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Blood Moon Birthing Tree

Many animals species including humans have an instinctive symbiotic relationship to other species. Humans have always sought shelter in swales and hills, by creeks and rivers, under trees and against stones for sacred rites of passage & ritual. There is a spiritual  as well as  practical reason for  these instincts. Deeply embedded in our nature, in our subliminal consciousness, are survival memories of important places: where we were born where our families came from, lands and landforms that hold meaning, that we love and have a connection to, whether personally or collectively. We record cycles, seasons, phases of the moon are inherently and instinctively important to us. Birthing trees are used by many animal species to provide shelter, protection and security - safe passage for mother and child. Trees act as guardians of the sacred cycle of life. Moons and their phases can control water, tides, impact cycles and the rituals of life giving and initiation.

Jo Bertini: Deep in Land
  1. Wayfinding
  2. Fever Trees
  3. The Water Tree of Doubtful Creek
  4. Wind Swimming Sierra Negra's Upside Down Country
  5. Breath of the Last Wild River
  6. A Geography of Mythologies and Lost Little Histories
  7. Saguaro Creek in Hollow Land
  8. Salt Creep Telling Stories
  9. Storm Birds
  10. Dark Sky Park Approaching Nowhere
  11. Two Boys Dreaming
  12. Hunting for Darkness
  13. Basin of Indifference
  14. Call and Response from the Last Frontier (Night Heron)
  15. Dryland Reef
  16. Scar Tree - 'The Love of Man is a Weed of the Waste Places' (Randolph Stow)
  17. Tracing Red Jasper - Water Witching and Spirit Stones
  18. Blood Moon Birthing Tree
  19. Badlands - A Deliberate Forgetting
  20. Wasteland Nursery