What Makes You Tremble?

 

       A violent hail storm in July of 2021 with lots of thunder, lightning, and wind. Picture by J. Hirst

            

I had a conversation with some friends about what makes a person tremble, and in particular, what made each of us in the group tremble.

The words that first came up were:

• cold 
• fear
• anger
• grief
• excitement
• exhaustion
• a hard run (which to me seems like exhaustion but which my friends agreed was different)
• awe

We moved on to the physical things that make us tremble like:

• earthquakes
• thunderstorms
• storms
• hurricanes
• typhoons

And then we moved to the intrinsic things that make us tremble.

• the sound of certain music that raises you outside yourself
• seeing an animal being born
• seeing the majesty of the sky at certain times of the year
• something deeply spiritual 
• sudden kindness from a stranger
• the trust of a baby – human or animal

We had so much fun with this.  What I needed to remember was that each of these items seemed to be a force of Nature interacting with us.

What would you add to this list?

Blessings,

Judy

Do You Have A Quest?

  

The idea of questing, or of searching, goes back to ancient times.  Our Ancestors understood that some people had a need to find out new information and to find new things.  Today, when we quest, we often have a map to guide us, or perhaps GPS.

Think about how difficult it must have been to be a man or a woman (think Joan of Arc) to leave what you knew, and to follow the spiritual guidance of your soul to be in service to the Greater Good.  Picture yourself being guided by the stars and planets to go someplace that was only a name to you.

Through out time, people have travelled or quested to sacred shrines to ask for healing for themselves or for another.  People have quested to see the other side of the mountain or the other side of the ocean.  The common theme is the deep hunger to learn something new or to do something different.  Now, the quest is to take settlers to the Moon or to Mars.

Today, do you have a quest that is calling you?

Many Blessings,

Judy

Excerpt From Earth Wisdom Meditations - Meditation 24 - Going Up

 

Picture is of Meditation 24 from Earth Wisdom Meditations: 111 Meditations for People Who Love the Earth by Judith Hirst

People - readers - tell me that they love this meditation from my book.  Some talk about the vision that they see of themselves going up a steep hill and people are throwing stuff - rocks, vegetables, books - at them.  There is no help.  Others talk about seeing a straight up cliff that they must climb and that it has several trails marked with ropes and spikes already in place as well as other climbers shouting encouragement.  The two visions are so different.

I hope that as you read the page that you find some wisdom in it and that you remember to ask for help as you move through life.  You do not need to do it all yourself.

Blessings 

Judy