Unethical people

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Summer greenery

Summer greenery

A of West Des Moines, Iowa asks:

Q. What is the best way to deal with unethical people?

A. My dear A, how did they enter your field of notice? What is it in them that is mirrored within you? Is it a fear of being taken advantage of? Do you expect this? Are you fitting energetically with them like 2 pieces of a puzzle or 2 sides of a coin?

Do you preach and rail against what they are doing? Do you stew and worry and frown about their actions? Do you tell everyone you know? These actions and thoughts create the energy in you that draws them to you and you to them. Within the great web of all things, without knowing it, you have chosen to encounter these people.

What you worry about, stew over, push against, talk endlessly about, protest and fear only increases that energy within you. It is as though you put out a welcome mat and leave the porch light on for them!

Go inward with healing light and shine it on those fears and doubts and everything that dims your bright nature. Move your powerful attention to wonder, joy, fun and people who delight and inspire you. See the best in others and expect it in return.

Create boundaries. Decide each day to align body, mind, and spirit with your source and nothing less. Create a ritual for yourself to make this a reality. You are awesome and powerful! Own it in every cell of your being and every moment of your life and every word you say!

Lessons for a tree whisperer

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GCW

GCW

C of Urbandale, Iowa asks:

Q. Is the red oak in my back yard dead? I planted it a year ago.

A. Dear C, I will not tell you because then you would not discover your gifts as a tree and plant whisperer. You must discern this for yourself. Get yourself into a quiet state. Put your hands on your heart and breathe deeply. Let your awareness come into your body. Release thoughts.

Now stand near the tree and touch it if you like. Ask the question and allow the energy of the tree to answer you. You may hear words, see pictures, or simply know the truth deep within you. You may feel an emotion or feeling in your body.

Do this with other trees and garden plants near your home and the soil and grasses. Practice! All these living beings have tales to tell that will amaze and delight you! You must drop all doubt and skepticism, all fear of being seen as a kook or nut case. Those who label you have not the exquisite sensitivity, are not attuned to the frequencies of earth and plant spirits as you are!

Trust yourself! Practice your superpower! Enjoy

What can I learn?

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J of Ames, Iowa asks:

Q. What can I learn from you?

A. Can a lively woman full of energy, vigor, curiosity, passion and excitement for life learn from a tree? (I delight in my observation of you and your sparkling energy!)

I say yes! We can all learn from each other in this planet in which energies of every living thing are interwoven. All energies are one in the great web of all that is.

We appear so different. Those that classify and label things with your scientific accuracy, class you, a human woman, and me, a cottonwood tree at different ends of the spectrum of life forms – different branches on the cottonwood tree of life, so to speak. But we are both made of energy, energy that overlaps, interplays, affects the other.

Can you slow down enough- can you learn to tune into the tree energy  of who I am? Can you feel the joy with which I exist? Can you feel the delight, the exuberance of my being as I reach for the sun with my branches and the core of the earth with my roots? Can you learn to tune into and communicate on a new frequency? Can you open to this foreign and perhaps woo woo experience? You will have the entire population of trees at your back as you do your powerful healing work.

Powerful energy and powerful new knowledge will flow through you. It will not take the form of words or thoughts. It will take the form of feelings and sensations and the flow of new energies.

You are a life long learner, and you will never be done learning, no matter how many lifetimes you live. Welcome to a new dimension for your exploration!

For returning students

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Signs of autumn

Signs of autumn

J of Boone, Iowa asks her second question:

Q. Do you have a message for students returning to class?

A. My dear ones, from the earliest preschoolers to those adults spinning out their final years of graduate school: Learn with your entire being, not just your brains. Your brain can calculate, can memorize, can do many tricks, but it cannot understand what lies beyond the surface of things, the deeper meaning, the interweaving and interplay of all that data that is poured into your heads. It cannot decipher the feelings that are at the root of all human endeavor. That is work for your hearts, your intuition, your greater sense of knowing within your bodies and the energy that is you and also part of the whole.

Let the stories and lessons given to you soak in. Follow your heart to those that strike the deepest chord within you. Dig deeply into those areas that excite and inspire you! Let yourself flow with the great river of life to your passion!

Do not compare yourselves to any other! Be guided by your inner light toward your own true purpose.

Allow your schooling to help you become more of who you truly are, to expand into the potential for delight and mastery that exists at the core of your being.

Do trees heal?

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Tree as healer

Tree as healer

D of Ames Iowa asks:

Q. Do trees help heal people?

A. Our energy is beneficial to you! Do you not feel better after hugging us, laying in our shade, climbing among our branches, walking nearby, watching the shifting patterns of sun and shade beneath our canopies, and swinging from a tree swing?

Our energy is powerfully aligned with earth and heaven. We stretch toward our sun, the source of nourishment and allow our roots to be pulled deep into the rich dark earth without the holding back, hiding, embarrassment, or fear that hold humans from their true power. When you come near us you are bathed in this delightful life giving, powerful energy. Many of you sensitive enough can feel this energy.

We do not pluck those in need of tree energy from the crowd and force a healing on them. We simply are who we are and whoever is drawn near benefits from the power that emanates from us without effort; simply by trees fulfilling our life purpose- to grow from our seeds and be who we are.

You may purposely align with our roots and trunk and crown. Breathe with us, feel the stretch in your middle as you lift your spine and head toward the sun and allow your roots to be pulled into the earth as if by a magnet. Merge your energies with us for awhile. Feel what we feel and know what we know. We are your friends. Feel it! Feel our love!

Allow the energies of your being to flow joyously, freely, happily! We love you humans and all living things. We delight in you!

Talents and gifts

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Feather

Feather

J of Boone, Iowa Asks:

Q. How do we humans find our gifts and talents?

A. My dear J, the blueprint, pattern, and energy of who you are was encoded within your being long before your birth into this lifetime. Your talents and gifts are not like a birthday present that someone gives you to unwrap. They are intimately interwoven in who you are and the unfolding of your life.

Perhaps you are not sure what your gifts truly are. When you find an activity or idea that brings you joy and satisfies your soul to the roots of your toes, you are on to something! Look within and allow the unfolding of your interest to blossom. Use patience, for there is no need to rush. Everything occurs in its own time and season.

Allow the unfolding of your child’s gifts in the same way. Nurture those activities that bring them joy and light them up. Allow the unfolding like the unfolding of a flower. Think of a peony bud beginning as a tight hard green ball then softening and opening when the time is right; opening gently with petal after petal – a fulfillment of her sweet gifts and purpose here on this earth.

Trust that all you need is within you. Be guided by your feelings and your strong inner knowing. Follow your joy and bless this earth with your light!

Limited life span

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GCW

GCW

Betty writes:

Dear, Dear Grandmother Cottonwood, you have many broken branches and your crown is thinning. I dread to think of the end of your days some time soon.

My life force is strong and powerful as ever! I take delight in this existence, even more so, perhaps than a young sapling, for I have know all seasons, all weathers, all phases of growth and life. And still I delight, I take great pleasure in the sunlight feeding my shimmering crown, my magnificent structure, my admirable covering of thick back, protecting the soft heartwood of me. I delight in all creatures of the prairie and creek fringe that call this neighborhood home- the shiny black noisy crow, the fox, the vulture, the snake, the grasses, the milkweed, the mullein, the flying things with glassy or colorful wings that lift off and surrender their gossamer light bodies to the breeze.

Life! To be alive is my delight. To be the tallest among the community of trees and shelter all comers- this life feeds my soul and satisfies the deepest roots and heart of my being.

Even as you observe and worry about my age and my limited lifespan, I simply reach for the open sky and the core of the earth as is my reason for being. I am good at what I do!!! Until death comes, I delight in being fully alive! I take no notice of your human worry about what has not yet come to pass! Fretting, frowning, stopping up your hearts and blocking of your flow! That does not become you!

Trees like me, and all creatures live in the ever present now.  You can do it too!

Healing the Earth

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Red winged blackbird

Red winged blackbird

M of West Des Moines, Iowa asks:

Q. Are there certain places on this earth that need our healing energy and focus first? Is there a best priority to focus on?

A. Focus on that which is in your control. Focus the healing within your own heart first, for many humans are so outwardly focused you do not always see how your own unhealed hearts affect the web of all things. You do not need to be heroic, you do not need to range the globe and rescue anyone or anything outside yourself. Begin within your own heart, your body, your emotions. The waves of joy, of peace, of contentment that will flow from you will profoundly affect all particles of energy in this universe and this green earth home we delight in.

You are powerful! You are powerful beyond your understanding!

Nothing is outside yourself! All places you notice that are barren, eroded, flooded, plagued, diseased, paved over, or dying reflect something within you. Journey to that place in you and bring light and love to it so that no dark places remain within you- so that you become the light and know yourself as the hub of the great web of life in which all things are one.

When you are clear, others will come to you who will benefit from your energy. Those places on earth that will benefit from your clarity, your powerful love, like a column of light, will become known to you as well. You will need to make no effort. You yourself will have become the very peace, harmony, health and balance you seek for the earth!

Stones and shiny things

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Stone and foliage

Stone and foliage

GCW speaks of stones and shiny things.

You beloved creatures have built your world on a foundation of stones from the beginning of your creative time here in this great web of life to the shiny blinking mesmerizing objects you so love now. (Crows would love them too, but only for the shine.)

Your kind continues to invent, to improve, to tweak and innovate. It is who you are! Yet your bodies are much the same as they were when you hunted with flint tips and painted on cave walls. See the ancient hands silhouetted deep within the painted cave millennia ago. Now place your hand on that handprint- place yourself in that time and place. You are still that. You are still that physical being.

Are your bodies keeping up with the speed of your lives? Are you finding time to just slow down and soak in the exquisite beauty of existence that requires nothing of you; that allows you to know your primal roots? Do not allow your shiny creations, your conditioned air, your speed of thought, your rushing cars, your crowded marketplaces to keep you from knowing your integral place in the web of all things.

GCW wishes to see the great rifts created in the web of life mended, rewoven, made whole again. I ask you magnificent humans to make this so. With your creative abilities you can make this happen. Join the powerful energies of your hearts and reweave the circle of life. Be who you are created to be.

Let your true natures that began with your ancient ancestors shine forth. Let your energies sparkle and flow like ripples on a sunlit creek. Your love is the healer. This magnificent earth, our home, embraces you and all that you are, for you are dear, as dear as life itself.

Feelings

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Seed pods and bark

Seed pods and bark

Grandmother Cottonwood speaks of feeling.

My dear beloveds, I wish to speak of feeling- the feelings that flow within you like an ever changing kaleidoscope show of many colors, shapes, and interwoven patterns. Your feelings are life! Learn from them, feel them, know them, let them flow unimpeded by tension in your body, by judgment, by worried thoughts.

Those humans that walk near me – I can feel and sense the flow or stuckness of them. When there is flow, life simply lifts them and carries them like a cottonwood seed on a gentle breeze toward their destination. When there is a feeling of being stuck, the energies gather like storm clouds and those humans seem heavy and sluggish. Their faces register a frown, a turning inward, a drawing in of muscle, a tension that cuts them off from the beauty of and connection to all things. They live in their heads, not in the world.

I have sensed the energies of those on the verge of sickness and disease- those who feel stuck on one note like anger or fear, or resentment. Believe me, this note sounds false. It is not pretty to witness!

You can sense within your body where you block your flow. Love those places, all the dark and light of you, for love heals. Soothe your stuck places. Then, as you walk past GCW and all the other beloved creatures that inhabit this earth, all will feel, know and sense your flow, and you will feel wonderful as you live in the grace of this flow!