Northern Nature Spirits

I think I said in a previous post that I recently moved. I used to live in central NY and I moved to the northern area. There doesn't seem to be a huge difference in the flaura and fauna but the landscape is one that I'm not as familiar with. I grew up with a forest in the backyard and, although there are forests and small groves of trees here and there, the landscape is largely agricultural and thus flooded with fields - fields of grass, fields of corn, fields of grape vine, and fields of wildflowers. Before I moved here a freind who spent her childhood in northern NY commented that there is a different feel to the nature spirits. While I haven't felt them to be too vastly different there is something about it... My fiance remarked on the lushness of central NY in contrast to our new home and I think he may be on to something. I don't think lush is quite the right word to use. Lush implies an expansive growth of plantlife and that exists all over NY state I think. The difference is that southern NY is lush with trees whereas we are lush with field plants. It is the difference in lushness that marks the difference in nature spirits.

The forested areas are more wild and ruled by their own forces whereas the fields are or were shaped by humans. Perhaps what I feel is a slight absense of the abundance of nature spirits felt in my parents' backyard. Or perhaps they are Nature Spirits more akin to us because they are interested in cultivation and the fertility of fields. It is hard for me to say.

I do want to increase my understanding of this new landscape and somehow develop a relationship with its spirits. Will I find the same land Goddess here that I did south? My instincts tell me yes becaues I'm really not that far away from home and the deer still run as abundantly here as they did there. The trees are still the same variety. The water is running from similar sources. The trick is finding her, connecting, and letting her know that I'm still here and want to know her.