 Hi there saplings! Welcome back to Esoteric Moment. My name is Dany and I finally have that video project I've been promising you for months. This project I really dive a little bit deeper into druidry and my own practice while also being a little more vague and universal about how I discuss it. I really hope that this can inspire some new conversation in the comments about our personal experiences and how we collectively discuss journey work. This was inspired out of my ovate studies through the order of bards, ovates, and druids. And if you want more information about them or druidry, definitely check out druidry.org. I will have a follow-up video later this week where I talk about 2017, why I wasn't online as much, and what I hope to do in 2018. So hit that subscribe button so you don't miss that video and all the other things that I will be creating for you. Thanks for watching and as always, may you find peace in the sacred grove. Time is a steady friend. The clock on our phone continues forward regardless of whether we are sad or happy. Our alarm clock wakes us up every morning no matter how long we stayed up, wearing the night before, or how excited we are for the adventures ahead of us. Of course, time seems reliable in our macroscopic world because we see the results of it being so, an entropy in the addition of hours in our day and going to the moon and back. But when we look closer at time, it isn't so clear whether we are coming or going. We can envision the future and we remember the past all while living in the present. Those of us who dare to journey to the inner grove and do the exploration of time can learn valuable lessons about ourselves, our world, and can create real integration through this understanding of time. From the inner grove, there is a path, a gate, a liminal space that takes the journeyer through to different experiences of time. In the past, the being of you may not be whom you embody in this experience. We all come from long minds of ancestors and past cultures. Perhaps you are an ancestor. Exploring the family dynamics we carry can be easier in this place. The connections are certainly easier to see. One can dance along those webs to find the origins and the knots. The wounds sing dissonant chords that only resolve themselves with direct attention. The repeated patterns of joy taste like fresh honey in your mouth. The you in this place might also frolic with your inner child defend yourself against bullies and understand where divergent paths held possibilities for you. Lessons of forgiveness abound here. And of course, the history of places we now inhabit become vibrant movies for us to watch and involve ourselves in. Our memories of the path, the history we know, and the guides we encounter allow us to experience the past in rich detail in order that we bring back wisdom and the truth to our present. From the inner grove, there is a path, a gate, a liminal space that takes the journeyer through to different experiences of time. The future possibility floats by you. The choices you've taken to bring you to the future smirk their mysterious smiles at you, inviting you to play and take risks. Reality is more fluid in this experience. A change of scenery or crowd is simple. It's up to you to decide. But once you've found a vision to explore, there are paths that bring you there faster, smoother, bumpier, more roundabout. Take your pick. Note your road signs carefully. Study the consequences of the vision. What roads lead away from this vision? Do not forget that the actions of one affect a saw. This is not to create fear and avoidance, merely encouragement to be aware. Here we learn whether we are tempted to explore all the best versions or all the worst. We learn where our blind spots are, what speed we think we must travel at, and where we always stop. In the future, there are many things we wish to grow from, vision to fully present. We bring back with us the seeds that will take us on the journey we most need to take in our present, and the wisdom to travel well. From the inner grove, there is a path, a gate, a liminal space that takes the journeyer through to different experiences of time. In the present, there is breath, in and out, in and out. It is hard to ignore our body here, so much flesh, fluid, movement, and breath. Always breath. Through this body, we hold the memories of the past. We dream of the future. We breathe the future in. We breathe the past out. We live in that small gap between, in and out. While each of our experiences are different in each phase of time, the present is even more unique to each of us. This place is wholly yours. It is affected by where we are, when we are, and how we are. The present is the key to our why. In and out. In and out. We breathe our purpose together within us. From the inner grove, there is a path, a gate, a liminal space that takes the journeyer through to different experiences of time.