A lover of the night.
Once the sun begins to set, something awakens in me. I’ve heard myself say this more times than I can count. It’s true. A part of myself comes to life at night. However, this relationship with the night is one I have not always readily embraced. I’ve found myself in a season where embracing the quiet of the night has become more difficult.
I’m in graduate school training to be a couples & family therapist and working part-time as a barista so most of my time is spent learning/practicing and fueling the coffee addictions of the Washingtonians in the early morning hours. I’m a person who likes eight hours of sleep at night so hopefully you can see my dilemma of embracing the night quite as easily these days.
So why the night garden?
This space was inspired by an individual I came to observe in the human design space, a fellow Manifestor with ego authority. In the spring, I became a member of their community where I have had the gift of playing in the liminal spaces for brief moments when I have the time — they call them Inner Expeditions.
One expedition I dropped into was called The Night Gardens". Somehow, those ~13 minutes being guided by a delicious soundscape into my imagination tapped me into a deep well of unexamined beauty, imagination, curiosity, and potential that has softened my already tender heart and something is opening within me that wants to be expressed — this is me honoring that inner nudge.
Since then, my relationship with this beautiful night garden created in my head has bloomed into something more beautiful than I can articulate at this moment. Symbols, fragrances, and communion with my ancestors have become so vivid and rich. I keep going back to this garden over and over, each time leaving in awe and often in tears at what reveals itself in this sacred place.
My hope for The Night Garden is for it to be a peaceful place to come and share what’s unfolding in the quiet more hidden parts of my life. To explore archetypes, healing, and somatic transformation at the root level. Social media no longer feels like a place I desire to share at this depth. So I needed a place where I could be a few steps away from the weight of the eyes of family or friends. (If you do happen to be a beloved, and have found your way here, welcome). So here I am.
This is a space for those unafraid of the shadow and who are craving depth and rooted beauty in the midst of what feels like a time when the world is crumbling around us. My hope is that the lamp posts being lit in this garden, the light of the fireflies, and the moonlight will serve us and help us hold onto what is beautiful, even if we cannot always see it. I hope to explore the ecosystem through metaphor and have some fun with it.
That is what The Night Garden is for me.
May the path become illuminated by every step I take.
Here’s to one lamp post being lit.
Mel
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