Sovereignty, Back to our Roots
In early November before the final orchard mow, I took a moment to comb through the long grass one final time in search of the crown jewel of autumn’s fruit: pears. Hidden amongst the grass were a couple of handfuls of tree-ripened fruit. I filled the mower’s cup holder with as many as I could and with the rest of them in hand and the other on the mower’s steering wheel, I start the final rounds.
Cool autumn breezes bathed me with the aroma of fresh grass and because I was impatient and devoured one fresh pear after the other, the fruit was so packed with hydration that its juices ran down my arm like a stream of water, in the goodness of that moment, my senses being so overwhelmed, tears streamed down my cheeks in gratitude.
Within a week of this swan song mow, our summery autumn slipped into winter temps bringing our first hard frost. It was robust and the following morning as the winds whipped through the trees, it was as though it was raining leaves; instead of raindrops nourishing the earth - a natural composting system that will show its full benefits in the spring when the upper story has rejuvenated the roots with its winter nourishment, once more sending life from roots to its canopy.
Others like the native blue cohosh (ginseng) berries serve as a covering supporting new life, new roots, and foliage for medicinal and healing purposes. The ivy, however, stands firm; but the evergreen leaves when we reach single temperatures will too succumb to this root nourishing cycle.
In our home, we, like nature, after a full season of exerting an enormous amount of energy into creating new things, maintaining what already is needed to shift our energy. In late autumn as winter weather approaches, our physical and mental resources have become quite low. Running on an empty tank and left with one option, we take our cues from nature: to pause, nourish ourselves and our roots.
Fall and winter season is an ideal time to nourish the body with food from a pantry stocked with root vegetables, potatoes, carrots onions, and garlic, autumn vines such as pumpkins, and with squash, basil, oregano, and Italian peppers preserved as frozen pesto cubes.
It is a time to plan for next season’s gardens & food sovereignty/security. It also is a time to acknowledge how your consciousness has shifted, a time to adapt the quality of your everyday life accordingly and dream and plan new ways that you can take small steps in increasing your sovereignty outside of the matrix. Some say this matrix is falling apart, but rather, I believe the weight, the disconnect from self-sovereignty has become so great that the pressure isn’t making the system fall apart, but the humans that depend and partake of it as its source.
Where we once learned from our elders how to be self-reliant, we now have a culture that learns from educational models designed to make humanity dependent on religion, allopathic medicine and international corporations for basic supplies and energy; for our source of identity and the essentials needed to thrive!
I believe that there is great hope for this world! That it will happen through individuals expanding their sovereignty consciousness. As Buckminster Fuller once said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” There is a Life-Code written into Creation that always has been, and always will be. Rather than fighting a matrix, create a new way that is the Code that always has been, and always will be. It’s a code of regeneration, multiplication, healing and connection to our roots.
Thank you so much for reading this article. My desire is that this sparked curiosity and inspired you to expand your sovereignty!
Until next time!
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
