Last week every time I stepped out my front door to walk my dog my mind would immediately go to the environment all around me. What was I smelling, hearing, feeling. Did I need to worry about rain, about skunks, were there any other people out at that time of the morning that I needed to be aware of. I try to be aware of these things as often as possible but it felt like last week that I was hyper aware.
On Sunday I drew down Artemis for the grove and she spoke about readying ourselves as warriors for the environment and warriors for peaceful change and about knowing what's going on around us by using our senses as one of the ways to ready ourselves.
This week, early Monday morning when I was walking the dog before 6am (our usual time for a walk) I noticed the birds chirping for the first time this season. It has been so cold until this past week that they have stayed quiet until the sun was well into the sky. This week however they were quite up and happy to be singing the day in.
I think it's so important to pay attention to our environment and the creatures that share it with us. When I drew down Gaia for the first time she gave us the same message. KNOW your environment. Know how to read it. The time has come for me to begin this training in earnest and not just casually as I have been doing until now. Time to train myself, ready myself and teach my children and others at the same time....
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I found it very striking that in your drawing down, Artemis spoke of being a warrior for peace... and then a few days later I watched the Jesus Camp movie, where they are talking about muslim children being trained as warriors, and why shouldn't christian children be trained as warriors, and they meant complete with guns and grenades... so much anger and hatred and violence...
I noticed just the otehr day the robin calling in the morning....truly a hearald of Spring. You really should look into that Kamana program as it is alot of what you are talking about. I am starting the second year of it pretty damned quick (got it for my birthday I did).
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