The Inner Child and the Sage

I think this nature sanctuary has a lot to do with the inner child if I'm honest. Not afraid to admit it, but I believe in the inner child idea and mine is alive and well. In fact out of my own inner archetypes the inner child and the inner wise old man seem to have come through the maze and are both doing very well. Its all the other bits that went awry:) The inner young man dashed off on mad quests along the lines of the warrior and the lover and is in the process of returning in 'flashes' from the myriad worlds he found adventures/battles/lovers in. All of us that exist in the complexity of my psyche are in touch with the goddess (thank god!)and she brings solace and support to the picture. So, between them, the inner child and the sage, they sit down by the fire out in the wilds and laugh at the lunacy of the modern world whilst waiting and calling the return of the lost. We think that the hero ended up in the arthurian realms and is returning with the other blazing eyed/full hearted ancient ones to help bring sense once more to this broken world.

The inner nature child

There is a lot of talk these days about the inner child, how we should nurture it...rescue it even...and this is GREAT! but it oft seems that its all 'gooey ickle cute babyish sort of inner child stuff...which has its place of course...but what about the other sides of the inner child...the BiGGeR inner child. the one that stayed out all day and came back smelling of firesmoke and with cuts and grazes. The tree climber, the den maker, the army strategist, the lone dreaming scout? what of them...this inner child..(if yours was ever like this) is RAGiNG or crying to be found...he/she recoils from the sterile order of the corporate life...this inner child holds the keys to your soul...it is brave, it is daring....and it wants you to see it and be it...can you hear its call? I think that my nature place is a bit of this for me...just be-ing out in the wilds...making fires and a mud hut...its not even a two fingers raised to the system sort of thing, it is a natural extension of who i am, what i want to do...and it is helping to make me whole again:)remember the old, and so valid magical saying...'an it harm none..do as thou wilt....