Star Gardens, a spiritual garden of gratitude at Rietvlei Farm
Released on: April 15, 2008, 3:07 am
Press Release Author: Rietvlei Farm
Industry: Entertainment
Press Release Summary: In Johannesburg, South Africa we found a farm with beautiful soft healing energy. For many years, the farm has been used for the education and entertainment of young and old from all walks of life. This beautiful farm belongs to the City of Johannesburg and is under threat of being developed. Rietvlei Farm is excited to introduce Star Gardens, a spiritual garden of gratitude.
Press Release Body: The Project manager of Star Gardens, Rene Geldenhuys is trained as a physiotherapist, acupuncturist and craniosacral therapist. Rene does energy balancing in the body and assist patients to deal with ascension symptoms. She believes that man must live closer to earth for their mutual healing. She is passionate about healing of the planet and its inhabitants.
Design and landscaping, Winks Girdwood from Nelspruit, South Africa. Winks says \"The earth and her healing are my life. I am honored to have been the instrument through which this garden has come into being and give thanks to Rene who has seen the significance and made it a reality.
Winks says: \"The Star Gardens have been developed over the past three years.\" The body of the garden is made up of thirteen star symbols which I was prompted to relay to paper by my guide, an ancient being whose name is Bendai. Each symbol is a galaxy within its universe. Each galaxy has a people which, in time, came to planet earth to create the peoples of this earth as we know it today in all their diversities. A few words are attached to each symbol to point one in the direction of the necessary area of healing.
Designing these symbols into a garden I was drawn to the sacred geometry of the Fruit of Life. Drunvalo Melchizedek describes this as "one of the holiest and most sacred forms in existence". Added to these 13 symbols are three more to bring in the male, female and relationship aspects.
The plants, crystals, sands and water used within each symbol will be used to create vibrational remedies.
The lines of the square, triangle, six pointed star and hexagonal will be laid out as pathways joining all the circles creating a unique labyrinth. Unlike one pathway in and one out this design permits a person a choice of directions. Simply by standing within the circle of choice will begin a process of healing for the individual. A persons inner knowing will always set them on the needed path and within the needed circle.
As you step into the Universes of this garden close the fear from your minds. Open your hearts, feel the purity, feel the peace, feel the love, feel the joy, be the gratitude and permit the light of who you are to join with that of the stars as the beams radiate across our land and the globe bringing peace to our 'rainbow nation' and the peoples of our planet earth.\"
Labyrinths go far back in antiquity. Through the centuries, they were laid out in many countries and during the thirteenth century were created in many cathedrals as a representation of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land during the crusades.
Labyrinths have been used as meditation tools for over 4000 years. The labyrinth has deep significance for many people and is regarded as healer of past sadness and the bringer of a sense of release. The idea is that as you walk inwards, you leave behind daily stress and worries. Take time at the centre to receive clarity, then walk out into the world and face life with newly received clarity.
A labyrinth has no dead ends, but has just one path which leads, after complex meandering, to the centre, where a pause for meditation is taken before taking the same path back and out. A labyrinth may be drawn out on a level surface, to a specific design and may be planted or done with painted stones.
There is a strong dividing line between a labyrinth and a maze. A maze is regarded as a puzzle to be solved in a light-hearted way, as barriers are met, forcing one to find a different way. A labyrinth has no such barriers, only with sharp turns to slow down the walker.
As Pythagoras taught, Sacred Geometry is an ancient, universal language (land-guage). Geometric formations hold information and communicate ideas; not necessarily at a cognitive level, but often at a cellular level. They in-form us on a cellular level, just as our cells, the building blocks of our physiology, inform our bodies, providing a template for our development. Our cells are vehicles of involution; the movement from spirit to matter, as well as vehicles of evolution; movement from matter to spirit. One such tool of Sacred Geometry is the Phi Ratio, the number 1.6180339... (1.618 is commonly used) The progression or development of the whole of nature, from the subatomic to the super galactic, follows this ratio.
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