[singlepic id=2 w=320 h=240 float=left]Artist: Rhonda Harman
Title: Watcher Through Time
Medium: Acrylic paints
Contact: rhondajoyharman@gmail.com
FEATURE ARTICLE
Lessons from the Trees
I was looking at the trees in our background and musing how none of them fell over in Cyclone Yasi. Living in Townsville, I thought this was a minor miracle. Though we were a long way from the eye of the storm, when we drove back home after Yasi there were trees down everywhere. We had to drive carefully and look down the street before we entered to check for fallen trees and hanging powerlines. Many thousands of trees were blown over and it took months for the council workers to clean them up. Actually, there was one tree in our yard, blown into another. This was an eighteen-month-old avocado tree that was five metres tall. We found it the next day, and straightened it up by tying it to the fence with hay bale twine.
So for all the trees that withstood Yasi, what was their strength? What gave them the stability to survive? Their roots of course, and the deeper their roots the more likely they survived. However, was this the only prerequisite for survival? During the height of the cyclone it was amazing to look out the window and see how bent over the trees and shrubs were with the wind. If they hadn’t bent they would have snapped. Therefore, their stability and strength at the base was enhanced by their ability to bend and be flexible in their trunk and branches. When we cleaned up our yard of all the leaves and branches, one thing that was very noticeable was the windward sides of the trees were significantly stripped of leaves when compared to their other sides. They had to let go of leaves and branches so they were not pulled over by their mass and weight in the wind and rain. The trees survived with deep roots, flexible trunks and branches, and by letting go of leaves and branches they didn’t require.
What a beautiful lesson for us on our journey. Go within, connect with our core and find out who we really are. Bring awareness and presence into our lives and make this the basis, the stability that we build our
lives on. Then when the storm comes, use that base as our strength, as the foundation to stand our ground. Maintain flexibility with our thoughts and attitudes so we can bend in the wind without snapping or breaking in two. Lastly, let go of anything we no longer require or which no longer serves us, as they will weigh us down, make us heavy and could cause us to topple over. Then, when the storm is over, sit still and wait expectantly.
Nourish and care for ourselves, prune and tend any torn branches, be aware of the things we have let go of and allow the new shoots to poke out their exquisite little heads. With a little time comes new growth and then new branches; these new directions grow bigger and stronger until once again we have full lives. There will be branches that have been snapped off, however they are obscured by all the new growth that has sprouted around them.
Sometimes we are stripped bare, right back to our branches, even our trunk, so that we can reassess who we think we are and arrive closer to the truth, rather than mistake ourselves for all the roles we play and objects we acquire. If we have maintained our stability and stay in this moment then we can let go of the old things with gratitude for their role in our lives, and enjoy the new growth that has sprung up in their place. In fact if we stay in gratitude, allow what is to be and then flow with the new directions we will probably find our lives are richer, stronger and more fulfilling than they were before.
Sitting in my garden four months after Yasi I can hardly see any damage. The new growth is evident everywhere. The trees are healthy, strong and so lime-green where the new growth has sprung. That avocado tree, with a little help from its friends, is beautiful, thriving and six metres tall.
Love and Blessings, Ruth Akers.
REGULAR ARTICLE
ELENIN – The Dark Star Cometh
Fasten your seatbelts people. We are approaching zero hour. On 10th December 2010 at the Observatory at Mayhill New Mexico, a great comet named after its discoverer, astronomer Leonin Elenin, was sighted tracking through the asteroid belt well into our solar system.
This comet with a tail nearly one million kilometres long has a 12,000 year orbit, last visiting our solar system about 9,800 BC, the beginning of the Neolithic Age – the end of the last Ice Age. On its crescent trajectory, Elenin will pass between the Earth and the Sun during September and November this year. It will make its closest pass to Earth on 8th October at 10 degrees Leo in alignment with the constellation Draco, the Great Dragon.
So far Elenin has made three close alignments with the Earth-Sun line. At those times we experienced the earthquakes in Chile, New Zealand and Japan. The October alignment will be much closer to Earth and the tail of the Comet will be actually visible from Earth. Check the NASA website for verification.
This, of course, coincides with the end of the 5,000 year Mayan long count – the end of time as we currently experience it.
Let’s look at an astrology chart for the time and place of the discovery of the Comet. Saturn in Libra, demanding balance, has just risen. Zero degrees Scorpio is rising and Venus in Scorpio is about to rise. All the other planets are below the horizon with the Moon at Nadir, the foundation point. This clearly indicates that the Comet brings intense fluctuations below, within the Earth, unstable and perhaps the most intense expression of love in action that we have ever experienced.
The Comet itself was first located at Zero degrees Libra. Balance, mutually caring for each other and acting in harmony. Elenin was in hard, cardinal square to Mars; opposite Uranus. Ouch! But Jupiter is also opposite Elenin so there is still a strong element of expanding our awareness in the best possible way. So what to do?
Now comes the great divide. We as a solar system are now on the point of joining the Galactic Community. See my previous articles. We are the planet of free will, and free to choose the path we will take. The cosmic law of non-interference is binding through all the dimensions of existence. This Galactic Community will not interfere with our evolution unless we request it. Obviously, the so-called leaders on Earth can’t do it. But we can. If requested, the Galactic Community can protect and nurse us through this transformation. We know that consciousness can transform if a critical mass of 10% of any population shifts their paradigms. Perhaps this figure is a galactic constant. Perhaps not. But if a significant proportion of humans request galactic intervention it will be given.
Time is rapidly passing. So, what can we do? We can project in consciousness a sincere request for help at this time and those who are working on this level assure us that all is in place for us to make this glorious transition.
The eclipse season we have just passed through – two solar eclipses with a lunar eclipse in between – influences the next six months and its message is clear. Every individual makes a difference and we are all, essentially, one. What do you choose?
Rob Hart