Category Archives: Native American religions

Rainmaking . by Alice B. Clagett

VIDEO BY ALICE: RAINMAKING 1, 6 May 2016
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
- My recent experiences with rainmaking.
- Would men like to perform rainmaking ceremonies, perhaps?
- Importance of visualizing precise results: where should the rain fall, how many inches of rain should fall, how many days of rain should there be, what about runoff, what areas and outcomes (such as mudslides and flooding) need to be avoided?
- How unconscious thoughts, fears and worries can prevent rainfall.
- What manzanita, a chaparral plant, looks like when its stressed by drought.
VIDEO BY ALICE: RAINMAKING 2, 7 May 2016
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
- The next day: Signs that it has rained at Chatsworth Reservoir and Sage Ranch in the Los Angeles area
- How the nature elementals make rain: water elementals (undines) care for the water and air elementals (sylphs and zephyrs) carry the water up to the clouds and round to where the rain must fall
- What would happen if 10 people in Los Angeles visualized rain when needed?
SIGNS OF RAINFALL AT CHATSWORTH NATURE PRESERVE

Dear Ones,

Here are two videos on Rainmaking. There is an edited Summary beneath each video …

VIDEO BY ALICE: RAINMAKING 1
Filmed on 6 May 2016; published on 22 May 2016

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

I just wanted to explain a little to you about rainmaking today, and also about what happened last night and today about the rain.

Yesterday I went for a Sierra Club hike along the trails up Stunt Road to Saddleback Mountain. What we saw was many stressed chaparral plants, that were in trouble because they needed more rain. In a minute, I will show you a picture of those: How it looks, and how you can tell.

While I was on the trail, I took what spare water I had, on the way down, and I watered two chaparral plants that looked like they really needed it, with the remaining water that I had. And then, when I got home, I was thinking about the plants.

Now trees are something that I really love; I have loved them all my life. It means a lot to me that the trees in this area, and all over Earth, should be very healthy. So I got to thinking how I had had success, in the past, with rainmaking. That was yesterday afternoon. And I was talking, on the clair plane, with the lady down the hill, about it.

So I just said to myself: Ok, I will just ask for rain right now. I will ask the nature world and the devas to bring us rain, all over the county of Los Angeles. I would like four inches of rain; steady, gentle rain, followed by intervals when the water could sink into the Earth, with optimal amounts of water draining off the land, so that most of the water sinks in. And so: All over the County of Los Angeles, four inches of rain.

And I put forth that request, that that should be happening. So this morning I woke up, and right about mid-morning I woke up. And I was very surprised; here in sunny California there was a gigantic rain cloud over the Santa Susana Mountains, right across from where I live, across from the Chatsworth Nature Preserve.

While I was looking, it started raining all over the Santa Susana Mountains, and the lady who lives down the hill noticed too. She got very excited about it, and she said: Bring that rain cloud over here! I would like to have rain over here as well!

And I said: Well, you know, you could have rain both places. Let’s ask for rain everywhere where it needs to be ... So she did.

Five or ten minutes later, the rain cloud came over to my place and her place, and started raining very gently over there. It was time for me to go get some lunch and to go to a particular movie I wanted to see. So I took off in my car, and be darned if the rain cloud did not follow me, because I love rain, right? That’s what I think!

When I went in to get the food, it was raining steadily. And when I went out to go to the movie, it was raining steadily there, in that place. And when I came out, it was still raining a little. It was great!

So then I thought I would go check Saddleback Peak area, because I had explained to the nature spirits, in great detail, about how to get there, and how the chaparral trees really needed the rain right now.

And the nature spirits were so funny; they were really incredibly enthusiastic. They went: Wow! Let’s go see what that looks like right now! Let’s go explore! … And they went off and looked at that.

And I said: Don’t forget the red shanks over there; they need it too.

And they said: Woo, let’s go look at that!

And so that was a lot of fun. It was a medium-sized rain cloud; I was hoping that they could come here [to Saddleback Peak] too.

While I was going out, I heard from the Native Americans on the clair plane. They are very interested in rainmaking. They usually do not speak, except among themselves, on the clair plane, but today they did mention something; they said it would be better for us to get together our men, because men have a lot of power in asking for rain. They can do a rain dance, and they can ask for rain.

I said: How is that, that they have more power?

And they said: Well, they stomp on the ground! … and I think they said: At the end, they raise their arms up high, and they ask for rain!

So I thought: Gosh, maybe a neighborhood event; who knows? … Neighborhood Watch … a rain gathering; a rainmaking session.

I will see if I can interest anyone in that. And I hope that you might be interested too. You could find out the true technique for doing it, and you could pursue that … because the nature elementals, the spirits of the air and the water are very responsive to human thought, to human requests, and to human enthusiasm about rain and wind and weather … all kind s of things. So you have to be very specific; you have to say what it is that you really want. And they are so enthusiastic about responding.

Today was just an incredible day; they were going on and on, and I was too. So I came here. To sum it all up, I came to the place where I was yesterday on an eight-mile hike with quite a bit of elevation gain for recent days. And I found what I will show you right here …

First, as I was coming up, I noticed the rain clouds coming up, over the far horizon, out towards Santa Barbara …

Image: “Rain Making 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And then I got up to the peak, and I noticed this big rain cloud here …

Image: “Rain Making 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And there was rain; you can still see a little bit of the rain on the windshield here …

Image: “Rain Making 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And there was misty rain coming over the mountains. You see that mist? The chaparral plants absorb that mist as water sometimes; that is their water intake. So they are drinking that water right now.

And then, down all across this region, down there …

Image: “Rain Making 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… I saw rain clouds everywhere, and rain everywhere. Look over there; look down there …

Image: “Rain Making 5,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 5,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

See that rain? Look at all that! Rain everywhere. Wow!

So here is the thing: If you want rain, you have to ask for rain. You have to say what kind of rain you want; how long you want it to last; how many inches; for how many days … And you have to be very specific and very upbeat.

Know that you have this power. You have this power, and you have a right to speak what your will is, in the world, for the weather of Earth.

I had one conversation on the psychic plane today that is well worth repeating. I hope no one is embarrassed about it. In addition to the Sierra Club, I am also a member of the California Native Plant Society, And that society is the caretaker for a nature preserve that goes through a riparian area, high up the mountain, into the red shank, right here on the other side of what I just showed you … on the right, here. And that place is called Cold Creek Preserve.

There is a path in the preserve that goes by a cliff that keeps crumbling, and so it is difficult to maintain the path. And what I found out is that there are some people that care about the Cold Creek Preserve, who are preventing the rain from coming there by simple thought process that, if the rain comes, then there is a chance that the cliff will collapse onto the pathway, and they will not be able to walk through again.

If you have concerns of this nature, the important thing to do is to visualize the rain that your concerned area of the world needs, and specify those places where the rain should be a little less, or maybe not even happen … such as that little cliff area … so that everything else can be watered; because it is very important for the plants and animals, and even the rocks in the mountains, and in the valleys, and by the seas, and along the coastal scrub … everywhere … that it should have just the right amount of water to flourish.

We can do that. But by our unconscious thoughts and fears and concerns, we can prevent the area, too, from getting the rainfall that it needs.

I would like to encourage each of you to start your own rain dance, and your own rain thoughts, and to develop your own rainmaking ability, with crisply delineated parameters. And, get to know your nature spirits and your nature elementals, and your devas! Devas are cool!

. . . . .

Well, now I am taking another survey of the rain here, near Stunt Mountain and Cold Creek Preserve, and I see a promising sight off over this way …

Image: “Rain Making 6,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 6,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Back in those far mountains there is rain in the air, and there may be rain actually coming down on the land over there. Then there is a chance of rain over this way …

Image: “Rain Making 7,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 7,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… there is this giant mountain with a fire road [Calabasas Peak Motorway] that goes up it, You can walk up that fire road, and then turn right half way, or two-thirds of the way up the mountain [onto West Red Rock Road] and go down into Red Rock Canyon Park on the other side … up this mountain here; see that road? …

Image: “Rain Making 8: Saddleback Peak and Calabasas Peak Motorway,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is pretty foreboding, but there are beautiful views, and a wonderful workout. Then over this way, it looks to me like, off in the far distance, there is a chance of rain actually coming down out of the clouds; not half way down, but the whole way down, and hitting those mountains over there …

Image: “Rain Making 9,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 9,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Back over here to the left, the cloud of rain has moved quickly, in this direction, and it is raining more here towards us, closer to us and closer to the big mountain with the fire road on it …

Image: “Rain Making 10,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 10,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Higher up, at the top of the mountain here, where three roads [Stunt Road, Schueren Road, and Saddle Peak Road] meet, I noticed that there had been rain, because the sides of the road were a little bit wet and pretty muddy …

Image: “Rain Making 11: Stunt Road,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 11: Stunt Road,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

On the top of the mountain there, the thing of it is that the airs from the ocean hit the mountain here and cause more precipitation, and also more mistfall through the mountains. And so it is more likely to get rain than this area where I am walking right now … which is, unfortunately, I have to say, way too dry. See there? … too sandy dry …

Image: “Rain Making 12: Dusty Ground,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 12: Dusty Ground,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

I am going to check out the trees right now, specifically the manzanita trees, because they are one of my most beautiful favorites, and I am very concerned about them, although all the trees are worth looking at and figuring out about.

Here I am entering one of the trails next to Cold Creek Preserve, but not on the one we walked up and down yesterday …

Image: “Rain Making 13,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 13,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And this trail contains some excellent examples of stressed chaparral shrubs. My favorite, right here, is the manzanita tree or shrub (Arctostaphylos) …

Image: “Rain Making 14: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 14: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

I think it must be a relative of the Pacific madrone (Ericaceae) tree on the far northern coast of California, that grows to such beautiful height, and has such beautiful red bark like this shrub …

Image: “Rain Making 15: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 15: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And so I am pretty sure they are related, but I do not know for certain. They look a lot alike. And then the leaves typically look like this when the tree is not stressed …

Image: “Rain Making 16: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 16: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

But this tree is stressed for lack of water. And so some of the leaves have turned yellow …

Image: “Rain Making 17: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 17: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And over here too, you will see lots more yellow leaves. See there? …

Image: “Rain Making 18: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 18: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And then over here, after the leaves turn yellow, sometimes they actually die. And here is a case of leaves that have died back, because the plant cannot support them because of lack of water.

Image: “Rain Making 19: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 19: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

All right, so here we have, on the same trail, a very stressed manzanita plant. Not only are the leaves all speckled … some yellow, some brown, and some green …

Image: “Rain Making 20: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 20: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… but down here at the bottom we have just a lot of brown leaves where the dieback has occurred …

Image: “Rain Making 21: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 21: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And also the bark looks unusual to me. You see, healthy bark of a manzanita shrub or chaparral tree looks smooth like this bark here …

Image: “Rain Making 22: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 22: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

But what we saw on the trail yesterday was a lot of bark that looked almost blistered, like this …

Image: “Rain Making 23: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 23: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

You see those blisters on the bark there? We saw whole trees with blistered bark like that. I think that is a response to lack of water and stress …

Image: “Rain Making 24: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 24: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Now here is a very good one; a very fine specimen of manzanita …

Image: “Rain Making 25: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 25: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And you will see the way that the bark is, right now …

Image: “Rain Making 26: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 26: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

I will try to get a little closer up. See how it looks all blistered and stressed out? Look at that! First time I have ever seen it …

Image: “Rain Making 27: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 27: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

See there? And also, farther up it seems to be peeling back. Look at that …

Image: “Rain Making 28: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 28: Manzanita (Arctostaphylos),” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

So this is what I am asking: That all these chaparral trees, the ‘elven forest’ of the Santa Monica Mountains …

Image: “Rain Making 29: Cold Creek Preserve Chaparral,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 29: Cold Creek Preserve Chaparral,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… should be completely healed, through appropriate water from the skies, and through the zephyrs of the air, and the beautiful water elementals as well ..

Image: “Rain Making 30: Cold Creek Preserve, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

That the sylphs should blow the clouds where they need to be, and that the water elementals should make sure that the right amount of rain gets to the right place; that is my wish and my hope; and if each of you wish it with me, I am certain that is exactly what will happen here on planet Earth …

Image: “Rain Making 31,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 31,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… for all of Earth.

Image: “Rain Making 32: Yarrow,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making 32: Yarrow,” by Alice B. Clagett, 6 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

VIDEO BY ALICE: RAINMAKING 2
Filmed on 7 May 2016; published on 22 May 2016

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Image: “Rain Making.2-1: Datura,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-1: Datura,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-2: Datura and Honeybee,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-2: Datura and Honeybee,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

I am here in my official rainmaking capacity. I was just down at the Chatsworth Nature Preserve and Reservoir, checking; and then I checked all the way up here to Sage Ranch Park in the Simi Hills. I checked on top of the mountain, and all along the way it had rained. Let me show you …

Here we are, at Sage Ranch Park, and you can see, off in the distance here, more rain clouds …

Image: “Rain Making.2-3: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Looks like the nature elementals are picking up water from the ocean which is over that way [zooms left] …

Image: “Rain Making.2-4: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-4: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and the zephyrs are carrying the water up to the clouds, [pans right] and making the clouds heavy with water …

Image: “Rain Making.2-5: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-5: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and then blowing them in the right direction. You see, right over there, on that mountain, right now, it is raining. See there? … right over there …

Image: “Rain Making.2-6: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And then if I look over this way, [pans left] I see the results of today’s rain on the ground. The ground is kind of wet; see there? Wet ground; look at that; way wet for this area. (This is a semi-arid area.) …

Image: “Rain Making.2-7: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-7: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And over here the rain poured down onto these rocks …

Image: “Rain Making.2-8: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-8: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and down into the parking lot, It has been this way all the way up here. I see mud puddles; down here was a little flood of rain …

Image: “Rain Making.2-9: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-9: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

As to the wild-growing fruit trees here, it looks like they will have enough rain for the time being …

Image: “Rain Making.2-10: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-10: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And I can feel that the nature spirits in this are are greatly heartened and hopeful …

Image: “Rain Making.2-11: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-11: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and that the plants themselves are feeling that the worst is over …

Image: “Rain Making.2-12: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-12: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and that there is hope for them to continue living here …

Image: “Rain Making.2-13: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-13: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and to be happy here in these mountains …

Image: “Rain Making.2-14: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-14: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

This is a wonderful feeling today. And there are the rain clouds up there. [pans upward] … Wow! …

Image: “Rain Making.2-15: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-15: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Look here: Someone has left a stainless steel bowl on the ground, in the parking lot, that has accumulated water in it, from the rain. And that will be good for the coyotes that live right around here to drink tonight.

Image: “Rain Making.2-16: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-16: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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I am here by this big rock across from the parking lot, where I often see coyotes moving around and looking for gophers to eat …

Image: “Rain Making.2-17: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-17: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

There is this big mud puddle that went down this way, down the hill … just a lot of it …

Image: “Rain Making.2-18: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-18: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It probably came from way up there, on that hill [pans upward] …

Image: “Rain Making.2-19: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-19: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and coursed down through here, and on down the hill. Wow, I am very impressed! I really am! …

Image: “Rain Making.2-20: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-20: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… because if one person could wish for this, and then actually have it happen … or two people could, as was the case yesterday … then what would happen if ten people in Los Angeles decided to do this … especially men. Men are especially good at this kind of thing, because of the strength of their will power and the directness of their intention.

Image: “Rain Making.2-21: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.2-21: Sage Ranch Park,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

SIGNS OF RAINFALL AT CHATSWORTH NATURE PRESERVE

Image: “Rain Making.3-1: Chatsworth Nature Preserve,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.3-1: Chatsworth Nature Preserve,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.3-2: Chatsworth Nature Preserve,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.3-2: Chatsworth Nature Preserve,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.3-3: Chatsworth Nature Preserve,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.3-3: Chatsworth Nature Preserve,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.3-4: Chatsworth Nature Preserve,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Rain Making.3-4: Chatsworth Nature Preserve,” by Alice B. Clagett, 7 May 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Filmed on 6 May 2016 and 7 May 2016; published on 22 May 2016; revised on 14 March 2023

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Tumbleweed and Power Over Others . by Alice B. Clagett

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Filmed on 28 March 2016; published on 11 April 2016
Location: Tsegi Canyon, Kayenta, in the Navajo Nation

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SUMMARY OF THE MOVIE
- “White Magic Incantation to Prevent Being Astrally ‘Boarded’ by Black Magicians,” Channeled by Alice B. Clagett, Soundtrack and Words
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Dear Ones,

Here is a video about a windy day and the tumbleweed, and the ‘Circle of one’ feeling, and the notions of ‘power over’ and of getting what we want with black magic.

There is an edited Summary after the video …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

The wind is blowing greatly on this little road here in Arizona. I am going to try to catch a tumbleweed blowing across the road here; they have been blowing explosively, helter-skelter … sometimes in batches and herds … heading across the road. We will see what happens. [Shows a tumbleweed blowing across the road.] The wind is actually blowing the car sideways too.

I just have a surprise, quick present for you today. I am here on Native American lands. I spent the night here, and it is always a refreshing change-up to be on Native American lands, because in many ways they are protected from the thought forms of the general population of America.

So it is good to visit. This is not a place for me to stay, but it is a wonderful sanctuary for me to find, once in a while, from the thought forms prevalent in the cities in the United States.

The winds are very high today … very dry, cold winds frolicking over the land. They are so strong that they send the sagebrush flying across the road really fast. Sometimes you have to dodge it, if you are in your car … and also even clods of dirt sometimes. That was what was happening yesterday.

Here I am this morning … it is before dawn, and all this early morning, it has been the most beautiful energies here! And I have this gift for you …

There are some energies circling ’round the Earth today, seeking release, I think, during the Ascension process. These are energies of ‘power over’. It has to do with the notion that a person is like God, you know? … and that everybody else is just a part of that person … and that that one person has the power over all the other people … who are not really ‘people’ in his eyes … This notion of ‘I am it!’, you know? And also this notion of black magic

These ideas restrict the dimensionality of a person. They limit us to the third and fourth dimensions (which is to say, the physical and astral planes). Consequently, we cannot rise to Awareness of the higher pulsating fifth dimension, which is the frequency at which Earth is vibrating right now, due to the 2012 Shift.

It is a very intensive learning experience when a person believes that they are God, and that everybody else is a part of them, and not really human; that they can do whatever they want, because this is just their world … as Frank Sinatra used to say: I had it my way! … You know? … (For more on this, see my blog category: Circle of one )

Because of this discord between their frequency and that of Earth, when people feel that way they tend to experience cognitive dissonance (that is, mental turmoil). When we let go these discordant mental filters, our Bodies of Light will naturally atune themselves to the higher frequencies of the fifth dimension (and eventually, on up to the 72nd dimension).

So the thing to do, when you run across these energies … this is something that I found out today: When I run across these energies, on the psychic plane, trying to ‘make me a part of them’, then to that person or to that energy I say …

“White Magic Incantation to Prevent Being Astrally ‘Boarded’ by Black Magicians”
Channeled by Alice B. Clagett
Soundtrack and Words
11 April 2016

If you talk to me, you’ll lose your power.
If you talk to me, you’ll lose your power.
If you talk to me, you’ll lose your power.

This works like a charm today; I do not know about tomorrow. Say it with confidence, and without too much emphasis … more like: This is just the way it is! [laughs]

This chant or white magic incantation apparently works because the mental filters of the potential clair ‘boarders’ are restricted to the third chakra (the navel point: will power, will to dominate, will to have one’s way in the world).

So, my gift, my blessing. Have a wonderful day!

[Then follows a short videoclip while driving, of tumbleweed barreling across the road in a strong wind.] Whoa, there goes some! Wow!

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Image: “Tsegi Canyon, Kayenta, Navajo Nation 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Tsegi Canyon, Kayenta, Navajo Nation 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Tsegi Canyon, Kayenta, Navajo Nation 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Tsegi Canyon, Kayenta, Navajo Nation 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

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I feel like Tom Hanks in this movie clip when I sense an attempt to ‘board’ my mind (my ‘mental ship’) on the clair plane …

Video: “Captain Phillips Clip – Pirate Attack (HD) Tom Hanks,” by JoBlo Movie Trailers, 1 October 2013 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoDuXZlZhfc ..

Frank Sinatra’s 1969 song “My Way” expresses an attitude that is well respected from the standpoint of societal expectations, as a role for men …

Link: “My Way,” in English Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way ..

Here is a great video about true black magic …

Video: Black Magic by Little Mix Cover by Ky Baldwin | SONGS THAT STICK,” by Eskew Kazamaki, 29 August 2015 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhEgHWE3w7s ..

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Four Corners: Prayer for People . and Optimizing Timelines and Dimensions . by Alice B. Clagett

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Filmed on 28 March 2016; published on 6 April 2016; transcribed on 5 February 2019

VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
- Introduction
- Beginning of Video
- Prayer for People, channeled by Alice B. Clagett
- Optimizing Timelines and Dimensions
  - Timeline Optimization, by the Hathors through Alice B. Clagett
  - Dimensional Optimization
  - Optimization of Timelines and Dimensions Absorbs Sad Astral Stories into the Blissful Astral Mainstream
PHOTOS BY ALICE

Dear Ones,

This video taken on 28 March 2016 at Four Corners explains about a prayer I have been using lately. There is an edited Summary after the video …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Introduction

This is Four Corners here, where four states meet. [Shows flags on tall flagpoles at the Four Corners Monument visitors center; the flags are flapping in the wind.] There are all these Native American wares for sale here. [Shows stalls where goods are on sale.]

I am going to go look at the corners. [Shows mark in pavement depicting where four state borders meet.]

Beginning of Video

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I am here at Four Corners, which is a place where four states meet. It is surrounded by stalls with Native American wares for sale. And then there is a circle of flags all around it, too, that are flapping in a very stiff wind today.

And I notice, over to the side, there is a place to climb up a very colorful mesa. So next time I am here I will come prepared for a long walk. And I heard there are rattlesnakes out here too, so I think it would be good to wear tall boots while hiking. So there is that.

I just thought I would mention a prayer that I have been working with since really early this morning, and that is accomplishing wonders in my life. It reminds me of the power of prayer, that I used to hear about all the time: How powerful prayer can be in our lives, for transforming every aspect of our life … or as they say in ascension terms, for ‘redecorating our hologram’. [laughs]

The prayer that I have been working on, has to do with what I hear on the clairaudient plane … the astral stories that I hear. And whenever I hear the beginning of a sad astral story, I have been saying this prayer …

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Prayer for People
Channeled by Alice B. Clagett
28 March 2016

I pray that this person and their family,
[or these people and their families; or these people and their families and friends]
Each and every one,
May find peace and love and joy.

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I say that over and over again, until my heart chakra energy becomes larger.

This prayer is working very well and very quickly. What it does is, it somehow stops the sadness in the astral stories from starting up … or fear or anxiety … all those negative emotions just seemed to stop. I do not know why; I guess it is what they call the ‘power of prayer’.

And then sometimes I alter it a little, and say: I pray that these people and their family and friends … and then go on … depending on what seems to be transpiring at the time. It is working really great.

You do not really have to say somebody’s name, because it is really hard to know for sure what somebody’s name is, on the astral plane.

Wish you all the greatest! Take care, during the March blitzkrieg (which means ‘lightning strike war’ … but this has been a ‘lightning strike peace) of Light coming in. I will save, over last weekend there was a merging and knitting up of just a stellar number of timelines for me. It was a breathtaking experience from moment to moment, as one timeline after another merged into my optimum timeline.

During that time, the ascension tools that I was using were, first, to optimize the timelines. The tool I’ve been using for timeline optimization is this Hathor activation of light (mentioned in prior blogs) …

Timeline Optimization
by the Hathors through Alice B. Clagett

Spirit to Team!
Optimize timelines,
For the All, through Free Will!

I have spoken of this many times in past. When I did this, lots of times my Awareness timeline became my optimum timeline.

Dimensional Optimization

Then I would work morning, noon and night with Judy Satori’s “Regeneration 101” series, also termed the “Regenesis” series. She has one five-minute meditation for morning; one seven-minute meditation for noon; and one five-minute meditation for night. Each of them has language of Light …

Link: “Judy Satori,” by Judy Satori … https://www.ascensionlibrary.org/ … Search the Shop tab for “Beyond Healing: Phase 1 Regenesis.”

Optimization of Timelines and Dimensions Absorbs Sad Astral Stories into the Blissful Astral Mainstream

What these meditations do, I feel, is that they optimize dimensions. So the one, my activation of light, optimizes timelines, and the other, Judy Satori’s language of Light offering, optimizes dimensions, I feel. That way all the sad astral stories that have spun out in the past, can be reabsorbed into the mainstream of bliss that is ongoing, on Earth, right now.

It worked wonderfully. It was a terrific weekend. I hope yours was just as fruitful, and just as enjoyable. I will talk to you all later. Take care. Love you lots.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

For more information see … Link: “Compendium: Timelines and Multitemporality,” by Alice B. Clagett, published on 2 February 2019 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-byd ..

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Image: “Four Corners Monument 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Four Corners Monument 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Four Corners Monument 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Four Corners Monument 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Four Corners Monument 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Four Corners Monument 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Four Corners Monument 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

Image: “Four Corners Monument 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 28 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains – Spring Equinox 2016 . by Alice B. Clagett *

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VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Words of Warning . Poison Oak . California Native Mustards . Black Sage . California (Coastal) Sagebrush … Cowboy Cologne . Chamise (Greasewood)

Wild Cucumber . Munits Cave . Purple (Deadly) Nightshade . White Nightshade (Solanum douglasii) . Filaree (Stork’s-Bill)

Fiddlenecks . Horehound . Buckwheat . Prickly Pear . Western Scrub Jay (Island Scrub Jay) . Bush Sunflower (California Encelia) . Laurel Sumac . Purple Sage

White Sage . Semi-Riparian Zone . California Mugwort . Deerweed . Oak Woodland .
Coastal Live Oak . California Sycamore . Woodland Trail . Arroyo Willow?

Mule Fat . Black Mustard . Various Habitats . The San Fernando Valley in the Time of the Conquistadores . Wild Hyacinth (Blue Dick) . Monarch Butterfly

About the Spirits of Trees . Eucrypta (Hideseeds) . More California Native Mustards . California (Mexican) Elderberry . Cheeseweed (a Mallow) . Live Oats

EDIBLE AND USEFUL PLANTS OF THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CLASSES IN NATIVE AMERICAN SKILLS
RESOURCES FOR SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS PLANT IDENTIFICATION

Dear Ones,

This is a video about wild plants of the Santa Monica Mountains that was taken on 20 March 2016, the day of the 2016 Spring Equinox, in the Santa Monica Mountains …

There is an edited Summary after the video. The Summary includes many images found in the video, and a few not found there …

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VIDEO BY ALICE top

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SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO top

Words of Warning top
Please do not take my word as to whether these wild plants are edible … In many cases, I just heard it from other naturalists. Do your research, make sure you have identified a plant accurately, make sure most folks agree that it is edible, and then if you are sampling for the first time, try just a tiny bit, and wait a day to see if you have any reaction. Any iteration of this blog must include this warning. –Alice B. Clagett

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

We are going for a botanical walk in the Santa Monica Mountains today. We will see what we find here, on this beautiful Spring day.

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Poison Oak top

Here we have a beautiful Spring bloom of poison oak. So for those that are allergic to it, here is what it looks like, with berries …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 1: Poison Oak Closeup,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Pretty, is it not? Poison oak is a relative of poison ivy, which is on the East Coast. But poison oak grows into a bush, and poison ivy is a climbing vine that climbs up the East Coast.

While most Caucasian people seem to be allergic to poison oak and poison ivy, the Native Americans had a number of uses for it, including using the pliable stems of the poison oak …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 2: Poison Oak Vines,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… as basket weaving materials.

This is poison oak, growing in a tremendous amount, all along here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 3: Poison Oak,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

You have to be very careful, on this trail, not to hit the poison oak!

Poison Oak: Native American uses … Link: “Native American Uses,” in Cal Poly Land …
http://polyland.calpoly.edu/topics/florafauna/studentsites/2004b/native.html ..

Link: “Toxicodendron diversilobum,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron_diversilobum ..

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I am pretty sure that this is a California native mustard here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 4: California Native Mustard,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

They grow singly; not like the ones introduced by the Padres. They grow singly, and in odd ecological niches. Ups, here is another one over here … where is it? … right over here is another one. And oh, I see some more … yes, some more, just coming up, So under this native coastal live oak tree here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 5: Coastal Live Oak,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… there are a number of them. It is a very small econiche. It is not like the open field is full of mustard seeds that the Padres brought. But it is beautiful in its own way … very dainty, very nice … somewhat hard to find. There are a number of California native mustard species or types like this. While they are edible, they are endangered, so it is best to leave them alone, with the hope that they may flourish in future.

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This is black sage here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 6: Black Sage,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It has a wonderful healing quality. I just brushed against it, on my way up this trail, and I smelled it.

Black Sage uses … Link: “Salvia mellifera,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_mellifera ..

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California (Coastal) Sagebrush … Cowboy Cologne top

And over here, on this side, is Cowboy Cologne …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 7: California (Coastal) Sagebrush (Cowboy Cologne),” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It has a gentler scent, a beautiful scent, and they say that the cowboys used to use it before they would go in town on a Friday or Saturday night.

California (Coastal) Sagebrush (Cowboy Cologne) uses … Link: “Artemisia californica,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_californica ..

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And this over here is chamise or greasewood …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 8: Chamise (Greasewood),” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It does not have that much of a scent at all.

Chamise or Greasewood: Native American uses … Link: “Adenostoma fasciculatum,” in Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) … http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/shrub/adefas/all.html … Search the term: Other Uses and Values

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And over here is wild cucumber …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 9: Wild Cucumber,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It has a very huge root. And I see it is too soon for the prickly fruits of the wild cucumber to come out. It is a vine, and it has holdfasts that are … let’s see if I can find one … very little whorls of circular or circles of holdfasts. Ok, there is one, reaching out into space …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 10: Wild Cucumber Holdfast,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is trying to catch hold of a plant, so that it can pull the wild cucumber vine up higher into the sunlight. It climbs like crazy in the early Spring, and then it just withers away, and survives by means of the huge root underground.

Wild Cucumber: Native American uses … Link: “Wild Cucumber, Marah macrocarpa,” in Nature Collective … https://www.sanelijo.org/plant-guide/wild-cucumber ..

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Munits Cave top

Up that hill, up that way …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 11: Mountain Near Castle Peak,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… there is a very cool cave, or series of caves …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 12: Munits Cave,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

There are birds that hide out in there too; and people climb around in there, just for fun.

Link: “Cave of Munits in Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve & Castle Peak in El Escorpion Park,” in Hikespeak … https://www.hikespeak.com/trails/cave-of-munits-castle-peak-hike/ ..

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Purple (Deadly) Nightshade top

This is deadly nightshade here … see the purple flowers? …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 13: Purple (Deadly) Nightshade,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

This variety of nightshade … the one with the purple flowers … has fruits that are not edible. Here is the fruit of the purple, or deadly, nightshade …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 14: Purple (Deadly) Nightshade Fruits,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is a very small, immature fruit, but as I recall, it comes out green when mature, and so it is distinguished from the mature fruit of the white nightshade, which is purple, Fruit is mature when it is soft or squishy.

There are nightshade references at the end of the “White Nightshade” section below.

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White Nightshade top

There is another nightshade, white nightshade (Solanum douglasii), that has black fruit; I heard from a naturalist that the black fruit were edible, but after trying one of the berries, I feel a little queasy. So I would advise caution in trying even the white nightshade fruit.

For those who are allergic to tomatoes, eggplants, or potatoes, which I understand to be in the same family, common sense dictates avoiding the fruit of the white nightshade.

Nightshades are a little like mushrooms: Only those who are certain what variety they have in hand ought collect them for consumption. This link is a good guide to the various nightshades of California …

Link: “Solanum,” in Calflora … https://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/specieslist.cgi?where-genus=Solanum ..

Nightshade uses … Link: “Solanaceae,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanaceae ..

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Filaree (Stork’s-Bill) top

This is filaree here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 15: Filaree (Stork’s-Bill),” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

There are several forms of filaree; all of them are edible. I think you have to cook them for a while, till tender. And here are the immature seed pods of filaree; very distinctive …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 16: Filaree (Stork’s-Bill) Seed Pod 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… very distinctive. More filaree seed pods here; see that one? …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 17: Filaree (Stork’s-Bill) Seed Pod 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

I do not think you can eat the seed pods.

Filaree (‘stork’s-bill’) uses … Link: “Erodium cicutarium,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erodium_cicutarium#Uses ..

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Fiddlenecks top

These are fiddlenecks, that grow all over the hills here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 18: Fiddleneck,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… not too showy, but if you look at them up close, they are very pretty.

Fiddleneck: In one place read that this plant is poisonous, and in another that it had Native American uses. I would steer clear of it entirely.

LInk: “Amsinckia,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsinckia ..

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Horehound top

This if horehound, here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 19: Horehound,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is used in candies. It was brought here by the Puritans long ago, and it spread all over the United States. It is an extremely hardy plant. You see how it looks a little bit white (or ‘hoary’ … that is the old name) …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 20: Horehound, Whitish Leaves and Stems,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And it has white stems too.

Horehound uses … Link: “White Horehound; Uses,” in WebMD … https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-886/white-horehound ..

Link: “Marrabium vulgare,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrubium_vulgare ..

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Buckwheat top

This is buckwheat …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 21: Buckwheat,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is just coming up; there are not any seeds yet. The fruit seeds are edible. Like the cereal grains, they were a staple of diet amongst the Native Americans that once lived here. There are several different kinds of buckwheat growing in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Buckwheat uses: Link: “Erigonum fasciculatum,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriogonum_fasciculatum ..

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Prickly Pear top

This is a native cactus …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 22: Prickly Pear,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It bears fruit that are edible, and delicious, and often harvested by Latin Americans and Native Americans. If the spines are burnt off of the leaves, then they can be sliced to the size of string beans, cooked, and eaten.

Prickly Pear uses … Link: “Prickly Pear” in Drugs.com … http://www.drugs.com/npp/prickly-pear.html ..

LInk: “Opuntia,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia ..

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Western Scrub Jay (Island Scrub Jay) top

This is a Western Scrub Jay …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 23: Western Scrub Jay,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Looks pretty rambunctious to me.

I think this may be what is now termed the Island Scrub Jay; see … Link: “Western Scrub Jay,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_scrub_jay ..

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Bush Sunflower (California Encelia) top

This is a very common type of sunflower here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 24: Bush Sunflower (aka California Encelia),” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

You will notice the dark-colored centers of the flowers …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 25: Bush Sunflower (aka California Encelia) Closeup,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

As far as I know, it is not edible.

Bush Sunflower (California Encelia): sometimes used for landscaping …

Link: “Bush Sunflower, Encelia californica,” in California Native Plant Society Calscape … https://calscape.org/Encelia-californica-(Bush-Sunflower) ..

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Laurel Sumac top

This is laurel sumac …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 26: Laurel Sumac,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is a chaparral plant. It can be distinguished from other similar chaparral plants by the reddish colored stems; see there? …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 27: Laurel Sumac Closeup,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It has a seed cluster (sumac ‘drupe’ or ‘bob’) that looks like a dusky, red Christmas tree. The birds eat it. I heard from my mother that it is poisonous, but I think in the Orient that this, or some relative of it, is used as a spice. So that is something to look into, for the future, without actually consuming it in advance of the research. [The spice I had in mind is Ziyad Brand Sumac, but whether this is the same or a different plant, I have no idea.]

Laurel Sumac uses … Link: “Malosma,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malosma ..

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Purple Sage top

I believe this to be purple sage …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 28: Purple Sage,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

You will see that the leaves look a lot like the leaves of black sage, but they have a whitish cast to them …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 29: Purple Sage Closeup,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And also, if you look closely, you will see that the leaves have a kind of a corrugation them …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 30: Purple Sage Leaves,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

They smell absolutely delightful. They also have medicinal qualities, but the scent is not as ‘dark’ or strong as the scent of black sage (which has blue flowers). The purple sage have purple flowers, and the leaves look white.

Purple Sage uses … Link: “Chino Hills State Park Interpretive Association,” in Chino Hills State Park … http://www.chinohillsstatepark.org/natural-resources/shrubs … Search the term: Purple Sage

Link: “Salvia leucophylla,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_leucophylla ..

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White Sage top

I doubt we will see any white sage on this walk. White sage has straight, white stems, and it is gathered … usually illegally … by people who sell it in bundles for incense to purify or cleanse people’s homes. You will see six-inch or eight-inch stacks of it, tied with yarn or string, and sold in the stores, and typically it is gathered nearby, rather than out in the National Forests, where, as i recall, it may be legal to gather it.

So I would like to ask, on behalf of the conservancy organizations: Please do not gather wild plants in the National Parks or the Santa Monica Mountains or like that … places where it so easy to gather, and where things can become endangered if you, in fact, do that. This is just a plea and an explanation. I am hoping for the best, there.

White Sage uses … Link: “Chino Hills State Park Interpretive Association,” in Chino Hills State Park … http://www.chinohillsstatepark.org/natural-resources/shrubs … Search the term: White Sage

Link: “Salvia apiana,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_apiana ..

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Semi-Riparian Zone top

Here we have a semi-riparian zone …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 31: Semi-Riparian Zone,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

After the rains, I think there is water; and then, I think, sometimes there is not. You can find special plants, with special medicinal qualities, in riparian areas. This one is no exception.

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California Mugwort top

Here we have California mugwort …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 32: California Mugwort,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… which has so many uses, I must look them all up! But I will tell you one colorful example: They say that if you gather mugwort, which grows plentifully in some areas, and dry it, and put it inside your pillow, then you will have special dreams.

I tried this myself; and because I was not all that fond of the strong odor of the mugwort, my dreams were not all that pleasant. But you may have better luck than I.

The other thing I know about mugwort: To my mind, ‘wort’ means ‘plant’ and ‘mug’, to me, means that you make tea out of it, and put it in a mug. That is how I think of it. And so I remember that a tea of this is good for women. It solves various troubles that can be looked up, and brings balance to the female system. There may be other uses too.

California Mugwort uses … Link: “Artemisia douglasiana,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_douglasiana#Uses ..

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Deerweed top

This is deerweed …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 33; Deerweed,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Sometimes it goes dormant, when the weather is very hot. But right now it is flourishing. It has tiny, beautiful, yellow (and sometimes orange) flowers …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 34: Deerweed Closeup,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

And as far as I know, it has no special benefit for people; but it is beautiful when all the flowers bloom (which they are no doing right now).

Deerweed uses … Link: “Deerweed,” in Nature Collective … https://www.sanelijo.org/plant-guide/deerweed ..

Link: “Acmispon glaber,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acmispon_glaber ..

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Oak Woodland top

Here I am, walking into an oak woodland …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 35: Woodland,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… completely different from riparian; and very beautiful! I am sure you know about … here …

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Coastal Live Oak top

Here are lots of acorns left over from last year’s season …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 36: Acorns,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

The Native Americans would gather them, haul them, mash them up, net them, put them in running water, in a stream or like that, in the wintertime, to get the bitter tannin out of them, and then mash them up more, and use them as flour in their foods.

And because they mashed them in stone hollows, with stones, the acorn meal was mixed up with sands from the stone, it was mixed in with the food that they ate, and it wore down their teeth at a very early age. It is better to use some other kind of mashing technique, I feel.

Here are the leaves of the tree that produces the acorns …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 37: Coastal Live Oak Leaves,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

You can see they are very shiny and they are curved round. I have heard from people who go on hikes and lead hikes, that the leaves are curved so that they can conserve moisture better, in the drought season of summer. See here? … curved …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 38: Coastal Live Oak Leaves – Curved,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

The new leaves are soft; but the old leaves are very hard. They have little prickles on them, that make it hard for the deer, for instance, to eat them … even though the deer might be very hungry. And this shiny stuff here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 39: Coastal Live Oak Leaves – Prickled and Shiny,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… probably acts as protection against the heat in the summertime.

Coastal Live Oak uses … Link: “Quercus agrifolia,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_agrifolia ..

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California Sycamore top

This is the native California Sycamore tree, one of the most beautiful trees in the world, I feel …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 40: Sycamore,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

I just love Sycamore trees. They do not have any particular use. They provide shade; they like water; and they are beautiful.

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 41: Sycamore Leaves,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Link: “Platanus racemosa,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platanus_racemosa ..

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Woodland Trail top

A woodland trail, continuing; different kinds of plants here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 42: Woodland Trail,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Arroyo Willow? top

I sort of thought, because of the riparian area right next to it, that maybe this is some kind of willow tree. But I just do not know …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 43: Might Be Arroyo Willow,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is not that willow chaparral shrub. There are the leaves right there …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 44: Might Be Arroyo Willow Leaves,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Is this arroyo willow? If so, then perhaps the bark of this willow, like that of other willow trees, might be boiled for a tea that has an effect like that of aspirin. There is more on the uses of Arroyo willow at these links …

Arroyo Willow uses … Link: “Arroyo Willow (Salix lasiolepsis),” in Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy … https://www.parksconservancy.org/conservation/arroyo-willow ..

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Mule Fat top

Down in the hollow here, in the riparian area, with very straight sticks for stems, is a kind of chaparral plant called mule fat …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 45: Mule Fat,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

. I guess that mules would eat it, when the earlier settlers came through here; and that is why they called it mule fat.

I will bet that, what with these very straight, strong stems that are tough, too …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 46: Mule Fat Stems,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… that the wood of this mule fat might have been used for arrows; probably arrows and not bows, because it does not get that big. Here is a closeup of the top part of the plant …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 47: Mule Fat Flowers,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Mule Fat uses … Link: “Baccharis salicifolia,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccharis_salicifolia ..

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Black Mustard top

This is a young, black mustard plant …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 48: Black Mustard,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is very tasty when it is young like this. You can eat the leaves, especially if they are smaller than this, but even now, raw in salads. Black mustard has a very strong taste to it, and it is good as flavoring, to go with you milder greens. This here is the beginning of the flowers …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 49: Black Mustard Leaves,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is delicious before it flowers, and it is delicious after it flowers as well …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 50: Black Mustard Flower,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Yes, a really tasty plant. Do not eat too much at one time; use it for flavoring, I say. Otherwise it might have too strong an effect.

Black Mustard uses … Link: Brassica nigra,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_nigra ..

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Various Habitats top

This is a combination right here … down at the very bottom you have a riparian zone …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 51: Riparian Zone,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and then up above it you have meadowland up here ….

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 52: Meadowland,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and then looking over this way, woodland …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 53: Woodland,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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The San Fernando Valley in the Time of the Conquistadores top

They say that, in the time of the Conquistadores … when they came through here … that all the San Fernando Valley was covered with live oak trees. There was no chaparral to speak of, here. And the Conquistadores could come riding under the cover of the great oak trees all day long, in the San Fernando Valley. It was like a beautiful parkland then.

The terrain has really changed since then, what with the grazing, and the cutting down of the trees, and so forth.

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Wild Hyacinth (Blue Dick) top

This is a kind of lily; I think it might have a bulbar base in the ground, which is said to be edible but protected, so ought not be harvested …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 54: Wild Hyacinth (Blue) and Fiddleneck (Yellow),” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

I am referring to these blue flowers …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 55: Wild Hyacinth (Blue Dick),” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and not the fiddlenecks …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 56: Fiddleneck,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

The blue flowers are sometimes called Blue Dicks. Probably somebody’s favorite friend was named ‘Dick”, and the person named the flower after them. And they are sometimes called ‘wild hyacinth. I really love that ‘wild hyacinth’ name; I think it is beautiful. And the flowers are beautiful too … evanescent; only here for a little while, during the year.

Wild Hyacinth (Blue Dick) uses … Link: “Dichelostemma capitalus,” in Wikipedia … http://mojavedesert.net/wildflower/blue-dicks.html ..

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Monarch Butterfly top

Ah, did that come through? That was a monarch butterfly …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 57: Monarch Butterfly,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

I do not know what it was attracted to, down here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 58: Where Monarch Butterfly Was Flying,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Maybe it does not know either! It is going off, looking for something.

Link: “Monarch Butterfly,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly ..

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About the Spirits of Trees top

I really like this beautiful live oak here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 59: Favorite Coastal Live Oak,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

I come and visit it every once in a while. I think it is courageous, especially considering how much graffiti the young folks have put on here. I assume it is the young folks, but I might be mistaken about that …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 60: Coastal Life Oak Graffiti,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

This poor tree! Do they not know the bark is very important to the life of the tree? I guess they do not. Well, I have talked about this before. I can understand that young people want to make their mark on the world. But the thing of it is, these are living, ancient trees …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 61: Coastal Live Oak Shelters Many Beings,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… wise in their own way … and harboring great forms of life … not only physical forms of life like birds and insects and mammals and reptiles … but other, nonphysical forms of life as well. There are nature spirits living here.

That, way up there …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 62: Owl Stand on Coastal Live Oak,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… I think was a platform for a bird once. It looks as if it has fallen a little sideways with time. Here is the other side of the tree …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 63: Coastal Live Oak Canopy 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… which goes on …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 64: Coastal Live Oak Canopy 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and on … Absolutely beautiful!

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 65: Coastal Live Oak Canopy 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Eucrypta (Hideseeds) top

This is a beautiful little plant that has delicate, fernlike leaves and very tiny … see how tiny? …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 66: Eucrypta (Hideseeds) Closeup,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… flowers. A lot of people do not like this plant, but I have always found it very beautiful, brightening up the forest floor in the early springtime …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 67: Eucrypta (Hideseeds),” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… very delicate, beautiful flowers.

Link: “Eucrypta,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucrypta ..

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More California Native Mustards top

Here are more California native mustards, growing in the shade of an oak tree …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 68: California Native Mustards,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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California (Mexican) Elderberry top

Here is California (Mexican) elderberry. It is a small tree, out here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 69: California (Mexican) Elderberry,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and these are the flowers here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 70: California (Mexican) Elderberry Flowers,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… very showy this time of year. I think you can eat the flowers (or maybe the berries) in pancakes. But you have to take some parts off, so it is important to read up on this before attempting a recipe with it. Parts of this are edible, but only if prepared in certain ways, and maybe only in limited quantities.

California (Mexican) Elderberry uses … Link: “Sambucus nigra,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambucus_nigra ..

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Cheeseweed (a Mallow) top

This is cheeseweed (a mallow) here …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 71: Cheeseweed (a Mallow),” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It has a tiny, not showy flower … It is hard to find this little, white flower …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 72: Cheeseweed Flower,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and then it has a seed or fruit that comes in four parts, like a round of cheese, and the seed is edible … tasty too; fairly tasty.

Cheeseweed (a Mallow) uses … Link: “Mallow (Malva parviflora) an Edible Friend,” in Root Simple … https://www.rootsimple.com/2008/02/mallow-malva-parviflora-an-edible-friend/ ..

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Live Oats top

These are live oats, an invasive grass in California …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 73: Live Oats,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

These are a little stunted. Sometimes they grow very, very tall. The seeds are edible …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 74: Live Oats Closeup,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

You have to be very careful to take them out of their green sheath. Or you can wait until the seeds are mature and hard, and then you can grind them up and use them in your food. It is very important to get the sheaths off though, because they can stick in your throat and feel funny.

Live oats … whole fields full of them! There are some of them up there, across the road. These are all live oats …

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 75: Live Oats Afar,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Wild Oat uses … Link: “Avena,” in Wikipedia … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avena ..

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Filmed on 20 March 2016; published on 15 April 2016; revised on 13 March 2023

Image: “Wild Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains 76: Castle Peak,” by Alice B. Clagett, 20 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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EDIBLE AND USEFUL PLANTS OF THE SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS top

Citation: “Edible and Useful Plants of California,’ [with recipes] by Charlotte Bringle Clarke, 1977, University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California.

Citation: “Peterson Field Guides: Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs,” by Steven Foster and Christopher Hobbs, 2002, published by Houghton Mifflin Books.

Citation: “Early Uses of California Plants,” by Edward K. Balls, 1962, University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California.

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CLASSES IN NATIVE AMERICAN SKILLS top

Link: “Earth Skills,” 1113 Cougar Court, Frazier Park, CA 93225, class descriptions … http://www.earthskills.com/class-descriptions.html ..

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RESOURCES FOR SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS PLANT IDENTIFICATION top

Link: “Wildflowers of Southern California: A Photographic Gallery,” by Barbara J. Collins, Ph.D., California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California 91360 … https://earth.callutheran.edu/Academic_Programs/Departments/Biology/Wildflowers/index.htm ..

Citation: “Wildflowers of the Santa Monica Mountains,” by Milt McAuley, photography by James P. Kenney, 1985, Canyon Publishing Co., 8561 Eatough Avenue, Canoga Park, CA 91304.

Citation: “Flowering Plants: The Santa Monica Mountains, Coastal & Chaparral Regions of Southern California,” text by Nancy Dale, photography by members of the California Native Plant Society, 1986, Capra Press, PO Box 2068, Santa Barbara, CA 93120 in cooperation with the California Native Plant Society.

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Choices: Change, Tolerance, and Right Living . by Alice B. Clagett

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VIDEO BY ALICE
SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
- Anticipating a Meteor Fly-By Bringing Star Intel
- New Moon and Solar Eclipse Bringing New Choices
- Shall We Say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Coming Changes?
- Body of Light Changes I Experienced in Recent Weeks
- Choices We Have Right Now
- Acting Out Versus Following the Ten Commandments
- If We Choose Not to Change, Will We Get Another Chance?
- Thoughts to Consider Leaving Behind This Month
- On Grouping by Cultural Assumptions
- Good Wishes to Everyone
- On Soul Wounding Clearing Now
- On the Unlikely Choice of Soul Devolution
- Postlude: Music of Chris Zabriskie and Pacific Ocean Scenes
TEN COMMANDMENTS
OUTLINE OF THE VIDEO

Dear Ones,

This is a video on dealing with the changes taking place as a result of the Awakening. After the video is a Summary, then a supplemental section on the Ten Commandments, then an Outline of the video. The Postlude contains the striking instrumental music of Chris Zabriskie and photos of the Pacific Ocean.

There is an edited Summary after the video …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice. I Am of the Stars.

I have to say my location today is utterly astounding. I will show you [pans right]. Way down here … you cannot quite see it down here, but this is the Pacific Ocean down here. Way down the hill there are all these beautiful homes and the Pacific Ocean. It is socked in by fog today, which makes it nice and cool here in the wintertime.

Anticipating a Meteor Fly-By Bringing Star Intel

I thought I would briefly describe what is going on right now, at this pivotal moment in March. March is always an interesting month, when all kinds of astounding changes can take place. This March is no exception.

On March the 8th there is going to be a meteor flying by Earth; they say now, at NASA, that it will fly by at quite a distance from Earth, so there will be no trouble. But, you know, meteors bring information from other places to Earth, communicating through Earth’s electromagnetic field. So we will be getting some information from that meteor … who knows what.

It flew by in 2013 too; so we will be getting more of the same information, whatever that was, or whatever it has picked up along the way since then. It is going to be flying by again in a couple more years; a couple more times it will fly by.

Back to the upcoming meteor: Now they say it will fly by on the 8th of March, at a great distance from Earth. Always a wonderful event, bringing with it the kind of knowledge that has to do with rocks, and minerals, and the unknown pathways … the axiatonal lines that stretch through space to other constellations; news from the stars, through the meteor event.

New Moon and Solar Eclipse Bringing New Choices

And then the following day, I hear, there is going to be almost a new moon, and a Solar Eclipse … not on my side of Earth, but out on the Pacific, especially. These things are bringing in new information to Earth … changes to Earth’s electromagnetic field, and also to the human electromagnetic field.

Shall We Say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to Coming Changes?

So the question that we have is: Shall we say ‘yes’, or shall we say ‘no’ to these changes? Do we want to be in sync with Earth’s electromagnetic field as it changes, or are we going to stick with what we had before? Do we want to be in harmony with the change that is going to be happening to Earth in the next week or two? Are we feeling a little trepidation, a little fear about what’s happening? Do we want to stick with what we had?

Now is the time to decide that. Just as a kind of assistance to that, I would like to say: What I found in the past is that, when I delay with transiting, and receiving the information … of course, the information will be there for us, whenever we decide to accept it … but if I delay, and I become out of sync with what you might call the ‘new-ware’ of Earth’s electromagnetic field, there is a jangling in my own electromagnetic field, and a change in the astral stories that I hear, that is misqualified energy expressing itself through these astral stories, and also throughout my entire electromagnetic field.

If I say ‘no’, even for a little while, it is less pleasant for me. So I would like to propose that, whatever trepidation we feel about these changes, it might be better to just sit, or walk, or just say ‘yes’ … do something joyful. Say: Yes, it’s ok with me. Earth is all right with me. I am glad to be here, I am glad to be part of this great change.

Body of Light Changes I Experienced in Recent Weeks

In addition, what I have noticed today: The lead-up has been going on for awhile now. Massive changes happened in my Body of Light over the course of the last couple of weeks. And little by little, in a way that reminds me of the Creator’s care for all his creatures, including me … because I only got changes sequentially, starting in my left chest, going down to my lower intestine, in the course of a week; and then up through this area here [indicates the right chest and the right side of the head] in the last week. And no doubt many more changes are in store … massive changes … and all for the better.

Choices We Have Right Now

What I have been noticing in the clair plane today is something that Sandra Walter wrote about …

Link: Sandra Walter … https://sandrawalter.com/ … Search the 2016 Archives for: Deepening of the Next Wave: Pay Attention Mar 2, 2016

She wrote about the choices that we have; she wrote about this date of March 8th; and she also talked about how things are going to be presented with clear choices; whether we choose ‘no’ or whether we choose ‘yes’, in this instance, is going to be really clearly reflected, for instance, in my idea, in the clair chatter.

Today I am hearing all kinds of clair chatter that is very, very dense and misqualified, and full of upset and pain and suffering, and like that. But that is not part of who I am, and what I am, you know?

It is very interesting how these Shifts allow us to make these firm choices … how we choose between pain and suffering and ignorance, or joy and peace and love and Light, for instance, in each instant. I think we always have that choice, and there is never the need to despair … absolutely never. We may have made a hundred million wrong choices, but if we make one right choice … one step in the opposite direction … we will be met by grace a thousandfold, for sure.

So do not despair. Make one right decision. if you feel that you have been walking the wrong track, turn around and look in the other direction; wee what is there, you know? It is ok. Sometimes our choices, if we make the wrong decisions … or even the right decisions … sometimes it is just the time of passing for us; the right time of passing.

Acting Out Versus Following the Ten Commandments

We can hasten that time of passing if we make a series of wrong decisions to do with acting out, in the New Reality. I have talked about acting out before. And by ‘acting out’ I mean things that are very clearly violent acts, for instance; very clearly, not acts of love and Light … for instance, injuring someone else. As they say in the Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not kill.

The point of the Ten Commandments is, I think, that in those days when Moses gave the Ten Commandments to his tribe, he knew that if people did not follow those commandments, then the tribe could not stay together; it just could not. They are so important in keeping people harmoniously living together. That is how I think it came down.

And why are those commandments important today? They are important because if we make these choices, according to the Ten Commandments, we will get through the Ascension process in grace and ease and joy.

But if we choose otherwise right now, then we will find ourselves in a pile of woe. And that is the truth. More and more woe will come our way.

Now people get angry with me for saying the Ten Commandments are pretty cool, in this day of libertine behavior … and this day of doing whatever you want … and this day when many are descending into lawlessness. All I can say is: It is really in your best interests to give the Ten Commandments a try, because you can avoid so much pain by giving them a try this week and next week.

Good luck on that; I know it is a hard one. Should you choose to try it out, I wish you very good luck on that endeavor. I feel it may turn your path around, towards joy and peace and love.

If We Choose Not to Change, Will We Get Another Chance?

And if you choose otherly, there may come around another time, another changeup, more new-ware, or another time when this new-ware can be installed. It is still possible. And if you should say: No, no, no … straight down the line … to this Ascension process, it is not necessarily that you will be lost forever, but rather that you will go through another Age of Darkness … another 11,000 years of Darkness, most likely, after the 2,000 years of Light … and learn more about your choices, and what God is, and what your Soul is.

So do not look on it as an impossible situation in any case. But I do offer this advice: That if you care to become more aligned with the will of God during the next couple of weeks, give the Ten Commandments or the like a try. Live by your highest tenets. It there is one tenet that you cannot live with, and you can live with all the others, do that! [laughs]

Thoughts to Consider Leaving Behind This Month

Do what you can. Live in joy. And let all the suffering of the past go. Forgive everybody … everyone. That is what I am thinking. And we could take our minds out of those old tracks …

Those tracks of woeful sadness and unkindly behavior and competition and hurting other people for our own best interests, and
- nationalism, and
- religious cul-de-sacs;
The desire to circumvent the law for our own interests;
Ingrouping of all sorts;
The idea that we are better than other people, when in fact it is just a question of us being different from other people.

On Grouping by Cultural Assumptions

We have so many cultural assumptions, for instance; so many notions that the way that our culture and all the different people that we know and grew up with do something is ipso facto the right way, right? But it is not the right way or the wrong way; it is just the way we learned when we were small … without needing to question it, because everyone did the same thing. Many other cultures do many other things. And this is ok too.

They say there is a place high up on the astral plane, where good people of each culture can congregate with other people of the same belief …

Citation: “The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena,” compiled by Arthur E. Powell, published 1927, Quest Book edition 1973, copyright The Theosophical Publishing House, London, Ltd. 1965 … See “Chapter XVI: The Astral Plane,” page 147, last paragraph beginning “Here are found …” through the end of page 148, the paragraph ending “… the astral plane.”

And this is kind of a cool notion. For instance, they say there is a happy hunting ground for Native Americans … maybe even divided by tribes; who knows? Then there is a place called Summerland too; and a place … the Valhalla of Norse mythology … where some of those who were slain in battle are led by the Valkyrie to hang out. According to the Norse myths, they prepare there to aid Odin in a great battle; but according to the School of Theosophy, they hang out there until they want to go back into service in the world through a new incarnation.

Each different group can choose, I think, to be with people of the same persuasion during the Shift, if they just have that tolerance to allow other people to be the way that they are too. That will help a lot.

Good Wishes to Everyone

Those are all my thoughts for right now. I wish you all very good luck with these changes that are taking place in March. Probably the next time that you see a video, it will all be very different and very new. [smiles]

On Soul Wounding Clearing Now

I do have a codicil (a postscript), and that has to do with these astral stories that are coming up now extremely warped and negative and misaligned in energy. My hypothesis is that they have to do with Soul wounding having a chance to clear … rather than to do with the eternal Souls of people being warped in that way, generally speaking.

On the Unlikely Choice of Soul Devolution. It is one in a trillion people that make so many wrong choices in their lifetime, and over many lifetimes, that they have no choices left to them except for Soul devolution and completely disappearing from individualized reality, from individual understanding of the matter that they are.

So in general I am very hopeful about these cognitive dissonance notions that are going around, in the noosphere right now; I think it represents Soul clearing, and not a bunch of people acting out such extremely dissonant behaviors. I really sincerely pray that that is so, and hope that all these people, and all these woundings of the Soul clear in this next period.

Postlude: Music of Chris Zabriskie and Pacific Ocean Scenes

[The Postlude features “Prelude No. 8” from the album “Preludes” by Chris Zabriskie, CC BY 4.0, along with some videoclips of the Pacific Ocean and the following words …]

Here is a ravine that goes down, down, down between the Santa Monica Mountains, to the Pacific Ocean … [zooms into the background] …

Image: “View of the Pacific Ocean from the Santa Monica Mountains 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

… and way down there is the ocean [zooms farther into the background] …

Image: “View of the Pacific Ocean from the Santa Monica Mountains 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

It is not a day for viewing blue waves; in fact, I can barely see grey ripples …

Image: “Ocean Shore 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Ocean Shore 1,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Ocean Shore 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Ocean Shore 2,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Ocean Shore 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Ocean Shore 3,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Ocean Shore 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

Image: “Ocean Shore 4,” by Alice B. Clagett, 3 March 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

[This is the end of the video.]

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Filmed on 3 March 2016; published on 14 March 2016; transcribed on 4 June 2019; revised on 13 March 2023

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Deuteronomy 5:6-21 (KJV, public domain)

1 “And God spake all these words, saying,

2 “I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

3 “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

4 “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

12 “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

13 “Thou shalt not kill.

14 “Thou shalt not commit adultery.

15 “Thou shalt not steal.

16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”

OUTLINE OF VIDEO

Information on March 2016 sky events, including how meteor fly-bys affect Earth.
On choosing whether or not to be in sync with Earth changes as the Light comes in. Consequences of these choices.
My personal ‘lead-up’ to these March events.
On choosing between pain, suffering, and ignorance, on the one hand, and joy, love, and light, on the other hand.
On how the choice to violently act out may hasten our death. This is because violent actions turn our body cells against the fabric of creation, that fabric being Love rather than hatred. Our body cells long for love. If we instead program them with hatred through our actions in the world, we effectively sign their death warrant. We choose, through our actions in the world, whether to nourish and uplift our physical and subtle bodies, or whether to coarsen our astral matter and increase our misery on the astral plane after our death.
Ten commandments, especially “Thou shalt not kill.” These commandments offer a way to live in accord with others in our community. They, and similar rules of living, are the signposts of civilized life, and allow the cultures of the world to flourish. The Constitution of the United States is another such set of civilization signposts; in my opinion, one of the best anywhere in the world.
How following the ten commandments will help us get through the Ascension process in grace and ease and joy. If we choose otherwise right now, we will find ourselves in a pile of woe.
What happens if we say No, no, no! to this Ascension process…
My thoughts: Live in Joy. Forgive everyone!
The idea that we’re better than other people, as opposed to the notion that we’re just different from other people. The importance of tolerance.
Cultural assumptions. Cultural congregations on the upper astral plane: Happy Hunting Ground, Valkyrie abode, and so on.
Misaligned astral stories as manifestation of soul wounding or misaligned energies that are clearing from Earths electromagnetic field. Seen in this light, mental turmoil might be considered a sign of Earth’s healing during the Ascension process.

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