Elements Of Earth

Once we relax our minds and centre into the stillness of breath and presence of heartfelt awareness our levels of consciousness slows down.   The reality we see opens before us expanding our awareness where we walk synergistically and the portals of inner listening and resonance increase with clarity.

Gnomes – seeing the little people, forms around plants and who does all the heavy lifting and digging in the earth, tunnels snow white and the 7 dwarfs.

Below is a list of earth related objects that have an association with the symbolic meaning of the element earth

• Rocks, stones, crystals, clay and soil

• Look at the way insects walk softly on the earth

• Direction south

• Season: winter/ metal

• Emotion/mental – rebirth, growth, strength, grounding, stability, trust, nervous and quiet

• Sense: taste

• Snake, lizard, dragon, bull , kangaroo, wombat, turtle and bear

• Plants, meandering grasses, snake plants e.g. echancea, comfrey, plantain, withania, ginseng family and most root plants

• Colour: Black/blood red/brown/rustic brown/ green

• Essential oil/ stomach/spleen meridian: Geranium, peppermint, basil, sandalwood ,yang Lang and aniseed

• Crystals – clear and Smokey quartz, greenstone and amber

• Plant/flower spirit essences: chicory, evening primrose &ʻōhiʻalehua

• Musical note: F

• Taste: sweet

• Food: root vegetables and grains

Once you feel centered become aware of your senses.  Take a note of what you hear around you, who’s talking to you, what are the sounds you hear.  As you open your external listening, become aware of perceiving sensations in the body and inner listening as you become more still. 

Are there any twinges, shifts, nuisances experienced in the body? What is the feeling in the body right now?

What is the body sensing? Touch and sound are related on the same wave frequency. You may need to touch a leaf to tune more into the sounds around you.  Touch is nurtured by the heart, how we like to touch and be touched. This opens the portals of the vibratory resonances of sound and allows us to feel deep empathy, compassion, and unconditional love for all of God’s creation.

In order to feel into the land we need to explore sensory awareness into how different textures and temperaments feel through sensing humors of dry, moist, hot, cold and light.  As well as the sensations of touch, sound, feel and listening perceived through body awareness

Below I have used dry as the example but you can add moist if you live in a tropical area.

To feel that the land is dry we need to explore the characteristics of dryness to us.

Think of something dry.

• What does dryness represent to you? Describe dryness.

The following illustrates dryness including harsh, barren, dusty, crisp, lacking in water.

Now imagine placing something dry against the skin, what are the tactile and sensations of dry?

• What does dry feel like?

• What are the images that come to mind?

• Is there a taste? What’s the smell?

• How does it sound?

• What time of year is it dry? Where is the sun? Is it hot or cold?

• Do you have dry skin and a dry mouth –study your own constitution of the body to reveal different types of dryness?

• Food resonating with the dry sensation allows you to experience the many different facets of dry.  For instance dry toast has a crunch and brittle sensation while eating. The crumbs can catch the back of the throat causing you to choke finding it hard to breath. When something is too dry you need water to hydrate and relieve drought.

Feel into the earth through your heart or conscious awareness. Visualise going deeply into the earth through tunnels under ground and into open chasms of deep valleys, volcanoes and deeper into the center of the earth, to the crystal caves. Take a moment to find your footing and have a look around. Now imagine all the many earth beings working doing their life’s work for mother earth in her inner core and earth’s crust. Take some time to Merge with the earth and the plants and speak with the light beings and the spirit of the land.

Perhaps the earth has a smouldering volcano deep within her inner core.  

Take your conscious awareness into the land, what do you see? is it cold, hot, dry, damp, dusty, sandy, hard, clayey, rich tropical debris and are there many minerals?

Is it dusty or it is dry, or is the land polluted. You may see a landscape of steep mountains full of rock and crevices.  Tune into (extend your awareness and with permission sense yourself gently slipping into and merging) the rocks and mountains, the forests and the trees, the weeds and plants.  Who is speaking to you?

Think about an animal you resonate with and begin to move like them

What do they see in your mind’s eye and feel in the body e.g. heavy or heat sensation etc.

• How do they walk on the earth?

• How do they play, hunt, feed and care for their young?

Within the earth is where all our life exists, two thirds of all life is within the earth.  What is above is so below.  It is in the underworld that we meet our shadow and lost self.  It is a place of deep transformation journeying deeply into the unknown to find helpers, our ancestors and guides to assist in our transformation of ourselves on our soul’s journey sharing light and deep wisdom.

Visualise finding your special old oak tree in the meadow.  As you approach the tree you see a green door with an iron latch.  You open the door and venture inside into a cave where you see many artefacts and paintings on the walls that mean something to you.  You have been here before. Towards the end of the cave, you see a golden spiral staircase which will take you deep into the centre of the earth.  Follow the spiral staircase leading you through the many chasms, by passing roots, taking you deeper into the centre of the earth, into the soul of the earth.  It is in the soul of the earth you find your own connection to your heart centre of your spiritual core, your roots firmly planted deep into mother earth.  This is what Gaia is, the spiritual connection of your soul and the earth soul merging sharing moments of illuminated presence of heartfelt connection.  This is the depth of our being resonating with the heartbeat of mother earth.  From here we know we can walk our path towards the light because we are anchored in the truth of our existence, for ever changing embracing all that life has to offer.  Earth is grounding, stabilising, nurturing and abundant.

Give blessings and Thanks to the ancestors of the land and mother earth for her wisdom and patience.

​Learning ways to appreciate how much the earth is part of us gives a greater understanding of the Elementals of the earth. You may like to follow up with my revised version of the Earth Kingdom meditation.

Ask for the protection of the archangels below

Before me is Raphael

Behind me is Uriel

On my right stands Michael

On my left stands Gabriel

For around me flames the pentagram and in the centre stand the 6 pointed stars.

men and so be it.

Relax and let go of all your daily concerns.  Let your body go into calmness, peace and absolute harmony.   With each exhalation let go of all the tension, let the talkative thoughts, conversations in your busy mind disappear.  In the vision of your third eye you see a beautiful blue light, the blue spreads all over you, enabling you to relax completely into the environment.  The blue slowly changes into a calm gold light relaxing even more. Visualise the golden light dissolving the pictures you are trying to hold on to in your mind.  Imagine a brilliant white illuminated energy with a very fine, almost invisible magenta colour turning into a pure resurrected red.  The Red, the colour of the father energy, is the centre of the awareness, now turning into the energy of the son and the daughter, the energy of love visualise a rose quartz colour.

Be thankful for this moment.  Bless this time you are about to receive. Call in your guides and helpers to guide you safely in your journey.

Visualise a cube, a space which is like a tiny room with four walls, floor and ceiling all the same size.  Look inside; imagine it to be on the palm of your hand.  You see thousands of even smaller cubes inside this tiny room.  Within in these walls are countless numbers of gnomes, all busy creating and maintaining this mineral substance.

Now it has become alive in your mind’s eye.  It is no longer just matter; it is living matter and will change when you bless it and love it.  You can tell them to make this matter strong, to hold it together in the way that you wish it to be, so that it can serve the highest good.  Bless the matter that has been built to serve you and the Gnomes can become aware of your gift.  To them this blessing is similar to your daily bread. Now send them love because this is the most precious gift you know you have to offer.

Now turn your inner gaze to the vast spaces outside of the tiny room which you hold in your hand.  Imagine what you can tell the earth angels what you have experienced.  Look through your inner eyes for what you see, at this time you may not form any words as they are of the earth.  Allow all the vast numbers of angels dissolve into a vast open room, a hall where the walls, ceiling and floor are too far away to see.  A very small part of a great angelic being is there.  The whole inconceivable great being we cannot as yet comprehend.  A great sound of deepest singing, ringing fills the hall.  There is no time or space.  You are alone, no one else is here, but all are here.  There is a fulfilled energy and we can only add wonder, awe and reverence.  With all your gratitude, love and blessings full this space and lay it in this enormous place.  The singing sound changes into harmony hitherto not heard by us as a result of having communication.    

We are now using the circle of light and cross of light in the circle of light as a golden key to close the centre of higher perception securely.  Over the crown, the brow, the throat, the heart, the solar plexus, the sacral and base energy centre.

  Open your eyes when you are back in the room and ready to return.

Bringing back to the here and now

1. Draw or visualise a protective circle a symbol of golden light over each chakra

2. Place a white cross with some rose quartz in it

3. The complete symbol is visualised over each charka as the meditation closes.

Amen and so be it.

Marko Pogacnik says that the earth elements power centre is found between the knees and if we had a very long tail this chakra would vibrate at the end as it hits the earth.