A Call To Action: Healing Practices in the Time of Wild Fires

Dear Beloveds,

As the fires rage around us here in Colorado (and so many places), we call on you to join our circle—as you can, when you can, in the ways you know—to create ongoing support for our beloved forests, including the Osha Groves and other sacred places.

We know the power of the circle. We know the power of our love. We know our connection with the Helping Spirits, with the living Groves, with our Mother Earth, with the Water, Air, and Fire. 

It is important for us to stay in close relationship with the special places where we live, harvest, and love—to let all the plants, the animals, the rocks, the river, the microorganisms, and the bedrock below to feel us there with them; to know that we have not abandoned them; that we are not turning our backs on them now. We are still together. 

So let us, together, as the two-legged parts of these forests and the sacred Osha Grove, work to aid them in this time.

There are so many ways to do this work. Some ideas include:

— In your imagination, put yourself in the Grove, deeply ground your roots and bring up water to wet the ground, bring up water from the river, and call down the snow to wet the trees, ground cover, and the roots. 

— Focus on bringing yourself into harmony with the land, for this harmony opens the way for the snow and rain to fall.

— Transfigure to bring your love light and your True Self to the places that are in danger, burning or burned. 

— Call upon the sentinel angels, the well ancestors and the Sentries to bring their strength and protection. 

In partnership, we can bring strength to the entire area. 

We can all work with the Helping Spirits of the land and our own Helping Spirits in the many ways we feel called. 

We may all work in very different ways, together, like a choir bringing our songs of love and light, protection, honoring and witnessing to all of the inhabitants of these precious wild places. 

We name our intentions as being for the highest good for the present and our future generations, for even as our loss brings us great sorrow now, we honor what sacrifices are being made for our distant future generations.