One evening hanging out and relaxing with a dear soulmate/conscious partner, I was prompted to discover my ‘higher self’ name. He and I were just short of our Saturn return birthdays and individually had made quite a lot of spiritual progress in terms of soul-awakenings, self-realizations, spiritual and community connections. We had been spending ample time together supporting each others development and personal projects, many of which were actualized in the years following this evening. Taking many deep breathes and situating my focus to my third eye frame, I lay there and closed my eyes to wait for a sound to come to my inner ears.
Through a heightened focus I could potentially hear, see, feel, and spell out what I was meant to be called. I waited and meditated on the goal of connecting to my higher self name. Did it start with J? K? A? …
A sound starting with letter Y popped up in my mind, and then I finished it off with ‘ou’ and intuited that it would be spelled Yew. That was it! The amazing part of this exercise was that I was relaxed and had no expectations which made it possible to visualize and follow the path leading me to the most authentic answer. In my life I was an active canvasser for a non-profit to save trees, wilderness, and vital habitat, and a few years prior had joined an eco-village coop. I definitely love trees, however, in that moment I didn’t comprehend that Yew is a type of tree, and had no clue that it even existed at all! Since reading about it I learned that it has very similar meaning to the Holly tree (my name), making for an even deeper synchronicity since my birthday is on Halloween during Samhain. Read how this all links together below:
The yew tree is traditionally known to be resilient, strong, and hearty. Some of the oldest living yews are logged at being over 7000 years old. Commonly growing next to churches and within cemeteries, they are known to symbolize protection, healing, as well as life, death, and regeneration after difficult times. The ability of the yew tree to sprout new roots from branches that touch the ground parallels the hope for the utopians to sprout holistic and resilient new developments for the present and future generations, from carrying on the loving duty, This may or may not include self-care, inner-processing, groundedness, health & wealth.
The link between the inevitable death of current generations, and the happy success of the current increasingly needs to be adaptive and responsible in regards to considering the unsustainable nature of our human society, including the rising toxicity and loss of nature itself.
*Picture of a yew bush in Winnipeg.
“How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes? — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Yew in Yewtopia is envisioned as a protector of the loving intentions of those involved in the greater good, Yewtopia goes far beyond an address, thus creating a strong sense of nature in mind, all around us, alive and well. Just as nature nurturers herself when sick, we must help each other with our connectivity and guidance as a strong humanity.
Just like a tree can stretch and develop a lovely foreground for an evening sunset background. We can be stretched upwards towards the hopeful emergence of enlightening, creative, sustainable, community economic development.
We are striving and growing within the shared space to showcase innate talent, natural beauty, deep truths; Sparking empowering growth & healing journeys.
Yewtopia 