AUTUMN IS… :: Autumn is like standing on the bridge between the fun, frivolity of summer and the dark, quiet, rest of winter. This in-between place of fall is an entire metaphor for transition. More dramatic in the number of changes than most other seasons, I contend, Autumn is the symbol for transformation.
It is a cornucopia for the senses – helping us move away from the free fall of overthinking – if we are open to being positively distracted. What does autumn hold for the landscape of you?
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Eat your vegetables. Eat your dahlias? Originally classified as a veggie, dahlia’s edible tuber fed a great many during France’s potato crop devastation in the mid-1800’s. France? Interesting, I know, because this solar radiant reminiscent symbolic flower (say that 10x fast) finds its roots (ha!) in Central America known for donning the royal garb of the ancient Toltecs and Aztecs; and balancing blood sugar levels (tuber), and treating skin infections (petals) by native Mexican tribes in the pre-Spanish era. It was the Spanish “explorers” who brought this flower’s beauty and benefit to Europe. This is a plant with quite the passport over the centuries. She sure has traveled.
And she helps us as we travel to the edge of summer. Revered as the most popular flower for summer – perfect for bouquets set upon your altar, shrine, nature table – Dahlia helps move us gracefully from summer into the next season as the “Queen of the Autumn Garden”. She helps with transformation. No wonder butterflies feed on this flower. I like to use dahlia outside for the inside. She holds many symbolic messages liken to creativity, inner strength and stands tall representing integrity, intention, commitment to one’s sacred values. As her petals start to fade, I bring them in to dress our salads. An ode to the Fire symbol of Summer, she reminds me of my radiance, strength and sanctity.
Thru Dahlia, I reconnect to the ancients and I feel grace. That’s a perfect aperitif for nurturing the Sanctuary of me across all the places and spaces I BE and go. A worthy plant in recipes for sanctuaries. Want a sacred space that is more than just another pretty place? One that soothes your senses, digs deep for your wellbeing and helps you set that stress down to #BeYourOwnSanctuary?
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Story goes that ancient Hawaiian culture believes that when you think of something you connect energetically with that person, place, or thing. Think of that web! No wonder the idioms “clear the cobwebs in your mind”, huh? So many cords going out AND coming in from all directions. Makes you want to pump up your energetic hygiene routine, doesn’t it?
Luckily there’s a plant to help us with that! The Ti plant, known in Latin as Cordyline terminalis is the cord line termination plant. Its flower essence is used for space clearing of any dark, heavy, ungrounded, untethered energies and it brings light (POWER!) into your space. It’s said to break any magic that’s not good for you coming towards you.
Designerly speaking, as I curate container gardens, I love using this plant as a sentinel near the back or most commonly used door of the house. Very easy to grow, (though sadly can’t hang with our prolonged ice-rain-snow winter scenario in the PACNW, but who can, I mean, really?) My instinct and intention in its selection as pottery “jewelry” is to work the angle of focal point, yes, AND as a plant for the recipe of sanctuary making to be the energetic postal worker: “nah, nah negative vibe, we are returning your negative cord back to sender”.
And here’s a bonus! In our enviro, this plant will over-winter so long it doesn’t stay too cold/too wet AND it works well as a bridge plant from spring into fall. Just know, colorations vary but steadfast in helping keep that sticky energy web off ya. Oh yes, much more than just a pretty face Cordyline is.
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Welcome my Soil-Soul-Sister & Brother! I'm Annie Red Bird, ready to style for your serenity & dig deep for calm, connection & creativity in your everyday #HealingGardenHappyPlace.
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