Nature and the Flow of Life …
May we listen to everything the earth teaches us and trust it to lead us onward in our efforts of expression and growth. Jacqueline Suskin (A Year In Practice: Seasonal Rituals and Prompts to Awaken Cycles of Creative Expression)
We must tune in to our ability to see beyond the physical reality that surrounds us, and awaken to the vast unseen world that exists. Then we can begin to see beyond sight and to hear beyond sound. We see the underlying structures that support our world, and life begins to take on new shape, new meaning. When we live as multisensory beings. Sherri Mitchell
May we listen to our Mother, the Mother we share, Mother Earth and all of her wisdom.
Yesterday on the road to one of the larger towns nearby, a friend and I witnessed a sight that neither of us had seen before: an eagle and a raven perched side by side on a powerline post. It felt magical, a metaphor for what is possible. Illumination of the deeper truths of our being. Healing wounds of past and present divisions. Creation and the magic of a new world coming to light. What, we wondered, might those two majestic beings be chatting about?
The question is especially poignant for me, as I’ve been intentional in my curiosity, focus, and desire to align more deeply with Gaia. I’ve been particularly offering my attention to the land that I’m blessed to occupy and to the abundant life all around these woods. I’ve asked and reflected on questions aiming toward aligning more fully with Nature. To learn what Nature offers to teach me as I relearn what we in this culture have lost: the deep knowledge and wisdom of our connection to Mother Earth. The wisdom of the ancients carried forth in indigenous traditions who still hold this knowledge today. The wisdom of the plants, the animals, the soil, and the life that lives beneath the ground on which we walk.
The ways of Nature are our ways. We are not separate from the birds, the bees, the trees, the grasses, the soil and the unseen life below. Although different in form, we are the same in essence. Each and all part of a greater whole: Mother Earth, our planet home.
As I listen more deeply and intentionally, I’m discovering that aligning with Nature encompasses all the choices that I make in life. The choices extend beyond choosing what I eat and my sources for food and other consumables. I’m taken to the very core of my being physically, emotionally, and spiritually and the choices that I make in caring for and tending to each.
I’m becoming aware that as the earth changes – for indeed Gaia is changing, adapting to conditions created by we humans and to the energy streams in and movement through the galaxy – my physical body must adapt and change.
This new awareness is dawning in me as I experience physical changes and symptoms that are different to me. They seem more than what we’ve come to call the ‘normal process of aging’. As I listen, I sense that, at least in part, this physical vessel is adapting to and with a changing, adapting planet.
I’m listening with the intention of ‘hearing’ the earth’s teaching through all my senses and beyond them. As I ‘hear’ more clearly, I’m building trust in Mother Earth’s guidance to ‘lead me onward’ in deeper connection with her essence, her knowing, into the Truth of who I am.
In the choices we make each day, may we listen to our Mother, the Mother we share, Mother Earth and all her wisdom. May we adjust and adapt ever gently to align with her more fully, and indeed, more peacefully. May I.
Snow on the Peaks … Winter is on its way!