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Getting Seated in Gaia

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Why are we here?
To become ever more fully our truest, deepest, most authentic self, the unique person we were born to be.

What else could be the answer to this ages-old question? Only when we completely inhabit our real Self will we be able to consistently love, think, feel, create, and co-create with others in satisfying, life-enhancing ways. When we can really sink into who we fundamentally are, as an ongoing way of being, then the rest of our mission in the physical and spiritual worlds, whether grand or humble, can joyously emerge. [Read more…] about Getting Seated in Gaia

Grandmother Gaia’s Essence

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The Feminine is a very different story than the Masculine. In the deepest esoteric sense, feminine and masculine are polarities, perhaps the most important polarities that form our physical and spiritual reality. But this in no way means that they are merely “opposites.” The feminine isn’t just 180 degrees different from the masculine; it is in another dimension completely.

I learned more about this recently in a dew-drenched green meadow surrounded by tall, dripping pines and firs up in the mountains east of here. I had spent the previous day sitting by the river singing and praying. My intention was to deeply attune with the sacred, overlighting, undergirding being of the land—the Green Essence of Gaia. She revealed herself over and over to me as Grandmother. [Read more…] about Grandmother Gaia’s Essence

As Above, So Below

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“As above, so below,” we often hear in spiritual and esoteric circles. That is, the events and evolution of heaven and earth are believed to reflect one another. This expression implies that there are two worlds: The “above,”—or heaven, “up there,” the vast, radiant realms of the angels and the moon, planets, sun and stars. And the “below”—here on earth, the place of matter and time, of birth, death and rebirth.

But we can broaden and deepen our understanding if we think more about the “below.” Is it here, now, the surface world of the everyday? Or is it “down there,” under our feet, within the body of the land? These are two distinct realms, called by some the middle world, or day world; and the lower world or underworld. In ancestral times the underworld was known to be a fertile, light-filled place full of wisdom and beauty, and populated with many orders of spiritual beings who could and sometimes did ally themselves with humanity. [Read more…] about As Above, So Below

The Green Force

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The great, vast being of Gaia is continuously generating a force that creates and evolves life on all levels. I call this force the Green Force. It’s the force that brings plants up from under asphalt streets, that sets seeds growing on bare sand. It is, in Dylan Thomas’s memorable words, “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

The Green Force energizes and expresses the entire organic continuum of birth, growth, flowering, ripening, maturing, declining, dying, decomposing and giving birth again—the dynamic, ever-renewing process that we call Life. As we know, plants get their energy directly from the sun, from photosynthesis that takes place in the plants’ chlorophyll, their green pigments. Then animals (including us humans) eat the plants, and/or eat animals that eat the plants. Even the strange and mysterious fungi and bacteria beings “eat” the remains of dead plants and animals. So each one of us, each living being on Mother Earth, literally partakes of Gaia’s Green Force as an intimate and basic part of our day-to-day survival. [Read more…] about The Green Force

The Art of Blessing

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At my altar recently, I heard: The power of Blessing belongs to everyone. Use it well and often. Let it arise in a heart rooted in the Sacred Land.

Soon after that, I went up into the Jemez Mountains, to a beautiful place by the river where my family used to camp when I was a little girl. (I’d sleep right on the ground in my sleeping bag, without even a pad between me and the earth.) I received this from the beings of the land there: [Read more…] about The Art of Blessing