Vibration

In the Style of First Nations Oral Tradition (Pacific Northwest)

Long ago, Thunder taught the mushroom people to listen for the promise in the shaking earth: "When you feel my footsteps through the ground, push up your heads—rain is coming." And so they learned the ancient conversation between sky-voice and earth-flesh, between the drum of weather and the quiet patience of the underground. But Thunder smiled and shared another secret: "Not only storms will call you forth. Every walking thing carries my message— bear and deer, rabbit and human. Each footfall is my smaller voice saying: 'Grow now, be seen, offer your gifts to the world above.'" Now when you walk the forest floor, know that with each step you speak the thunder-tongue the mushrooms understand. Your footsteps are a prayer drum, calling the hidden ones to rise, inviting earth's secret teachers to greet you with their quiet wisdom. We do not walk alone— we walk in ceremony, each step a collaboration between sole and soil, each path a conversation between the seen and unseen worlds.