From Reshape Tarot
3. The Garden (based on The Empress / Sense of Generosity)
The Garden represents a space or a state of abundance, which comes from the capacity of creation and regeneration. The garden can be abundant because it is constantly transforming, constantly in movement and in communication with all parts of its ecosystem. A healthy garden allows for different stages of growth simultaneously. For a garden to be healthy it needs a multiplicity of species and rhythms. The garden invites us to not only enjoy this abundance and diversity, but also to tend to it; no garden without gardeners. The garden invites us to think of our responsibility and our role in the creation of the possibility for all life to thrive.
The Garden invites us to ask ourselves: Who is being generous to us? Who are we being generous to? How are we connected to our surroundings and how are we tending to it like a loving gardener would? What can we learn from the other-than-human presences around us? What are the various rhythms in my practice/my organisation? How to make space for different rhythms to thrive?
Associated ritual: attuning to the vegetal world — In this ritual we will explore the connection to each other through our connections with the vegetal world. For the next few days, choose a vegetable that is in your surroundings. This might be a tree, a plant, some grass.
Take ten minutes out of your schedule every day, for at least ten days, to observe this vegetal being. Observe it from close by or far away. Make sure you are feeling the ground firmly underneath you as you are observing.
Take a picture every day and write down or make an audio recording of what you have observed.
Share these observations with a fellow practitioner of the ritual.
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