This time of year often brings out complaints about how everyone is ready for spring – people don’t like this barebones season. But it is in this season that we should appreciate even more the bounty that nature and our efforts have brought us and sustains us through this darker season. Here in Kansas and many other agricultural areas, this is the time when winter wheat, planted back in the fall, is getting its needed exposure to cold temps it needs to sprout in early spring. It’s the time when the soil rests and regenerates. This time of year may not FEEL like a time of abundance, but it is.
Likewise, we too can be abundant and be nourished at this time.
Blessings,
Thistle
Wheat – Harvest, Nourishment, Abundance (Restlessness, Seeking Roots)
Meaning: The time of the harvest is a time of abundance – of appreciation for all that Nature has given us. It is also a time for celebrating the results of your hard work, and choosing this card could indicate that it is time to stop working for a while, to take some time to appreciate your achievements and give thanks for the harvest of your life. It may be that you spend a great deal of energy sowing seeds and caring for your plants – working for the future and caring for your family – but it is vital that you also give yourself time to savor life in the moment and to enjoy the family as a community, a tribe, too.
This card may also suggest that you are entering a phase of abundance, bringing you riches in your relationships and in your spiritual, creative, and material lives. This is a card that symbolizes generosity: when your needs at a material and emotional level are satisfied, you are then free to focus on the gifts you can give to the world.
On the flip side, this card could indicate that you are having trouble settling in one place. You may long to go traveling, or to have a more flexible lifestyle. Or you could be experiencing quite the opposite feeling – you may have been moving often in recent times and now you feel that you need to settle and put down roots. Alternatively, perhaps you are torn between the nomad life, with all the excitement that movement and traveling can bring, and the settled, rooted life, which offers comfort and familiarity. It may help to remember that both the hunter-gatherer and the settled farmer live within us as ancestral archetypes, and that we can honor both at different times of our lives.
The Druid Plant Oracle by Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm and artist Will Worthington
Parting the Mists 
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