VIGIL -- A period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.

My eyes are wide, and I am wandering. I see my own Face all around me. I smell my own breath in the fragrance of the air. I hear my echo in the wind, the thunder, the silence. I taste my own sweat, sweetness inside fruit. I reach out to touch, to feel, and I feel touched, crazy, electric, blizzed. Nature, you have made me vigilant.

Most people spend most of their time asleep to the Scripture written by Nature all around us. Besides the few who see the beauty in Nature, there are fewer still who seek to extract some kind of archetypal, personal wisdom or teaching from it -- to read it like a Holy Book which lays under the feet of all religion, faith, science, and spirit.

You, should you be reading this, are most likely one of those very few.

VIGIL is a pledge. It is a quest. It is yours, and it is mine. Nature gives it to you. Your VIGIL is a sphere in which you find whatever wisdom, knowledge, or answers you are looking for, written in the Scripture of Nature. It's a place where you can allow yourself to return to your instinctual connection with Nature, explore your inner landscape as it is reflected in the outer, and transform with the physical, energetic, and spiritual Seasons that you find unfolding all around you.

Look out your window. Go outside and breathe. You don't need me to teach you -- Nature will do that well enough. But if I can, I am here to help you learn to read Her. To help you ignite the wick of the candle that will light up what She has to show you, right here, right now, just for you. You have desires, and She's showing you how to manifest them. You have pressures which She's showing you how to bear. You have questions, and She has answers. She is your Holy Guru, your prophetess, your Gypsy Magus. I will do what I can to teach you her script.

Nature is Scripture. Read her verse.

- Bene