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Walking
With The Trees
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The first sound every Human being hears is the
double heartbeat. In our Mother's watery womb, we experience a sense
of security and belonging because we hear our own heartbeats echoed
by that of the Mother who carries us for nine months. When we are
drawn into our Earth Walk through the miracle of birth, the second
heartbeat disappears. Human beings know on a deep level that something
is missing. They are looking for the second heartbeat.
The missing heartbeat is found when we listen
to our Earth Mother and enter Tiyoweh, the Stillness. In that place
of silence we can feel the vibration and hear the heart beat of the
Earth. Through that experience we can rediscover our sense of security
and belonging. The Earth Mother's heartbeat tells us we are never
alone. Our true Mother, the Earth is always present to nurture us
and gives us rest. All she asks is that we stop and listen for the
second heartbeat.
(Earth Medicine by Jamie Sams)
When we become part of the Earth Trinity, we
enter into a sacred agreement. We accept responsibility to become
the bridge connecting Heaven and Earth.
I Take-care to Heal-Her for the Guard-I-Am.
The caretaker, healer and guardian.
THE SOUND OF HEALING
Within the experience of Being in the Earth
vibration (to hear and feel that resonance) is a great healing for
mind/body and spirit. The realization of total unity with creation,
becomes a reality for the duration of "time" within that vibration.
Yet, it is there always, pulsating, within and without connecting
all Humanity and Life to the Mother.
Again we are going to the "record-keepers",
the ancient stones and the old trees, who have been waiting. As people,
we are again using our instinct and intuitive knowledge to walk the
lands and re-discover a vibration, an electromagnetic pulse that is
the nervous system of our Mother, in all its intricacy and subtle
motion, we are discovering again what the Ancients knew: They, who
lived so close to the land, worked with geometry and alignments, we
in the 21st century are only just re-claiming, in desperation at the
onslaught on our lives and spiritual consciousness.
What is being discovered are the veins of energy
that intertwine around the whole surface of the Earth and which intercommunicate,
change, "talk" to each other in a language long forgotten by modern
man/woman. It is like water weaving around a hard rock, leaving time
behind, taking the line of least resistance, yet, achieving without
imposed control, absolute dominion over the well-being of the planet,
with Love at the core of its intention.
It was many months of "being" with the trees,
sitting, meditating and learning from them, before I actually heard
their loud, audible and pulsating heartbeat. (I am deaf and have quite
a degree of hearing loss). It was a heart-quickening and joyous experience.
It is like a two-chord beat, coming from deep within the earth, regular
and with resonance. It is much slower than our heartbeat.
It is a deep healing sound, unlike any I have
heard before or since. This sound is literally a joy to my ears. And
much more than that, it resonates so deeply within my subconscious,
and so beloved, that I believe it is the actual Earth heartbeat, and
it remains pulsating in my head after I have moved away from the trunk
of the tree.
I have come to trust that heartbeat. It never
fails to bring me to a place of calm. And I have learnt that each
tree has its own unique heartbeat: Each one describing its age, place
and position in the woody and universal scheme of things. From linking
to the very heart of the tree, teachings happen.
The trees are our guardians, our doctors, and
our friends. We are completely in union with them, for without each
other we would most surely die: the carbon/oxygen exchange is a testament
of this marriage: How, in the name of all that is sacred, could we
forget?
Blessed be Under the Oaks, beside the Water
Llawen Dryad.
THE JOURNEY TO MEET WITH THE OAK AND BEECH
IN UNION
Within the vastly huge area of the ancient Parkhurst
Forest on the Isle of Wight, there lies a secret. It is a tiny copse
within a huge area of deciduous and evergreens. The secret will be
revealed to those who hear the trees talking, guiding and cajoling
them towards a little miracle that is as huge as the biggest ocean.
The text books will tell you that beech and
oak, in many aspects, grow differently in different soils, at different
rates and are not compatible. But then this was written by the hand
of man, who has himself grown so far away from the Mother's heartbeat,
as to be deaf as well as blind. He only has his opinions left!
Tree Lore tells of the union of Oak and Beech:
beech is called the Queen of the Woods and is partner to the Oak king.
Text book perceptions can be altered in the
blinking of the eye.
And in the blinking of an eye, this little
beech and oak copse handed up a miracle of loving union, that at once
stills the “monkey brain”, opens the heart chakra and definitely brings
a lump to the throat chakra. It is simply beautiful.
For the oak and beech, these two old trees,
the mother and father of all the small and growing beech and oak in
this copse, have joined together, psychically, at root and branch,
intertwining, wrapping their branches around each other in the most
beautiful embrace I have ever witnessed. It is breathtaking what these
two have accomplished.
Like the seahorse, who spend hours in loving
ritual, and will alter their psychical appearance to blend in with
their partner, these two “incompatible” trees have changed themselves
to unite together, forever! The oak has grown to envelope the beech
branch and she has grown to support a huge oak branch in a v shape,
that holds their union in a strong grasp.
There is a small gap in between these two, just
enough for an average human to join the party, for a little while.
We travel so fast through their world, we are like flashes of colour
speeding past them. It is to our detriment that we ignore them. They
wish us to stop and stand still, slow our heart and minds to link
in with theirs. For they have never abandoned their contract, their
guardianship of us humans. It is we that abandoned them.
If you ask permission you can stand a while
with them. As you stand in the gap between these two lover trees,
the most powerful healing energy comes around you.
And a teaching :
In our human world, woman and man are destined
to be in union, better loving than in hate. But as we are now, more
violent damage is being done to woman and also to man, every single
day, in most parts of the world. Children are permanently harmed,
and destined to repeat the pattern.
Imagine that we married for at least two hundred
years! With no get out clauses. We all celebrate those rare couples
who make it to their platinum celebration. Somewhere inside of most
of us, there is the great desire to achieve that kind of loyalty,
commitment and especially devotion.
Devotion to each other, is what the oak and
beech are teaching anyone who visits them. To hear the heartbeat of
a tree is to know they are conscious, living, sentient beings, who
see us and want us to know them also.
It was in this gap, between these two trees,
that the Wihtyar essence was laid with pure island spring water and
a rare island turtle fossil, the very oldest crystal of the Earth.
And this essence bubbled with energy when the time came to bottle
and preserve. Hanging essences in the branches were also laid to keep
the sacred hoop of tree energy intact.
As you walk on a little way you will see the
children of the oak and beech, all around you. Much younger trees
have grown together, root and branch, as if the very seed, borne by
the birds and squirrels, carry the gene pattern of union.
“Do not walk past our children”: these words
came in very strong. And the next teaching became clear:
This little copse was an extended family. Just
like humans, the trees are a community. A huge, living, breathing,
loving entity. And there are children, with young energy, but older
wisdom.
An essence was made with the younger oak and
beech trees, for our children, who need healing from the ravishes
human adults reap upon them.
The trees are teaching that full comprehensive
healing is there for the asking: but we do need to ask!
Blessed be Under the Oaks, beside the Water.
