship
a needle
for regulation
vapour
always waiting
to be condensed
around solid particles
like dust
and
salt
a room to share
(the rain)
Lily Wang (@liliecup) tried to tell a rabbit in the backyard about Half a Grapefruit Magazine, but the rain was too heavy.
~~~this weeks featured poem is by beau beakhouse, from theta wave volume two :~)
the moon is the mother
the moon is the mother, the sun
the father, the earth
the child of -
held in space by their
harmonious counter-tensions
the night & the day
the opposite sides of the sky
This is it.
The earth gets deeper
into itself. uncovers the
hurt of the sun, the fierceness
of the moon - the earth lives
Ready to raise the head of the
father & forgive
(the light was not all light, the
fear was not made of night)
the presence of the
living rock, ready to be
reincarnated,
as a star.
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E m b o d i e d ~ P o e t i c s
Malek of A Human Space & Bára of Theta Wave have been collaborating on a workshop called embodied~poetics for the last several weeks in montreal. with the need for social distance, we have moved the workshop to zoom!
we'll employ practices of poetics ~ breath ~ expression ~ voice ~ group work ~ movement ~~~ techniques to connect to yourself in tangibly abstract ways.
Join us Tuesday, March 24th 2020 6:30-8pm EST (yes, tonight!)
you can join by making a free account this is the meeting link.the "room" will open at 6:15 on tuesday, and we'll start at 6:30.ORdial in as audio only!
you can dial: +15873281099,,505467944#
or call +1 587 328 1099 and then type in the meeting id# 505 467 944
to prepare you'll need:
a zoom account and internet OR a way to call in
pen and paper
a way to play music (i'll send both a mini spotify playlist and youtube playlist on tuesday, as well as any more needs that come up)
space to be alone/breathe/move
to clear your space of distractions as much as possible
sliding scale, $0-15. etransfer to mjrobbana@hotmail.com :)
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Some hype links:
if you are looking for GREAT reading material that is also FREE or by donation, check out Ghost City Press's Summer Reading Series! Many great microchaps available for download :)
Listen to K Weber's Audiobook, This Assembly, created from 160 words donated from 160 people
Read Chani Nicholas's Horoscope on aries new moon!Listen to a meditation on circulation, by bára hladík
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Love,
Theta Wave