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INTRODUCTION
Deity (God, Gods, Goddesses, the Tao, etc.) manifests in nature immanently. Animistic
Pagans and others can work together with Deity as manifested in the Spirits of nature to
heal the Earth, however we may think about other levels of Deity. The singular and the
plural are a matter of how our minds resonate with the unmanifest.
Each plant, animal, rock, and other entity has a spirit (consciousness resonance matrix).
These spirits can join together, in a hive-mind, as a spirit of an area. Nature spirits
include real biological intelligences, are psychically powerful, and are much less abstract
and controllable than the Elementals that many magical people who perform all of their
rituals indoors are familiar with. They can be extremely powerful allies. It is possible to
sense nature spirits, to determine if they are receptive to a ritual planned, and to have
them actively participate in magical workings if they are.
• Feel the wind, and let it relax you and awaken your spirit within, as your deep
breathing takes you into non-ordinary reality.
• Picture, in your mind's eye, a light inside you. As you breathe, feel the light
expand, purify and energize you — as it expands to fill your aura.
• Connect with your inner self (your higher self), and feel your intuitive self
operating.
Feel yourself as:
• The wind, full of life and intelligence, communicating with all round.
• The Sunlight, warm, alive, channeling the power to communicate with nature and
energizing all around.
• The Earth, and note how your physical body is able to wander while remaining
part of Mother Earth.
Focus on your spiritual self, and:
• Expand the light and love beyond the immediate aura of your body to the
surrounding area — where you will go to find a power spot and contact nature
spirits.
Telepathically (by thinking while channeling the love and light energy) send out signals
to nature spirits to emerge and be aware of your presence.
• Say why you have come, and invite them to join in sharing, mutual celebration,
and the work you intend.
• Visualize the light and love energy you are channeling extending out and merging
with the light from distant places.
• Feel the power of the Earth flowing up through your body and feet.
• Feel the power from the sky, and channel this power also to further energize the
carrier signal of light and love for communicating with nature.
• Close your eyes, sit on the Earth, and feel your connection while you channel
more light and love.
• Continue modulating the light and love with your thoughts -inviting receptive
spirits to join with you and to make themselves known.
• If in a group, someone should start playing a drum at a rate of about one beat per
second; and you should listen to the drum and let the drum take you deeper.
• Affirm that you are a nature magician, a medicine person, who knows and
communicates with nature. Let this part of yourself emerge to full consciousness.
Let the drum and the connection to your inner self awaken that part of yourself
that naturally communicates with other life forms. Let it awaken your telepathic
senses.
• You may see light coming from certain areas that are receptive. You may get
other signals, such as a feeling of power or love returning in a certain direction.
Perhaps the type of response to this work will be unexpected; follow your
intuition in interpreting it.
• When entering the power spot, look around. Perhaps the responsive energy will be
concentrated around some singularity (a bush, a tree, a specific branch, a moss
covered rock, or other entity that stands out). Perhaps the energy will be more
general. Use your intuition and feedback from the spirits to guide your actions.
• If it feels right, send out a signal that you would like to touch the singularity (or
the ground) for better communication. If the response is good, approach beaming
love energy, and then touch or hug the singularity (or the ground).
• Treat the spirits as you would other Pagans you meet for the first time — be
sensitive, open, and listen.
• Breathe deep breaths from the diaphragm, and with each breath, feel more
refreshed.
• Now imagine that your spine is the trunk of a tree; and, from its base, roots extend
deep into the Earth. Deep into the rich moist Earth.
• Feel the energy deep within the Earth and within the waters of the Earth. Feel
your roots absorbing nourishment from the Earth and from its waters.
• Feel it bursting up from the Earth and rising up your spine, like sap rises in a tree.
• Feel the energy rise to your crown chakra (at the top of your head).
• Now imagine that you have branches, branches that sweep up and then bend down
towards the Earth, like the limbs of a willow.
• Feel the warm, moist energy of the Earth flowing through your branches. As it
flows, feel yourself being purified, centered, and connected to the Earth.
• Feel the power from the Earth flowing through your branches and then down back
to the Earth, like a fountain.
• Note how your branches absorb energy from the air. Also, feel them receiving
light (fire) from the sky.
• Feel the energy from above penetrating deep through your body into the Earth.
• Feel the energy dancing among your branches and the branches around you.
• Notice how your roots also intertwine with underground energy channels.
• Feel the energy dancing between your roots and the surrounding energy patterns.
• Notice how you and the life around you are rooted in the same Earth, breathing
the same air, receiving the same fire, drinking the same water, sharing the same
underlying essence. You are one with the magical grove.
Telepathically mention the time in the past when nature spirits and people communicated
regularly and the need to establish such communication now.
Test your connection by asking questions and observing the responses.
WORKING WITH NATURE SPIRITS:
Explain to the spirits the purpose of your coming to them and the nature of the ritual you
plan.
If the spirits you contacted are receptive:
• Explain to them the details of the ritual and invite them to provide ideas.
• Such suggestions may come in the form of hunches, visions, answers to yes/no
questions using pre-arranged signals, or in other ways.
• Explain what type of space is needed and ask what the best place to perform the
ritual is.
• You may see light or get other psychic signals leading you to other sites, or you
may be at one of them.
• You may also ask what the best places for other aspects of the planned work are
(picnicking, individual vision quests, etc.).
• If preparation of the site is needed (removing briars, preparing a fire circle, etc.)
ask permission of the spirits before proceeding with such action.
• Before you leave the power spot, tell the spirits you have contacted when you
plan to return to do the ritual (visualizing the associated lunar and solar aspects
can help with this communication).
• Invite them to join in the ritual when you return and to bring their friends.
• Ask if it would be best to return silently, with drums, with chanting, or with some
other form of approach.
• You can also ask the spirits to provide guidance for working in balance and to
provide a teacher to provide further guidance.
Before you leave the power spot:
• If it feels right, leave an offering of tobacco, or beer and honey poured on the
ground (or other suitable material).
Leave in peace and love.
Proceed to other sites that were indicated by the spirits, doing similar meditations at each
site.
If you need something, like a staff, a Maypole, or a wand, you can also ask where you
can find it and follow the guidance you receive (not slavishly, but as you would guidance
from another Pagan).
Before leaving the general area in which you found power spots and contacted nature
spirits:
• Ground any excess energy into the Earth (placing your hands on the Earth,
breathe in any excess energy, and channel the energy down your arms, while
visualizing and feeling the energy going into the Earth), and
• Ask them why they are not receptive (if it feels right and they are
communicative).
• Pull back your "roots and branches," return any excess energy you feel into the
Earth.
• Consider any impressions you got of why the nature spirits weren't receptive in
the area you were in, and re-think your plans for a ritual, as necessary and
appropriate.
• It may also be appropriate to look for another general area in which to find a
suitable power site that is receptive to the work planned.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
There are other ways of working with nature spirits. This is one approach. The author
thanks Selena Fox for teaching the basic guided meditation technique for locating and
contacting nature spirits at a tranceworking session sponsored by the Chameleon Club
(part of the Association for Consciousness Exploration) in 1981, Vicky Smith for
editorial review of this article, Isaac Bonewitz for the outline of the expanded tree
meditation, and Carlos Castenada, Black Eagle, Pasha, the Goddess, the Gods, and
various nature spirits for teaching the rest of the good methods.
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