Welcome to the Plant Wisdom Circle. This is a
space to share the wisdom of the plants, letting
their voices ripple outward into ever -widening
circles. Together, we honor the plants as medicine
guides and living beings of healing consciousness.
I'm your host, Amy Tarepka. Hello, plant friend.
I'm excited to be with you here again today.
And we'll be talking about the medicine of yarrow,
who is just such a strong, fierce, powerful medicine
who's been working with humans for as long as
we know. But before I begin, I want to remind
local folks that these plant wisdom circles happen
the second Friday of every month here in Portland,
Oregon. And I'd love to have you come join in
this experience of plant communion. It's just
always so beautiful and magical what unfolds.
And I also want to specifically thank my main
human plant spirit teacher, Scott Close. Scott
was who I had studied and mentored with for.
10 years, and he really shaped my work with the
plants and helped me have a container for what
I'd been exploring on my own previously. And
I know that one of his main plant spirit teachers
was Deborah Francis, so giving a shout out to
her as well. I have been studying with the plants,
learning from them in all ways for about two
decades now. and specifically going deep in this
very energetic and psycho -spiritual way for
about that same amount of time. They have taught
me so much and informed my bodywork practice.
They've informed everything I teach about embodiment
and weaving ourselves back into the magic of
the land and the earth and have taught me so
many energy techniques. of being in our bodies
that help us be in communion with the cosmic
nature of the earth and the mystical nature of
the earth. And so I'm just so endlessly grateful
to them. And this podcast is my gift to them.
asked me for many years to share their voices,
to share their wisdom, their teachings to a wider
audience. So here is this gift to both you and
them. The plants are so committed to us. They're
so generous. They're so graciously willing to
support us. And it's the most beautiful thing
to enter into significant relationship with these
wise earth beings. So if you want to know more
about how to work with the plants, how to work
with me, you can take a look in the show notes
where I have links to a masterclass on how to
communicate with plant consciousness without
psychedelics, as well as my free online community
which has a free mini course on helping you anchor
yourself back into the magic of your body and
the earth and so much of that is supported by
the plants themselves. So we'll get into the
medicine of yarrow and I'm specifically speaking
of my experience and other people's experience
with the non -hybridized yarrow you'll find all
sorts of hybrid varieties for gardens which can
be all sorts of colors But I'm talking about
Achillea millefolium, which usually has a white
flower, sometimes has little hints of pink. You
can find some pink hints in the wild. And I've
heard you can even find some yellow hints in
the wild. But the plants that are like bright
pink or yellow. They are cultivated. They are
hybridized. So they don't necessarily, in my
opinion, don't have the same power. They don't
have the same medicine. But I'd be curious if
you do work with them and have insights to share
about their specific medicine because maybe the
colors do shift the medicine in certain directions,
which I would not be surprised about. And we
work with the leaf and the flower, usually in
tincture form. That's what my plant wisdom circles
work with, just a couple drops of the tincture.
But you can connect with yarrow flower essence,
which is really popular, or you can have yarrow
in a tea, although it is a little bitter, or
just hang out with them in the wild. You don't
need to ingest any of the medicine at all to
sit with the plants, but it can help. And then
once you know them, once you've cultivated relationship
with them, you can call them in. You can call
in their energetic, their spiritual presence
without any of the physical medicine present.
I'm going to be sharing a little bit about Yarrow's
physical medicine, and then I'll go into the
general spiritual energetic themes of Yarrow,
my own experiences with Yarrow. and other people's
experiences from the Plant Wisdom Circle and
my membership space where we've sat with Yarrow
several times. I primarily think of Yarrow as
a plant that moves and balances the blood. Yarrow
is a premier wound healing plant, helps to staunch
bleeding, even in cases of pretty deep wounds.
will also help prevent infection with the antiseptic
qualities. Yarrow helps balance the menstrual
cycle. So again, this blood balancing, encouraging
delayed menses to come on and also to balance
out heavy bleeds. Yarrow is a diaphoretic, meaning
that the plant moves blood to the surface of
the body, which is extremely helpful in supporting
The sweat response and the body's organic fever
response, so great support for colds and flus,
especially if the body is trying to support itself
through the fever response. Yarrow is a bitter,
so can help with digestion as well. And there
have been many other ways yarrow is worked with
physically, but I'm not going to get into all
the minute. details, but something I do really
want to name here about yarrow is that humans
have had a very powerful relationship with this
medicine for as long as we know. Yarrow was found
in the teeth of Neanderthals and in their burial
sites dating back to 60 ,000 years ago. So this
plant has been with us. for a long time, been
a part of our physiology, informing our bodies,
informing our evolution for a very long time.
So now I'll talk about some themes we often see
with yarrow while we're sitting with the plant's
spirit. The first one is this great balancer.
So holding duality. I often work with Yaro at
the equinoxes because Yaro holds so many dualities.
They are strongly connected with the spiritual
and the divine planes, but also very grounding.
They help us hold strong boundaries, but also
be open in healthy ways. They can be... nurturing
and loving, but also very firm and direct and
fiercely calling us into our strength. I perceive
them as non -binary, sometimes veering more towards
masculine, and that is something that other people
have named and felt as well, is this androgynous
quality or feminine and masculine in one vessel.
Yaro is often pigeonholed for their boundaries
so if you're talking about boundaries and you're
talking about herbs yarrow always comes up yarrow
is amazing for protection amazing for helping
us hold boundaries for helping us seal up our
energy field and leaks so great for empaths for
over givers for helping us know and discern between
ourselves and other and stop us from both leaking
energy out and taking on other people's energy.
In European folklore, Yara was hung over doorways
or carried on the body to protect against evil
spirits. So again, that boundary of protection.
And alongside this, yarrow's been known as the
medicine for the wounded healer so helping us
take our traumas our emotional or spiritual wounds
and transform them alchemize them into wisdom
to help others with so giving us strength to
face these things within ourselves and Yaro helps
call us into a higher octave of that wound, which
is then helping others who've experienced that
wounding. So I see this as an aspect of that
boundary and protection because the wounded healer
requires an incubation and a protection and to
have boundaries of self in order to then support
others on. their healing path as well. Yarrow's
name comes from Achilles, so Achillea millefolium.
And the story of Achilles in Greek mythology
is that Achilles was a warrior. And according
to myth, Achilles' mother dipped him in the river
Styx, which is often told as being laced with
yarrow or dipping Achilles into a yarrow bath.
And she did this to protect him. She did this
so he would be immortal and could not be wounded.
But she held him by his Achilles heel as she
dipped him. So there was just that one place
on his body that was not protected. by the yarrow
so again this idea of yarrow being extremely
protective but also a medicine for the warriors
and helping us find strength face fear cultivate
that empowered warrior nature in the face of
trial, in the face of battle, in the face of
whatever life is bringing you that feels like
a challenge. In our membership call this past
month, one of the members did not know the story
about Achilles and Yarrow. And this person has
been in a very difficult place, going through
a breakup, dealing with some significant health
scares, and some days feeling like she's not
sure how she's going to get through it. And Yarrow
came to her giving her imagery of going into
battle with armor and riding a horse and she
had a sword and instructing her to be strong
and brave and let go of any worry or... feeling
bad about herself and just kind of setting that
aside or not putting energy there and invoking
her warrior self out of limiting stories. So
the difference between I am ill versus I'm a
person dealing with illness. And just this reiteration
that she's strong, that she doesn't need to fall
into a story of being any certain way. And it
felt very empowering. And historically, this
plant was used on battlefields to help heal wounds.
That's also why it's associated with Achilles.
Another person on that membership call was invited
by Yarrow to face her fear. And to let her flaws
be seen because one of her fears was of being
exposed. And so Yarrow calling her into facing
that fear. She saw this geodesic dome -like structure,
this Yarrow dome. And she was tiny and the dome
was vast. And each facet of the dome was a different
scene playing out. Or another way she described
it was as though she had compound eyes like a
dragonfly, and she couldn't see any specific
imagery in each of the facets of the dome, but
her sense was that each of the scenes were anxieties
or fears that are holding her back and need to
be faced or released before she can move forward.
So with that knowledge, this giant spider appeared
with many eyes. And the sense of those many eyes
or lenses from the geodesic dome was then reversed.
And she was no longer seeing a compound image,
she was being seen by all of those eyes in her
complexity. And so this invitation to face this
fear, not necessarily of the spider, but more
of the fear of having so many eyes seeing her.
And the instruction was to just let herself be
as vulnerable as possible in front of that perceived
threat. And she did, and she didn't die. And
so her takeaway was that Growth is beautiful
and vulnerability is powerful and beautiful.
And Yara really calling her to stand in her power,
in that vulnerability. That vulnerability is
power and taking her power back from the fear
by facing it. Another person on that call also
had the invitation to be bold and to be willing
to get uncomfortable. and to find his place and
to just be there. Someone else also had the invitation
to release fear, to let the fear go, to get really
present, to be in the moment, to slow down, to
be with the body, to breathe, to rest, and to
surrender that fear as she connected to her breath
and presence. And I had an experience back in
2011 that has a lot of the same themes that these
folks have been experiencing. So I want to share
that now. In that experience, I felt my third
eye being activated and my inner vision expanding
and how it was expanding my perception and clarity.
showing me how preoccupied I was around a certain
situation that felt difficult to me. And then
they were showing me where I could take my power
back and align with my own truth, my own needs,
my own voice. And Yaro was giving me strength
and power in that situation where I was feeling
defeated. And they were showing me how easily
deflated or easily defeated I could be when things
got hard and then instilled more of that warrior
spirit in me to be with tough circumstances in
a way that's aligned with my inner power and
still taking care of myself. And so all of these
experiences show something of facing fear, willingness
to get uncomfortable, and... calling on that
strength within and you'll notice that as yarrow
is this holder of duality there is this playing
with how to be boundaried when you need to in
armor and how to be vulnerable when you need
to so it's Playing with that energetic field
and that boundary between self and other and
what is needed depending on the person, the person's
growth edge, the person's patterning, and whatever
is needed in order to bring more strength. And
Yaro showing that strength doesn't always mean
being boundaried in armor. but can also mean
stripping down in vulnerability. There's still
a theme running through these stories. And in
that last share with the person, being invited
to slow down, be in the moment, rest, breathe,
she felt very cared for and she felt very held.
And that is something that we see a lot. with
yarrow too there is like i mentioned earlier
this duality between this very nurturing heart
care balancing the heart which you'll hear a
lot in the latest plant wisdom circle shares
which i'll share towards the later part of the
podcast but also this this balance of that fierce
call to action and discernment and strength when
needed. So I see yarrow as kind of tending the
heart in this very intelligent way, calling us
into courage and action when needed. And also
when the heart has been too on guard and too
overworked, calling it to rest and to disarm
itself when needed. So it's this intelligence
of the heart, like when and how to move blood
and energy to bring balance into the system.
We also see a lot of themes of third eye opening
and, again, visuals of eyes, like the spider
eyes in the one person share. People often...
feel the energy of yarrow in their third eye
or crown but often third eye in china yarrow
is known as an herb that brightens the eyes and
promotes intelligence and with this third eye
connection and the seeing beyond there is this
quantum nature of reality that yarrow always
is bringing me into like always trying to show
me the reality beyond the scene world and oftentimes
it's beyond my ability to understand what Yaro
was trying to tell me but there is a very quantum
nature of reality that Yaro opens us up into
and historically Yaro was used in both divination
and spell work. Both in ancient Europe and in
China with the I Ching, the yarrow stalks were
used to throw the I Ching. So the sight beyond
the material world, spiritual sight, spiritual
insight. In my very first time I sat with yarrow
in 2010 with Scott, it was one of those blind
sits where I didn't know which plant we were
sitting with. And what happened was I immediately
felt both grounded and connected to the psychic
realm. And light began to swirl around my third
eye. And then I saw a pair of eyes. And there
was just lots of energy in the third eye. There
was a ring of light that formed a tunnel. Everything
was really slow, but there was lots of movement.
And Yara took me on this very elaborate journey,
which ended with me climbing up some stairs in
this very narrow pathway. It was dark and I was
following these stairs up and up and up and up.
And it opened up into a room with this lady insect
queen is how it appeared to me. And she asked
me to look out the window and said, what do you
see? And I was like, I know there is a city out
there, but the harder I tried to see it, the
more I saw nothing but light. And Yara was trying
to show me how my vision is too narrow and focused
and I can't see everything with my eyes, that
my perception of reality. is so limited unless
I'm using my third eye's knowingness. So I know
there's a city, but I can't see it with my eyes.
And then again, she asked me to look to see what
I see. And I see two huge energy fields colliding.
And at first I saw it as a conflict in maybe
a more negative connotation. But what she was
showing me was because of this conflict, this
interaction between these two energies, that
the conflict, the point of relationship, that's
creating the reality. So something has to be
pushing against the other in order to create
a certain conflict. And if one stops, there isn't
a situation. So if there's nothing to interact
with, it's just empty space. And then she shows
me this image of me as all of these pieces coming
together and connecting and pushing against each
other in a very specific tension in order to
create my body. And then later on, she was showing
me myself standing in Just again, like a black
room with two yellow rings spinning around me.
And I'm so focused on them and how I'm going
to get out of them that I can't get out of them
because my mind is making it so with how focused
the interaction between my focused attention
and those yellow spinning rings. It keeps me
trapped inside of that reality. So I have a shift
in that realization and they sort of disappear
and Yaro tells me to walk into the blackness
and to create with my thoughts whatever I want.
And this teaching that we're choosing to shine
light on different things, making them real,
but that's not necessarily the truth. that everything
is already out there. We just need to come in
contact with it, with our thoughts, which creates
that conflict of those energy fields. And conflict
isn't the best word for that, but that's how
it showed itself to me, right? It's the coming
together, the pressing of the energy fields together
that then creates the reality. So we come in
contact with the thing that's already there with
our thoughts and boom, it's there. So we create
it with our thoughts when we collide against
it. And I was thinking in my head, all I want
is to create love. And Yara was like, it's already
there. You just have to choose it. Put your energy
there slash press your energy against it. And
the weight of my... perception the weight of
my thoughts then collide with love and it appears
at least that's how she was describing it and
this is back in 2010 when I know quantum physics
had already realized all these things but it
wasn't as much of a popular mainstream thing
like it wasn't as much a part of the zeitgeist
as it is today So it was all kind of new to me.
I'd heard those theories before, but it was also
like a deeper understanding of it than I had
ever experienced or heard or had been taught
before. And there was also just a lot of teachings
about shifting focus and what truth is and creating
reality. So that was the first time I ever sat
with her. And over the years, I've had some level
or experience of that shown in a different way.
A couple years ago, in another experience with
yarrow, I went into a totally white light space.
I think this was two years ago, three years ago.
And it felt very divine. And I saw a huge yarrow
stalk and I went up it and into the flower. And
there was some butterfly. and a grasshopper type
being there. So again, this theme with the bugs,
there is, Yarrow has a relationship with bugs.
I don't know what it is, but they find their
way through so many people's experiences. And
Yarrow was showing me the white light all around
was all possibility. And again, asking me, what
do I want? What do you want to create here? And
this very matter of factness about it. And so
I was sitting with the white light, visualizing
different things that I wanted. And again, in
our membership call, I had a similar teaching.
It's always shown to me different ways, but there's
just this teaching that's shown over and over
and over again. This time, there was... this
flashlight like a light illuminating and it I
could see all of the tiny flowers on the yarrow
flower head as little lights and also little
eyes so it was like there are all these little
eyes that turned into beams of light so like
our eyes as beams of light and Again, showing
me making real what I choose to focus on. And
how each of us has this tiny little sliver of
the fabric of reality that we are creating with
what we're focusing on. And they showed it to
me like... a collective canvas and we get to
illuminate and make real create whatever we want
and it was this image of kind of like those magic
artworks where you have this specialized pen
and you can illuminate the drawing Or what's
behind it by coloring on the like plain white
or plain black canvas. And then you illuminate
what's like the picture behind it. That was the
image I got this time. And just really feeling
the importance and the power of what we're choosing.
to create what we're choosing to put our awareness
on, our attention on in this very small piece
of the collective canvas that we get and how
much choice we have and how much that matters.
And it really matters what we choose because
it becomes part of the collective canvas. So
again, this question of what do you want to be
focusing on and is what you're focusing on feeling
good? Is that what you're, is that what you want
to choose more of in this world? And I think
of yarrow a lot as this sort of truth, this plant
that helps us get really honest with ourselves,
to see our path clearly, to help us take the
next step forward with courage and to find discernment,
to find focus, clarity, directness. So there's
a lot of air element qualities with yarrow, which
I find really interesting as a plant that moves
the water through our bodies. And I've seen...
the imagery before of yarrow as almost like this
conductor holding a wand and moving the waters
through this very direct precise air element
way but having an impact on the blood and the
water body to bring harmony to bring balance
something else i want to weave in here along
with the discernment and the truth is this person's
experience from our membership call where she
was shown this lasso of truth and this message
of she chooses, not that she is chosen, but she
chooses. Like we are choosing and we're not waiting
to be chosen or waiting to have life. choose
something for us. But to actively engage in life
is to choose. And that is inherently limiting.
But it really matters what you choose. Because
again, that creates the reality you live in and
is an aspect of the collective canvas as a whole.
An experience I had with Yaro in 2014 sort of
weaves into this, which was me having this experience
of feeling very upright and aligned, which is
another theme I find with Yaro is this alignment
with self and alignment with our truth and showing
me how important it is for me to be discerning
in what I say yes to and what I say no to. and
how those are really important boundaries. And
also how our discernment and decision making
really matters, but that it also doesn't matter.
So again, I got this message of choosing. And
also bringing in the other shadow side or like
the other dual side that it really matters for
us to be clear and to decide our reality and
to be active participators in that. And it really
matters in the moment for the action of it, for
the fact that you are taking charge of your life,
you're engaging with your life in a way that's
aligned. But ultimately, it doesn't matter what
you choose, as long as you're choosing something.
That's how you create life. So again, holding
both and, right? Are we able to hold multiple
truths at once here? Like it really matters that
you choose. And it also really matters what you
choose because you're creating your reality.
But it also doesn't matter what you choose as
long as you're choosing something because you're
going to learn from it. There's going to be some
learning from it when you choose. So it matters
and it doesn't matter. Like you need to choose.
You're creating your reality. It matters what
you choose. And also it can't be perfect. And
whatever you choose will be okay. It'll be right.
So not getting caught up in the perfection of
it or needing to do it right, but really aligning
with your power and your truth and making choice
from there and, you know, recognizing your own
autonomy and agency and also that it's play and
to not get paralyzed in the choosing because
It's the choosing that matters. Yarrow is such
a queen of holding duality. And finally, alongside
that alignment with self, just want to share
one more story from an experience I had in 2024,
where Yarrow was just helping me feel this. alignment
of authenticity within myself feeling the worthiness
in myself not cowering from my own light and
gifts and authenticity and I could feel myself
getting bigger and wider and taller and more
centered and more aligned with myself and my
truth and then I was seeing I was outside in
a big meadow of yarrow And I was seeing all of
these minute details of every aspect of the meadow
that I was sitting with and feeling so much love
and appreciation for every life just living and
making their small part of the world more rich
and everything that all of the pieces of life
were choosing. and how those are weaving together
in this beautiful story. And again, that idea
of this canvas of life unfolding through the
choices of all of the different beings here,
including us. And in that experience, I was especially
focused on the bugs and the butterflies and the
ants, which again is so interesting that Yarrow
has this affinity for these these types of creatures
and I guess one final thing to add to this is
again someone in our membership call was given
a bunch of cicada imagery from childhood and
was told to transcend this plane and was seeing
all of these cicada shells left on fences and
feeling like it was time to shed old skin. And
through that process, you know, the transformation
of the cicada from an earth being to a being
with wings, shedding the shells and flying, and
the invitation to her to transcend this plane
given wings, basically, is just another... way
in which yarrow is using insect imagery to teach
us so i'm going to share other people's experiences
now from this latest plant wisdom circle where
there was a lot more of the like heart and blood
connection so this first person had this feeling
of like spidering down through the chest and
ribs and lungs like the spidering of capillaries
going all through the rib cage and like an internal
squeezing for a moment and then a grounding after
that another person had warmth in the chest and
felt a softening down and she felt very held
And had this knowing that if we want to hold,
we have to be held, which brings in that nurturing
duality as well. And then she had this experience
of a little kiss on her third eye before we closed.
For this next person, Yara was honoring how much
her heart keeps opening and supporting her detox
process from a relationship. and showing her
how not in alignment that it was, but she can
still be so grateful for the experience. And
then Yara was meticulously going through her
entire body and realigning and recalibrating
herself back to herself, which is so beautiful
and so powerful. This next person started her
experience with a spiraling warmth from her heart.
And the color was a silvery blue gray color and
felt a lot of medicine moving into her head.
And she felt a tickle on her cheek, which then
brought her into this experience of being a child
on a sunny day in a meadow and laughing and having
fun and being so carefree. And I'm wondering
if Yara was in that meadow as a child. But she
was experiencing the sense of... unbridled joy
and expression that was so beautiful. And to
me, this is like expressing that unbridled truth
of who we are, expressing how we are when we're
in full alignment with ourselves. And then she
experienced a healing happening on the right
side of her neck, like a warmth and an energetic
current moving up it. and yarrow told her to
honor them by cultivating that joyful state in
the world this next person had the experience
of her heart being kneaded like dough like yarrow
was sculpting and kneading it with warmth and
the pressure of hands softening it up and then
saw a meat tenderizer just going at the heart
and there was a big ache in her body and a tenderness.
And the pressure of yarrow on her heart was bringing
up this clarity of letting herself really feel
what was there to feel this ache that she says
is always there, but she can't always see it
or feel it so clearly. And it felt like Every
little intricate piece of her body she could
see in detail and she could see the detail of
the ache, which is such a fascinating idea. And
then saw yarrow plants, like the imagery of yarrow
plants outside blowing in the harsh wind and
still being joyful and still. bringing that joyful
presence there on the mountain and yarrow was
showing her that the wind and the ache and the
tenderizing were all part of the same thing and
just a little side note here this kind of reminds
me of my first experience with yarrow where they
were showing me this the pressure and two things
coming up against each other creating reality
or creating the felt sense of something and this
just reminds me of that to some degree of the
elements coming together and the pressing on
the heart bringing clarity and allowing things
to feel more clear and real there's something
very similar in the quality of this energetic
teaching where it's the the harshness the pressure
the coming together two hands meeting two bodies
meeting feeling in relationship to something
else and how that brings about a certain level
of truth and level of life in our experience
in the world. This next person saw all the tiny
little white flowers like confetti falling around
her. and she was twirling and dancing around
in them. She's been feeling pretty stagnant,
and the message was movement and dancing and
spinning and felt like Yara was awakening the
internal blood flow and the circulation, and
the flowers falling down then became the imagery
of a summer dress. And she was wearing a yarrow
cape with yarrow flowers on it and had yarrow
leaves tattooed on her shins. And it all felt
very witchy. And yarrow told her she wanted to
be planted everywhere and to spread their seeds
everywhere. And then she was brought into this
land that she shares with her siblings, which
is a challenge for her. then put a bubble of
protection up over her part of the land, like
a dome of protection. And she felt so safe inside
that bubble and in her own area of that land.
And she saw yarrow, almost like this yarrow wand
going over and blessing all of the native plants
there on that patch of earth. And awakening them
and sparkling them and blessing them with life
and bringing them out of the destruction that's
been there. She said it's been filled with all
this invasive Himalayan blackberry. And Yara
was coming in and just reawakening, reinvigorating
the native plants there. And overall, she felt
it was just a very magical and witchy and protective
journey. And finally, this last person felt really
scattered, and Yaro very matter -of -factly,
yet compassionately, said, we need to talk when
you can focus. I can tell you're using so much
of your energy to focus right now, but I need
you to bring more of your skillful attention
to the conversation. And so she didn't feel like
she was being scolded, but it was just very direct
and clear and no -nonsense, as Yaro is often.
But one of the messages she did receive was to
not forget that human time is finite and our
attention is wanted. There's a finite amount
of time we can focus here and we're wanted. Our
presence and attention is needed and wanted.
And that feels so pointed and impactful and similar
to how I felt with my experience of receiving
our little piece of the collective canvas and
how much it really matters what we choose and
how our time is so finite like we don't get to
do a lot with our one life yes it is a lot to
some standards but it's also just a little fractal
on a wider canvas of reality and our Our time
is finite. Our focus is needed. And what is it
that we really want to dedicate our presence
and attention to while we're here? So finally,
my experience at this plant wisdom circle was
that I immediately saw white sparkles in the
dark. And I felt like Yaro was telling me they
really liked the little mica powder I had offered
to the water on the altar. And I felt Yaro taking
me back over time and showing me the magical
relationship that Yaro has had with humans. And
it also felt very witchy to me. And then I was
standing in the dark and everywhere I turned
would light up. And I could feel Yaro in front
of me like a flashlight. and shining in the dark
and in that light of yarrow i felt so protected
and like nothing could harm me so it was a similar
feeling as that teaching from years ago when
yara was showing me that whatever i looked at
came to life like my attention and presence was
what illuminated in the dark but this also had
that overlay of yarrow protecting me in whatever
it was that I encountered there. And after that,
I felt yarrow stalks with flowers on top of them,
creating a line at the top of my head, like a
headband, almost like they were planted in a
row along that headband part of my head. And
they just kept lining up from one side to the
other over and over again. And then the same
down my center line and up the back side of my
center line, like up my back, my spine. And these
two central pathways of my body getting like
lined up or cleared out. And I could feel the
blooming of the white flowers in my third eye.
And then it reached upwards towards the sky in
this beautiful illumination. But as those flowers
in the third eye reaching up towards the sky,
instead of taking me up and out of my body with
them, I could feel that as the light was blooming
upwards, there was this equal and opposite sense
of grounding downwards. Like the more open I
got above, the more open and wide and anchored
into my body. I became too. It was such a cool
somatic feeling that I've been able to sit with
more and really feel in my body as I open up
to the spiritual planes. There's this force that's
grounding me down. So I stay connected to my
body and I stay grounded and embodied. And I
kept hearing the word integrity. And how Yarrow
helps us align with our integrity and how much
courage it takes to be in our integrity, especially
when times are so volatile, but how important
it is. And Yarrow wants to help us do this. And
to me, this is akin to that same sense of choosing
our reality and choosing what's in alignment
to us and choosing truth. Yaro said to me, nothing
can actually harm you on a soul level when you're
in your integrity. And when you're in your integrity,
everything comes into balance. And just sensing
and feeling around me how that center line of
standing in my integrity was holding a protective
boundary around me. Like I knew who I was and
so my boundaries were clear and I felt my heart
beating and blood moving through me and I felt
so filled up with myself and my own essence.
Like I was taking up all the space in my body
and not allowing or inviting other energies in
and that the blood moving and flowing was helping
allow that to happen. Yarrow is inviting us to
really center in our integrity, especially during
these times. What is our internal truth? How
can we align more fully with our presence, our
attention and choosing what we're creating with
our alignment to our integrity? And when we're
there, nothing can harm us. We are so protected.
Nothing can harm us on a soul level when we can
maintain that integrity. That's powerful. And
I love that when we're in integrity, everything
comes into balance. So the question then becomes,
where have we been living out of integrity? Where
are we living out of alignment with our lives,
with the truth of our soul? Can we have the courage
to choose to move back into alignment where we
are so protected and where everything we are
choosing is illuminating our heart path? So calling
us to step into our strength, the warrior, the
love warrior, facing fear. discerning our truth,
choosing, reorganizing ourselves around our integrity
and what we're choosing, and finding that joyful
expression that can emerge from that place. So
there you have it, Yarrow's weaving of wisdom
and teaching and experiences. So take a moment
to breathe that all in. Breathe in the frequency
of truth that Yaro is embedding in your light
body right now, embedding in your blood and your
water body, embedding in your consciousness.
There's so much here. I really feel like Yaro
is such a quantum teacher and there's so much
to explore. And I just know I'm perceiving a
fraction of what they have to show me because
my brain and consciousness is just not where
theirs is. And I... I know that Yaro just has
so much for all of us and wants to call us into
our integrity for these times. Call us to step
up, step forward, choose, be discerning, be leaders,
be warriors, and move from the heart, move from
our aliveness. that particular aliveness, that
particular truth that wants to be expressed through
our creation, our attention, our lived reality.
So if you want to connect with the plants, yarrow,
other plants in this way, you really just need
to go outside, sit with them, open your consciousness,
open your heart to them. listen with all the
parts of your body your body knows how to commune
with them but if you want direct teaching around
this i have a one hour master class called how
to connect with plant consciousness without psychedelics
and the link to that is in the show notes but
i do hope that What you choose to move forward
with in your relationship with the plants will
be in alignment with your integrity and will
be meaningful for both of you, for you, for them,
for the earth, for the wider collective that
we're all a part of. So I really encourage you
to make a gesture of connection or relationship
with them. Make a choice. It's so, so needed
right now and such a powerful way to help heal
our modes of separation that have caused so much
harm on this earth. And Yaro really calling us
forward into using our choice and attention and
energy in this very finite time that we have
here on this earth. So how are you going to use?
your presence? How are you going to use your
attention and the privilege of being a creator,
being a body here on this earth that can enact
so much beauty and creation for the whole? So
until next time, may you stand in your integrity.
May you align with your truth and create the
reality that's yours to create. May you find
courage and strength to choose what feels right,
to choose love even in the face of fear. And
may you see beyond the limiting beliefs of your
perception into the wider expanse of all possibility.
Thank you for joining the Plant Wisdom Circle.
May the teachings of the plants continue to ripple
through your life, guiding you and nourishing
you in the days to come. If you'd like to keep
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check out the show notes below to learn about
any links, events, or classes I shared with you
today. You can find the next Plant Wisdom Circle
and other classes and resources at groundwaterhealing
.com. Until next time, may you walk gently with
the earth, with the plants by your side.