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Wonder Stories for a World on Fire

Day Five: Sacred Anger, Strong Mind, Tender Heart

Today is Earth Day. Every day is of course Earth Day, however today is the day designated to acknowledging and especially honoring our beautiful planet.

Today my way of honoring is to speak out loud to a feeling that has been rising in me for years, maybe most of this lifetime.

It’s this fierce tenderness—a kind of holy rage mixed with the deepest love I’ve ever felt.

Love for the Earth.

Love for all humans of every gender expression.

Love for all life on Earth, the human world and the more than human world—and for the Mother, the Earth herself.

And at the same time a holy, sacred, rage for what’s been silenced, and the silencing that is escalating. The blatant disregard in the United States right now more than ever, amongst many things, for our Earth, our habitat, in favor of exploitative capitalism.

I wonder every day:
How do we go forward from here?

And I keep asking myself:
What do I do with this? Where do I place it?

It’s so much bigger than me.

So I decided to sit with the Herd and ask for answers. And it turns out

our Earth has an answer for all of us.

It came to me in such an unusual way I decided to turn it into our day five mini meditation and share it with you.

I hope it brings you to center and balance and harmony.

So here you go!

Day 5 mini meditation:

Sit or lie down.

If you are able to lie on the earth, do that, if not, even if you are many stories above the ground, imagine the earth, a place on earth that you cherish.

Place both hands over your heart.

Feel the rhythm of your body—this sacred vessel of knowing.

Now, bring to mind the most overlooked, ignored, aspect of life on earth that you can imagine. Dust mites, molecules, atoms, the tiniest tiniest thing or

The ones you don’t often speak of—the ants, the moss, the water droplet, the field mouse.

Let one of these small ones come to you.

Imagine they are looking at you. What do they see in you?

Breathe together.
Let this being speak to the part of you that wonders what to do with your sacred rage.
Let them place your grief into the web—not to be taken away, but to be held.

Then ask:

What does love look like today, in action?

Love love love

Iva and the Dreaming Herd.

xxx