Tag: plants
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The Earth Within
If you pay close attention, there is a pulsation to the earth. It isn’t quite a heartbeat… It’s more of a sway, an ebb and flow. I used to think it was kind of sad, or even a sign of brokenness, that I have usually felt closer to plants and animals than people. I love people (I…
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The language of plants, and how to listen
The scientific field of plant communication is fairly contentious. The early research, perhaps best known through The Secret Life of Plants, divided the community firmly into two disparate camps. The word communication is at the heart of the issue, antagonized by the human supremacist perspective that seeks to measure all other life through the lens…
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Finding your center as the veil grows thin
As we cross the threshold of the equinox, we find ourselves in a potent portal of release and connection as we approach the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The days are shorter, the veil between the seen and unseen realms grows thinner, and we have access to the potent energies of release and “completion.”…
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Out of the Lion’s Gate and Into the Fire
Somewhere between July and August my Chariot went off-road. Things that had been moving smoothly, if sometimes slower than I wanted, started to develop snags. Like so many interruptions to flow these snags were entirely within my own mind and energy, not the sort to simply force through. Synchronicities were loudly asking for my attention…
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Meditating with Plants: Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds
This is a meditation on connection with the energy of flowers, fruits, and seeds I like to approach connecting with plant spirits from: 1. a mediumistic and 2. metaphorical perspective. 1. Tune into your breath, your heart and your own personal energy. Imagine your Breath forming a bundle of energy, a bud, at the center of your abdomen. …
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Falling in Love with a forest
Due to some unexpected events, my wife and I changed our vacation plans and moved up our planned trip to Asheville a month earlier.I’m an almost fanatical beach person, my life heavily arranged in the summer months around facilitating very regular trips to the beach to swim and float. I have more ordinary enjoyments of…
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Stagnation isn’t always a bad thing
Not long after a giving a psychic reading with themes of fruit, decay and seeds, and just a couple hours after sending out the last newsletter, I was walking in Prospect Park following a night of rain. After a long summer drought we had finally gotten some real precipitation a few days in the week. The…
Inward Vision 