Is it the relentless pace of life and change? Are you feeling that too?

Or the deep calling that is becoming ever more insistent from our beloved and beautiful Earth?

Imagine a beautiful picture created by billions of pixels - some parts in focus, some unfocused; some in light, some in darker shades.

Each one of those pixels is a world of its very own, with its own unique picture. When the individual pixels become clearer, the entire image begins to gain greater resolution.

In the northern hemisphere we are in the time of the Earth element, of late summer and harvest.

Think hues of soft yellow and orange, with a little coolness in the air reminding us to gather what we need to see us through the coming winter.

We have been experiencing collectively the theme of grief and suffering of the feminine, which in its biggest and deepest expression is the grief and suffering of our entire planet. Our home, our roots, our birthplace, our fellow companions.

When there is an influx of light, and especially at times of the full moon, we can become a bit ungrounded.

We can enjoy floating in the light, feeling the bliss of inspiration, dreaming and drifting, and we may experience disturbed sleep. All of these things can pull us out of the deep softness of our bodies.

When energy is shifting within and around us, when we are re-organising our internal selves to accommodate new insights, understandings and new ways of being, it is important that we are fully inhabiting our bodies.

As we offer ourselves greater connection, self-care and nourishment, we will naturally come into balance with the Earth. And vice versa.

This blog title is a modified line from the poem ‘The Cloths of Heaven’ by W B Yeats. I was given this poem some years ago now, and I love the sentiment and simplicity.

It spoke to me today while out walking, as a call to us collectively as human beings. We are living in a time of climate change, crisis and catastrophe on the Earth.

I feel a rising in the feminine energies in the world, within each person and in the consciousness of humanity as a collective. 

This is also a potent time of year (in the Northern hemisphere) for the Earth element in Chinese Medicine -  a time to connect to our roots, come into harmony with nature, and honour the rich food sources available to us when we look after the environment.

This week a beautiful friend gifted me with Rise Sister Rise by Rebecca Campbell. I highly recommend it.

Rebecca's writings really connect with the energy I am sensing at the moment, in the midst of eclipse season, the recent blood moon and the gorgeous Summer we are having here in the UK. This energy is all about the rising feminine, the sacred feminine of the Earth.

I feel now the rising energies of the sacred feminine. I see this showing up in women reclaiming their power and in men returning to true connection with the Earth.