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Devic Group Action

annesailer — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:05:54 +0000

I am conferring with over 40 individual plant devas in planning my soil garden — and that’s just for the plants in the square-foot raised beds — so repeated communications are a bit daunting. This weekend, I spent some time conferring with nature in various and sundry situations, and a new planning tool has emerged.

I’ve already identified all the plant varieties and the seeds are on order (the Burpee ones have arrived!). The next step is connecting with all the plant devas to determine whether the seeds are to be sown directly into the garden or in flats and then transplanted later, and also to schedule when the seeds or transplants are to be planted in the garden. With individual devic action, it feels like it’ll be July before we’ve got this all planned out — yet alone planted. Enter a new idea (at least for me): devic group action.

I will open a working connection with the Deva of my garden and with the Devas of each of the over-40 plant species in the garden; I will request that the Devas speak with one, unified voice; I will ask that each Deva “come forward” when I am asking about that specific plant; and then I will ask my series of planting and timing questions. Now, I know that I will still be opening more than 40 Devic connections, but the idea of opening all the connections in one combined nature request seems far easier than opening-and-closing, opening-and-closing, opening-and-closing — and on and on. I’m hoping to start using this tool tomorrow afternoon. I’ll let you know how it goes!

In Praise of Friends and Drills

annesailer — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:36:46 +0000

Thanks to my good friend, Maria, my family, and all three of the power drills in our home, the Lindisfarne Valley Garden is now outfitted with NINE raised planting beds! My arms are a little sore (especially my drilling arm), and I am thrilled. I built one of the raised beds from recycled brick pavers (left over from a neighbor’s patio project), and we built the other eight using Trex engineered lumber. Now, here’s the marvelous part: I conferred with the Deva of my garden about what lumber to use and where to purchase the lumber. When I called the Deva-preferred lumberyard on Saturday morning, I joyfully discovered that Trex (the Deva-preferred lumber) was on sale at 50% off. Thank you, nature! I packed up my family and we hustled over to buy that 50%-off Trex. Thankfully, the lumberyard guys cut it into the three-foot and four-foot lengths I needed. Phew. The beds are gorgeous and awaiting soil and plantings. Up next is conferring with the Deva of Soil on how to fill those beautiful beds. Time to rest my drills and get some compost underneath my fingernails, I believe.

(P.S. Thank you, Maria…)

Zone 9

annesailer — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:28:19 +0000

Garden Chart -- Zone 9 (2009)

As promised, I’m starting to post my co-creative soil garden planning charts (only the square-foot, raised bed charts). Here’s Zone 9 (click on the image above to see a larger version, where you can actually read the names of the plants!). The planning process has been a wild ride. In the past, I’ve connected only with the Deva of the garden when working on what to plant and where. Suddenly, this year I read in the Garden Workbook that I’m supposed to connect with the Deva of each plant when selecting plant varieties. Talk about an increase in connecting-and-muscle-testing workload! After a while, I started to think of the connections as making phone calls to the Devas — open a connection; hi, how are you?; ask for information; thanks!; close the connection. Sometimes, if I forgot to ask something, I’d “call right back,” and say, “Oops! I forgot something!” I imagined the Deva was smiling, patient with my absent-mindedness. The fascinating thing is how I started to feel the connections opening and closing in a way I hadn’t before — right in the center mass of my body, somewhere between my gut and my heart. This is an amazing development in my bodily connection with nature. Thank you, nature, for lining up all those phone calls for me!

Anyway, I’ve ordered about $200 worth of seeds. The cost is far less that buying seedlings for this many plants, and my intention for the garden states that it will provide produce to feed my family (at least supplementally), and I expect we will save far more than this intial $200 investment over the course of the growing season.

I’ll post the remaining three charts in the next couple of days…