I tend to work with only a few close flower friends at a time. I find there’s more space to understand their complexities this way, similar to the depth of relationship you can cultivate when you focus on just a few special people in your life.

For years, calendula has been one of those friends, and she’s come back around as a featured flower in my life for the past 5 or so months now.

I’ve been able to witness just how vast calendula’s healing potential is. 

From heart healing to energetic devotion to intimacy strengthening, calendula finds us in the places that ask for reciprocity. This ally helps us resolve any stickiness in our flow between giving and receiving.

However, her messages lately haven’t just been personal. I’ve been witnessing her come up in client sessions and group channellings, too, with some variation of the same message:

It’s time to reimagine our personal relationship to “economy”.

How has the defined structure of the system we live in kept you engrained in limited ways of resource exchange?

Right now, calendula is inviting us to get creative, and maybe even have fun with resource exchange.

Bring back bartering. Trade services for goods. Feed your neighbors. Give offerings to the plant world. Consider offering a limited sliding scale. Gamify your business plan.

Break free from the idea that the only way to survive is to hustle 24/7 doing work that doesn’t fulfill you. Be in reciprocity with all of life and watch how it feeds you.