A Burning Piece of Coal
A Burning Piece of Coal
As I wake in the morning laying in bed my morning trance state of reverie offers me as much as ecstatic trance. In my small bedroom-study I am surrounded by painted shields and figurines of my spirit guides, the buffalo, bear, deer, eagle, squirrel, mouse, snake, and coyote. I sleep and spend my time writing in this womb of my medicine bundle. This morning the buffalo came to me most vividly from the shield hanging from the northwest window. Buffalo was possible my first spirit guide, at least in my awareness of the importance of spirit guides. He showed me my contentment in my spirituality, spirituality that has continued to evolve over these last 40 years since I first embraced the Buffalo while riding on his back, snuggling into his fur.
This morning in my reverie I ventured out into the living world around me, a world full of deer and squirrel with who I most frequently commune. I sometimes hear the coyote and we have at least two black snakes and a garter snake who visit me, one black snake that I rescued from being entangled in the netting around our Paw Paws. In the world that surrounds the acre upon which our small house sits I have been tending and planting many of new plant spirit guides so that being closer I can express my love for them.
In this gardening I spend much time pulling up Japanese Stilt Grass, another very invasive spirit guide, at least it became a spirit guide this morning. Though invasive, it pulls up easily when I want to give space to nurture another plant. What it showed me this morning is that our relation to the rest of the Earth needs to be nurtured at a time when the current invasive Government Administration is seeking to take all that is of the Earth in its greed for oil, coal, and lumber. It is destroying our waterways and fertile land, showing no love for what She, the Earth, has to offer us. The image that then came to me was a hot, burning piece of coal. Though Stilt Grass is not dangerous as is a burning piece of coal or our current invasive Administration that takes away my contentment with the Buffalo/Earth, it shows me what must be done. As I experienced the red hot piece of coal I noticed where I found it inside of me, in my groin on the right side in a lymph node, the place that I recently learned contains prostate cancer cells. Like stilt grass that needs to be watched and controlled by pulling it up, the cancer cells are controlled with a hormone medication and will not kill me. The red hot piece of coal too needs to be controlled to keep a fire from spreading. Hopefully we can contain the invasiveness of the current Government in order to protect our Earth and I can again experience the contentment of the Buffalo without the burning coal within me.
As I wake in the morning laying in bed my morning trance state of reverie offers me as much as ecstatic trance. In my small bedroom-study I am surrounded by painted shields and figurines of my spirit guides, the buffalo, bear, deer, eagle, squirrel, mouse, snake, and coyote. I sleep and spend my time writing in this womb of my medicine bundle. This morning the buffalo came to me most vividly from the shield hanging from the northwest window. Buffalo was possible my first spirit guide, at least in my awareness of the importance of spirit guides. He showed me my contentment in my spirituality, spirituality that has continued to evolve over these last 40 years since I first embraced the Buffalo while riding on his back, snuggling into his fur.
This morning in my reverie I ventured out into the living world around me, a world full of deer and squirrel with who I most frequently commune. I sometimes hear the coyote and we have at least two black snakes and a garter snake who visit me, one black snake that I rescued from being entangled in the netting around our Paw Paws. In the world that surrounds the acre upon which our small house sits I have been tending and planting many of new plant spirit guides so that being closer I can express my love for them.
In this gardening I spend much time pulling up Japanese Stilt Grass, another very invasive spirit guide, at least it became a spirit guide this morning. Though invasive, it pulls up easily when I want to give space to nurture another plant. What it showed me this morning is that our relation to the rest of the Earth needs to be nurtured at a time when the current invasive Government Administration is seeking to take all that is of the Earth in its greed for oil, coal, and lumber. It is destroying our waterways and fertile land, showing no love for what She, the Earth, has to offer us. The image that then came to me was a hot, burning piece of coal. Though Stilt Grass is not dangerous as is a burning piece of coal or our current invasive Administration that takes away my contentment with the Buffalo/Earth, it shows me what must be done. As I experienced the red hot piece of coal I noticed where I found it inside of me, in my groin on the right side in a lymph node, the place that I recently learned contains prostate cancer cells. Like stilt grass that needs to be watched and controlled by pulling it up, the cancer cells are controlled with a hormone medication and will not kill me. The red hot piece of coal too needs to be controlled to keep a fire from spreading. Hopefully we can contain the invasiveness of the current Government in order to protect our Earth and I can again experience the contentment of the Buffalo without the burning coal within me.
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