ECOSYSTEM BUILDING
Did you know Alaska burned most of last summer? Many have no idea though it was a big deal in my world; for me, the creatures, the land and outward.
At first the fire just seems like DESTRUCTION. The orange glow becomes a trigger for all sorts of emotions. And the lack of sky, only gray thickness is as if on another planet. The far off mountains completely disappear. This is not a landscape I know anything about, the burned.
As time passes I watch a new ecosystem building. Plants and fungi spring up. I’ve learned to ALLOW creation in all its forms. Even fire is creation, fertilization, building. What a human word, building. When I speak of nature I will try to not use such human words as building from now on.
I bow to the fire. At the center is gold, precious, valuable. The chartreuse around the edges of where the fire happens is the NEW already sprouting, even while the fire was red hot.
Mother of destruction and regeneration, seed me, water me, compost me, combine me, lichenize me to partner with new ways, accentuated devotion, creative soure.
Sara Ellemire
Contributor
Layers of colorful skirts, jingling bracelets and the scent of the outdoors accompanies Sara wherever she goes. This long haired beauty has studied magic and the tarot since childhood. Sara’s great grandmother Else taught her the way of readers and that the elementals are her allies. Living in rural Alaska fuels her love of the icy cold and all creatures of the sea. Writing of the mysteries of the tarot is something she does with her familiar, Charm, a silly raccoon.