Calendar Books by Allen James - Daily Reading - "The Journey: A Calendar Book"

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Our reading for August 1st, "Plant a tree" (James, 2012).

Just a reminder, while this blog details my own interpretation of each daily reading from my calendar books (which hold only each reading and encourages the reader to interpret/apply to their own lives), readings are meant to be personal.  Through each individual's experiences along our journey, daily readings can have totally different applications.

The first Arbor Day took place on April 10, 1872 in Nebraska. It was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), a Nebraska journalist and politician originally from Michigan.  Throughout his long and productive career, Morton worked to improve agricultural techniques in his adopted state and throughout the United States when he served as President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture. But his most important legacy is Arbor Day.  Morton  felt Nebraska's landscape and economy would benefit from the wide-scale planting of trees. He set an example himself planting orchards, shade trees and wind breaks on his own farm and he urged his neighbors to follow suit.  Morton's real opportunity, though, arrived when he became a member of Nebraska's state board of agriculture.  He proposed a special day be set aside dedicated to tree planting and increasing awareness of the importance of trees.  Nebraska's first Arbor Day was an amazing success.  More than one million trees were planted.  A second Arbor Day took place in 1884 and the young state made it an annual legal holiday in 1885, using April 22nd to coincide with Morton's birthday.

In the years following that first Arbor Day, Morton's idea spread beyond Nebraska with Kansas, Tennessee, Minnesota and Ohio all proclaiming their own Arbor Days.  Today all 50 states celebrate Arbor Day although the dates may vary in keeping with the local climate.  (State Arbor Days) At the federal level, in 1970, President Richard Nixon proclaimed the last Friday in April as National Arbor Day.  Arbor Day is also now celebrated in other countries including Australia.  Variations are celebrated as 'Greening Week' of Japan, 'The New Year's Days of Trees' in Israel, 'The Tree-loving Week' of Korea, 'The Reforestation Week' of Yugoslavia, 'The Students' Afforestation Day' of Iceland and 'The National Festival of Tree Planting' in India.  Julius Sterling Morton would be proud.  Sometimes one good idea can make a real difference (arborday.com).

However, as we make a personal application of the reading, "Plant a tree", much more can be extrapolated from it.  Trees invite us to absorb their essence entirely, and we do this by tapping into their infinite branches of energies. Tree symbolism is a way of classifying, identifying and organizing the array of energetic knowledge they contain and incorporating this array in our daily life.

So why should we want to know more about tree symbolism? Why would we want to psychically consume (or being consumed by) these magnificent entities? Our collective human intuition is beginning to touch this understanding: "To know something is also to join with it." And, to join with a thing causes entanglement with it. Effectually, to connect with something on various levels is to create a new thread of creation in our own lives. The process of learning and connecting with trees (or anything else for that matter) insures our longevity and places us in a position of higher vision.

What nourishes (and sustains) our development is unifying our energetic resonance with a our desired objective attention. In this case, allowing the energetic resonance of trees to engage us wholly will always lead to supernatural self-growth. Trees invite us to revel in the connection of our true identity, to gain the highest perspective available to all our senses, to tap into a powerful inner resource in a profound, loving way, and to ride on divinely surging energy channels that underscores our existence.

Trees are uniquely dispositioned for bestowing secret knowledge. Trees are vessels, containing strata of revolutionary wisdom. Their fruits are indeed a royal treasure - a culmination of esoteric riches.

To eat of this fruit is divine. To symbolically eat of the fruit of a tree is to absorb the most precious understandings of life. Taking in the tree symbolism is like taking the nourishment of the fruit - we become one with the core manifestational wisdom, and from our new perspective we develop into something altogether different, fresh and divine.

Planting as well symbolizes procreation; an extension of ourselves, the security of our species.  For me this holds special meaning in the form of my own family.  Siblings....what a challenge it can be to stay connected to the blood which ultimately secures the time we spent in this existence through our offspring. David Harryman, Karen Harryman, in many ways, although a generation separates us, you're still the big brother carrying me around and being my rock. Joe Harryman, Shirley Harryman....I wish I could see you more often. Getting to know you later in my life has been shown me how older brothers can be buddies as well. Sandra Talbot, God blessed me with your influence and presence in my world. I'm so, so fortunate to have such a special relationship with such a special sister. Cindy Spears, Anna Nicole Spears, although you were placed in my life for such a short span....our sister/brother friendship prepared me to be the uncle I should be to your girls..one who could help them in realizing the special mother they had and how much you loved them and were the catalyst for their existance on this planet. Charles Harryman, Collin Harryman, your unique personality continues to make me smile, your brotherly "picking" has taught me to take life less seriously. Wendel Harryman, the bond of brothers just eleven months apart can never be severed. Although I can't be your crutch...I can be your support through the positive energy I send your way. Your competitive spirit has helped me to be a persistent adult.

I was so blessed mom and dad stopped having little urchins with me. I know now, being the youngest IS the best spot in birth order.. ..for I'm deeply affected by 6 siblings who are as much a part of me as I am myself. Love each of you. Miss the close connection we shared as a young family. You are all special to me.

Plant a tree, grasp the symbolism in trees, their roots, and planting in this life, and as always...keep looking up.   : ) AJ