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In the year of 1999, when Spirit gave me the inspiration for the name Tree of the Golden Light, it wasn’t used then for this site but for my small, struggling Reiki practice. I knew then that it signified that my work would grow many branches that would reach in many directions.

In 2003 when I started off in another direction, I thought I may be done with this site, however, Spirit has a way of bringing you front and center, and showing you how all that you have accomplished in your life is a part of who you are in the moment. Sometimes it serves to leave a part of yourself behind, or what you consider to be yourself, and then you see that what you have done in life is indeed not who you are but a representation of that, in what you do. 

So when I thought I was ready to go on to others things, I forgot that this site was here to serve me, and until that changes, it is a part of what I still do. When that realization turned the light back on, I was overjoyed! I realized that I was mistaken when I thought that I was to leave this behind; I was to merely change my role in the site, and branch out in yet another direction.

So here I am, writing another explanation of this site, and I do so with this description of The Tree of the Golden Light. As I lay in bed one morning thinking of the changes in my life and how they fit in with the Tree, I thought of the Tree as symbology for life. I realized that when I saw the branches as being representative of my life and work, I was seeing a narrow vision of what it truly represented. Now I see that fuller view. I see that while the branches represent the outer lives, the roots represent the Spirit of life. They reach deep into the soil and drink up and supply the nourishment for the life of the tree. They stay hidden, and remain steadfastly being as the branches, yet without the adornment of leaves, and blossoms, and fruit, and seeds. I see them as always evolving along with the outer, while holding the same pattern as the outer.

I also see in the outer that the blossoms spring forth in the Spring, and give homage and celebration to the long winter of rest and rejuvenation. Then when the blossoms have expressed themselves fully, they give forth to the birth of the fruit, the seeds. The new, tender buds form and sprout into the maturity of full growth, providing pleasure, beauty and promise to the whole. Then when the purpose of their being here is fulfilled, they give one final burst of celebration and change their faces to the expression of the fire of Spirit. The dream is over, the life is done, and it is time for the reward of dropping away the old to prepare for the new. It is now a time for rest, a time to return to the simplicity of the roots. It is a time for a remaking of the potential, and a gathering of all that has been garnered from the life expression just past.

All the time this has been taking place, the roots have been sturdily, simply, unconditionally remaining, giving sustenance, giving strength, giving of themselves, without judgment as to the outer, reflecting the desires and inspirations of the outer, and allowing the freedom of expression within the parameters of that expression.

This is the cycle of life. This is why as I continue with this site, I allow it its expression, always remembering its reason for life, and the roots of that life. There has never been a finer example in my life of how I can represent the Tree of Life, than to allow this site to flourish and provide a place of beauty and love and compassion. Everyone connected with this site is indeed their own representation of the Tree, and all is Beautiful, and Holy, and Divine.

Thank you for being who you are, all of you!

Love,

Nancy