A Message from the Trees – Send Gratitude and Love

Please Share… Please… xoxox

A very large ancient Matriarch tree (silver maple) was cut today in my neighborhood. It was healthy but too close to a carriage house and the owners finally decided it needed to go.

I had no idea this tree and another one on the same property were slated to be cut. All I knew was that I was spiritually called to walk to that part of the neighborhood early this morning, a walk I never do at that time of the day. When I discovered the tree company trucks and realized what was about to take place, I knew I needed to honor and bless both trees, with the permission of the owner who was kinda open to me. I essentially talked with them and loved them up. They both knew full well what was about to happen.

I even tried to convince the owner to only take the one large limb from the Matriarch tree that was hanging over the deck of the carriage house. But the decision was already made for a complete death.

The Matriarch tree asked me to do Sacred Fire ceremony tonight to truly honor the two trees. I promised I would.

For an Earth empath like me, and plant communicator, the grief in my neighborhood was palpable as the day transpired. The other trees were grieving and quivering with fright that they would be next. I could feel their fear. I was grieving from the cutting of this huge Matriarch tree, and trying not to empathically absorb the fear of the tree community around where I live.

It was hard for me all day to be focused and upbeat, in truth. I kept on trying to stave off the sadness and fear permeating the air.

I did do the Fire Ceremony this evening to honor the trees. It’s important to keep one’s word even with trees. Maybe especially with trees and other beings in the nature realms. I needed to do this and send prayers to the trees of the world with all that they have lost, so heartlessly.

The Matriarch tree and the other one were honored in a good way. It was a healing ceremony around the Fire.

I have a Message from the Tree kingdom to share though. (Not from Mother, everything is talking with me these days.) They are asking that we send them more gratitude. For too long, they have been harvested, cut with no awareness of their consciousness and never a thank you from pretty much all other than the rare few.

They are asking for us to reach out them and express our gratitude. It could be a forest you drive by. A tree in the parking lot. In your yard. Across from your office. Any tree or forest or grove you see. Just send them love and gratitude from your heart. It’s really so easy.

The energy behind a sincerely felt thank you, from your heart is more powerful than most know.

And if you can save a tree or grove or forest from being cut, even better. Or plant a new baby tree to replace one that has been cut that could not be prevented, that’s super beautiful. Especially if you plant it with Love and Kindness and tend to it to ensure it survives.

Thank you to all of you who will read this and share it.

hugs, bigLove,
m

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Matriarch Tree That was Cut/Passed Today in Buckeystown, MD 21717

What Would Earth Mother Do?

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Ps… Earth Mother wants this wisdom she has asked me to put into these books (Messages from Mother…. Earth Mother & The Great Mother Bible) to go far and wide, so all my books (including the 1st – If I gave you God’s phone number…. Searching for Spirituality in America) will be discounted to $0.99 – the Kindle versions — this Fri through Sun (April 22, 2016 – April 24, 2016).

~for the Earth and the Healing,
hugs, bigLove…
mare

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Be Peace, My Children – Message from Mother, Nov 18, 2015

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photo (c) Harold Blum

[The first section of this blog is a book written by Gaia Communicator Mare Cromwell called Messages from Mother…. Earth Mother, which was released at the end of October, 2012. Several gifted Native American elders have confirmed that Mare is working closely with Earth Mother. You can read all of the Messages here or purchase the printed book independently. It is also available as a Kindle ebook and at other internet venues, and can be ordered from any bookstore in the USA, Australia, Great Britain, and other international sites. The Great Mother Bible is now also available as an ebook and hard copy on Amazon, and other ebook venues. If you’d like to order a personally autographed copy of any of Mare’s books from her directly, go to her personal website: www.marecromwell.com.]

 

Mother’s Message to the World

November 18, 2015

Oh, my children, my beloveds, know that you are living in times of great shifting. Know that a New World is being born of a much higher set of frequencies at this time. The energies are rolling into me and across me to manifest this more and more.

It is time for you to heal your darkest emotional patterns, and your wounded inner child. It is time for you to come to love yourself in ways that you might never have thought possible. The deeper the love you have for yourself, and self-forgiveness, the greater calm joy you will be bringing forth in your life.

As you raise up this calm joy from a place of stillness and acceptance, the more you will be a beacon of healing energy for others around you. This is so needed in these times. More healers and less reactionaries.

Know that your semblance of being in control is only an illusion. Your little stories in your beautiful minds of how you would like your reality to be, or another to act, or circumstances to be different are your fiction. These are not serving you nor I nor others around you when you become so attached to them.

There are so many forces at place in all of your situations. There is a dance of physical and spiritual influences behind all actions and reactions. For instance, if a good friend is dying, how does it serve for you to become angry when Spirit, along with that person’s higher self, has made the decision to take that soul back home? This person’s death is not about you and your needs. It is about his or her spiritual journey woven within a vastly complex web of wisdom that only those on the astral planes truly understand.

Be at peace with these things, my children. Be at peace with all the great tragedies splattered across the world. Yes, there are great wrongs playing out but to react to them with more chaos within yourself does not serve. As best as you can, cultivate your inner peace and calm and know that great forces are at play here. Some of these forces would love to pull you into the drama and have you spin in your emotions. Resist them.

This is not to say that you should not seek a higher justice in these dramas. Just that it is important for you to come from a place of peace within yourself in doing this. I love my activists, my good-hearted police-persons and more, when they come from a place of peace within themselves, especially.

Know how much I love you. Know how much your ancestors love you and your spiritual guardians and Creation love you. Breathe this love in. Drink this love in. Feel the love of the trees and waters around you. Or the dry land of the arid region. These are all infused with so much love from myself and Creation. Give your sorrow, your frustrations, your pain to me. I can take it all and transmute it. I am here for you. Please come back to the remembering of the sacredness and Love.

Yes, these are somewhat intense times. Dance to release your frustrations, your fears. Hug each other. And hug again and again. Hold space around those in pain and let them feel your love. You can remind them of my love.

Pray, Pray. Prayer is so beautiful. It ripples across me in ways that tickle me greatly, especially when the prayers are for the highest good of all. Pray for peace in the world and within yourselves.

But more than anything, know that you are not in control. It is useless to think you are. Seek to do the highest good and come to peace, peace, peace, peace. That is how you can help yourself, your family and all of us, including me. Come to peace. And compassion.

Compassion. It is a good word. It is a good feeling to invoke. May all of you come to know compassion on its deepest, deepest levels. It only gets more and more beautiful when you do.

Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you,
Thank you.

I love you all so, so, so, so much!

 

A Code for My Well-Being These Days

Was inspired to write this yesterday and tweaked it this morning… to share…

A Code for My Well-Being These Days…  (in these interesting, challenging and adventuresome times)

hugs, bigLove to all,

mare

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A Message from the Water Spirits in The Netherlands

This is a very specific message from the Water Spirits in the Netherlands. And it applies to all of us around the world.

I had arrived in The Netherlands on Saturday, June 13th, 2015, to lead several workshops (on The Great Mother Bible and Earth Mother’s Appeal to her Daughters) and to participate in the Wisdom Gathering in Dalfsen.

My beautiful friend, Daan, who has been my event coordinator and host for this trip lives in Lelystad, a young village whose land has been claimed from the water only within the past thirty years. When I arrived in Lelystad and her husband Ton shared how their village was so young, I thought it was interesting but did not think that much of it. Though there was an off energy to the land there, kind of a subtle disharmony to the area but that could be for many reasons, so I mostly disregarded it.

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Image from Wikipedia

Later in the evening we went for a walk in her neighborhood which has some lovely walking trails in a young forest and over some narrow waterways. I love how the Dutch are committed to setting aside natural areas very close to their villages for the sole purpose of walking and bicycling, allowing people to find some forest and openness for exercise and to relax in, so close to their village.

As is my practice whenever I arrive in a new place, I offered a blessing with tobacco and prayer to the nature spirits in Daan’s village and surrounding parts. First I did it in her tiny postage stamp front yard. And then when we got into the forest, I did it there also. But I felt very little sense of a nature spirit community in both places. Many times when I do this, there is an immediate response from the nature spirits where I am and they send a ripple of energy through me, or I receive some communication from them. It’s a lovely experience when they do this. But there in Lelystad on the land, there was only the slight sense of some nature spirit activity in the forest, and really none in her immediate neighborhood.

Then we left the forest and came to a short bridge and I felt called to do a blessing there with a quick prayer and some tobacco again. I love doing water ceremony and know how healing the prayer energy can be and how quickly the energy travels through the water. As it is all the water throughout the planet is connected anyway and I love the idea of the prayer energy resonating far and wide.

When I leaned over the bridge and dropped the tobacco down onto the slow moving waters below, I sent my love too. This is something I’ve been taught to do since I know Earth Mother and all the nature spirits sorely need our love sent back to them. They’ve been ignored for so long that this means much to them.

Instantaneously I felt a strong wash of love come back to me from the water. This surprised me and I asked my friend if she felt the same as I did. But she did not. We resumed our walking and conversation about the upcoming Wisdom Gathering and related projects. I quietly mulled over the wash of love I received as we walked further.

That night after falling asleep, I was woken up by an intense, complex dream with a pervading message about stepping into my real work, my true work. I don’t even remember the details of the dream now other than I was shaken deeply by it.

The dream was so intense that I could not sleep afterwards. I lay there in bed contemplating the dream and taking in the energy of the room I was staying in and how it was not my room but a guestroom in another country in an area that was recently some forty or fifty feet under water. I yearned for the comfort of my own bed.

Then, in a similar manner to how Earth Mother speaks with me, I started to receive a very distinct spiritual message. Yet it was not from Mother, it was from some overarching Water Spirits. They told me who they were and asked me to share a message to the Dutch people who are spiritually open enough to receive this message. (Occasionally I do get these types of messages from Nature Spirits or trees, not just from Earth Mother.)

Here is the message:

“We, the Water Spirits of your area are rather upset and have been for years as no one has asked us, or sought out our permission to drain our waters from what you think is your area. No one has come to honor us or to seek out our counsel on what areas to drain over all this time. And we have been relegated to some tiny waterways that are stagnant and too slow moving compared with our waters before.

“Not to mention our fellow water spirits in the North Sea where you have just gone right in and ripped up the sea bottom to collect the soil to fill up the land where we used to live, and how they feel violated.

“We have been ignored and have not been happy about this for a long time. We are sending this message via Mare to ask you to honor us and help others learn about our existence since so many of you are completely ignorant of us.

“Please, we ask that you do Water Ceremony to us (and to the other elements too – the wind, the earth, fire, ethers — as you can) on a regular basis and to teach others how to do this. Please seek to connect with us, the Water Spirits, and not just the water itself.

“We ask this of you to help heal this great pain we carry from being so violated by your earlier settlers and those who completely ignored us and our rights. We ask you to send Love and Light and Gratitude to us as often as you can. This can be every time you drink water, take a shower, even flush a toilet. We need this Love and Light to try to come back into balance. Things have gotten so out of balance. What you do here in Holland with honoring the water will spread throughout the world, energetically.

“Please, please share this message and do ceremony on any level you can. You can send Love and Light and Gratitude to start with. It is that simple. Thank you.”

So, now I’m sharing this with my Dutch friends and pray that they will carry it far and wide. And upon writing this, I’m going to crawl in a bathtub here in this house where I’m a guest, and send as much Love and Light as I can into the waters of the bath… in deep gratitude that I can even listen to the Water Spirits to share this message.

p.s. The Water Spirits want me to also share that if you are reading this and you are not living in Holland, it is still an important and powerful thing to send Love and Light and Gratitude however you can to the waters around you and in your personal life.

About Mare:
Referred to as “The Voice of Earth Mother” by a gifted Shoshone elder, Mare Cromwell is a multi-award-winning author, nature mystic and international speaker. Her books include: The Great Mother Bible; Messages from Mother…. Earth Mother; and If I gave you God’s phone number…. Searching for Spirituality in America. She has studied with Native American teachers for nineteen years and currently sits on the World Council for Wisdom Gatherings. Mare leads workshops on our Sacred Planet-Earth Mother, Womb Wisdom and Sacred Silliness, and is the visionary behind the Great Mother Wisdom Gathering. She loves to be involved in Sacred Water Ceremonies. Mare is also a former worm herder. She calls Western Maryland home.  www.marecromwell.com

7/15/14 Message from Earth Mother – To Heal Our Waters, Her Blood

 

Message from Earth Mother

July 15, 2014

 

Oh, my children, my beloved children, I love you so much. Please will you send your love and gratitude to all the sacred waters that circle me? These waters are my blood. They course down the rivers to the ocean and throughout all my skin and bones, my rock layers. The whales, they call out to you from their beautiful hearts to ask you to send love and light to my waters. The dolphins call out to you. Your very cells call out to you to pray over my waters and send them so much love. My waters are sick all over the world. This is making my beautiful, beautiful creatures that live in the water sick. This is making you sick. You must stop contaminating me. Please send love and light. You don’t know how much that heals the water all over me. It helps to release the contamination in the most magical ways. Each day, before you take a sip of water, send love and light into that glass. Or at the water fountain. Even your morning coffee. Send love and light. I love you all so much, please do this for me. For the whales, the dolphins and all of your amazing cells too. I love you!

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Gunpowders Falls State Park. Photo (c) Tim Dicke. Thank you, Tim!

 

Message 18 – Please Step Away from the Fear Cycle

[The first section of this blog is a book written by Gaia Communicator Mare Cromwell called Messages from Mother…. Earth Mother, which was released at the end of October, 2012. You can read all of the Messages here or purchase the printed book independently. It is also available as a Kindle ebook and at other internet venues, and can be ordered from any bookstore in the USA, Australia, Great Britain, and other international sites. The Great Mother Bible is now also available as an ebook and hard copy on Amazon, and other ebook venues. If you’d like to order a personally autographed copy of any of Mare’s books from her directly, go to her personal website: www.marecromwell.com.]

 

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[Written Sunday, December 16, 2012. Two days after the school shootings in Connecticut. Twenty-eight killed. Twenty children. Eight adults.]

Oh, my children, my children. How my heart goes out to you these days of great change and turmoil. Oh, those poor two-legged children and adults who lost their lives to the crazy two-legged in Connecticut. Oh, all the suffering that so many of you are going through. I feel your great grief and rage. Such sorrow. Know that I feel it and am sending all of you my Mother Love. Huge amounts of Mother Love.

Know, my beloved ones, how much I love you. Know also that the fears that you are all experiencing don’t need to be so.

Your newspapers. Your TV stations. Your mind-numbing media are not helping you see all the beautiful, positive magic and grace that are happening all around you all the time.

And your churches and mosques and synagogues with the angry gods whom have instilled so much fear in so many of you. These are not helping either.

There is so much beauty and capacity for joy in being alive here and now on my planet. There is so much love surrounding each and every one of you, yet you do not know it. You don’t feel it and don’t take it in.

Every time you light a match, there is magic. Every time a seed germinates at exactly when they need to, and they mysteriously know when this time is, this is all magic. A baby conceived. A bolt of lightning etched across the sky for a millisecond. Beautiful, magical happenings all around everywhere. And yet most of you don’t even see it. Or feel it. Or hear it.

How I yearn for you all to wake up… Wake up! To the joy, the beauty, the grace, the mystery and all the sacredness that surrounds you each and every day. It’s all here in front of you, but most of you have just disconnected completely or almost completely.

Please, turn off the TV’s. The computers. The cellphones. All the noise that keeps you spinning in the fear cycle as if you are all a wad of bound up clothes in a bad dryer that just doesn’t know how to stop. Turn off all the contraptions, please!

And go outside. Be still. Quiet your overactive minds. Hold a stone in the palm of your hand and just feel the stone. That’s it. Only the stone. Imagine the wisdom of this stone and how ancient it is. Know that the chaos that your media is spinning is nothing compared to the eons of time this stone has known.

And allow yourself to sink into a place of Thank You. To the stone. To the day. To the trees out there. To the food you have. To the glimpse of silence you discovered for that moment. See if you can do this as often as you sit in front of your computers or use your cellphones. See… Try… No should’s. An invitation.

I love you all… hugs and love and so much more joy I send to all of your beautiful hearts, your beautiful beings.

Apologies

[The first section of this blog is actually a book called Messages from Mother…. Earth Mother released at the end of October, 2012. You can read all of the Messages here or purchase the book with the first thirteen Messages at this page. It is also available as a Kindle e-book and at other internet venues and can be ordered from any bookstore in the USA, Australia, Great Britain, and other international sites.]

With apologies to all of the six-leggeds, eight-leggeds, many-leggeds, those who slither and those who crawl, as well as the ondines, salamanders, sylphs, devas, fauns, dryads, gnomes, fairies, brownies and oversouls, Landkeepers, nature entities—all of you. For the sake of brevity, I could not mention every one of you in this story.

And deep gratitude to the whales who are the record-keepers who report back to Earth Mother, Divine Mother, and to the dolphins who called me to the beach in June of 2012 to hear the beginning of these messages. Thank you for encouraging me to listen to your call, for all of us to listen to the call of Mother, so that we may serve her to help our beautiful planet and ourselves evolve to that world described in the last chapter.

Message 10 – About Cooperation & Competition

[The first section of this blog is a book written by Gaia Communicator Mare Cromwell called Messages from Mother…. Earth Motherwhich was released at the end of October, 2012. Several gifted Native American elders have confirmed that Mare is working closely with Earth Mother. You can read all of the Messages from that book here or purchase the printed book independently. It is also available as a Kindle ebook and at other internet venues, and can be ordered from any bookstore in the USA, Australia, Great Britain, and other international sites.

The Great Mother Bible came out Spring 2015 is now also available as an ebook and hard copy on Amazon, and other ebook venues. If you’d like to order a personally autographed copy of any of Mare’s books from her directly, go to: www.marecromwell.com.]

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Mother: Hello, Sarah … Hello, Sarah. So delightful to be together again, isn’t it?

Sarah: Yes, Mother. It was a very nice hike up here again. It amazes me how it never rains up here when we meet. Some of these afternoons it’s been rainy in the city but it always stops when I hit the trail to meet Mr. Tufts and then join you here in the Sacred Grove. I know you’ve been helping the weather a little.

Mother: Ah, Sarah. Yes, I do what I can. It would be a shame to get all wet in the Sacred Grove while we meet. Today, today … I would love if you’d share about something you’re very grateful for, instead of a joke. Make my heart sing a little.

Sarah: Let me think for a moment.

 [long pause]

I’ve been writing up your messages and sharing them with friends, and people are really responding to them. Most love them. This has inspired me to do some other creative writing. I’ve been working on some other pieces to get published too. All this writing makes me feel so alive and passionate. I love it.

Mother:   Hearing that makes me feel so wonderful! One, that people are liking the messages so much, and two, that you are doing something that makes you  so happy. I love it when my two-leggeds find their soul-work and they are so joyous. That’s just beautiful and tickles me. Really tickles me and makes my heart sing. When you are all singing with joy in your lives, it helps me sing too.

So, today I want to talk about a funny idea that many of you two-leggeds have gotten into your heads. Actually one of many funny ideas, but never mind that.

It’s the idea that this beautiful planet that I’ve nurtured along for all of these millions and millions of years is based on competition. Somehow you have concocted the notion that all my lovely species are having a battle fighting over the minerals in the soil or the sunlight in the forest—all the time.

This is not true. What’s happening, and has been happening since I nurtured those first cells along in evolution, is that most of my glorious species are cooperating most of the time. But you have seen the world through a lens of competitiveness for so long that it’s hard for you to understand this.

That two-legged called Darwin—he was a very hard-working man and traveled all over in those beautiful ships that were so silent and clean. I miss them. Anyhow, he traveled to so many various nooks and crannies of the continents and collected so many parts of plants and animals. He even studied earthworms. Fascinating man. But his mind was working so fast, and he got so caught up in his ideas of “survival of the fittest,” and “dog eat dog,” etc., that there was no way I could get through to him that he was completely missing the truth in front of him. Just like almost everyone else in his culture, he was not going to listen to me, his Earth Mother.

What most of you don’t realize is that all of the beautiful four-leggeds and standing ones, the finned ones, the winged ones, they all know it’s a dance of life. They know they need to find food and they need to make more babies. They also know they need to eat some living beings and they are lunch for other beings. It’s a dance of being completely in the moment for them.

You see, I designed it so they would be able to live with all of their special ways and be in the gloriously huge web of life. I’m constantly tweaking this and that so one species can do a little better or be a little smarter. Maybe add extra antennae, or longer ones, to a bug. Or a fish might evolve a slightly more elongated fin to swim faster. There are a billion improvements to be made all the time. You should see my “To-Do” list. It’s rather long. But I’m used to it.

When a lion catches that sickly or weak gazelle on the Serengeti, the herd knows in advance that one gazelle is not meant to live a long life. The lion knows it needs to eat. They accept these things and know it is part of the dance. This is not to say they don’t grieve though.

Oh, my elephants, they grieve so when one of them dies. I love them so, and I grieve with them: they are so wise and gentle and fine. I especially love their trunks and their feet. Some of my finer design moments. I guess maybe there are a lot of fine design moments. But I don’t want to toot my horn, really. It’s just my job to love all of my beings here and to keep on nudging evolution along.

As I was saying, so many of my four-leggeds grieve. Most of you have no idea how emotional or how intelligent most of these other four-leggeds, winged ones, and others are.

But I’m getting off track here. So, yes. Cooperation. The dance.

In the forest, trees are communicating and sharing all those lovely minerals and organic stuff all the time. But you two-leggeds can’t see it and most of you have assumed that trees are just dumb lumber standing. But they are not dumb at all. Some of you have learned how to communicate with trees and you know how intelligent and emotional they can be.

Trees grieve too. They grieve when one of them dies, especially the very ancient ones among them. They know their elders and respect them greatly. Some of you feel when trees grieve, I know.

You see, trees thrive on living in community. They have a vast network of roots and root hairs. Fungi live on the roots and act as transporters and telephones all at the same time, sharing each tree’s minerals and information with the others. This phone/chemical exchange can go from tree to tree to tree, all underground, for long distances.

At the same time, trees are chatting back and forth with each other, sharing the news in their energy fields. Trees do chat by ways other than their roots. When one is sick, they all know it. They try to help the other trees when they fall sick by collectively communicating and sharing information on how to create an immunity to the disease that has come in. I help them with that, but they take the initiative. They’re very smart.

When some two-legged walks into a forest with a chainsaw, believe me, every tree in that forest knows it, even if they are miles away. Trees are not dumb. They especially don’t like chainsaws and how mindlessly they are used. There is never any offering, no seeking permission, no honoring the Sacredness of the trees when the chainsaws come in. It makes my heart break, how many small and large chainsaws are being used all the time all over my lovely planet. Oh, my trees … my standing people. And all the other four-leggeds, six-leggeds, bird nests, all those beings in those forests that are lost, just lost, when a forest is cut.

In a healthy forest where chainsaws are far away (thank goodness), trees are cooperating by sharing their spaces with their beautiful leaves, so everyone gets enough sunlight. They are always helping each other and they know it’s a dance for light in the forest. So the lower branches in most of my tree babies have larger leaves than the upper branches. They will send out a branch in a certain direction to take advantage of a gap with more light. But it’s not as if they are fighting and cursing each other as some of you two-leggeds have been known to do at rowdy events with too much fermented drink in your bodies. They know they are a community and dancing together to live together.

Of course, there are times when a seed falls at the base of a tree and starts to germinate. This can make it kind of tough for the larger tree. But I assure you, there are intelligences there that negotiate and work it all out peacefully. Many times the seedling becomes like a lover to the original tree. It can be quite sweet to see how they grow together and develop a bond. However, most of you are oblivious to these intelligences.

The biggest challenge to me is that you two-leggeds keep on moving four-leggeds, six-leggeds, and viruses, seeds and other critters around the world. A couple of beetles that are supposed to be living in Asia, since that’s where I put them, show up in New Jersey since you shipped them there. Those beetles get out with their mates and before you know it, or I even know it, they are munching on all sorts of things and there is nothing much munching on them. Or you take rabbits to Australia. Or mongoose to Hawaii. The list goes on and on. Kudzu to the south of the United States. Eventually they all get loose. Of course they get loose. Or seeds are scattered by birds or animals or the wind. That’s what all my critters want—to be free. Wouldn’t you want to be free too?

This is when competition comes in, since these plants or four-leggeds or six-leggeds, etc., don’t have anything munching on them for the most part, they run rampant. My poor native species don’t have much of a chance. I know you know what I’m talking about.

My plants—they want to help you. They do. For thousands of years, when medicine two-leggeds have gone out for walks, the plants have whispered wisdom to them about which ones can help heal different ailments and how and when to use their leaves, stems, blossoms or roots. That is how the original herbal wisdom was shared. The plants talked with the medicine two-leggeds.

But plants only want to help when they are honored for their Sacredness. They will speak only to those who have learned humility and learned how to listen. Those who give blessings, tobacco, cornmeal, or other gifts to me in ceremony are the ones who generally learn how to listen the best. I need to see that you are willing to be humble and open and patient in order for me to wake up those abilities in you so you can listen. This is the way. Of course some of you have been born with these abilities. You are so delightful to me.

For those who learn these ways and seek to be in relationship with me, your Mother, I can help you so much. So much. But you need to want this relationship with me, and show your love to me.

It used to be that all my two-leggeds were in close relationship with me. There would be dreaming women who would come together and dream together in the same tents or caves or wherever they lived. These women were particularly gifted, and many dreamed the same things. They would discuss their dreams since these were messages from Spirit to help their village.

Sometimes their dreams were from the overarching Spirit of the deer or gazelles or other wild four-leggeds, and that Spirit would tell them where to send the men for the hunt the next day. The men would then go off and find a herd exactly as the women described it. There would be one weak deer or gazelle as the women described and that would be food for the village for the next few days. This is the dance between Spirit, the two-leggeds, and the four-leggeds who were hunted. Some of my two-leggeds still live this way. But not many.

There were very close relationships between my two-leggeds and the four-leggeds and plants. They all danced together to help each other live and make babies. It was all so beautiful. Yes. I miss that.

I know these days can return and be even better. I know you two-leggeds have the capacity to be wiser and more connected with me.

I know you, Sarah, with your pure heart—you could learn how to live in this way in very close relationship with me and all my loved beings. All my beloveds.

So, that’s it for today. I have to go and check on an earthquake that’s taking shape in the South Pacific. It’s threatening to break and I want to make sure that it’s as harmless as possible. As if an earthquake could be harmless. But I try.

One of these next times, let’s talk about how my two-leggeds might be living in closer connection and with greater love for me. That would be most fun. Let’s do a dream journey together, Sarah. Oh, I’m getting excited thinking about it.

Yes! Let’s do a dream journey together soon!

So much love to you, all of you!

Love, love, love!

 

Mother_Earth

Message 9 – About Gratitude

[The first section of this blog is actually a book called Messages from Mother…. Earth Mother released at the end of October, 2012. You can read all of the Messages here or purchase the book with the first thirteen Messages at this page. It is also available as a Kindle e-book and at other internet venues and can be ordered from any bookstore in the USA, Australia, Great Britain, and other international sites.]

Mother: Hi, Sarah! Do you know that we’ve now been meeting for nine weeks here in the Sacred Grove? This is so much fun!

Sarah: Yeah, that’s pretty amazing. The time has flown by.

Mother: Indeed it has. So I’ve got a joke today. It’s a knock-knock joke. Are you ready?

Sarah: Hmmm … Do I have a choice? Just kidding, Mother. Of course I’m ready.

Mother: Knock knock!

Sarah: Who’s there?

Mother:Howl!

Sarah:Howl who?

Mother: Howl you know unless you open the door!

Sarah: Oy! Mother! Your jokes … they are so … precious. Yes, precious is the word. I really need to get you that joke book. I do. You are so funny.

Mother:   Well, I try. I try. Okay, so today I want to talk about gratitude. So many spiritual two-leggeds speak about this. I think I need to talk about it too. I suspect I might have a slightly different angle on it.

Honestly, your culture is really not so good at gratitude. Most of you seem to have forgotten how amazing and magical it is to even be alive. To be living in a two-legged body.

Now some of you are aware of this. And some of you practice gratitude a lot. This is a good thing. But only some. Very few of you.

But geezy-peezy, when was the last time any of you said thank you to the trees around you? Not only are the Standing People—which the wiser ones on this planet call trees—cut down cruelly to make things like thank-you cards, or toilet paper, but all the animals and plants that live in those forests are also destroyed with this—what you call “clear-cutting.” And so few of you ever think of thanking them for all they’ve given you.

I mean, don’t most of you study this about trees in school? They give you oxygen. They give you firewood. They give you wood to build your homes, shade to cool you in the summer outside … I don’t think I need to list all of the things trees give you. Not to mention all that they provide for so, so many other species. But when was the last time you thanked them?

Same goes for the water, the fish. The animals. Oh, you don’t want to get me started about gratitude toward the animals that you eat. You do need to eat—I understand this—but what is it with the way you treat these animals, where they stand all day in their feces and are given chemicals to keep them from dying there in their feces? How insane is that? Then you turn around and eat that meat with the chemicals in it? I mean, that’s crazy!

Ay-yi-yi! I really wonder about many of you and your common sense. I coordinated this planet’s evolution so animals that live on the land eat plants growing fresh from the ground, or bushes or trees. The plan is that you two-leggeds who eat meat would go and hunt them. Or you can keep some of the plant-eating animals inside fences when they get used to you, or you herd them. That’s all fine. And I know you eat plants too. But to have these poor cows or chickens or turkeys or pigs standing in manure day in and day out, and then being dosed with chemicals that you’ve come up with—this just does not make any sense to me. And you wonder why so many of you are sick … but that’s another conversation.

I wish all of you understood how amazing it is to be alive on this planet. I love this planet so much and I love you all so much. All the trees and flowers and bugs. Oh, my precious buglies. I love all of you. The fish, the teeny-tinies that you use microscopes to see. I love all of them. I even like leeches. They’re kind of cute in their funny slimy way. They all have a place here on my beautiful planet. They eat things. Things eat them. It all works out.

But you all have forgotten what a blessing it is to be alive. I’m going to repeat that. And say it louder. You all have forgotten how amazing it is to even be alive here on this planet I take care of!

All you seem to do these days is take and take and take and take … I think I could say takea million times over again. I’ve been around a long time, you know. All of you two-leggeds are such newcomers. But troublesome ones most of you’ve become in the last wink of time, from my view on things.

So it would be really nice for you all to start giving too. Giving. Saying thank you to that tree outside would be a good start. Or giving the tree some good manure too. Not the manure from the places where the cows stand all day. That manure is a little scary.

Or saying thank you to the water coming out of your tap. Or to the lakes and rivers and aquifers that you even have water coming out of the tap. Or to the water where the fish you ate last night lived. Or the fish. The crab. The lobster. Whatever you ate. Even the parsley on the plate that most of you don’t touch in the restaurants. You can thank that too. I have no clue why you don’t eat that parsley. It is usually the healthiest thing on the plate for you to eat anyway.

Please be careful how many of these fish you catch though. I am concerned about how many of them you are eating and their ability to survive all your taking. Oh, don’t even get me started on how many of my species babies you all have wiped out so far. I don’t want to go there in this very moment … makes me want to cuss really loud, and I don’t think you’re ready for the types of cusswords that Mother can say!

Hmmm … you know, you can even thank me sometimes too. Directly, I mean. You can offer tobacco to me. Or cornmeal. Doing prayers outside and laying little piles of good clean tobacco or cornmeal at the base of trees is an old Native way of honoring me, your Mother. If you don’t have tobacco, you can gift me with a small amount of whatever food you’ve got there. The whole idea is giving back. Prayers count a great deal too.

Okay. There you have it about gratitude.

Oh, oops. Not quite finished. There is something else here. When you all start expressing gratitude more, and really feeling it, you would be amazed at how wonderful that feels. For you and for me. For all the beings on this planet. When you two-leggeds start saying thank you from a place of really feeling it deep in your hearts and your bellies, oh… it’s like the way you feel when you eat really good chocolate for me. All nice and happy and slightly buzzing. For all of you to be feeling gratitude and expressing it out loud is like amazing energetic chocolate for me on my level.

You see, this beautiful energy of gratitude just starts to move through your rooms and houses, to other two-leggeds around you, and four-leggeds, to the ground under your house, to the trees and the birds and the flowers. Oh, it’s such a sweet, positive energy. And I love it. It tickles me so and makes me happy. So happy!

I love to be tickled!

I’m going to give you some homework. The next time you eat, try to eat in silence. Even if you are with someone else, both of you can eat silently. Focus on every bite silently. Chew it slowly. Say thank you to each bite and to the food on your plate, each forkful of food. Try that. Try it several times. See what happens. Enjoy the food. Enjoy what I’ve created on this planet for you to eat.

Now off with you. I’ve got other things to do. I’m a busy Mother, you know.

I love you …!

Every single one of you, small and big and short and tall and teeny-tiny to big-big … all of you!

Mother_Earth