Hello and thanks for reading this week's newsletter. I hope you're doing well as the time and season changes. 

Penny picked up some new plants for the garden yesterday, and they came with a metaphor!

What plants are in your garden? What conditions do they require and how are you tending them? Have soil and nutrient conditions changed? What's the light like?

What plants do you want to be in your garden? Are you trying to grow a particular plant in conditions that aren't suitable?

Should you change to a different plant?

Should you – or can you – change the conditions?

Are you asking something of nature or the universe that it isn't offering? 

What vantage point would allow you to see your advantage and how to proceed toward success? How do you define and recognize success and greatness or beauty in your garden (to borrow Douglas Brooks's Rajanaka terms). 

Could your emotions be a guide to working with your garden? Could they indicate the actions you need to take to tend your soul and cultivate the life you love and hope to live?

Do you need more, or less, water?

What about spacing and boundaries?

What's your tolerance for the temperature zone you're living in?

What about nutrients? Is something missing or is there too much of something? What fuels you?

Where is your attention being drawn?

What is your connection to the ground? How deeply are you rooted?

Those are some things I'm contemplating as the light shifts and another season rolls around.