Walking a Local Plant Spirit Path
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- In this week's chat we're looking at the importance of being in relationship with the plants who share soil and space with you where you are now- and how this process can dramatically transform our plant spirit work overall. Enjoy!
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This is my path. Im not new to plants, and hyper local flora, but I want to learn occult herbalism. The genuis loci is relevant. I appreciate this topic.
Amazing video 💚
I live in the West Country in England, and in September I'm moving to the Lake District up near the border to Scotland. I'm heading to University to study Woodland Ecology and Conservation. After spending some time getting to know the plants and trees in the area, I'm planning to spend each moon cycle getting to know an individual plant. I have four years to build relationships with those growing in the area, and I can't wait.
I did fall into the trap of "collecting" herbs in jars where I currently live, but not actually spending the time to get to know them. So I've thanked them for their patience, released them to the compost pile, and I'm going to start completely fresh when I move. No more collecting, no more dusty jars. I'll be taking things slow, and building a relationship with one plant friend at a time 🌳🙂🌳
Thank you for your wonderful insights and all the work you do 💚
That's a big move and such a cool area of study- you're going to crush it!
I think it's smart to have some of the good acute-supportive herbs on hand all the time, but I agree that having that personal connection is reallywhere the magic is. I'm not particularly close with Echinacea or Boneset, but I *always* have them on hand for cold and flu! Where I live (like you), we have four distinct seasons, as well. So- the plants are really only this side of the hedge for half the year or so. I think spending those growing seasons getting to know them, then harvesting them with love, and being able to work with them in the dark half of the year is so great!
I’m working on better building my relationships with the Plant Spirits, and two I am focusing on at the moment are Sweetgrass and Yarrow :)
ok.... this video needs to be somehow pinned, highlighted, put at the top of the list or something... I have no idea how UA-cam works, but you get my point 🙂❤
to contribute to your question I work with a Bergamont descendant, called "Coyote Mint". The genus is Monardella, but specifically hyper local I work with Monardella odartissima, and Monardella sheltonii.
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Violet, rose, cypress, and a type of monstera. In Los Angeles here.
I live in Devon, England and we get a lot of nettles, dandelions, mugwort, chamomile, yarrow, brambles of course, hawthorn, elder and meadowsweet which I love but also plants like ragwort, petty spurge, creeping buttercup, foxgloves and water hemlock are common so it’s good to know them to avoid those more toxic varieties.
Absolutely- no reason to eat them! We also get Myrtle Spurge where I live and I've been able to sit with them many times. They're actually quite invasive here, so I usually just honor them and ask them to move on :D
American Beech, Black Walnut and Sugar Maple of the Eastern Great Lakes Lowland bio-region. The plants that grow at the step of my front door are exceptionally rare and exotic to a person on the other side of the Earth. The trees listed above are within the indigenous plant wisdom traditions of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations.
Love!!!
I have this thought that I think I'm wrong that it's easier to connect when the plant is edible, as it's possible to make teas or food and by ingesting it you can feel the effects more. However, when the plant is not edible, what are the ways to connect? How to have a deep connection with the plant without having to ingest it?
A great resource for this is the folks teaching poison plant work (highly recommend the works of Coby Michael). Ultimately, ingesting the herb is definitely not necessary or even the best way to connect. Sitting with them as they grow is probably the 'loudest' way to we can work with them (and train ourselves to hear them in the beginning stages). Simply gazing and meditating on their forms, patterns, colors, etc. will often drop us into a communicative heart-link with them. In our community plant spirit journeys, we do non-ingested work all the time- right now we're sitting with Calendula and the medicine is an infused oil being applied to the skin. So, you have so mnay great options from gazing to breathing, topical to scent, etc.