Incantation:

sacred beings of nature

these she-guides enact their primordial ecological story
shaping the contours of Earth intelligence
their dance is an entry point
shaping the the pathway for alignment within the connective world

They tell us their ancient story
A story of this particular place
The story of its ancient embedded animate Beings
Whose presence communicates the ecological story of the honoring of this sacred land
Of honoring deeply interrelated mutuality

Entering into this story we see our original selves
Our authentic selves
Our lost selves
Our potential modern selves

We see ourselves honoring the complex interpersonal interwoven interdependent relationships within the nature system
We see our ritual ceremonial dance
The dance of life that served us supremely well for hundreds of thousands of years
A dance we can reengage in 
A dance that demonstrates reverence for other
That emerges from reverence for other
An enactment that teaches us the foundational truth of the sacredness of nature
the sacredness for ourselves and for the whole of nature as the principal currency of connective life

We enter the potent wisdom of the She-Deer
She flows through this aperture
This aperture of ancient ancestral knowledge
She shapes this psycho-ecological sphere
Transfixing our primordial orientation

She draws us into the depth journey of connective wisdom
A journey of the Earth mind
of transformational Earth consciousness
a journey Into the realm of connective unity

Preparing us for accomplishing our rite of passage
the transformation of our ecological consciousness

Corvids articulate this shamanic journeying story
Establishing the sacred space
Maintaining primordial balance
Preparing our minds
Guarding the space

These Sheguides undertake their sacred responsibility to their totemic other
Enacting their dance of ecological transmutation
Their dance of gratitude and unity
Their dance of suffering death to life

They dance the transformation of their life
They show their taking of matriarchal responsibility in service to life
They dance the gift of life through death

The gift of matriarchal autonomy and responsibility
The gift of matriarchal intelligence and psychic balance
The gift of the balanced connective psyche

These gifts have been deeply denied by an over-masculinised modern human psyche
By the forced subjugation of the feminine both physical and psychic
Across entire swathes of over-masculinised modern human cultures
Across all the over-masculinised social spheres across the world today
Gifts malevolently denigrated for millennia
This corralling of the modern human into an over-masculinised state has been to the great detriment of humanity and the more-than-human community and our whole Earthland

Inside these ancestral knowledge stories we can experience the animate presence of these our forbears
They flow through our sentient bodies
Animate our consciousness
Open us to the Outerior mind of nature

They come to our aid in a time of pending catastrophe
Even after millennia of denial and denigration
They come to shine a light on this pathway toward ecological consciousness
To shine a light on the more-than-human world
The totemic world mostly invisible to our modern dualistic eyes

They come to tell us that the more-than-human are our teachers, initiators and guides
And that without connecting with them and honouring them we cannot recover ourselves or our Earthland
We cannot comprehend the sacredness of ourselves and the entire more-than-human world

But with them we find unity within nature
We become part of the greater connective whole
We find the incomparable intelligence of nature as our true guide
Our guide to the reinstatement of ourselves as sacred  ''Beings of Nature''

Dedication:

‘red deer she-guides’ is dedicated to the First Nations sheguides of Scotland. NallaRuer, Image-story-Maker.