GREAT INFO. ON HEALING PLANTS AND SUSTAINABILITY
http://rainforest-database.com/plants/plist.htm
The Medicine Cards are very useful
for all kinds of guidance, helping you connect to NATURE'S RHYTHM,
which is innately connected to your own. Anytime I do a reading with them,
I take notes. What I've started doing is writing those notes in
first-person, affirmation-form. That has
only increased their power and it
helps hold the message clearly in my memory as I proceed throughout the day / week /
month. Today, I meditated on what energy would be useful to YOU, my
circle of students, clients, friends and extended family. I pulled TURTLE ~ which is Mother Earth that reminds us that it is time to connect with your
core values, that which is truly important to you, on the most practical and deepest soul levels. It is
time to focus your attention, direct your
energies and use your precious resources wisely.
Turtle teaches you,
through its habit patterns, how to use protection. If you are bothered by the actions
or words of others, it is time to go inside yourself and honor your feelings.
If you are attacked, it is time to give a warning snap. If you have
chosen the Turtle symbol, you are being asked to honor the creative source within
you, to be grounded to the Earth, and to observe your situation with
motherly compassion. Use the water and earth energies, which represent
Turtle’s two homes, to flow harmoniously with your situation and to place your feet
firmly on
the ground
in a power stance.
Turtle is a fine teacher of the art of
grounding. You may even be able to overcome some of your “space
cadet” tendencies if you align with Turtle medicine. In learning to
ground, you are placing focus on your thoughts and actions and slowing
to a pace that assures completion.
Turtle warns of the dangers of “pushing
the river”, as evidenced by the plodding pace it keeps. The corn that is harvested before its time is
not yet full. However,
if it is given the chance to develop at its own rate, in its own season, its
sweetness will be shared by all.
Turtle buries its thoughts, like its
eggs, in the sand, and allows the Sun to hatch the little ones. This teaches you to develop your ideas before
bringing them out in the
light. Look at the old fable of the tortoise and the hare, and decide for yourself whether or
not you would like to align with Turtle. Bigger, stronger, and faster are not always the best ways to get to a
goal. When you arrive,
you may be asked where you’ve been and you may not be able to remember. In that
case, arriving prematurely can make you feel very immature.
If you draw the Turtle card, it
augurs a time of connecting with the power of Earth and the
Mother-Goddess within. This is a reminder of the ally you have in Mother
Earth. It does not matter what situation you have created: ask her for
assistance, and abundance will follow.
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