Green World

After a night of rain the forest is a green world. I remember from my training as a textile technician and dyer that the human eye can distinguish more shades of green than of any other color.

Green is all around me. The leaves absorb all other frequencies of the light and only reflect the rays making up green. Blue- yellow- green.

Green the color of the heart chakra. I am bathing in it. I sit down at the little stream flowing down Ascension Gully. The sound of the water lets my mind drift away and I see with my inner eye and only feel green.

Absorb the love of the universe in myself, expanding my heart.

At home again I had to draw a mandala for the heart chakra.

Life Energy

This morning I visited my old friend the ironwood tree on the Fernwood trail.

It was overcast and I was missing the sun, which I like to absorb into my body. I brought some tobacco as an offering to the spirits of the forest and had some fruit as a snack. Touching its ancient bark, I could feel the energy that connects this tree to the web of nature. Warmth filled my body.

Thankfully the tobacco was poured on a stone. I sat down and took a banana for a snack. The first bit was broken off to give to the spirits and I started slowly eating.

My German ex lover is a shaman and she once taught me to eat mindful and slow to honor the food. I did remember and let the banana melt in my mouth.

It came to my mind that we owe all energy in our body to the plants which absorb the rays of the sun and store them for us. Everything living in and around us originates from this sun energy. Even the petrol driving our cars comes from the oil created by organisms millions of years ago.

I was filled with thankfulness. Looking around I noticed all the plants striving to catch the sunlight, climbers climbing up and branches growing straight up as high as they can.

As I now consume the energy transformed by the plant, I feel a need to give it back, radiate it out as love and let it vibrate in a touch energising my beloved.