I’ve been calling the market garden at Lopemede ‘The Sacred Garden’. I wasn’t sure what the garden would turn out to be, but I was clear in my mind that it wasn’t going to be a conventional parallel rows, intensive food production garden. And in a dream one night I clearly saw the collapsed geometry of a Metatron’s cube type-structure, represented in 2 dimensions, I have been seeing the geometry of a double square-based pyramid since then, which feels like the basis for our individual human geometry, and the boundaries of our auras or subtle bodies. I use the pyramid form in my healing sessions now, and it feels like a very powerful way to create a container of love and light for deep healing to take place.
The garden therefore, is designed to anchor the same healing energy into the site where it’s based, and hopefully to seed this out into the land and beyond. Lofty ambitions I know, but this is what has come to me in my many meditations with the devas and angels of the land there. It was a battle at first trying to work out the geometry, how to translate that into reference points on the ground, and how to plant them. After a few weeks of frustrated (non)progress, a friend recommended I read the Perelandra Garden Workbook by Machaelle Wright (https://perelandra-ltd.com/the-perelandra-garden-workbook.html). That was a turning point for me as I finally understood how to get my intellectual thinking brain out of the way, and how to enter a soft space of meditative contemplation that allowed the messages from the garden to come through.
And that’s how the name The Sacred Garden came about. Because the very nature of working with the energies of nature in this way felt like something sacred, to be respected and treated with reverance. It was so tough at the beginning, and it felt at many times that the garden was working against me. But today as I pulled up endless tufts of rye grass, I was reflecting on how I was removing the old to make way for the new. What in me and in my life am I making way for. I have been through many identity transformations in my time, but this certainly feels like the most profound. We moved to Lopemede last August, and I think I am only now (just over 10 months later) starting to adjust to life here. I am no longer a veterinarian or a widlife geneticist, my degrees and publications don’t matter here. I am to all intents and purposes a herbalist and a market gardener, and I am learning to soften, to let people into my world, and to surrender to the rhythm of a wild and unpredictable land.
So as I tend and preserve the sacred geometry that I have so carefully mapped out in physical reality, I am also tending and adjusting the crystalline pyramidal geometry of my self. I am trying to look beyond the thistles and the grass that constantly overwhelm my carefully marked out beds, and I am doing my best to hold on to the vision of what is being created there. Magic is happening in the soil as the different nature spirits move in with the plants that I place there. There is a buzz amongst them, as if they are excited to co-create the symphony playing out here. This is all in context, as around the garden there is a plot of newly sown heritage wheat, there are tender oaks, and grazing sheep. The sunsets here are magical, and the moon shines on like a beacon to another world.
I know I will get there, though the progress is painstakingly slow. With each week that passes I see the garden maturing and the geometry settling more and more into place. It feels much more harmonious now than in the early days, and I am not feeling quite so drained by working there. But certainly it feels like there is much more to come. I am waiting for my band of green helpers to emerge, those who understand and are aligned with what I am trying to do here. It is not for everyone, and offers to work here have been politely sidelined by a few people already, but it feels like Mother Gaia has called me here to do this work, and I feel a responsibility to do so and to do it well. To be true to the message, to be true to the land, to be true to the future that the geometry is anchoring in. I have seen communities with interweaving skills, I have seen trade and bartering rather than money and expenses, I have seen self-sufficient homes and respect for animals, I have seen free power and longevity. I don’t know what the timeline will be for these things to appear on the Earth, but I hope I will get to experience some of them before I move onto my next soul’s journey.
But for now, I am a herbalist, a healer, and a gardener, and this land is my sacred space.