A Dive into the Archive: Elder Tree

I’ve had so many ideas of things to write that I’ve hit a bit of a bottleneck recently. There also are a boatload of things I’ve written and never posted, so when I came across this in my notes app, written in April 2019, I thought this would be a good one to share. For context, I’d gone to visit a neighborhood tree, a very old Hackberry, and the thoughts and conversations with my guides that happened while there all came together into this when I got home and sat down to write. So this is a bit of channeled writing. The concept of black light, referenced at the end, comes from my favorite book, Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota. All photos taken by me.

Roots below, roots above. One connects to the Mother, to nourishment; the other receives the warm fertility of the sun, the light of the stars.

Send out your roots, loves. Send out everything you can, into the sunlight. It will all be useful. Even if it isn't, you will still learn from it. So send it all out. The smaller ones may die off, or they may become part of a larger piece, a larger branch; and all of it is good.

Even if a branch breaks, don't worry. It may heal into an even more beautiful pattern than you thought possible. So let go and allow. Allow. Allow us to create with you. We're here, and we hear. We hear you; we're listening. We're waiting for your words so we can create with you to bring them to life. All of it. Everything. The good and the bad, so choose wisely, as they say.

Yes, the trees do live head first in the ground, as you have seen. Their roots are their mouths; their method of communication. They meet with each other underground and converse. They tell their stories, their healings, what they have learned from us, from you, from the beings that come to visit them in their bark and their branches.

Yes, you saw the little bug, lifeless on a piece of bark. Yes, it was a good place to die, and that little being knew it. It felt rest and ease, and knew it could let go there. The same light comes for it that comes for you. It was once a person, too, you know.

All the things you can learn from a tree! The most important being to send out everything you can. Listen to the Earth and the nourishment you receive, listen to the sun and the warmth it gives. Listen to the sound of your own growth, and follow it. It will never lead you astray.

You all have these roots that connect you to each other, below the Earth and above in the sky.

We gave you the wind to show you that not everything can be seen. The tree has roots and branches that you can see, but you also have roots and branches that cannot be seen. Just like you have motion with your physical body that can be seen, and we have the wind that moves but cannot be seen.

My sacral chakra wants to just curl up into a ball with all of this firm, soft, loving Earth energy. It wants to snuggle up, sleep, and be comforted for a while, and I can't say I blame it.

Black light is just as powerful and just as healing as white light. That's where all of our shadows, all of the things that we are afraid of live. And the true magic happens when we go into the black light, where these things are held, and bring them up into the white light. When we make that choice, that is where the true magic happens. It happens when the black light and the white light work together.