Earth Day: Honor Your Other Mother!

Last updated on: April 20, 2010 at 5:50 pm by Star Foster

Earth Day: Honor Your Other Mother! 2010-04-20T17:50:14-04:00 Star Foster

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Mama’s got a birthday! Ok, so I don’t know if the earth solidified into a hunk of matter that could sustain organic life on April 22nd, or even if it was on a Thursday, but Earth Day is when we celebrate all that sustains us!

Check out Oberon Zell’s mystical revelation that gave birth to the Gaia Thesis and share the impact the Gaia Thesis has had on your own life.

Growing up to believe in humanity’s dominion over the Earth, I found it liberating to learn that not only was I not the master of the Earth, nor was I a parasite, but that I was an integral part of a Living Earth. I came from the Earth and I return to her when I die. There is no part of me that is not of the Earth!

She is my Creatrix, my Sustainer and my Future in very real and palpable way. Without Her, I literally would not exist!

In Thomas Tryon’s horror novel, Harvest Home, the Widow Fortune, though rather murderous in her activities, gives an impassioned testimony of love for the Earth:

“She is all of woman, and more. She bears as a woman bears. She gives and sustains as a woman does, but a woman dies, being mortal. But she is not. She is ever fruitful. She is the Mother.”

“Lay a seed in her, she will bear. She will nourish and sustain, and in the sustaining give forth and provide. And that seed you give her will make another seed, and that another, and another, again and again – forever the Eternal Return.”

“Let us pay her tribute. Let us beg her for her strength and protection. Let us pray that she may bring forth her strong plants, her rich food, her very life. How selfish we are. We give her but a seed, a kernel, a dead thing. Yet see what she returns to us. Such bounty, such riches, such life! What mortal is there who cannot help but wonder at her, love her, fear her?”

Be good to your Mother Earth, who has been so good to you! Recycle, plant trees, consume less, eat locally, walk or ride a bike! Every little bit helps! Do your part!

*Text from Harvest Home reprinted in compliance with Fair Use doctrine.

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