Along highway 93, one can pull off the road, and spend some time beside a stream or river, or small lake, and contemplate the peace.
With the peace, the beauty of the Earth shines out like a gift on one’s birthday. Sunlight, warmth, and many elementals work with you to bring down the state of tension in your body.
Use this picture as a focal point for your meditation and see where it takes you. Send me comments to tell me about your journey.
Blessings,
Judy
It is soon time to begin looking at Christmas trees. The Elementals shake with frustration when their beloved trees are mistakenly identified as pine, when they should be fir, or as spruce when they should be pine. So, the Elementals asked me to give a brief lesson in how to tell the trees apart. And, yes, they are all EVERGREENS, remember, however, that calling a tree an evergreen is like calling you a human instead of using your name.
Look for the number of needles that come out of the same spot on a twig. If a twig bears needles in groups of two, three, or five, you can safely call it a pine.
Pine Tree Branch
If the twig carries its needles singly, it’s a good bet you’ve got a fir or a spruce. If the needle has four sides and, thus, rolls easily between your fingers, it’s a spruce.
Spruce Tree Branch
Pull off a needle, and roll it between your fingers. If it feels flat and doesn’t roll easily, it’s a fir.
Note: This information on the trees comes from www.finegardening.com. I am grateful for their informative site.
Blessings,
Judy
One of the pictures that has been coming up in my meditations, is the image of Nature being cared for by the Elemental energies – for grass, plants, and trees; and for soil, and for water, and for environment. Each Elemental is a specialist, and does what is needed to keep things moving forward. This process involves creating and letting die where the change is needed.
Some of the Elementals are frustrated because humans think that they know more than the Nature Guardians, the the humans interfere in what should be the natural progression of a species. One of the Elementals talked about the modification of plants – GMO – and how that upsets the blueprint for the plant.
Another Elemental talked about the human need to “preserve” a plant or tree that was scheduled, by blueprint, to die off, to make way for its next adaptation.
In life, we learn that we must let things go to get new things. We learn that cycles are natural and that fighting them by trying to preserve what is, becomes an exercise in self defeat. We learn not to be too attached to anything.
My response to the Elementals was that each person needs to go through a learning and growth stage. If the people that want to do the preserving are in that stage, then, it is part of what they need to understand, and we need to let the learning unfold.
Many blessings,
Judy
This picture is a quiet place in a small forest on the edge of a lake. It is a magical place. Even though the trees have been cut down long ago, the Elementals love this spot. If you look in the upper left hand corner of the picture, you may see the shadows of what looks like two beings in the woods.
The Elementals say that much energy is transmitted in sites like these. They suggest that you visit a woods or forest very soon and find a spot like this to sit and to gather energy.
Blessings,
Judy
This picture of the Elementals dancing in the sun light was taken by Judy Hirst.
The one thing that I am more conscious of than ever, is that there are all kinds of beings all around us that are not like us – not human that is. However, if you take humans down to a basic energy level, than all beings are like us, and, yes, we must all be related.
I took this picture on our way back to the car, after hiking up a small mountain. As we walked down the path, I could feel a humming in the air. I stopped and snapped this picture.
What the picture does not show is that the inner ring and the outer ring were both rotating, at different speeds, showing the lights dancing around. If I had to describe a sound that I could hear, it would be a very high pitched laughing. There was so much joy in that clearing.
Perhaps if we got down to the most core, energetic part of ourselves, we too would feel that kind of joy.
Blessings,
Judy
Fall is one of my favourite times of the year. For me, it is almost as though the smells change on September 1 and the weather changes at the same time.
I think of September more than March or April as the month of change. It seems that most of my life, my career changes have happened in the fall, usually, sometime in September or early October.
When I think of September, I think of abundance. This is the time of pickling, and canning, and freezing all of the produce of the summer.
I picture Mother Nature getting all of her charges in the Northern Hemisphere ready for bed. Winter comes early in Alberta. Already, there are new skiffs of snow up on the mountains.
The contradiction of autumn is that while we are finishing things off on one hand, it is a time of seeking renewal and many of us start new things – craft clubs, fitness programs, bowling, curling, hockey, and the list goes on.
A resting time! I see that, often, we use the fall to plan a rest from the activity of summer, and to get ready to vegetate through the coldest of the winter.
I see the Elementals, the energy spirits in the park, change their behaviour from wild to more gentle as they prepare the park for winter.
I think that the fall is a time of healing for nature and for humans. I see us all come closer to that peacefulness of Oneness. For, all of us are matter, and all of us are of the Earth.
For me, September is a time of contemplating what will happen next. I love the surprises that it brings.
Blessings,
Judy
