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Happy New Year to all medicine makers who celebrate Samhain/All
Saint's Eve as the turning point of their yearly calendar!
During this week of recovering from huge emotional and professional
challenges, my body has decided to pull rank so that I remember it's
not just 'other people' who ignore their energetic needs for
self-nurturance and care-full rejuvenation -- I do the same thing on
my own terms! Feeling more like I'm on notice rather than truly
suffering, this viral infection has been lowgrade enough to keep me
observant of the daily changes in the garden beds. Many of the
hardy annuals continue to bloom and lush thickets of perennials are
regenerating leaf crowns for next year. I'm especially pleased by the
multiple groups of young motherwort plants and a strong showing
from the old fashioned red floribunda rose that 'came with the house'.
Today the storm windows are going on the front porch and then the
garden ornaments will be collected for safe keeping on the winter
porch. It's almost time to hang suet treats for the woodpeckers. In
anticipation I've hung an extra long thistle sock in another tree,
hoping the birds will adjust before I remove one of the socks from
their main snack-bar tree in order to make room for the beloved
peanut-butter manna cups. Today is a very warm and sunny day but
the steel-grey clouds to the north-east remind us that such
afternoons will grow increasingly precious and rare in the next month.
The past few weeks have been quite intense at the personal level.
Gardening tasks and aspirations often took a backseat to inner storm
cleansings as well as the outer world's hurricane/tropical storm
patterns tickling us with their longest fingers.
Students will want to organize their notes and written Aspiration Lists
for the coming cycle of introspection. A well-loved autumn garden is
a wonderful place to do this work if the weather cooperates!
At this writing the garden's color scheme remains bright thanks to
some hot pink million bells and a wonderful tribe of red niki nicotiana.
MEHERA marigolds remain very strong players as well. My
fondness for flowering kale hasn't come close to being properly
indulged with the beautiful if temporary knot garden of my dreams. I
have simply managed to create an informal central motif that's
something of a joy from up-close or the opposite extreme of my
bedroom window. Monkshood is blooming with a strong dignified
grace -- not yet consenting to a photo session. This is another very
important flower from my early adulthood's learning and growth
curve. At one time I kept a garden named Little Findhorn. It boasted
three Monskhood plants so healthy and extensive that everyone
referred to them as bushes. Even folks who were familiar with the
flower would sometimes express surprise that the plants were
growing so tall and thick. Remember to look for a lot more about this
flower in The Sparkling Lotus Handbook of 5th and 12th
Dimensional Flower Medicine.
My memories of this plant form a strong evocative presence in that
particular volume of the Flower Medicine Trilogy. The flowers I
currently grow insisted on being planted in a location that defies their
best interests. For many years the plant has limped along with the
stalwart conviction it's planted in the right place for its personal
needs. This year, just as I began roughing-out my notes for the
evocative Monkshood portrait, the plant suddenly proved the wisdom
of its younger intuitions. Thus I have fallen in love all over again with
this ever so compelling Third Eye accelerator.
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