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In looking up the word plant and I was amused. It said that a plant is something or someone who is secretly introduced into an organization in order to influence the behavior of its members. This implies to me an intentional action, something that was set upon to do for a reason to create some sort of change in a system that perhaps wouldn’t change or move in that direction otherwise. While I am seeking this type of change actively in my life, I thought it was noteworthy to think about the quality of what we put into our daily life and what affect of which that has on our inscape that we are unaware. In this case, the plant is love! The qualities of love are compassion, enthusiasm, mercy, grace and charity. It is also longing and desire. We are asked by Goddess to plant LOVE into our spirit, the longing, desire, the compassion and the grace of the Holy Ones in our spirit.
So who are the Holy Ones? This is not a straight forward answer but a nuanced mesh that leaves many openings for us to explore. My mind moves from “the redeemed brethren” from Rev. Robert Kirk to the ancestors, guides and spirits that live, move and have their being in the divine river of eternal unity, known in Craft as the River of the Goddess. These are our spiritual companions who ever seek the breast of the Sacred Mother as our source and sustenance.
As I wander down the grey paths of the hidden realms, my inner spirit notices two parts to this emerging as active dynamics: One is an active planting of the love agenda or qualities in our spirit, which would then make us more like the holy attributes, and allow it to become that our decisions would be influenced by that inner directive. Like adding a flavor to a soup, we would find our sauce, our veggies and our meat all influenced by this flavor automatically, and ideally made tastier and greater than the soup would be otherwise. A sacred movement of bland to tangy!
The second is those persons who have Love as their trait. This would by extension put us into deliberate presence and relationships with the intention of bringing us into alignment with friends and companions outside us who uphold the very values that we are looking to embrace. This has as the added value of finding ourselves being modeled decisions that follow the inner directive of our spirit, a community in which to ask for wisdom and we could enter into trust with that inner directive because it is brought forward by people whose informants are in league with love as the inner landscape and quest. We also become the community of souls that are available to others to as a medium of mercy and grace to the world.
As I am thinking about this, my mind moves to those who make love into an effete feeling: lacking power or inward strength. Love does not ask us to be door mats and especially does not ask us to uphold actions that are contrary to our spirits. Love asks us to be honest, straight forward, open to the inner hearts of those around us, to be willing to offer ours and those around us the grace to enable change when an incongruity to Love is discovered. Love is the law, not a suggestion. All magical practices, Spiritual practices, inner goals and relationships that we foster should be done through the lens of Love as it’s guide and guardian. Love is not the caboose on the train but instead is the engine that guides the soul on its track towards to the foothills of experience and enlightenment. Love gathers power and builds power, it does not remove it from ourselves or another. It does not mask its needs, it listens intently to its children and feeds them. It does not pretend to know something it does not. It upholds grace and truth as its mantra. We don’t have power, we are power!
So who are the Holy Ones? This is not a straight forward answer but a nuanced mesh that leaves many openings for us to explore. My mind moves from “the redeemed brethren” from Rev. Robert Kirk to the ancestors, guides and spirits that live, move and have their being in the divine river of eternal unity, known in Craft as the River of the Goddess. These are our spiritual companions who ever seek the breast of the Sacred Mother as our source and sustenance.
As I wander down the grey paths of the hidden realms, my inner spirit notices two parts to this emerging as active dynamics: One is an active planting of the love agenda or qualities in our spirit, which would then make us more like the holy attributes, and allow it to become that our decisions would be influenced by that inner directive. Like adding a flavor to a soup, we would find our sauce, our veggies and our meat all influenced by this flavor automatically, and ideally made tastier and greater than the soup would be otherwise. A sacred movement of bland to tangy!
The second is those persons who have Love as their trait. This would by extension put us into deliberate presence and relationships with the intention of bringing us into alignment with friends and companions outside us who uphold the very values that we are looking to embrace. This has as the added value of finding ourselves being modeled decisions that follow the inner directive of our spirit, a community in which to ask for wisdom and we could enter into trust with that inner directive because it is brought forward by people whose informants are in league with love as the inner landscape and quest. We also become the community of souls that are available to others to as a medium of mercy and grace to the world.
As I am thinking about this, my mind moves to those who make love into an effete feeling: lacking power or inward strength. Love does not ask us to be door mats and especially does not ask us to uphold actions that are contrary to our spirits. Love asks us to be honest, straight forward, open to the inner hearts of those around us, to be willing to offer ours and those around us the grace to enable change when an incongruity to Love is discovered. Love is the law, not a suggestion. All magical practices, Spiritual practices, inner goals and relationships that we foster should be done through the lens of Love as it’s guide and guardian. Love is not the caboose on the train but instead is the engine that guides the soul on its track towards to the foothills of experience and enlightenment. Love gathers power and builds power, it does not remove it from ourselves or another. It does not mask its needs, it listens intently to its children and feeds them. It does not pretend to know something it does not. It upholds grace and truth as its mantra. We don’t have power, we are power!
