Messages from Nature
Responsibility to Nature in Ceremony
© Gail M Clement, Baboon Sentinel, 2009 Hlunluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, South Africa
Supporting Nature in Ceremony, July 31, 2022
Dear Ones,
This message is given specifically to those who gather together for the purposes of spiritual and personal growth. At this time of great transition in your home on planet earth, it is imperative that you wake up fully to your responsibilities to nature. You must become conscious of your actions and how they impact the delicate environmental balance and circle of life.
As you gather together, observe your surroundings, see with your eyes and hearts. Before you begin, ask to be allowed to hold sacred ceremony in harmony with nature at your location. Listen carefully with your heart for the response. Follow the directions given, even if it is to not proceed at that specific location. Think of nature as the most sacred temple of life force. Together, all who participate, must understand the absolute responsibility to be in harmony with nature and what that specifically means at that physical location. Release the arrogance of the idea that humanity has a right to dominance over the natural world. Release the idea that anyone, especially a spiritual leader, has a right to control or harness nature for their own purposes. All must be in harmony to receive spiritual value.
During the conduct of ceremony be fully conscious of your actions and how to protect the natural environment as you proceed. Present offerings such as tobacco or corn pollen to nature and all of her beings in attendance. Do not gather the energy or physicality of any of nature’s beings, such as elementals, faeries, animals, feathers, insects, plants, flowers, trees, seeds, rocks, light, or water, without asking in humility and receiving approval. If you receive a gift, give an offering in return. Welcome visitors from the natural world as sacred participants. Be open to receive their blessings in deep gratitude. Rejoice with the nature spirits who gather with you in your pure intentions for harmony.
End your ceremony with a prayer of gratitude for nature. Bless your location while asking that it receives improved environmental balance and support for all life. If you know of any imbalance imposed on that location, ask specifically that the imbalance be relieved in perfect harmony. Leave the location in better condition than when you arrived. We are all one. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And so it is.
© Gail M Clement, Warthog Family, 2009 Hlunluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, South Afriica
© Gail M Clement, Giraffe, 2009 Hlunluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, South Africa
© Gail M Clement, Black and White Worm Lizard, 2014 Amazon Basin, Ecuador