Coming Home to Earth

Welcome in to the Casita

Step into the Casita for a moment.

Imagine a small, sunlit room with wooden floors warm beneath your feet. A window is open. Plants rest quietly in the corners. There is time here, and there is ease.

This is a place for a living relationship with the Earth, not through urgency or fixing, but through remembrance. A place for coming home to Earth in a way that feels gentle, natural, and true. A place to rest into the simple truth that you belong to Gaia, and that she belongs to you.

Nothing is required of you as you arrive. Simply settle in.

The Earth Relationship We are Remembering this Month

This month invites us to remember Earth not as a project or responsibility, but as a presence we are already in relationship with every day.

Gaia is not distant. She is not something we must reach for or repair. She is the ground beneath our homes, the water moving through our bodies, the breath we share with the trees.

Relationship with her does not begin with action. It begins with noticing.

When we slow down enough to feel this connection, care arises naturally. Stewardship becomes an expression of love, not obligation. We tend what we feel connected to, and we protect what we know as home.

This is the quiet remembering the Casita holds this month. A return to relationship before effort.

Presence before doing. This is what coming home to Earth looks like, not as a destination, but as a quiet remembering that unfolds in ordinary moments.

A Gentle Moment of Learning

In many indigenous and Earth-honoring traditions, the land is not viewed as scenery or resource, but as kin.

Mountains are elders. Rivers are carriers of memory. Soil is a living body, breathing and responding.

When we remember the Earth as alive and relational, something softens in us. We stop standing above her and begin standing with her. Even small moments of attention become acts of respect.

You do not need special knowledge to live this way. Only willingness to listen.

The Casita Practice for this Month

Practicing Simple Presence

Choose one ordinary moment this week.

It might be when you open a window, step outside, wash your hands, or place your feet on the floor when you wake.

Pause for just a few seconds.

Notice what is already supporting you. The ground. The air. The water. The light.

Silently, or aloud if you wish, offer a simple acknowledgement:

I am here with you.

Nothing more is needed. This is not a ritual to perform perfectly. It is a gesture of relationship.

These small pauses are simple ways of coming home to Earth again and again, through presence rather than effort.

A Shared Field of Presence

As you practice this kind of noticing, know that you are not alone in it.

The Casita opens into a quiet, shared courtyard held for collective intention. Some enter it intentionally on the first Sunday of the month, pausing for a few moments to hold gratitude or care for Gaia. Others simply sense it as a space that exists, whether or not they step into it.

There is no requirement to participate and no right way to engage. Presence itself is enough. Your quiet moments of remembrance naturally ripple outward, joining a larger field of care.

A Gentle Question to Carry

Where do you already feel connected to the Earth in your daily life?

There is no need to answer. Simply notice what comes.

A Closing Blessing from the Casita

May you remember that your relationship with Gaia is already alive and waiting, and that coming home to Earth is something you are always welcome to do.

May your care arise gently, without pressure or expectation.

May you feel supported as you walk this Earth, knowing you are part of her living body.

The Casita remains open to you, wherever you are, and the quiet courtyard of shared presence is always there, whether you enter or simply remember it exists.

-Julene