What are tree symbols?
Sometimes, you can look at a tree and see its energy expression. For example, take a double-trunk tree, which has two major trunks coming out of the original trunk just above—or below—the surface. There are also trees that have three or more trunks sprouting from a single root source, each with a specific identity and information. Below is what I’ve learned about the trunk(s) of a tree.
Single-Trunk Tree: This tree has one primary skill in use, you will have to ask it to find out what that is.
Commentary: Sit with the tree and mentally ask it to describe its unique skill or ability.
Double- or Two-Trunk Tree: This is about the number two: duality, yin and yang energy, and it is the number of conception. It is about balance, and inner and outer harmony with yourself and all your relations, as well as the feminine and masculine energy and the integration of both within you. It also symbolizes the left half of our bodies, or feminine energy, and the right side of our bodies, or masculine energy. If you are out of balance (more in the male or female energy) and want to be more balanced, sit with a two-trunk tree.
Commentary: When we discuss balance, I use my Eastern Cherokee perspective. If you draw a line through the middle of a person from head to toe, the left half is feminine energy, and the right half is masculine. We attract events, energy, and prana (spiritual food for our aura and body) through our feminine/left-sided energy. It comes in and circulates through our chakras and moves out into the fields of our aura. We send out energy and manifest in the third-dimensional world through our masculine/right side. The feminine also symbolizes all females in your life. Anything feminine is aligned with this symbol and energy. The right side symbolizes the masculine energy all humans possess, regardless of gender. It represents all males in your life. Anything male is aligned with this symbol and energy.
We are all “wounded” by a primary person, or a specific, traumatic event in the first eighteen years of our lives. This wounding shows up in a pattern of behavior unique to us for the rest of our lives. Where have you received the greatest amount of wounding in your lifetime? Is it from the right or left side of your body? That will tell you where your primary wounding came from, and what you’re presently working on in this lifetime.
If you have more injuries on your male side, then we are talking issues with your father and other males in your life. You’ll also have difficulty trying to ground your dreams and goals into third-dimensional reality. You may dream, but you may not manifest it if your injured side is your male side.
Conversely, if you have more injuries on the left side of your body, you have primary issues through your mother or from other female relationships. When we are weak on our feminine side, we lose contact with the heart, our emotional intelligence, operating in the third dimension without compassion or sensitivity. When we collect more injuries on one side of the body than the other, we are emotionally out of balance and are working with emotional wounds that we’re trying to heal both consciously and subconsciously.