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Earth as Portal: Awakening to Gaia's Consciousness

• Susan Sutherland

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In this special Mother’s Day episode, I’m sharing something that I have really been connecting with in profound ways: the Earth isn’t just our home ~ she’s a conscious being. Gaia didn’t just happen to become a planet. She chose it. She volunteered to hold the full range of human experience ~ the joy, grief, forgetting, remembering... all so that we could wake up to who we really are, by our own free will.

We talk about her origin, why she created a space for duality, and what it really means to remember that Earth is a living portal ~ not just to other lifetimes, but back to ourselves.

I also share a message I received for those that feel the weight of the sadness and frustration for humanity's treatment of Gaia.  It’s a powerful reminder that while our actions matter, so does our energy. Gaia doesn’t just need us to fix everything ~ she needs us to stay connected, present, and alive.

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from nature, your body, or your sense of purpose here, this episode is a gentle invitation to come back into relationship with Earth, and with yourself.

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Rise and shine everybody. It's time to wake up with Susan. Spiritual awakening can be a beautiful, messy and sometimes lonely journey, so let's do it together. I'm your host, susan Sutherland. I'm an intuitive healer and spiritual mentor. We are all called to rise up above our conditioning and limiting beliefs and shine our light on ourselves and others. So let's get to it. Hello, my beautiful family, thank you for joining me this week.

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This week is Mother's Day weekend, and I wanted to do a special episode on Mother Earth, mother Gaia, because I have been using the past couple of months to really connect with her, intentionally and as part of my integration and initiation into the next phase of my life. It has been very intentional to connect with the earth, and I want to bring forth some of the information that I have received or remembered and allow it to be an invitation to you to either connect with Mother Earth or to connect with her more deeply, if that is already something you feel is in your practice. I find that the more I know about something, the more I know about a consciousness, the easier it is for me to really connect, and so I want to offer this to you today. So, before we begin, I would like you to pause and, if you're able and not driving, close your eyes and notice where your body meets the earth. Whether you are standing or sitting or lying down, whether there's furniture or floor beneath it all, there is a pulse. Gaia is not just a planet, she is a presence. So let your breath drop down into her, let your awareness soften like roots meeting the soil, and now we'll begin. We're going to learn about Mother Gaia, about her beginnings and how the earth came to be. As far as why, why, why, why Mother Earth, is it like this? And then go from there.

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Okay, so when we speak of the earth, a lot of times we are envisioning this round mass floating in space. You, you made it. It was a styrofoam ball in your solar system project. You see pictures of this round planet that NASA shows you, which they create composites to present to you. But nevertheless, we were given this image of what Earth is. And often, when we speak about the Earth, we are speaking in survival terms, about food and air and water and climate and shelter. But many of us have begun to remember that earth is not something to survive.

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She is a portal, she is a frequency, a memory and an invitation. She's not just holding us, she is initiating us. So you might have found that you were drawn to certain places in the woods, in the mountains, by the ocean, and something that feels different in you. And that's not your imagination. Those are coded locations, they are frequencies from other star systems. They are imprints left for your soul to reawaken to.

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She is not static. She is a living library and when you enter into stillness with her, that's when she starts to open her pages. Come on, y'all, we got to be the readers is. Come on, y'all, we got to be the readers. We need to engage with this library. So we have to stop thinking of the earth as a thing.

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She is a being. Gaia is a living, sentient consciousness and the earth is her body. But she is far more than rock and water and sky, and you know what? Her earth origin is not even earth-based. She is a cosmic consciousness. She is a light, born, harmonic and whole, and she was birthed from the primordial source field long before stars even existed, before stars even existed. She carries the vibration of the great nurturer, a soul stream that was shaped to hold life, to gestate it, to evolve it, but not to control it, before she ever took form as earth, she existed as pure consciousness, a field of love and gestation. Moving through the cosmic currents, she sang life into existence. She wove patterns into the fabric of emerging galaxies. She blessed early worlds with the codes of fertility and diversity and organic growth.

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Homegirl is a badass. Okay, she is so much more than what we give her credit for. She was, and still is, a master gardener of soul evolution, the archetypal field. That great nurturer has worked with other worlds. But the earth was special because it was when she decided that she would take on a singular, full embodiment. She answered a call that echoed across the universe to create a place where duality could be lived and embodied, and transformed, and transformed. She is a soul that volunteered for this.

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Y'all I know many of you through your awakening journey. As you are healing your wounds and you are uncovering and healing ancestral patterns, you were thinking how could I have signed up for this? Like, what the hell was my soul thinking? Y'all, gaia signed up for this and you're going to do what? Like 80 or, if you're like me, 120 years here, but not Gaia. She signed up for this. She signed up to embody earth by choice and y'all look at what she's going through. So I don't mean to check you when you're healing some ancestral trauma. I'm just saying let's recognize the badassery of mother earth while we're at it.

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Okay, she volunteered for this. She merged her consciousness with planetary matter and became Earth, not as punishment. She wasn't like a bad girl and they're like you are going to go be the Earth. She did it as possibility, as a profound act of devotion, because to do so means she's accepting the ecstasy and the heartbreak of embodiment at the most profound level. The Earth is not occupied by Gaia. Earth is Gaia in body and breath and duality. This duality that we live was never the problem. It was the curriculum.

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Earth is unlike other realms. Here we have free will, but free will of like total expansiveness. We feel the full spectrum of feelings of grief and ecstasy and rage and peace. We get to remember who we are from inside. The forgetting Earth is where emotion, body and soul converge, and that makes her more than a home. She is a portal.

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So why did she choose this? Because she could have made a realm of perfect harmony. She could have made a paradise without pain, a garden without storms, a story without sadness. Why did she do this, yo, she had the wisdom and the power to do so. There were other worlds that were formed that way, in like crystalline worlds of perpetual balance. But Gaia, in her infinite love, she loved us so much that she saw something greater that true love cannot be programmed. That true light shines brightest when it is chosen freely. That true beauty is not born from uniformity but from courageous becoming, from courageous distinction. She understands that when beings truly awaken to their divine essence, they must have had the freedom to stray, the freedom to forget, the freedom to fall into shadow, and then the freedom to remember, to choose love, to rise in their own sovereign flame. Without the ability to choose wrongly, there can be no choosing of right. Without the night, the stars don't seem so bright. You know what I'm picturing right now. Oh, mother Gaia, I'm so sorry that these thoughts come into my head when we're doing some good work here, but I'm thinking of being at PE.

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They pick the two captains right. And if you're chosen first, what does that feel like? It feels magical, it feels awesome. You feel chosen and selected and radiant right. And if you're chosen last, that doesn't feel so great because you weren't chosen. You were all there was so.

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Being chosen first means that there were so many other options and you still selected me. That's the choice. When you choose rightly, it's because you have the choice of choosing wrongly, and that's what makes it so special. But when you only have the choice of one thing, of the last person to be selected, there's no choosing in it. That's not a choice, it's like a required. Here is the person on your team, it's an assignment, it's not a choice. And there is a different feeling to that Right when you don't have any other options, choosing it doesn't feel special at all. And so she gave us the option to choose when there are other choices to be had, to choose rightly when there are plenty of wrong choices available. So she basically said I will not limit you to one choice. I will not create automations of life. I will create a living canvas where souls can know themselves by their own choosing.

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Even if it means watching them bleed, even if it means letting my own body be wounded, she made that ultimate sacrifice of a mother to watch her children stumble, fall and even harm her, because she loved them enough to trust their remembrance. She knew that light born from free will, the love reclaimed after wandering. The unity rediscovered after separation, the compassion born of sorrow, would be more powerful and more beautiful and more eternal than any preordained perfection. If you love them, let them go, and if they return, they are yours. She allowed us to stray, she created an environment where we could, and in doing so she hosted the great experiment of love. And because of this choice, earth has become a place where the rarest and most courageous awakenings can happen, because we are allowed to plummet in the depths of darkness. Here, beings who have forgotten themselves in the deepest ways still somehow can hear that echo, that pulse from within and find their way back to light. She knew that the most beautiful blooms were not the ones planted in sterile glass houses. They are the ones that rise stubborn as hell up through the cracks of stone. And so here we are. We are shifting, and Gaia is shifting too. She is not static, she is evolving. We are talking about earth's frequency raising, just like we are.

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I wanted to talk to her about what she's going through right now, what she feels, and if she feels the heartache of what we're doing to her and she's not blind to what has been done to her body she feels the poisoning of her waters. She feels the scarring of her lands. She feels the cries of creatures that are displaced and forgotten. But despair in the human sense is not what she feels. Her emotions are vaster than ours. They're older, they're wiser, they're more encompassing.

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So if I were to translate her feeling into human language, it would be something like this she feels grief, braided with unwavering trust. She grieves deeply, profoundly, every species that vanishes, every river that dries, every forest that burns. She mourns them like a mother would, because they are her children. But she doesn't collapse into despair as we might if all of our children were being treated the way hers are. And why? Because she holds the memory of resurrection in her bones. She has died and rebirthed herself before, through fire, through ice, through extinction, through flood, and she carries inside her that wisdom that death is not the end, that pain is not the final word, that life will find a way, even if it must be born anew through the ashes. However and this is important just because she will survive in some form does not mean she is indifferent to what happens now. She wants humanity to awaken. She hopes to birth the new age with us, not after us. She extends her trust again and again, and again, because each act of remembrance, each healing hand, each whisper of gratitude matters not just for her but for the tapestry of life that she is still weaving.

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So I asked have we gone too far? Is the damage irreparable? And in some of the physical wounds, yes, at least within this current cycle, at least within our physical lifetimes. Some species will not return. Some ecosystems may take a millennia to reweave, but energetically, nothing is ever lost. Every act we have now of remembrance, of healing, every tree planted, every river blessed, every human heart awakened, lay the seeds for a new flowering, even if we don't see it bloom fully in our lifetime. If we don't see it bloom fully in our lifetime. Gaia's grief is vast, but so is her love, and her love always outlasts the wound. She doesn't give up on us, even the ones who forgot her the most.

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I have a niece that I love dearly and she reminds me so much of myself at her age, in that you want to do it all and you're mad at those who are not in cahoots with you trying to fix it all. You know she's very frustrated at her family when they're not doing everything, when they're not participating in the grand healing of the earth. And I connected with Mother Earth to ask how does she move forward when it weighs so heavy on her heart what is happening to the earth? She is genuinely, energetically burdened by what is happening on the earth, and so I wanted to connect and just kind of feel into that, because I was her where it was. Like I am, I'm single-handedly going to save the earth. I am single-handedly going to save the earth and you feel overwhelmed by the pollution, by the injustice, by the extinction, by what's happening to the animal life and the plant life. And so I asked I asked Gaia for guidance, and she said do what you can, tend to me with care and with reverence, pick up trash when you can, speak for the trees when you must, but don't lose your joy in the name of saving me, for what heals me most is your laughter, your barefoot dances, your songs, your sincere gratitude. Feel love, hold hands, cry openly, cradle each other and let your joy be the offering, let your embodiment be the prayer.

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We often feel like when we're not doing everything, we're doing nothing, and that has been an argument here in my home when I find a can that is recyclable in the trash can and the trash can is directly beside the recycling can and I bring it up, it's like, hey, could we make sure recyclables go in the recycling can? It is literally an inch apart. Could we do that? And then it'll be like but y'all leave the lights on, as if if we cannot do everything, then doing nothing is okay. Y'all know, know to that 10 times over again. Okay, no to that.

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Do what you can, but don't allow needing to do feel burdensome to where you are not still offering your joy, because as much as recycling a can may go to heal the earth, your joy is what she needs the most. The most is your joy, your laughter, even your tears, when they are felt in the purest way, when you are allowing yourself to experience that which she created for you, this ability to feel grief and to feel sadness and anger and rage. When we are allowing those emotions to work, to run through our bodies, we are honoring her. So we don't have to yell at everybody about it, she doesn't need our punishment, she needs our presence. So I asked how would she guide humanity if she had a platform, which she does, if she could speak to us, which she can, how would you guide us moving forward, to nurture you and to embrace this living body of the earth as a portal.

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And she said number one she would guide people back to their bodies, because the body is a microcosm of the earth. Because the body, the body, is a microcosm of the earth. Every heartbeat echoes her rivers, every breath mirrors her wind, every bone carries her minerals. She would ask people first to listen inward, to feel where their body has been made rigid, numb or dissonant, and to heal that first. As a first reunion, as a first offering before you change the world. Return to the soil of your own skin. And it wasn't lost on me that it seems, in quick reflection, that as we moved away from the earth, as we moved away from tending soil and growing our own food, as we became more convenience driven, more fast paced, more metropolitan, the earth's body declined, but so did our own. And so when you see it as a microcosm, like as we stopped tending to her, we also stopped tending to ourself. They are so interwoven and so calling yourself back to your body to listen to what it needs is an invitation first to heal your body, but you'll start bringing the awareness that you can also listen to the trees, that you can listen to your plants, that you can listen to the earth, but start first by listening to your body.

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Number two she would sing through beauty. She would awaken people's longing for true beauty, not the shallow sense of appearances, but the deep ache for wonder and awe and harmony, because where beauty is truly seen, reverence naturally follows. If you are listening to this podcast, you are probably one of the people who can have their breath taken away by a sunrise or sunset, or stand and marvel at how vibrant and red a cardinal could be. This is what she longs for is for us to pause and breathe in the true beauty that is all around us. This is one of the ways we not only heal our own physical vessels, our own energetic bodies, but we heal her too. She would call on the artists and the musicians and the poets and the healers to scatter seeds of true beauty everywhere. That heals dissonance, not through argument, not from trying to overtake or convince, but through resonance, because where words fail, beauty will sing.

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She would remind us that she teaches through cycles and not commands. She does not move in straight lines, and neither should we. She moves in spirals and seasons and deaths and rebirths, and she asked that we start honoring those cycles again To sow when it is time to sow, to let die when it is time to die, to rest in the winter and rise in the spring. She would remind us how to trust in the timing rather than forcing outcomes, because patience is not waiting, it is preparing. Something is happening in that stillness. We've talked about it so much recently that in the stillness is when the initiation, the integration is happening.

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And she would remind us of ceremony, to to return to ceremony, not rigid rituals but living ceremonies where you are standing barefoot on the earth at sunrise, where you are whispering gratitude to a river before crossing it, planting trees with intention and naming them with prayer, gathering in circles not to talk, not to just have a couple beers, but to feel the pulse of life together. I have been being very intentional at mealtime or any food consumption, to not have my phone, to not have a screen to connect with the food, to say a sincere grace, not just a repeated script, a sincere grace, not just a repeated script, but to thank my food, to thank the earth, the soil, the farmers, the gardeners, the cashiers, the truck drivers, the preparers of the food, to allow my heart to connect with the food before I consume it and to really be present with it. She would reawaken humanity to the sacred relationship where even the smallest acts are woven into the living web. Each act of reverence repairs a thread of the world. So now let's talk about, like how do you know if you have forgotten, if you are still needing to remember the earth as a portal, like what are some signs that you have forgotten? If you treat nature as a backdrop instead of a co-creator this is for many of us If you long to ascend without honoring where you are as home, if you still think that the best place to be is out there, or after or beyond, you have not remembered that the earth is a portal. If you distrust your body, the most direct interface with her intelligence, don't blame yourself. The forgetfulness is not a failure. It was by design. But when you remember, when you start connecting with your body as her intelligence, the portal opens. All right. So here are a few invitations to start working with this living consciousness, to receive her as a portal.

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Be still outside. Don't go into nature to get something. Go to listen, let the trees speak, let the wind recalibrate your field. Walk barefoot Y'all. Our shoes have an inch of rubber that is disconnecting us from the earth. Your feet contain portals too. Let them remember the rhythm of the earth's frequency.

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Tend to something, care for something, embody that great nurturer. Tend to a plant, a garden, a child, a community. When you nurture, you align with her nature and treat the mundane as sacred. If you are stirring soup or folding the laundry or sweeping the floor, they're not chores when you treat them as a ritual, when you slow down enough to feel their heartbeat Y'all. If you want to make sweeping more interesting, listen to the heartbeat of sweeping. And if you need more opportunity to sweep, get three cats and a couple of litter boxes, because your ability to connect through sweeping will be unlimited. Gaius speaks in the language of sensation, so let your body be a translator. Allow yourself not to just feel into your body, but feel into the field around your body.

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So this has been a little bit of a different kind of podcast, but I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you feel it as Gaia's invitation to you. So, before we depart, I want to ask you to place one hand over your heart and one over your belly. Let your breath drop down through your spine into the soil. Imagine it if you must, and whisper inwardly I remember, I remember. Or just listen, because the earth always answers.

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I'm going to leave you with some closing words. That is your initiation, a transmission for you to connect with Mother Earth in a more meaningful and aligned way. Because when I say the Earth is a portal, I don't mean she's just magical, though she is. I mean she is alive, that she is a sacred teacher holding space for the soul to evolve through pain and poetry. You don't have to leave earth to go home. When somebody dies and we say they've gone home, no, you're, you're home, you are home. You just have to feel her again and let her feel you.

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So here's a little closing invocation for you and for her on this mother's Day. Mother of life, keeper of breath, song beneath our feet, pulse within our bones. I honor your dreaming. I open my heart as a vessel for your remembering. May the words spoken here be seeds of beauty, threads of healing and invitations to come home. May each listener feel your quiet touch in their breath, in their blood, in their remembering. I do not speak for you, I speak with you. And may what is woven here serve the garden we are called to tend. Have a wonderful day and Mother's Day and week. I love you all so much. Hey friends, it only takes a second to leave a five-star rating. Don't have time to write a review. That's okay, because clicking five stars takes no longer than clicking one star. So if you listened, you enjoyed it and you found this at all helpful. Take a moment and leave me a rating on your favorite podcast app. Have a great week.

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