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Harvest Meditation
Please take a seat and clear your mind of what fills it now and hear my words:
As you are sitting, close your eyes and feel the yellow of the sunReach up with your arms and let your fingertips touch that yellowNow, lay back, with your arms extended and become a ray of the sunAs we all lay in a circle, we form the sun - we are all rays of this vivid starburst.
Look down to the Earth and see the fields ripe with the summer's abundanceFind your self in the center of this abundance holding a large willow basket, eager to begin your autumn harvest.
Step first into an expanse of sweet cornSee the erect, regal, green stalks of cornObserve a ripe ear on a particular stalk which extends to youUnder its scruffy whiskers kernels that sparkle like gold shine through. You are reminded of your own riches - both tangible and intangibleReach out and pick this ear and put it into your basket.
Leave the corn field and enter an orchard; an apple orchardSee the beauty of these trees, these majestic symbols of the GoddessFeel the fullness of her boughs - full of ruby red apples of knowledgeReach up, way up, and pick two. Put one in your basket and eat the other. Taste and enjoy this fruit - for in this garden tasting an apple is not forbidden.
Now move toward an onion field which beckons youOnce green, now browning spikes point up to you, tempting you to dig below..Pull gently and the ground gives birth to an iridescent, opal bulb, full of body and character and strengthA vegetable with the power to make you feel the power of tearsAdd this to your growing harvest.
Notice ahead thick bushes of ripened raspberriesSharp brambles protecting their precious, succulent garnetsThe sweet nectar of these berries remind you of your own sensuality - your own ability to feel, express, extend all that is soft and loving and warm to othersTake your time here and pick plenty of these supple jewels for your basket.
Step away now and look around youFind a patch of fruit or vegetables that appeals to youEnter it, admire its offerings, select a precious gem of your own to harvestChoose a resource to sustain you in the rapidly upcoming time of cold and darkness.Capture some warmth and light and savor its presence.
With your arms now laden with this basket of bountiful treasures, it is time now to restTake your harvest to the grassy knoll in the sun just beyond and sit and bask in the glory of its healing heatRest in contentment knowing you have collected that which you need to give you strength and nourishment in the winter days to come.
Put yourself back in the sky nowBecome the sun once againShine down upon yourself and your gatheringsAbsorb the energy of the fruits of your labors, bless these seeds you planted in the Spring and nurtured to fruition through the summerBe the sunShine down upon all that is good and good-givingGive the light of hope to all you shine upon.
When everything you have touched with your rays is full of your brightness, open your eyes and rejoin our circle.
-- Source Unknown
"All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn."
~ Iris Murdoch
The earliest works of art are paleolithic animal paintings discovered in prehistoric caves in southern France and northern Spain. The paintings date from 30,000 to 10,000 B.C.
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