In one of these beautiful early summer days I was sitting in a back yard of a friends house underneath a big bush with beautiful white flowers. A small wood was just behind the fence of the property. Birds where singing and some butterfly’s where dancing in the air. I was sitting there and meditating about the Rune Ur again.
A Rune that is all about living on mother earth. The global situation of our planet came into my mind with “global warming, peak oil, pollution, freak weather, wars terrorism.
Jake the magic dog that was attached to me like a Siamese twin was somewhere around me. I was lost in deep thoughts, and heard suddenly a gentle woof and another woof, woof.
I wondered where Jake the magic dog was, and could hear him behind a little house on the property close to the little wood. Few seconds later I was with him and saw a “thing “ dark colored with orange almost completely under a pile of leaves and rubbish.
Jake looked at me with ??? What is it ?? I looked at him in the same way and thinking: You are an American dog, you are supposed to know it better than me.
My first thought was “a snake”, as I learned that there are three dangerous snakes in Virginia, but my feeling was that this was something different. I carefully took the rubbish away and saw a turtle.
A turtle, who abandoned it?
This was my first thought, as we do not have wild turtles in the woods in Northern Europe. I took the turtle and placed in a box and left some lettuce with it , until I knew what to do with it. I went on the Internet to find out more and to my surprise I learned that wild turtles do live in North America.
This little being however was a box turtle. The website said that we are blessed to have one of these turtles alive, as they tend to get rare due to dogs, cars and environmental changes. It was also said that the best place for them would be in nature with a creek. In my mind I questioned if the little wood in the back is the right place for the turtle and so I prayed for inspiration.
After a while, I went back outside to have a look at this turtle, with a very interested dog watching every single movement and step of me. The turtle started to move in the box and so I picked it up and like a toy it started to “walk in the air “ in my hand, facing the little wood. Well this was the answer for me and so I blessed the little creature and sat it free in the little wood. The little box turtle showered me with turtle blessings and left me with many questions.
Why did the turtle show up to me?
I had a look in the book “Animal speak “ and found the answer.
The turtle is about mother earth. That if we love and honor mother earth she is providing us all with, what we need while living on her. We have to open our senses and listen to her and her beings, that my come in different forms and shapes. Feel her; love her and all her beings. Love is the key. We can not leave mother earth until our journey here has an end, as the turtle can not leave its shell.
I lied down with Jake and closed my eyes and felt the present and the teaching of the box turtle. Happily laying down with the magic dog we began to dream .