Water the Roses

A Saturn in Aries reminder

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In the garden of your life, it’s easy to villainize the weeds. So voraciously do they steal the sun and gobble the earth around your precious roses.

It’s good to weed your garden. But sometimes our attention gets so consumed by the weeds of our lives, we can end up neglecting what we want to grow, forgetting to tend our vision for a better life. Prioritize what you are tending, not what you want to tear down.

With Saturn in Aries, there seems to be a mania of eradication. There is such a thing as over-weeding, as it can disturb the soil. Sometimes even the most unsightly weeds can help the garden, attracting pollinators and providing habitat for helpful insects.

Purity is its own poison. Your garden does not have to be “pure” to be abundant. You could pull the weeds forever, making your garden pristine, but sterile; cultivated, but bare.

But stop a minute. Imagine paradise… Is it not wild? Do the rivers not ramble? Does the wind not greet you when you least expect? Are there not creatures of all kinds?

It is within our power to create abundance in the garden. We all live among the same greenery, and smell the same flowers. To myself, I am a gardener; to others, I may seem a weed. Everything that grows is also a gardener. Let us not weed each other out, we who garden and grow. Let our roots tunnel deeply, and our shoots thrust up to the sun. God is both ways.