WEBVTT 00:00:00.940 --> 00:00:05.459 Welcome to the Plant Wisdom Circle. This is a 00:00:05.459 --> 00:00:08.740 space to share the wisdom of the plants, letting 00:00:08.740 --> 00:00:11.800 their voices ripple outward into ever -widening 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:15.519 circles. Together, we honor the plants as medicine 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:18.500 guides and living beings of healing consciousness. 00:00:19.100 --> 00:00:25.140 I'm your host, Amy Tarepka. Hello, plant friend. 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:29.000 I'm excited to be with you here again today. 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:32.840 And we'll be talking about the medicine of yarrow, 00:00:32.899 --> 00:00:39.439 who is just such a strong, fierce, powerful medicine 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:42.799 who's been working with humans for as long as 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:46.719 we know. But before I begin, I want to remind 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:49.960 local folks that these plant wisdom circles happen 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:53.820 the second Friday of every month here in Portland, 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:57.780 Oregon. And I'd love to have you come join in 00:00:57.780 --> 00:01:00.939 this experience of plant communion. It's just 00:01:00.939 --> 00:01:04.599 always so beautiful and magical what unfolds. 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:09.400 And I also want to specifically thank my main 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:13.079 human plant spirit teacher, Scott Close. Scott 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:16.159 was who I had studied and mentored with for. 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.939 10 years, and he really shaped my work with the 00:01:19.939 --> 00:01:24.400 plants and helped me have a container for what 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.700 I'd been exploring on my own previously. And 00:01:27.700 --> 00:01:30.219 I know that one of his main plant spirit teachers 00:01:30.219 --> 00:01:33.060 was Deborah Francis, so giving a shout out to 00:01:33.060 --> 00:01:38.680 her as well. I have been studying with the plants, 00:01:38.700 --> 00:01:44.040 learning from them in all ways for about two 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:47.849 decades now. and specifically going deep in this 00:01:47.849 --> 00:01:50.769 very energetic and psycho -spiritual way for 00:01:50.769 --> 00:01:53.810 about that same amount of time. They have taught 00:01:53.810 --> 00:01:57.709 me so much and informed my bodywork practice. 00:01:57.790 --> 00:02:01.849 They've informed everything I teach about embodiment 00:02:01.849 --> 00:02:05.629 and weaving ourselves back into the magic of 00:02:05.629 --> 00:02:09.009 the land and the earth and have taught me so 00:02:09.009 --> 00:02:15.430 many energy techniques. of being in our bodies 00:02:15.430 --> 00:02:21.650 that help us be in communion with the cosmic 00:02:21.650 --> 00:02:25.990 nature of the earth and the mystical nature of 00:02:25.990 --> 00:02:29.710 the earth. And so I'm just so endlessly grateful 00:02:29.710 --> 00:02:33.469 to them. And this podcast is my gift to them. 00:02:34.729 --> 00:02:37.729 asked me for many years to share their voices, 00:02:37.770 --> 00:02:41.590 to share their wisdom, their teachings to a wider 00:02:41.590 --> 00:02:46.930 audience. So here is this gift to both you and 00:02:46.930 --> 00:02:53.090 them. The plants are so committed to us. They're 00:02:53.090 --> 00:02:58.210 so generous. They're so graciously willing to 00:02:58.210 --> 00:03:03.180 support us. And it's the most beautiful thing 00:03:03.180 --> 00:03:07.759 to enter into significant relationship with these 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:13.919 wise earth beings. So if you want to know more 00:03:13.919 --> 00:03:17.020 about how to work with the plants, how to work 00:03:17.020 --> 00:03:19.719 with me, you can take a look in the show notes 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:24.680 where I have links to a masterclass on how to 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:26.759 communicate with plant consciousness without 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:30.659 psychedelics, as well as my free online community 00:03:30.659 --> 00:03:35.860 which has a free mini course on helping you anchor 00:03:35.860 --> 00:03:38.639 yourself back into the magic of your body and 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.439 the earth and so much of that is supported by 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:46.719 the plants themselves. So we'll get into the 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:51.000 medicine of yarrow and I'm specifically speaking 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.030 of my experience and other people's experience 00:03:55.030 --> 00:03:59.530 with the non -hybridized yarrow you'll find all 00:03:59.530 --> 00:04:04.889 sorts of hybrid varieties for gardens which can 00:04:04.889 --> 00:04:07.889 be all sorts of colors But I'm talking about 00:04:07.889 --> 00:04:11.270 Achillea millefolium, which usually has a white 00:04:11.270 --> 00:04:15.210 flower, sometimes has little hints of pink. You 00:04:15.210 --> 00:04:18.730 can find some pink hints in the wild. And I've 00:04:18.730 --> 00:04:21.189 heard you can even find some yellow hints in 00:04:21.189 --> 00:04:25.129 the wild. But the plants that are like bright 00:04:25.129 --> 00:04:31.720 pink or yellow. They are cultivated. They are 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:35.480 hybridized. So they don't necessarily, in my 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.600 opinion, don't have the same power. They don't 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:41.579 have the same medicine. But I'd be curious if 00:04:41.579 --> 00:04:45.720 you do work with them and have insights to share 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:48.439 about their specific medicine because maybe the 00:04:48.439 --> 00:04:51.740 colors do shift the medicine in certain directions, 00:04:51.740 --> 00:04:56.019 which I would not be surprised about. And we 00:04:56.019 --> 00:04:59.180 work with the leaf and the flower, usually in 00:04:59.180 --> 00:05:02.040 tincture form. That's what my plant wisdom circles 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.120 work with, just a couple drops of the tincture. 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:08.220 But you can connect with yarrow flower essence, 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:10.920 which is really popular, or you can have yarrow 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:14.019 in a tea, although it is a little bitter, or 00:05:14.019 --> 00:05:16.579 just hang out with them in the wild. You don't 00:05:16.579 --> 00:05:19.860 need to ingest any of the medicine at all to 00:05:19.860 --> 00:05:22.990 sit with the plants, but it can help. And then 00:05:22.990 --> 00:05:25.290 once you know them, once you've cultivated relationship 00:05:25.290 --> 00:05:28.430 with them, you can call them in. You can call 00:05:28.430 --> 00:05:30.490 in their energetic, their spiritual presence 00:05:30.490 --> 00:05:33.610 without any of the physical medicine present. 00:05:34.110 --> 00:05:37.069 I'm going to be sharing a little bit about Yarrow's 00:05:37.069 --> 00:05:40.189 physical medicine, and then I'll go into the 00:05:40.189 --> 00:05:43.589 general spiritual energetic themes of Yarrow, 00:05:43.709 --> 00:05:47.449 my own experiences with Yarrow. and other people's 00:05:47.449 --> 00:05:51.029 experiences from the Plant Wisdom Circle and 00:05:51.029 --> 00:05:53.589 my membership space where we've sat with Yarrow 00:05:53.589 --> 00:05:59.810 several times. I primarily think of Yarrow as 00:05:59.810 --> 00:06:05.470 a plant that moves and balances the blood. Yarrow 00:06:05.470 --> 00:06:10.050 is a premier wound healing plant, helps to staunch 00:06:10.050 --> 00:06:13.629 bleeding, even in cases of pretty deep wounds. 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:19.759 will also help prevent infection with the antiseptic 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:23.259 qualities. Yarrow helps balance the menstrual 00:06:23.259 --> 00:06:26.500 cycle. So again, this blood balancing, encouraging 00:06:26.500 --> 00:06:32.579 delayed menses to come on and also to balance 00:06:32.579 --> 00:06:37.339 out heavy bleeds. Yarrow is a diaphoretic, meaning 00:06:37.339 --> 00:06:40.480 that the plant moves blood to the surface of 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:43.540 the body, which is extremely helpful in supporting 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:47.220 The sweat response and the body's organic fever 00:06:47.220 --> 00:06:51.160 response, so great support for colds and flus, 00:06:51.220 --> 00:06:56.339 especially if the body is trying to support itself 00:06:56.339 --> 00:07:00.160 through the fever response. Yarrow is a bitter, 00:07:00.339 --> 00:07:04.800 so can help with digestion as well. And there 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.279 have been many other ways yarrow is worked with 00:07:07.279 --> 00:07:09.079 physically, but I'm not going to get into all 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:13.790 the minute. details, but something I do really 00:07:13.790 --> 00:07:17.269 want to name here about yarrow is that humans 00:07:17.269 --> 00:07:20.810 have had a very powerful relationship with this 00:07:20.810 --> 00:07:24.550 medicine for as long as we know. Yarrow was found 00:07:24.550 --> 00:07:30.569 in the teeth of Neanderthals and in their burial 00:07:30.569 --> 00:07:36.290 sites dating back to 60 ,000 years ago. So this 00:07:36.290 --> 00:07:41.300 plant has been with us. for a long time, been 00:07:41.300 --> 00:07:47.879 a part of our physiology, informing our bodies, 00:07:47.879 --> 00:07:50.620 informing our evolution for a very long time. 00:07:51.180 --> 00:07:54.839 So now I'll talk about some themes we often see 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:58.920 with yarrow while we're sitting with the plant's 00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:05.060 spirit. The first one is this great balancer. 00:08:05.699 --> 00:08:10.850 So holding duality. I often work with Yaro at 00:08:10.850 --> 00:08:14.589 the equinoxes because Yaro holds so many dualities. 00:08:15.089 --> 00:08:18.790 They are strongly connected with the spiritual 00:08:18.790 --> 00:08:22.149 and the divine planes, but also very grounding. 00:08:22.550 --> 00:08:26.529 They help us hold strong boundaries, but also 00:08:26.529 --> 00:08:32.159 be open in healthy ways. They can be... nurturing 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:36.080 and loving, but also very firm and direct and 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:40.179 fiercely calling us into our strength. I perceive 00:08:40.179 --> 00:08:43.580 them as non -binary, sometimes veering more towards 00:08:43.580 --> 00:08:47.820 masculine, and that is something that other people 00:08:47.820 --> 00:08:52.000 have named and felt as well, is this androgynous 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:55.440 quality or feminine and masculine in one vessel. 00:08:55.879 --> 00:09:01.019 Yaro is often pigeonholed for their boundaries 00:09:01.019 --> 00:09:04.740 so if you're talking about boundaries and you're 00:09:04.740 --> 00:09:07.899 talking about herbs yarrow always comes up yarrow 00:09:07.899 --> 00:09:13.240 is amazing for protection amazing for helping 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:17.419 us hold boundaries for helping us seal up our 00:09:17.419 --> 00:09:23.259 energy field and leaks so great for empaths for 00:09:23.259 --> 00:09:28.860 over givers for helping us know and discern between 00:09:28.860 --> 00:09:34.360 ourselves and other and stop us from both leaking 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:38.580 energy out and taking on other people's energy. 00:09:39.659 --> 00:09:44.279 In European folklore, Yara was hung over doorways 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:47.759 or carried on the body to protect against evil 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:51.460 spirits. So again, that boundary of protection. 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:59.129 And alongside this, yarrow's been known as the 00:09:59.129 --> 00:10:04.250 medicine for the wounded healer so helping us 00:10:04.250 --> 00:10:09.350 take our traumas our emotional or spiritual wounds 00:10:09.350 --> 00:10:14.730 and transform them alchemize them into wisdom 00:10:14.730 --> 00:10:20.330 to help others with so giving us strength to 00:10:20.330 --> 00:10:25.899 face these things within ourselves and Yaro helps 00:10:25.899 --> 00:10:31.240 call us into a higher octave of that wound, which 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:35.120 is then helping others who've experienced that 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:39.240 wounding. So I see this as an aspect of that 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:43.779 boundary and protection because the wounded healer 00:10:43.779 --> 00:10:48.980 requires an incubation and a protection and to 00:10:48.980 --> 00:10:52.799 have boundaries of self in order to then support 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:59.090 others on. their healing path as well. Yarrow's 00:10:59.090 --> 00:11:04.429 name comes from Achilles, so Achillea millefolium. 00:11:04.850 --> 00:11:08.309 And the story of Achilles in Greek mythology 00:11:08.309 --> 00:11:14.769 is that Achilles was a warrior. And according 00:11:14.769 --> 00:11:20.830 to myth, Achilles' mother dipped him in the river 00:11:20.830 --> 00:11:24.830 Styx, which is often told as being laced with 00:11:24.830 --> 00:11:29.169 yarrow or dipping Achilles into a yarrow bath. 00:11:30.049 --> 00:11:34.009 And she did this to protect him. She did this 00:11:34.009 --> 00:11:38.250 so he would be immortal and could not be wounded. 00:11:38.450 --> 00:11:42.809 But she held him by his Achilles heel as she 00:11:42.809 --> 00:11:45.809 dipped him. So there was just that one place 00:11:45.809 --> 00:11:50.370 on his body that was not protected. by the yarrow 00:11:50.370 --> 00:11:55.610 so again this idea of yarrow being extremely 00:11:55.610 --> 00:12:00.370 protective but also a medicine for the warriors 00:12:00.370 --> 00:12:08.750 and helping us find strength face fear cultivate 00:12:08.750 --> 00:12:14.620 that empowered warrior nature in the face of 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:18.299 trial, in the face of battle, in the face of 00:12:18.299 --> 00:12:22.100 whatever life is bringing you that feels like 00:12:22.100 --> 00:12:26.980 a challenge. In our membership call this past 00:12:26.980 --> 00:12:31.799 month, one of the members did not know the story 00:12:31.799 --> 00:12:36.200 about Achilles and Yarrow. And this person has 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.700 been in a very difficult place, going through 00:12:38.700 --> 00:12:41.700 a breakup, dealing with some significant health 00:12:41.700 --> 00:12:44.779 scares, and some days feeling like she's not 00:12:44.779 --> 00:12:48.139 sure how she's going to get through it. And Yarrow 00:12:48.139 --> 00:12:52.720 came to her giving her imagery of going into 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:55.500 battle with armor and riding a horse and she 00:12:55.500 --> 00:12:58.960 had a sword and instructing her to be strong 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.909 and brave and let go of any worry or... feeling 00:13:03.909 --> 00:13:08.250 bad about herself and just kind of setting that 00:13:08.250 --> 00:13:12.830 aside or not putting energy there and invoking 00:13:12.830 --> 00:13:19.009 her warrior self out of limiting stories. So 00:13:19.009 --> 00:13:22.570 the difference between I am ill versus I'm a 00:13:22.570 --> 00:13:27.570 person dealing with illness. And just this reiteration 00:13:27.570 --> 00:13:29.590 that she's strong, that she doesn't need to fall 00:13:29.590 --> 00:13:34.429 into a story of being any certain way. And it 00:13:34.429 --> 00:13:40.870 felt very empowering. And historically, this 00:13:40.870 --> 00:13:45.610 plant was used on battlefields to help heal wounds. 00:13:45.730 --> 00:13:47.570 That's also why it's associated with Achilles. 00:13:48.250 --> 00:13:53.710 Another person on that membership call was invited 00:13:53.710 --> 00:14:02.019 by Yarrow to face her fear. And to let her flaws 00:14:02.019 --> 00:14:05.299 be seen because one of her fears was of being 00:14:05.299 --> 00:14:10.259 exposed. And so Yarrow calling her into facing 00:14:10.259 --> 00:14:15.960 that fear. She saw this geodesic dome -like structure, 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:21.159 this Yarrow dome. And she was tiny and the dome 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:25.580 was vast. And each facet of the dome was a different 00:14:25.580 --> 00:14:30.940 scene playing out. Or another way she described 00:14:30.940 --> 00:14:34.279 it was as though she had compound eyes like a 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:37.000 dragonfly, and she couldn't see any specific 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:39.779 imagery in each of the facets of the dome, but 00:14:39.779 --> 00:14:44.559 her sense was that each of the scenes were anxieties 00:14:44.559 --> 00:14:48.279 or fears that are holding her back and need to 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:51.580 be faced or released before she can move forward. 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:57.600 So with that knowledge, this giant spider appeared 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:03.960 with many eyes. And the sense of those many eyes 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:08.580 or lenses from the geodesic dome was then reversed. 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:12.960 And she was no longer seeing a compound image, 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:18.080 she was being seen by all of those eyes in her 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:25.500 complexity. And so this invitation to face this 00:15:25.500 --> 00:15:28.539 fear, not necessarily of the spider, but more 00:15:28.539 --> 00:15:32.500 of the fear of having so many eyes seeing her. 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:35.139 And the instruction was to just let herself be 00:15:35.139 --> 00:15:39.539 as vulnerable as possible in front of that perceived 00:15:39.539 --> 00:15:43.799 threat. And she did, and she didn't die. And 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:49.509 so her takeaway was that Growth is beautiful 00:15:49.509 --> 00:15:52.009 and vulnerability is powerful and beautiful. 00:15:52.230 --> 00:15:58.009 And Yara really calling her to stand in her power, 00:15:58.049 --> 00:16:01.690 in that vulnerability. That vulnerability is 00:16:01.690 --> 00:16:05.889 power and taking her power back from the fear 00:16:05.889 --> 00:16:11.149 by facing it. Another person on that call also 00:16:11.149 --> 00:16:15.110 had the invitation to be bold and to be willing 00:16:15.110 --> 00:16:19.440 to get uncomfortable. and to find his place and 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:25.580 to just be there. Someone else also had the invitation 00:16:25.580 --> 00:16:31.379 to release fear, to let the fear go, to get really 00:16:31.379 --> 00:16:36.440 present, to be in the moment, to slow down, to 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:40.059 be with the body, to breathe, to rest, and to 00:16:40.059 --> 00:16:44.919 surrender that fear as she connected to her breath 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:50.610 and presence. And I had an experience back in 00:16:50.610 --> 00:16:55.970 2011 that has a lot of the same themes that these 00:16:55.970 --> 00:16:58.830 folks have been experiencing. So I want to share 00:16:58.830 --> 00:17:03.529 that now. In that experience, I felt my third 00:17:03.529 --> 00:17:06.609 eye being activated and my inner vision expanding 00:17:06.609 --> 00:17:10.470 and how it was expanding my perception and clarity. 00:17:12.809 --> 00:17:16.509 showing me how preoccupied I was around a certain 00:17:16.509 --> 00:17:20.410 situation that felt difficult to me. And then 00:17:20.410 --> 00:17:23.690 they were showing me where I could take my power 00:17:23.690 --> 00:17:27.109 back and align with my own truth, my own needs, 00:17:27.210 --> 00:17:30.329 my own voice. And Yaro was giving me strength 00:17:30.329 --> 00:17:32.730 and power in that situation where I was feeling 00:17:32.730 --> 00:17:36.890 defeated. And they were showing me how easily 00:17:36.890 --> 00:17:41.269 deflated or easily defeated I could be when things 00:17:41.269 --> 00:17:46.230 got hard and then instilled more of that warrior 00:17:46.230 --> 00:17:49.309 spirit in me to be with tough circumstances in 00:17:49.309 --> 00:17:51.950 a way that's aligned with my inner power and 00:17:51.950 --> 00:17:55.210 still taking care of myself. And so all of these 00:17:55.210 --> 00:18:03.289 experiences show something of facing fear, willingness 00:18:03.289 --> 00:18:08.490 to get uncomfortable, and... calling on that 00:18:08.490 --> 00:18:14.210 strength within and you'll notice that as yarrow 00:18:14.210 --> 00:18:20.650 is this holder of duality there is this playing 00:18:20.650 --> 00:18:26.230 with how to be boundaried when you need to in 00:18:26.230 --> 00:18:29.009 armor and how to be vulnerable when you need 00:18:29.009 --> 00:18:33.230 to so it's Playing with that energetic field 00:18:33.230 --> 00:18:37.190 and that boundary between self and other and 00:18:37.190 --> 00:18:41.390 what is needed depending on the person, the person's 00:18:41.390 --> 00:18:46.190 growth edge, the person's patterning, and whatever 00:18:46.190 --> 00:18:51.349 is needed in order to bring more strength. And 00:18:51.349 --> 00:18:55.170 Yaro showing that strength doesn't always mean 00:18:55.170 --> 00:19:01.099 being boundaried in armor. but can also mean 00:19:01.099 --> 00:19:05.700 stripping down in vulnerability. There's still 00:19:05.700 --> 00:19:12.500 a theme running through these stories. And in 00:19:12.500 --> 00:19:17.039 that last share with the person, being invited 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:19.500 to slow down, be in the moment, rest, breathe, 00:19:19.619 --> 00:19:25.339 she felt very cared for and she felt very held. 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:29.539 And that is something that we see a lot. with 00:19:29.539 --> 00:19:33.279 yarrow too there is like i mentioned earlier 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:37.900 this duality between this very nurturing heart 00:19:37.900 --> 00:19:42.059 care balancing the heart which you'll hear a 00:19:42.059 --> 00:19:44.200 lot in the latest plant wisdom circle shares 00:19:44.200 --> 00:19:46.680 which i'll share towards the later part of the 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:51.900 podcast but also this this balance of that fierce 00:19:51.900 --> 00:19:58.539 call to action and discernment and strength when 00:19:58.539 --> 00:20:04.299 needed. So I see yarrow as kind of tending the 00:20:04.299 --> 00:20:08.859 heart in this very intelligent way, calling us 00:20:08.859 --> 00:20:12.000 into courage and action when needed. And also 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.180 when the heart has been too on guard and too 00:20:15.180 --> 00:20:21.660 overworked, calling it to rest and to disarm 00:20:21.660 --> 00:20:25.839 itself when needed. So it's this intelligence 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:31.880 of the heart, like when and how to move blood 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:35.920 and energy to bring balance into the system. 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:41.640 We also see a lot of themes of third eye opening 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:46.720 and, again, visuals of eyes, like the spider 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:51.960 eyes in the one person share. People often... 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:55.559 feel the energy of yarrow in their third eye 00:20:55.559 --> 00:21:02.000 or crown but often third eye in china yarrow 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:05.579 is known as an herb that brightens the eyes and 00:21:05.579 --> 00:21:10.779 promotes intelligence and with this third eye 00:21:10.779 --> 00:21:15.839 connection and the seeing beyond there is this 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:20.150 quantum nature of reality that yarrow always 00:21:20.150 --> 00:21:22.970 is bringing me into like always trying to show 00:21:22.970 --> 00:21:28.470 me the reality beyond the scene world and oftentimes 00:21:28.470 --> 00:21:36.230 it's beyond my ability to understand what Yaro 00:21:36.230 --> 00:21:40.230 was trying to tell me but there is a very quantum 00:21:40.230 --> 00:21:45.410 nature of reality that Yaro opens us up into 00:21:45.410 --> 00:21:50.700 and historically Yaro was used in both divination 00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:55.799 and spell work. Both in ancient Europe and in 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:58.819 China with the I Ching, the yarrow stalks were 00:21:58.819 --> 00:22:02.559 used to throw the I Ching. So the sight beyond 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:05.000 the material world, spiritual sight, spiritual 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:11.720 insight. In my very first time I sat with yarrow 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:18.019 in 2010 with Scott, it was one of those blind 00:22:18.019 --> 00:22:19.720 sits where I didn't know which plant we were 00:22:19.720 --> 00:22:24.839 sitting with. And what happened was I immediately 00:22:24.839 --> 00:22:29.259 felt both grounded and connected to the psychic 00:22:29.259 --> 00:22:33.500 realm. And light began to swirl around my third 00:22:33.500 --> 00:22:37.339 eye. And then I saw a pair of eyes. And there 00:22:37.339 --> 00:22:40.900 was just lots of energy in the third eye. There 00:22:40.900 --> 00:22:44.160 was a ring of light that formed a tunnel. Everything 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:47.420 was really slow, but there was lots of movement. 00:22:47.940 --> 00:22:52.880 And Yara took me on this very elaborate journey, 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:58.500 which ended with me climbing up some stairs in 00:22:58.500 --> 00:23:02.259 this very narrow pathway. It was dark and I was 00:23:02.259 --> 00:23:04.920 following these stairs up and up and up and up. 00:23:05.019 --> 00:23:09.980 And it opened up into a room with this lady insect 00:23:09.980 --> 00:23:14.880 queen is how it appeared to me. And she asked 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:19.319 me to look out the window and said, what do you 00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:23.559 see? And I was like, I know there is a city out 00:23:23.559 --> 00:23:27.000 there, but the harder I tried to see it, the 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:31.039 more I saw nothing but light. And Yara was trying 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:35.180 to show me how my vision is too narrow and focused 00:23:35.180 --> 00:23:37.980 and I can't see everything with my eyes, that 00:23:37.980 --> 00:23:41.509 my perception of reality. is so limited unless 00:23:41.509 --> 00:23:44.930 I'm using my third eye's knowingness. So I know 00:23:44.930 --> 00:23:47.029 there's a city, but I can't see it with my eyes. 00:23:47.170 --> 00:23:49.869 And then again, she asked me to look to see what 00:23:49.869 --> 00:23:56.549 I see. And I see two huge energy fields colliding. 00:23:57.410 --> 00:24:01.869 And at first I saw it as a conflict in maybe 00:24:01.869 --> 00:24:06.089 a more negative connotation. But what she was 00:24:06.089 --> 00:24:09.609 showing me was because of this conflict, this 00:24:09.609 --> 00:24:12.970 interaction between these two energies, that 00:24:12.970 --> 00:24:19.950 the conflict, the point of relationship, that's 00:24:19.950 --> 00:24:24.410 creating the reality. So something has to be 00:24:24.410 --> 00:24:27.069 pushing against the other in order to create 00:24:27.069 --> 00:24:30.890 a certain conflict. And if one stops, there isn't 00:24:30.890 --> 00:24:34.490 a situation. So if there's nothing to interact 00:24:34.490 --> 00:24:39.130 with, it's just empty space. And then she shows 00:24:39.130 --> 00:24:43.630 me this image of me as all of these pieces coming 00:24:43.630 --> 00:24:46.630 together and connecting and pushing against each 00:24:46.630 --> 00:24:51.269 other in a very specific tension in order to 00:24:51.269 --> 00:24:56.609 create my body. And then later on, she was showing 00:24:56.609 --> 00:25:02.660 me myself standing in Just again, like a black 00:25:02.660 --> 00:25:07.220 room with two yellow rings spinning around me. 00:25:07.380 --> 00:25:10.180 And I'm so focused on them and how I'm going 00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:13.259 to get out of them that I can't get out of them 00:25:13.259 --> 00:25:19.299 because my mind is making it so with how focused 00:25:19.299 --> 00:25:22.900 the interaction between my focused attention 00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:27.480 and those yellow spinning rings. It keeps me 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:33.819 trapped inside of that reality. So I have a shift 00:25:33.819 --> 00:25:36.839 in that realization and they sort of disappear 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:40.539 and Yaro tells me to walk into the blackness 00:25:40.539 --> 00:25:43.339 and to create with my thoughts whatever I want. 00:25:44.019 --> 00:25:48.559 And this teaching that we're choosing to shine 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:51.839 light on different things, making them real, 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:56.329 but that's not necessarily the truth. that everything 00:25:56.329 --> 00:25:59.970 is already out there. We just need to come in 00:25:59.970 --> 00:26:02.549 contact with it, with our thoughts, which creates 00:26:02.549 --> 00:26:06.710 that conflict of those energy fields. And conflict 00:26:06.710 --> 00:26:10.009 isn't the best word for that, but that's how 00:26:10.009 --> 00:26:12.990 it showed itself to me, right? It's the coming 00:26:12.990 --> 00:26:17.150 together, the pressing of the energy fields together 00:26:17.150 --> 00:26:23.819 that then creates the reality. So we come in 00:26:23.819 --> 00:26:27.119 contact with the thing that's already there with 00:26:27.119 --> 00:26:29.880 our thoughts and boom, it's there. So we create 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:31.660 it with our thoughts when we collide against 00:26:31.660 --> 00:26:36.720 it. And I was thinking in my head, all I want 00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:39.740 is to create love. And Yara was like, it's already 00:26:39.740 --> 00:26:41.740 there. You just have to choose it. Put your energy 00:26:41.740 --> 00:26:47.039 there slash press your energy against it. And 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:52.170 the weight of my... perception the weight of 00:26:52.170 --> 00:26:57.609 my thoughts then collide with love and it appears 00:26:57.609 --> 00:27:01.289 at least that's how she was describing it and 00:27:01.289 --> 00:27:04.710 this is back in 2010 when I know quantum physics 00:27:04.710 --> 00:27:07.470 had already realized all these things but it 00:27:07.470 --> 00:27:11.970 wasn't as much of a popular mainstream thing 00:27:11.970 --> 00:27:14.289 like it wasn't as much a part of the zeitgeist 00:27:14.289 --> 00:27:19.089 as it is today So it was all kind of new to me. 00:27:19.130 --> 00:27:22.710 I'd heard those theories before, but it was also 00:27:22.710 --> 00:27:25.849 like a deeper understanding of it than I had 00:27:25.849 --> 00:27:28.589 ever experienced or heard or had been taught 00:27:28.589 --> 00:27:31.250 before. And there was also just a lot of teachings 00:27:31.250 --> 00:27:38.309 about shifting focus and what truth is and creating 00:27:38.309 --> 00:27:44.069 reality. So that was the first time I ever sat 00:27:44.069 --> 00:27:50.619 with her. And over the years, I've had some level 00:27:50.619 --> 00:27:54.339 or experience of that shown in a different way. 00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:57.420 A couple years ago, in another experience with 00:27:57.420 --> 00:28:00.059 yarrow, I went into a totally white light space. 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:02.180 I think this was two years ago, three years ago. 00:28:02.619 --> 00:28:07.400 And it felt very divine. And I saw a huge yarrow 00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:11.660 stalk and I went up it and into the flower. And 00:28:11.660 --> 00:28:15.230 there was some butterfly. and a grasshopper type 00:28:15.230 --> 00:28:20.450 being there. So again, this theme with the bugs, 00:28:20.670 --> 00:28:24.829 there is, Yarrow has a relationship with bugs. 00:28:25.609 --> 00:28:30.230 I don't know what it is, but they find their 00:28:30.230 --> 00:28:33.569 way through so many people's experiences. And 00:28:33.569 --> 00:28:38.250 Yarrow was showing me the white light all around 00:28:38.250 --> 00:28:41.930 was all possibility. And again, asking me, what 00:28:41.930 --> 00:28:45.069 do I want? What do you want to create here? And 00:28:45.069 --> 00:28:48.069 this very matter of factness about it. And so 00:28:48.069 --> 00:28:50.630 I was sitting with the white light, visualizing 00:28:50.630 --> 00:28:53.630 different things that I wanted. And again, in 00:28:53.630 --> 00:28:59.769 our membership call, I had a similar teaching. 00:29:00.150 --> 00:29:02.430 It's always shown to me different ways, but there's 00:29:02.430 --> 00:29:04.750 just this teaching that's shown over and over 00:29:04.750 --> 00:29:09.380 and over again. This time, there was... this 00:29:09.380 --> 00:29:13.640 flashlight like a light illuminating and it I 00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:18.259 could see all of the tiny flowers on the yarrow 00:29:18.259 --> 00:29:23.640 flower head as little lights and also little 00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:25.920 eyes so it was like there are all these little 00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:30.099 eyes that turned into beams of light so like 00:29:30.099 --> 00:29:36.250 our eyes as beams of light and Again, showing 00:29:36.250 --> 00:29:40.769 me making real what I choose to focus on. And 00:29:40.769 --> 00:29:48.950 how each of us has this tiny little sliver of 00:29:48.950 --> 00:29:54.269 the fabric of reality that we are creating with 00:29:54.269 --> 00:29:59.089 what we're focusing on. And they showed it to 00:29:59.089 --> 00:30:02.259 me like... a collective canvas and we get to 00:30:02.259 --> 00:30:06.900 illuminate and make real create whatever we want 00:30:06.900 --> 00:30:11.180 and it was this image of kind of like those magic 00:30:11.180 --> 00:30:16.880 artworks where you have this specialized pen 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:23.029 and you can illuminate the drawing Or what's 00:30:23.029 --> 00:30:27.190 behind it by coloring on the like plain white 00:30:27.190 --> 00:30:29.970 or plain black canvas. And then you illuminate 00:30:29.970 --> 00:30:33.029 what's like the picture behind it. That was the 00:30:33.029 --> 00:30:40.589 image I got this time. And just really feeling 00:30:40.589 --> 00:30:44.250 the importance and the power of what we're choosing. 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:48.319 to create what we're choosing to put our awareness 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.160 on, our attention on in this very small piece 00:30:51.160 --> 00:30:54.480 of the collective canvas that we get and how 00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:57.880 much choice we have and how much that matters. 00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:01.700 And it really matters what we choose because 00:31:01.700 --> 00:31:06.339 it becomes part of the collective canvas. So 00:31:06.339 --> 00:31:09.660 again, this question of what do you want to be 00:31:09.660 --> 00:31:14.529 focusing on and is what you're focusing on feeling 00:31:14.529 --> 00:31:18.089 good? Is that what you're, is that what you want 00:31:18.089 --> 00:31:23.309 to choose more of in this world? And I think 00:31:23.309 --> 00:31:28.390 of yarrow a lot as this sort of truth, this plant 00:31:28.390 --> 00:31:30.910 that helps us get really honest with ourselves, 00:31:30.990 --> 00:31:36.009 to see our path clearly, to help us take the 00:31:36.009 --> 00:31:41.970 next step forward with courage and to find discernment, 00:31:41.970 --> 00:31:47.950 to find focus, clarity, directness. So there's 00:31:47.950 --> 00:31:52.910 a lot of air element qualities with yarrow, which 00:31:52.910 --> 00:31:58.289 I find really interesting as a plant that moves 00:31:58.289 --> 00:32:02.670 the water through our bodies. And I've seen... 00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:06.039 the imagery before of yarrow as almost like this 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:10.539 conductor holding a wand and moving the waters 00:32:10.539 --> 00:32:15.519 through this very direct precise air element 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:20.519 way but having an impact on the blood and the 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:25.079 water body to bring harmony to bring balance 00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:29.299 something else i want to weave in here along 00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:34.029 with the discernment and the truth is this person's 00:32:34.029 --> 00:32:39.029 experience from our membership call where she 00:32:39.029 --> 00:32:44.589 was shown this lasso of truth and this message 00:32:44.589 --> 00:32:50.150 of she chooses, not that she is chosen, but she 00:32:50.150 --> 00:32:54.009 chooses. Like we are choosing and we're not waiting 00:32:54.009 --> 00:32:58.519 to be chosen or waiting to have life. choose 00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:03.000 something for us. But to actively engage in life 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:08.559 is to choose. And that is inherently limiting. 00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:13.180 But it really matters what you choose. Because 00:33:13.180 --> 00:33:18.059 again, that creates the reality you live in and 00:33:18.059 --> 00:33:24.460 is an aspect of the collective canvas as a whole. 00:33:25.289 --> 00:33:29.750 An experience I had with Yaro in 2014 sort of 00:33:29.750 --> 00:33:34.029 weaves into this, which was me having this experience 00:33:34.029 --> 00:33:36.930 of feeling very upright and aligned, which is 00:33:36.930 --> 00:33:40.269 another theme I find with Yaro is this alignment 00:33:40.269 --> 00:33:46.269 with self and alignment with our truth and showing 00:33:46.269 --> 00:33:50.650 me how important it is for me to be discerning 00:33:50.650 --> 00:33:55.140 in what I say yes to and what I say no to. and 00:33:55.140 --> 00:33:58.759 how those are really important boundaries. And 00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:02.920 also how our discernment and decision making 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:06.759 really matters, but that it also doesn't matter. 00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:11.929 So again, I got this message of choosing. And 00:34:11.929 --> 00:34:15.030 also bringing in the other shadow side or like 00:34:15.030 --> 00:34:18.670 the other dual side that it really matters for 00:34:18.670 --> 00:34:21.170 us to be clear and to decide our reality and 00:34:21.170 --> 00:34:24.230 to be active participators in that. And it really 00:34:24.230 --> 00:34:27.309 matters in the moment for the action of it, for 00:34:27.309 --> 00:34:30.590 the fact that you are taking charge of your life, 00:34:30.769 --> 00:34:33.369 you're engaging with your life in a way that's 00:34:33.369 --> 00:34:37.269 aligned. But ultimately, it doesn't matter what 00:34:37.269 --> 00:34:39.829 you choose, as long as you're choosing something. 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:45.460 That's how you create life. So again, holding 00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:51.019 both and, right? Are we able to hold multiple 00:34:51.019 --> 00:34:56.460 truths at once here? Like it really matters that 00:34:56.460 --> 00:34:59.820 you choose. And it also really matters what you 00:34:59.820 --> 00:35:02.880 choose because you're creating your reality. 00:35:03.219 --> 00:35:06.059 But it also doesn't matter what you choose as 00:35:06.059 --> 00:35:07.920 long as you're choosing something because you're 00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:10.000 going to learn from it. There's going to be some 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:13.940 learning from it when you choose. So it matters 00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:17.500 and it doesn't matter. Like you need to choose. 00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:19.400 You're creating your reality. It matters what 00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:23.840 you choose. And also it can't be perfect. And 00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:29.980 whatever you choose will be okay. It'll be right. 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:34.599 So not getting caught up in the perfection of 00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:37.900 it or needing to do it right, but really aligning 00:35:37.900 --> 00:35:43.099 with your power and your truth and making choice 00:35:43.099 --> 00:35:48.400 from there and, you know, recognizing your own 00:35:48.400 --> 00:35:55.420 autonomy and agency and also that it's play and 00:35:55.420 --> 00:35:59.619 to not get paralyzed in the choosing because 00:36:00.349 --> 00:36:04.449 It's the choosing that matters. Yarrow is such 00:36:04.449 --> 00:36:13.050 a queen of holding duality. And finally, alongside 00:36:13.050 --> 00:36:18.429 that alignment with self, just want to share 00:36:18.429 --> 00:36:23.269 one more story from an experience I had in 2024, 00:36:23.590 --> 00:36:30.630 where Yarrow was just helping me feel this. alignment 00:36:30.630 --> 00:36:36.250 of authenticity within myself feeling the worthiness 00:36:36.250 --> 00:36:40.730 in myself not cowering from my own light and 00:36:40.730 --> 00:36:45.849 gifts and authenticity and I could feel myself 00:36:45.849 --> 00:36:48.590 getting bigger and wider and taller and more 00:36:48.590 --> 00:36:50.989 centered and more aligned with myself and my 00:36:50.989 --> 00:36:56.130 truth and then I was seeing I was outside in 00:36:56.130 --> 00:37:02.440 a big meadow of yarrow And I was seeing all of 00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:06.219 these minute details of every aspect of the meadow 00:37:06.219 --> 00:37:11.900 that I was sitting with and feeling so much love 00:37:11.900 --> 00:37:16.519 and appreciation for every life just living and 00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:21.119 making their small part of the world more rich 00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:25.400 and everything that all of the pieces of life 00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:28.519 were choosing. and how those are weaving together 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:32.820 in this beautiful story. And again, that idea 00:37:32.820 --> 00:37:37.440 of this canvas of life unfolding through the 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:40.320 choices of all of the different beings here, 00:37:40.380 --> 00:37:45.699 including us. And in that experience, I was especially 00:37:45.699 --> 00:37:49.920 focused on the bugs and the butterflies and the 00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:53.639 ants, which again is so interesting that Yarrow 00:37:53.639 --> 00:37:58.880 has this affinity for these these types of creatures 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:04.039 and I guess one final thing to add to this is 00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:08.219 again someone in our membership call was given 00:38:08.219 --> 00:38:13.019 a bunch of cicada imagery from childhood and 00:38:13.019 --> 00:38:17.199 was told to transcend this plane and was seeing 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:24.039 all of these cicada shells left on fences and 00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:30.840 feeling like it was time to shed old skin. And 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:34.780 through that process, you know, the transformation 00:38:34.780 --> 00:38:39.639 of the cicada from an earth being to a being 00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:43.599 with wings, shedding the shells and flying, and 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:48.659 the invitation to her to transcend this plane 00:38:48.659 --> 00:38:54.519 given wings, basically, is just another... way 00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:59.519 in which yarrow is using insect imagery to teach 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:04.179 us so i'm going to share other people's experiences 00:39:04.179 --> 00:39:08.659 now from this latest plant wisdom circle where 00:39:08.659 --> 00:39:13.800 there was a lot more of the like heart and blood 00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:20.460 connection so this first person had this feeling 00:39:20.460 --> 00:39:24.590 of like spidering down through the chest and 00:39:24.590 --> 00:39:29.750 ribs and lungs like the spidering of capillaries 00:39:29.750 --> 00:39:34.630 going all through the rib cage and like an internal 00:39:34.630 --> 00:39:38.630 squeezing for a moment and then a grounding after 00:39:38.630 --> 00:39:44.369 that another person had warmth in the chest and 00:39:44.369 --> 00:39:47.829 felt a softening down and she felt very held 00:39:48.829 --> 00:39:52.250 And had this knowing that if we want to hold, 00:39:52.409 --> 00:39:57.329 we have to be held, which brings in that nurturing 00:39:57.329 --> 00:40:02.090 duality as well. And then she had this experience 00:40:02.090 --> 00:40:05.309 of a little kiss on her third eye before we closed. 00:40:06.489 --> 00:40:09.730 For this next person, Yara was honoring how much 00:40:09.730 --> 00:40:14.690 her heart keeps opening and supporting her detox 00:40:14.690 --> 00:40:18.659 process from a relationship. and showing her 00:40:18.659 --> 00:40:23.179 how not in alignment that it was, but she can 00:40:23.179 --> 00:40:26.159 still be so grateful for the experience. And 00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:29.619 then Yara was meticulously going through her 00:40:29.619 --> 00:40:33.719 entire body and realigning and recalibrating 00:40:33.719 --> 00:40:38.079 herself back to herself, which is so beautiful 00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:42.840 and so powerful. This next person started her 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:45.860 experience with a spiraling warmth from her heart. 00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:51.059 And the color was a silvery blue gray color and 00:40:51.059 --> 00:40:53.519 felt a lot of medicine moving into her head. 00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:57.400 And she felt a tickle on her cheek, which then 00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.980 brought her into this experience of being a child 00:40:59.980 --> 00:41:03.320 on a sunny day in a meadow and laughing and having 00:41:03.320 --> 00:41:07.460 fun and being so carefree. And I'm wondering 00:41:07.460 --> 00:41:12.460 if Yara was in that meadow as a child. But she 00:41:12.460 --> 00:41:17.010 was experiencing the sense of... unbridled joy 00:41:17.010 --> 00:41:22.630 and expression that was so beautiful. And to 00:41:22.630 --> 00:41:27.010 me, this is like expressing that unbridled truth 00:41:27.010 --> 00:41:30.969 of who we are, expressing how we are when we're 00:41:30.969 --> 00:41:35.969 in full alignment with ourselves. And then she 00:41:35.969 --> 00:41:38.090 experienced a healing happening on the right 00:41:38.090 --> 00:41:41.050 side of her neck, like a warmth and an energetic 00:41:41.050 --> 00:41:45.539 current moving up it. and yarrow told her to 00:41:45.539 --> 00:41:50.039 honor them by cultivating that joyful state in 00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:53.780 the world this next person had the experience 00:41:53.780 --> 00:41:57.760 of her heart being kneaded like dough like yarrow 00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:00.820 was sculpting and kneading it with warmth and 00:42:00.820 --> 00:42:04.960 the pressure of hands softening it up and then 00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:09.800 saw a meat tenderizer just going at the heart 00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:16.210 and there was a big ache in her body and a tenderness. 00:42:16.289 --> 00:42:22.070 And the pressure of yarrow on her heart was bringing 00:42:22.070 --> 00:42:25.690 up this clarity of letting herself really feel 00:42:25.690 --> 00:42:32.130 what was there to feel this ache that she says 00:42:32.130 --> 00:42:34.269 is always there, but she can't always see it 00:42:34.269 --> 00:42:38.780 or feel it so clearly. And it felt like Every 00:42:38.780 --> 00:42:40.920 little intricate piece of her body she could 00:42:40.920 --> 00:42:43.780 see in detail and she could see the detail of 00:42:43.780 --> 00:42:48.719 the ache, which is such a fascinating idea. And 00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:51.960 then saw yarrow plants, like the imagery of yarrow 00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:54.860 plants outside blowing in the harsh wind and 00:42:54.860 --> 00:42:58.489 still being joyful and still. bringing that joyful 00:42:58.489 --> 00:43:02.630 presence there on the mountain and yarrow was 00:43:02.630 --> 00:43:06.010 showing her that the wind and the ache and the 00:43:06.010 --> 00:43:10.630 tenderizing were all part of the same thing and 00:43:10.630 --> 00:43:13.150 just a little side note here this kind of reminds 00:43:13.150 --> 00:43:17.010 me of my first experience with yarrow where they 00:43:17.010 --> 00:43:21.349 were showing me this the pressure and two things 00:43:21.349 --> 00:43:25.150 coming up against each other creating reality 00:43:25.150 --> 00:43:28.849 or creating the felt sense of something and this 00:43:28.849 --> 00:43:32.150 just reminds me of that to some degree of the 00:43:32.150 --> 00:43:34.429 elements coming together and the pressing on 00:43:34.429 --> 00:43:37.389 the heart bringing clarity and allowing things 00:43:37.389 --> 00:43:41.409 to feel more clear and real there's something 00:43:41.409 --> 00:43:46.530 very similar in the quality of this energetic 00:43:46.530 --> 00:43:51.789 teaching where it's the the harshness the pressure 00:43:51.789 --> 00:43:55.050 the coming together two hands meeting two bodies 00:43:55.050 --> 00:43:59.110 meeting feeling in relationship to something 00:43:59.110 --> 00:44:05.230 else and how that brings about a certain level 00:44:05.230 --> 00:44:10.210 of truth and level of life in our experience 00:44:10.210 --> 00:44:16.070 in the world. This next person saw all the tiny 00:44:16.070 --> 00:44:19.289 little white flowers like confetti falling around 00:44:19.289 --> 00:44:22.920 her. and she was twirling and dancing around 00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:26.400 in them. She's been feeling pretty stagnant, 00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:29.739 and the message was movement and dancing and 00:44:29.739 --> 00:44:33.480 spinning and felt like Yara was awakening the 00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:36.280 internal blood flow and the circulation, and 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:41.780 the flowers falling down then became the imagery 00:44:41.780 --> 00:44:45.159 of a summer dress. And she was wearing a yarrow 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:48.599 cape with yarrow flowers on it and had yarrow 00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:51.420 leaves tattooed on her shins. And it all felt 00:44:51.420 --> 00:44:55.440 very witchy. And yarrow told her she wanted to 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:59.099 be planted everywhere and to spread their seeds 00:44:59.099 --> 00:45:04.679 everywhere. And then she was brought into this 00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:08.239 land that she shares with her siblings, which 00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:13.829 is a challenge for her. then put a bubble of 00:45:13.829 --> 00:45:17.429 protection up over her part of the land, like 00:45:17.429 --> 00:45:20.969 a dome of protection. And she felt so safe inside 00:45:20.969 --> 00:45:24.710 that bubble and in her own area of that land. 00:45:24.929 --> 00:45:30.210 And she saw yarrow, almost like this yarrow wand 00:45:30.210 --> 00:45:34.010 going over and blessing all of the native plants 00:45:34.010 --> 00:45:38.650 there on that patch of earth. And awakening them 00:45:38.650 --> 00:45:41.090 and sparkling them and blessing them with life 00:45:41.090 --> 00:45:44.510 and bringing them out of the destruction that's 00:45:44.510 --> 00:45:47.110 been there. She said it's been filled with all 00:45:47.110 --> 00:45:50.050 this invasive Himalayan blackberry. And Yara 00:45:50.050 --> 00:45:53.530 was coming in and just reawakening, reinvigorating 00:45:53.530 --> 00:45:56.869 the native plants there. And overall, she felt 00:45:56.869 --> 00:45:59.690 it was just a very magical and witchy and protective 00:45:59.690 --> 00:46:03.960 journey. And finally, this last person felt really 00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:07.400 scattered, and Yaro very matter -of -factly, 00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:10.860 yet compassionately, said, we need to talk when 00:46:10.860 --> 00:46:13.760 you can focus. I can tell you're using so much 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:15.860 of your energy to focus right now, but I need 00:46:15.860 --> 00:46:18.280 you to bring more of your skillful attention 00:46:18.280 --> 00:46:21.639 to the conversation. And so she didn't feel like 00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:23.860 she was being scolded, but it was just very direct 00:46:23.860 --> 00:46:27.480 and clear and no -nonsense, as Yaro is often. 00:46:28.460 --> 00:46:31.119 But one of the messages she did receive was to 00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:35.360 not forget that human time is finite and our 00:46:35.360 --> 00:46:38.260 attention is wanted. There's a finite amount 00:46:38.260 --> 00:46:42.000 of time we can focus here and we're wanted. Our 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:44.300 presence and attention is needed and wanted. 00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:52.300 And that feels so pointed and impactful and similar 00:46:52.300 --> 00:46:58.000 to how I felt with my experience of receiving 00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:02.159 our little piece of the collective canvas and 00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:06.099 how much it really matters what we choose and 00:47:06.099 --> 00:47:09.699 how our time is so finite like we don't get to 00:47:09.699 --> 00:47:15.920 do a lot with our one life yes it is a lot to 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:20.119 some standards but it's also just a little fractal 00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:26.320 on a wider canvas of reality and our Our time 00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:30.199 is finite. Our focus is needed. And what is it 00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:33.699 that we really want to dedicate our presence 00:47:33.699 --> 00:47:38.320 and attention to while we're here? So finally, 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:43.119 my experience at this plant wisdom circle was 00:47:43.119 --> 00:47:47.820 that I immediately saw white sparkles in the 00:47:47.820 --> 00:47:51.469 dark. And I felt like Yaro was telling me they 00:47:51.469 --> 00:47:54.449 really liked the little mica powder I had offered 00:47:54.449 --> 00:47:58.409 to the water on the altar. And I felt Yaro taking 00:47:58.409 --> 00:48:02.949 me back over time and showing me the magical 00:48:02.949 --> 00:48:05.789 relationship that Yaro has had with humans. And 00:48:05.789 --> 00:48:09.309 it also felt very witchy to me. And then I was 00:48:09.309 --> 00:48:12.590 standing in the dark and everywhere I turned 00:48:12.590 --> 00:48:16.389 would light up. And I could feel Yaro in front 00:48:16.389 --> 00:48:20.059 of me like a flashlight. and shining in the dark 00:48:20.059 --> 00:48:24.400 and in that light of yarrow i felt so protected 00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:30.199 and like nothing could harm me so it was a similar 00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:32.980 feeling as that teaching from years ago when 00:48:32.980 --> 00:48:35.199 yara was showing me that whatever i looked at 00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:39.480 came to life like my attention and presence was 00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:45.949 what illuminated in the dark but this also had 00:48:45.949 --> 00:48:49.989 that overlay of yarrow protecting me in whatever 00:48:49.989 --> 00:48:54.690 it was that I encountered there. And after that, 00:48:54.809 --> 00:49:00.110 I felt yarrow stalks with flowers on top of them, 00:49:00.170 --> 00:49:03.610 creating a line at the top of my head, like a 00:49:03.610 --> 00:49:07.190 headband, almost like they were planted in a 00:49:07.190 --> 00:49:11.380 row along that headband part of my head. And 00:49:11.380 --> 00:49:13.619 they just kept lining up from one side to the 00:49:13.619 --> 00:49:16.420 other over and over again. And then the same 00:49:16.420 --> 00:49:21.119 down my center line and up the back side of my 00:49:21.119 --> 00:49:24.119 center line, like up my back, my spine. And these 00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:27.659 two central pathways of my body getting like 00:49:27.659 --> 00:49:31.860 lined up or cleared out. And I could feel the 00:49:31.860 --> 00:49:34.960 blooming of the white flowers in my third eye. 00:49:36.090 --> 00:49:38.829 And then it reached upwards towards the sky in 00:49:38.829 --> 00:49:43.289 this beautiful illumination. But as those flowers 00:49:43.289 --> 00:49:46.949 in the third eye reaching up towards the sky, 00:49:47.090 --> 00:49:50.730 instead of taking me up and out of my body with 00:49:50.730 --> 00:49:54.389 them, I could feel that as the light was blooming 00:49:54.389 --> 00:49:56.750 upwards, there was this equal and opposite sense 00:49:56.750 --> 00:50:00.210 of grounding downwards. Like the more open I 00:50:00.210 --> 00:50:03.269 got above, the more open and wide and anchored 00:50:03.269 --> 00:50:08.389 into my body. I became too. It was such a cool 00:50:08.389 --> 00:50:13.130 somatic feeling that I've been able to sit with 00:50:13.130 --> 00:50:16.630 more and really feel in my body as I open up 00:50:16.630 --> 00:50:20.750 to the spiritual planes. There's this force that's 00:50:20.750 --> 00:50:23.289 grounding me down. So I stay connected to my 00:50:23.289 --> 00:50:28.210 body and I stay grounded and embodied. And I 00:50:28.210 --> 00:50:33.050 kept hearing the word integrity. And how Yarrow 00:50:33.050 --> 00:50:37.369 helps us align with our integrity and how much 00:50:37.369 --> 00:50:40.269 courage it takes to be in our integrity, especially 00:50:40.269 --> 00:50:44.070 when times are so volatile, but how important 00:50:44.070 --> 00:50:48.030 it is. And Yarrow wants to help us do this. And 00:50:48.030 --> 00:50:52.369 to me, this is akin to that same sense of choosing 00:50:52.369 --> 00:50:56.070 our reality and choosing what's in alignment 00:50:56.070 --> 00:51:03.460 to us and choosing truth. Yaro said to me, nothing 00:51:03.460 --> 00:51:07.559 can actually harm you on a soul level when you're 00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:11.239 in your integrity. And when you're in your integrity, 00:51:11.400 --> 00:51:16.280 everything comes into balance. And just sensing 00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:21.420 and feeling around me how that center line of 00:51:21.420 --> 00:51:26.980 standing in my integrity was holding a protective 00:51:26.980 --> 00:51:30.900 boundary around me. Like I knew who I was and 00:51:30.900 --> 00:51:35.119 so my boundaries were clear and I felt my heart 00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:37.880 beating and blood moving through me and I felt 00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:40.539 so filled up with myself and my own essence. 00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:43.920 Like I was taking up all the space in my body 00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:48.019 and not allowing or inviting other energies in 00:51:48.019 --> 00:51:52.199 and that the blood moving and flowing was helping 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:58.059 allow that to happen. Yarrow is inviting us to 00:51:58.059 --> 00:52:03.440 really center in our integrity, especially during 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:07.420 these times. What is our internal truth? How 00:52:07.420 --> 00:52:11.380 can we align more fully with our presence, our 00:52:11.380 --> 00:52:16.519 attention and choosing what we're creating with 00:52:16.519 --> 00:52:20.579 our alignment to our integrity? And when we're 00:52:20.579 --> 00:52:25.320 there, nothing can harm us. We are so protected. 00:52:26.010 --> 00:52:28.969 Nothing can harm us on a soul level when we can 00:52:28.969 --> 00:52:33.550 maintain that integrity. That's powerful. And 00:52:33.550 --> 00:52:36.429 I love that when we're in integrity, everything 00:52:36.429 --> 00:52:40.469 comes into balance. So the question then becomes, 00:52:40.530 --> 00:52:43.969 where have we been living out of integrity? Where 00:52:43.969 --> 00:52:46.610 are we living out of alignment with our lives, 00:52:46.630 --> 00:52:54.440 with the truth of our soul? Can we have the courage 00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:59.500 to choose to move back into alignment where we 00:52:59.500 --> 00:53:04.199 are so protected and where everything we are 00:53:04.199 --> 00:53:10.239 choosing is illuminating our heart path? So calling 00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:16.679 us to step into our strength, the warrior, the 00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:23.519 love warrior, facing fear. discerning our truth, 00:53:23.820 --> 00:53:29.619 choosing, reorganizing ourselves around our integrity 00:53:29.619 --> 00:53:36.179 and what we're choosing, and finding that joyful 00:53:36.179 --> 00:53:42.380 expression that can emerge from that place. So 00:53:42.380 --> 00:53:48.960 there you have it, Yarrow's weaving of wisdom 00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:53.980 and teaching and experiences. So take a moment 00:53:53.980 --> 00:53:58.880 to breathe that all in. Breathe in the frequency 00:53:58.880 --> 00:54:05.219 of truth that Yaro is embedding in your light 00:54:05.219 --> 00:54:11.139 body right now, embedding in your blood and your 00:54:11.139 --> 00:54:14.619 water body, embedding in your consciousness. 00:54:16.519 --> 00:54:20.360 There's so much here. I really feel like Yaro 00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:26.659 is such a quantum teacher and there's so much 00:54:26.659 --> 00:54:30.340 to explore. And I just know I'm perceiving a 00:54:30.340 --> 00:54:36.000 fraction of what they have to show me because 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:39.559 my brain and consciousness is just not where 00:54:39.559 --> 00:54:46.329 theirs is. And I... I know that Yaro just has 00:54:46.329 --> 00:54:52.710 so much for all of us and wants to call us into 00:54:52.710 --> 00:54:56.889 our integrity for these times. Call us to step 00:54:56.889 --> 00:55:01.769 up, step forward, choose, be discerning, be leaders, 00:55:01.869 --> 00:55:07.489 be warriors, and move from the heart, move from 00:55:07.489 --> 00:55:11.900 our aliveness. that particular aliveness, that 00:55:11.900 --> 00:55:15.719 particular truth that wants to be expressed through 00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:21.400 our creation, our attention, our lived reality. 00:55:23.780 --> 00:55:29.000 So if you want to connect with the plants, yarrow, 00:55:29.119 --> 00:55:32.440 other plants in this way, you really just need 00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:36.400 to go outside, sit with them, open your consciousness, 00:55:36.619 --> 00:55:40.840 open your heart to them. listen with all the 00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:44.739 parts of your body your body knows how to commune 00:55:44.739 --> 00:55:48.139 with them but if you want direct teaching around 00:55:48.139 --> 00:55:51.820 this i have a one hour master class called how 00:55:51.820 --> 00:55:54.840 to connect with plant consciousness without psychedelics 00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:59.000 and the link to that is in the show notes but 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:03.679 i do hope that What you choose to move forward 00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:06.219 with in your relationship with the plants will 00:56:06.219 --> 00:56:09.679 be in alignment with your integrity and will 00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:14.019 be meaningful for both of you, for you, for them, 00:56:14.059 --> 00:56:17.079 for the earth, for the wider collective that 00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:20.179 we're all a part of. So I really encourage you 00:56:20.179 --> 00:56:23.760 to make a gesture of connection or relationship 00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:27.869 with them. Make a choice. It's so, so needed 00:56:27.869 --> 00:56:32.750 right now and such a powerful way to help heal 00:56:32.750 --> 00:56:35.909 our modes of separation that have caused so much 00:56:35.909 --> 00:56:39.889 harm on this earth. And Yaro really calling us 00:56:39.889 --> 00:56:45.269 forward into using our choice and attention and 00:56:45.269 --> 00:56:50.329 energy in this very finite time that we have 00:56:50.329 --> 00:56:54.050 here on this earth. So how are you going to use? 00:56:54.829 --> 00:56:57.929 your presence? How are you going to use your 00:56:57.929 --> 00:57:03.250 attention and the privilege of being a creator, 00:57:03.389 --> 00:57:07.289 being a body here on this earth that can enact 00:57:07.289 --> 00:57:13.289 so much beauty and creation for the whole? So 00:57:13.289 --> 00:57:17.369 until next time, may you stand in your integrity. 00:57:18.110 --> 00:57:22.530 May you align with your truth and create the 00:57:22.530 --> 00:57:26.409 reality that's yours to create. May you find 00:57:26.409 --> 00:57:30.269 courage and strength to choose what feels right, 00:57:30.389 --> 00:57:34.969 to choose love even in the face of fear. And 00:57:34.969 --> 00:57:38.409 may you see beyond the limiting beliefs of your 00:57:38.409 --> 00:57:43.130 perception into the wider expanse of all possibility. 00:57:43.969 --> 00:57:46.650 Thank you for joining the Plant Wisdom Circle. 00:57:47.420 --> 00:57:49.880 May the teachings of the plants continue to ripple 00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:52.500 through your life, guiding you and nourishing 00:57:52.500 --> 00:57:55.260 you in the days to come. 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