Gabriela D’Elia
MycoAstrology: Fungi as Archetype
Gabriela D’Elia is Director of Fungal Diversity Survey (FunDiS), a nonprofit that provides mycophiles the tools to contribute scientifically valuable data for protecting fungi. She is also Vice President for Mushroom Society of Utah, and Project Leader for Northern Utah Funga FunDiS local project. It was love at first sight when she noticed the mysterious mushrooms that dotted the city streets of Seattle in 2012. She holds a B.A. in fungal ecology and has taught classes on macrofungi, fungal ecology, cultivation, mushroom medicine, and aspects of fungal philosophy. She is interested in how mycophiles can impact how fungi are understood and protected through community science organization. She also finds value in exploring fungi through observation, imagination, and symbolism.
Her presentation the evening of January 20th will be about one way in which people culturally relate to fungi:
"Tropical astrology, at its core, is an earth-based language that honors the dance of polarities and changing seasons. For thousands of years, astrologers have drawn connections between astrological symbols and nature, but fungi have been generally neglected. Fungi, the grand inhabitants of realms above and below, are supremely complemented by astrology, the language of polarity. What happens when we remember fungi as an archetype? We will explore the archetype of fungi, bare bones basics of astrology, fungal-astrological associations (like fungi and zodiac signs), and applications of MycoAstrology."
For everyone in the WMS projects on iNaturalist, as a FunDiS Gabriela would love to encourage you to also add your high quality observations to the FunDiS Biodiversity Database (FBD). You can add observations individually or each observer can bulk add their own observations (instructions here). The FBD is very close to reaching 75,000 observations and the lucky 75,000th will be highlighted in a social media post! 😁
WMS presentation meetings occur on the 3rd Thursday of each month. For January that is Jan 20th. We will meet on Zoom, WMS members receive the link by email. Our Zoom room opens starting at 6:30 PM. We will discuss Wisconsin polypores in anticipation of our Jan 23rd polypore survey!
The main presentation by Gabriela D'Elia begins at 7 PM Central Standard Time. There will be time for questions afterward!
Her presentation the evening of January 20th will be about one way in which people culturally relate to fungi:
"Tropical astrology, at its core, is an earth-based language that honors the dance of polarities and changing seasons. For thousands of years, astrologers have drawn connections between astrological symbols and nature, but fungi have been generally neglected. Fungi, the grand inhabitants of realms above and below, are supremely complemented by astrology, the language of polarity. What happens when we remember fungi as an archetype? We will explore the archetype of fungi, bare bones basics of astrology, fungal-astrological associations (like fungi and zodiac signs), and applications of MycoAstrology."
For everyone in the WMS projects on iNaturalist, as a FunDiS Gabriela would love to encourage you to also add your high quality observations to the FunDiS Biodiversity Database (FBD). You can add observations individually or each observer can bulk add their own observations (instructions here). The FBD is very close to reaching 75,000 observations and the lucky 75,000th will be highlighted in a social media post! 😁
WMS presentation meetings occur on the 3rd Thursday of each month. For January that is Jan 20th. We will meet on Zoom, WMS members receive the link by email. Our Zoom room opens starting at 6:30 PM. We will discuss Wisconsin polypores in anticipation of our Jan 23rd polypore survey!
The main presentation by Gabriela D'Elia begins at 7 PM Central Standard Time. There will be time for questions afterward!
