Previously, I have spoken about reconnecting to the Earth. Since then, I have been inspired to attempt to understand by delving into burrows and river beds of my inner being. 

Now, in this post, I would like to share with you my own personal journey of reconnection.

Seeing how my fingers and feet in the soil have rooted my grounding deeper.

There is something older embedded within the land, tied with the natural rhythms of the Earth. The stories of the soil, its mythology, it is this we can use to embrace the beating heart of the Earth. And it is this that we are losing.

One of the greatest tools we have in this quest to understand is observation. There is a spiritual aspect – intuitive listening. It’s here where stories and native mythology play a key role.

Forgetting these old stories, watering down the critical lessons buried within them, has the power to numb our innate connection with the Earth. Folk tales are as much a part of the land as the plants which grow in it.

As we seek to return to the origins of these myths and legends, the removal of the mouse manipulated versions becomes more evident.

It’s here, the beginnings of our own archeological diggings for reconnection, our intuitive listening strengthens. 

These stories can teach us about the plants that surround us and the animals around us, and the landscape we live within. Most of all they teach us humility and respect, we are not in control of everything out in the world, we must respect and be grateful for all we have as we can lose it in moments.

The spirit of the land, or Gaia has been communicating with us for as long as we have been on this planet. We are far from where we started as hunter gatherers, and far from the first farmers.

I grew up in a small town surrounded by a patchwork quilt of fields separated by ancient hedgerows and I remember the adventures I had in the lanes and bridleways.I go back and most of those hedge rows are gone as the fields are expanded and the march of the corporate mega farm wrestles the land from Gaia’s grip.

I want to reverse this, and knowing I am not the only one or even the first one I believe that our re connection to the land can be made through our reconnection to the myths of the land. It is those stories of giants, trolls and fairies that contain the magic that the modern world has removed.

Remember, we are part of the Earth. Through the wonders of technology we can do many things but we can not deny our relationship with the Earth. Now I live in a large city and it does its best to separate its population from the Spiritual Earth.

However, it hasn’t caged me. As I am within walking distance of a large wood. Within that wood, I have a log I sit on, and after sitting for a while something quite magical happens.  I feel stress and strain lift off me. I become aware of the sounds and sights of the forest. My intuitive listening kicks in, reconnection happens.

There are tales lost and hidden wherever you are, and through the discovery of these tales and the rebirth of our oral history and the magic of storytelling we not only reconnect with the Earth but with each other. 

Everything has its time, and now is the time for connection.