Finding Earth’s Abundance
We walk in the beauty of the earth while in human form. Clad in star dust and the substance of earth, our spiritual bodies are clothed by nature. Our physical being is renewed and nourished by the earth. She creates moisture, food, color, and background—the fabric of life in diverse forms.
Earth clothes spirit in form. An actual grid provides the framework for nature so trees form leaves (not fishes or hands), flowers bloom in a colorful array, and birds hatch eggs. A similar network exists for thoughts and emotions—although we are often not aware of it.
Nature replenishes the senses through waterfalls, blue skies, stars, plants, and wildlife. Every bit of her architecture holds a secret message if we truly listen and look. All of it—oceans, dolphins, trees, wolves, flowers, and bees—speaks in a special rhythm, carrying ancient meanings and messages. (Sonar emitted by whales and dolphins helps in keeping the oceans alive. They emit songs of life.)
The colors and shapes soothe the human eye and awaken the body. The earth creates life through thousands of forms, an infinite display of diversity. She pulses through our feet, wafts through our air, and washes the world clean through rain, snow, and ice.
The Earth Speaks
Nature reads and responds to our energy. She reads our body, gestures, and thoughts. When we connect to the earth, the pulse of the rain, the frenzied shape of lightning, we align with a larger, physical force. (Thinking of running, climbing trees, or gathering herbs. The pulse of the earth fills our body, and life takes on a smooth, beautiful rhythm.)
The earth may respond to our energy through totem animals or specific plants. For example, herbalists can read your physical symptoms by taking a look at the weeds in your yard. Dandelion can indicate a need to cleanse, lily of the valley can show a heart condition, or the presence of bloodroot can actually help in preventing in cancer. A hawk acts as a messenger, a deer carries unconditional love, or a crow can represent magic. Nature connects with us constantly–even if we are not aware of it. (NOTE: Totem animals appear as an out of the ordinary event, and marker plants grow in specific patterns.)
All of the elements within the self (and life) are reflected in the physical world. In the past few years, the earth reflected much of the upheaval of human consciousness. Think of the volcanoes, tsunamis, and weird weather as we approached 2012 as well as the ensuing three years of Uranus square Pluto. (When there is pressure on consciousness, the earth mirrors it.)
The Heart and the Earth
The word “earth” is an anagram for the heart. Part of the message of our earthly existence is aligning the heart with the currents and rhythms of the earth. The heart sits in the center of the chakra system between magnetic (physical, lower) and electrical (spiritual, upper) chakras. The heart balances the resonance of the human body. When we are aligned with the heart, we align with both spirit and matter.
Through the heart, we decipher the messages of nature as the voice of the wind, a tree speaking through its leaves, or the revitalizing force of a flower. Every part of nature has a signature, a pattern of shape, texture, color, and quality. The signature conveys its energy, and an underlying message travels through the intuitive system.
If we listen and watch through the heart during meditation, nature sees our visualization. She gently corrects and amplifies them through the earth, wood, rocks, and trees. The Earth holds our spiritual and physical vibrations; she also helps in altering them. (We know when we are listening through the heart because everything becomes more beautiful and peaceful.)
The Abundance
The earth creates everything in great abundance. But abundance comes through rhythmic cycles. There are new and full moons. The new moon is used for riddance of the old and planning the new; the full moon brings the new energy into fruition. Energy moves through the year in seasons with open doors on solstices and equinoxes.
The earth creates with a specific rhythm. By observing the tides of the rhythm, we can create more effectively. The same is true of affinities—gemstones with practical and spiritual qualities, geometrical shapes, and devices to harmoniously create health. (There are also angels for many events on earth and in nature.) Affinities and specific dates act like radio stations, which tune into a particular station or magnets actively pulling in a specific vibration.
Earth, herself, acts as a magnet, amplifying the qualities of our visualizations, thoughts, and emotions by pulling them into form. If we persist with a particular idea or visual, it will eventually take on physical form. (Much of our experience of life is the result of habitually repeating visualizations of what our ego defines as safety. Of course, we can expand this at any time.)
At some point, all of us have had a strong interest in particular topic. When we focused on it, we pulled in objects associated with this interest. We may have purchased them or received them as gifts, but they “came” to us. Eventually, our interest provided a great deal of “matter” or physical objects associated with our interest. (We’ve all manifested abundance in some form.)
Into the Garden
In the beginning (if my dialogs with nature are correct), we walked on an earth that responded to all of our desires. If we wished for fruit, a flower, a person, or animal, it appeared—or we were led to it very quickly. Every manifestation seemed (or was) almost instantaneous.
We walked lightly on the earth with a sense of lightness, which comes from attunement with the universe. The earth spoke in a thousand voices, and we listened. Beauty surrounded us, and it sustained us. (It never occurred to us to think of abundance because it was our experience.)
If the soul can recall perfection, it can recreate the experience. Much of our current experience is based on lack, competition, limitation, and incorrect perception. Perhaps, we can return to the garden of all higher knowledge and abundance by listening to our heart, the earth, and the perfection within us.
Finding the Garden of Abundance
It begins with desire, love in the heart, and a determination to connect and create. Will is required to stay connected and continue on the path. The path reveals natural surroundings—find the beauty, listen for the signs, and hear the messages.
Think of anything, which brought abundance into your life. Think of a desire, collect some aspect of it in the physical, hold it, and amplify it. Ask the earth to pour her abundance through it. (Practice often and see your consciousness and the object as powerful magnets.) Recall the state of the beginning when thought, emotion, visualization, and creation were One.
Julia Griffin
is a much loved authority on intuitive and spiritual practices to increase one’s happiness and well-being, distinctive in that much of what she practices she learned from her interaction with wolves. For more information, visit her website onetrueself.com