Natural protection does not prevent us from blooming — A channeled message from ferns
Ferns, beautiful and beloved perennial plants, are wonderful dream companions and will offer their insight during our resting hours.
The growth pattern of ferns visually shows us what natural protection looks like–how it does not prevent a being from blooming, and instead supports its growth until it is gently released at the perfect time.
Bracken ferns have a white, airy, web-like filament around the frond as it begins to unfurl. Ostrich ferns have a brown papery covering over the frond and it stays with it into the fiddlehead stage.
These protective coverings hold the plant during this delicate phase. The whiteish filament is reminiscent of the vernix coating on an infant that develops in the last trimester of pregnancy.
While this protection is in place, holding the plant during its most vulnerable state, it does not stifle the fiddlehead’s unfurling.
Natural protection does not prevent us from blooming. Rather, it responds to our needs at each stage of our growth, easily slipping away as we unfurl into a fuller, more expansive version of ourselves.
So often as we move through life we develop layers of protection that we believe are keeping us safe. For many of us who are deeply sensitive, the world can feel that it was made for others, not for us.
Yet we are called to reshape the world, through our sensitive eyes, and lay the groundwork for a different experience for those deeply-feeling beings who come after us. When these adaptive, protective behaviors we’ve developed for moving through the world are preventing us from unfurling into the fullest expression of ourselves, we can look to fern to help us remember that our growth may mean that some layers of protection, appropriate for an earlier stage of growth, are no longer needed and can be released.
Ferns remind us that natural protection will always allow us to develop, move, grow and expand.
Natural protection is our own intuition and inner guidance, supported by our guides, angels, plant allies and the earth all around us. It supports our truest and fullest expression of self rather than leaving us feeling trapped in adaptive patterns that may feel safe and familiar, but don’t allow for our full bloom.
For those who are highly sensitive, ferns worn in the hair remind us of our natural protection, and support us in staying aligned and in harmony with our true selves.
We created this organic fern hair tie to support being in flow.
Ferns can help to prevent the mind from being intruded upon. This can allow the wearer to be gently held in the space of sustained focus.
