The Magic of Trees

Transfigurers, wordless communicators, timekeepers. I’m not talking about Dumbledore from Harry Potter fame, no. Trees.

Trees. They are time-keepers, displaying the changing of the seasons, even in the time of high strangeness we just woke from, lockdowns, when being frozen in place was dissociative.

There are trees massive enough to drive a car through, whose rings count back to a time when the land they inhabited wasn’t the United States, not yet and bore witness to the deaths and births of millions. Their complex root systems extend as wide and deep below the surface as their canopies stretch across the sky. Their roots intermingle with neighboring plant life, conveying complex information beneath the Earth’s surface like an Old School world wide web. 

Trees. They transfigure carbon dioxide into oxygen. Their branches, leaves, trunks, and roots harbor entire ecosystems. Their timbers have been used to build cities. Their leaves are energy factories. Their chemistry have brought us medicines. They provide us with food, shelter, warmth; and if you’ve ever stood in a forest or grove and just listened, you’ve heard them rustle, flutter, groan, creak and sigh. Some cultures believe them to be elder spirits. There are stories about many that stretch the bounds of our imaginations. 

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Sources and Materials:

The Ancient Magick of Trees by Gregory Michael Brewer on IndieBound

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/04/993430007/trees-talk-to-each-other-mother-tree-ecologist-hears-lessons-for-people-too

https://www.woodmagazine.com/materials-guide/lumber/medicinal-trees

https://thesunlightexperiment.com/blog/2018/6/7/9-famous-examples-of-drugs-that-came-from-plants

PBS documentary, Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-whispering-trees-180968084/

https://mrtreeservices.com/blog/what-is-

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