Laural Virtues Wauters encourages us to "wonder" as we open our minds to see with our hearts. She supports us on the journey of being co-creators of our reality by helping us heal our personal and collective stories. Laural empowers us to explore our internal and external landscape by holding space for us to dive deep within our shadows to embrace our truth.
In this episode, you’ll hear Laural’s incredible life story of wonder, mystery, loss, and self discovery, beginning with an encounter with a tree spirit that held a profound message for her.
Laural shares how 911 was a turning point for Laural in rekindling her life purpose: to help people understand each other better.
We discuss the collective wounds that we all face together, and the important concept of the “world tree” or “tree of life” in our individual and collective healing work. Laural talks about the intrinsic nature of Trees and the multitude of Gifts of ancient wisdom and knowledge that trees have imparted to us - connecting us to the stars, astrology, astronomy, calendar + time, math and more.
Laural takes us on a journey tracing the fascinating etymology and original meaning of the word God, and the connection to trees within world religions starting in Mesopotamia 3500 BCE with an original wind god.
She shares the biggest revelations that she has had in her incredible life experience and how our ancestral lineage holds a key to our soul path and purpose. You’ll also hear about her upcoming workshop offerings such as the Tree Spirit Wisdom Weekend Intensive based off her beautiful Tree Spirit tarot - Connecting us with the wisdom and spirit of trees, and Exploring the archetypal stories of 78 trees.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
Laural’s incredible story of mystery, loss, and self discovery, beginning with an encounter with a tree spirit that held a profound message for her
Laural’s spiritual encounters in childhood and challenging experiences that shaped her path, like the discovery of her adoption, loss of parents, and uprooting into a new world
How 911 was a turning point for Laural in rekindling her life purpose: to help people understand each other better
How Laural’s tree spirit revealed itself once again as the Tree of Life and seeded Laural’s journey and mission to unravel & untangle the shared roots of world belief from 40 BC to present day in every continent
Laural discusses the collective wounds we all face together, and the important concept of the “world tree” or “tree of life”
How Carl Jung’s work influenced Laural’s way of unraveling the collective wounds and stories we hold and must work through
How we can begin to tap back into a sense of connection as individuals and as a collective, and how shadow work and moving through fear is critical to restoring connection and wholeness without judgement
The difference between discernment and judgement, and Laural’s helpful cereal box analogy
How compassion has been the best medicine for Laural in facing shadows and difficult times
The biggest revelations that Laural has had in her incredible journey
Laural takes us on a journey tracing the etymology and original meaning of God and the connection to trees in world religion starting in Mesopotamia 3500 BCE with an original wind god, Oak trees as oracles, and the original word guthen (before God) - meant to invoke the sound of the wind in the trees, and how the word God was first used in 1400 CE
What Laural sees as one of the best ways we can support ourselves right now
The intrinsic nature of Trees and the multitude of Gifts of knowledge that trees have imparted to us - How trees have (and continue to) helped us connect to the wisdom of the stars, astrology, astronomy, calendar + time, math - ancient Knowledge is powerful
How “left” came to be seen as connected to the dark and associated with evil/Devil
How everyone has their individual Work, and how comparison with someone else’s journey can be a distraction
How Laural helps others with ancestral work, and how our ancestral lineage holds a key to our soul path and purpose
How the trees embody the cosmology of the 3 worlds, body-mind-spirit, and invites us to embody this Truth within ourselves
Laural’s upcoming workshops and offerings
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Connect With Laural Virtues Wauters
Other websites: www.mandalachakra.com and www.treespiritwisdom.com
Tree Spirit Workshop at Hawthorn Institute
Books by Laural:
The Guardian Tree – The True Story of Carmen Sylvia (my autobiography)
Mandala Chakra – Awaken the One Within (Oracle deck of 50 cards sold separately)
Tree Spirit Tarot – Return to the Garden of Our Soul (Tarot deck of 78 cards sold separately)
Mandala Art: Ink Drop Art Haus
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