By Elisa Novick
I receive so much excited and awed response from all over the world to the stories I’ve shared about the relationships and discussions I’ve had with several trees along a path in a forest in New York State over 11 wondrous years. Yet only a relative few of you will have the opportunity to visit and participate in the Tree Love: Heart of the Forest workshop in this forest, my happiest place in the world(s).
Now, as I prepare to spend the next three seasons in Asia, Australia and back to Europe, I know that I too will not get to be with them in person for a long while. So I offer you a short tour in words of the main trees I’ve been loving and working with. I hope my description will give you some new ideas of what you might become aware of when you meet special trees in the places you live and travel.
The first tree I met was the Oak. I experience this beautiful old tree as male, though he is male and female and will now and then show me a strong female aspect just to keep me flexible. When I walked down the path that first time and every time since, I was met with a profound wave of love before I even beheld his gorgeous physical form. When I asked how intelligent was this tree on my scale of 0-10, (each number exponentially larger than the last and having met only two people who were 10s), I was told this tree was a 14!
It is astounding to me how a powerful and noble tree that always calls me up to my highest and best can also be warm and intimate or be excited like a child to introduce me to the Sun or a pod of whales or how he likes to stretch up way higher than his branches can reach, just for the joy of it. With my hands on him, I can feel a huge, busy, biocomputer in the base just below the soil line, and in one of my first visits, I felt my entire archive of experience, indeed my life signature, download into it. When it happened it was a little shocking, but I knew that it was totally safe and an honor as well. Another day, I came to the forest and trees had gathered from miles around to celebrate my relationship with this Oak. It was a joyous wedding-like ceremony.