Magical Gardens: Myths, Mulch and Marigolds - Softcover

Monaghan, Patricia

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9781567184662: Magical Gardens: Myths, Mulch and Marigolds

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567184669 ISBN 13: 9781567184662

Publisher: Llewellyn Publications, 1997

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Attune with the deep spirituality of the Earth as you learn to plan, create, and enjoy the fruits of your very own magical garden. Your garden can be a magical place and you can be a "magical gardener," a person who takes a soulful approach to tending green things. In Magical Gardens by Patricia Monaghan, you'll discover how to listen for the spiritual messages your garden offers and consciously nurture your connection between the soil and your soul.

Magical Gardens is a book that will inspire the garden in your heart as well as the one outside your door. Sixteen perennial garden plans with easy-to-follow schematic drawings will help you create spaces that enrich your senses, engage your imagination, and entwine your self with your spirit.

Being a magical gardener is more than just planting certain herbs, edibles, and flowers. Included in this beautifully illustrated book are myths and legends that will put meaning and life back into your connection with the Earth. You'll discover how to use meditations, rituals, and even how to work with your dreams so you can create not just a garden, but a truly magical garden. Among the models that will help you plan your own growing area are:

- The Angel Garden
- The Fairy Garden
- Kuan Yin's Garden of Mercy
- The Witch's Garden
- The Sorcerer's Secret Garden
- Bast's Cat Garden

All the ingredients for magic are here. Just add a rich mulch of the garden myths and rituals and seed with the meditations from this book―you'll soon reap the spiritual benefits of tending your own enchanting magical garden.

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About the Author:

One of the leaders of the contemporary earth spirituality movement, Patricia Monaghan (1946 - 2012) had spent more than 20 years researching and writing about alternative visions of the earth. Raised in Alaska, where much of her family still lives, she considered herself blessed to have learned the ecology of the taiga, the subarctic forest, in her youth. She was a writer and reporter on science and energy-related issues before turning her attention to the impact of mythic structures on our everyday lives.

The worldwide vision of the earth as feminine--as a goddess, called Gaia by the Greeks--led her to recognize the connection between ecological damage and the oppression of the feminine in Western society. Much of her work since that time had explored the question of the role of feminine power in our world, in an inclusive and multicultural way.

An avid traveler, Patricia had researched earth spirituality and goddess worship on three continents, and traveled widely in Europe, especially in Ireland. She held dual US/Irish citizenship and edited two anthologies of contemporary Irish-American writing.

Patricia was member of the resident faculty at DePaul University's School for New Learning in Chicago, where she taught science and literature. She passed from this world in November 2012 and is survived by her husband, Dr Michael McDermott.

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