Tending Your Energetic Garden: A Metaphor for Growth and Transmutation

In the height of summer, those of us with gardens know the ritual well: stepping outside with morning coffee, breathing in the warmth of the season, and admiring the beauty we’ve nurtured into being. Bright blooms, thriving plants, perfectly placed stones—it’s a whole scene of our care and attention.

And yet, where do our eyes inevitably go first? The weeds.

The ones we thought we’d finally conquered last week. The ones we yanked out by hand, roots and all, only to have a few days of rain bring them back with renewed audacity.

For me, it’s thistle. The stubborn, spiny little rebel of my garden. If thistle had a personality, it would be a mischievous toddler sticking out his tongue, singing, “Nanny nanny boo boo… you can’t catch me.” And truthfully? It’s annoying. Sometimes it’s all I can see, and in that moment, it threatens to steal the joy from everything else I’ve worked so hard to grow.

But here’s where the choice comes in: I can let that one weed ruin my morning and color the way I see my whole garden… or I can remember the bigger picture.

Weeds as a Mirror for Our Energy

Weeds aren’t just garden intruders. They’re teachers. They mirror what’s happening energetically within us.

When we pull weeds in a garden, we’re not just cleaning up appearances—we’re creating space. Space for sunlight to reach smaller sprouts. Space for flowers to flourish. Space for the plants we intentionally chose to grow strong and healthy.

It’s the same for us humans. Our “inner weeds”—old stories, outdated beliefs, unresolved emotions, recurring frustrations—crop up when we think we’ve finally moved on. They return because there’s still something to see, to release, to fully pull out by the roots.

The act of clearing those energetic weeds is what makes room for transformation. When we acknowledge what no longer belongs and allow it to surface fully, we make space for growth, manifestation, and an entirely new vibration of energy to flow through us.

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Lauri

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