Meditation, healing and mushrooms
This is a time of little seeds, patiently cultivated, beginning to flower.
My healing work and meditation practices are really beginning to pay off in peace of mind and resilience, as I regroup faster, realign myself better after going off track, and solve problems faster and with less resistance.
It looks like my work with magical community is beginning in seed form again, and divination and gut feeling say it will be wonderful.
All this is symbolized for me by a small mini-mushroom farm I bought this summer at Home Depot.
It's a mushroom spore-impregnated block in a cardboard box created by the folks at www.backtotheroots.com. I waited till late summer to water it and get my Oyster mushroom harvest. It grew one patch of beautiful Oyster mushrooms that were so delicious! I harvested them and cooked and ate them with Michael.
Then I read the box, and it said I could get a second harvest if I was patient, so I decided to try. I turned the block over inside the box, scraped the top to stimulate growth, and watered it every day.
And every day.
And every day.
And when I went to Iowa, Michael watered it almost every day.
And I got back and watered it more.
And nothing happened.
And I thought nothing would ever happen, but I watered it daily anyway.
And Michael said he didn't think anything would ever happen, but he didn't stop me.
And today, it has blossomed...with EIGHTEEN new patches of mushrooms!!
Some patches are very, very tiny---too tiny to see unless you peer VERY closely. They will clearly mature at different rates.
That means up to eighteen different delicious mushroom meals.
Oh yes...the payoff is worthwhile.
My healing work and meditation practices are really beginning to pay off in peace of mind and resilience, as I regroup faster, realign myself better after going off track, and solve problems faster and with less resistance.
It looks like my work with magical community is beginning in seed form again, and divination and gut feeling say it will be wonderful.
All this is symbolized for me by a small mini-mushroom farm I bought this summer at Home Depot.
It's a mushroom spore-impregnated block in a cardboard box created by the folks at www.backtotheroots.com. I waited till late summer to water it and get my Oyster mushroom harvest. It grew one patch of beautiful Oyster mushrooms that were so delicious! I harvested them and cooked and ate them with Michael.
Then I read the box, and it said I could get a second harvest if I was patient, so I decided to try. I turned the block over inside the box, scraped the top to stimulate growth, and watered it every day.
And every day.
And every day.
And when I went to Iowa, Michael watered it almost every day.
And I got back and watered it more.
And nothing happened.
And I thought nothing would ever happen, but I watered it daily anyway.
And Michael said he didn't think anything would ever happen, but he didn't stop me.
And today, it has blossomed...with EIGHTEEN new patches of mushrooms!!
Some patches are very, very tiny---too tiny to see unless you peer VERY closely. They will clearly mature at different rates.
That means up to eighteen different delicious mushroom meals.
Oh yes...the payoff is worthwhile.