BIRTHING A GODDESS GARDEN

By MarVeena-Vision Seeker

The birthing of my  Goddess Garden  was magical indeed.  In 2001, I was able to purchase a beautiful ranch in east Texas  below market value. The ranch-style house on the property was pretty typical. The view out my front window was anything but typical. It was nothing. Like a whole empty-football-field nothing.

My front yard was an acre and a half with six trees. There were a few more trees on the rest of the acreage, but my front yard was lonesome looking.

I had always wanted a magical-Goddess space. Now, I had room for a labyrinth. My best friend lives down the road from me. I told her about my idea and she said she happened to have some flowers we could plant in it. Some translated into one hundred, six-inch pots of Mexican petunias.  (I really don't know how someone comes to have one hundred, six-inch pots of flowers, but I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth).  Mexican petunias are small and they make a nice little shrub with beautiful purple flowers on them.   She brought them over and I had petunias everywhere waiting to be planted. It was getting really hot so it was important to get them in the ground ASAP!

I drew my design off a basic seven-circuit labyrinth. We drug out those pots and laid out our garden. Chaos was rampant!  It is one thing to look at a drawing on paper and another to get in the juicy middle of it and get the plants going in the right directions. It took us two weeks of hard digging to plant all of them.   Our little butts were up in the air all day and it was hot! It was June in Texas , which means it was already 95 degrees. My friend and I went through gallons of sweet tea as we planted.

Finally we got them in the ground and put root starter in each hole. I spent the rest of July watering and fussing over the plants trying to keep them happy and alive!   Then, I started dreaming some more, and thought I need some stones for my walking path. I sent out my desire for stones in the labyrinth and let it go. For my birthday, about a month later, my mother gave me a gift certificate for Home Depot. I sashayed over there with my pick up truck and loaded up a pallet (each pallet held 30, 12 inch stones) and came home.

Since I really wanted it to have a very feminine energy, and not have any negativity with its birthing, I didn't let my husband or anyone else help me unload the stones or place them.   I only worked on it when my husband was gone to work. Not that he would have resented it.  It would have been a chore to him and I didn't want that kind of energy in the space. Every stone that I placed in the garden, I consecrated and blessed it with a special prayer and quality of its own. Each stepping stone has a prayer and when you step on it you awaken that blessing for yourself.

It took me forever! My truck could only haul 30 at a time. Which was good, cause 30 is quite a few for one woman to handle. Several other family members happened that year to give me gift cards for Home Depot or cash for my birthday. I used all of it on my labyrinth project.  We are talking 180 stones.  This was cool because 1+ 8+ 0 = 9, and 9 is a completion number in my medicine path of heart. It took me a couple of months to get my stones in place, blessed and consecrated.

I thought it was cool how special women to me were instrumental in getting the labyrinth going and helped birth it - my mother, sisters and best friend.

It is still evolving. Every year, I split the plants, and fill in the rows between the stones. Eventually, I would like the plants to completely line the walk. I, also, want to add enough stones that they go edge to edge. But, for now, it is pretty. It is August, and the garden is in full bloom. The petunias are bright and gorgeous!

In the center of the garden, I have a beautiful statue of Mother Mary. She is my representation of the Goddess. Since I am in the buckle of the Bible Belt, she works great here!

On the Full Moons, I host a Labyrinth walk and Moon ceremony. Often, we will do a burning bowl ceremony which has been powerful for all of us. I am tickled that some of the women in my group bring their daughters.  They have grown up in the circle. Since they have been coming from the age of ten years, they have personally witnessed major prayers and magic that have come to be. We have manifested puppies, banished pimples, and mended broken hearts there.

So, they are quite the little believers in magic! It is so awesome to hear the prayers of children and be a part of that time in their life.

For the most part, my moon circles are female only. I have a son, and once in a while, he and his young friends have joined the moon ceremony - usually, when a pretty and young girl is participating. It has been an opportunity for me to share the medicine with him and his friends as well.

My dream for my Goddess Garden is to see her evolve even more; be a place to pray to the Goddess; hear the Goddess and celebrate the seasons. I would love to see a healing of the Divine Feminine here on this plane and a rebirthing of the Feminine Mysteries.

All of this takes intending and a place to hold that dream and spiral the power out to the universe.

Bright Blessings!

MarVeena-Vision Seeker