Meeting Gaia
“A glowing blue orb, the most magnificent jewel I’ve ever seen rotated gently in the air above me…
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I approached the Abbey, past the cherry blossom and the budding blackthorn, past the daffodils bravely sprouting from the ground, through the grand doors that shrunk my proportions to miniature. To set foot into the energy of sacredness and stillness of the Abbey. The grand work of art that is the architecture of the abbey towering above me. There is a full bodied resonance to ancient abbey’s cathedrals and churches, it’s as if the contemplation, praise and prayer that has been consistently performed over the centuries been reverberates on in the present. An energy of sacred-ness and stillness envelops me as I step foot inside, I turned the corner around a column and I was entranced.
A glowing blue orb, the most magnificent jewel I’ve ever seen, rotated gently in the air above me. A sculpture of light and pure beauty. Over the speakers an astronaut spoke of seeing the Earth from space and how life changing that was.
Enchanted I found myself a spot by a column and sat there, mind totally empty, senses fully alive seeing, heart wide open, Witnessing. I sat for an hour on the floor or the abbey, aware I was sitting on the earth, made of the earth, surrounded by things and people of the earth.
As I sat there in awe and wonder at our home and mother, my visionary imagination took me on a journey. I was no longer sat in an abbey. I was sat the vast blackness of space cross legged, in silence and stillness watching our planet, our home our mother spin and turn. Seeing how I and every one I’ve ever loved, and, everyone I will ever love is a part of this precious planet. The simplicity of it and the profound depth of creativity of it.
How can I explain the spirals of experience that flooded my mind, imagination, emotion and energy? The brightly humbled magic and mystery of it all. The deep blessing of being awake and aware and part of this life. How my bones are made of mountains and my blood is made of oceans, and how yours are too. It recalled to me how Sophie Strand speaks of the body as an ancestor and community, and how the earth is like that body. How like the bacteria and microbes and community of life that makes up my body yet I am one body, how like that the earth, how we are part of the earths body.
How small the amazon rainforest is, and where even is Britain? And how brave those early explorers were to go adventure across those vast wild oceans! How small the patches of land these 8 billion humans inhabit, how large the vast expanse of ocean, how intensely and incredibly blessed I am to be alive and awake and part of all this. What a creative playground this is!
It took a lot to pull myself away from my contemplation of our world, and as I left the Abbey I looked up at the starlit sky and was reminded of the visions I had when I was a child. In one of which an ancient, slightly terrifying faerie being told me quite specifically my purpose in this lifetime was to make art that re-weaves the interconnection of humans and nature.
In my next post I’ll write a little about Faerie.
Love & Sparkles
Rachel
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