Watery Heart

We had the first heavy rain the night before my visit. Fat drops are still dripping from the roof to be collected for dryer times.

Wetness has left its special scents in the garden. It is life giving, in decay and growth at the same time.

In nature, what looks like dead is full of life and after a while it reveales itself with great vigor. 

New leaves are coming out for the magical process of growth from light, water and soil to begin.

Growth can take chaotic paths.

Somehow it finds nourishment in the chaos and moves to an expanding order.

All the plants are guided to reach out for the light. 

Without thinking, they rely on the mystery of life and they reach out to heaven.

Each one of them expanding, flowering and bearing fruit in a great cycle.

When the rain comes the dried seeds are ready to fall to the ground...... 

.....for new beginnings.

Autumn is the time of death and resurrection.

Proteas are flowering now in their full beauty, celebrating the arrival of the rain.

There are so many shades of green in the garden. Green is the color of the heart-chakra and feel so much its connection to the watery nature of the emotions of the second chakra.

In this observations I experience the mystery of the heart energy. This is the energy of just being and receiving nourishment.

A night at the pond

I spent last night at the pond. From the softness of the sunset light to the dawn of a new day the bubbling noises of the pond were deeply calming. I remembered blessings by John O'Donohue.

"May evening find you gracious and fulfilled.

May you go into the night blessed,

sheltered and protected

May your soul calm, console and renew you.

May dawn find you awake and alert,

approaching your new day

with dreams, possibilities and promises."

Peace, Harmony and Stillness

This morning I met Claudia. 

Everywhere in Phakalane one can see manifestations of her creative love. 

A little later I encountered a mantis, the symbol of peace, harmony and stillness.

Even when our bodies and our surroundings are in turmoil we can remember that in the loving vibrations of the cosmos nothing is ever lost.

All will balance.

After the devastation of the drought the first rain brings new life.

Nature is heralding new beginnings all the time.

And there will be fruits of love.