“When ideas are suspended in a place of possibility for too long,
they either need to come down to earth or be set free.”
Today’s episode will help you understand what kind of gardener you are when it comes to creative projects.
We explore our relationship to the seeds we want to bring through a whole harvest cycle and practices that help keep the creative channels from getting clogged.
Having a creative practice is like planting a garden; some seeds seem to sprout over night and other takes years, generations, or even lifetimes. Bringing awareness to how we tend to them informs each new season and solar cycle.
Clearing physical clutter creates breathing room to allow space for each idea to take form. Applying an understanding of cycles to your relationship with creativity and can help you figure out how to process unfinished projects.
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p.s. I recorded this episode while sitting on a rock in the mountains, so you may hear some wind in the background. May this wind give your seeds wings!!
Choosing Seeds
I remember reading about a Date Palm seed that was dormant for 2,000 years before bringing the plant back from extinction. Some seeds or creative ideas can lay dormant for a long time, waiting to be awakened.
Maybe you have some seeds in your pocket, heart, or back burner that have been waiting for sunlight, soil, water.
What do those nutrients symbolize? Perhaps the sunlight stands for the visibility of a potential collaborator or client, maybe the soil is an online platform to teach on, and the water is your own confidence to take action on the dreams lying dormant in the seeds.
What stage are your seeds currently at, and what to they asking of you?
In this episode we go more in-depth into:
Idea Gardens and stagnation
Clearing physical clutter to move energy
The 12 Houses of the Harvest Cycle
The role of overproduction and creativity
Solar and lunar transits
Some of us love to gather and collect seeds and have waaaay more than we can take care of. For a while I used to put these ideas into an “idea garden.” But even that can become stagnant.
Tend to your idea garden so it doesn’t become overgrown
It’s easy to pull a “weed” if it’s clearly unwanted, but what about all the seedlings that you feel attached to?
Take an inventory the ideas you have, deciding which ones are worth nurturing and which ones can be released or let go of
Create a burn pile as a symbolic way to release the energy of those ideas/seeds
Find ways to move materials and ideas that are not being actively worked with into circulation
Practice discernment in choosing which ideas to focus on, rather than trying to tend to too seeds many at once (easier said that done!)
The nature of nature is to overproduce, so having an active practice of composting ideas can be super important. If not, there wont be enough breathing room for what really matters, and the magic that wants to find you.
Recent burn piles for releasing seeds and ideas:
Physical forms are connected with energetic patterns. If a project has the energy of “someday” I find it accumulates and holds that energy in the form until it is released.
Keeping creative energy flowing
Clear physical clutter and spaces that have accumulated unused items or unfinished projects
Address areas of "stuckness" or backlog, even if they are not directly related to creative work because this can help free up energy in other areas
Trust the cyclical nature of creativity and allowing ideas to come and go, rather than trying to hold onto everything
“Someday-ness leads to stagnation.”
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Your presence is a gift,
April
Ep 20: Making Space for Seeds in the Idea Garden