 Was sitting outside with my daughter Gracie. Sharing my scarf with her because it feels a bit chilly. She and her brother convinced me to come sit out here. Watching trees shed their leaves. On this new moon I’m just quietly being. Feeling into the energy around me. A quote I read when I was very young circles in my mind:
“At the centre of the Earth✨ Stand looking around you.✨ Recognizing the tribe✨ Stand looking around you.✨” It has been swirling in my head for some time. For me it represents recognizing the animal and plant beings around me as part of the “tribe.” Also recognizing & acknowledging so many who are here to stand up for and with the animal and tree souls. Protectors. We are stronger together. None of us are alone on this path. There is more support and love around us than we can possibly be aware of. As we go into holidays that can sometimes be difficult for those of us who feel the animals - those of us who are sensitive to jokes and constant ads about turkeys and things like that. You are not alone. Take time to be still in the midst of it all. Peace and love to your hearts. ❤️ quote credit: I read it in Susan Seddon Boulet’s book of paintings called Shaman when I was around 15/16. Page 90 by a painting called ancestor. Not 100% sure if hers or something she matched to the art. If anyone knows more feel free to mention and I’ll add it to the post.  the insects have been speaking up a little louder lately. This sweet spider lives in my bathroom - she’s an indoor spider. (There are bigger outdoor ones that are hardier and I gently take them out.) This one tends to mostly be above the shower area and once or twice she has ended up in the tub by accident, which is too slippery for her to climb up from- so one of the things I always do before a shower is to check the tub bottom and if she’s there I give her a lift back up to her spot.
Like good roommates we watch out for each other. She weaves magical energy protections and grounds faerie energy into the home. I make sure she doesn’t get stuck in the tub and say hi to her when I see her. The patterns of spiderwebs are also a lovely thing to focus on for meditation-we can imagine the types of energetic weaving we wish to create in our lives.✨🕸💗  Last week I helped a dear friend to gently escort a cockroach out of her camera bag. A lovely person standing near watched the process and asked me how I got so comfortable with insects - and I thought it was a great question.✨
As humans, many of us instinctively recoil at the sight and especially at the touch of certain insects. The natural reaction when we feel it is to wave our arms or even scream & jump back. I am not immune to this- I actually trained myself to not react.✨ I don’t have a phobia, but I remember a time when I was younger- I probably would have waved my arm to get anything that landed on me off. Then I became a mom. To cats. Cats have whiskers and fuzzy tails which brush against you and they can sometimes feel like a light insect is walking on you.🐈 I was terrified that I would accidentally bump them if I reacted to a light touch thinking it was an insect. So I trained myself to stay perfectly still if I felt a light brush - and to look at the source before I reacted or moved. It’s really not as hard as it sounds. Most of the time it would be a kitty whisker. Sometimes a ladybug, or a stink bug, ants, and yes - I have even had a cockroach walk on me- I live in the (US) south and they are extremely common here. It was fine. Because I didn’t react- I calmly was able to take them outside where they belong. (Once I was at an outdoor restaurant patio with trees around and one fell on my arm! I just discreetly put her on the floor so she could escape without creating a panic.) So that’s it! That’s how I initially began getting used to insects without triggering a fear reaction. Now that I can communicate with them I’m extra grateful for the training and it allows me to connect better. ❤️Also an added bonus- when dealing with insects that sting- if we don’t freak out and try to shake them off violently - they are far less likely to get scared themselves & this in turn decreases the chance of a sting/bite. 🐝✨🐜 This photo is of a cockroach that got inside and had a sip from the kitty fountain where I noticed her and then gently took her outside.✨ We had the loveliest visitor in the garden yesterday. He jumped unto the handle of my husband’s (electric) lawnmower and rode around there for a while, then this cutie let me carry him to a nice grassy spot near a shallow water dish.
I put my hand down for him to jump off- but instead he stayed for a long time & then jumped on my lap! I had a “lap frog” for like 15 minutes! I even gave him a bit of reiki :) We felt so honoured to be graced by this visit. The energy was sweet, wise and very much about being in the moment and enjoying stillness. I felt like he could really teach me about the art of “chilling out” properly.☀️ |
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