Well, it has been hot!
My body does not cope well with heat or humidity. When we have these heat waves, I find myself cooped up inside, often uncomfortable even in the air conditioning.
Also this month, I watched my friend and fellow faculty member Anthony's city on the news as it took a direct hit from an early hurricane (he is ok, I checked).
It can be easy for us to judge or be angry at weather when we have these intense events--events that are becoming more and more common. With this in mind, my circle worked this past month with weather, and asked to receive a teaching. We received similar messages, that we are not separate from weather, and that weather is inside us, is a part of us.
Animism, from which shamanism comes, teaches us about the interrelatedness of all things, and that everything that is is alive. When we become angry at the world, this becomes reflected in our relationships with ourselves. It is important to see ourselves always as in relationship, and to acknowledge our impact on the greater systems of which we are a part. This comes from human action in many forms, including the spiritual.
I invite you to notice your relationships with the spirits in the world around you--all spirits, not only those you like, not only those with whom you are comfortable. We do ourselves a disservice when we push away parts of the environment, because in doing so, we disown a small part of ourselves.
As the days grow shorter and the nights grown longer, notice the turning inward, notice the return to focusing on relationship within you. When we nurture these relationships, we heal ourselves, and we heal the planet.
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