Druid Tree Workings: Exercises for Deepening Tree Relationships

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A wonderful tree to get to know! A wonderful tree to get to know!

Trees are wonderful and amazing beings, true teachers, friends, and wonderful introductory guides to nature’s mysteries.  Sometimes though, we don’t realize what a powerful impact different trees have had on our lives.  As one step towards cultivating a deep relationship with trees, this week I offer a series of exercises that can help you explore your memories of trees and see what existing connections you may already have.

These exercises and meditations can help you develop relationships with trees or deepen relationships that you’ve already started. You can do them either as meditations or as freewriting activities.  Discursive meditation or journey work would be appropriate if you wanted to use these as meditation tools. In a discursive meditation, you might meditate on the question or theme given (in each exercise) and work through your thoughts. In a journey meditation, you would use the…

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Unlocking the Goddess

A Spring Equinox Meditation: The Mysteries of the Dandelion and the Three Currents

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Fields of dandelion Fields of dandelion

One of the hallmarks of spring is the blooming of the vibrant and colorful dandelion. Emerging as soon as the coldest of the temperatures ease, the blooming of the dandelions affirm that the long, dark winter is indeed over and summer is just around the corner. In today’s post, and in honor of the Spring Equinox and the incredible dandelion, I offer a spring tonic and meditative journey to celebrate the Spring Equinox and learn more about the mysteries of the dandelion. This is one of my monthly AODA-themed posts, so I hope you enjoy it and have a blessed spring equinox!

About the Dandelion

The blooming of the dandelions is a special time of year. For us here in Western PA, dandelions bloom just as the final frosts are easing, and are a sign that we can start planting some of our more tending crops in…

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The Problem is the Solution: Honoring the Journey of the New Year

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Sunrise through the mist…the way may be uncertain but the sun will rise again

In Permaculture Design, one of the most challenging principles to enact is “The problem is the solution.” It seems simple on paper: you have a serious problem before you, perhaps seemingly insurmountable or overwhelming.  Instead of reacting negatively to the problem, you look for how the problem presents unique opportunities.  You resee your practices, hone them, make changes, and adapt to the problem so that that adaptation becomes a strength. In other words, you make lemonade from lemons–but more than that, you may actually improve your approach by having to consider new options to overcome obstacles.  A simple example: I have a wet, muddy spot in my yard due to the downspout on my house.  Rather than see this as a problem, I turn it into a lush rain garden, which is not only beautiful but…

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Songs of the Soul’s Awakening

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Herbal Meditations and Magic for Thriving in a Neo-Colonial World

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Guest student post by Avani Mody


Sunrise:

There is an incomparable beauty to sunrise. The time of the gods, as it is described in Ayurvedic traditions. As a child my father told me, walk barefoot on the earth and take in the green grass at sunrise, to strengthen my eyes. The combination of a luscious green and morning sunlight, calmed my eyes and mind. During my recent, formal herbal education, this advice remains in my psyche. The colors, beauty and feel of the plants, indeed calm my mind, and strengthen my vision my ability to see in multiple dimensions. Plant meditations are one of the ways I like to spend time with plants and imbue myself with their serenity.

Neo-Colonial Herbalism:

Learning herbal medicine that is rooted in traditional cultures, resilience and a holistic worldview is complex and profound. In our contemporary society, and perhaps especially here in the…

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Walking Meditation Garden with Hugelkultur Beds

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As a practitioner of permaculture and as a druid, I am always looking for ways to work with the land to create sacred and ecologically healthy spaces.  That is, to create self-sustaining ecosystems that produce a varitey of yields: create habitat, offer nectar and pollen, systems that retain water and nutrients, offer medicine and food, create beauty and magic.  But conventional gardens, even sheet mulched gardens, can falter in water scarce conditions.  So building gardens long-term for resiliency and with a variety of climate challenges in mind is key.  At the same time, I am also looking to create sacred gardens, that is, not just places to grow food (which is simple enough) but to develop sacred relationships and deepen my connection with the living earth. Given all of this, I developed a design for a butterfly-shaped garden that would use hugelkultur raised beds and allow for a space…

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A Druid’s Meditation Primer

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In this time as the light is coming back into the world, the time surrounding Imbolc, I find myself often going deeply inward for healing and strength and turning towards meditation as a guide for spiritual balance.  This deep winter period is, of course, coming on the heels of the frenzied holiday season where many of us get burned out by the amount of hustle and bustle.  Further, many of the demands of modern living, particularly for those working wage-earning jobs, require us to move faster, be always “connected” and present with new technology, and have an increasingly fast stream of information pouring in and out of our heads. This can lead to long-term drain on the spirit. In this quiet time of the year, amidst the snows and frozen earth, various meditation techniques allow for rest, centering, and rejuvenation.

The quiet that nature provides... The quiet that nature provides…

Meditation offers us…

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MORAG: “The Mysteries, Myths, And Magic Of Meditation”

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What is meditation?

Meditation is prayer, before the kabal took the heart from it.  Meditation is sacred ritual before it became outlawed as wiccan and wicked.  Meditation is being one with nature before we were plugged in to the 3D matrix.  Meditation is being still, at peace, present and connected.

We meditate when we walk in nature.  We meditate when we color in.  We meditate when we dance, free and connected to the music.  We meditate when we quieten our ego and hear our soul.  We already do it.  If you step off the grid, step into your bubble of present you are tuning your cellular frequency to the universal frequency of peace, love and abundance.

When we hug a loved one we are raising our vibrations to the love wavelength.  When we laugh we are releasing denser energy, lightening our energetic load.  When we make love we are embracing the universal flow of love.  When we smell our child’s hair we are fully present, mindful and grateful.  The emotion, the vibration of gratitude, like love, can connect us to the higher dimensions, by its very nature it is present, graceful and humble.

When we sit down, comfortable though preferably with the chakras open, lying down is good for some people, we choose to connect, to meditate.  Using our breath we can raise the vibrations of our cellular system in turn raising the energetic frequency of our whole being.  This enables us to tune in, like a tuning fork, to different wavelengths of energy.

The matrix manipulates us into breathing in a very shallow way, barely into our throat.   When people experience panic and anxiety they are told to breathe into a paper bag.  This is because it slows our breathing down, helping us to reach a calmer place.  This inner equilibrium is the space we start from to meditate.  Using long deep breaths we can calm our system down and raise our frequency.

As our ego (you know…that annoying voice that goes on and on in your head) faces this calm stillness it can freak out.  This lessens the more you meditate as the ego is programmed to fear anything it doesn’t know so familiarity calms it.  The ego also fears this stillness as it is trained by the matrix to be ‘doing’ and not meditating.  We are to obey, conform, work, rest and play.  Not connect to the universal love vibrations of the multi verse.  Reassure your ego, give it a hug, tell it to quieten down and have a rest, everything is easy.

The ego will continue to pop thoughts of doom and gloom, fear, insecurities, anxieties and stresses into your mind, breathe these out.  As you inhale draw in love, peace, calm and positivity as you exhale release pain.  Say in your head ‘I breathe in love I release tension and doubt’.  Do this for as long as you want or need or have time for.

This is meditation.  Reaching a state where your ego is quiet, your body is connected and your mind is open.  Where you go from there is entirely up to you.  Deep relaxation, chakra balancing, guided healing visualizations, higher self and guide meetings… the multiverse is your oyster.

You can ask your guides for love and protection, for healing and guidance for you and your loved ones.  You can send healing heart led love energy to people and places.  You can anchor your light to the  Gaia grid.  You can float on a cloud in a rainbow chakra shower.

Meditation is one of the keys to awakening, transition, alignment and eventually ascension.  If you are a lightworker, starseed, indigo or Rainbow it’s a way of phoning home.  It’s a way of detoxing from the system, of expanding your heart and your mind, releasing stuck karma and growing as a spiritual being.  A key to evolutionary growth, wisdom and enlightenment and in a practical sense a brilliant way to manage stress, anxiety and tension.  Meditation is the Jedi tool to awakening the force within you.  Embrace it, harness it and own it, making it apart of you.  Can I get an Ommmm up in here! Ommmmmmm!

Namaste _/\_.

Source:   MORAG: “The Mysteries, Myths, And Magic Of Meditation”