Love Your Mother Earth- Late April Newsletter
Dear ,
You will find in this late April, just after Earth Day, edition of my newsletter some words of encouragement and some offerings that I hope resonate with your spirit.
Standing on my deck and looking at the natural world around me, it appears as if Mother Nature has no knowledge of the pandemic sweeping the world. Spring is unfolding exactly as it should, at least in my neighborhood.
On the dunes, the gaillardia, sea oats, catbrier, and wax myrtles are awakening. Out over the ocean, the pelicans glide and dive. On the sound, Charlie- my neighborhood great blue heron- has returned, and the ospreys are building their nests atop the channel markers.
Leaves flutter like raindrops from the live oak trees in my yard, just as they are meant to in spring. New growth is appearing on the cedar trees. The azaleas are still in bloom. The robins have long since returned, and the squirrels are digging away, recovering acorns they buried last fall.
There is such joy, such comfort, such safety and security, in believing that Mother Nature is doing exactly what she’s always done. The land stirs and stretches, and seems to yawn, as if from a deep slumber. As she wakes up, I take a deep breath. And another. And yet another.
Oh, I understand that nature is mutable, changeable, unpredictable. Believe me, I know. I have been through many hurricanes. I published a blog post on my website last week that gives you some ideas about how I’m managing this strange time and my hopes for a new normal. I hope you’ll pop over to https://debbowen.com/if-not-now-when-if-not-me-who-earth-day-50-years-later/ and read it.
AND – I also hope this month’s free MP3 meditation will be helpful to you. Be sure to click the link below to get it!
Here’s the link to the late April MP3 meditation I’ve recorded entitled “Love Your Mother".
I want this newsletter to be informative and helpful to you, so please let me know how I’m doing! I’m so grateful that you have taken a course or workshop with me, listen to my podcasts, have emailed me, had a reading with me, or subscribe to my blog. I’m so excited to connect with you!
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Book Recommendation of the Month:
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
This book is credited with starting the modern environmental movement.
Published in 1962, Silent Spring examines the adverse effects of the use of pesticides, particularly DDT. As a result of Carson’s research, and the attention the book garnered, legislative policies were enacted that changed the national pesticide rules. Eventually, this led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and spurred the international environmental movement.
Carson’s work also is credited with paving the way for ecofeminism and deep ecology, propelling the ecological movement in a metaphysical as well as scientific direction.
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough calls Silent Spring the book that has most changed the scientific world, after Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.
This book certainly has been a guidepost in my life. When I was a child, there were very few pelicans flying over my island community. After DDT was banned, a colony of brown pelicans that were on the brink of extinction established a rookery on a nearby island. Today, as I watch lines of pelicans fly over the sea, I offer thanks to Rachel Carson and the movement she spurred into being.
Tarot Key of the Month: Two of Cups
Cups in Tarot are connected to emotion, to water, and to the unconscious mind. Here in the Two of Cups we have two people who are offering affection for each other with cups that represent happiness and promise.
The Two of Cups represents a balance of energy, and that balance can be between two people or between aspects of oneself. Note that the lion in the center of the picture represents the fire of desire.
The entwined serpents represent the familiar caduceus that signifies healing. The Two of Cups often, for me, represents someone who is drawn to the healing arts. This is a wonderful key to work with when sending out healing energy to others and to the planet.
This key is about finding balance in our lives, and being still. Be still so that in the silence answers come. They always will. Perhaps now, more than ever before, the Earth needs us to raise our vibrations so that we are able to send out love, compassion, and healing. Our meditations help us balance ourselves, our energy centers. Then we can send out those healing vibrations to the rest of the world around. The Two of Cups key guides the way.
May we all be blessed.
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JUST ONE MORE THING BEFORE YOU GO: The World Needs You!
Remember that we all need each other, and Mother Earth needs us now more than ever. Knowing that in some small way, my offerings make a different for you keeps me going. I am overwhelmed by the many kind emails and Facebook comments I get from you every day.
You know how much I love the sea. I watch the vastness of the water and the single drops, and know they are each other and are me and you and our connection. Think of the sea as the gigantic family we’ve created by connecting to each other. I believe deeply that when we send out a droplet of connection, it flows into a larger and larger ocean of energy, and we embrace more and more of us around the planet. No matter how – or how often – we connect, I believe there is a divine reason, and I trust it.
I look forward to hearing from you, and so appreciate YOU!!!
BLESS YOU, , for reading my newsletter!
