Hearth and Home

Power Place
My thoughts had been drawn to a question asked previously and without warning off my mind pinged to a few lines of a book by Phyllis Curott, one I had read awhile ago.. The chapter was on finding your own power place. Reading this chapter I felt enthralled by such a place and also slightly envious, for while I had visited places where I felt close to what felt like the very core of the Goddess I had never found that one place, where I just knew the energy in the area and I connected, a place of power –
my power place perhaps.
It never ceases to amaze me how when I least expect it, I am prompted to recall things tucked away in my sub conscious and this was one of those time. Reminded I was about a place of power. One so strong I could barely stand under the force, how I had ever forgotten this I do not know, and I remember thinking as I left how I wish it was a place I could go to often.
Tucked away in the Dandenong Ranges is a reserve, not just any reserve but a very special place, this reserve is now “owned” by the people and run by a trust, without it the place would be lost..

{Earth Mother}
William Rickett (1898–1993) back in the early 30’s bought 4 acres of land and moved on to it. What he did was pretty amazing – he bought to ‘life’ the spirit of the land, of the indigenous people, a very spiritual people that had dwelt here long before the first settlers arrived by convict ships from England.
A gifted sculpture he began to carve into the rock all around this 4 acres of land. Huge carvings of the Earth Mother, The Father, the elders whose Spirit is one with the trees.

{Earth Father}

I walked through this amazing place hand in hand with my husband, pointing to pieces, taking a few photos, totally fascinated by the work that had been this mans life and dream till the day he died.. Then something stopped me, and drew me to it like a magnet.
I let go of my mans hand and walked off the track maybe 10 metres into the bush and stopped dead in my tracks.. My eyes turned skywards and still I could not see all of it, I put my hand out to touch it before my hand reached it, I was literally buzzing and I could barely stand. The hair on my arms was standing up, my heart so totally full of joy, I thought it was going to explode right out of my chest; total euphoria, I had a grin from ear to ear that I could not control. I wanted to call to my man come feel this, but it didn’t feel right to so, I knew this was my personal journey.
This huge, ancient tree had called me to it’s side.. To this day I do not know how nor do I know why, however as I sit and reflect I am as blessed by the memory of it’s impact on me as much as I was by physically being in its presence..
To have stayed curled up on the cool forest floor, pressed against this huge ancient trunk would have been no hardship to me. I heard her whisperings in the wind, words and songs that my mind did not know but my spirit knew and sang in perfect tune with, tentatively I wrapped my arms around this mighty Divine entirety and pressed my face against her cool bark and I felt total unconditional love. All these years later and I still have an affinity with these trees.

I feel very drawn to return to this place, I have no doubt I will find this majestic being again and I will leave an offering this time at her base and I will thank the Goddess for the privilege, of being able to share in something so amazing.
I have put in a few photos, the top photo is Earthly Mother, the caption at her base reads “Wholeness of Life – Love all embracing”
The second photo is Earth Father and the last is … I was going to say my tree, but that would be placing a label on something very special, I think you know what the photo represents – Blessed Be