title: Sister Earth: Creation, Ecology and the Spirit (7 X 4: A Meditation a Day for Four Weeks)
author: Dom Helder Camara
description: Dom Helder Camara was bishop of Rio de Janeiro and later archbishop of Recife, Brazil. From 1965 on, he was the National Brazilian Bishops Conferences director for Social Action. He is well-known throughout the world for his ceaseless work for the poor and his efforts to promote human rights.
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  Heartwood
  
  FREYA ROBERTSON
  
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  > The great 12th century mystic, healer and philosopher, Hildegard von Bingen,
  > created the word Veriditas to describe her vision of the greening power of
  > Nature, the divine force within all life.
  
  > Veriditas is also the “greening of the mind”, the growth of intelligence and
  > spiritual insight through understanding of Nature, or as Hildegard put it:
  
  > “Understanding in the soul is like the Veriditas of the branches and the
  > leaves of the tree.”
  
  > www.veriditas.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE LAND OF ANGUIS – YEARS AND DAYS
  
  An Anguis year consists of 240 days separated into eight seasons, each of
  which is divided into two Moons of 15 days as follows:
  
  Moon
  
  
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  Season
  
  (15 days)
  
  Old -- The Darkening
  
  Dead – The Darkening
  
  Holly -- The Sleep
  
  Berry -- The Sleep
  
  Lamb -- The Stirring
  
  Bud -- The Stirring
  
  Hare -- The Awakening
  
  High -- The Awakening
  
  Flower -- The Flourishing
  
  Birth -- The Flourishing
  
  Bright -- The 