Nature is Your Mentor

 

 

I have had a lot of you write to me and to express interest in developing your intuitive gifts.  While things like meditation, astral travel, and psychic exercises can be important, I think that it's often the simple things that are overlooked.

In my opinion the best place to work on your gifts is when you are spending time outside. Everything in the world is made up of energy, from the people we encounter, to the animals that surround us, the trees, stones, water and on and on.  Every single thing consists of energy, and it's all linked together in this beautiful web that surrounds us.  

Everyone is sensitive to that energy on some level. I find that some of you are more sensitive than others.  Still others can take that energy and turn it into usable information.  That's what gives you your intuitive gifts.  Many of you who have found your way to working with me are here because you are gifted in working with energy. :) It's something that I'm quite passionate so I'm so happy to have you working with me!  

Your intuitive gifts are a lot like a muscle.  This means in order to develop your gifts or strengthen them, you need to use them.  One of my favorite methods and the one that I wanted to share with you today is going out and reading nature.  Not only will it help you to develop your gifts but it will help cleanse you and ground you at the same time which makes it easier for you to work with your gifts.  Your health and well-being has a direct impact on the strength of your gifts. 

So where do you start?

Find a path that you can walk in the woods.  Feel the dirt and pebbles crunch under your feet and try to feel the energy of the people who have walked there before you. 



Look at the trees around you and note their size, placement etc.  Find one that is older and spend a bit of time with it.  See if you can feel the energy moving through it and the things it has seen in its life.  I have a really old oak tree up the road from me that I am attached to. I  go and visit it whenever I can as I just love just being in it's presence.  It's on an old dirt road that use to lead to a part of town that's no longer there.  You can feel the carts and horses imprint in the dust of the road going by that old tree.  That's a picture of the tree above. :)) You can see how huge it is. 

Take a walk by a babbling brook or a lake and see what you feel.  Note the energy of the water, how calm it is and uplifting. Then take it a step further and try to feel the various animals that have come there to drink.

Find a quiet place to sit and just watch and listen.  Look for signs around you.  Watch the animals.  Ground and center and then be mindful of your energy.  Notice how much closer they come the calmer you are and the more you become one with Mother Earth.

We are a nature based religion.  I honestly dislike the word religion....  It's more important to be spiritual.  The roots of our spirituality come from the Earth and nature.  Don't look for answers in technology.  Seek them with the spirits and the energy that reside in the forest, for you could walk your path without ever picking up a book or looking on a computer and you would still learn all you need to know out there.     

Trust, feel, and love. 

Have an amazingly magickal day!

Much Love and Many Blessings,

Jasmeine Moonsong

P.S. The picture of the mountain that I used for the article today is the view that Herman Melville saw from his house when he wrote Moby Dick. I took it on a tour of his property Arrowhead in Pittsfield.  Isn't it beautiful? :))