CHOICES SHAPE YOUR FUTURE
By Judith Ashton
We love our mother, she’s yours as well. Her name is Gaia. She was born long ago in the Big Bang and is meant to live forever. She’s the most beautiful being in our solar family. Earth, our mother, Gaia, is a stunning, remarkable beauty, flowing with bountiful water and abundant life.
Mercury is her smallest sibling and the closest to the Sun, so, impossible to live there or on Aunt Venus who’s uninhabitably hot. Then there’s Uncle Mars aka Red Planet covered in deserts and volcanoes. (Hopefully a one way a holiday destination for Elon and friends.) Uncle Jupiter is a large gassy giant with a powerful magnetic field, Uncle Saturn has prominent rings and is inhospitable, Uncle Uranus is a massive ice giant, and old Neptune, a distant cousin has high-speed winds.
We have co-existed with them since time began and we all have our separate orbits and evolutions. Like most families, we are concerned with our nearest and dearest, especially our mother, Gaia, and as her children, we’re raging at you humans who have deliberately poisoned her with so many toxins and created so many big problems for her major organs and systems.
We’re her Storm-Children, known to you, by names we hope you’ll remember. Amy, Ali, Bram, Chandra, Dave, Dennis Desmond, Eddie, Emma, Fionnuala, Gerard, Goretti, Hannah, Isla, Janna, Kasia, Lilith, Marty, Nico, Ophelia, Oscar, Patrick, Ruby, Stevie, Tadhg, Violet.
We exist because of your actions and will do so until you recognise the need to care for and heal our suffering mother, Gaia. There are lots of us and more are coming to give her a voice, as we unleash our storm furies and frustrations on those who have devastated her beautiful lands and seas in what you called progress. So much ignorance! Can’t you see that by hurting our mother, you are hurting yours? If our mother dies… yours cannot survive. If ours breathes her last, so does yours.
We warn you when we are coming… some of us are angrier than others. The mildest of us are “Yellow”. Those of us who are simply angry are “Orange” and those of us who are full of fury and rage are “Red”. We all have the power to impact you and mirror the harm you’ve caused our mother. We can blast ferocious, damaging gusts of 190 kms an hour, we can easily uproot forests and cause massive amounts of natural destruction and damage power lines to challenge your lives. We can flood your homes and your lands because you have upset the structured balance of mother’s rivers and oceans and poisoned them with your carelessness and greed. We will continue to cause chaos and do catastrophic damage to your buildings; there will be more power outages… and so much more that you will not be able to control. We will bring dust and sand from the deserts that have been created by climate change and more of you will migrate north where it’s cooler for the moment.
Human arrogance has been mighty. You’ve got away with it for so long. Now you cry and feel sorry for yourselves as you wonder,” Why?”. No wonder you are suffering. No wonder your fertility rates are plummeting. No wonder many of you are falling ill with all kinds of “dis-eases”. Everything mirrors everything. The inner reflects the outer and vice versa and humans caused this reality.
What did you expect? How did you think it would end up? How long could you get away with such exploitation? Your greed and avarice got it all wrong and now you are all at war, inside and out, fighting each other like rats in a crowded cage. This, dear humans, is where you find yourselves. As our mother suffers, so do you all.
However, there is still time—our mother’s recovery may be possible if a true commitment to peace and goodwill is embraced. It doesn’t have to be like it is. There are choices. You possess both consciousness and self-awareness. By practicing mindfulness, you may experience healing and miracles. Focus your intentions on respect, peace, love, compassion and empathy for all living things: humanity, soil, animals, plants, and the beauty in your surroundings. Wake up to your greatest potential, it’s not too late.
Our one true mother is Earth. Like all mothers she needs love, peace, protection and healing. Happy Belated Mother’s Day, to all mothers everywhere.
Listen to The Beatles: “Let It Be.”
