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For the Ancients, the Tree of Life symbolized many things, including the wisdom found in Life, augmented by Ancestral and Tribal history and lineage of Shamanic Practice; it included both mythology and creation stories and in the Tree of Life, they found Protection, Strength, Bounty, and Beauty.
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When we draw back and look at The Tree of Life in a holistic way, all trees provide us with tremendous metaphors for human development as they represent both our Spiritual and Personal Growth.
Fed from the earth, refreshed by water, gifted with the ability to convert out breath into oxygen, trees bask under the light of the sun while they grow in stature and strength and eventually blossom into full flower and fruit.