There’s a new emerging reality waiting to be birthed. Gaia calls us to a new understanding of our body and its connection to the earth. We can become conscious co-creators of physical and spiritual health on a personal and collective level.
Gaia is much more than Mother Earth. Gaia’s a cosmic intelligence. Her work resonates into the universe. Gaia exists at a planetary level. Her universal counterpart is Sophia. They are like 2 sides of a coin. The cosmic inspiration of Sophia is woven into Gaia’s creative process.
Gaia has a male counterpart – Pan. Together they represent the soul and spirt of the earth. Gaia radiates from the core of the planet initiating life and sharing her consciousness. Pan works from the outside tending the evolving life and keeping it connected to the core of the planet.
Sophia is linked to Theolete, the Christos in Gnostic teachings.
The human body is a holograph of the earthly cosmos
The earth is a hologram of the universe and the
Universe is a hologram of the cosmos
Like plants and animals, we are beings of the earth, both independent and interdependent on the earth. As a human we too have a personal elemental being which shares our body.It brings into manifestation the creative impulses of Gaia.
The elementals work in the invisible, causal arena. Their role is to manifest Gaia’s matrix/blueprint. In each moment our personal elemental is working on physical, mental, energetic centres on material and causal dimensions! Our elemental weaves, attunes and balances all aspects of our being.
Trauma responses, blocked energy and outdated survival patterns create obstacles for our personal elemental. Long term this can lead to imbalances in health and dis-ease in the system. Working with our personal elemental and Gaia Touch practices we can transmute these energies.
Gaia’s Creative Hand
Your hand represents a map to navigating the human body and the universe of the earth.
The four fingers each representing an element. The knuckles of each finger reveal the 3 ways that the element shows up in the manifest world when used with the thumb.
- water, fire, earth and air
- plants, animals, minerals and human beings
- biosphere, creative processes, embodiment
- consciousness sphere/noosphere (all human thoughts, ideas, and concepts)
The thumb of Gaia’s creative hand relates to the 5th element. It enables the four elements to cooperate in a sense of synergy and includes elemental beings, the causal dimensions of earth and guardian of identity of all earth beings.
The palm – is the integration Mother of life, divine dimension of the earth and archetypal matrix of life.
The Index finger represents the water elemental beings – encompassing the biosphere of the earth
The Middle finger represents the fire elemental beings – encompassing life processes
The Ring finger represents the earth elemental beings – encompassing the processes of embodiment
The Little finger represents the air elemental beings – encompassing the sphere of consciousness – the noosphere
The Thumb represents the guardian of identity of all beings of the Earth
The Palm represents the archetypal matrix of life
The symbolism of the 4 elements is also expressed in the Four Element Chakras – 4 concentric circles with energy centres. This is a feminine counterpart to the vertical, masculine model. (More another time).
We finish this article with a meditative, mudra practice for peace for the self and our environment. We connect thumb and each finger in turn to evoke peace in all aspects of body and cosmos.
Spinning the Thread of Peace exercise
- Touch left thumb to the left index finger and right thumb to right index finger.
- Hold your hands directly above each other in front of your chest, maintain this alignment as you.
- Move the upper hand downward to lower abdomen and lower hand upward to forehead – to keep hands aligned
- The two fingers move away from the thumb when the hands are about to touch. They return to the thumb when hands have passed each other.
- Continuing for several repetitions
- Repeat with other fingers
- Dive into the space/silence.
