Spring Tree Meditation

(from the Be Like a Tree book, spring moving meditation set:)

By now you are standing up. You are now no longer the seed, and you are beyond the sprout stage. You have been growing rapidly in this spring and now your flowers are forming. The seed has the intention, a plan of sorts. A theoretical blueprint, still subject to your revisions. But the flower is what you have to show.

The petals form around the mandala in the center. Now it is up to you to decide what your flower petals will be. If you choose love as your mandala offering of this flowering, for example, the petals around it might be the things about love that you wish to focus on. 

Maybe the things you love to do will be your petals as you open to the sunshine of this season. Perhaps certain loved ones come to mind.

This is the stage, flowering, in which high magic can happen. The flower represents putting forth your ideas, your unique pattern, your special perfume and color, offering these as a gift of love and beauty. Others of the same sort will even be able to cross pollinate, resulting in an interaction that could be a synergistic improvement of both. Or a new sort of fruit. Or an idea so inspired that it will take the best of many combined! 

If you have a flower in you, let's see it. The season of favorable conditions has arrived, and it is time to bloom! Dance around now...you can forget about roots for a little moment and have a spring fling, tossing your best into the fragrant and full breezes. BE the flower of your dreams, sing your love song to the listening air. Spin stories, wear your finest colors. Whisper your fondest hopes with flower kisses into the wet and sunny rainbow clad sky.

Everything in nature contains all the power of nature. Everything is made of one hidden self. --Ralph Waldo Emerson