Trillium erectum
Trillium is a rare jewel brightening the forest floor, quietly watching the darkness. She’s not waiting for ghouls or ghosts — she fears nothing in these dim-lit woods. No, Trillium is waiting on the first fleeting sparks of new life. Come, she says, drawing you deeper into the consciousness of the trees, let’s see what shall be born!
While she’s been awaiting births for millennia, Trillium’s recently developed her invisibility, quietly blending into leaf mulch and fern patches, the dark places where ideas are incubated. On the edge of the abyss of all and nothing, she’s ready to ease the transition from spirit to matter. Trillium helps with births; she often sees the first spark when other eyes still see darkness.
Ritual 
Daydreams are like seeds — we have so many, but few take root. How do you breathe life into an idea and create a new way of being in the world? From inception, the new seed needs to be nurtured or it will dry up and wither. So when you’re contemplating a fresh idea, give it some love. Envision it fully formed and living in the world. Then create a space for it to grow: a blank canvas, a folder on your desktop, or a cleared side table with an image representing this glorious thing that is to come.
Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. And the only way an idea can be made manifest in our world is through collaboration with a human partner. It is only through a human’s efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and into the realm of the actual.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Reflection
Oftentimes we have to cultivate the dark womb of self to foster the evolution of an idea or new self-awareness. This growth needs to be nurtured: buried in peat and fallen leaves, and left for sometimes inconceivably long periods before it’s ready to be born into the world. Sometimes it requires pinching off other ideas and choosing the one we will help grow strong.
