Song of Increase by Jacqueline Freeman

Author:Jacqueline Freeman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sounds True

Plant Fertility: Spiritual Nutrition

Three seasons of the year, our farm is in full bloom. We start with the earliest blooms of willow, hazelnut, and witch hazel in late winter and carry through to the last hurrah of goldenrod, asters, borage, and sedums — flowers stopped only by the kiss of a heavy frost. All the time in between, we have pollen and nectar sources galore.

Our bees visit all the flowers, yet not in the sequence they open. I sometimes wonder why our bees aren’t all over some blossoms — ones I know they like — that seem ravishingly perfect for harvest. Masses of fragrant blue rosemary flowers or precious apple blossoms will sometimes be in bloom for days before our bees deign to pay a visit. Apparently bees see nuances in flowers that are beyond my own senses.

The bees describe plants as having a quality that I had been unaware of. They perceive what they call a wafer that exists in the plant’s peripheral sphere. They conveyed to me the image of a flower existing in two places simultaneously. First, it exists as a physical object, standing in a field, visible and defined as you and I see it, in a state of wholeness, independent and complete. The second manifestation of the plant is the wafer that floats just beyond the outer edges of the plant; this is the medium through which the plant communicates to the bee its readiness to share its fertility.

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