I promised a post on seed saving but this felt more important to share. Besides seed saving is best done in a fire sign, like Aries which is the 17th and 18th of this month so we have time to consider some other energies developing right now.
I’ve had the pleasure of spending the better part of two months doing absolutely what I want to do which includes time with family, friends, visiting a new part of the USA for me, exchanging visual love letters with the Great Smokey Mountains, and taking more time breathing into the changes we are all moving through. It’s recharged my previously flagging energy, opened up new relationships and renewed old ones. And I’ve had many opportunities to see the Earth from new perspectives.
As humans, we have this egotistical belief that we and we alone are affected by what happens on this planet. We too often forget that it is this planet that is most affected as she is the living entity dealing with her own growth cycles as well as all the problems we are creating. She is responsible for the lives of billions of humans and many more billions of other sentient beings. And She can be the recipient of our positive and loving energies. The finest conduit of that energy I call gardens.
For too long I have kept my energetic gardening hidden behind a wall of practical information in order to encourage others to get out and garden. (That’s all my planets in Taurus.) I still believe in these small, humble and quick designs as one tool to eradicate hunger. I also believe this is a critical time to address those who insist the world is a dead rock rather than a rock and roll star, and put my truth out into the ether: gardening is actually directed healing energy work with the planet, a hands-on process available to anyone, anywhere. And it is needed now more than ever before.
There are nearly 7 billion humans on this luminous blue ball floating in space. Of that perhaps 1 in 8 are working the land. What are the other 7 out of 8 humans doing for the planet? In the US, just slightly over 2 million people are considered farmers yet too many of those comprise large scale agriculture[1] or agribusiness, quite different from subsistence or family farms. What it says to me is that the scales are dramatically tipped away from a healing process of co-creating with the Earth and that the Earth is in dire need of much more directed, focused, light-infused prayer we create during moments of loving and grateful connection.
I have not been privileged with a space for personalized gardening in several decades. I intend that to change, I just don’t know when or how right now. That’s the primary reason I began my landscape maintenance business: to have ready access every day to another opportunity to connect myself directly with the Earth. I used my work as a form of meditation and intuitive healing as well as my financial support. I learned so much from that time and my learning process continues: about how the ego interferes with healing, how patriarchal pre-suppositions about how it’s “s’posed” to be done create more harm than benefit, how the earth responds when there are surrounding negative energies, and how humans often spin Earth’s natural events and needs into catastrophes because they are so distanced from their own Mother Earth.
Case in point: the recent spate of gloom and doom stories about solar storms.
While the media hype concentrates on how these surges of power from Sun to Earth will put our cell phones and satellite communication in disarray, and bring down the “power grid” i.e. our energy supply, I see something completely different.
I see a solar flare as an energetic wave, like kisses and hugs from Sun to Earth.
And in the solar storms I sense the Sun’s increased energy coming at a critical juncture to support the Earth in this time of cosmic transformation. We, Earth’s stewards, have done a rather, dare I say, piss poor job of late, in not blessing the Earth, thanking her for all that she gives us which is, well, EVERYTHING. WE are the takers. That has to change.
When was the last time you blessed your glass of water before you drank it? Or when you bowed to a tree or a flower or the grass beneath your feet? When was the last time you stopped to watch the moon rise over mountains humbled by the continuity, the cyclical certainty of the moon’s orbit around our planet? How recently have you knelt upon the Earth to watch a honeybee on clover or some unfolding blossom? Without that tiny insect, we would all be starving. And you think you can’t live without your cell phone?
These moments create simple points of prayer, awe and gratitude. They are acupuncture treatments of light. Man has forgotten: WE did not create all those divine entities of the elements, the plants, animals, insects; they came with and through the Earth. It’s a package deal. And each moment of gratitude accelerates the changes and the healing of the planet–as well as our own!
We are, or we all should, consider ourselves Earth midwives in this transition time. She is panting, breathing hard, working to continue LIFE on this planet—for all of us, for the thousands of generations to come, not just the current one. We discuss these Earth changes as “disasters” because human lives are lost, human and corporation property damaged. Yet where is the anguish, the cries of pain at species lost, at jungles burned and cleared, at forested mountain tops blown off with dynamite, their animals, insects, flowers, water sources instantly devastated? Who cries for the Earth?
Personally, I welcome the solar storms[2]. I find comfort in them. They push aside and override mans’ technology in order to hug the Earth, to send her love and light and encourage her on into our next evolutionary dimension. The Earth could use a little help from us, as well. A little more gratitude. A little less taking.
So: is it too much to ask for a few more gardeners?
PS: Regardless of what your lunar gardening calendar says about the next 5 days, I encourage less activity. As the Sun is sending out a high vibration to the Earth toward a Full Moon on Friday, I feel that it’s best to do the minimal amount of work, planting, etc., this week. Water if needed, mulch if needed, and simply spend time WITH your garden, not DOING your garden.
I’m right with you Yvonne! I, too, have kept my energetic work hidden behind the practical (love that Taurean energy!) but it has helped to create bridge, just as you are doing. Thank you for loving the earth. Calling all gardeners! Count me in.