Posted on Sept 17, 2025

I have always wanted to grow an avocado seed into a plant. The unexplainable intricacies of nature’s divine commands have always had a mysterious pull on me. One day it’s a seed, the next so many days a plant, and years from now a whole tree. 

Am I the only one who finds that fascinating?

 So one day, as I cut open an avocado to eat, I had this strong desire to keep the seed. Stronger than usual. I am a person who doesn't like throwing away seeds or anything that still contains life, but there was this strange pull to keep the seed and that pull was hitting a little different that day. Little did I know, the Universe was up to something as I followed my gut by washing and preparing the seed for blooming.

I researched what it took to grow an avocado seed into a plant. In addition to being excited, it was also an exercise in patience because after four weeks of not seeing any progress, I was just about ready to give up. Still, then one day I noticed the seed had slightly split open. Then the weeks following, a sprout peeked out of the crack. Once the sprout was visible, I was confident that she would grow into a plant. I would talk to her and get excited when she grew an inch or two in a day. I would visibly see it. I swear her growth was a response to my energy of excitement and she seemed so happy. I named the sprout Iyah and nurtured her like she was my own child. Then one magical day, I had a beautiful baby avocado plant - Mission accomplished! Okay, so here is where things took a left turn. I never wanted my plant to be without light. I was at a point in my life where I interpreted darkness as the enemy. Obviously some where throughout that part of my life I forgot we all are born from darkness in our mother's womb. Around nine months of darkness, give or take. I later learned unbalanced darkness is what I was associating all darkness with for the most part. I'm specifying this part as a caveat to help lead up to a valid point in the story. I loved her so much, I wanted to shield her from darkness and allow her to experience only light. So instead of allowing her to sit in the dark at night like everything else, I strapped a flashlight on top of her and kept her in the light at night and during the day in a well-lit room full of sunshine. To sum it up, she grew into an extremely tall and thin plant with no girth. She physically could not hold herself up, so she stopped taking in nutrients and eventually died! I was so devastated! After all I had done to bond with her and grow her from a seed, to plant only to have killed her. This was not the outcome I envisioned. I needed to figure out what I did wrong and in doing so, I learned three extremely valuable lessons. 

The first lesson: Plants need an environment that consists of both darkness and light. Why? It’s the light that gives plants a lot of vitamins and nutrients, but it is in the dark where those nutrients synthesize and convert everything that plant took in during the day. Yep, I for sure did not know that! Must have missed that part during the research phase. I guess I was just too darn excited to get started.

Second lesson: As parents, we do the best we can with what we know or don’t know for that matter, right? I couldn't understand why my son struggled so much as an adult. I know I wasn’t a bad mother, but I knew there were some things that his father and I missed as parents because we had not yet had a chance to deal with our wounds before starting a family (which is vital with raising emotionally healthy children). I realized that I reared him like I grew my plant—always keeping him in the light and away from darkness. Always solving problems for him, never letting him fall, so he would know how to pick himself up when he did. So when I released him into the real world, he struggled until just recently when he began to heal his own emotional wounds without Mommy and Daddy's interference.

The third and final lesson: Is Enlightenment... Humans are no different than plants. We all connect—all living things do. It’s not enough to just give birth; you must learn what the soul you’ve given birth to needs mentally, emotionally, and physically for the betterment of the spirit. This is true for people, plants, and animals. So take that into consideration when you’re planning to bring any type of new life into this existence. The beautiful gift in missing that point before I brought life into this world is, I get to receive all the wisdom from the lessons I've learned. So in high insight, it's never really a loss in the way I view it today. Now if you were to ask me about lessons while I was in the thick of those actual experiences, some how I don't think it would have been words of wisdom just yet. LOL I'm just speaking my truth!

As a final note - I took the knowledge (which is now wisdom) and the lessons acquired and I grew another avocado seed. He is now five years old, and his name is Kitai after the Jaden Smith character from the movie After Earth. From that initial experience, fast-forward today, I now have 18 plants and five of them are seed grown avocado plants. Remember, none of us come here to be perfect, but to learn lessons and apply those lessons learned to ensure continued expansion. This is why it is said that experience is a good teacher - Thank you, Experience, for always collaborating with Universal commands in teaching me as I attend this University called Earth while I'm wearing my human suit!!!

Before I close this piece, I would like to share some information given to me by my spiritual guides. One day after meditation, my guides imparted upon me some information that shift my entire view of what it means to be “going through some things”. Spirit reminded me again that we are no different than plants. In our seed form, we sit in dirt and darkness, and a lot of shit (fertilizer) piles up on the top of us. As time goes on, we grow roots out of pressure and struggle, while family, friends, and strangers water us along the way. When the environment and the season is right, we use those roots to push through the dirt and all the bullshit, seeking light as we lift out of darkness, reaching for the sun, rising up and up into a beautiful version of our true self, where we begin to live on a different frequency and a higher vibration.

So the next time you see someone covered with dirt and always got some bullshit going on, remember that they are in their seed sprouting phase, and that they, too, will become a beautiful version of themselves when the season is ready for them to bloom!

What stage of spiritual growth are you in at this moment, and what are you doing to support your growth process?

This blog is a loosely snippet from a chapter in my book titled I Finally Stopped Fighting The Universe available on Amazon. If you are in need of assistance energy work, please email me with any questions regarding consulting, coaching, or any of my energy sessions. Or go to my services tab and select the service of your choice.

In the highest vibration and frequency of love - Amillah