Learning the Language of Trees: Western Red Cedar
A year ago I decided to start connecting with individual trees around my homestead after diving into the Earth Tender’s Academy. I felt ready to focus my psychic senses with intention, and connect deeper with the land under my feet. I simply placed a few quartz crystals near each of their trunks with nothing more then my love and gratitude. Baby steps!
As the seasons turned, I would revisit the trees overtime to connect with their energy and eventually, the once “dormant” trees began to respond to my gestures for communication.
This is interesting I thought, now we are getting somewhere! I feel nature spirits can intentionally withdraw from humans after bad experiences, and I did feel a sense of dormancy with the trees here initially.
Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata)
One of these trees is a large western red cedar. He is the only one that gave me a name, which he told me was “Oanoch” (oh-knock). Obviously, this is my attempt to give spelling to a word that came through clairaudiently.
Aside from him giving me a name, he remained rather reserved and apprehensive to open up to me. His energy is very masculine, strong, serious and somewhat stoic in nature. So I didn’t push too hard, just continued with some offerings and the occasional check-in.
This cedar tree is clearly the only one of his age group that didn’t get cut during the last residency of this property and he’s located in a hard to reach sloped area along the river. Despite being mostly tucked out of sight, his crown reaches above the canopy, even above the trees growing upslope from him.
Oanoch has a triple top which to me, has a strong resemblance to a bull elk. Roosevelt Elk have the largest antlers of all elk species and sometimes carry a distinctive three-point tip, or crown. King of the forest energy.
Quite recently, I felt a pull to pay him a visit after a long hiatus.
It was a nice and mild January day and I just got my daughter down for a nap in her stroller. I meandered over to the tree, and popped my shoes off.
Once I was connected, his energy felt much different this time, and I could feel him pull me in closer. He told me he has been observing me and that he saw the work I did for the cottonwood tree down the hill (beautiful story for another blog post).
Long story short I had to go, but he told me to take some of his foliage that was on the ground, including a nearby stone. This would help me reconnect with his energy remotely later on.
Later that same day, I sat down with the intention to continue my conversation with Oanoch.
I picked up some of the fresh green cedar I took home, broke it apart to take in the smell and instantaneously, my ear starting ringing.
Here is the latest download I gathered from Oanoch the cedar tree:
He is a “watcher”. This means he is connected to the greater landscape and keeps record of the land, who’s coming and going, etc. Who has good intentions, and who doesn’t.
As a watcher, he is also connected with the bigfoot beings in the larger landscape (other keepers of the land).
His crown has a sight line that reaches far and wide 360 degrees, which is an important quality as a watcher.
There are a few animals that use his shelter as a home including at least one cavity I could see in his trunk (for birds I assume). He said the smallest creatures are all carrying energy or “data” all over the place. The squirrels, the birds, they are like little data transmitters carrying energetic data from the tree throughout the land.
I got the words “terra” and “bite”. Terra-byte.. get it? Terra = earth. The message is that there is a planet’s worth of data in every little fractal of nature.
Where trees and mountains are like fixed cosmic antennae, the water and the other creatures can move around and carry/transmute the data. Humans are are the same. This is what I would call grid work.
