Merry Meet All,
I have finally completed lesson three. I didn't take a long time because I was too busy , or found the visualisation hard. I took so much time on this lesson in order to really connect with the Earth. I have spent a couple of weeks meditating on the earth, noticing changes in the earth and just watching the creatures that live upon it.
I live in Australia so it is spring here. This is the best time of year for me to really feel my connection with the Earth, as everything is growing and coming back to life.
Also the first part of the lesson that explains the cardinal points is not really relative for me. As I live in Austalia the elements are slightly different
Earth: South
Fire: North
Water: West
Air: East
I have studied Australian authors that write wicca books based on Australian
directions ,as they are much more useful for me :)
For the visualisation I went to lay in back garden, under our fruit tree. It
was very easy for me to relax immediately and 'feel' my connection with the
earth. In my visualisation creatures that crawled over me were worms and
litte black beetles, I didn't really plan on thinking of these creaturs,
they were just what came out.
The visualisation went very smoothly, and I really enjoyed the sheilding by the tiny 'flea' like creatures. I probably wouldn't use this visualisation to ground myself, as it takes a long time compared to my normal pratice, and I feel more comfortable with other pratices.
My normal grounding pratices come from my experience as a trained dancer. I have been dancing my whole life, and hence have had many classes. All of these classes have helped people to find their balance so they can dance better. To find our balance in class we stood tall and concentrated on the area just below our naevel. This is were human balance, and our centre of gravity, fall to the ground. From learning to find my centre of gravity in this way I can now just stand tall and "feel" my connection with the earth through my centre of gravity and balance.
At the end of my visualisation I did feel grounded, but not any more so that if I had done my normal way. I did however feel more attuned to nature. I spent an hour outide after my visualisation looking at all the litte black beetles that were crawling through our grass :)
Blessed Be Miw Sheri
P.S I know most of the clan is based in America so please remember I can spell, but Australia just spells some words different to America eg 'visualization' vs 'visualisation' and 'center' vs 'centre' :)