Outflanking the Clouds

'Cloud-outflanking' is a skill all shamanic cyclists develop the more they cycle through the land (and sky). One develops a sense of movement, naturally, as one cycles naturally. Natural movement is the most natural thing on earth, yet the more modern we become the more we outsource that naturalness to unnaturalness, to sitting in a gym on a bike that goes nowhere.

Sorcery is all about sourcing your own, about getting into the 'earth' and avoiding 'world'. The world produces men, the earth brings forth wild creatures. I am 'of the earth' - a human - not the world (wer + alt, the age of man).

It is this chthonic aspect to being that reveals...

that allows one to outflank such things as clouds...

and to feel the approach of the weather before it happens.

Just like the ravens and the buzzards up here who never abandoned their open circuitry to the earth.

At the start of the Loch Humphrey path.

 Coming up the Loch Humphrey path, only clouds..

The obelisk in the shrouded distance is the monument to Henry Bell (of The Comet fame) erected in 1838.

A rare roll cloud cutting across the river...

At the top of the 'Bastard' the weather is wetter as we enter more deeply into the cloud canopy...