These last 2 years I’ve been exploring the meaning of ‘roots’ and the substance that is imbued within them. Are our roots strong, sturdy, and deep? Or are they thin, fragile, and shaky in the midst of the uncertainty of life and this current time we are facing?
When I saw this hibiscus plant in the store, I felt strongly drawn to it—and especially to its overripe, highly developed roots growing out through the container and wrapping itself around the pot. I was fascinated to see these physical, tangible roots with my very eyes!
To see the solid strength and ground that gives the plant life force energy to grow, stretch and flower externally and visibly in the world…often we can only see the fruit or flower that appears in the world, and we don’t always see the deeply embedded roots that are the true strength and life giving substance to the whole plant, flower or tree.
And like a flower or tree, our own roots are the foundation for our growth, flowering and external expression and manifestation in the world.
Personally, in this time of being in the soil of the earth, and being underground—with no blooms or flowers to bear, I have a deeper appreciation for roots and just how important they are for any achievement, culmination, blossoming, or expression in the external world.
Some people could say that these roots from the hibiscus plant look ugly. Yet to me, I see them as alive, intelligent, magical and beautiful in their own right. They are nutrient rich. Fertile. Alive. Resilient. They hold substance.
Depth, substance and the scent of realness is one of the most important things to me.
I am tired of living in a world of facades, fakeness, artificial pretences, mental constructs and the honouring of only what is seen tangibly in the world (the bright, the beautiful and the most visibly obvious), and not the invisible elements and layers that make the external expression and flowering possible. To honour both spectrums of life, living and dying, that happens within us simultaneously as organic beings.
It’s beautiful to see a plant, flower, tree or human blooming in full ripeness—and its equally as beautiful to see a living being that is not externally producing any fruit, accomplishments or colours, but is simply resting in the ground of the earth…deepening…growing substance…maturing its roots and being submerged in the great void and darkness.
The darkness is a fertile incubator for what is true, real, and essential. It speaks to us, in silence there is wisdom that deepens and emerges organically. 🌜🧿🌛
So if you find yourself also not externally “blooming” in the world right now, and simply resting deeply back into your roots and ground of being, know also that this is a sacred process of soul maturation and ripening, that is fertilizing the substance of the real and essential within you...
One day a ripening of a creation, inspiration or birthing of something will rise up through your roots and flower into the world as a tangible offering, creation, expression and physical blooming that will be seen, celebrated and acknowledged by the world—which was all possible because of this time of rooting down, nourishing the soil of your soul and grounding into that deeper timeless wisdom that can only be found in the darkness of space, silence, stillness and roots of gestation and incubation.
To honouring strong and deep roots....in ourselves, in what’s essential and in the ground of existence in which all things arise and flourish from.
Love, Nicole ❤️
