Geomagnetic storm last evening at Grótta.
Last evening, there was a geomagnetic storm with displays of light and clear bright stars. This was taken with 30 second exposure at Grótta in Reykjavik, Iceland at 10:20pm. Saw a falling star fell, too! was so fantastic to experience :) Sometimes I bike out to this lighthouse in the dark evening along the Atlantic. It's very still & quiet - the rain & air feel fresh on my face while everything else is bundled up warm with scarf, hat & coat. This was special timing, magical as many moments feel here with the aliveness of the Earth & Sky.
Earlier in the day, I went to a 3-hr yoga class at Shala Yoga - the instructor, she was from Denmark and Estonia originally. One by one, she took us through each of the seven chakras...opening them up, I have never ever sweated and worked so hard mentally, emotionally and physically in a yoga class. To go from that to experiencing a magnetic storm of magical lights i felt energy, calm, gratitude for all things and peaceful joy. Interesting how the heart chakra is emerald green light, reminding me of the beautiful green flowing light of the aurora above. Bursting with activity yet flowing. Just like our heart can feel wih all of our human emotions.
Sunrise is 10am, sunset 4:30pm only six hrs daylight...The Sun sits at only 8 degrees above the horizon then sinks again. Sinking, surrendering, settling into darkness is an interesting sensation. It kind of wraps itself around us like a cozy feeling inside.. By this time next month, only 4 hrs daylight. Next summer, there will be little or no darkness. This is the time to surrender to it and welcome it's calm. Life is like these cycles, time to be internal, then time to be external.
This morning in 8:20am geophysics class, we found out that the nearby Leirvogur Geomagnetic Observatory had been going crazy during the night from all of the activity! We are learning of the magnetic field of the Earth and it's so fascinating how it protects us perfectly from the solar radiation of the Sun. Solar flares from sunspots send solar wind into the geomagnetic field above us, so that visually we see them as currents of electricity - visual dancing light! The Sun has 11-year cycles of fluctuating solar activity and between now and 2013 will reach it's height of the present Solar cycle. At the centre of the Earth, a dipole moment, like a giant magnet sits with the magnetic current entering the north pole and exiting out of the south pole. Every so often, the poles reverse, where the South pole becomes the North pole. All rocks in the Earth align themselves magnetically to the current magnetic field. Even sediments floating down to the bottom of a lake silently align themselves magnetically together to the present magnetic field. The geomagnetic pole and equator move gradually over time, now about 10 degrees East of the geographic north pole.
Earlier in the day, I went to a 3-hr yoga class at Shala Yoga - the instructor, she was from Denmark and Estonia originally. One by one, she took us through each of the seven chakras...opening them up, I have never ever sweated and worked so hard mentally, emotionally and physically in a yoga class. To go from that to experiencing a magnetic storm of magical lights i felt energy, calm, gratitude for all things and peaceful joy. Interesting how the heart chakra is emerald green light, reminding me of the beautiful green flowing light of the aurora above. Bursting with activity yet flowing. Just like our heart can feel wih all of our human emotions.
Sunrise is 10am, sunset 4:30pm only six hrs daylight...The Sun sits at only 8 degrees above the horizon then sinks again. Sinking, surrendering, settling into darkness is an interesting sensation. It kind of wraps itself around us like a cozy feeling inside.. By this time next month, only 4 hrs daylight. Next summer, there will be little or no darkness. This is the time to surrender to it and welcome it's calm. Life is like these cycles, time to be internal, then time to be external.
This morning in 8:20am geophysics class, we found out that the nearby Leirvogur Geomagnetic Observatory had been going crazy during the night from all of the activity! We are learning of the magnetic field of the Earth and it's so fascinating how it protects us perfectly from the solar radiation of the Sun. Solar flares from sunspots send solar wind into the geomagnetic field above us, so that visually we see them as currents of electricity - visual dancing light! The Sun has 11-year cycles of fluctuating solar activity and between now and 2013 will reach it's height of the present Solar cycle. At the centre of the Earth, a dipole moment, like a giant magnet sits with the magnetic current entering the north pole and exiting out of the south pole. Every so often, the poles reverse, where the South pole becomes the North pole. All rocks in the Earth align themselves magnetically to the current magnetic field. Even sediments floating down to the bottom of a lake silently align themselves magnetically together to the present magnetic field. The geomagnetic pole and equator move gradually over time, now about 10 degrees East of the geographic north pole.