I didn't post on the new moon. I've been in a very interior place and it's been hard to know what to bring out, to present to the light of day. Ironically, I was talking to a new mentor the other day, and she compared this time in my life to a winter time, and that is true. I'm gestating something. But still, I'd like to present a few things to you.
A Part of My Green Soul
Some new messages from the plants on my Flower Essences page: Yellow Pansy, Self-heal, Speedwell. I've been playing with making poems of the messages since this time the messages didn't come in poems but in images that I put into words, or sentences that I elaborated on. My communication with plants seems to expand and change as I change, as though they are an element of myself. Oh, of course they are! A part of my green soul. They do remind me how we are all connected, one big interwoven web of crystal consciousness, with or without our digital web of signals and words.
The New Earth
To prepare for Solstice I stayed up late and listened to New Age videos about the New Earth and the waves of new DNA that are installing themselves in our cells. I like thinking about this total change that is happening under the surface of the repeated traumas we see as we scroll through our feeds or pay attention to the news. The plants are our allies in this. Maybe flower essences are even a way of working with this new DNA! Even if half of me listens with a skeptic smile and giggle, I love the poetic language of these space messages as transmitted by the Earth messengers. I like it enough to imagine a New Earth and that is what I meditated with, all of us in this Uranus in Taurus era, gifted with all the necessary evolutionary tools to live peacefully with one another and the plants and animals. I think I've gotten there with the snails on my window ledge. I've been letting them eat my verbena plant and contemplating their snail life. Still going slow, doing things more slowly, still with Saturn.
Moving Forward On My Own
My leg, which was bothering me, doesn't hurt anymore. I think it is because I stopped dancing and started walking on the grass barefoot after watching this video on grounding. Do it! Ok, I also used arnica salve and ice and other aids for muscle and joint healing and listened to my leg a lot. It has a lot to say about moving forward on my own and going slow too, so it must have gotten its message across.
Some summer plans fell through (a permaculture course I guess I didn't really need to do) but I've decided to stay where I am a few extra weeks before gallivanting in France to focus on writing and preparing for publication parts of my dissertation. So I might remain pretty distant from this site for a little while, but it's just me taking care of older business as I brew what's new. But I'll be thinking of you and wishing you well. Enjoy the flower messages! And the precious warmth of the sun.
(Originally posted June 22nd, 2018)