Give yourself 2 hours. Take a walk out into the wild landscape.
Make an altar.
Can be as simple as two stones stacked on top of each other. As simple as a ring of pinecones. As simple as a feather stuck into the soft ground. As simple as four acorns pointing out into four directions. Simple. Beautiful. Magical. Make an altar.
Gather the abundance.
Once you’ve made your altar, start gathering material. Whatever the landscape you’re on is abundant with, collect that. Maybe you’re on a Maine rocky beach. An Idaho conifer forest. A maple grove in Michigan. A beach and oak forest in Massachusetts. Wherever you are, see what is in abundance. And gather up at least 30 or so pieces of that abundance.
Make your offerings.
Approach your altar. This altar is you. Your life. Your qualities. Your presence. Essence. Spirit. Soul. This altar is you. Take one piece of the abundance in your hands and lay it on or around your altar and speak. Out loud. One thing you love about who you are. Be as specific as possible. And speak to yourself like you would a lover. Bring your poet out. Bring your lover out. Bring your sovereign out. The one who knows how to bless. Bring them out. And bless, in specific, as many aspects of yourself as you have collected from the abundance of the land.
Breath and feel.
Your altar now, in its new found adornment, is just a little closer to fairly representing you. Just a little bit closer. Breath in all that you just said as you placed the leaves, the pinecones, the stones, the cedar boughs, the birch bark, the beauty of the land. Breath all that in. Breath all that in. And when you breathe out, feel, see, and know all of that beauty expanding out and nurturing the landscape. Breath in the beauty. Breath out the beauty. And as you breathe it out, see, feel and know the trees basking in your exhalation. The beach rocks blushing from your presence. The overhead clouds billowing just a little fuller. The birdsong carrying just a little further. The earth receiving a little more deeply. Breathe in your beauty. Exhale your beauty. And see and feel and know that the wild world around you sees you just as beautiful, if not more. And when you’re ready, walk back to your home or your bike or your vehicle or your canoe or your kicked-off shoes and carry this fullness of beauty in and out with you into the rest of your day, your week.