Greetings , I love it when the days and nights, light and dark, become equal—it helps me remember balance, the message of the Spring
Equinox. Sprouting, blossoming, nesting, and energies of rebirth in the spring offer us an invitation to listen. To observe. To receive. Slowing down and putting aside all your worries and lists—you know this!—make you
available to the energy and wisdom surrounding you. When you pay attention to trees leafing, birds mating, flowers blooming, and even weeds taking over, you'll experience beauty and maybe even get a message that can guide you on your path. This morning as I walked up towards my medicine wheel I looked up. The three young oaks growing straight up from a long horizontal
branch spoke to me. I've marveled at them for years, but suddenly this morning I heard them advise "Three words." Immediately I knew this was an answer to a question I've been posing to myself, "What are the central themes of my writing?" The three trees told me, clearly, to narrow it down to three themes. A magic number. A graspable number. A number an agent might resonate
with! In numerology, three represents creativity, self reliance, joy, connection, and expansion, all part of my path. Following their advice, I spent the day honing my words, just as I've been trying to do for weeks. I've had many ideas—that's often an author's problem, too many words, not enough focus—but my tree message helped me settle. Decide. Move
forward. Finding Nature Even when you live in a tall apartment without trees or plants around, you can find growing things in the springtime. Take a walk, go to the nearest park, and listen. A weed may be just as talkative as a tree! Go where you are drawn, whether it's a tiny flower or a big redwood. Ask a question, or simply
listen and watch. If there's a dry grassy place, lie with your belly to the earth. Let go. Receive. Rest in the arms of your mother. In stillness, you'll be surprised at how much you see and hear; you'll be surprised at how calm you feel afterwards. This is the bounty nature offers us, every day: the opportunity to stay present, engage, and witness the
life around us. Then, once you've calmed down, you'll be ready to face the day with renewed energy. To advocate for the changes needed in your home, your neighborhood, your community, your world. It takes a lot of
energy from each of us to be present in this divergent, hostile, traumatized world. We all need to renew and reinvigorate ourselves daily. More on this below... and springtime is the perfect time to renew! Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask Maintaining Equanimity in These Times Maintaining harmony
within is essential to preserving harmony around you. When you’re afraid or mad or out of balance, you can’t maintain your equanimity. So, what to do? It’s not easy, but it is possible, to let the density go and fill with lighter energy. I learned the hard way, when every single day was filled with trauma, PTSD, worry, fear, and exhaustion. Desperate to keep from
metaphorically drowning in grief, I started doing the energy practices I’d learned in the Andes. Multiple times a day. For a minute or an hour, I could create an internal calm that let me breathe. I could step back, gain a little perspective. Then something would happen and I’d have to practice again. Just like all the saints and wisdom keepers, we have to
maintain a daily practice of breathing, releasing, stillness, being present. According to the medicine wisdom of the Andes, there are four crucial daily practices to help us meet changing times and challenges: - Root yourself into the earth.
- Release or spin off what doesn’t serve and fill yourself with lighter energy.
- Align yourself with
Earth and Cosmos or with a column of light.
- Open your heart in connection withal that is and feel supported. Relax into the support.
Most of you have practices similar to this. How you do it is up to you. What’s important is the four steps of root-release-align-open. If you’re not sure how to do these practices, Weave the Heart of the Universe Into Your Life is a great resource. Whether your nervous system is imbalanced, you’re overwhelmed with fear and anxiety and want to shut down, you’re suffering the effects of intergenerational trauma, or your home just got flooded/blown to shreds/burned up, doing simple practices like this will help you shift and cope. You don’t have to succumb to
despair in these times. We humans will face challenges on every level, and it will be hard. If you stay aligned and connected, rooted and open, you’ll have the energy to carry your personal harmony to others. You’ll be able to feel the support of others, seen and unseen. You’ll have moments and days when you feel yourself part of the interconnected whole, when you can join hearts with others who seek peace and justice, and when you can vow once again to bring harmony and
equanimity to your family, community, world. Cycles Poem from my friend Maya Spector... Why don't we stop for a minute, turn away from the news, and take
some cues from the earth? Baby Spring has arrived once more. Tiny new leaves sprout on the Japanese maple and the little pomegranate trees in the back yard. The pink and white blossoms on neighborhood plum and cherry trees, and the sunny daffodils rising up, have all returned in due time. Although the earth responds to the abuses we have heaped on her by giving
us more wind, more rain (or no rain at all), more floods, more fires, the seasons continue to cycle, the tides rise and fall, and days and nights come and go. As do we. Everything passes. Everything begins anew, despite the chaos. So, when our storms of feelings rage and spill over, let's stop and breathe, attune to the rhythms of the turning and
returning earth rather than to her calamities. Why not rest in the spaces between breaths, between catastrophes, between upheavals? Why not simply revel in rebirth, in the flowering Baby Spring, and in our love for the earth and for each other? Heal Your Soul, Lighten Your Spirit, Find Your PathDo you need shamanic support? Are you looking for soul retrieval, mentoring, or clarity? Make an
appointment! I will help you get answers, explore the mystical, address the trauma, find your wholeness, and learn to interpret and integrate your shifts of consciousness. Meeting in person in Sonoma is fun, if you're close. Remotely on Zoom works too. You Are the Universe, the Universe Is Within You!“Weave the Heart of the Universe Into Your Life will help you learn simple practices to calm your nervous system, connect with Earth and Cosmos, release what no longer serves you, and fill with the light of the universe. “A field manual for breaking the myth of separation…” ~ Michael Stone, WellofLight.com” “…a marvelous step-by-step guide for engaging and reconnecting yourself to the life-giving energy of the endless Cosmos.” ~ Evelyn C. Rysdyk, author of Shamanic Creativity andThe Nepalese Shamanic Path Medicinewoman Meg Beeler—Author, Shamanic Guide, and Spiritual Mentor—helps you heal your spirit and find your luminous presence through mentoring, training, healing, and community ceremony. She is a lifelong explorer of shamanic, animist, and meditative consciousness who practices Earth-centered, nature-based, ancient wisdom ways, and studied Andean mysticism extensively with the Q’ero in Peru. Meg is the creator of Energy Alchemy™ & founder of Earth
Caretakers Wisdom School. Author of Weave the Heart of the Universe into Your Life: Aligning with Cosmic Energy, she is a contributing author and photographer to Where the World Begins: Sonoma Mountain Story and Image. Meg lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. megbeeler.com. “Where your attention goes, your energy flows...”
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