Yew notes
If you are drowning in the depths of winter, if you find the dark days dismal, if you are wearied by the woes of the world, if you find that you have lost your direction, lost your spark – then place yourself next to the banked-up fire of the yew tree spirit. Its constant energy and life- force will warm you through and help restore your core strengths and inspir new growth.
Yew is the oldest of trees, eternal, ever-living, vibrant wirh dragon-life, a great restorer and a great healer. Anchor you energies in the eternal silence of the yew tree and learn to sing again.
” I am Yew
Slow breath of Eternity
Joyful and profound
I am Yew
Well of Time
Source of Life.”
SONG OF THE YEW TEACHER
This is the song
Of the Yew Teacher,
The spiral snake,
The dragon healer.
Strong song and silent teacher.
Before the dawn
Before the first day
I knew the sun’s name
As it called me forth.
Pollen
Heavy,yellow
On the wind.
Red apple,
Sweet heart of death.
Green tongues and
life-blood fire.
Patient roaring,
Passion turning:
“come not with your mind
Nor your chatter.
Drown in me
Die in me
Join the centre:
The hub, the wheel,
The word,
The laughter.
The fire inside,
Concealed, concealing.
Wood and weather,
Warm and winter.
In my shadow,
Dance,
Dissolve.”
Past the sitting one who sees
Past the root into the chamber
Where the watchers weave and gather
Where the dragon’s breath is potent
Where the silver wheel is woven
Where the time is marked and measured
Where the space is held and hallowed
Where the land is named
And numbered.
” I am fire
And I am water.
I am earth
And I am ether”
This is the heart of Time,
The heart of matter,
The drum of centuries
The door
The silence…..
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