Late Blooming Beauty
The late bloomers within the seasonal regions are a love letter of inclusion and diversity from the plant realm. They are rule breakers and truth tellers. They disrupt the idea of there being a specific time to bloom and a specific time where everything seasonally ends. They proceed into the liminal spaces between seasons, showing their beauty far past the time we might expect it to be there.
Their message is about opening to the unexpected. Some plants bloom in spring and some bloom in late summer or early fall. There is room for each one.
As it is for us.
Many of our ideas about what is possible and when, are born purely from thought and mental ideas and not connected to the whole, or the rhythm of the natural world.
Each being has their own blueprint and a unique path for its unfolding to occur. Sometimes this can be interrupted by arbitrary societal ideas of when certain events and life moments are meant to happen. At times we have a belief, or inherit, overhear, or align to a belief, of how things are done, and we focus there, over what we know is within us.
As with fingerprints and snowflakes, we are all a unique universe unto ourselves, and an intricate important piece of the whole.
Letting ourselves bloom exactly and precisely when we are meant too is a gift to the entire landscape of humanity.
In the late summer when many flowers have begun to fade, goldenrod bursts onto the scene and turns the entire landscape around her into a glowing gold dreamscape.
Summer seems to be everlasting in her presence. She is inspiring, and carries us well into fall. At this same time dahlia continues to flower and bloom well into October. Other plants are giving way to the temperature change and decrease in daylight, but there she is, standing tall, moving with the winds of seasonal change.
These messengers are just two, of many, that show us the way. Be wary of anything that would limit you and your expansion based purely on an idea of time, or age, or any other restriction. Feel more honestly into your own heart and what you know is meant to unfold in your lifetime, and hold your focus there. There is room for every unique expression in the natural world.
Dahlia is a way-shower for holding healthy boundaries and allowing our own true expression to unfold. Work with this altar cloth to ground your vision for the changes that are occurring.
