MAHOGANY

Mahogany wood grows slowly and is dense, compared to the Birch tree.  Its grain is long and straight, its pulp dark red.  Compare it to the Magnolia, and the Mahogany seems to grow quickly, more quickly still when compared to the Boab and the Redwood.  Do the trees in the forest compare themselves to one another for their speed of growth, their external shape, their size, and their internal forms?  Or do they inhabit their environment as part of a tapestry, taking part in the Song as an indivisible part of it?

Of course, trees are gladly part of the symphony of Great All, giving what they may to the whole.  Keeping their roots in the Great Mother, they cleanse and distribute nutrients, provide homes for insects and animals, and stretch their limbs into the sky, balancing the ethers.  They are perfect examples of cooperative All-ism.

You may consider yourself a certain type of tree with a certain type of growth pattern and habitat, a certain nature with certain needs.  Still, you are part of Great All and the Great Symphony.  What is your part in the Song?

When young, you might only listen, and then you will begin to hum to yourself, following along.  Once in the flow, your sounds will become audible; you will have become familiar with your sigil, or signature, and begin to tone it with some confidence as a member of the symphony.  At some point, you will take your part, adding your voice to the whole.

Over time, confidence grows, and like the young sapling tree, you will learn your instrument, and in addition to your voice, will begin adding notes to the Whole.  As you mature, you will hear notes outside the Symphony, your own Song, and you will begin to construct those symphonies to yourself, adding them to the Great All as you can.  You are becoming a Co-Creator.

As Co-Creator, you can imagine and manifest things that have never been before.  You, as a mature tree in Great All’s diverse forest, can now compose, adding to the symphony as well as performing solo.  You work toward becoming an active member, and eventually, Master.  The wood of you becomes dense and rich as Time and Temporing creates you from the Core outward.

Your roots drive deeply downward and out.  Your limbs are long and varied, elegant and enabled in many dimensions and manners, sensitive to the multitudinous languages of Great All’s ways and means.  You have fused the Earth and Heavens at the meeting point between, where you were made, and the sigil point from where you Create.

You have Become.

What tree are you?  Does it matter?  What matters is how you hear the Song and how you call it back to Great All’s beckon.  What matters is that you give your roots and your limbs freedom to stretch outward across all perceived barriers, to grow past those things that would hold you back because of fear or smallness or indecision.

What is the Tree of Life—but You?  

All of Us.  All Trees are sacred; all Trees are Life.  

Let your Wisdom lead you.  

Wake up to the Forest and hear its Singing.

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Blessed Be,

This is a Direct Voice Communication

From my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share

their wisdoms with me from the

other side of The Veil.

      April 17, 2014

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