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Life Betwixt – Holding Space

I never expected to be one of those people who receives messages from planetary Watchers about the fate of the planet. Earlier this year began an exchange I can only describe as exactly that.

The dialogue has continued, and I find that in posting about it openly with others, it has become something larger than I initially understood. Many readers have shared their similar  messages, and for that I’m grateful. Thank you for sustaining this dialogue, and for what you do here.

In the dialogue that has opened, many people have also expressed a need to learn more about deathwalking. My initial stance on such skills are that they should be well-framed in a solid shamanic path, though my experiences are telling me we don’t have the luxury of waiting for that teaching. I never expected to say such, but the red flags have been raised, and I stand solidly in my guides’ assertion of the dire need for those who can midwife the dead, onward.

What has made it so critical? Who can say, though I noted some observations around that a few months back. What remains consistent in my ecstatic journeys is rampant change, not only in my cosmology, but in the landscape and accessibility of the ley of the Dreamtime. Locations in my worlds that have sustained for almost two decades are now gone. How I access my worlds has mutated several times over the years, though most recently, it’s as if they are compressed. The need to acknowledge them as other is no more, and continuing to approach them as such is counterproductive. I’d think this was wholly a personal transition or spiritual emergency were it not for so many others, shamans solid in their paths, who express the same changes.

Something big is happening, and we have a responsibility to hold space for what it is, even without knowing what it is.

What does ‘holding space’ mean? People use it different ways, though in a shamanic context, it means to participate in creating and sustaining an intention, without projecting into how that intention should manifest. In other words, holding space means to allow an aspect of self to support an intention along with others and spirit helpers, without judging the intention or other participants, attempting to alter it, or controlling how others hold that space. It means to fully show up, support the given intention, and that’s all–which is really quite a lot.

Holding space is one of the deepest challenges of self-less soul work. 

As I explored my changed otherscape recently, I found one of my guides in an unusual state. Freya appeared wilted, tired, and was calmly administering healing to herself. I wasn’t surprised by this, as of late I’ve met with several higher beings either receiving healing, or indicating the need for it. We operate on the assumptions that gods, guides, saints, masters, gurus–whatever you want to call them–are static. We think they’re higher than we are, are unaffected by pain, and have no more need for growth. Untrue. Everything in Nature grows. Everything in Nature continues to create itself as it truly wants to be, and that includes all levels of it. As far up as I’ve been permitted to see, damage can happen that knocks beings into spirals, for which deep intervention is needed to find stasis, again. We’re not the only ones who become wounded. Seeing my otherscape changed and Freya in this needful way affirmed to me that we’re also not the only ones going through challenging times.

I asked Freya if she was okay and what was happening, and she said, “Everything is bending right now, not just Earth. All creatures are being asked to hold space for this shift, even guides, gods, ferns, air.”

I asked her how I do that in my path, and she looked at me like I was an annoying gnat in her face, like part of the deal is me figuring that out for myself. Freya told me that I have to realize we are all equal in this transition, and knowing that fact is what will get us through it. She told me to stop feeling angst about not having a focus through it, because there is no focus. She told me to stop thinking some other being knows and knows better, because no one does.

I sat with her words for a few minutes, and my brain felt like it was on fire. What’s happening in the Earth plane extends beyond Earth, not just literally, but also etherically. I thanked her for her wisdom, and left her to her work.

In a subsequent travel, I was led above Asgard, to the area where the Watchers preside. I usually experience this as a void space, darkness as far as I can see, with hints of glittering stars winking. Instead, this time it was like standing in the middle of The 5th Element scene, when LeeLoo plunges into the taxi of Korben Dallas (multi-pass). All fashion of heavenly masses careened every which way, and the cacophony of sound and kaleidescope colors was overwhelming. In the midst of it a voice spoke clearly, “We need you to go back.”

I admit, I was captivated by the energy of it all–the drama. Sometimes when flatness prevails, even crisis feels good. As I stood there watching, the voice repeated over and over, “We need you to go back,” until I finally did.

What Can I Do?

My current take on universal energy is that there’s no directive specially laid out for each of us–assuming there ever was. There’s no bullet point list of what to do and how to do it. There’s no map indicating direction. The job is to hold space, period. Whatever personal stuff interferes with the ability to do that, heal it. Deal with it. Face it now, because trying to just plow ahead without that resolved creates conflict in being able to hold space. We can’t do both at once. And having to face what requires healing alongside whatever is coming is going to ramp the personal experience of this time up, unimaginably.

And in the tension of not having clearly defined specs and handles, we can’t fill up with what used to work just because we know it and it’s comfortable. It doesn’t work anymore. We also can’t force a new way, to appease the synapses need for having a directive–any directive. Busy work gets no points. It distracts and creates new healing needs.

Process your stuff. Allow your process. Let what needs to come up, move, shift in your life. When you can hold space for yourself to do this, you’ll be able to hold space for others.

Stay open. Where I used to say, “We try to find center, but it keeps moving,” now it’s, “There is no finding center. Stay in tune with how center shifts and be willing to shift with it, again and again.”

Also, if you’re experiencing absent or distracted guides as others have reported, remember the High Self. This aspect that situates between the earthly consciousness and All Things is in a key spot to facilitate personal transition in multiversal change. It’s still not likely that you’ll get a neatly laid schedule of events with bulleted action items. The comfort of reaching into something beyond yet still very much of yourself may be enough.

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The Weekly Rune – Thurisaz

For the week of 23 October 2016

Joy, for the sake of sincerity.

Wunjo is the half-month rune through 28 October. Thurisaz is the intuitive stave, and Uruz reversed indicates the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Wunjo, then Thurisaz, followed by Uruz reversed.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. The intuitive stave indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave indicates the state of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

Last week we talked about Wunjo pointing to a relatively peaceful time. However, given its place at the end of the first ætt, this closure stave hints that having learned how to energetically fend for ourselves in form, we will take reprieve when it’s presented. But, will we? That’s the thing about joy. It’s ever there, though whether we choose to allow it draws on an entirely other set of skills. The message this week implies that when we have the opportunity for joy and don’t take it, or refuse to take it, that choice may spin out repercussions all its own.

Where Kenaz is tiny flickers at the periphery accumulating in a revelation, Thurisaz is more like the raw self gone wild. Related to the giants, which in the Old Norse context refers to natural forces rather than extremely large creatures, Thurisaz is who we are with no filter–could be good, could be not so good. Regardless, what comes from it is a radical explosion of energy, of the willful variety. I think of Thurisaz as our inner four year old, off the chain. We say what we mean, we do what we say we’re going to do, with no regard for how any of it falls.

Uruz reversed expresses a lack of self-confidence in telling it like it is, which is of course, a recipe for disaster. If we’re going to be all-out, then we have to stand in it, completely. We can’t throw our truth out not caring where it’s going to land, and not fully believing that it’s our truth. The ramifications of that would be horrific for us, and everyone within shrapnel distance–which is all of us, really.

Do us all a favor: stand in it fully, or shutup. That’s the gospel of Uruz reversed, this week.

What the planet is reminding us of through this reversal is that it’s okay to be bold, just be sure of what we’re being bold about. Stand solid in what’s really important. Nature doesn’t do anything by halves. It’s either in or it’s out.

This week we are charged to be boldly joyful, and it’s going to require a significant expression we’d otherwise stifle. And stifling that expression will bring very specific hurts, of the self-sabotaging variety.

Trust deeper motivations, because for right now, they’re the most honest relief we’ll find.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for a fabulous weekend with friends and family.

I’m thankful the flood waters have receded.

I’m thankful peace in a chaotic time.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (looks) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Carnival…

I could write this post on PTSD, autoimmune conditions, aging, Celiac Disease, parenting, perimenopause, or some other more impressive-sounding topic. The thing is, while they have all influenced this week’s topic, I’ve written about all of those on Intentional Insights at some point. The one thing I’ve never written about related to my health, experience, and daily expression is my looks.

In reality, I’ve never thought too much about my looks; which is to say, I’ve thought just enough about them. I have mostly tried to ignore my appearance. I grew up aware that I was conventionally “pretty,” though not a knockout.  Satisfactorily medium, by the American standard. The thing is, I was oblivious to having a body for most of my life. I was extremely physically self-absorbed in a harmful way through my mid-teen years. I couldn’t be pretty enough, thin enough, tall enough, fit enough.

By the time I was 19, I stopped giving a shit about how I looked. I’d love to say that was wholly a healthy advance on my part, but it was mostly exhaustion from trying to be something I wasn’t and really didn’t care to be, and further extension of not honoring my body.  I wanted to look nice, but I wasn’t as tied up in how other people thought I should look. I stopped wearing makeup for the most part and got plenty of passive aggressive, “you’d be so pretty if you’d just wear makeup,” from brainwashed friends. I’m still spotty with makeup, though how I think about my looks has been a progression to deeper expression of freedom, since.

I always looked older than I was as a youth, and the decades prior to having kids, I looked about 10 years younger than my age. It was a great attribute, except that in my shamanic work, it made a lot of people uncomfortable. They didn’t want to work with someone younger than them.

The thing is, I turned 45 a couple of months ago. I’ve never been bothered at all by age. Everyone I’ve ever said that to said I wasn’t bothered by it because I was young. I’m not young now, and I’m still not bothered by it. The number means nothing to someone who was born old. I’ve made relative peace with my body, so it’s not about the number.

And it’s not even my looks that give me pause now, when I think about my age. Astrologically speaking, I’m at the end of my mid-life crisis, which is a relief. Maybe that what-I-didn’t-do restlessness can abate.

Yes, I am officially entering that androgynous zone we all reach, assuming we live long enough. Women start to look a bit masculine; men turn doughy and appear more feminine. For a while I looked in the mirror and saw my  mom looingk back. Now I look and see male family members looking back.  It’s a thing.

Regarding how other people see me now, they don’t. All the style magazines tout how 40 is the new 20, but 45 is still 45.

It’s true that at middle age, women fly under public radar. Between all the ma’ams we dart undetected through culture.

No more catcalls, whistles, awkward proposals, or lewd advances. That liberation is real.

More than what’s in the mirror, how I live in my body has changed. That’s what I notice, every day. My skin is drier, looser, crinklier, spotted. The way I’ve taken care of it since puberty has had to change. My hair–what hasn’t fallen out from the many medications of the last year–is thinner, drier, duller. I didn’t see that coming. In fact, if it’s too close or too far away, I can’t see it at all. About four years ago I awakened to purple bags beneath my eyes. They’re still there. Body mass that shifted after having twins is in the process of shifting, again. Even with the cleanest diet in the Piedmont, my body tells its story of how we got here and our potential for it to continue with every bite I take.

I hoped through my years of ignoring my body that I’d get to come into better relationship with it, with age. I have. The thing is, I equated feeling better with that relationship. In fact, I equated feeling good with it, and that’s just not the way things are going. Instead of looking for a broad outcome of feeling good, I look into the moments, rather than at myself, my appearance.

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The Weekly Rune – Ehwaz

For the week of 16 October 2016

Sweet healing revelations, ahead.

Wunjo is the half-month rune through 28 October. Ehwaz reversed is the intuitive stave, and Uruz reversed indicates the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Wunjo, then Ehwaz, followed by Uruz reversed.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. The intuitive stave indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave indicates the state of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

Transitioning from Gebo to Wunjo brings a relatively peaceful time. These staves wind down the first ætt, which means a brief reprieve. The completion of the first ætt on the seasonal wheel brings a time of realizing hard work that’s been put in, new-found respect for how challenging being a spirit in form is, and finding the joy in that challenging process.

There’s this idea that Wunjo is offered up for free, or there to be taken. The thing about joy is it’s not a given. Some people have the perspective that it’s abundantly floating around in the Multiverse, or that it’s a reward. The placement of Wunjo in the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark points to joy being realized. Sure, it’s out there at any given time, but we must be in the state of being, head, and heart to see it for what it is, allow ourselves to experience it, and stand solid in that moment. Looking at it that was, joy is a far more personal and subjective thing.

While joy may be one of the more fleeting states of being, allowing it can have profound effects. Allow it this week, in whatever simplicity it comes. Joy is the portal to the message of Ehwaz.

Ehwaz takes this experience of joy to powerful revelation, hinting that our ability to sit in blissful simplicity will give way to deeper reserves. The stave of the horse, it represents the shamanic journey, or ability to investigate matters in an animistic vein. Remember that All Things are souls. As such, they can be engaged, communicated with, thus, transmuted at deep levels.

We often think that in order to reach that font of self, we must dig, labor, toil. The thing is, we have, and we will continue to. That’s life. What’s being offered through sweet joy is a reprieve, to explore those depths without labor.

It’s a rare thing.

Do it.

Uruz reversed expresses a lack of self-confidence in this process. The rune of the planet’s voice, it lovingly urges us to find our value, and back it up with that joyful respite. Trees don’t question whether they should stretch to the sun. They realize that warmth and nurture for what it is and set everything in them to grow into it. As a rune of divine feminine life force, this stave encourages us to claim our natural tendencies in Nature, to bend toward what gives us what we need, and to enjoy every second of it.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for coming through the hurricane with minimal damage.

I’m thankful my parents finally got to go on vacation and have some peace.

I’m thankful for a relatively quiet week, after two weeks of sadness and loss.

I’m grateful for a new pair of cold weather shoes. It really is the little things.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (quiet) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Carnival…

There are so many kinds of quiet. There’s inner quiet that many equate with calmness and peace. There’s the kind that’s an absence of noise. A kind of quiet I identified with in my youth I called the primal silence before the scream–a particularly ripe emptiness that finds no explanation or descriptor, yet needs release. Stillness–a space without movement, literal or figurative–can be considered “quiet.” The silence that comes after disquieting uproar is a disturbing quiet.

I suppose it’s the latter that I feel, now. I’ve blogged in the past about becoming etherically upsot when death is coming–the cradling is what Angrboða called it. I didn’t experience it that same way with the two deaths in our family last week. More, the cloak of general despair and helplessness, sadness for my close family members was heavy. It’s all punctuated by the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, loss, which is all around me.

Death prolonged is a horrific thing, though unexpected and sudden death brings no comfort. It’s all hard, and taxing. It brings a fury of events, thoughts, feelings, people, who aren’t the norm. Natural, yes, but not the norm. Death is the deepest upheaval.

When that tempest dies down, the quiet that’s left is foreign and uncomfortable. Driving it is shame with the unreasonable expectation that the mere lack of high drama should be enough to enjoy quiet.

It’s not.

I’m particularly tentative about respecting the quiet that comes after life-changing events, because I too easily sync into crisis. I can’t describe the sublime comfort of everything going wrong, the supportive trajectory of assured collision. I grew up on it. I know it, and that’s a dangerous thing.

This week I’m feeling the quiet in all its subtle nuances. I remember the losses. I honor the upheaval. I grieve for the grieving. I love.

Outside, even the clear blue sky and beaming sunlight is awkward after the days of swollen gray and torrential wind and rain.

It’s a time of collecting, sifting, listening, waiting.

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The Weekly Rune – Kenaz Reversed

For the week of  9 October 2016

Self is tribe is self.

Gebo is the half-month rune through 13 October.  Kenaz reversed is the intuitive stave, and Sowilo (Sowilu) indicates the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Gebo, then Kenaz reversed, followed by Sowilo.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. The intuitive stave indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave indicates the state of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

Having crested its peak station as half-month rune, over the last couple of weeks Gebo has helped us ground into otherwise challenging times. It’s asked us to go deep into our sense of what we can give, what we should give, what we must accept, and how to sustain balance through it all. Despite how supportive that all sounds, balance is particularly difficult to achieve in challenging times. The ultimate memo through this week is that we are supported. Our task is to cull through challenge and learn what we can support.

Similarly to last week’s reversal with Raidho, Kenaz reversed hints that the surface isn’t as it seems. The nuance here is that we’re likely obsessing over something that’s right in front of us, though we can’t see the forest for the trees.

Sowilu brings certain reminder that we are all divine. More specifically, it tells we are each divine. From the wisdom of the planet, this memo links us inextricably into what is needed and those who bring what satisfies the need. The recursive pay-it-forward aspect of this stave calls us to recognize our personal gifts, and to know we are part of a greater whole.

We are being called upon  to hold the balance, this week. A big part of the conflict around that is internal (Kenaz), and our ability to soothe it comes with realizing that when we get out of our own way, we become freer to stand in community (Sowilo). Exchange remains the act; connection, the method.

Read the full runecast.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for the end of this respiratory crud, and hoping that the lifestyle changes are preventative and helpful with overall inflammation.

I’m thankful special moments with my parents and family.

I’m thankful we’ve made it through two deaths in our family, this week.

I’m grateful for my life.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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Life Betwixt – Deathwalking

So many people have contacted me since I blogged about my  experience in February of this year, when the planetary Watchers told me that we need to be prepared to deathwalk Midgard (Earth).

Likewise, after I posted early in September about planetary soul loss, many more have shared their similar  messages with me. First off, thank you for standing bravely in your work. Thank you for talking with me. Thank you for what you do here.

In the dialogue that has opened, several people expressed a need to learn more about deathwalking. I feel it’s important to note that while shamans are trained as deathwalkers, we all bear responsibility to tend death, by which I mean, to create a healthy consciousness in life so that we die well, to be able to identify when someone has not died “well,” to draw upon the resources available to release those who have not died well.

Do you have to be a shaman to do these things? No, in short. I knew I was a deathwalker before I understood shamanism. Likewise, students have come to me with raw skills of deathwalking, who didn’t desire pursuing full shamanic training. Under most circumstances, I wouldn’t advise trekking the path of deathwalker without the full mantle of shaman. However, there are exceptions to every rule, and I am not the keeper of the rule. Discuss.

What is deathwalking? One of the most credible people I know to answer that question is Kirstin Madden, the author of Shamanic Guide to Death and Dying. She’s not only a true deathwalker, but a compassionate teacher of how to love and live fully. What I learned from her years ago was to let go of my fear of the death realms, and to realize we’ve spent all our lives among them, already. There’s no division. Once we know that, our ability to be effective in life and death becomes radically within our power.

Deathwalking, from my perspective, is making sure that a being leaving (or that has left) form has closure on the life that came before leaving, that the being is escorted to the threshold of What Comes Next, is at peace with going beyond that threshold into the next destiny, and leaving the being in the place to do just that on its own terms.

Deathwalking is, in short, spiritual hospice.

Whatever needs to be done to move the dying or deceased to a point of peaceful progression to the next place, it is done.

Depending on the role and involvement of the deathwalker, it can comprise more specific work, such as helping someone who is preparing for death to know how to navigate it, to counsel surviving family, to re-balance or clear family lines after death, to bestow elderhood, to close the energy field of the deceased.

How these things are accomplished is where training in deathwork comes in. Much of it comes down to opening the conversation, and movement is generated in that release. So often acknowledgement is enough to shift a death dynamic. “What do you need?” “How can I help?” “It’s going to be okay.” “Would you like company?” It’s when mere conversation doesn’t open release that specific skills are needed.

While many of us may have an affinity to engaging or even working with the dead, it doesn’t mean we’re necessarily functional in it, or at peace with it. I find deathwork more than any other aspect of my shamanic path challenges my beliefs, my perceptions of self and the world around me, and sometimes my own sanity. For that reason, again, training in how to be this role and still get through the everyday can go a long way in deepening ability as a deathwalker.

Deathwalkers don’t just see the dead. They feel their grief, their pain (physical, emotional, psychological), they somatically experience their deaths. This is the point that training in counseling technique and having various modalities of healing under your belt make a huge difference between someone who intuitively is aware of the dead, and someone who walks effectively and healthily among them–and back. No matter how much affinity you have with the dead, I’ve never met anyone who just knew how to deal with the emotional and psychological baggage it stirs, or how to deal with resistant dead. Again I say, find a mentor.

The tension between what we believe and what we experience is no more tested or destroyed than in deathwork.

In the context that I’ve discussed deathwalking of late, it’s not been about working with individuals, but regarding irreversible changes the planet is going through, and how we can all engage our unique roles to serve Her needs.  Most of the time, deathwalking references people, less frequently places/spaces. Animals, birds, elements, trees… rarely have I ever had to assist a being of those families, though it has happened. Nature, by and large, knows what to do with itself, and it does it. Interestingly, those that have required deathwalking needed it as the result of some human aberration of their norm. The being was so knocked off trajectory by some human act, that it couldn’t get back on its own. So why would a planet have become in need of deathwalking, or soul custodianship?

To me, there’s a difference between Nature and the soul of the planet. They overlap, but they are not synonymous. Nature is infinity and beyond everything we know. Midgard’s soul is a distinct part of Nature, as are we all. So is this true of guides, gods, angels. They aren’t static, finished beings. They grow and evolve, still. So does Earth.

In this context, I’m not talking about Nature, or the trees, or a region. Rather, I mean we are coming to a time that deathwalking the soul of Midgard, or part of Her soul, is upon us. The direction I’ve been given in how we can do that is for each of us to claim our intimate relationship with the land we live on. We do it through our immediate nature allies. Whether that’s the front yard, a nearby park, or an entire region, get out and step up. Call in the spirit of that land, and ask what it needs. Learn if there are Land Elders, and if so, engage them. Ask what the relationship to each other should be. Ask how to bless that relationship daily, in concrete, doable rituals, then do them.

This interaction may not seem very deathwalky. For those of us not used to this both worlds discourse, it has to start somewhere. By opening the dialogue with the local Land Elders and home spirits, we create the opportunity for intimate awareness of what the land needs, which is a direct conduit to tending the planet’s soul. I’m confident that by opening this relationship with the local land spirits, the deeper picture of what’s happening with the planet and personal role with those spirits will come.

Again, to those of you who have responded to my writing about the planet’s needs now, thank you.

To those of you who didn’t believe you could, though feel the call, what do you need? How can I help? It’s going to be okay. Would you like company?

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