Transcendental Forests: POETREE

Transcendental Forests: Moon Halo — The Healing Caravan

A Collective Healing Story

Welcome back to Transcendental Forests. I am planting POETREE.

I went for a walk on the evening of July 4. The Moon talked to me. She whispered, “Shh… don’t think. Just watch.”

So I did. I watched The Moon for three nights in a row. I took some pictures of Her. And She gifted me with a poem.

Thank you, Moon! 🙏 I feel Your Presence in me. I feel Your Light inside me. I know I am of Your Making. I know I am of Your Womb.

We are all Children of the Universe. We are all Celestial Beings capable of tapping into the most potent medicine there is: our inner healing power. So that we can slowly but surely heal, reclaim our energy, and become whole again. And through that, re-connect to the Collective Divine Spirit.

This connection, which is clearly innate, has been sidelined as our attention has been diverted towards chasing meaningless, mind-numbing external distractions (such as money, material possessions and success).

In truth, this Divine Power has nothing to do with the existence of an external God. It has everything to do with seeing our inner selves as divine sources of energy. It’s about recognizing that the Divine exists IN each and every one of us. And that energy is created from within. Energy cannot simply be ingested. Nor should it simply be given away as sacrifice on the altar of power-hungry individuals or exploitative, enslaving social systems.

The connection with the Collective Divine begins with each of us stepping into our own power as the self-loving, self-healing, self-fulfilling, self-directed individuals that we are. Responsible, first and foremost, for our own happiness. Free to make choices. And capable of discerning what it is that truly makes us happy.

All we need to do is slowly and patiently heal. Our own wounds first. So we can then heal another. And another. And another…

Because ultimately, beneath our wounds, there is goodness. In all of us. There is LOVE. And love heals.

I would like to invite you to contribute to this story in the spirit of collective healing. All you need to do is this: in the response section, share a poem that you think might help other people heal. This could be a poem written by you, by someone you know, by an anonymous writer or by a famous author.

As an option, you could share a quote or a sentence that you think might help heal other people.

If there are enough responses, my plan is to copy them into the main body of this story and re-publish it on the night of the next Full Moon, which apparently is called The Sturgeon Moon and will take place on August 3, 2020.

This project isn’t trying to “achieve” anything as such but rather to recognize an even greater TRUTH: that by simply taking time to heal ourselves (in whichever way we see fit), we are already making the world a happier place.

To everyone reading this: I feel you and heal you as you feel me and heal me.

Namaste. 🙏

It’s August 3rd, 2020. Sturgeon Moon is shining brightly for all of us to receive Divine Light wherever we may be in our life journeys. So we can find the strength to deal with whatever each of us is struggling with.

A big thank you to everyone who has read, shared and added their wonderful words of wisdom to this story. I hope these words will find their way to anyone out there who needs to hear them.

Shared by David Grant:

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.” Novalis

Shared by Diksha:

“Poetry usually comes from a very personal & vulnerable spot, and it has the power to heal the person who writes it and others who read it.”

Shared by Manasi Diwakar:

“The past that held me

in its clutches

doesn’t know I am slowly

slipping through its wiggling fingers

It is failing

because, juts like that,

I picked myself up,

and stopped turning back

to a past,

which I left in the past.”

© M.D.B

Shared by Amy Marley:

“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” Dr Dale Turner

“One can make a day of any size, and regulate the rising and the setting of their own sun and the brightness of its shining.” John Muir

Shared by Aurora Eliam, CMP:

“Life is always: and, both.

I’ve learned a whole lot more about the light

By being open to the darkness

Than by enclosing myself in light.

What we must realize, if we are to heal, is that darkness is a teacher of light.” Anonymous Author

Shared by Rebecca Romanelli:

“You already are that which you seek.” Ramana Maharishi

Shared by Diksha:

“Realizations & Remembrance”

As a child, I always laughed more than the others,

they told me people who laugh for no reason are depressed deep down and crave attention;

I loved the color blue.

They said blue means depression and asked me to find another color.

I never believed them.

I continued to laugh my heart out

and kept loving blue in everything.

But now when I cry,

the tears don’t stop flowing,

easy and free, like a river I never knew I had in me

and I keep missing people and things I no longer have.

Now it’s exactly 12am on 26th September

and I’m in bed, thinking of how this day was last year.

I remember way too much.

Suddenly sad songs I wouldn’t listen to for a second time have become a constant companion,

I use them like salt on my fresh wounds.

The friends I thought I’d have forever are still here,

I feel their ghosts all around me

laughing and telling me they’ll always be there for me, just like they did all those times before.

Sunflowers were my favorite flowers.

What happened to that happy girl?

I guess the bubble she was living in burst and she finally understood;

Life is not all butterflies, sunshine, and rainbows;

sometimes, there’s no treasure at the end of the rainbow;

heck, sometimes there’s no rainbow at all.

You run out to have fun but it’s just loud terrifying rains that make you want to hideaway indoors forever and mope around, while this gloomy feeling comes over you, that only gets stronger.

Shared by Joseph Lieungh:

“May we dance with inspiration.”

Thank you, once again, to everyone who has engaged with this story.

Sending you all Peace, Love and POETREE.

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