Seeds of Harmony was inspired by the rich, beautiful and unique pomegranate fruit. It is published that each fruit holds an average of 600 ruby-red seeds. That’s an incredible amount of potency! The sheer abundance of this inspiring fruits’ seeds is enough to cause anyone to pause in great wonder and awe.
The shape of the fruit is rounded hexagonal. The number six holds the symbolic quality of absolute harmony. The ‘rounded’ (as in a circle) hexagonal shape suggests unending harmony – an unending, harmonious peel, bearing a fruit of 600 potent seeds! Our lives are already over-flowing with abundance and harmony simply awaiting pure recognition by us.
The pomegranate is also highly regarded as a symbol of fertility and growth. We all stand together, on profoundly potent soil, for planting and nurturing the true seeds of change. In this season of seemingly deep and expanding economic, environmental, political and moral challenges in our world, each pomegranate offers 600 seeds of hope. If, with each decision we make, we consider this simple question: will this decision foster harmony with all my neighbors (near and far) and with the earth? Perhaps then we would indeed quickly realize profound and vital changes in our world – and in ourselves. If a decision is good for our neighbors, it is indeed good for us as well. We are our neighbors. What one small seed might I plant today to support a fertile, balanced and harmonious presence for all of us?
The subtle serpent weaving among the branches of the pomegranate echoes a message of transformation and of growth. It speaks of shedding/leaving the old behind and growing into a new ‘skin’ – a very new way of moving in this world. What is it, I asked, that needs to die in my life to create space for something far more harmonious to be born? I remain hopeful we are collectively moving rapidly toward a place of realizing absolute harmony.
The edition size of 45 was chosen as a derivative of the number nine. Nine is symbolic of completion. We are in the healing process of ‘completing’ a huge transformational and profoundly vital change in the manner in which we live, consider and act - individually and collectively. This message is echoed in Seeds of Harmony with the potent and fertile volume of blood-red seeds (5400); the meandering serpent of transformation; and the harmonious and unending form of the nine pomegranates. When adding the numbers one through nine together the result is 45 – hence the edition size of 45.
© Carol Alleman 2010 |
