Have you got a voodoo spell to make my garden grow?
Last spring a lady from Kent, southern England, called me asking if my magic could help her garden grow. I nearly laughed – mostly because no one has asked me that before!
But then I remembered how I’d spent some time at a Rudolf Steiner center in the West Country when I was around 19 or 20. They had a whole system of esoteric gardening which was dependent on the phases of the moon and communing with elemental spirits – a system not dissimilar to that found at the Findhorn community in Scotland.
Anyway, the upshot was I went to see the lady in Kent and we landscaped the garden and tended it according to the esoteric precepts I’d learned at the Steiner center many years ago. We even set out special wild places for nature spirits like sylphs and elves.
Using these methods, she had a bumper year and looks set for another one this year.
I’m not saying this was just down to me. More than anything, it was about treating the land – our planet – with respect and honor. That is what brings beautiful returns.
