How good is the soil in our gardens? Do we tend to it? Our gardens need tending to through internal balance, seeking, growth, contemplation and nourishment. What conditions do we need to thrive? What is our sunlight? What is our rain? How is the ph of our soil – is it balanced? What affects its conditions – pests, plants, animals that may support or disturb our soil?

Are our gardens fertile? Do we enjoy them? Do our gardens burst with life and color? Do they nourish us? Do they need tending? Is anything dying or in need? Do we provide the water and sustenance our gardens need? What is the nature of the Openings that create and propel our gardens? Do the Openings present challenges? Do they ease our work in our gardens?  Do our gardens invite Openings?

The Time Is Now

There is an urgency that we tend to our lives and journeys now. We must be alert to Openings. There is not a lot of room to ignore them, just as a garden must be tended to regularly. The chaos, polarity and destruction in our outer world must be turned around or serious consequences can soon be upon us. Our inner lives need tending so that we can have the strength and wisdom to do our parts in turning this around.

Martin Luther King talked about the fierce urgency of now and that there is such a thing as being too late. Our world is facing so many challenges – polarity, war, environmental destruction, suffering, famine, displacement and lack of compassion. What will we do? How can Openings help us? In many ways – if we see and understand them. The movement created by our recognizing and embracing Openings is what we need now.

In the process of Chrysalis, within the cocoon, chaos is created by the dying of caterpillar cells and the birthing of imaginal cells, which will soon create the butterfly. It is a time of great distress and what is happening must be dealt with. There is both danger and opportunity in the cocoon, as there is in our world. We are in a time of transformation and there is no guarantee that the butterfly will emerge. It is up to us.

The Fruits of Our Gardens

The fruits of our gardens will come as we tend to them. With care, discernment, courage, strength and skill our gardens, with the help of Openings, can burst into life!

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