Just scanning through Wikipedia for the myths and beliefs of Aborigines; Dreamtime, Rainbow serpent etc and then I find this quote…

"Aboriginal people learned from their stories that a society must not be human-centred but rather land centred, otherwise they forget their source and purpose...humans are prone to exploitative behaviour if not constantly reminded they are interconnected with the rest of creation, that they as individuals are only temporal in time, and past and future generations must be included in their perception of their purpose in life" C, Morris

That's ecopsychology if ever I knew it! (Something for Grove of Quotes? Lol)

Now excuse me, I'm going to express my "inner-Aborigine," commune with the Rainbow Serpent and connect to the Dreamtime with the didge-voice of the Earth :)

You hear the Earth speak, or is it the Earth? A deep, vibrational rumbling, with a fluctuating rhythm resounds within a valley. No, it’s my new didgeridoo, and that’s me trying to polish my use of it.

I have a nice hornbeam didgeridoo in England, waiting to journey here to be with me. But recently, I got myself another one! This one’s made of bamboo, and I have been practicing on it a bit recently. Beautiful thing it is! It has some nice patterns on it, one being a “rainbow serpent.” So I decided to call it Rainbow (after thinking Water, Light-Water, Water-Light or Spectrum). My other one I called Dubh, which means black in Gaelic (very Earthy name).
Anyway, a few days later, I see the biggest and clearest rainbow I think I’ve ever seen in my whole life! Confirmation if ever I saw one ;) And a nice picture too…

Ovate... at last! Or por fin en Español!

As soon as I got over the last hurdle of the bardic grade, everything else just took off.

I'm finding the ovatic experience very interesting, it's had the effect of bringing intuition and imagination together with creative results! It's fun to read the landscape and its inhabitant's energy as "personality" (silly humans, anthropomorphising again).

I've been writing stories about how a tree told me a story about how it and it's kin came into being, and about how a norse Earth Goddess, Nerthus, came upon the knowledge of the properties of trees, herbs and other growing things and shared that with her children.

As you can see, my imagination has been inspired! Perhaps you'll see some of the reults here :)

What I really am looking forward to is the herbology bit. I don't know a lot and really want to develop this part of my ovatic experience. Before you know, I'll be so deep in herbs and herbology you'll find green things growing from my skin! Haha!