The Wandering Below

Davide Zimolo and Stella Roback•thewanderingbelowjournal.substack.com

Join us on The Wandering Below: Messages of Healing for an Unbroken World for conversations about the inherent wholeness of Nature and humanity. We incorporate storytelling, etymology, behavioral and evolutionary ecology and psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Human Design, and the Wise Earth Tradition in our exploration of topics related to Nature’s cycles, ritual, sustainability, culture, ancestry, grief, death and endings, relationships, nourishment, community, identity, and belonging. We believe the world is unbroken and our purpose is to offer messages that inspire your remembrance.

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Our Human Design Experiment: Deconditioning as Projector Partners

We’re diving into something that’s been a huge point of fascination for both of us this past year: Human Design! Learning this system has supported us as individuals, as a couple, and in the ways we interact with the world. Davide is a 3/6 emotional projector and Stella is a 4/6 splenic projector, so we have plenty of insight on being in a projector-projector relationship – and an emotional + splenic relationship (!) – that we’ll share with you during this conversation. We’re certainly not Human...

Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Connecting With the Energetics of the Season: Autumn 2022 Edition

In this episode, we do a breakdown of seasonal energetics, focusing not only on the seasons themselves but also the phases of the moon. So much can be revealed about the nature of things when we have eyes to see the world around us. This conversation was recorded in November 2022, so we dive deeper into the texture of autumn in particular and share personal stories about how fall feels to each of us. We round it out with a characteristic rant about society’s disconnection from Nature and talk ab...

Mar 03, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 4

The Words We Use Matter: The Case of Regeneration

It’s easy to pick up a new phrase like “regenerative agriculture” and run full-speed-ahead toward implementing it without ever looking back. But the language we use matters. In episode 3 of The Wandering Below , we share the etymology of the words “regeneration,” “generation,” and “ecology” and reflect on the energetics of using these terms in the context of producing food and stewarding the land. Find us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thewanderingbelow/...

Feb 24, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Real Sustainability Demands Death

In episode 2 of The Wandering Below, we tear up the term “sustainable” after diving deep into the idea that death is its own natural phenomenon. We talk about our tendency to distance our bodies from Nature’s cycles, where those tendencies come from, and how living lives infused with cyclicality grounds us into a sense of home. Based on its etymology, we see sustainability as a linear concept that denies the natural endings of things. There is an enormous conversation to be had around sustainabi...

Feb 17, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 2

You Can't Recreate What You Didn't Create

"Regeneration" is not a process we can control because it's impossible to recreate what already exists. Maybe we're missing the point when we focus on regenerating ecosystems because it perpetuates a pattern of detachment from Nature. We explore how guilt and other emotions might invite action from Earth's crusaders and wonder what it would be like if we felt our feelings and sank into our fascinations instead. We focus on regenerative agriculture, but we believe that how we do one thing is how ...

Feb 10, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 1

All of You Is Welcome Here

The Wandering Below: Messages of Healing for an Unbroken World When we say "deep", we mean covered in soil, nurtured by darkness, and dancing (slowly) among the mycorrhizae. These are our usual conversations. As playful as we intend to be, it tends to turn deep pretty quickly. We're not seeking to fix anything. We're not even looking for answers. We're explorers traversing the terrain (and sub-terrain) wondering how the story will unfold. We feel most successful when we wander full-circle and la...

Feb 08, 2023•1 min

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