Our Sacred Earth

This is my feedback as a letter to the group of women I gathered with in the mountains for a wonderful afternoon of connecting with Nature and Spirit and Selves...

Hello All,

This is what I wrote yesterday (Sunday) when I saw that it was raining! It's a bit rambling... apologies!

It was wonderful to meet and re-meet with you all, thank you!


Looking at the rain today, hoping that it will stay, and be the soaking rain we prayed for. I'm sitting in a coffee shop, listening to Scott and friends making nice music. People are running quickly to their cars to avoid getting wet. I just had to get outside in my bare feet and stand in the rain! It would have been so wonderful to attract even more confused looks by having yesterday's group all be out there with me in the parking lot, doing a happy rain dance!

I really enjoyed out time together at Bonnie's beautiful home and surrounded by untouched nature.

Bonnie, I love your style of leading a group. The time we had flowed effortlessly from one thing to the next, and there was great balance between the thought and heart you put into planning, and your ability to allow spontaneity. You didn't try to squeeze too many 'activities' into our time, allowing for deeper connection with what we did do, with nature, with ourselves and with the group as a whole in nature.

There is something very perfect/transcendent about women gathering in nature. Reminding ourselves of our goddess nature, that we are one with everything else. That beauty and power is something I've only been able to open up to over the past few years. It's something I've always known, but never thought I could feel, something that other women (the ones I admired!) could feel. i still have to push myself to seek these experiences of connection with other women, yet I do it more and more as I wise up to what is good for me and for the Universe. I start to take responsibility for myself and for my own thoughts and actions. I take responsibility because I know that what I do counts. After years of feeling like an insignificant presence, I now understand, feel and take joy in just how significant I am, which is exactly as significant and divine as every other person.

Our gathering was another powerful reminder to me.

I loved connecting with the aspen (the flower remedy I have needed most over the years is aspen). I had such a strong sense of the trees accepting me/us and protecting us. The tree felt so very strong, so very spacious and so open, a reflection of what I can be in moments of meditation, peace, gathering, community. The work is to make those moments longer-lasting, more frequent and to bring them into all aspects of life..


Love,
Katie