Grandma’s Garden

“I remember Grandma’s smile As she planted, pruned, and tilled Laboring with love and laughter As this world with joy she filled.”

By Ortrun Franklin

Grandma’s Garden

The growing season is in full swing. People are busily tending their gardens and Grandma’s garden is no exception. It becomes a gathering place for not only humans, but elementals, faeries and critters. Like the potter with his/her wheel, all are participating and doing their part in creating a majestic piece of art.

This Grandma likes to involve all of her senses while in the garden; seeing, touching and smelling, tasting and hearing. The feel of the seeds, soil and water in my hands invigorates me. The sound of the bees humming, the fluttering of the butterflies, birds chirping, the chipmunks chatter bring a smile to my face. Watching the flowers and plants grow gives me joy. Inhaling the scent of the garden invigorates me, as well. Tasting the herbs rejuvenates me. Absorbing the colors of the flowers, plants and bushes bring warmth to my heart. Being in its presence activates my conscious, sub-conscious and super-conscious mind. In the garden you will find a stepping stone that reads “Grandchildren Crossing”. The children and grandchildren add another dimension of love and joy to the garden. They play in it, dig and plant, prune and pick the flowers and come up with artistic floral arrangements.

The creative imagination of my grandson enhances the garden with Lokeytown. Neatly designed driveways lead up to Grandma’s house (a flowering plant), Mama and Daddy’s place (flowering bush) and his own “tree top pad.” A car sits here, a truck there and maybe even a boat. Oh, Lokey

the cat, Oskar and Sophie the dogs can’t be left out. He spends hours playing and exploring new territory and visiting the residents of the town.

Author Erin Kilmer’s describes it so well in her poem titled “Grandma’s Garden,”

“I remember Grandma’s patience When we ran amid the flowers With her beauty all around us We would spend those precious hours.”

Grandma’s garden is also a neighborhood affair. Neighbors walk by and say: “Looks like a miniature Meijer Garden; we walk down here every night just to see what’s new; it’s beautiful.” Others meander in and take a closer look, all the while discussing what is planted here and there. The garden is a gift of Love from not only Grandma, but also Grandmother Earth and Grandfather Sun. It is a reminder of our connection to family, friends and neighbors, the earth and Sun. “I remember Grandma’s smile As she planted, pruned, and tilled Laboring with love and laughter As this world with joy she filled.”

The process that a seed goes through to create flowers is amazing. It takes about 49 days from its birth process to the end of its flowering phase. This includes five phases. They go like this:

Phase 1, Germination process; The imbibitions stage occurs where the seed takes in water from the ground, The root emerges from the seed and develops a root system, The seed creates a sprout to make its way upward through the soil.

Phase 2, Flowers leaf development; The primary root structure culminates, The sprout begins growing tiny leaf buds, The tiny leaf buds start to grow.

Phase 3, New Leaf; Leaf buds evolve into new leaf growth, The leaf grows until it reaches full maturity.

Phase 4, Blossom; Inflorescence emergence of the flower begins (flower buds appear on stem), Growth continues until the flower is developed,

Phase 5, Blooming Time; Flower buds continue to open, Flower production commences.

The flower reaches its pinnacle after going through 5 phases (steps) in its ascent. Number 5 in spiritual numerology is the number of freedom or liberation. The seed completed its journey. It now stands at a decision-making threshold: free to choose whether to take rest or to continue its journey; when ready, begins a new cycle of evolvement.

Nature is astonishing. If you take a close look at the flower, you’ll see a sequencing (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.) beginning with the center petal. Likewise, if you look at the sequencing of leaves, it has the same. The flower spirals out from the center, the leaves upward on the stem. This sequencing in called the Fibonacci numerical sequencing.

Do you realize that this spiral and sequencing occurs in everything? It occurs in the human anatomy, plants, flowers, and the universe. One of my very first spiritual teachers Nellie Cain illustrates this spiraling in her book Exploring the Mysteries of Life (see illustration).

Nellie states, “The Process of BECOMING could be likened to an ascending spiral, each turn bringing us closer to our objective and marking an Octave of Being in our Cosmic Spectrum. Each octave has its own notes or scale and these notes are the steps we must take in Becoming. As we progress and become a new note, our Consciousness is established in a higher frequency. The completion of each Octave is double the frequency at which the octave was started just as the notes of a piano are doubled in frequency with each octave.”

Ortrun Franklin is a columnist for Star Nations Magazine. She is the co-host of the live stream show “Living in Two Worlds” which focuses on the connecting the physical world with the spiritual world. It airs the last Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. CT. www.ourspiritualascension.com Ortrun71@aol.com FB: Living in Two Worlds It takes the seed 49 days from planting to complete its blooming cycle. Likewise, it takes 49 spirals for our Soul to merge into Divine Oneness. This process is unending. The choice is ours whether we want to continue experiencing higher levels of awareness and consciousness.

In conclusion Author Erin Kilmer writes,

“I remember Grandma’s garden And I’m happy in the knowing That when she knelt there in the soil It wasn’t just flowers, she was growing.”

To assist you in experiencing your Inner garden, I have prepared a guided meditation/ visualization for you. Make yourself comfortable, become still….

*Remember that being in the meditative state slows down your reflexes. It is advised that you do not listen to the meditation while driving or performing services where acute attention is required.

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