About The Garden
The Headwaters Circle of the Springs garden is a place of reflection open to all people in San Antonio to learn, commune with nature, and find a sense of community while honoring the long history of people here before colonization. The Headwaters Circle of the Springs garden is located on our Upper Field, about 600 feet away from the current Sanctuary Trailhead.
White Shaman Panel
Our garden is inspired by the White Shaman Panel, rock art painted by Coahuiltecan peoples over 4,000 years ago. The panel depicts the four fountain springs of Texas: Comal, San Marcos, Barton, and our own Blue Hole. Some scholars see the panel as a celestial and cosmological map, one that may have guided people long ago in their pilgrimages to the fountain springs. Based on archaeological, geological, and astronomical analysis, the rock art depicts 16 springs in Texas as a whole. Our garden will have 16 spokes radiating from a central meeting place, one pointing towards the Blue Hole so that the sunrise will be visible over the spoke on the winter solstice.
