GRATITUDE

Our Venus Garden combination remedy for the year 2009.

Our culture encourages a mindset of restless disatisfaction no matter what our lives contain. Gratitude is an excellent antidote to this state of mind. The alchemy of gratitude is that it lifts us out of our mind ideas of less than into an experience of life as an immeasurable blessing. It sweeps us out of the doldrums of maximizing unhappiness and into a primal experience of joy, releasing us from the peak bagging burdens of the mind to plunge us into the contentments of the heart. Gratitude is a very high vibration state of being. It is a state in which we use our free will to give back to God the love our creator has poured into us. This moves us into an energetic circuit that brings us closer to oneness with God.

Our Gratitude Combination Remedy- This mix is composed of Flowers that have mastered the vibration of Gratitude and that were grown in a garden designed by the Angels to hold and amplify the vibration of Gratitude. Our Gratitude mix offers us a tuning fork for the state of gratitude. This tune up opens the floodgates of gratitude within us.

The Garden Plan- For several years, the Angels told me that the 2009 Venus Garden would be about Gratitude. They also said it would be the highest vibration garden yet to be created at Green Hope Farm. As I received the design from the Angels late last winter, it felt deeply aligned with its purpose both because of its structure and because of its choice of Flowers.

The design was a five pointed star of Mehera White Marigolds with Ruby Moon Hyacinth Beans running four feet above the Mehera Marigolds in trailing vines that echoed the star configuration. In the five spaces between the Mehera star points, we planted solid beds of five different Marigolds as chosen by the Angels: one yellow Marigold, one gold Marigold, one orange Marigold, one gold Marigold with maroon markings and one maroon Marigold with orange markings. The bi-colors were open pollinated old fashioned varieties whereas the solid colors were hybrids from a mainstream seed company.

While the open pollinated Marigolds bloomed throughout the summer, the hybrids had an early burst of Flowers and then through much of the summer their blossoms were sporadic. The Angels do not have me use any non organic plant food in this or any other garden so I knew these Marigolds would not bloom continuously as they do say, in the MacDonald’s parking area where they get pushed by commercial fertilizers to bloom non-stop. Nonetheless, I knew that letting the plants find their own rhythm of bloom without these fertilizers would leave them free to make their own choice about how and when they blossomed. These hybrids responded to this freedom with an enormous display of late summer and fall blossoming, a display which continues unabated as I write this description. What grace to find these much manipulated hybridized Flowers had within them an unquenchable desire to give generously to this Gratitude project.

Those of you who have been watching the Venus Garden from incarnation to incarnation may recall how some years we are asked to weed out volunteer Flowers meticulously while other years we are asked to leave the volunteers to do as they wish. This was one of those years when all volunteer Flowers were welcomed and in response this garden of white, purples, yellows, and oranges was joined by a stunning array of colorful volunteers: Pink Cleomes, royal blue Chinese Forget Me Nots, Nicotianas in many shades of deep pink, White Nigella, and deep orange Nasturtiums. Nonetheless, the star configuration of Meheras, the exuberant purple of the Ruby Moon Hyacinth Beans, and the bold wedges of other Marigolds held their own. The resulting mix of Flowers in this configuration made for a stunning garden with an intensely joyous vibration. I found that whenever I went in this garden, no matter what my state of mind, there was an energy of such palpable appreciation of life that my mind went quiet, completely.

In Praise of Marigolds- The generosity of this family of plants to a project about gratitude comes as no surprise as
energetically Marigolds are all about gratitude. Much as our gardening culture frequently maligns Marigolds and this kind of
Victorian type bedding design as pedestrian and predictable, this garden has been a refreshing, sparkling wonder, with a joyful as
well as calming vibration. Made in this garden on the Fall Equinox, this Gratitude Essence is composed of all the Flowers in this
garden. It is ready to sing in your life!