Still Running Off at the Keyboard

During the Middle Ages, it was common for a traveler to entrust one’s health and safety to a tree spirit. These trees were called guardian trees and it was believed, that as long as they were healthy, the journey would go well. In the Kabbalah, a Hebrew text of mystical teachings, the tree of life is the symbol of creation governed by Divine Principles. Humans are called forth to mirror the qualities of the tree of life. In Jungian terms, the tree is a symbol in dreams and a drawing of the growth and development of psychic life - a link to the collective unconscious, and therefore a key to spiritual growth.

So what do trees teach us? One quality of trees, namely deep rootedness, teaches us to connect with that which nourishes our growth, to find our balance and ever return to it and to keep ourselves grounded in that which feeds our spirit. For it is then that we can reach outward and beyond, then that we can expand our horizons, then that we can generate hope and abundance for the world in which we live.