Heard of muddy magic?

I read something about mud the other day.

And it turns out it's pretty magic stuff.

This is what I learnt:

• In just one teaspoon of soil, there are more microorganisms than there are people on Earth.
• There's an entire universe existing beneath our feet. But really very little is known about it – scientists have only identified a tiny fraction of what lives and teems within it.
• So far, it's made some pretty lifesaving medicine: many of its compounds form the basis of our antibiotics and countless new treatments could yet be waiting to be dug up.

Then there's the earthworm that lives in the soil. He's pretty magic too. He busily wriggles down and journeys around, creating airways that literally become the lungs of the soil and space for the plants and roots to grow to keep the soil alive. These plants then feed carbon to fungi, then the fungi feed the plants that feed us our air and food.

Mud. Soil. Earth. A mainly unexplored, yet symbiotic ecosystem of which we're all part of.

You could call it perfectly designed.

You could call it magic.

And what about everything else? Sun-revolving planets, seeds becoming trees, embryos becoming babies, clouds becoming rain.

What about us? Our beating hearts, breathing lungs, growing hair.

Again, science can only explain a fraction of a fraction of it all. But we do know these things need no help from us. They work symbiotically. They just are.

And what if we could let ourselves trust this system a little more? Trust that if we took our foot off the gas, aligned ourselves with the wonder all around, that things might just feel a little more in our favour.

Could it be the universe is perfectly set up for us to thrive? That when we're worming about our business, journeying around, trusting our instincts instead of trying to control, that things might just start to flow, start to slot into place.

How would it feel to let go, trust, find the magic?

Happy Monday 😀

Love, Jo x

Ref: The Royal Society in partnership with BBC 'Why soil is one of the most amazing things on Earth'