May 13, 2017
I am in the Mystical Forest. I decide to approach Reflection Tree first, and immediately jump into asking for counsel about Monday, when we are due in small claims court to have a settlement hearing regarding the counter-suit by the former landowner. I have spent weeks and way too many hours preparing evidence. While I am confident about our evidence, I am also very nervous. I do not like this kind of confrontation.
And then, catching myself, I relax and start again. "Hello, this is your servant and apprentice. I am here to ask for counsel." I make an offering.
Look. Listen. The teachings will come in a different way here. Relax...
I stood awhile, in contact with the tree, and then began to wander, and look at nearby trees.
Look, listen, feel, see...
Trees whispered as I stopped at each. You must see with different eyes, hear with different ears, learn/know in new ways...
I found an owl pellet at the base of one tree, and began to pick through to find a skull and jaw bones with teeth. Then my eyes began to adjust to the dimming light of sunset, and I found another, and then another... More and more, at the base of trees. I did not need to wander far -- a small network of trees had tens if not a hundred owl pellets. I continued to gather skulls, jaws and a few other bones of rats, mice and moles. And as I gathered, I continued to listen and feel.
At one tree, I stopped and inquired about Monday. It offered, Relax... Be relaxed and at peace. All is as it is. Relax and all will be well and as it needs to be.
As I continued to gather skulls, I had a sudden awareness. I am picking through owl pellets, and they are clearly very active here in this forest. And their food of choice is rodents, including mole.
My husband is strongly affiliated with the owl -- as ally and medicine. He recently ventured into the new owner's house to get something from her. As he waded through the rooms filled with an over-flow of accumulation within a cave-like atmosphere of very dim lighting, and spoke with her, looking through the thick glasses perched on her nose to peer into her eyes, he had a realization that she was a mole.
I also carry owl medicine, though not a strongly as he. Wherever we go there is some kind of completion, ending, or moving-on -- for relationships that are not functional, for corrupt systems that govern communities, or for people who are in imbalance with the land or living out of integrity with themselves and with others around them. And if not an ending from imbalance and broken integrity, then an ending because it is time to move on -- whether leaving a place, creating closure, or even death.
An ending of some kind is inevitable here. There will be no choice.
The owner is a mole -- naturally afraid/ defensive with the owl. It does not matter what one says or does, or doesn't do for that matter. Just the very presence of an owl will be a threat to a mole.
The lesson here, then, is to avoid directly stimulating fear or discord -- it will only amplify what is already there naturally.
And once I made this connection, Reflection Tree confirmed, This is your work and lesson for today. Gather the skulls for some piece of medicine you will make. And as you do, learn to hear more deeply this important story and lesson.
As I continued to gather and wander, another tree spoke.
This Monday upcoming is important -- it is a final completion of the working on the previous land.
And I thought of my prayers on that land. The tree spoke again.
Your prayers still live on the land. This is your gift and your work. Your prayers are powerful. Your clear intent and prayer manifested as the sale of the land. Now, this is important to know and hear. Prayers that come from anger, that are ill-intended or reactive as some of your husband's prayers were, both stalled and led to the consequence of needing to deal with the court case. But, take heart, for it will be resolved easily.
Hear this -- your medicine is prayer. You must pray and strengthen your prayers. There will come a day when you are complete here (on this new land), and you will move on to your next assignment. And it can be easy. It can be as you pray for. But you must pray [images of the ovoo and offerings, prayer ties, and Prayer Fires arose in my mind's eye]. Your prayers are powerful, they do manifest, and must and will over-ride any ill-intended prayers offered in reactivity that have been woven by the Other through workings you are involved in. This is your work.
So, there will inevitably be some sort of ending here -- it is predestined. And, we must tread with awareness and relaxed clarity. And I must pray.
May 15, 2017
He did not arrive at court. As we were ushered into the settlement hearing room, the clerk wondered if we knew where he was. It was 20 minutes past the appointed court-time. She opened the file.
He had signed a waiver that releases each party from any claim against the other, and sent it in at the end of the day on Friday, when no one would be able to register it. Not the clerk, nor the judge, nor ourselves were informed ahead of time.
And I immediately thought of the insight I had had a month earlier -- he will send it in at the last minute. My deeper self knew it would be Friday. I had kept checking my emails for a response from him all weekend. I knew it would be Friday -- I just misjudged and thought he would send it directly to us.
My greatest lessons from the very beginning to end with him:
The Tree next to the cabin replied, Now you are doing your medicine work [by visiting daily, by "arriving fully"].
I promised to listen to them, their lessons and method of teaching. I thought of Ma. I deeply miss her. I asked, "Is she here?"
Tree said gently, Yes, she will make herself known to you when it is time...
I am in the Mystical Forest. I decide to approach Reflection Tree first, and immediately jump into asking for counsel about Monday, when we are due in small claims court to have a settlement hearing regarding the counter-suit by the former landowner. I have spent weeks and way too many hours preparing evidence. While I am confident about our evidence, I am also very nervous. I do not like this kind of confrontation.
And then, catching myself, I relax and start again. "Hello, this is your servant and apprentice. I am here to ask for counsel." I make an offering.
Look. Listen. The teachings will come in a different way here. Relax...
I stood awhile, in contact with the tree, and then began to wander, and look at nearby trees.
Look, listen, feel, see...
Trees whispered as I stopped at each. You must see with different eyes, hear with different ears, learn/know in new ways...
I found an owl pellet at the base of one tree, and began to pick through to find a skull and jaw bones with teeth. Then my eyes began to adjust to the dimming light of sunset, and I found another, and then another... More and more, at the base of trees. I did not need to wander far -- a small network of trees had tens if not a hundred owl pellets. I continued to gather skulls, jaws and a few other bones of rats, mice and moles. And as I gathered, I continued to listen and feel.
At one tree, I stopped and inquired about Monday. It offered, Relax... Be relaxed and at peace. All is as it is. Relax and all will be well and as it needs to be.
As I continued to gather skulls, I had a sudden awareness. I am picking through owl pellets, and they are clearly very active here in this forest. And their food of choice is rodents, including mole.
My husband is strongly affiliated with the owl -- as ally and medicine. He recently ventured into the new owner's house to get something from her. As he waded through the rooms filled with an over-flow of accumulation within a cave-like atmosphere of very dim lighting, and spoke with her, looking through the thick glasses perched on her nose to peer into her eyes, he had a realization that she was a mole.
I also carry owl medicine, though not a strongly as he. Wherever we go there is some kind of completion, ending, or moving-on -- for relationships that are not functional, for corrupt systems that govern communities, or for people who are in imbalance with the land or living out of integrity with themselves and with others around them. And if not an ending from imbalance and broken integrity, then an ending because it is time to move on -- whether leaving a place, creating closure, or even death.
An ending of some kind is inevitable here. There will be no choice.
The owner is a mole -- naturally afraid/ defensive with the owl. It does not matter what one says or does, or doesn't do for that matter. Just the very presence of an owl will be a threat to a mole.
The lesson here, then, is to avoid directly stimulating fear or discord -- it will only amplify what is already there naturally.
And once I made this connection, Reflection Tree confirmed, This is your work and lesson for today. Gather the skulls for some piece of medicine you will make. And as you do, learn to hear more deeply this important story and lesson.
As I continued to gather and wander, another tree spoke.
This Monday upcoming is important -- it is a final completion of the working on the previous land.
And I thought of my prayers on that land. The tree spoke again.
Your prayers still live on the land. This is your gift and your work. Your prayers are powerful. Your clear intent and prayer manifested as the sale of the land. Now, this is important to know and hear. Prayers that come from anger, that are ill-intended or reactive as some of your husband's prayers were, both stalled and led to the consequence of needing to deal with the court case. But, take heart, for it will be resolved easily.
Hear this -- your medicine is prayer. You must pray and strengthen your prayers. There will come a day when you are complete here (on this new land), and you will move on to your next assignment. And it can be easy. It can be as you pray for. But you must pray [images of the ovoo and offerings, prayer ties, and Prayer Fires arose in my mind's eye]. Your prayers are powerful, they do manifest, and must and will over-ride any ill-intended prayers offered in reactivity that have been woven by the Other through workings you are involved in. This is your work.
So, there will inevitably be some sort of ending here -- it is predestined. And, we must tread with awareness and relaxed clarity. And I must pray.
May 15, 2017
He did not arrive at court. As we were ushered into the settlement hearing room, the clerk wondered if we knew where he was. It was 20 minutes past the appointed court-time. She opened the file.
He had signed a waiver that releases each party from any claim against the other, and sent it in at the end of the day on Friday, when no one would be able to register it. Not the clerk, nor the judge, nor ourselves were informed ahead of time.
And I immediately thought of the insight I had had a month earlier -- he will send it in at the last minute. My deeper self knew it would be Friday. I had kept checking my emails for a response from him all weekend. I knew it would be Friday -- I just misjudged and thought he would send it directly to us.
My greatest lessons from the very beginning to end with him:
- Prayer is potent medicine, and the outward gestures of prayer -- prayer ties, offerings, time with Ma and the trees -- all powerful, important, necessary medicine.
- I must listen to, honour, AMPLIFY that "small intuitive voice" of knowing within.
The Tree next to the cabin replied, Now you are doing your medicine work [by visiting daily, by "arriving fully"].
I promised to listen to them, their lessons and method of teaching. I thought of Ma. I deeply miss her. I asked, "Is she here?"
Tree said gently, Yes, she will make herself known to you when it is time...
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