Friday, April 16, 2010

New Garden: Phase 1

So I had this idea today, that instead of trying to plan my new gardens around color and texture, height and width, function or fancy, etc. I could instead work out a sort of map of my psyche, and plant accordingly. Here I plant my bleeding heart, here my untapped potential, between them I'll lay my career path (probably just a weedy pile of gravel, until I can do more heavy lifting), over there my leggy hopes, just behind that my dormant dreams, in that shady spot I'll transplant my fears, and back by the fence I'll make some space to grow a child's garden. Out in front of the house, to the east, will be my social niceties (somewhat stunted), to the south my mythical archetypes (totally overgrown), to the north my pagan roots (so great and gnarled) and to the west, my cosmic oneness (the perfect windbreak). In the center will be a creeping groundcover of neckache and backache, some perennial laziness, a DNA/herb spiral, buds of math and music and poetry, humor, patience, anger and passion, and I'll find a little room to bury the bulbs of my libido, under a wind chime constructed of feathers and dry bones (no pun intended, but whatever). I could readily fill a tacky birdbath with crocodile tears, and maybe get a little solar-powered waterfall worked in there, too, to keep them flowing. What else? A few tangled branches of psychic divergence, perhaps. Thorny canes of hostility. Some tender blossoms of peace. Oh, and the drama. High drama, on tall stalks, bold and colorful--a contrast to the delicate undergrowth of grief and loss, which would be situated not far from the Zen rock garden where I shall rest under a wizened tree bearing the fruits of my labor, as the vines of my ambitions climb skyward. I suppose some pure and simple joy could be cultivated in there, somewhere, in the spaces that are left.

You might be surprised to know that there are plants for all these things.

Or, I could work from energetics and Chinese medicine, map out parts of the body and the herbs and flowers that are associated with those, or create an emotional landscape of flower essences, or use something more European and Magickal as a guide, incorporating all the old texts and tapestries... Hmmmm. Possibilities. I'll let you know what I come up with.

4 comments:

Cosmic Monkey said...

Or you could just have fun with it...

fremenine said...

What, you don't think that sounds like fun?

conniewonnie13 said...

i think it sounds like crazy fun fun fun:))

Cosmic Monkey said...

no I mean it all sounds great, but also go a bit free range, ya know