The Gardener

The gardener is a cultivator of soul, a regenerative keeper of seed, soil, and root...The gardener's function is regeneration...There is a natural entropy, or wearing down and using up, of psychic parts.

This is good, this is how the psyche is supposed to work, but one must have energies-in-training ready to backfill. This is the role of the gardener in the psychic work. He keeps track of the need for change and replenishing. Intrapsychically, there is constant living, constant death-dealing, constant replacement of ideas, images, energies.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés: Women Who Run With The Wolves (p419)