Whisperings From The Garden

I spent a glorious day yesterday in my garden.  I have two raised beds and I was tilling up the soil cleaning out the old leaves and grasses and remnants of last year’s harvest.  I began by using my bare hands to pull out the weeds and grasses, but after awhile my hands were getting a little sore.  I put on a pair of gardening gloves and started again to weed.  I was suddenly surprised to notice there was a difference between using my bare hands and wearing the gloves.  With the gloves on, I felt that the weeds held more firmly in the ground despite my increased grip.  I took them off, and used my bare hands again and the weeds quickly released from the earth.  What was going on here?

I remembered a friend telling me that we should eat our food with our fingers because it affects our food when we cut into something with a cold metal knife or fork.  It is an unnatural substance that affects the energy of our food.  (I did try this and he was right—the food even tasted better when I ate it with my fingers.)  It made sense to me then, that my energetic interaction with the weeds and my bare hands would be more “natural” than  my interaction with the rubberized garden gloves.  It seems to me that nature likes to feel our skin upon it and will more gently work with us when we also present our natural form. I hadn’t previously thought that garden gloves would be a barrier to my experience with nature.  I wondered how else I unknowingly cut myself off from nature and deprive nature of me!

One of my garden beds has about 8 mullein plants in it.  My plan was to clean out the bed.  However, as I started digging and clearing and weeding I was “told” by the garden that the mullein plants must stay.  I remembered that an herbalist once told me that the plants we need will appear in our yard.  She said to pay attention to the plants that are growing in your yard.  I had one mullein plant in my yard last year—this year they are everywhere.  I must pay attention.  In doing research on the mullein plant I found some very interesting information.  I learned that witches used the plant, soaking the tall dried stalk in beeswax or tallow using it as a candle or torch in ceremonies.  Burning the stalk is supposed to enable one to see the spirits of the dead!  And the leaves can be used to make candle wicks.  Interestingly enough, earlier in the day I had just seen a book on making your own magical candles and I thought about how powerful that would be to make your own ceremonial candles.    And here are the mullein candles growing right in my garden!!

Nature is so filled with learnings for us.  We just need to open our hearts and minds to the knowledge that nature is communicating with us.  What do you hear when you work in the garden, or walk barefoot on the earth, or hug a tree or lie in the grasses?  Pay attention, you will hear Her whisper to you!

May nature whisper in your heart today,

Jeanne Marie

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