by Digger Barr
https://gaiasgardens.guru/
Patience of a gardener is more than just waiting for seeds to sprout.
It is a lifetime practice of success and failures.
From the perspective of a true gardener successes and failures are expected and therefore are not really categorized as success or failure.
We see things more in percentages such as germination rates.
This package of seeds has a 86% germination rate.
That is actually pretty high and one must evaluate how many plants are desired and what can be managed.
Half of the package or even just 5 seeds may be enough.
Keep in mind that the 86% is a chance that each seed will germinate, not that 86% of the whole package’s total.
Each seed planted is a hopeful opportunity, and each seedling will receive loving care and cultivation no matter how many seeds sprout.
No seedling is left behind.
The patience of a gardener also requires knowing just how much effort will be necessary to bring about success and knowing that that effort may outweigh the returns.
This never stopped any gardener I know. If it did, they simply are not gardeners at heart.
A passionate gardener is driven by love and the returns are not measured by the success of the crop but by the sheer joy of engaging in the process.
Patience is in the process of planting a seed, caring and nurturing of a plant, guiding it towards optimal health.
Be it of foliage, flowering or fruiting, strong plant health is a reward we all look forward to.
Crop or plant failure is part of the process and shouldn’t be taken personally.
It becomes a learning opportunity on how to or not to do something.
Or on how something can be done differently.
This is true patience.
I realized recently that the cycle of a plant is much like the cycle of my day.
We all have seasons in which we rest, grow and then bloom.
My day begins as rest, then moves into the daylight, followed by nurturing of the self and by the day’s end harvesting any resulting fruit.
Any hour within the day carries with it sown seeds, testing the germination of those seeded ideas and bringing them along into fruition.
Each of these cycles reflect themselves as the micro into the macro.
Swiveling from my center point of the now, I turn towards the macro.
I saw my life as a seasoned gardener that has been nurtured and cultivated towards a purpose.
That purpose may be seen as flowering or creating and producing fruit of some type.
Perhaps some would view production as childbearing and give all of the identity of their life as to how their progeny carry forward with such success or failure.
That is a valid perspective.
I want to view it a bit differently.
Bless my son, but he is not my end all.
I think we all have purpose and that children take root such as runners from a vine that take root and start their own cycle.
Call it groundcover.
I saw my life as a cycle that can be found within a season, within a month, within a day, within the hour.
For me, not yet retired, my bloom is still yet to take place.
I might be in bud form. I might be a rebloomer.
Having been an entire garden within myself, the harvest is still a bit ways away, and the bloom? It is still in development.
As far as the cycle of my lifetime, the arrival of winter is still to be determined.
I can feel the cycle at work and I know, I feel, I have not bloomed yet.
This is a curiosity for me.
So what is my bloom?
What kind of plant am I?
That too is to be determined, but can I say star seed?
That is what comes to mind.
I like the name Star seed.
The idea of it would make any gardener salvate. A package of star seeds.
Do you see? Germination 100% So Cool!
The cosmos must know of gemination rates. They must know that of all the seeds planted, all will sprout.
But how many of them will take root with genetic memory of what is to happen here ?
And like any seed planter, the hope for success is not just in the planting but in the cultivation as well.
We really are all starseeds.
And the seeding of souls has been a constant sowing for a steady production since infinity.
It really is a spectacular feeling to think we all play a part in God’s perennial garden.
We don’t need to work hard at being the best. We are all part of the process that is neither a success or failure.
You cannot quantify yourself in a process that is pure love and sheer joy.
Plants do not judge, fight or complain.
They just bloom where they are planted.
Maybe after we bloom we too can go to seed or send out our runners of experience in order to keep the garden going.
Who says Earth is the only Garden ?
There must be other planets ready for seeding.
Of course Gaia may want help in sowing her next dimensional garden too.
Whatever may come, patience is an essential tool in how to get there.
Next stop, our cosmic garden.
Much love everyone,
Digger24