Aspen Passion (Meditation)

May 20, 2003

When I received this message, I believed myself to be a pretty easy-going person, so I did not understand why Samantha got on my case about perceived control issues. I later asked her to infuse me with her aspen-energy to help me unblock any control issues I might have, and guess what? I’ve had a summer with an endless series of control issues coming up to the surface to be worked out.

Thank you, Samantha!

I’ve always loved aspens in the wild, but never liked aspens growing in a yard because of the aspen’s, in my perhaps judgmental opinion, “out-of-control” root propagation. Hence Samantha’s remarks about me not liking her, or them (the aspens).

I know you don’t like me much, because you feel threatened by my vigorous growth. And yet, have you noticed that whenever you move into a new house, there is always one of us aspens growing in the yard? That’s because we have an important lesson to teach you, and you haven’t learned it yet. Think of how many years you’ve been working on healing your diabetes and re-growing those insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Why do you think you have not been successful? How do you think you will ever succeed with that as long as you are so fearful of the re-growth and re-regenerative power that we aspens represent?

That’s why we keep coming into your life, to teach you this important lesson, to embrace the abundant out-of-control flow of life. I know you love us from a distance, my dear, but you are afraid of having us too close because you’re afraid we will totally take over and dominate your picture-perfect little yard and your picture-perfectly controlled life. We keep coming into your life to teach you to enthusiastically embrace life without so much worry and control. Once you learn to let us in, to allow the vigorous life-force that we represent into your energy-field, into your body, and truly learn to love, appreciate and cherish what we represent, then you will find that you will have no problem re-growing the insulin-producing cells of your pancreas and healing your diabetes.

You are working with the Ponderosa Pine this month. As you can tell, I’m much less formal than the Ponderosa. I care about the message you want to give to the group and to the world from me, but what I care about the most is my personal relationship with you, my dear. And by the way, you can call me Samantha.

We aspens just love you humans so much, you have no idea. If you could feel the full intensity of the love we have for you, you would spend days just crying your hearts out over being more loved than you have ever known yourselves to be loved. After that, you would go out and create a world that was very different than what it is today. It would be a world based on exuberant joy and passionate love for life. I know you want this, my dear; I know you want this more than anything. And yet you hold on so tight to your control on everything in your life, afraid to let go or slip for even a second. But at least you are aware of it, and you are letting me into your life and are letting me speak to you. Most people do not.

Samantha talked up a storm while I was getting ready to go to work and I didn’t have time to pay full attention to all she was babbling on about, to the point that I was even getting annoyed with her. But then, that very behavior seems to epitomize the aspen and her youthful, rebellious, unrestrained, spontaneous nature. I was only later in the day able to write down the small fraction that I was able to remember.

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