What’s Your Tree’s Story?

How many of you have sat with a favorite tree throughout the different seasons? Perhaps one in your own yard, or in a favorite nature preserve? Have you asked him/her/it questions? Have you explored his/her/its multi-faceted personality?

My Friend’s Personality

My friend is a sugar maple - one of the strongest of the more emotional tree species (who include beeches and birches). Sugar maples are known, in the metaphysical realms, to embody the energies of success, prosperity and community.

My friend, like many sugar maples, enjoys interacting with others, sharing and serving in community. In the human realms, my maple tree friend shades an outdoor eating area and in the warm summer months is appreciated for her beauty and cool comfort by many humans. In the nature being realms, my maple friend houses many community activities. 

The Nature Realms

The nature realms function differently from human realms. In both, beings come in all forms. But, in the nature realms, beings act in conscious service with each other. For them, it is not a case of domination over to achieve a specific result, as in too much of the human realm; it is a case of cooperation with to achieve a result.

My sugar maple friend is at the same time a mature, complex being with her own life force energy; a home for birds, gnomes and fairies; and an active nodal power point on the earth grid.

Serious Business

My sugar maple friend serves as headquarters for the presiding deva of the area and her elf consort (left image). This deva has a distinctive hairdo of cropped bangs and long thick layered hair. She has placed her territorial marker - her image - in various nodal trees in her domain.

These nodal markers serve as living antenna, notifying her when something in a specific area needs her conscious attention. I have photographed her distinctive place marker image at two sites several miles from each other.

This sugar maple houses the deva’s work correcting land imbalances that occurred centuries ago, in the Revolutionary War 1777 Battle of the Brandywine which saw a British invasion of this peaceful Quaker area.

The tree houses nature-being-crafted images of a British light infantry officer and a British sergeant (right). These images embody and hold in place the jarring battlefield energies the nature beings are still working to rebalance.

It is the job of the nature beings’ realms to care for earth and they do so in cooperation with all other earth forms, but as we see here, it takes time to correct the destruction humans exact.

Happy Business

Also in this tree is the address marker image of a gnome (left), which is a very good sign. Gnomes are friendly but sensitive and serious nature beings. Finding a gnome's image in a tree is an excellent indicator that the humans who live nearby are good-hearted and kind.

Gnomes bring success, prosperity and protection to an area and will often imprint their image in a tree to serve as their address marker. The image is usually, not always, near the base of a tree as gnomes prefer underground or ground level homes.

So here is a tree associated with success, prosperity and community in whom both a gnome and the deva of the area have their homes. I am so honored to have her as my friend!

Your Photographs are Valuable!

Right now the human world is exploring the intelligent “wood-wide web” of communication that occurs in nature. Some scientists are studying the underground world of root systems, fungi and microbial communities. Other are exploring the forest overstories. Some scientists are including the realm of the nature beings in their scientific explorations and documentation.

In all these areas, there is a determined drive to understand the complex intelligence of “other-than-human-lifeforms.” The actual photographs we can now take, thanks to technology, is a valuable addition to this work that needs to be explored.

I strongly encourage you, my dear friends, to rethink the photographic work you are doing in nature. Have you been told you are taking photographs of “imaginary” “fantasies” - and did you buy into that story?