Daily Divine: How can we understand the spiritual nature of extreme weather?

It has been heartbreaking to watch those in Texas struggling with the trauma of Hurricane Harvey and the displacement of extreme flooding. 

Other parts of the U.S. are also suffering right now too—for example, there's a 300,000 acre wildfire burning in Oregon today. Other parts of the world are also suffering from natural disasters and extreme weather right now too.

It's about climate change, of course. But it is also about Gaia, our earth, reflecting our collective soul. 

We are not many separate souls. We are One soul.
This doesn't just apply to human souls, either. 
Are sentient beings (living and non-living) are part of the collective soul of Gaia. 

Humans, animals, plants, minerals, weather systems. 

Whatever we think, whatever stress we feel, whatever crushing situations we are under as humans, are all reflected in our group thought, which shapes the energy of our collective soul. 

Do you recall how sometimes a person you know, will reflect your shadow right back to you?

Right now, many of our political leaders are reflecting our shadow. 
And right now, Gaia is also reflecting our shadow.. 

Gaia is not separate from us, we are not separate from Gaia. Gaia is a collective consciousness that we are part of. What we feel, Gaia feels and vice versus.

Extreme weather is not punishment for our "sins." It is true, we have not been good stewards of the earth, and we're finally starting to figure that out. But there is no punishment here. Instead, Gaia is simply reflecting to us, and we are reflecting to Gaia, the extreme shadows we are working through, as collective soul.

It's not always stress, trauma, pain.  
The weather is not bad every day.

Please remember this, as extreme weather plays out at the end of summer. Sometimes, in fact many times, this world and its weather give us the most beautiful, gorgeous, profound, life-changing experiences we will ever have. 

The good, the bad, the all of it: this is what we are, and this is what we create as One with each other and with Gaia. 

Be at peace. Send peace to all. Understand there is no separation from each other or from the earth. 

Much love, 
SARA

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