Earth Day, April 22: 12 Spiritual Practices to Honor the Earth Over the Next Months

If you’ve been feeling more sensitive, more reflective, more “pulled” toward nature lately—this is your confirmation.

This isn’t just a moment on the calendar; it’s an energetic turning point where the Earth’s frequency gently calls you back into alignment. In astrology and spiritual energetics, periods like this aren’t random—they arrive when collective energy is ready to shift, heal, and reconnect. And right now, you’re being invited into something deeper: a sacred reconnection not only with nature but also with your own inner rhythm. Because the truth is, when you ground into the Earth, you don’t just honor the planet—you stabilize your energy, you clear emotional noise, and you remember who you truly are beneath the chaos.

In observance of Earth Day, we offer a set of practices you can do to honor the Earth over the next months.

Spiritual practices are the best ways we know to demonstrate kindness and courtesy toward the Earth, to express our gratitude and wonder, and to yield to the mystery and the beauty of it all. Based on our Alphabet of Spiritual Literacy, we offer these practices you can do to honor the Earth over the next months.

These 12 spiritual practices aren’t just rituals… they’re activations designed to guide you back into balance over the coming months. And once you begin, you won’t just feel the difference—you’ll live it.

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1. Attention

The great Catholic writer Ernesto Cardenal, in Abide in Love, observes, “Everything in nature has a trademark, God’s trademark: the stripes on a shell and the stripes on a zebra; the grain of the wood and the veins of the dry leaf; the markings on the dragonfly’s wings and the pattern of stars on a photographic plate; the panther’s coat and the epidermal cells of the lily petal; the structure of atoms and galaxies. All bear God’s fingerprints.” Go for a walk and look for God’s trademarks. Better still, use a camera to document evidence of God’s fingerprints in nature.

2. Being Present

Annie Dillard has written, “My God, what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it.” Get personal with one small piece of the Earth. Sit in the dirt in your backyard. Play in the sand at the beach. Roll in the grass. Stand under a waterfall. Sense the Earth as an animal senses it. Be really present with your planetary host.

3. Connections

Share a story with family or friends, or write in your journal, about a time when you were humbled, soothed, or awed by something in the natural world. How did you feel connected to nature?

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4. Devotion

Adopt a tree, a park, a beach, a waterway, or a piece of wild land, and look out for its welfare. Clean up in and around it. Write letters to officials and newspapers on issues that affect it. In its honor, include in your daily prayers petitions to alleviate the sufferings of dying plants and trees, polluted rivers and oceans, and toxic lands.

5. Hospitality

Invite some bugs into your house for an evening. Rent the fascinating and illuminating video Microcosmos, directed by French biologists Claude Nuridsany and Marie Perennou. This documentary presents one day in a French countryside meadow where butterflies, ants, spiders, and many other insects cavort in their small and exquisite worlds.

6. Joy

Listen to Three Dog Night’s classic rock song “Joy to the World” with the lyric “Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea.” Imagine all the other gifts of God in the plant and animal kingdom that give you pleasure and fill your heart with joy.

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7. Justice

Hold a Council of All Beings in your school, congregation, or community center. Each participant in the circle speaks for another lifeform—an animal, plant, tree, or body of water—expressing the being’s concerns. You might talk about threats to the being’s habitat or freedom, the effects of pollution, natural disasters, and wars. After all the beings have spoken, talk as humans about your responsibilities to correct some of the environmental and cultural injustices you have identified.

8. Openness

Embrace your environment. Walk around the perimeter of your home. Explore it as if being there for the first time. What do you see, feel, hear, and smell? Continue this process as you move further out into your community. Make a list of things you discover that you have never seen before.

9. Teachers

Find a teacher in nature and let her give you a lesson today. Here’s an example from Natalie Goldberg: “Be tough the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.”

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10. Unity

Susan Seddon Boulet’s shamanic paintings feature the intertwined figures of humans and animals. Her art brings us to a fresh appreciation of interspecies unity. Check out the book Susan Seddon Boulet: A Retrospective at your library, or Google “Susan Seddon Boulet Gallery” to find examples of her images online.

11. Wonder

Set up a wonder table in your home or classroom. Make it a place where people can display wonders of the natural world they have found—actual examples or photographs of them.