Welcome everyone!

My name is Amy Gialuco and I am very excited to offer a blog about my personal insights, musings and experiences about living on and spiritually connecting to this sacred earth.  I have had so many wonderful and magical moments connecting to Mother Earth- Gaia that I wanted to share these experiences with the rest of the world and to hear your  comments and responses in return.

My posts will be stories about my personal and spiritual connection to  Mother Earth, my interest in saving the environment, working with nature for personal and planetary healing and my sacred site research and journeys (for healing the earth).

This blog began on October 1, 2009, and my first blog entry was “Moonlit Musings”, a personal meditation on Nature and the cosmos. The second post is a tribute to Michael Jackson who’s video”Earth Song”  describes in a very passionate and beautiful way the need for humanity to save and maintain Mother Earth.  A more recent post is a video called Tranquil Streams which shows a woodland stream accompanied by beautiful, meditative music. Listen to this piece by itself  for a beutiful experience or, better yet,  put this video on first and then read my two other posts on this page for a multi-sensory,transcendental experience!)  (Scroll down this page to the video, start the video and then scroll up or down to read the posts)

I have also included other videos  that I have collected through vodpod  about the loving each other, loving the earth and saving our environment.  Please take  a look at them as well!  Looking forward to hearing from all of you out there in blogging land!

Amy Bortner-Gialuco  a.k.a Yellow Snake Star Medicine Woman

I have a deep connection to a dear (departed) spirit- Michael Jackson.  My inner guidance and deep intuitions acknowledge him as a great spirit and master who lived on this earth to embody the energy of a Christed being, one who is involved in loving, healing and maintaining our beloved planet.  I believe that Michael Jackson had a mission in life, to inspire humanity to greater heights of creativity, loving and  caring.  He wanted to heal the world, love the children and save our environment.  This is quite evident in his (later) body of  songs and videos, especially in the video “Earth Song”  Look for his Earth Song video , along with a few others, in my Vodpod collection (on the bottom right had side of this blog)  Love you Michael!!   Long Live the King!!

It’s almost a full moon tonight and I can see the stars peeking out from behind huge puffy clouds gently floating in the night sky.   A bright silver ball nestled within a denim sky filled with cotton candy clouds, a poetic spectacle parading before me as I take my walk.  Content with the beauty and grandeur of the scene, I begin to walk back  home satisfied and full.

I’ve done this a thousand times before, taking walks in the night, when everyone else is snuggled within their homes watching t.v or  preparing for sleep.  My day seems to start with dusk, when the sky turns a velvety indigo and the stars begin to appear. With the night sky surrounding me, I often feel so free!  Oh, the mystery, oh the solitude.  The wind from outside beckons me, follow me  here, follow me there.  Like a sleepwalker, I stumble outdoors and breathe in the evening, the quiet and the shadows.  It is time to follow my thoughts, the wind, the stars, to feel the infinitude of the sky and the mystery of the universe!  How quaint and small the homes look in comparison.  How petty and trite our daytime cares and concerns seem in relation to the cosmos revealed!  I attune myself to the bigger picture, the grander scheme, the greater reality when I take my walks.  I seem to journey through space and time as I think to myself only those thoughts that get tucked away during my daytime travails. “Why are we here?”  “Who are we and where did we come from?” “Did we come from other places and times, other planets and solar systems?”   “Is there life out there in that big universe?

“Beam me up Scotty”, Captain Kirk used to say on the t.v. show StarTrek.  I would often feel it possible on my nightly walks to be suddenly carried away in to the sky.  Why not?  My thoughts would carry me away, posing question after question, why wouldn’t a  a UFO sense my needs and suddenly whisk me away?

To be honest, I have had dreams where I am inside a space ship with human looking aliens in (alas) jumpsuits who are talking to me about the problems of Earth.  In one particular dream, we are looking out a huge window onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike and looking at all the traffic congestion and tsk, tsking to ourselves about the plight of the human highway system.   “So inefficient!”, my alien friends would sigh.  “So polluting  and noisy”, I would chime back.  They seem to be on some kind of observation mission and will report back to their superiors their findings about this planet.

“Earth has been trampled upon, almost ruined by the technologies and technocracies of the modern day, post industrialized culture of Western Europe and  North America”, I would imagine they would say. ….

Cut up into infinite mosaics of squares, rhombuses, lines and circles, our natural world looks more like a circuit board or a computer chip.  It’s hard to imagine the world without highways,  streets, roads, driveways, developments, strip malls, industrial parks, smoke stacks, gas lines, electrical lines, landing strips, water towers, nuclear towers, twin towers, well, the list is endless.  The plethora of structures, connections, buildings bespeaks of our apparent need to create but also our apparent need to dominate…. the land, the sky, the water oh my!!  Where is nature hiding out in all of this stuff?  Where did Mother Nature go?

That’s one question I always ask myself at night, when I ask so many other questions, as well.  But then, I just have to look around, and smell the sweet fragrance of the bee balm or the honey suckle, and step on the wet grass and tickle each blade with my toes to know that Mother Nature is not lost or forgotten.  She is, in fact,  the night sky; she is, in fact, the stars; she is, in fact, the velvety backdrop of my nightly rambles.  She is everywhere and no where.  She is everything and no-thing.  She is the yin and the yang.  She is  the Mighty Mother/Father, the source of life itself, the sweet succulent honey of existence that pours itself into every moment.  She is truly the source of all nourishment.  With this thought, I feel caressed and surrounded by her velvet touch and I feel safe again, not so scared by the “what ifs” and the “why nots” and the “look how awful the world is”.  Oh, my sweet Mother Earth, you have reassured me that All is Well, for now and that I have made yet another safe landing.

I walk home and open the door to enter my apartment but stop before going in  to feel the ground beneath me and to breathe  the fresh air once more and to smile once again at the quiet but ever steady revelations of my nightly moonlit walks.

There is an effort now by the Brazilian government to create 60 dams all within the Brazilian rainforest that would flood the amazon and millions of acres of pristine forest, dislocating thousands of tribes and destroying millions of species of insects, birds, etc.  Please take the time to watch the video below and sign the petition to stop these dams, in particular the Belo Monte “Monster” Dam.  Thank you so much!

Amy BG

AMAZON WATCH » Stop the Belo Monte Monster Dam!. -

Listen to the beautiful sounds and meditate on the peace and harmony of nature. Then, go deep within and you will also  find (your own) peace and beauty.  Namaste

There have always been magical places in my life. Environments that were very sacred to me. Places of great natural beauty.  Especially in the woods.  Whether it was a certain track of  forest, a special place in the park, a stream of water,  a magnificent rock formation or a circular grove of trees,  all held a certain magic and beauty for me.

As a little child, I would run to the woods, everyday, in the back of my house  so as to participate with this magic and beauty.  I would play on the rocks or run through the leaves on the forest floor.  I would spend hours examining  insects, frogs and caterpillars. And in this place, I became more aware of my connection to the physical world for I would feel and see so much  around me.  Whether it was the  wind currents through my hair or the moisture on the rocks as I sat down to play or  the delicate sounds of the birds in the trees or the chirping of the squirrels as they ran through the forest floor, there was a richness to these sensations that I could not feel anywhere else.  With pleasure , I savored these sensations and reveled in the effects they would have upon me.  For I felt stronger, more aware and more alive when I surrendered to them.  I did not know what I was feeling exactly, I could not put it into words as a child, but I just felt great!

All this wonderful sensation and richness of feeling would often alter my awareness a bit, put me into a bit of a trance or altered state.   And in this altered state , I would often play and  fantasize that  I was an Indian man or woman in my own little settlement.  I used to make a “lean- to” house out of branches and leaves on top of a special group of boulders that I would lie under for hours at a time.  And I would attempt to make utensils out of sticks and leaf parts and pretend that they were my hatchets or hunting knives.   So, I would routinely inhabit this special reality in the woods, playing for hours until suppertime,  when my mother would call me back into the house.

The woods and forests were a special place for me and I loved them dearly as a child.   And, as an adult , the natural world is still a magical place for me. For I still have the same sensations that I had as a child whenever I walk in the local park or visit a woodland area.   Only now,  I have a different understanding as to what those feelings are and how they are effecting me. I did not understand, as a child, that my backyard woods were extra-ordinary or even sacred. But as an adult, I know that everything in nature is extraordinary- filled with a certain sacred energy, vitality and consciousness. I did not know, as a child, that there were  many kinds of beings in the woods who were invisible to the naked eye, but  I know now that there are nature intelligences, faeries, elves, devas and guardian spirits who help create and maintain all of nature. And I did not know, as a child, that all living things were  conscious and aware and wished to connect to us and share in their reality,  as I know  now from my own personal experiences as a spiritual medium and earth keeper.

So, whenever I take a walk in the local park, The (Mighty) *Wissahickon, I look forward to my experience with great anticipation.  For I know  my physical senses will be heightened and  my thoughts and  associative processes will be expanded. And, in certain places, my thoughts will  be tinged with impressions from another time or place and I will often have visions of being a Native American in this and other areas.  When I am in my beloved woods,  I feel more alive.  For I feel joyful, energized and connected to everything.  I feel as if I am in deep communion.  Everything speaks to me and expresses itself through its unique form, sound, feeling and color.  I listen, observe and feel and in, return, I receive the message.   It is a joyful dance with Nature that I participate in.  And, like the  child that  I was, I revel in its song and story and continue to explore its never ending beauty and mystery.

*The Wissahickon Park, located in N. W. Philadelphia  is  one of  five major park systems that make up the greater Fairmount Park system for the city and county of  Philadelphia, Pa.