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| "Flower of Life" |
One circle with six circles around it in a continuous expansion.
Does anyone remember picking fresh flowers as a child to take to some special person you were visiting? What an important task it was to hand pick each flower that would go to the receiver. I remember in particular doing this with my grandma before going to visit her friends in the afternoon. The flower stems were always wrapped in wet paper towels and then wrapped again in wax paper. Sometimes it seemed an odd thing to do because it seemed to me everyone we visited, also had a beautiful flower garden.....was there a special point to giving someone more flowers when they had lots? Need less to say that point didn't really matter, because the gift of flowers were always accepted with great joy and immediately put in a vase and displayed for all to enjoy. This really was more of a ritual, a spring ritual.
The other day I was sitting in the mall, yes me! As I sat there watching the people all sitting and mingling and lounging, I found it very entertaining and really could have sat there for hours just observing. A certain older man passed by me to the washrooms and then appeared again later in front of me with a bouquet of fresh hand picked flowers.....he handed them to me and said I was very beautiful, and hoped I did not think he was odd, that his name was Miguel and he kind of bowed and walked away back to his seat with his other friends. This was incredibly special. They were wrapped in a wet napkin and tied with an elastic. I cannot describe how beautiful it was in that specific moment of my life. It was 'the flower of my life!'
Since that day I have been gifted with the most beautiful smelling daffodils I have smelt in a long time! They remind me often of my child hood and the anticipation of spring. Those creative bursts of energy we have that make it so challenging to sit still in school. This is such a beautifully creative time of the year. Creations are being made everywhere around us, we can hear tools and equipment in the background, we can see the newness of growth on the trees and flowers filling the senses of sight, touch and scent. We can taste the boost of flavour in fresh grown food and we can we feel the excitement in our hearts. It is the seed of the flower of life that rebirths from within every year.
In this rebirth begin to see the multitudes of new opportunities there are in front of you, this very moment. There are infinite creative horizons to expand your talents through, new avenues to discover and new risks to take. Just allow the blooming to happen, the result can be nothing other than pure beauty and completion. And as the flower blooms in it's sequence, it is another number sequence in the events of the earth. the constant unfolding of a flower, ever expanding and infinitely creating.
Go with the flow of this guidance, allow it it transcend you to another realm of thought. Allow the aromas to drift into your consciousness and your senses to be awakened. Grow forth in a creative burst - use colour, sound, texture, words, light, scent and love and see what happens!
Enjoy!
In La'Kech
Sunshine & Soulshine
Joanna C. Cooke 'OJO'
