It is in the garden
This subject is one of my favorite. The garden. I have developed my gardening awareness here in Kauai. 20 years ago I started a garden in a raised bed, rock bordered, square shape. Eventually, my love of the circle motivated me to reconstruct the space with 2 circular garden plots, within each other. Years passed, load after load of my own processed compost was added, and generations of “volunteers” have created a spontaneously regenerating space. The mix of flowers, herbs and vegetables is more determined by nature than me. It truly is beautiful.
The energy in the garden has matured and enlivened to the point that I am occasionally making flower essences in the center of the garden, rather than in the circle I normally use. The energy is palpable.
I am using the garden as my dining room more and more. I have an abundance of lettuce, chard, kale, tomatoes and assorted herbs that I nibble and graze on. They can make a whole meal, mixing and weaving between one taste to another. I move from plant to plant, choosing by color, choosing by taste and choosing by intuition in general. Anastasia, the hero in the Russian Ringing Cedars Press series, has reawakened this practice in her books. The essence of that message is that the consciousness of the plants is prepared to work with us for our health and nutrition on levels that we have forgotten. This fits right in with my flower essence work and is really just another logical extension of it.
Of course, the freshness of just cut plants fades in seconds, minutes, hours and days. By eating the leaves when you pick them, you are taking in the life force of the plant at its most potent point. There is no better way to convert the energy of the plant kingdom for our enlivenment. I’m enjoying this experiment, and I will probably be motivated to write on this subject again soon.