Find balance with nature

Do you carefully carry a spider outside in a cup for mutual protection, and then throw dirty water on the ferns outside the back door? Do you care about how puppies are raised before coming to pet stores, but not care about how the mussels you had for dinner are raised before coming to market? We seem more and more out of balance with nature. We want to save the forest but don’t ponder our actions when nailing a tree house into living branches. How can we begin to re-tune our awareness to all of life, and not just to those forms of it that impinge or promote our wants?

Everything wants to live. Even when the circumstances are challenging and the potential is minimal. When we remember this deep truth: that everything that is, is alive, then we begin to wake up to finding balance with nature. When we realize that all matter feels we recognize everything is sharing one core consciousness, yet expressing that consciousness each in its own way. Now it becomes easy to acknowledge the rock before sitting on it, or to make an offering to the tree before limbing it to open the view.

The Journey Oracle cards are a door into conscious nature for me, and I often ask to be shown about how or if my actions in the world are in balance with nature. I drew this card when I asked, "How can we get to this other way of seeing that everything is alive?" The card image feels like clarity is emerging after passing through an area of tangled confusion. The phrase is perfect. We know this with our inner truth.