March 20, 2025

I learned something fun about snowdrops during an Instagram Scroll today.  I haven’t found sharing IG links in my blog format to be very successful, so I wrote down what intrigued me from the video text.  A man from @walkwilduk, gave 3 fascinating points about the late winter flower, Snowdrops.

Snowdrops, he informed, are packed full of magic.  Firstly, they are built to survive the winter landscape. They generate their own heat.  The flower creates warmth by an in-built process called Thermogenesis.  They actually melt the snow around them.  (See photo)

Secondly, they have a built in antifreeze.  Their antifreeze proteins help them survive even in cold snowy conditions.  And third, in a manner of speaking, they predict the weather.  They open and close in response to temperature, so you can watch them to anticipate the weather.

“Snowdrops,” I thought while watching the short video, “make an interesting metaphor for the task at hand.“   We too are full of magic, we have a special inner processes for generating warmth and hope around us.  It involves opening the human heart.  

Many things cause jolts of concern these days.  Jolts that can cause our minds to scatter and our hearts to contract.  Every time this happens, we need only open our hearts again.  Opening our hearts again to generate our radiant inner warmth.

By following any personal contraction with a heart opening, we create a rhythm of opening and closing, opening and closing.  This rhythm causes a movement forward rather than falling back.  It’s like the piston action of an engine.  By doing this simple opening after each jolt, we carry our lives forward and affirm that spring is actually on the way.

Hold the faith, dear ones, hold the faith, being of strong mind and open heart,

And feel the love, always,
💜 💛 Mayet

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