Earth sensed the humans disconnect. She felt her energy draining. It was being used up, and consumed. Before, they would always give back and add to her. The pool of life essence was always constant. Her life essence enriched as the humans danced upon her.

Then it started to change. Some of them forgot. Visitors started coming, ones who had never been here before, and didn't know the ways. They started to separate.

why are they so detached, she wondered. she had felt them separate, and as the chasm grew, they began to attack the very thing that gave them life, her. They took without returning. The pool of life essence that was her spirit started to wane. The visitors found the natives, and couldn't stand how they lived in beauty with her. They dominated them and forced them to become like them. They destroyed their reflection. Now you are like us, they said. We are all the same.

She had known about the visitors here, wearing the skins of the earthlings, from different stars, from different planes. It was them that forgot, she thought. They came, enjoyed, but didn't give back. There was no exchange. They thought everything was free. As a result, the life essence that was her began to wane.

she prayed for guidance. she called out to her allies. most of them, the pieces of her, were under attack as well. The humans were becoming dominators of the earth plane. She reached out to beyond herself.

Help! she cried! They are forgetting. They are losing their connection and forgetting how to live; instead they dominate, destroy, and seek to accelerate their deaths. She didn't understand what was happening, but felt that it wasn't good. If they continued their acceleration towards death, they would surely destroy themself, and possibly change her irrevocably. The pool of life was getting smaller and smaller as she circled the sun.

She heard a whisper of reply, from within and from stars far different. We are the first wave, some said. We will follow behind, said others.

We will come, and we will build a home, placed between the worlds. We will remember our sacred natures, our connection to the pool, our connection to ourselves. We will pave the path to be something different, to hold the cauldron for the earth warriors to enter. They will be of both lineages. Thru the blood of the original inhabitants, and thru the spirit of the star nations.

We will come to this plane, and thru the gate forget what we know. Thru their program, become something alien. But there will be guideposts. There will be signs. There will be the home, the cauldron, where healing magic enters the plane. It is here you will gather, and find your family. There are many of us coming. there are many of us here. We are here to heal the earth. We are here to shift the paradigm of dominion to the paradigm of symbiosis. It is here we will gather, and we will remember our promise to her, our promise to aid.

We will share stories. Those that came before with those who have come. We will remember our mission, and remember our magick.

we will rejuvenate the life pool, add to it. create more. we will save what we have, and remember our covenant to those who came before, and those who will come after.