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Clinging Vine = DEPENDENCY “Marriage Shock” A Clinging Vine can’t support itself. We ruthlessly exclude weeds from our garden, but if a vine flowers prettily enough we tend to let it run until it has squeezed itself around our hearts. There is certainly a place in a Garden for a Clinging Vine, but we must…

Wildflowers = BEAUTY “Can you now recognize beauty where you once saw chaos?” What if a garden yearned not for care but to be ravished by wilderness? Wildflowers don’t care whether we look at them or not; they grow wherever they wish. Attempts have been made to translate this freedom into predictable practicality without success,…

Sunflowers = SPIRITUALITY “Our Auras Connect” The Sunflower cranes its black eye skyward. “Golden wings mirror heaven, petalled glories feed multitudes.” In the language of flowers “Helianthus” is a symbol of wealth and success. Sunflowers bring good luck in gardens (or kept under the bed at night they provide sweet dreams); in multiples this flower…

56. ART = Birdsong “Express your emotions the better to understand them” We are not the only Creators in the Garden. We are surrounded by nest-makers and musical artists without whose Birdsong we would be tragically impoverished. Birds sing for the same reasons we do; to celebrate, to warn, to differentiate. To bond, and for…

The Field = FATE “What can we Control?” Outside the carefully groomed garden lies a true Wilderness; the ungroomed Field. At first the eye is confused by the plethora of wildflowers, the riot of wild grasses, low shrubs. The fallen and the dying have not even been tidied away. Slowly our senses adjust to pick…

Fruit = FRUITION “Enjoy!” The Fruit is the sweet result of day after day of concentrated sunshine. The Fruit is a summit of achievement; centuries of unique conditions ending in delight for the senses poetry for the tongue. Raspberry, Strawberry, paw-paw, pomegranate, banana, apple, pear, cherry; so much nectar; so many wines. Together they symbolize…

Fish =AMBISEXTROUS “Gender curious?” We were all Fishes once. We breathed liquid through our gills and rubbed our silvery sides against our mates. In the womb we roiled and reveled in our oceanic environment. Whenever we float, eyes closed, we remember what it felt like, shivering and shimmering in an upside-down world. So is Becoming…

Firefly = FALSE LOVE “Liars” The Firefly lights our dark with luciferous magic. In some species it’s only the male, but in others both genders use this cool heat to signal to each other and we are all beneficiaries of their romantic opera. And it’s a complete drama with every plot twist you can think…

Dawn = Relief, Re-Set In Dawn we are between two worlds; our feet in night and our heads in the future yet to come. Sometimes we can’t wait to shake off the darkness; even pretend it never happened; other times we are sluggishly unwilling to give ourselves over to the cares of daylight hours. The…