~ Communion, Gardening and Community ~
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Are you my flame? , sings the earth to the chlld.
Did you awaken in this life to remember the love earth has for you?
Did you come to love the earth?
The child remembers...
I will become an ever burning flame,
I will journey into love,
and many paths will meet in me,
when I call soul and earth into the fiber of my being
into divine union.
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What will community be like and what would draw people together into community, one wonders ? It could be potentially for many reasons. What could draw your own self into 'community' within. Unconditional love could draw in the many parts of self to cocreate together. Not merely to survive but to create together. Each part of self down to the tiniest filament may need great healing to come into the fullness of being able to create 'a love project'. So goes ascension. We heal ourselves, showing patience and endurance in the process. Maybe we have been around the block many times to heal a part of self that is so wounded it hardly responded to our efforts to begin with. We learn to pay close attention to our own state of being.
There was an idea that sprang up in Australia in the 70's between two men and they called it Permaculture and wrote about it in a couple of books. Recently I worked on a small Permaculture farm for a week to look again at Permaculture that had caught my attention as a teenager. There is a caution in 'studying' Permaculture as the knowledge it brings forth may be a compartmentalization of red awareness and though the founders have many red lineages they also have Anu lineages which cause them to want to rise into the guru position. But for the awakening it triggered in me I acknowledge, but I intend to gather back all the red knowledge stripped through the founders and this movement as a whole group energy. In reclaiming the knowledge I intend to speak of Permaculture ideas by resurrecting the wholeness of the knowledge that it really emanates from and offer that in this article. Permaculture is about consciously designing 'with nature' abundant spaces for humans to live within that are more greatly harmonious with earth than most of white inheritance have memory of. The concepts in Permaculture offer a plan for designing a place for humans back into the landscape that is self sufficient through diverse groupings of plants and animals in thoughtful manners. It asks us to look at physical energy and how we can design to move it through the landscape or capture it in the house and garden or small acreage to create the greatest abundance .The entire house/garden is looked at as a whole creation that evolves with the aim that it will become ever more complex and self sustaining. Many ideas are drawn from observing nature or from tribal societies . Maybe what Permaculture did was to offer in concept form a way to begin to live with nature for white society who had almost completely forgotten where to begin.
Guilds and Symbiosis
One of the ideas involves planting 'guilds' of plants which are groupings of plants (trees, shrubs, ground covers, vines, bulbs, ) that are in symbiotic relationship with each other. Animals are also a part of these groupings. They evolve together and support each other. Symbiotic relationships within forests are so complex that humans may make big mistakes in pointing to this or that species as the source of a 'problem' which humans perceive. If someone then goes to "treat" the problem untold damage can be done to the whole system of complex relationships. This is so like ascension to me.....it really is so complex and the cause and effect of karma very lengthy and the wounds deep to our inner relationships. No one part of self is ultimately to blame nor is another person outside of ourselves ultimately to blame. But we sincerely strive to follow pathways of cause and effect so that we may understand. We are trying to understand all these effects on our own symbiotic relationships within, as mirrored by relationships within our own lives or ancestral lives. Then we hold this understanding close to our hearts and with a complex yet also simple act ,we forgive and a whole chain of cause and effect can be healed. We heal complex pathways of intimacy, non conditional love and symbiosis within, over and over again and this is how we can become more whole each day. Maybe an ascending garden will create new symbiotic relationships between plants and animals as humans request to work with the kingdoms. Simply intend to form guilds of plants and animals as we work with our ascending gardens.
In visiting Hawaii I learned of the symbiosis between the Hawaiian people and the Taro plant that was explained in some literature about Hawaiian life. Kalo (taro) was the staple food for the Hawaiians. The corms are cooked and eaten like potatoes or mashed and mixed with water to make poi. The leaves are also eaten when cooked. Here is how the relationship was explained:
" The early Hawaiians honored the kalo as an important part of their family. This relationship is remembered in an ancient chant about creation and the birth of the first two sons of Wakea, the god of the sky. The first son was born as an oddly shaped and apparently lifeless mass, and Wakea buried him near his house. The next day the first kalo plant grew from the grave. Wakea named this plant-child Haloa-naka(long trembling stem ) . The second son was a baby boy and Wakea named him Haloa (long stem). Haloa was the first human and the common ancestor of all people. Recognizing kalo as the first born son of Wakea, Hawaiians loved, respected and cared for the kalo plant as their older brother. In turn, this older brother has fed his Hawaiian family for untold generations.
The Hawaiian word for family, ohana, also comes from the kalo plant. As a kalo plant matures, offshoots known as 'oha grow up in a circle around the parent plant. In time, these 'oha mature and produce another generation of kalo . As this cycle continues, a single parent plant can eventually produce enough offspring to fill an entire lo'i kalo. To the early Hawaiians, this growth pattern of kalo was a model for their extended family, or o'hana, which literally means many 'oha."
There is a beautiful sense of unity in this. It may also be that genetic information from the Hawaiian people was gathered and stored in the kalo plant during falls in consciousness. The taro then is a part of the Hawaiian family and was a guardian of knowledge until the time came that they could ascend again and gather the knowledge . Bless the plants for being the family who remembers and can offer the knowledge once again as we require it.
Each person may find that they have been in symbiosis with a particular group of plants during their lifetime, and if you are ascending have supported your ascent. There is what is known as the staple food and that is at the centre of the symbiosis, surrounded by a group of other plants as a part of the interrelation and these may change often. For me it was tomatoes as the staple, hazelnuts, cocoa (chocolate), basil, capsicum, parsley, grapes . Time and again I would make a tomatoe based pasta sauce with basil, capsicum, parsley, salt and sometimes with and other ingredients would come and go like olives. I would often buy grapes and chocolate with hazelnuts and take turns in munching on both ! The entire symbiotic relationship between the plants allowed my own body to learn lost ways of symbiosis within. Symbiosis algorithms associated with returning of truth about communion.
It also may have been that my ancestry consumed the soul of these plants in a distorted quest to retrieve lost knowledge, so in blessing the plants I have begun to return their soul to the kingdoms and remember lost knowledge.
Maybe you would like to test what groups of plants have been your symbiotic partners for the health of your body and what groups are necessary in the future.
A man in Japan evolved a system for growing rice without tilling, without fertilizer or chemicals and without weeding where he grouped the rice with clover and barley in what is known as a crop rotation of plants. He kept it small enough that he could do it by hand without machines.He sowed a field with clover ( a legume ground cover)and let it establish then sowed the rice seed into the field of clover ( by hand throwing the rice out). He then would flood the field for some days. This would slow the clovers growth down and germinate the rice then he would drain the field. The rice seedlings would grow strong in their bed of clover . When the rice plants form their seed heads he seeds barley seed over the standing rice plants. Soon the rice was ready to harvest and be threshed and the straw of the rice stems is scattered back on the field . The barley seedlings would begin to emerge during this process . When the barley had grown and formed its seed heads he would sow rice seeds back over the standing barley plants and so continues the cycle. This may seem very simple but in fact is based on beautiful timing (divine timing) and a 'tight' or succinct working relationship with nature. The way most farmers grow annual crops like rice, wheat, barley, corn is very destructive to the soil and all relationships. Large machinery is used over vast areas of land to plough, then scarify ( smooth over the soil to form a good seedbed ) , plant the seed....and that is just to get the seeds to germinate. Then they may be sprayed numerous times with fertilizer or chemicals. In the small scale relationship with nature above the soil is constantly nurtured by the clover plants and the soil not dug. He had been doing this for 20 years when he wrote about it and the soil was ever growing in fertility and the many insects and other little animals allowed to maintain strong, complex interrelations. He also viewed his work as spiritual and apart of his spiritual relationship to the earth.
So what is possible in an ascending garden when you consciously intend to work with each kingdom in agreement ? More than we have allowed ourselves to ever dream of maybe. The kingdoms through Mila have said you can request your garden to ascend and support all of the nutrient requirements of an ascending form. What is possible when you garden in communion and unconditionally love the earth? Wont the rain come as the plants need it because that is what love would call in? Wont all that the plants and animals need to thrive be available to them ?
Once I grew a vegetable garden where I could try out some of these things like not digging the soil or fertilizing etc. I planted a bed of tomatoes, about 10 plants, which I raised from seed and interplanted basil with the tomatoes as they are 'companion' plants. They all grew strong and lovely and the tomatoes formed and grew. Before the tomatoes had begun to ripen an influx of green bugs came into the garden and began sucking the tomatoes through their skins. Wherever the bugs sucked, the tomatoes then began to rot in patches in the flesh. They were all going to rot before they ever ripened. I looked at this quite dismayed. No way was I going to spray the bugs but feelings of failure surfaced and I looked at the chemical methods and how it assures 'perfection' . But in reality much of the food raised in this way(chemically) may never have reached maturity as nature would have intervened. Organic gardening is like agreeing that both the garden and the gardener are a part of nature and all natural laws apply. So I asked the tomatoe plants if I could cut them back. I did not pull out the plants but gently laid all the tomatoe vines , tomatoes and all, directly back upon the earth they emerged from. I was intent on piling all of the bushes back on the very soil they grew from , then wet the layers of vine and then covered it all over with a layer of mulch straw. In effect I was putting that garden bed out of the growing cycle until all the stems and mulch had broken down. Maybe I allowed the earth the time to seek out its own answers as to why the fruits went into decay...or maybe it was just that the earth in that patch was ready for a deep 'death'/rebirth cycle and I allowed it to happen. It was also my mirror, although at the time I wasn't consciously ascending, but maybe I researched what I needed to find out in dreamtime to release my pattern too.
I left this garden bed and almost 'forgot' it was there for many months. One day I passed by it and noticed the straw layer was very thin and I could easily see the soil beneath . I bent over and parted the mulch and looked. The soil was so chocolate black and rich. I scooped up a handful and it was so light and airy. I could see soil particles 'glued' together but I could also see the space between the particles. Looking back at it now it really was like they were magnetized to sit apart from one another but also magnetized to hold together. I had never quite seen or felt soil like it before even as compost. The transformation of this soil had happened in a relatively short period of time and it amazed me. It continued to hold this structure and would stay moist for a long time after being watered. I wanted to form the garden bed up a little as the soil was starting to slip down the hill and cover a path. I just scooped the soil with my hands to do this and it was really like playing with a big crumbly chocolate cake !
What seems to be a big temptation in gardening is the desire to come in and make as big an impact as possible in a short time with methods like weeding until the soil is bare . It takes some patience to look , observe and listen and make connections of understanding to inspire action.This would seem to be a longer process when our human desire is to have quick effects but then what does it take to allow something to evolve be it nature or human ? Great patience, allowance and non judgment maybe and nonconditional love to drive the process. Then in divine timing the leap of transmutation is made just as this soil transformed in a 'leap'. Who can say when another's 'leap' should be. But you might attune to the truth of when another's leap is coming and allow for it . Then the path itself becomes the joy and we may not wish to rush ahead any more as the present moment healing has its absolute focus until it is complete .
Interrelation, signs from nature
In tribal cultures they often had detailed knowledge of interrelations within nature which guided them in food gathering. Seeing, for example that a particular bush was in flower may also indicate a particular bird would be laying its eggs in another part of the land. In divine timing they would gather some of the eggs . One part of the whole is in alignment with all others and you can look for clues that show this.
Community ...a new garden begins
When you begin a new garden there is already a community of plants and animals in that little area. If you request of all the life in that area (including the divas ) where you wish to begin a new garden whether you may do so and that you intend to work with the kingdoms and divas in harmony and co-creation....and request that the magnetic kingdoms speak their truth to you about this place you will found the garden upon honor.
Little Ceremony: Come to the place you wish to establish the garden bearing a rosemary sprig. Stand on the 'boundary'. Then express to the kingdoms, the earth and divas of your 'dream' for the co-creation of this garden. Listen for the agreements and what they are based on and how light earth nature and earth would add to or rearrange this dream. Work with them to clear the space of energy and beings that are non supportive Request soul to be anchored now in the garden. Walk forward into the space and rub the rosemary sprig between your hands as you walk around . This unfolds the dream onto the earth like a map and you may 'see', feel with your feet or hands how the garden may look , where garden beds are (if you are having garden beds) , where a path may go, or the shape of a fence ( curvy and flowing ). Bless the dream and commune with nature and Earth and co-bless the dream. Look around you for a little symbol from the earth of the dream and the agreements....maybe a stone or feather and bring this inside. See how the dream sits upon the earth for as many days as needed and you can make changes as it feels right. Looking at the symbol stone etc may trigger you to go back out and 'look' at the space again to make changes.
Starting a new Garden
Trigger Guild for the Soil
Tomatoes / Basil / Potatoes and tonic teas
Earth and Water
It may be that whoever is going to do the main soil work in the garden that you need to work with your staple symbiotic partner in plant form to achieve the biggest transformation in the soil. My staple was tomatoes and this relationship contributed perhaps to the depth of the transformation.
Earth says that the tomato / basil combination or guild can be employed to enrich the soil and anchor a magnetic etheric then physical structure into the soil of an ascending garden. If you planted the tomatoes/basil so they were positioned in the structure symbol of the Language of Light upon the earth , in the very centre circle of the structure symbol plant a group of potatoes. This holds the focus for the final energy transmutation as the tomato plants go back to the earth. You can plant potatoes by simply laying the potato upon the earth (not digging it under) then covering with a good layer of mulch . The potato shoots will emerge through the mulch. Plant as many tomato plants and basil plants as you wish in little circles of mulch quite close together. Really intend to cover the whole area with growth. No need to tie them to stakes as is the custom, just let the plants sprawl as they like. These plants are not meant to be for their fruit but have agreed to be triggers for the soil. The intent is to anchor a physical restructuring of the soil so let this be really clear from the beginning of the planting and this requires a 'death/rebirth 'cycle.
1. The restructuring is based on magnetic , rotational movement which is the 'Structure' symbol in the Language of Light
2. The tomatoe plants also provide the physical food for the soil to achieve the restructuring. The Tomatoe /Basil relationship anchors kinship or community into the restructuring as these two plants companion one another and are symbiotic.
3. The potatoes are a root crop, whereby the potatoes grow beneath the ground and so this helps focus the energy into the soil
4. During the growing period spray the tomatoes with water that has been blessed and holds all of the magnetic movement which the water element brings to the process. The water brings absolute love to the soil.
Providing other nutrients to the soil so that all that is needed is available:
Twice ( Or test to find out when and how many times , if at all) during the tomatoes' growing period you may add these 'teas' explained below, one sprayed onto the leaves , the other directly onto the soil (pour around base of tomatoes)
Leaf Tea (apply 1st): calendula, chamomile (flowers) ,
Soil Tea : Nettle, Yarrow
Ask the soil what it requires for balance in terms of teas, or liquid seaweed or worm casting liquid and so you will come up with your own combinations and it may only be in weak or homeopathic quantities. This is just like for ourselves when we take herbs etc. Too much of something can turn the herb or mineral into a toxin in our system.
When the tomatoes have formed and are green tune into the plants and ask them if it is time to cut them back. Bless the plants for their gift. Ask soul to lift out of form and cut the tomatoes at the base, leaving all of the roots in the ground and lay all of the vines down upon the earth, basil too. Wet a little (depends how dry the atmosphere is) and then cover with straw or other dry mulch you have. Now let the process go ahead. You may check with the kingdoms and Earth if the energy is holding strong for the transcendence and work with them to repair it if it is not. Leave undisturbed for months , maybe 4, just depends.
Trigger for Fruits and Seeds
Clear Quartz and Turquoise
Air and Fire
This involves the mineral kingdom. In effect you request Clear quartz and Turquoise from the Light Earth dream whom will bring air and fire into a new magnetic restructuring in the atmosphere above the garden and which inspires the fruiting and seeding of plants .Turquoise allows the fire to freely flow from the earth. We are just working within our garden boundaries and no further so this may be another intent. This action is taken in Autumn through winter
Seasons and anchoring a blueprint for a more balanced climate that is more tropical..wet and warm
Once again we are only working within the boundaries of the garden. Often gardeners will create microclimates within their own gardens so that they may grow particular trees and plants which ordinarily would not grow in that climate. This can be done by placement of what are called 'nurse' plants which may funnel cold air away from the tropical plant, lets say an avocado tree which will be killed by frosts when it is young, and also shade the tree in dry heat conditions or block harsh winds. Placement of ponds and larger areas of water will lessen cold effects and also give consideration to where the whole garden and house is situated in the landscape. Right down in the bottom of a valley may receive heavy frosts and cold air may sit there. At the very tops of hills the wind can be very strong.
With the above 2 methods for working with Water/ Earth (soil ).. normally is Autumn /Winter and then Air/Fire (fruit and seed ) normally is Spring/ Summer, we are bringing one season effect into the opposite season to create an amalgamation. So we may intend this within the boundaries of the garden as we work with each method. If you are already living in a tropical region your garden may not need this balancing.
Diversity in Edges
It has been observed in nature that where two or more different types of natural systems meet , and in the edge that they meet within, the greatest diversity of species and fecundity and fertility can be found. For example , the edge of a lake where water meets the land can be filled with rushes, an array of water plants , big trees etc. Where the sea meets land can be coral reefs of great diversity and life. Where the ocean meets the beach and dunes where birds nest , seals rest and bear young, turtles come to lay their eggs. Where heathland meets the forest and there is a dramatic change, where temperate, subtropical species mix . Maybe what this has to do with is a connection to the space between of climate zones and natural features where there are multitudinous (do you like that word ! )possibilities and it is mirrored in the landscape.
It is possible to emulate and foster edge effects in the garden. With ponds you achieve the interplay between land and water worlds where species make the movement through both habitats like frogs do , waterplants do like water chestnuts, water cress, waterlilies , ducks do. Maybe an ascending garden will have many ponds of different sizes rather than a large dam that would require a bulldozer to build. Like the ancient Hawaii people created terraced ponds beside a stream and drew some of the water out of the stream to cycle through the ponds to grow taro. It also created a beautiful effect of its own.
Water , Rain, Vapour and Underground rivers and Lakes
How do clouds form anyway and why does rain fall where it does. Sorry, I have all but forgotten the science of this . So I wont try to go there. Lets try something else.
I was traveling across the inland of Australia. I was on a straight stretch of road that was 500kms long before it turned off to any where else. It was summer and really hot and the land was desert nearly, with few trees. I watched a storm brew ahead of me. The sky was all but cloudless then a few clouds appeared and started to join up. Because of the flatness of the land I had an open view of the atmosphere just above the land and into the sky for a long way ahead. I saw misty column like formations of what must have been vapor form between the Earth and the few clouds that had emerged. I could actually see the clouds being generated as this interplay between the earth and sky took place . The columns were really huge and there ended up to be about 4 that I could see about me. But it took me 200km or more to even get close to one and when I did of course I could not see it any more because the vapor was normally not what you see, it is more etheric. Huge billowing storm clouds formed ..it was really amazing. But where did the moisture come from ..this was the desert. Australia has underground water so maybe the water vaporized from deep within the earth to be pulled up into the atmosphere where it coalesced into clouds. Why were the vapor columns where they were ? What I hear is that they were on magnetic vertices deep in the earth. The verticy is where horizontal lay lines meet with such force they spurt through the earth and into the air like kundahlini , no they are kundahlini. If there is also an underground water source where this occurs then the water is vaporized and flows up with the fountain of kundahlini. When the fountain meets another layer of Earths gridwork that is 'cooler' it will cool down and the vapor cools into clouds.
So why do Mountains attract so much rain ? Because they have been formed by huge earth movements , first in the etheric and then in the physical , sometimes in the form of volcanic eruptions and isn't an eruption earths kundahlini ? Great pressure and heat uplift mountains and the mountains are a picture in the physical of the movement of heat , lava and vapor as it uplifts out of the earth into the sky. The vapor quickly forms clouds when it leaves its flow through the earth and hits the colder air over the mountains.
What I am going to ask is if whether on say a 20 acre piece of land could there be any cloud generating vertices deep below ? . As earth heats up there will be plenty of them until all of earth is a flowing Kundahlini ball of fire. So when we love the earth we call the fire of life back unto the soil and minerals and we make our contribution to the consensus of earth and the evolution of the whole and it calls up fountains of vapor into the sky when fire and water meet which then bless the earth with rain.
Ponds
So on the surface of the earth in our community gardens maybe we could make a series of ponds which interlink where earths magnetic heat and fire comes out in the most concentrated form and we will be emulating the meeting of water and fire on a micro scale. Where the fire moves through minerals that are non magnetic this probably generates electricity and electrical storms. We could request of conscious fire in our gardens to try to find a path through the magnetic minerals only and contain the nonmagnetic ones. Perhaps in having a Light Earth dream extending right down to the aurora this achieves this .
So when starting a new garden as well as the focus on triggering the soil to restructure we may also wish to plan where all the ponds go , and in agreement with earth build them. Maybe the land will already have a natural creek of running water and so this may not be needed. About 1/10th of our garden could be water filled in the form of interlinking ponds.
I love to walk through pond shops or pot shops which specialize in beautiful water features. Big terracotta bowls that are glazed on the inside to hold the water, with little fountains placed in the pond with maybe even a mister effect coming from the water. The Japanese and Chinese people have a way with integrating water features into their gardens that is wonderful, like with beautiful bamboo arrangements that catch water to go from one pond to another. This is where what is beautiful is also energetically soothing and refreshing. The earth also needs to be nurtured and soothed as we garden and the interplay of water through the garden achieves this and it could be so beautiful also.
A small flow from a nearby natural stream could be diverted through the ponds also, just as the ancient Hawaiians did with their ponds of taro which needs to be grown in water. Looking to other cultures who have farmed with water for a long time would bring lots of practical knowledge of how to do this.
Springs are often the site of sacred areas for different cultures and the divas who live there are greatly respected. Once on a farm I lived upon there was an unusual land formation near the point where two little creeks, which were dry most of the year, met in the bottom of a valley. It was like a half circle bowl shape uprising of earth, 4 meters high and in the centre was a spring. I new it was a sacred site to the Aboriginal peoples of long ago , the way it felt , but there was no one in the physical to talk about is significance. Crystal clear water flowed from it all year round and when it did rain it became filled with frog symphonies ! The rising of water from deep in the earth must be based on magnetism and 'spring' like. The energy forms in a cylinder type flow which will magnetize water to the surface of the earth if it is strong enough. To flow up part of the water circuits upwards in a clockwise direction through the outer edge of the cylinder of energy. This is not a vortex but could be if the energy was stretched out of shape. If you have ever tried to create a vortex in a bucket of water with your own hand stirring, the water of course will lift up higher upon the sides of the bucket and if you can do it fast enough the water will form a cylinder as it is being stirred. In a spring this action may be in 'slow motion' and maybe in the molecular structure of the water so that if it could have been recorded how long the spring took to raise the water to the surface of the earth it may be a very long time. When it rains and the water soaks into the earth the water may follow a similar pattern down into the earth of a cylinder circuit but this time anticlockwise. This may be why spring water has rejuvenating qualities as the water is very balanced when it comes to the surface of the earth as it has completed both cycles , or both male and female and come to balance.
Actually connecting with this spring on the farm that I spoke of allowed me to be fully 'in my body' for the first time in my life and expand. And now that I think about it it was also the source of the water with which I watered the garden where the soil transformation took place that I explained earlier.
We could emulate the cycle of water into the earth and back up again in our garden ponds to allow the water to evolve to balance in its cycle.
Community will need some water storage. This could come in the form of tanks which store the water which is piped to it from the house roof when it rains. Community land may be positioned near running water or a lake or spring. Permaculture speaks of earth works like 'swales' which are created by a bulldozer creating a mounded line almost on the contour or a little off so that it catches water when it rains and can direct it elsewhere and where plantings of higher water needing plants can be planted . This really is something that has been employed in drier climates and it is not my feeling that earth wants such earthworks when we maybe should guide ourselves to open our hearts and love the land and call back the rain. Also dams that block rivers and creeks maybe send a message of lack and fear as the flow is stopped nearly.
When the soil has a greater water bearing capacity without becoming waterlogged the rain's presence in the soil will last much longer. And the early soil work speaks to this.
Plants and the elements
Within the landscape you can encourage water to cycle through the garden in longer pulses . Trees like Willows draw up water into themselves in large amounts , as do Kurrajongs and its cousin, The Flame Tree from Australia . It is almost like having a fountain in the garden when these trees are present. This could be so for many tropical plants in the type of microclimate they create. So placing them through the garden could create a interplay of water lifted like a fountain into the air. In underground dwellings in intensely hot places where atriums are created and trees and little gardens are planted ( way below the earths surface )the plants humidify the air for the humans dwelling there to allow the body to stay hydrated.
Here is some indication of what trees create what type of microclimate beneath them and around them
On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most water present in a tree as a way of being Willows, Kurrajongs, Boabs, Ginko Bilboa (also Maidenhair tree), Rain Tree, Star fruit tree, Tree Ferns, cactus ( you may know of others in your area ) are 10 and could be considered as 'fountain trees'
9. are Figs, Persimmons, many rainforest trees , Plumerias, Avocadoes, Mangoes, Custard Apples, Lychees and many other tropical fruit trees
8. are Mangrove trees, Macadamias, Chinese raisin tree
7 .are birch, maples, ash, apple trees, pecans, chestnuts, oak, apricots
6. are citrus trees, plum trees , River Sheoak
5. are Wattles, hazelnuts ,
4. are olives, almonds , walnut,
3. are
2. are Pine trees of all kinds
1. Eucalypts,
Fire Element and Air (oils and resins)
10. Eucalypts, Redwoods
9. Pine trees
Earth and Air
10. Sandalwoods, mulga, corkwood, Ti Tree,
In an ascending garden having one each of the trees who know how to run each element to the greatest degree you may ask that the tree kingdoms amalgamate their roles. Whole forests that remember amalgamation balance all the elements in the oneness of all tree types and plants in the forest.
Heathland is generally Earth as a community ( includes all plants), Eucalypt Forests -Air and Fire, Pine forests like near Jasper- Fire, Air, Water , Savannah like in Africa is- Earth, In Hawaii's forests earth,air, water, fire is balanced, beach dune communities - air. So there is an overall element or group of elements that a community runs and there may be pockets that are more balanced and may remember amalgamation.
Look again at 'Weeds'
Something else to consider is that if a plant comes from another continent and becomes what is considered a 'weed' by humans amongst the local species , growing thickly in vast areas of land it may be a sign that either humans have cleared too much of certain plants or communities of plants and so another from another continent is called in to fulfill upon the dream for that particular balance of elements. Or there is an evolutionary wave occurring and the species that seems like a weed brings just the right balance of elements for the evolution of the whole plant dream in that region . Or these are plants which are other than magnetic .
Look into what the plants whom are labeled as weeds are actually doing. Blackberries in Australia for example grow into uninterrupted 'forests' of blackberries. They bring Fire and Water to the dream and also powerful protection to the earth that has been over cleared. In an ascending garden where blackberries cover the land when you first arrive plant grape vines and ask them to contribute to the dream to begin with so the blackberries will feel they can retract some ......and nurture the soil bigtime !
Kikuyu grass holds electrical water element and will climb up over you with its runners if you stand still long enough. Working with earth to clear electrical water from her body where the garden is will allow this plant to retract.
St Johns Wort covered all the cleared hills near where I grew up and would poison sheep and cattle if they ate it . This herb was holding space for an evolutionary cycle and has balanced fire,water air and earth and was rolling up the dream for abusive farming of the land.
Visiting one of the Botanical Gardens in Hawaii a tree called an octopus tree from Australia was 'taking over' in the forest. It holds balance air, water, fire and earth and vital algorithms for the land and so was offering this in its presence.
We could look at animals in this light also and how they contribute with the dream. In Australia the dream for balanced symbiosis was shattered so badly after the white settlers arrived and became 'Squatters' over vast areas of land with vast numbers of sheep and cattle that the dream further spiraled into destruction when the symbiotic partner to grass in the form of the rabbit came and populated to numbers which desertified the earth and 'stressed' in turn the squatters towards destruction. Humans own mirror .
Balanced elements doesn't mean less diversity but is a part of evolution that the nature kingdoms are striving for in the physical.
Sanctuary Boundary Guild
Wattles (acacias) / Comfrey/ Bulbs/ Clover Guild
For creating sacred space
These are just suggestions, but around the border of an area in the garden that is intensively planted with vegetables for example and needs alot of sunlight so is quite open with few trees you might consider this guild. Wattles are from Australia and come in a huge variety of shapes and can be prickly to feathery soft. They are what is called 'nitrogen fixers' for the soil in that they have a symbiotic relationship with particular microbes upon their roots which makes nitrogen available to the soil. They are also so beautiful with often sphere like growing habits that weep down and when they flower are just joy, joy, joy. Comfrey is the Language of Light herb for Abundance and grows to about a metre tall with wide, hairy leaves and if thickly planted will form a real hedge. It does die down in the winter but then the clover and bulbs will come into their own.
Non Conditional Love Tone Formation
Planted with
Peas and brassicas (winter)/ Beans and eggplant (summer)/ Artichoke Guild
With peas and beans they usually need something to climb up or trellis upon. It could be possible to make garden beds in the shape of the Non Conditional Love tone shape. So if you imagine you were looking at the beds from above it would look like this tone. You could then face the tone towards the winter sun so that the winter sun which is at a lower ark in the sky catches into the centre of the tone and trellis. Plant the Globe Artichokes or Jerusalem Artichokes in outer layer of tone . Globes grow big (metre and half possibly with flower heads ) and wide so allow them the room.Plant the peas (or in summer the beans ) in next inner layer of tone on a trellis that you construct ( bamboo maybe) and then the brassicas ( or Eggplant in summer) more in centre. The area between the beds will be paths . Maybe plan three of these tones beside each other so forming a larger half circle combined.
Sacred Space For The Void
The void is a held by the tree kingdom and particularly the Redwood and the forests. What may be an idea in the garden is to have curving lanes ( they can vary in width and even curve around ponds )of groupings of plants that weave through the garden which are just stacked with as much diversity as the kingdoms guide you to plant. The laneways will lead back to an area which is like a little forest and which is not really for food but just 'is' and is left wholly to nature to evolve and is the void for the Earth upon that spot upon her body. Possibly when communities purchase land there may already be wild areas of forest on the land already.
The scented trail Guild
Now this one could be passion in Flowers and Scents ! Lavenders, Gardenias, Rose Geranium, Plumerias, mints, echinachea , gingers, jasmine, honeysuckle, freesia and daffodil bulbs passion fruit vines. A path to wander and wonder down. And where does it lead ? What about a seat with a breathtaking vista of the land .....mountains misted into the distance...the sea shimmering.
Mulch, and Weaving Guilds
Mulch can be wonderful in the garden for the protection it gives to the soil when establishing gardens and for generating soil life. There could be a large area in the garden with swathes of Lucerne, turmeric, sorghum, many types of grasses for mulch;
For weaving there could be Flax , rushes, jute, cane (what plant does that come from ?) , Pandanus trees , Paper Mulberry tree. So this area would be like a field and maybe here too could be a stable crop rotation area for wheat, rice , oats or barley like the one spoken of earlier in the article, if the community wished to grow these staples. Also sugar cane could be grown here too.
Building Guilds
The Eucalypt species of trees agrees to provide their wood for building like Red Gum, Mountain Ash and other species like Silky Oak, Blackwood. Each will know their local species who would agree to this.
Guilds which Gift Oil, Fruit, Herbs, Nuts
Guilds for drier climates.... Olives (medium sized tree-fruit and oil) Stone pines (big tree!- pine nuts) , Carob tree ( big tree, produces seeds that can be ground into carob powder which is a little like cocoa), Bunya Pines ( huge trees and huge pine cones with nuts high in oil content ) could be planted along with wattles (little tree and lives for about 15 years, some species bear seeds that can be ground into flour) , hazelnuts ( small bush /tree ) underplanting of chickweed (medicinal and water element), St Johns wort (medicinal and a yellow dye for fabric), borage, bergamot,
...Almonds ( medium sized tree), Coconut palms ( oil, coconut milk/cream and dried coconut) , Apricots ( small to medium sized tree- fruit and oil ), Pecans (nut, big shade ), citrus ( small to medium sized trees- for fruit, essential oils), Mulberry trees ( for fruit and leaves to feed silk worms , beautiful shade) , Grapes (fruit, wine , oil), underplanting of sages, basil, lavender, rose geranium, coriander, dill, hyssop,
Sunflowers (seed/oil), artichokes (flower head ), flax (flax seed oil/ weaving), sugar cane ( sugar extract) rushes ( near a pond area - for weaving /building), Bamboos (building- can have non spreading ones), underplanting of clover ( strawberry) , garlic,
Echinachea, evening primrose, Jojoba, peppermints , spearmint, lemongrass, clary sage, aloe vera, Frangipannis or Plumeria, chillies, curry plants.
Turmeric(dye- yellow,gold,mustard), cardamom, caraway, chamomile, jasmine, yarrow, comfrey, golden seal and ginger under an arbour of kiwi fruit and chokoes.
Vegetables...carrots , beetroot, lettuces, calendula, coriander, bok choi, choi sum and other asian vegetables,
Corn, cucumbers, Jerusalem artichokes, mint, ceylon spinach ( climbing spinach , really lovely thick, bright green shiny leaves)
Potatoes, tomatoes , basil, bush beans, daikon radish or other radishes
Celery, spinach, mustard greens, asparagus, onions, garlic
Peas , Brassicas like broccoli, broad beans, tarragon, marjoram, thyme,
Zucchinis, passion fruit vines, squashes, watermelons, cantelopes or rockmelons,
Chicory, leeks, horseradish(spreads big ), parsnip, swedes,
Pumpkins, sesame plants (?), sweet potatoe,
Eggplant, Endive, parsley
Peppers, Chick Pea, Kidney bean, Mung bean, sorrel, oregano
Grain rotations....Buck wheat (winter), Millet (summer) , understorey of dandelions, low growing field herbs
rice, barley, understorey of clover
Oats, grain amaranth, understory of native violets
Guilds for Sub tropical to Tropical.....Avocadoes ( big tree-fruit and oil), Macadamias ( Medium sized tree nuts/oil, Black Sapote (fruit), Mangoes (big tree-fruit), Paw Paw (medium tree-fruit), Papayas, understorey of gingers, finger limes,
Lychees, kumquat, Bananas, Durian, Jackfruit, Dragonfruit, Cocoa tree, tea plants, Ginseng (?)
Figs, Apples , Pears , Pomegranite, wattles, small pines or cypress, nettles ( they sting though so maybe surround them with salvias )
Breadfruit, Jabotacambas, nearby Taro ponds, Paper Mulberry, Candlenut Tree
Cherry trees, Chesnut trees, Quince, Jacarandas ( big tree with feathery leaves and lavender flowers) , Fejoas ( small bushes , beautiful fragrant fruit ), understorey of bush beans in summer, strawberries
Berries.like cold winters...may need quite a large area as they tend to want to clump ( blackberries, raspberries) and spread and are very prickly. Blueberries are softer and are a small bush. Other berries like loganberries, Goose berries, Cranberries I don't know very much about
Between or within the Guilds dot the water bearing plants that will add more water element to the garden or if fire and air is needed, plant a eucalypt or pine or if you are wanting more tropical microclimate use fire and water and rainforest species.
Fire Circle, Herb beds and Mud brick pizza oven
There are great designs for outdoor pizza or bread ovens made from mud brick usually and in a dome shape. They could be a part of an outdoor meeting /eating area. Imagine a central place for an open fire . This area is below ground level and encircled by mud brick benches for sitting on. Encircling the benches at ground level are herbs all the way round. Steps up and through a gap in the herb beds lead to the area where the oven is and a shelter building with a table and chairs . The whole area could be surrounded by trees and if the climate is too hot for a fire then have a pond as the central point , or a terracotta pot pond that you can place there in summer. Some Lanterns for candles, bring in some cushions for the benches and it could be a beautiful sanctuary to meet at, talk and tell stories.
Language of Light Herb beds
In three big structure symbol gardens plant the whole 48 tones if this can be achieved and have paths encircling the three beds. You may need to label them
What other kind of needs?
Coffee , Tea, Salt
~Plants which provide dyes for fabric etc
~Plants or animals who would agree to provide materials for fabrics ( silk from silk worms and Mulberry trees to feed the silk worms, cotton plants )
~Goats or cows who would agree to provide milk for the community.
~An Oil crop like Olives (drier climate)or Macadamias (subtropical) with annual oil crops to call on while these trees are growing.
Bee hives for honey and wax
Skills to share
Preserving Olives; Producing oil from nuts or seeds; Butter and Cheese Making; Cooking and bread making; Making Essential oils; Loom skills to create fabric, Spinning wool and dyeing of yarns, Sewing clothes; Weaving baskets; Wood carving and wood craft/ carpentry skills; Herb craft , growing and drying herbs, preparing tinctures; building knowledge and skills, with bamboo, stone, mud brick, cob, rammed earth, straw bale; building ponds and aquaculture;
Gypsie Chickens
As you see them in Hawaii naturalized and running free...Gypsie chooks. Now in the garden one chicken can be like a 'scratching festival and eat all the little seedlings too if they find them' scenario. And maybe it is how humans have treated chooks that they then become a destructive force in the garden.
Nature has a resilience and an abundance that allows for the lifestyle of all animals, but forcefully concentrate too many animals in the one area and destruction occurs through too great a pressure upon the land. So maybe in asking the chicken kingdom to be a part of the garden there will be just the right number to keep balance. Upon 5 acres of an intensive garden maybe 10 chooks. Mostly chickens are contained within their own fenced areas , which quickly become bare of plant life. I don't think the chicken kingdom wishes to be locked away so I think it is a matter of planning where you site their chicken house (where they lay their eggs and where they will roost at night) . Possibly in the Mulch/Building/Weaving/ Crop Rotation area as it will look like a field and not be where the vegetables are ! Planting seeding plants which the chooks like also will fulfill them enough that they want to stay there and not where the vegetables are .! Chooks love to scratch so seeing as they will be where the mulch plants are, create an area where mulch is stockpiled and let the chickens at it !
Cows
One cow and calf need quite a large area to be in and mostly grassed . For 10 -15 people 2 milking cows may be needed and they may need 10 acres to roam on and this is if the grass is abundant. Long winters or hot dry summers need to be considered. They will need a little milking place and depending on the climate, maybe a built shelter to go into. They also drink lots of water each day. For a cow to offer up her milk to humans she would need to mate and calve each year. This means the herd is constantly growing and what does the Earth say about where the animals go that cannot be accommodated on the community land. If the cows have female calves they could be raised as milking cows also and exchanged to another community or organic farm. But then if the cows have male calves ....bulls are not sought in as great numbers as cows. Could we work with the cow and Buffalo kingdom to request they have female calves. ?Or ...what do we request ?
If we could listen to the kingdoms they would advise us when and where to plant and how to care for the plants and animal and in nonjudgement we could hear this. This would lead to a garden that maybe we had little idea to conceive of or could never occur if we tried to use a mental formula to try to fit nature into , but in the cocreation with the kingdoms something quite different could evolve.
In the communion we would heal and the small patch of earth that agrees to be the garden to support us would heal in a manner that is in cocreation with humanity.
Fences...or beautiful living borders
Fences are something the gardener may ponder about. Farm fences often seem 'harsh' to me with their endless wires and maybe they do cut up earths energy and compartmentalize it, and this hurts and so 'looks' ugly too. It is also about control and fear as with the great amount of energetic intertwinement between people there are little boundaries so mirrored in the physical boundaries humans impose upon the earth as there is no knowing of how to do it differently but to impose a boundary through force and harm. A great amount of effort is spent fencing out, or scaring away or poisoning creatures who find the garden or the farm paddock a midnight delicacy. You could wake in the morning to find your lettuces are but stumps in the ground ! There could be many lessons in this . It may be karmic return if an insect or animal comes in and decimates your garden for how humans decimate entire areas of earth's body through clear fell logging of forests, monoculture cropping and use of chemicals and poisons which kill and build up toxins in all of nature, methods of raising animals that are barbaric and also strip plant life as farmers contain too many animals upon the land. So we could choose to release our karma and forgive. We could come to agreements with the kingdoms about boundaries and if there is a spiritual lesson to be learned in the influx of animals , insects or plants then it is allowed and it will teach us something. In the abundance of a big, wild evolving garden nothing would be entirely decimated.....if we pay attention to smaller mirrors and release our karma! And in the abundance the fruits of the garden are shared with the kingdoms. Fences could also be very beautiful and a living part of the garden when we make them from mud , rendered straw bales, rock or bamboo or ask a plant to be a living fence...then it becomes art and enhancement of energy.
Mowing and pruning
All of the mowing of lawns is alot of energy for little benefit other than aesthetic order. There may be a need to mow sometimes and it may be beneficial to time it so that it concurs with a rebirth cycle of the earth.
The vast areas of cropland upon the earth creates huge imbalances in the water element. As vast areas of crops like wheat, barley and oats mature and dry off they create 'desert' like weather, and is another reason that humans may be better to move to other food sources eventually. Plant communities with trees and shrubs as their core are the most stable for community gardens and require much less attendance if from the beginning we found the garden upon plant guilds.
Pruning is not a practice that nature advises as it creates codependance between human and tree or bush for in the intervention of pruning the tree goes into chaos in its structure and humans will prune year in and year out to manage the chaos and original wound
The House or Dwelling
The dwelling or house can be designed by considering things like facing it to the North (southern hemisphere) if you have cold winters, with large north facing windows for passive solar effects and earth floors and walls to store the heat coming from the sun in winter. High atrium windows can be used in summer to expel hot air and earth or straw bale walls can shield against extreme heat. Some simple design methods which are greatly effective. The house can also become like a huge trellis for an array of climbing plants that may bear fruit or other gifts. Mud brick, cob or rammed earth houses can be very beautiful and almost sculpted, particularly if using cob mud methods. In the tropics the use of bamboo and lighter building methods would be lovely. Ask your inner child what kind of dwelling he /she wants to live in and you may get a prompt answer as they have dreamt of it for a long time !
Another simple idea is a 'cool cupboard " which can act as cool storage for food. A pipe situated on the shady side of the house, possibly within a fernery area draws in cool air and pipes it under the house and into the bottom of the 'cool cupboard'. It circulates up through the cupboard and the warmer air is vented out the top. Animals use this natural movement of air to cool and refresh their burrows if they are in a hot climate. In ascending community we can build houses in agreement with earth and nature and design dwellings to support rotational energy and not impede it. So many possibilities and maybe each will be like a work of art.
Just imagine what it might be like to co create these beautiful places and gardens with earth and nature and fellow ascending humans................
Imagine....
...........................The beauty of a big yellow zucchini flower greets you as you look for its sleek green fruit and makes you pause in wonder....the little path you have come down winds gently back to the house which you cant see for the profuse array of trees and plants, some also in flower in sprays of colour . As you brush past mints their scents bless the air and a plumeria has dropped its flower jewels upon the path, which now in this dusky light shine luminous. One last curve in the path and there is the back door...oh just some oregano for the sauce before you go in....a community dinner to help prepare....and bless the earth,
namaste, Tania.
Tania Conibear offers one to one healing consultations with the Earth Mother and nature kingdoms
And designs beautiful mineral necklaces to foster synthesis of field and healing
Tania can be reached at amalgamateintobalance@telus.net
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