Does the energy of the tree resonate more with your belly,
your chest, your throat, or your head? (When trying to cognize
the properties of any plant or substance, it is always a good idea to
sense which chakra it resonates with.)
Do you get the feeling of being protected, when tuning into the
tree? Some trees can envelop you inside their branches as an angel
would take you in his wings.
Try to sense what is the specialty of this tree. What could it be
good for from a medicinal point of view?
Go on practising from one tree to another.
Tips
Trees are really good when you are learning to tune in, for they
have a generous nature. They enjoy communicating their energy. I
have seen several people who had a great opening of perception
when tuning into a tree. Some trees literally talk to you. When
you become more perceptive it is not rare that you walk past a
tree and you simply have to stop, because the tree is calling you.
Don't hesitate to hug trees!
Remember practice 8.12: if you have a sorrow or a perverse
energy you can't get rid of, hug a tree for long enough, and ask
the tree to take it. The results might astonish you. (The energy is
nowhere as noxious to the tree as it is to you.) As your capacity to
tune in develops, you will be able to implement this exercise with
greater intensity.
There is a beautiful custom, which is to plant a tree when a
child is born. (Bury the placenta in the earth next to the tree.)
Thus the child and the tree will have similar astrological charts. Of
course, it is not very easy to plant the tree just at the moment of
delivery (even though that would be a rather amusing enterprise).
So you can proceed like this: note down the minute the child's head
comes out and get somebody to plant the tree the day after, at
exactly the same time. Apart from the Moon, the celestial bodies
do not move much in a day, and 24 hours later they have almost
exactly the same position in the houses as they had the day before.
Another very good time to plant a tree is on the New Moon that
precedes the birth. If the child has not arrived at the Full Moon,
then plant another. These two trees, the New and Full Moon ones,
will have a particular significance to the child.
Choose a good tree, on which the child and later on the adult will
be able to mirror him/herself.
