Whilst walking in the Black Down Hills during our recent B&B trip to Surrey I loved every moment, despite the showers and the murky mist when we trekked deeper into the woods, and greeted all of nature with a friendly hello. Yes, some humans would feel silly talking to trees and mushrooms and the ‘little people’ who are on a different dimension to us, but can nevertheless hear what humans are thinking (yes, thinking….there is no need to speak out loud; they sense if you love them or not!) These two characters on the right (now you can’t say they don’t have characters in their ‘faces’) gave themselves fancy names like Geronimo and Renaldo (bless!)…
Just to prove that they have spirit, they stepped to the side of their physical bodies and posed, one above the other, for the camera! It was not all jolly however, as they kept saying to me ‘help us!’ They want to remind “human beans” at every opportunity that they are also living beings with feelings…..
“Handle with Care!” was also the simple message of this other Tree Spirit – a wood nymph who gave me the exotic name of Nadia, who also posed for the camera so that she could make her ‘voice’ heard. Her role is to take care of and guard every living thing in the woods. Nature spirits exist alongside human spirit but they do get a raw deal from some human ‘beans’….Things are slowly changing as people are learning more and more to respect the world they were given as a playground. Just being in beautiful woods and trees like the picture taken below makes many want to jump for joy, but I also weep with pity for the treatment our friends sometimes receive. Respect. That’s all nature requires…..and a whole lot of loving. Try pausing underneath your favourite tree…if you don’t already do so…and sending love direct from your heart. It may help to close your eyes, but if you are sincere in sharing your love of all things bright and beautiful and all things great and small you will feel their love come back to you threefold. It starts with a tingling sensation; a shudder through your spine. As I have spoken to the same Copper Birch on our dog-walking route for 10 years now I have got to know her every moods. I call her ‘Daphne’ because that is the name she gave me (telepathically) and now the spirit of Daphne wanders further afield and has visited me in my own garden! Geronimo, Renaldo, Nadia and all the millions of other nature spirits present hope you enjoy sharing in the pictures below, taken in their very very special woods!
Copyright Jane Hunting, Geronimo, Renaldo and Nadia 2010