Dear friends and fellow Dreamers,
It’s the Full Moon, and welcome to the new episode, which you can listen to on the platforms, or here on my website, with my accompanying images.
Today we Dream with a beautiful big Beech tree, who lives very nearby to my home, and as usual, there’s a Waking Dream from me. I hope you’ll join me and feel like you belong here,
With Courage, Imagination and Love,
Beth
Firstly a picture of an old plate, I just love this… and it’s full, pale, round shape, and wonderful message is a reminder of our beautiful Full Moon - I hope you get a glimpse of her tonight.
Next is the Beech tree we Dream with, and a video of her movement and her shapes. You can see where her huge limb fell from in the winter…We can thank her for her voice through this episode.
Here is a picture, as promised, from outside my old home beside the Yukon, in midsummer, in the middle of the night. This colour is the colour of longing in the letter from Firefly….
And a picture of a Firefly, to honour all that this astonishing creature brought to the episode today!
I DID hear voices behind me today, in all that blowy wind, it was a man trying to fix the road - this man ! I had a nice chat with him as I walked back, I told him I’d put him on my podcast, so here he is.
And for those of you who’d like to share or make use of it, here is the transcript for our Waking Dream today.
Waking Dream
So close your eyes, and on the out breaths I want you to visualise first a 3, now a 2, and finally a 1, tall straight and bright.
See yourself in a grassy place on the outskirts of a town. There is gentle sunlight, and you can see, and hear people going about their day a little way off. Above you is blue sky, with white clouds moving across it.
As you look across the grass, you notice a tall, green weed.
You go towards the plant - you are drawn by the colour and texture of its body. It’s so green ! It is nearly as tall as you, with supple, flexible leaves, bluey green in colour, and covered in tiny beads of dew. It is incredibly vivid, and it moves in this beautiful, fluid way. It is pulsing with energy and life. You are entranced by how it moves.
The plant is juicy and lush, and larger than life, you want to stay here, but you feel yourself in a detached, flat, monochrome way, as you try to connect with it.
Feel the layer of static monochrome all over your body, from head to toe, it feels dull and dry, complicated, like newspaper print with too many words.
You feel a strong desire to know the luscious, dewey, aliveness of the plant in front of you, and as you allow this desire, see and feel this same life force rise in your heart, pulsing with energy and bright light, and begin to shed the monochrome layer like a suit, peel it away from your head, down your back, away from your arms and legs, and finally, step your feet out of the old grey suit, letting it dissolve into the ground behind you.
Feel how the wind touches your body now - t’s electric - power and light comes from your heart, flooding your limbs with luscious textures - look at your belly and legs, your hands and arms, turn them over in front of you and marvel as you see and feel this incredible energy flowing, and moving through you. You are the same as the vivid plant.
Feel the new, fresh connection between you and the plant friend, your colours harmonising and singing together. Notice the supple, fluid motion of the plants limbs and leaves, and feel this quality in your own body. Let your body move with this shared energy, animated by the same source, as you share the space together in a completely new way. As you stand together in this energy, feel the joy and relief from the tall green weed, as you recognise it with your body. Let this joy and relief flood through every cell. This is the conversation you both wanted…
Thank your new plant friend from your heart, and as you look back towards the town, know that you are changed, you are alive in a powerful new way now.
Open your eyes and feel this powerful new way.
And lastly for any of you who were interested in the Sufi newsletter I mentioned today, its called “Sufi Way - Notes from the Open Path”
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