Baobab Love Explained
I am a Baobologist. A name I invented inspired by my passion for Baobabs. Not necessarily an expert in Baobabs, but certainly a student and lover of Baobabs.
I am often asked to explain my love for these gigantic, ancient and mystical trees …
There is something beautiful and profound that happens to my heart when I see a Baobab tree. It expands and expands, and I am filled with love and awe and wonder. I get this feeling regardless of how big or how small the Baobab is.
This feeling is inspired by the size, beauty and powerful presence of these ancient giants. With their pinkish grey, otherworldly, smooth bark, mysterious markings, indentations and handholds … and their vast branches that extend sideways and infinitely upwards to the heavens. Their flowers are extraordinary – with a strong, heady smell, they appear for a short 3 months – November to January, opening at night for only 18 hours before the petals fall off. Each Baobab has a unique character, a distinct personality. And of course, their age – The oldest dated Baobab in South Africa is approximately 1800 years old, but I intuitively feel that they are much older than this.
My most favourite things to do are visiting Baobabs, climbing Baobabs barefoot and finding new Baobabs. I get such a thrill from finding a new Baobab, even a tiny one.
I often gaze at a Baobab, or sit in one, and wonder, “How did this happen? How can a living being be so old, so big, and so beautiful?” I’m not alone in my love for these spiritual giants. I have not met a person who does not love Baobab trees. There is a deeper mystery I believe we are all tapping into …
Baobab flower just starting to open during the day.
Baobab flower fully opened at night, ready for pollination.
Baobab flower ready to fall.
Baobab bark and branches.
Unusually large five digit Baobab leaf.
Silky Baobab pod in the rain.
Sacred Beings
I get messages and guidance from the Baobabs.
I have a built in Baobab radar. I can be driving down a road in a strange town, minding own business, when I intuitively get a nudge to make a turn. Following the guidance, I do so, and there, to my delight, is a Baobab tree!
Sometimes the messages and images I get are even more profound …
Baobab trees support in the holding of the energy grid of the Earth. This energy grid is a network of meridians, also called ley lines, or song lines, crisscrossing the planet. Just like in a spider’s web, all meridians, or ley lines, in the grid are connected.
The meridian network in the Earth’s body, mirrors the meridian network in our human bodies.
Reflexology and acupuncture work with this meridian network. It is the energy channels or electrical pathways pulsating through our bodies.
Just as an acupuncturist can heal a patient by placing needles at key points on the meridians of our bodies, so humans can affect the well-being of the Earth by praying, meditating and performing sacred ceremonies at key points on the Earth’s meridians.
It is the same for trees growing on key points on the Earth’s meridians. They too act as acupuncture needles, playing an important role in affecting the well-being of the Earth. I see the Baobabs, standing proud, all connected, holding and knitting the energy grid of the Earth. They form a flower of life pattern, each joined energetically together, over the energy grid network, over the Earth.
This flower of life pattern is the same flower pattern that their leaves make. In the scientific name for the African Baobabs, Adansonia digitata, the digitata part refers to the 5 digits of a hand, as reflected in the 5 leaflets most common in Baobab leaves. The Baobabs join hands together, holding the grid in place, spreading love and light, and especially ancient wisdom, over the Earth.
The core of this grid and their support lies over the Spinal Column of the Earth – the Nilotic Meridian – with many Baobab trees, especially very old ones, being found along this energy line, and at sacred sites along this energy line. They connect to Baobab trees all over the continents of Africa, Madagascar, Australia and India, and with Baobabs that are scattered in botanical gardens and parks throughout the world.
Activating Baobabs
For years I have been guided to do Baobab blessings called an Activations. It is a process of reactivating their ancient wisdom, power and light, which has been held dormant within them until humanity and the Earth were ready. We are ready now! These activations bring Baobabs into balance, reigniting their power and ancient knowledge, so that they can connect deeper to other Baobab trees worldwide, and so that they can be of even stronger support in holding the energy grid.
Activations are pure and simple. They can be done directly with the tree or from a distance. I like to hug the tree, resting my forehead and third eye on the trunk, and then saying aloud,
“I love you. I bless you. I activate you. I connect you to the Mother, the Father, the Grandmother, the Grandfather and all to each other.” (Those are four oldest and biggest trees I work with.)
It’s very tricky in areas with lots of Baobabs, so I set the intention that all trees in my vision, and in the area, are activated together. And I wave, acknowledging and greeting them as I pass …
Try it next time you see a Baobab … Or start the process with your own favourite tree …
Baobab Visits and Tours
Conducting Baobab visits gives me the opportunity to share them and their specialness with others.
I conduct visits for groups, families and solo travelers to meet some of the unusual Baobab trees of Hoedspruit and surrounds. This includes visits to Grandfather Baobab – the Glencoe Baobab, and Grandmother Baobab – the Leydsdorp Giant Baobab.
Visits further afield, or full Baobab Tours, to big and famous Baobabs in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa, can also be arranged. Visits and tours could include Baobabs of Kruger National Park and Mapungubwe National Park, Father Baobab – the Sagole Baobab near Kruger’s Parfuri Gate, and the Baobab forests of Musina and Tshipise. Perhaps a visit to Dr Sarah Venter who did her PhD on Baobab trees, and runs EcoProducts in Makhado (Louis Trichardt), making health products from Baobab powder and seed oil.
(Mother Baobab – the Sunland Baobab – is no longer open to the public.)
These Baobab visits and tours can be combined with Sacred Site visits and tours.
To enquire about or book a Baobab visit or tour, contact Lynette …
Baobab Sound Healings
Baobab trees play an important part in my Nature Sound Therapy practice.
Playing my Sounding Bowl called Harmony, with Baobab trees, I offer a unique Nature Sound Therapy experience.
Baobabs are regarded as the world’s largest succulent, with about 70% of the trunk being water. This high volume of water makes their wood light and porous, the perfect conduit for the sacred sound of the Sounding Bowl to vibrate through. But of course, any tree can be used too …
A person either sits with their back to the tree, lies on a branch, or sits within the cavern of a hollow mature Baobab. Because of the special tone and resonance of the sound bowl, when it is played, it reverberates through the being of the tree. The whole tree acts as a live sound bed (a music table a person lies on while the therapist plays on 50 to 60 strings attached under it). The living tree is naturally tuned to generate the primary sound of creation. The sound is felt through the tree, directly penetrating the cells of the body, opening the heart, harmonizing and releasing energy blockages and traumas.
To enquire about or book a Baobab Sound Healing, contact Lynette …