Map 251 Tree / Air Element

This is a wonderful image of the tree element because it shows life itself. If you go back to images of a Christmas tree of life in my earlier maps you will see the tinsel and baubles all hold messages of life and the Star on the top of the tree holds all the TGAC elements of DNA whilst the tinsel swings from branch to branch matching up to its opposite hexagram. Having said that I associate tree energy more with the spring and perhaps we bring them into our homes so we get a little hint of spring to remind us in the darkest days of winter that new life is coming. To be conceived in June is to be conceived when the Sun and Moon are at the closest they get to the Earth a wonderful concept to think that the Earth Mother and The Sun Father could not be closer when you were conceived and then you become that new life born in March and the spring time.
For me the Oak is my favourite tree. Although I love them all.  I once wrote a short children's story called The Tree Spirit inspired by a book by Jane Roberts called Living in Two Worlds. In it she spoke quite casually about stopping her car near a woodland getting out and seeing tree spirits in amongst the trees. It really moved me I had never heard of it before and I thought it was a beautiful and wonderful concept that the trees had little spirit helpers of their own.  It inspired me to write The Tree Spirit and I have felt that close connection to trees ever since. I once lived in a house with four huge oak trees and they too inspired me in ways I cannot explain with words except to say I had love for those trees and they had love for me.  If you feel down lean your back against an oak and you will soon begin to feel stronger. I love love love trees. Perhaps my number 1 energy compels me to plant them but it is a pleasure never a hardship. I once planted a small half acre wood called Totoms Wood. Nobody ever asked me why it was called that because they assumed it to be some fairy infused idea of mine about Totoms but infact it it just named after the two Tom's in my life. Bliss.