First Harvest Aug 2

The feast of the First Harvest is Aug 2. I have two green peppers and a hot pepper that will be ready.  That is all.   BUT there are green tomatoes on the vine and all the squash and zucchini have flowers.  The beans and peas are high -- planted late this year because I was in the hospital in May.  I did not plant until late June.   So I am lucky to have a garden.  I need to weed.

So at the First Harvest we look back to the last Winter Solstice and contemplate the wish we made that Eve. 

Resigned to the evil I sense in the world.  This cycle I realized I have seen this evil smiling, calling me honey, in make-up and high heels.   I have also seen this evil as a sneering bully filled with self importance, who could not ever see her own truth.  At First Harvest I can say I won't get fooled, ever again. I am loving myself more cleanly than I ever have in the past.

My mind searching searching. Growing far from the seed, my toes dug in, arms up reaching, stretching, struggling to go higher reaching up up, flowers bursting from my fingers, all in my hair tendrils reaching for some anchor, welcoming the pollinators. 

I must make a fire and count my blessings.  First Harvest is the highest of all the fire holidays.  Time to re-energize and re-charge the will.

Painting: Garden Spirit by Faith Nolton, UK

Her Painting Gallery at SOUL GARDEN