Last Updated on July 10, 2025 by Tejaswini

Today everyone wants to ‘manifest’ their desires. Every website on energy and consciousness has a section on how to manifest your desires but in 10-steps and after paying them a fee! But here, it is for free and in one simple and enjoyable step.

Plant a seed! Literally..

First, think about what you really want. What is the desire you wish to manifest. Logically human desires are generally of the following categories.

1. Finances
2. Health
3. Profession
4. Relationships
5. Spirituality

Then go to your local garden supplies shop and choose your seed. Choose a robust plant, which you can plant from a seed, suited to the place and season you are in.  You will now be charging this seed with your intention and use it to manifest this desire. It is as simple as planting it in a pretty pot, watering it and caring for it. Adding your intention and watching it manifest your desire. This is a secret of the Universe!

In India, women have been doing this seed/ plant/ manifestation thingie for ages and ages. Women are traditionally home-makers, and it is the most difficult thing to do. To ‘make a home’. They are in-charge of maintaining the house, ensuring a balanced diet, balancing the household-accounts, maintaining relationships within the social hierarchy, raising children as responsible citizens, and then finding a daughter/son-in-law, and even more, that is a lot of work.

So the Indian woman uses the energies of the Universe channelized through a Tulasi plant. She plants a Tulasi in her house. Tulsi is botanically Ocimum tenuiflorum and an indispensable plant in Indian spiritual traditions. The plant is charged with the energies of the woman of the house. She prays to the Tulasi, considers it as an aspect of Devi Laxmi, the Goddess of Prosperity, everyday. She intends prosperity, health and happiness and gets it too, for every member of her home. This is the magic of nature channelized through intention.

So now let’s do the practical.

You have chosen the desire you wish to manifest and the seed whose growing energies will fuel your desires. Now onwards..

1. Plan to plant your seed on the day which resonates with your desire.
   • Sunday – children, intelligence, creativity, higher education, gambling
   • Monday – mind, emotions, home, comforts, land, vehicles, property
   • Tuesday – physical body, health, vitality, competitions
   • Wednesday – communications, early education, money from trade
   • Thursday – expansion of all positive traits you desire
   • Friday – partnerships, business, relationships, love
   • Saturday – work and energy to perform sustained work, money from work
2. Choose something that you like, tulasi, geranium, fuschia, oh, whatever feels good to you. You can also choose a fragrant plant resonating with a planet’s energy, refer this post. Get a plant which is easy to grow in your house. Get the seed. Keep it on a green colored cloth on your altar/puja ghar, for some time. Green is the color of expansion, fertility and prosperity. 
3. While it is on the altar, surround it with all the objects of power that you have. Maybe a rune? Or a mantra written on a paper? Or call on your favourite deity or the energies of the Universe.
4. Cup your palms around the seed and tell it your desire. If you can make a chi ball, then encase the seed in this chi energy. Feel it listening and absorbing your emotions. Feel it growing into a healthy plant bearing flowers/fruits. You are powering it with your intention so be true to yourself.
5. When you feel satisfied, take this seed and plant it in a pot in your house. Intend it to grow and for your desires to manifest with its growth.
6. Water it, tend to it regularly with the same intention in mind. Reinforce the desire.
7. As the plant grows, gives flowers /fruits, your desire too will manifest.
8. If it dies or fails to germinate, then re-think on what you were trying to materialise. Maybe it was not appropriate for you at that time or hurtful for someone else.
9. After it has grown and your desires also manifested, it will, as per its natural life cycle, flower, fruit and eventually die naturally. This is ok as your desires will have already been satisfied by this time.
10. If you have planted a kitchen herb or fragrant plant, you have another advantage of being able to use it also as such.

This seeding your desire idea may sound a bit childish, but it always works. It has always worked, for generations of Indian women, through the Tulasi plant. The Tulasi is proof of the power of Intention coupled with Nature. The energy of a seed is limitless, it can power its own growth and also your intention. Trust and be patient. Let Nature Itself manifest your desires!