It’s harvest season again!
Do we know how to balance ourselves through harvesting and reseeding? Can we learn?
Around the garden the lavender has bloomed. The butterfly bush is nearing its last glorious bloom. The sage has reached the peak of its height and is starting to fall. All signs that it’s time to harvest, at least in my floral garden.
I’m busy gathering lavender, butterfly bush, sage, coreopsis, and rose petals. All to use for drying to be put into our handmade crafts over the winter. To be put into jars to make room spritzers, or to put into bags to be shared with others. It’s an amazing process really.
I tend to these plants from the first thaw of snow. Weeding, watering, encouraging their growth. Then, just after they peek, I cut them back, cut them down, take their bounties. Yet, they return every year. For the most part bigger, healthier, and more beautiful than the last.
Of course, there are times I harvested too much, too soon. Not leaving enough for the plants to reseed or use their energy to strengthen their roots. But, over the years I’ve learned. I’ve learned just how much I can take, when to let it be, to be aware of the times that it’s important to just treasure the plant for itself. To let it be, and enjoy its beauty, rather than its functionality.
Yesterday was spent harvesting. And then boiling down, drying, and jarring all of my treasures. There are treasures galore for our next craft fair booth!
But today, today I’m going to sit among my garden and watch the wonders of nature balancing itself. The bees shifting to the ready for the blossoms that were not gathered. The butterflies and hummingbirds sharing sweet nectar. The busyness of the birds as they sift through the freshly turned ground from where weeds were removed.
As I sit here, watching the magnificence of nature, I wonder. If left to our own devices, would we balance ourselves in a similar way? We work so hard to strengthen ourselves. To grow. But do we ever take the opportunity to harvest what we’ve sown? To enjoy the fruits of our own labor? And more importantly, is it a necessary part of the process to cut ourselves back once in a while to allow ourselves to reseed?
To come up thicker, stronger, in a more beautiful pattern than the time before? Is that something that we can do within our lifetime? Or is being born the reseeding itself?
For those of you that believe in reincarnation, maybe each life could be considered a harvest and regrowth. For those that believe in the concept of heaven, maybe moving on from this earth is the harvest. For me, I was born under a Baltic moon. Which, if you follow those teachings, means I am putting closure to the unresolved relationships from past lives. So for me, each relationship in this life has been a form of harvesting. I’ve joked before that my mom says I’ve been 10 different people (Well probably 15 by now). Each time I found my closure, I harvested, reseeded and started anew.
Now, I’ve always been one of those people that finds myself in a relationship of some sort rather soon after ending the previous one. This last time, however, I didn’t do that. It was with intent that I left myself void from that romantic companionship. And I wonder recently, if I’m only now just growing for the purpose of becoming beautiful? No harvest, no useful task to be put upon. Just growing into my own.
Does anybody else wonder the same things?
Arise WILD!
Wild Serenity Healing
