Horizon Lines and Ecotones.
Keep your attention to the horizon line of possibility, not opposition.
We are navigating times of uncertainty, where difference in the world of politics is about control, domination, and conflict. As I flew through the sky with a blanket of clouds below like a riverbed, I received a profound lesson that has been guiding humanity for centuries and often is forgotten.
A full super moon, reflected her soft grandmother light out my window to my left. Within many spiritual traditions, the left side of the body is associated with the feminine, yin, the qualities of creativity, receptivity, flow, and intuition.
As I basked in the beauty of her silver fullness, grandfather sun’s radiant fire light rose on the right side of the aircraft with boldness. The right side of the body is often associated with masculine energies of yang, goal oriented, doing, and structural.
Horizon lines live within us!
Both are needed. Bear with me and I’ll reflect more.
The airplane flew in balance right in between moon and sun.
I wondered if anyone else was tracking this encounter with beauty, a threshold moment this early winter morning. It was the first full moon of the Gregorian calendar new year. Most were sleeping.
Time appeared to stand still as moon and sun faced one another – archetypes of feminine and masculine - mirroring their round beauty and unique qualities of light.
I consider the horizon line this airplane was flying through, the love story between sun and moon that’s an ancient longing so filled with eros it propels life on this blue green planet.
A love so sacred, it enchants the world with creation.
This love resides within the horizon line of difference.
There is a space that lives between these different entities and qualities, a threshold that supports them to meet.
I believe this space is a great Eros of entangled intimacy, wholeness and connection. Eros is a principle that has been described as holding the world together, stitching life and death in the earth’s becoming. Eros as a place of creation and emerging possibility.
I am mesmerized by this sacred dawn, and I feel a chorus of love in my heart bursting forth. It was such a magical blessing to be with presence at this moment with the love that spins this round earth, an embodied justice that sweetens difference into creation.
It has me wondering about horizon lines of masculine and feminine within us, the masculine and feminine cycles of 24-hrs sun cycles and 28-day moon cycles that are lived in each body. Can we tend to both and it be beautiful?
The horizon line for a new year in this world of modernity has lots of uncertainty and chaos around difference.
In what ways can we be attentive to the tension of horizon lines and let it be magical and emerging creation instead of controlling the outcome and creating conflict?
I have been attentive to horizon lines this winter solstice and at the 2026 threshold place - horizon lines being a liminal place where two ecotones meet - a transition place where ecosystems blend.
Land meets sky. Forest meets mountain. Moon meets sun. Night meets day.
These are spaces where difference and opposites don’t oppose one another but are generative, a place where possibility lives, a place of fertile ground for eros. Horizon lines are ever changing and emerging, a tuning fork for the planet - the horizon line of dawn, a hinge for moon meeting sun, a place where longing recalibrates the love song for life.
Did you know that the love song of the dawn horizon line is so cosmic and magical that a bird song dawn chorus follows the gaze between moon and sun in a wave around the world? Twenty-four-hours a day, there is a wave of songs of praise and courtship taking place!! We are part of that!
In this time of disruption, quickened change, and unsettling political forces opposing and dominating difference, could we place our attention on the changing horizon line as a love song for life, finding spaces of eros within us and on the land?
As I consider the horizon line of this becoming, I wonder about the ecosystem of our bodies and being human in this love story, what is true for this earth.
What are the conditions of a horizon line that might serve becoming more human and even more entangled with a love story rather than conflict and separation – what new ecosystem is emerging within where past meets future?
How might we play a role in tending our own land, our body, the emerging ecosystem as a mirror for the emerging ecosystem of culture?
The sacred is always here and it’s a moving target, like a horizon line, always changing and emerging.
Could we stand in our own horizons, the ecotone of our life, the space between moon and sun where eros resides, where creation holds possibilities, a zone where we might listen and attune to the whispers beckoning us into our most authentic selves, a moment of hanging time between 28-days and 24-hrs?
Maybe this moment of flying through the sky was a reminder for me to seat myself in gratitude and praise for the love what has past, and love to court the future.
Maybe a gift of this moment was to be reminded of the ever-changing horizon line of creation, that in the end, love resides there and here, within me.
Maybe the gift of this moment was to write this love letter to you all, a nudge to place your attention on love and possibility, not old story of modernity – opposition.
This flight through the sky felt like my new year dawn, a tone set for orienting to the coming year which might hold some unrest and change.
If that is the case, remember love story reminding us of our true nature, the eros that lives in the horizon line between our breath and body, a space for gratitude and praise for the sacred who is always with us.
I’m a passionate human with an ecotone inspired by beauty, celebrating difference, and one who is fluid like a deep river of curiosity. With love ~ Nicola
That visual of an ‘ever-changing horizon line’ is so powerful. In one place it feels like a binary when really the planets are orbiting in this dance and it’s ever-flowing and it’s only illusion that makes us think it’s definitive and sunrising or sunsetting. Like those timelapse videos where we see all the change.