On Earth Day, it's a prime moment to reflect not just on our planet's needs, but on your personal capacity to effect positive change.
In this post, we'll explore three ways to enhance Earth's well-being, and three ways to reclaim your personal power, setting the stage for a more potent contribution to Earth Day 2025.
Earth Day reminds us of our call as human beings to serve the Earth, who in turn serves us so deeply each day. It is a favorite day of mine because it involves a reminder to plant and nurture trees, whose presences give us shade, fresh air, delight and support in both urban and rural settings.
And for you personally on this Earth Day, use this as a reminder to support yourself and your own ecosystems, and realize how nurturing your own ecosystem can amplify your impact to positively impact the world's ecological health.
The more you nurture and heal yourself, just as you nurture and heal the Earth, the more your contribution towards the Earth can grow in its value and power. The more you are a healed professional, a sovereign authority in your own life, the more you can contribute to a powerful life of enjoyment, achievement, and contribution for yourself and for others by Earth Day 2025.
While much of my work focuses on the directive to #healworklife, remember that healing any system, including the Earth, and your own sovereignty, gives you insights that can apply to healing all other systems.
3 Ways to Help the Earth on Earth Day
On this Earth Day, Feel into how you can take a greater awareness of how you embody a role of stewardship of the Earth and its natural systems, its interlocking flows. When you take loving action towards the Earth, you acknowledge the responsibility and the joy as a human being of being a necessary participant in the great flow of life on Earth.
1. Planting Trees
My favorite! A powerful way to engage directly with the Earth is by planting trees. This act of care extends beyond environmental benefit—it's a gesture of kinship, providing the Earth with resources to thrive, which sustains us in return. Look for organizations that do tree planting, or those you can contribute to that plant trees in various areas of the world.
If it works better for you and your situation, you can also find trees to simply send love and care to regularly in a powerful sense of appreciative energy. You can also find trees you may water in times of drought as a way of giving back for all the beauty and support trees give to us all, all year long.
2. Connect With Food: Find Local Farmer's Markets
Support local agriculture by shopping at farmer's markets. Restore your understanding and appreciation of the natural cycles of food production as the loving labor of human beings working the land in conjunction with natural growth and the flow of the seasons. Strengthen your community bonds with food and those who grow it by realizing that real food is grown with sweat, toil, and in season.
3. Drum for Wisdom In Connecting With Local Land Spirits
If you have a shamanic practice, use your drumming to communicate with your local landvaettir (land spirits) and elementals (who also care for trees, Earth and natural systems) in your area and community. Ask them how you can assist in supporting their well-being, and how you can contribute, creating a direct, spiritual connection to the land's health. If you don't have a drum practice, walk in your favorite natural spots, and reach out to the trees, plants, rivers, parks, and ask them if they need anything -- even simply, your love and appreciation of all they give, all year long.
3 Ways to Heal Your Power on Earth Day
You are in stewardship with the Earth, and you are likewise, in stewardship with your own life energies. You are steward of the power, products, and outputs of your own life, whether work-life, life-life, or as we truly know, it's all really one flow of life-time-energy.
Consider how taking wise, loving action here can help you bring an even more strong, effective self to Earth Day 2025.
1. "Plant Trees" in Your Own Life
Reflect on areas of your life that need nurturing or new growth. Planting 'trees' symbolically can mean setting new goals, fostering new relationships, or starting new projects that enrich and fulfill you. Nurturing trees means nourishing, committing, and nurturing those parts of yourself and areas of your life that most need your tender care to flourish. Which parts are these, and how will you love, water, heal and tend them?
You can focus on work-life, what needs to be tended, where trees need to be planted.
Or on shifting to heart-centered work, what businesses do you want to start, what seeks to be grown through you.
Or on your life itself, what energies within your personal core need healing and love to craft a more powerful, capable self.
2. Find "Farmer's Markets" Within Yourself
Reconnect with your inner ecosystem of strengths, emotions, and energies. Recognize that your personal power, like nutritious food from the earth, stems from a well-tended inner landscape. All that which you most wish to achieve, everything which you wish to offer others, are like well-tended vegetables on an abundant farm stand: made my real humans with real human energy in the flow of the seasons.
You can focus on work-life, how your workplace flows with its culture, its personalities, its expectations, its emotions. Is this healing you, if not, how can you shift it into more powerful alignment?
Or on heart-centered work, what are the new ecosystems that support the products you bring to the world as an entrepreneur?
On on your own life, where do you need to "shop from the farmer's market" instead of "buying from the grocery store" and how will this benefit you?
3. Drum for Wisdom on Your Personal Ecosystem's Needs
Get out that drum again (if you don't have one, it's a wonderful healing practice, so do try it). If you have a shamanic practice, engage in a shamanic journey to discover what your personal ecosystem — your body, mind, and spirit — requires for harmony and strength in your shared stewardship with crafting a life of reclaimed power.
For work-life, this could be new projects, new boundaries, letting go of old bad habits around overgiving or taking on others' emotional labor.
For heart-centered work, this could be working with the guardian energies of all that wishes to align with your deepest desires to be brought forth into being.
For your own life, what's been neglected, what needs the most loving care to bring it back into balance?
Crafting Your Earth Day: Action Steps
Set a Date for Action: Choose specific dates around Earth Day to initiate each of the six practices. Mark your calendar to plant a tree, visit a farmer's market, to conduct your shamanic sessions.
Document Your Journey: Keep a journal or blog to document your experiences and reflections as you engage with these practices. This can be a source of inspiration and a way to track your growth.
Engage Your Community, or, Engage Your Solo Practice: If you are a community-strengthened person, invite friends, family, or colleagues to join you in these actions. Share your plans and encourage them to participate in their own ways. If you are a solo-strengthened person, engage with your solo practice in joy and sovereignty.
Review and Reflect: In the weeks after Earth Day, take time to reflect on the impact of your actions. Consider how these practices have affected your personal growth and your contributions to Earth health.
Plan for Next Year: Based on your experiences, start planning for Earth Day 2025. Consider what more you can do and how you can involve a wider community in these practices. Consider how the sovereignty you reclaim throughout the year, increases your ability to be impactful next year.
When you do some or all of these things, you find that place of stewardship within yourself that realizes that acts of caring for the Earth AND acts of caring for your own life-time-energy spring from the SAME rich and necessary place within you as an active human being upon this planet.
If you do only ONE thing today, say "thank you" to a tree that you pass every day, and envision it saying "thank you" in return. Even in such a small act you participate in the great harmony of the Earth. ❤️
How will you work with your deepest and most fulfilling stewardship energies as you #healworklife on #EarthDay?
See you in the next post, be well,
Katherine
