"The Earth is naturally in flow to bring health and beauty. Allow yourself to surrender to this flow. Find a way to bring beauty into your immediate surroundings. You too are absolutely beautiful and healthy in your natural state. Live in Beauty.”
- Messages while sitting with a Redbud.
There are many beings at work with me every time I write a new article. At the moment Nettles, Marshmallow, and Lemon Balm are streaming through me as I sip my tea. The altar beside me is strewn with offerings, stones, and dried herbs, surrounding a flowering cactus in a clay pot.
The sun is pouring through the picture window as I overlook the snow-covered ground. The cardinals and finches peck seeds off of the inlaid stone bird feeder we’ve created within a giant old maple tree who has become hollowed out from lightning and time.
I overlook the shadowy forests across from our gardens and wild meadow that climb uphill all the way to the cliff line. The hill resembles the outline of a woman who appears to be laying down across our valley. The cliff in front of me appears to be her pregnant womb.
These cliffs and forests lie just beyond the creek that streams fresh waters from the Springs, most of which we’ve met.
We have not left the valley for the past week, for the winding roads into this valley can be treacherous without the appropriate snow tires, which we do not have. Nor have we desired to leave. Staying within this homey existence feels loving and natural, even if I have spurts of frustration once in awhile from pent up energy and then remember to come back to the breath.
I playfully imagine that we are the bears in the caves and the bees in their hives. Slow, and quiet, except for when our two year-old daughter, Aurora, sometimes called “DJ Kiki,” takes over with the songs programmed into her keyboard and we all end up dancing circles together in our living room floor.
I envision that we are with Persephone as she descends into the underworld, shedding bits and pieces of ourselves which are no longer happy to be with us on our journey and need to go another way.
It is a time to realize everything you ever needed was within you and surrounding you. I ponder how this tiny cactus could bloom so beautifully right next to a freezing cold window while being thousands of miles from her native land. This being so, inspires the notion that I too must hold a surge of beautiful creations within me.
After all, living right beneath the “womb of the Earth” our creative centers must be charged with the appropriate amount of creation to give rise to a whole new world—one that is healthy, whole, and harmonious.
An idea that resonates within me has been inspired by Cesar Milan, the dog whisperer. He points out that nature is always seeking harmony, even if it appears as a dog fight. The dogs are working out their harmonious order. Since we too are nature, things will appear to us, even if we are challenged, that also support us to come into harmony.
Our own bodies offer us daily clues and insights about which direction is most suited to live out our soul’s journey. Animals, plants, trees, stones, mushrooms, the elementals—wind, fire, and water—they all offer us messages daily. All of life is in constant communication with us. It is a vastly magical place to be when one begins to embody the wisdom of all those who surround us.
I can’t explain how all of this works, but I can attest that my own life has taken a deeply magical twist once I began to pay attention.
As I write in front of our picture window catching glimpses of the male and female cardinals, I am reminded of when Phil, my husband, and I lived in Minneapolis in 2018. At that time we were deciding where we would move to live closer with the natural Earth. We were debating between Virginia and North Carolina, but as winter was steadily holding on in Minnesota, I continued to be visited by Cardinals.
I became silent and asked my inner guidance what the Cardinals were trying to signal to me and in my mind’s eye I saw images that represented Kentucky. And so our quest was narrowed towards what we now have called home for six years. Our love for being with the land reached out and echoed back, and so we were brought together by a series of magical events, and I thank the cardinals for guiding us along the way.
When we landed in this area, we lived without electricity or running water as we lived in a camper trailer just up the road while we looked for land. It was during that time that I became more sensitive to the other-than-human beings around me. I began to speak with them in ways that shifted my inner landscape, and soon I began to write down what they shared.
They held messages to support us along our journey. I imagined these messages would become a book and asked a dear friend, Olivia Immitt, if she felt inspired to draw each of the beings. She said yes four years ago. Since then we have both birthed children, and she has recently finished the gorgeous illustrations. It is now time for us to collaborate and plan for the birth of this project.
As the project evolves, we are envisioning these writings along with their illustrated counterparts to become an oracle deck. Oracle decks can support us while making any decision along our path. They may affirm what you are already feeling or help you ask yourself questions to arrive at your own inner truth. They offer guidance in such a way as the animals appear in our own lives.
Included with each message are rituals to help us gather and sustain energy towards what we are trying to feed and manifest.
As I stare at the Cardinals outside my window, they remind me of what came through when I sat with their energy to receive their insights for this oracle deck. They ask us to be bold and to live out our passions.
One of my greatest passions besides mothering humans, plants, and animals, is to be in healing circles working with divination tools.
This being so, I would like to continue with another bold step along this path and ask you to be part of this creative process.
As we continue to gestate this deck into being I would like to offer previews of the deck’s insights and imagery through those who support these writings as a paid subscriber. In doing so, we are open to receive any ideas, edits, suggestions, or encouraging words to cheerlead this project along.
These messages are potent, and when they are true for you at the time, you will feel it throughout your body. You may or may not resonate at the moment within your journey, but I guarantee you they will offer some support in some capacity. As I am so grateful for your support in any way shape of form from sharing, commenting, and/or subscribing.
As I feel it in my bones, my prayer is that these writings will inspire others to incorporate the unspoken conversations we hold with those plants, animals, trees, stones, waters, and mushrooms who live beside us. This feels essential to healing parts of ourselves we have forgotten. By honoring the wildness around us, we honor our true selves who are equally as wild as we carry what surrounds us out into the world.
It is important to remember how we are influenced, and as I sit here, I realize the Great Soul of the Earth is influencing us at every moment. And if we listen, we can be guided into the richest experiences where we not only heal ourselves, but our family, community, and the land we live with, and this cascades all the way out to the seas and back. For our dear Earth is a master at healing herself, and so if we go to her, surely we too will find our healthy, vibrant, loving path.
Thank you for any and all support as these writing projects begin to weave themselves together.
With love,
Sacha Louise and the Bees