Mythopoetic Anatomy of Blood: Red, magical life-force born from stars
Blood Meditation
The human body contains about 5 liters of blood. In addition to iron, blood contains calcium, chromium, copper, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, potassium, cobalt, selenium and small nuggets of gold. Yes, we have 0.2 milligrams of gold in our bodies, most of which is located in the blood and liver. Minerals have various functions in the blood, as well as elsewhere in the body, they help with blood clotting, heart rhythm, regulate blood pressure and blood sugar, help heal wounds, form red blood cells and absorb iron. Our body produces 2 million red blood cells per second.
The human spiral heart is the first functioning organ in the embryo. At rest, the heart beats about 60 times per minute, 100,000 times per day, 40 million per year and several billion over the course of a lifetime. The heart pumps blood and the blood carries oxygen, the elixir of life, to every part of our body. In the arteries, or main veins, the blood is bright red and in addition to oxygen, the blood carries nutrients, electrolytes, hormones, antibodies, vitamins and heat. In the veins, or descending veins, the blood is darker and less oxygenated as it flows back towards the heart and at the same time carries waste products and carbon dioxide away from the tissues. Arteries are stronger than veins, which have thinner walls. The blue veins visible through the skin are veins. When a person dies, the arteries are empty because the heart no longer pumps blood and the blood is packed from the arteries into the veins. That is why the name artery in English means windpipe. Blood is not always red, its color comes from the iron contained in hemoglobin, other organisms have blue (such as some octopuses), snails, spiders also have blue blood, while butterflies have either colorless or yellow blood. There is a lizard that has green blood. Iron is magnetic, and just like birds in their beaks, humans also have ferritin iron, or magnetite, in their ethmoid bones, which may still be used to sense the magnetic field.
Like other elements and the building blocks of the world, iron was forged in the depths of stars long ago, everything in us has been part of some star. A star with a mass greater than 8 suns was needed to create iron. In the blood is our connection to our ancestors, all the way to the rocks and stars.
Do you hear how blood and iron are calling you? Iron is the blood and life force of Mother Earth. In gravity, in the Earth's attraction and calling, perhaps the iron that lies at the core of the Earth is calling us. Iron makes up 90% of the Earth's mass.
So iron literally grounds us. Spirits and, for example, fairies do not like the heaviness of iron, which is why it drives away ghosts and evil spirits.
Do you feel what is flowing, roaring, and seething inside you? Do you feel the fierce power of arterial blood or the calmness of venous blood? Can your blood become aware of itself?
Can your blood be enchanted?