Plains Cottonwood Meditation

June 16, 2003

The next thing I want to pass along is a request for help from you humans. There is a moth that parasitizes on us cottonwoods. It is brown on top and orange underneath. A way that you humans can help protect us from this moth is to find a dead cottonwood tree, cut it up and burn it, and then spread the ashes evenly on the ground around us. It is best if you do it in a clockwise direction spreading them out in front of you as you walk, even though that is a bit inconvenient. But the method of spreading the ashes is of relatively little significance. The most important part is just to get them spread out on the ground. This works best as a preventative measure, and has only a marginal effect if we are already infected. The moths will pick up the scent of the dead tree, and will instinctively avoid us, believing that we are unhealthy and dying, and will go in search of healthier cottonwoods.

The next thing I want to tell you will sound kind of strange to you. In our species, it is the females that tend to grow large and have a more angular form, while the male tends to be more petit with a shapelier figure, relatively speaking. I’m joking, somewhat. The males of our species still grow large, but the females do tend to grow larger. That’s because we females have to get up high, so that we can spread our seeds.

You have a joke among you humans. When someone is lazily leaning against a wall, you ask them, “are you holding up the wall?” You could say about us cottonwoods that we are holding down the earth. Not literally, of course. It wouldn’t be going anywhere without us holding it down. But we act as giant antennas projecting into the sky, pumping tremendous amounts of water into the sky. And at the same time, in exchange, we channel air and etheric energy from above down to our roots, into the ground, into our surrounding, thereby acting as great vitalizers to the earth and our environment. You humans too seldom pay attention to the vitality and the subtle energies of the earth in a particular place to even realize what a great job we do in this area. All trees do this, but we cottonwoods do it to a much greater extent than any of your other local trees. You could say that we are the greatest earth healers among your trees. Plant us on old battlefields, or other places where there are etheric scars in Earth’s energy field. Another great place to plant us is on cemeteries, because many of the bodies there bring pretty dis-harmonious energies with them into the earth, which we can help to heal.

Of course you would notice our heart-shaped leaves. I know what a sucker you are for heart-energies. And yes, we cottonwoods do have strong heart-energies. To explain about our heart-qualities, I need to first tell you about a couple of my relatives, the aspen and the birch. They belong to the same family as me, and you could say that we have divided up the different aspects of the heart-energies amongst us, within the family. The aspen with her fast moving, heart-shaped leaves represents the emotionally passionate side of the heart. I know she already spoke to you and that her emotional intensity and straight-forwardness with you came as quite a bit of a shock to you, poor boy, even though I know that you also loved it. I think now you have a bit of a crush on your back-yard aspen. The birch, with its smooth often-white bark and heart-shaped leaves, represents purity. Purity as in the expression “purity of heart” and “pure-hearted.” The birches, you can say, represent a similar kind of energy as the Unicorn. That is the kind of energy they bring and anchor into the earth, since there aren’t any actual Unicorns around anymore to do the job.

So now finally to us, the cottonwoods. I’ve already described to you how we act as gigantic pumps to pump the water up into the sky, and air and etheric energy down into the earth. Well, that pumping action is the physiological aspect of the hearts function. We cottonwoods aren’t very emotionally mushy. We are basically your Clydesdale workhorses. That doesn’t mean that we don’t have feelings or aren’t caring. Just as a Clydesdale horse is usually very loving and gentle, so are we. Just check out soft feel of the cotton that we produce. But we aren’t as passionate and outwardly emotional as the aspen, or as refined and delicate in our emotions as the birch. We are primarily focused on getting the physical job of the heart done, and mostly keep our feelings to ourselves. Except for once a year, when we just can’t contain our feelings anymore, and our true soft-heartedness explodes, flies everywhere, gets in everybody’s face, and covers everything. That is when you know the true heart of the cottonwood.

Where the comparison to the Clydesdale fails is that we Cottonwoods are much more feminine in our essence. We are very feminine trees, and there is sweetness in our souls that is quite palpable to anyone who will take the time to feel into us. So again, though on the surface we are very calm and serene and not much outwardly emotive, we do have a great feminine emotional depth that can be felt and experienced by anyone who will take the time to truly feel into us.

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