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Bark Code
Tree bark is a quiet, noble facade that is the skin of a whole world underneath.
Like bark, our skin, hair, eyes indicate something about our genes and culture but little about our desire, insight, talents and connection.
What tree do you identify with and why? What tree traits do you feel you could integrate into your perceptions?
Can you use the Bark Code as a form of appreciation for the complexity and harmony each life carries. Also as a way to understand the life long dance of 'unique and universal'.
Cedar
A cup of cedar tea is as soft as it is true. It is a comforting vehicle of vitamin C that the tree shares in and among its other benefits. Known to be anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, and helpful to ease pneumonia or bronchitis.
Cedar is a kaleidoscope of expressions of strength and endurance and wellbeing. It exudes a clean, welcoming fragrance of assurance and vision. When used for smudging it adds a light sweetness to the air while eliminating negative energies. It was believed that the cedar gave off a certain power that allowed people to live eternally and manifest signs of wisdom and intelligence. The trees with a reddish hue often live from 100-300 years.
The bark is strips of thin hairy coating that allow the porous inner wood to breathe and absorb. Yet this bark is very versatile for weaving baskets or used in napkins, mats and even clothing.
The cedar can grow in loose moist earth and is not itself a heavy wood. Its fibrous, shallow root system - growing as deep as it does laterally - is approximately 25 feet for both.
Not damaged by severe changes in weather conditions it actually can remain intact even when under water for extended periods.
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