a Garden they sow
LULLABY #7
“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.”
May Sarton, poet and novelist
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“THE GARDENER
The gardener is a cultivator of soul, a regenerative keeper of seed, soil, and root. (…) The gardener’s function is regeneration.The psyche of a woman [ or man ] must constantly sow, train and harvest new energy in order to replace what is old and worn out.
There is a natural entropy, or wearing down and using up, of psychic parts.
This is good, this is how the psyche is supposed to work, but one must have energies-in-training ready to backfill. This is the role of the gardener in the psychic work. He keeps track of the need for change and replenishing.
Intra-psychically, there is constant living, constant death dealing, constant replacement of ideas, images, energies.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, American poet and psychoanalyst in “Women Who Run With The Wolves—Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype”
May Sarton, poet and novelist
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“We have all hidden gardens and plantations in us; and by another simile, we are all growing volcanoes, which will have their hours of eruption: how near or how distant this is, nobody of course knows, not even the good God.”