WEBVTT 00:00:01.060 --> 00:00:05.759 Welcome to the Plant Wisdom Circle. This is a 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:08.960 space to share the wisdom of the plants, letting 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:12.080 their voices ripple outward into ever -widening 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:15.779 circles. Together, we honor the plants as medicine 00:00:15.779 --> 00:00:18.820 guides and living beings of healing consciousness. 00:00:19.820 --> 00:00:25.829 I'm your host, Amy Tarepka. Okay, welcome, welcome 00:00:25.829 --> 00:00:30.829 back. I have Lavender here with me today and 00:00:30.829 --> 00:00:34.570 I'm going to be sharing all about her amazing 00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:38.109 range of medicine. She's just been such a gift 00:00:38.109 --> 00:00:42.210 ever since the Plant Wisdom Circle. She's been 00:00:42.210 --> 00:00:45.570 with me. I've really felt her stay with me, linger 00:00:45.570 --> 00:00:49.549 with me a little longer maybe than most. of the 00:00:49.549 --> 00:00:51.890 plants. She's come into my bodywork sessions 00:00:51.890 --> 00:00:54.829 and in my dreams and it's just been really sweet 00:00:54.829 --> 00:00:59.810 to have her steadying presence with me and I'm 00:00:59.810 --> 00:01:03.950 really excited to have her with me to share more 00:01:03.950 --> 00:01:08.510 about her medicine. But as usual before we begin 00:01:08.510 --> 00:01:12.250 I want to remind local folks that These Plant 00:01:12.250 --> 00:01:15.450 Wisdom Circles happen the second Friday of every 00:01:15.450 --> 00:01:18.549 month here in Portland, Oregon, and we'd love 00:01:18.549 --> 00:01:21.930 to have you come join in this experience of so 00:01:21.930 --> 00:01:26.890 much community magic. And one other exciting 00:01:26.890 --> 00:01:30.450 thing is that my six -month immersion program 00:01:30.450 --> 00:01:33.049 through the Golden Stone Wisdom School is open 00:01:33.049 --> 00:01:37.569 for applications. And this is my most in -depth 00:01:37.569 --> 00:01:40.989 program that I offer that runs from fall equinox 00:01:40.989 --> 00:01:45.150 to spring equinox. And I created this very specific 00:01:45.150 --> 00:01:49.209 initiation for the sensitives, for the empaths, 00:01:49.450 --> 00:01:51.810 the soul seekers, the plant people, the ones 00:01:51.810 --> 00:01:55.930 who really feel and who know that deep inside 00:01:55.930 --> 00:01:59.469 they have a magical soul, but something is in 00:01:59.469 --> 00:02:03.890 the way. of you stepping forth into your magic, 00:02:04.150 --> 00:02:07.790 into your soul's language and lived relationship 00:02:07.790 --> 00:02:12.129 with the earth body. So what we do over the six 00:02:12.129 --> 00:02:15.909 months is a lot of slowing down and being present 00:02:15.909 --> 00:02:20.210 with ourselves and listening to how we communicate 00:02:20.210 --> 00:02:24.379 with our bodies and the wider soul of the earth, 00:02:24.500 --> 00:02:27.740 the wider spiritual planes. There's a lot of 00:02:27.740 --> 00:02:31.639 deep rooted connection with the body. You explore 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:35.159 what's long been held inside your body, what 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:37.419 stories and programming you've been carrying 00:02:37.419 --> 00:02:41.139 that you're ready to transform. You get more 00:02:41.139 --> 00:02:43.860 clear and masterful in working with your energy 00:02:43.860 --> 00:02:47.879 body. You start to really trust your intuition, 00:02:48.180 --> 00:02:52.210 how it works, the pathways in which both your 00:02:52.210 --> 00:02:55.469 body and the external world are communicating 00:02:55.469 --> 00:03:00.229 with you. You really feel how the medicine of 00:03:00.229 --> 00:03:03.150 the elements, the seasons, the plant spirits, 00:03:03.289 --> 00:03:07.270 the stones, how they live through you, how your 00:03:07.270 --> 00:03:11.129 body relates to them, your own personal relationship 00:03:11.129 --> 00:03:15.750 to them. and you awaken your inner witch, your 00:03:15.750 --> 00:03:18.729 inner priestess, your empowered magical self. 00:03:19.430 --> 00:03:24.650 I feel so passionate about helping the sensitive 00:03:24.650 --> 00:03:27.610 -hearted folks right now really empower themselves 00:03:27.610 --> 00:03:32.349 because I believe it is us sensitives who are 00:03:32.349 --> 00:03:36.370 the leaders, who will be shaping this new way 00:03:36.370 --> 00:03:40.530 forward in a way that's deeply rooted in relationship 00:03:40.530 --> 00:03:45.990 with the earth, with compassion, with sensitivity 00:03:45.990 --> 00:03:50.310 for all beings, not just humans. And there are 00:03:50.310 --> 00:03:54.689 four plants that help guide us over the six months. 00:03:54.990 --> 00:03:59.189 They are red cedar, rose, hawthorn, and yarrow. 00:03:59.310 --> 00:04:02.590 and I have podcast episodes about each of them 00:04:02.590 --> 00:04:04.770 except Hawthorne, who I'm planning to share about 00:04:04.770 --> 00:04:08.189 in November. If this Goldenstone immersion calls 00:04:08.189 --> 00:04:11.509 to you, if you're wanting to be guided by the 00:04:11.509 --> 00:04:14.949 plants and your spirit guides and your inner 00:04:14.949 --> 00:04:18.470 self this fall and winter, you can find more 00:04:18.470 --> 00:04:21.949 details in the show notes below. All right, well, 00:04:21.949 --> 00:04:25.129 let's get into today's episode with Lavender. 00:04:26.280 --> 00:04:32.600 This is the Lavangela genus, and I work mostly 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:35.959 with the English Lavender, the Lavangela angustifolia, 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:40.459 but I do know there's over 40 species of Lavender, 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:46.199 and I'm guessing they have varying degrees of 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:48.819 medicinal constituents. I don't know enough about 00:04:48.819 --> 00:04:53.019 it all to say. that every lavender species is 00:04:53.019 --> 00:04:55.860 the same, but my guess is each one will vary 00:04:55.860 --> 00:05:01.379 slightly, but also contain a similar spiritual 00:05:01.379 --> 00:05:05.779 vibe and a similar energetic blueprint. With 00:05:05.779 --> 00:05:09.279 lavender we work with the flower and you can 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.060 throw some of the little leaves in as well. I 00:05:12.060 --> 00:05:16.250 make my tincture from the flower. And the experiences 00:05:16.250 --> 00:05:19.209 I share here from the plant wisdom circles are 00:05:19.209 --> 00:05:22.649 when we sit in ceremony with just a single drop 00:05:22.649 --> 00:05:24.970 or a couple drops of the tincture that I make 00:05:24.970 --> 00:05:30.029 and have the experience of feeling the medicine 00:05:30.029 --> 00:05:33.250 in our bodies and receiving the messages that 00:05:33.250 --> 00:05:36.709 lavender has to share with us. But you also don't 00:05:36.709 --> 00:05:40.029 need to ingest any of the medicine or have a 00:05:40.029 --> 00:05:43.120 special tincture. You can go nibble on one of 00:05:43.120 --> 00:05:46.220 the flowers or just sit by a plant and connect 00:05:46.220 --> 00:05:49.720 with them that way. So I'll share a little bit 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:53.040 about Lavender's physical medicine and then go 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:57.100 into the general spiritual and energetic themes 00:05:57.100 --> 00:06:00.379 of Lavender, what we find time and time again 00:06:00.379 --> 00:06:03.779 with people's experiences and my own experiences 00:06:03.779 --> 00:06:06.699 and other people's experiences from the plant 00:06:06.699 --> 00:06:11.740 wisdom circles. Lavender is drying and cooling 00:06:11.740 --> 00:06:15.519 to the system. So she's an anti -inflammatory, 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:19.300 antiseptic, anti -fungal, antibacterial. She 00:06:19.300 --> 00:06:23.060 does a great job in keeping spaces clean and 00:06:23.060 --> 00:06:26.660 clear of odors and bacteria and really great 00:06:26.660 --> 00:06:30.100 to add to skincare products and skin salves because 00:06:30.100 --> 00:06:34.259 of this. Lavender is also a bitter and bitters 00:06:34.259 --> 00:06:37.610 are generally helpful with the digestion, all 00:06:37.610 --> 00:06:41.790 bitters. They help move along sluggish digestion 00:06:41.790 --> 00:06:46.230 and they prepare the digestive system for food. 00:06:47.009 --> 00:06:51.509 And lavender works as a bile stimulant and a 00:06:51.509 --> 00:06:55.509 liver support and is also a carminative, which 00:06:55.509 --> 00:06:59.449 means that she helps relieve gas and bloating 00:06:59.449 --> 00:07:02.209 in the intestines. So really great to have a 00:07:02.209 --> 00:07:05.610 little drop or two of the tincture before and 00:07:05.610 --> 00:07:10.269 or after the meal. Lavender is a nervine which 00:07:10.269 --> 00:07:14.529 many of you I'm sure have assumed and probably 00:07:14.529 --> 00:07:18.149 her most notable quality because she's so calming 00:07:18.149 --> 00:07:21.870 to the nervous system. She can help with anxiety, 00:07:22.610 --> 00:07:26.610 stress, constriction in the nerves, any of that 00:07:26.610 --> 00:07:30.129 like inflammatory nervous system feeling because 00:07:30.129 --> 00:07:35.600 she's cooling. and also helps really uplift the 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:38.379 system. So she's not one that is going to make 00:07:38.379 --> 00:07:42.339 you fall asleep. There's this uplifting quality 00:07:42.339 --> 00:07:47.680 to the spirit and really supportive of that depressed 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:51.319 feeling when things just feel heavy. She comes 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:54.500 in and just like helps uplift and make things 00:07:54.500 --> 00:07:56.540 feel a little lighter and a little more steady 00:07:56.540 --> 00:08:02.589 and clear. She's also been used to clear headaches 00:08:02.589 --> 00:08:07.629 and due to Lavender's prevalence in our world, 00:08:07.670 --> 00:08:09.889 you can really assume that Lavender has been 00:08:09.889 --> 00:08:13.610 one of the primary healing helpers across the 00:08:13.610 --> 00:08:16.670 globe for thousands and thousands and thousands 00:08:16.670 --> 00:08:20.810 of years. We can understand and know that humans 00:08:20.810 --> 00:08:23.589 and Lavender have had a very ancient relationship. 00:08:24.949 --> 00:08:28.120 There's always so much with these plants and 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:31.660 I'm just gonna leave it there for now because 00:08:31.660 --> 00:08:35.460 I really want to spend most of the time in the 00:08:35.460 --> 00:08:39.039 psycho spiritual realm and the themes that we 00:08:39.039 --> 00:08:44.600 find with her medicine. So first and foremost, 00:08:45.539 --> 00:08:51.860 again, we find Lavender brings her calming presence. 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:57.679 So her invitation for us is to downshift, to 00:08:57.679 --> 00:09:02.320 start to come back into a more steady, neutral 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:09.600 experience, not this hyper, fast -paced way that 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:12.960 we have about our lives so much of the time. 00:09:13.659 --> 00:09:16.299 And she's really helpful when our nervous systems 00:09:16.299 --> 00:09:19.720 have been activated. I think she's one of the 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:22.159 best supports for the highly sensitive nervous 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:27.279 system. It feels to me like she's almost like 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:31.960 corralling all of the scattered energy into coherence. 00:09:32.379 --> 00:09:36.100 and brings us into that present calm steadiness. 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:39.000 Steady is a word I frequently use to describe 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:42.059 her. So if you're feeling unsteady emotionally, 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:45.399 mentally, spiritually, lavender is a really great 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:48.340 one to call on. When I take her medicine, I often 00:09:48.340 --> 00:09:50.940 can feel all the ways in which my energy is kind 00:09:50.940 --> 00:09:54.179 of scattering or pulling in different directions. 00:09:54.179 --> 00:09:57.860 And then I can feel her sort of steadying it 00:09:57.860 --> 00:09:59.740 right into the center. And then at some point, 00:09:59.820 --> 00:10:05.500 I'm just very clear, steady, grounded in center. 00:10:06.299 --> 00:10:09.539 As I mentioned earlier, lavender has continued 00:10:09.539 --> 00:10:12.919 to stay with me maybe longer than other plants 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:15.139 that we've sat with in the Plant Wisdom Circle 00:10:15.139 --> 00:10:18.399 and I had this experience one morning. It was 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:22.820 maybe a couple days after the circle. I occasionally 00:10:22.820 --> 00:10:27.500 wake up with a subtle level of anxiety before 00:10:27.500 --> 00:10:30.629 I'm fully awake and oriented to the day. And 00:10:30.629 --> 00:10:34.049 when this happens, I try to linger there as long 00:10:34.049 --> 00:10:37.750 as I can to touch into what's going on underneath 00:10:37.750 --> 00:10:40.830 so I can just be present with with it so I can 00:10:40.830 --> 00:10:43.789 hold it. But what was interesting was I could 00:10:43.789 --> 00:10:46.909 feel lavender there. I hadn't taken any of her 00:10:46.909 --> 00:10:49.830 that morning because it was early morning. And 00:10:49.830 --> 00:10:53.529 with her presence, she was helping me kind of 00:10:53.529 --> 00:11:00.320 hold this frequency that felt wide and Strong 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.299 like I felt held and when my body would dip into 00:11:04.299 --> 00:11:07.519 that sense of anxiety It was like the anxiety 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:11.679 was just held and I could expand around it and 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:15.639 I didn't contract into it And I didn't even need 00:11:15.639 --> 00:11:18.440 to know what was underneath it I was just held 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:21.299 in this really incredibly healing frequency where 00:11:21.299 --> 00:11:26.519 all was okay, and it felt very godlike this very 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:31.080 spiritual Field of energy, but I knew that it 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.919 was lavender and I was really impressed with 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.580 her With her frequency with that healing frequency, 00:11:39.580 --> 00:11:42.379 and I'll talk a little bit more about that later 00:11:42.379 --> 00:11:45.740 but something else I was sensing as Lavender 00:11:45.740 --> 00:11:48.379 stayed with me over the days and weeks after 00:11:48.379 --> 00:11:52.039 the circle was that she was acting as a bridge 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:55.240 between the conscious and the unconscious mind 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:58.720 Similar to how it feels when I do cranial sacral 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.240 sessions, there's this subtle yet very clear 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.779 field that becomes available when that space 00:12:07.779 --> 00:12:11.000 is held. And there's so much possibility that 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:14.320 opens when that bridge between conscious and 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:20.080 unconscious is opened. It's kind of a between 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:23.659 the worlds type feeling, yet all can be accessed. 00:12:24.969 --> 00:12:28.789 And that's why I thought it was interesting that 00:12:28.789 --> 00:12:33.169 that's where Lavender met me that morning. And 00:12:33.169 --> 00:12:36.690 in this way, I feel like she works with the element 00:12:36.690 --> 00:12:40.590 of water. I also feel very strongly associated 00:12:40.590 --> 00:12:42.450 with the element of air and earth, which I'll 00:12:42.450 --> 00:12:46.610 touch on in a minute. But this. Water quality 00:12:46.610 --> 00:12:49.370 this liminal space between conscious and unconscious 00:12:49.370 --> 00:12:51.950 mind it feels like very watery like I mentioned 00:12:51.950 --> 00:12:54.149 with the cranial sacral rhythm and that fluid 00:12:54.149 --> 00:13:01.669 and the the depth that lavender can access and 00:13:01.669 --> 00:13:05.809 Allow us to align that depth with the conscious 00:13:05.809 --> 00:13:10.330 mind or with the the mental level like she's 00:13:10.330 --> 00:13:13.470 Bridging the feeling and the mental level to 00:13:13.470 --> 00:13:20.120 some degree And she was highlighting this anxiety 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.259 there in the experience that I was sharing earlier. 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:26.019 So she was highlighting this anxiety there and 00:13:26.019 --> 00:13:29.879 holding it and just creating this container of 00:13:29.879 --> 00:13:33.500 healing. And I honestly don't know if I've woken 00:13:33.500 --> 00:13:37.019 up with anxiety since then, now that I'm thinking 00:13:37.019 --> 00:13:43.820 about it. So a beautiful ally to help support 00:13:43.820 --> 00:13:50.340 those deeper healing spaces and bringing to the 00:13:50.340 --> 00:13:52.740 conscious mind what might be stirring under the 00:13:52.740 --> 00:13:57.059 surface that may be hard to access sometimes. 00:13:58.600 --> 00:14:02.779 I would say she has the archetype of the healer. 00:14:03.299 --> 00:14:06.080 And I know all medicinal plants are extremely 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.879 healing, but not all of their spirits. quite 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.419 embody that archetype, if that makes sense. There's 00:14:13.419 --> 00:14:16.720 just something about her frequency that immediately 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.240 invokes the field of healing, the frequency of 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:22.940 healing. And there's this force field that I 00:14:22.940 --> 00:14:28.039 feel that comes in with this power accompanied 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:31.740 by that frequency. And I'm guessing that's why 00:14:31.740 --> 00:14:34.820 she's found in so many healing spaces. It's why 00:14:34.820 --> 00:14:37.679 so many healing modalities and healers work with 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:42.039 her. with her essential oils and bring her scent 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:48.759 into sessions. Aside from that calming aroma, 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:52.379 I think there's another layer here and she really 00:14:52.379 --> 00:14:57.659 wants to be worked within healing spaces. There's 00:14:57.659 --> 00:15:03.320 also a theme of clarity, clarification, the third 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:08.019 eye, the head, the brain, brain activation. There's 00:15:08.019 --> 00:15:11.580 an uplifting quality that accompanies the calmness 00:15:11.580 --> 00:15:15.220 of the body, like the body gets to downshift 00:15:15.220 --> 00:15:20.379 and the mind doesn't slow down with it, it clarifies. 00:15:21.620 --> 00:15:24.580 Lavender feels very tied to the mental realm 00:15:24.580 --> 00:15:27.320 for me and in this way it works with the element 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:30.220 of air, clarifying the mind, helping support 00:15:30.220 --> 00:15:35.759 mental astuteness, clearing headaches, etc. In 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:39.320 our Plant Wisdom Circle in 2024, she brought 00:15:39.320 --> 00:15:44.159 me into a very clear and steady state after clearing 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:47.460 some agitation in my system and told me that 00:15:47.460 --> 00:15:51.120 our attention is our most precious resource that 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:54.679 we have and we have to cultivate it. And she 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:58.799 asked me to sit in silent meditation more often 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:03.039 to hone my attention. I often do visualizations 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:06.860 or check in with my chakras or tend to my energy 00:16:06.860 --> 00:16:10.600 field and she was saying it's really important 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:14.679 to just sit and do nothing in order to hone that 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:19.080 skill of focused presence the way that when our 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:24.039 mind drifts off we corral it back in that practice 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:26.500 over and over again is something that really 00:16:26.500 --> 00:16:30.340 hones our attention and hones our ability to 00:16:30.340 --> 00:16:32.940 focus and the more we cultivate that the more 00:16:32.940 --> 00:16:36.840 we're building this precious resource of attention 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:43.200 that holds so much possibility for power. And 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:45.220 then she went on to show me the importance of 00:16:45.220 --> 00:16:49.259 clearing the agitation and healing parts of myself 00:16:49.259 --> 00:16:52.840 that keep me reactive in situations so I can 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:57.120 be a steady presence and not engage in like the 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:04.569 energy of fight or drama. And that itself is 00:17:04.569 --> 00:17:08.990 reflective and helps the other person. But I 00:17:08.990 --> 00:17:10.970 have to build that resilience in my own system. 00:17:11.190 --> 00:17:13.670 And part of how to do that is by honing my attention, 00:17:13.809 --> 00:17:18.089 my focus and my presence. So again, this idea 00:17:18.089 --> 00:17:21.849 of clearing the agitation in order to bring steadiness 00:17:21.849 --> 00:17:25.680 and presence and attention and that clarity is 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:30.960 a mirror for other people, but also helps diffuse 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:34.220 situations. Like when you can really be steady 00:17:34.220 --> 00:17:37.400 in your own energy, there's something that it 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:42.839 just cuts through noise and is very powerful. 00:17:44.819 --> 00:17:48.369 I also remember from our Plant Wisdom Circle 00:17:48.369 --> 00:17:52.069 in 2024 that there is a big theme of air and 00:17:52.069 --> 00:17:55.190 communication. Someone mentioned that lavender 00:17:55.190 --> 00:18:00.250 must be a Gemini. Dispersing information, spreading 00:18:00.250 --> 00:18:03.069 love and the frequency of healing all across 00:18:03.069 --> 00:18:07.109 the world. There are themes of playfulness combined 00:18:07.109 --> 00:18:10.890 with power, encompassing duality. There is a 00:18:10.890 --> 00:18:15.599 big theme of bees and fairies. Someone saw Lavender 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:18.640 sprinkling fairy dust all over the dead earth 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:25.319 and returning life back to those areas. In that 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:28.740 2024 circle, she told me that she loves pollinators. 00:18:29.220 --> 00:18:31.160 She loves sharing and spreading her medicine 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:34.880 all over. So that would kind of align with the 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:40.339 Gemini theme. And this year in my online membership 00:18:40.339 --> 00:18:42.980 when we sat with Lavender, She brought me into 00:18:42.980 --> 00:18:45.160 this really peaceful and beautiful scene where 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.819 I was feeling myself in a huge field amongst 00:18:48.819 --> 00:18:52.140 the lavender stalks, gently blowing in the wind, 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.000 being caressed by the wind. It was a wide open 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:00.519 blue sky. The bees were flying everywhere and 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:05.380 it was such a joy and a pleasure to feel the 00:19:05.380 --> 00:19:07.940 bees flying around and caressing the flowers. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:12.970 It felt like soft and expansive and light and 00:19:12.970 --> 00:19:18.210 She said this is where life happens the buzzing 00:19:18.210 --> 00:19:20.950 of the pollinators making love to the flowers 00:19:20.950 --> 00:19:24.630 and how open and free it all felt and she was 00:19:24.630 --> 00:19:28.690 really harping on this moment being where all 00:19:28.690 --> 00:19:33.150 life happens again this importance of really 00:19:33.150 --> 00:19:39.279 being present, but also this moment of pleasure 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:44.259 and joy with the bees and the flying and the 00:19:44.259 --> 00:19:47.839 meeting of the flowers and literally creating 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:53.460 life with this act of love and pollination. And 00:19:53.460 --> 00:19:57.839 then she wanted me to hone my vision into imagining 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:02.920 a world with waters running free and clear and 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:06.240 humans able to drink out of the wild waters again. 00:20:06.380 --> 00:20:10.940 and a council of grandmothers guiding us and 00:20:10.940 --> 00:20:14.599 leading the world, and technology allowing us 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:19.079 to create in eco -friendly ways, and everyone 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:22.839 having access to basic needs, housing, food, 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:27.880 water. And this visioning is something she's 00:20:27.880 --> 00:20:31.480 done with me before, and I feel like she's a 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:36.410 very powerful ally. for manifestation and visualizing 00:20:36.410 --> 00:20:39.509 the change we want to see. And I think that's 00:20:39.509 --> 00:20:43.069 really a big part of why she's saying your attention 00:20:43.069 --> 00:20:48.349 is your biggest resource, such a powerful resource 00:20:48.349 --> 00:20:51.690 when you can hone your attention and your presence. 00:20:52.289 --> 00:20:55.789 And also in the the 2024 Plant Wisdom Circle, 00:20:56.450 --> 00:21:00.309 she had showed me this really powerful ceremony 00:21:00.309 --> 00:21:04.829 to lead involving clear courts. And ever since 00:21:04.829 --> 00:21:10.190 then, I've felt the crystalline energies really 00:21:10.190 --> 00:21:13.410 present with her medicine. So the element of 00:21:13.410 --> 00:21:17.309 earth being really strong in her too. And the 00:21:17.309 --> 00:21:21.289 ceremony had to do with us cultivating that focused 00:21:21.289 --> 00:21:24.710 presence I was talking about. And in my vision, 00:21:25.069 --> 00:21:28.450 I was in a large circle of people and we all 00:21:28.450 --> 00:21:31.950 had these lavender antenna sprouting from our 00:21:31.950 --> 00:21:35.230 heads and they were pointing towards the center 00:21:35.230 --> 00:21:39.190 of the circle like dipped towards the center 00:21:39.190 --> 00:21:44.369 where a giant clear quartz crystal was hovering 00:21:44.369 --> 00:21:50.430 above us in the center and we were infusing prayers 00:21:50.430 --> 00:21:57.019 and attention and intentions. with laser focus 00:21:57.019 --> 00:22:01.279 into the clear quartz for peace, for love, for 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:05.440 justice, for unity consciousness to prevail on 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:07.680 earth, for the wisdom of the feminine to return, 00:22:07.740 --> 00:22:10.420 for the healing of the planet. And we are going 00:22:10.420 --> 00:22:17.819 to plant that crystal into the earth. This giant 00:22:17.819 --> 00:22:21.579 energetic clear quartz crystal to be infused 00:22:21.579 --> 00:22:26.670 with all of this beauty. and prayer and energy 00:22:26.670 --> 00:22:31.970 and she showed me how to lead this ceremony and 00:22:31.970 --> 00:22:36.589 to bring a bunch of smaller physical clear quartz 00:22:36.589 --> 00:22:39.730 crystals to infuse at the ceremony and then plant 00:22:39.730 --> 00:22:42.849 them in the earth all over the city and through 00:22:42.849 --> 00:22:47.410 the the wild lands when we were done. So I ended 00:22:47.410 --> 00:22:49.490 up leading that ceremony a few months later which 00:22:49.490 --> 00:22:53.880 was really potent and I had all these quartz 00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:55.720 crystals I went around planting in the earth 00:22:55.720 --> 00:22:59.859 wherever I felt called to and I really encourage 00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:03.339 you to do this too. So whether it's just on your 00:23:03.339 --> 00:23:08.079 own visualizing and planting seeds of harmony 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:12.559 and beauty and peace into that clear quartz in 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:16.700 your mind and then energetically planting it 00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:20.400 deep deep deep down into the earth or holding 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:22.920 a clear quartz while you do this and planting 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:27.119 it physically into the earth, or doing that ceremony 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:30.259 with a group of people. I would love that, and 00:23:30.259 --> 00:23:33.079 Lavender would love that, for more circles of 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:36.640 people with their Lavender antenna programming 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:39.299 these energetic quartz crystals and planting 00:23:39.299 --> 00:23:42.940 them deep down into the earth so that we're literally 00:23:42.940 --> 00:23:47.210 programming the frequency of the earth. clear 00:23:47.210 --> 00:23:52.109 quartz is a crystal that holds potential. It's 00:23:52.109 --> 00:23:58.069 like a blank slate for receiving prayer. And 00:23:58.069 --> 00:24:00.869 so when you program them with the frequencies 00:24:00.869 --> 00:24:04.950 that you intend and plant them down into the 00:24:04.950 --> 00:24:08.410 earth, it helps cultivate and spread that frequency 00:24:08.410 --> 00:24:12.710 all through the earth. So just honor where the 00:24:12.710 --> 00:24:15.400 ceremony came from. Give people the link to this 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:19.400 podcast, but do it. Spread the word. Lavender 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:23.039 wants this happening all over. So again, she's 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:26.799 showing us the power of our thoughts, the power 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:30.319 of our focused attention, and how when we can 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:35.500 utilize that power, we can bring that to life 00:24:35.500 --> 00:24:40.279 on earth. She shows us how to bridge the realms 00:24:40.279 --> 00:24:45.160 of air and earth. The focused mind and thought 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:48.180 and bringing that down into the frequency of 00:24:48.180 --> 00:24:51.799 the earth grounding it into reality again that 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:55.420 pathway of manifestation from thought into form 00:24:55.420 --> 00:24:59.220 and again that bridge between the conscious and 00:24:59.220 --> 00:25:03.200 the unconscious the formless and form this unseen 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:09.400 and seen realms another theme we often find with 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:14.509 lavender is maternal lineage and the divine feminine, 00:25:15.170 --> 00:25:18.109 the frequencies of the divine feminine, the resilience 00:25:18.109 --> 00:25:22.170 and the power of the feminine. She was telling 00:25:22.170 --> 00:25:26.029 me all about her resilience and hardiness one 00:25:26.029 --> 00:25:30.390 time, how she can withstand drought and overwintering. 00:25:30.849 --> 00:25:33.789 And then someone else in a circle two years ago 00:25:33.789 --> 00:25:38.240 also received that message of of overwintering 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:41.920 and the importance of embracing the fullness 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:45.960 of the cycle. This is the part of the cycle that's 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:49.759 more often associated with the feminine, the 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:52.519 dark half of the year, the time when we can go 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:56.519 inward, the depths of the power of the darkness, 00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.539 and she's really talking about her resilience 00:26:00.539 --> 00:26:04.140 and hardiness because of that overwintering. 00:26:04.830 --> 00:26:07.670 process and the way that she can just be with 00:26:07.670 --> 00:26:11.890 that and withstand that and the heartiness that 00:26:11.890 --> 00:26:15.109 comes from that. She's also told me before that 00:26:15.109 --> 00:26:17.970 she's so much more powerful and strong than people 00:26:17.970 --> 00:26:21.269 give her credit for. Like the power of the feminine, 00:26:21.509 --> 00:26:24.130 that's only perceived often in one way, in like 00:26:24.130 --> 00:26:29.029 a soft gentle way. But that's not her, even though 00:26:29.029 --> 00:26:31.289 she's also that. She told me that her medicine 00:26:31.289 --> 00:26:35.920 is so multifaceted. again a very Gemini theme 00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:39.599 there, that she basically does everything. Not 00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:43.660 in a bragging way, but just the truth of showing 00:26:43.660 --> 00:26:48.059 me all that she does and the power of her medicine 00:26:48.059 --> 00:26:51.680 and how most people don't honor her for the multi 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:54.240 -dimensionality of the power because she's so 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:58.059 common and often pigeonholed into, oh yeah, lavender 00:26:58.059 --> 00:27:00.599 is just a calming herb, something like that. 00:27:01.019 --> 00:27:04.940 And one person in that 2024 circle heard her 00:27:04.940 --> 00:27:09.740 say, I may be popular, but I am not common. So 00:27:09.740 --> 00:27:11.720 she's really stepping forward and showing us 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:16.880 her breadth, her depth, her vastness, not just 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:20.700 this one way that we have learned to work with 00:27:20.700 --> 00:27:23.259 Lavender. She's so much more than that. And I 00:27:23.259 --> 00:27:27.099 feel like that is coinciding with this. expansion 00:27:27.099 --> 00:27:31.740 of the feminine and reawakening all of the dimensionality 00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:37.119 of what that means. And finally, I just want 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:42.220 to name again that element of earth and how lavender 00:27:42.220 --> 00:27:46.380 very much connects us to the deep earth, to the 00:27:46.380 --> 00:27:49.180 stone beings, the crystal beings, to the caves 00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:52.880 and caverns, to the deeper aspects of the earth 00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:58.720 body. to that slow time, that ancient time, that 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:03.220 ancestral time. She reminds us of that longer 00:28:03.220 --> 00:28:06.839 timeline that stones remind us of, that the element 00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:11.039 of earth reminds us of, bringing back the teachings 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.619 of the ancient world and the way of the feminine 00:28:14.619 --> 00:28:18.470 that's rising, being resurrected right now. I 00:28:18.470 --> 00:28:22.250 often see images of an elderly woman or a grandmother 00:28:22.250 --> 00:28:26.549 so rooted in her wisdom with a hat of lavender 00:28:26.549 --> 00:28:31.349 flowers, so old, so timeless, so wise, so playful 00:28:31.349 --> 00:28:37.109 and empowered and also laughing. So again, that 00:28:37.109 --> 00:28:41.769 duality of playful and powerful and laughter 00:28:41.769 --> 00:28:48.240 and seriousness. All right, so that's it for 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.000 the general themes. I'm gonna start sharing some 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.559 experiences from folks at this past year's Plant 00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:57.859 Wisdom Circle and then my own experience from 00:28:57.859 --> 00:29:01.759 this year as well. All right, so the first person 00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:06.420 was told that play is a form of rest. It is a 00:29:06.420 --> 00:29:10.460 way to get us out of the hyper thinking mind 00:29:10.460 --> 00:29:16.960 and She had a lot of visuals of children at play 00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:22.200 and the teaching to surrender in order to fly. 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:26.960 She was first pulled down and very grounded and 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:29.319 then felt like she was being lifted up and was 00:29:29.319 --> 00:29:33.299 flying. So again, that dual experience of that 00:29:33.299 --> 00:29:37.599 very grounding, calming energy combined with 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:42.480 that mental uplifting, that mental clarity. She 00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:45.579 was also invited to lay on the earth and roll 00:29:45.579 --> 00:29:49.619 down a hill in her vision It was this sense of 00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:53.500 surrender where she was just allowing The roll 00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:56.160 down the hill to take her where she was needing 00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:59.019 to go where she was ready to go she wasn't trying 00:29:59.019 --> 00:30:02.140 to control it and she could feel waves of energy 00:30:02.140 --> 00:30:05.599 moving through her body and then Lavender told 00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:10.529 her that She's healing her alongside the other 00:30:10.529 --> 00:30:12.769 plants that this person has been working with 00:30:12.769 --> 00:30:16.849 as well. And Lavender said, we are an interprofessional 00:30:16.849 --> 00:30:23.009 team and to remember rest and healing and play. 00:30:23.670 --> 00:30:27.349 So she can step more fully into this honoring 00:30:27.349 --> 00:30:30.650 of her gifts and who she is and into this kind 00:30:30.650 --> 00:30:35.670 of queen -like archetype. And this image of her 00:30:35.720 --> 00:30:39.559 meditating on top of a lighthouse for people 00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:45.619 to find as she embodies more of this archetype 00:30:45.619 --> 00:30:48.940 of the healer that she's being called to step 00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:52.519 forward into and more fully into herself as she 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:55.720 does this. And again, rest, healing and play 00:30:55.720 --> 00:31:00.480 were these qualities of what would help lead 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:05.289 her there. This next person felt deep relaxation 00:31:05.289 --> 00:31:11.269 washing over her. She felt very heavy and succumbing 00:31:11.269 --> 00:31:14.589 to the heaviness in the best possible way. She 00:31:14.589 --> 00:31:17.029 said it felt really good and she was becoming 00:31:17.029 --> 00:31:20.190 one with and sinking into the earth and feeling 00:31:20.190 --> 00:31:24.150 the sense of strength in that. When you are one 00:31:24.150 --> 00:31:26.490 with earth you have all the strength of earth 00:31:26.490 --> 00:31:29.529 and all the resource of earth. So these themes 00:31:29.529 --> 00:31:36.549 of surrender and strength and to rest. And she 00:31:36.549 --> 00:31:39.990 had this interesting experience where she could 00:31:39.990 --> 00:31:44.069 feel really strong with her eyes closed. Lavender 00:31:44.069 --> 00:31:47.309 was inviting her to look up with her eyes closed, 00:31:47.309 --> 00:31:50.289 and she's never tried that before or had the 00:31:50.289 --> 00:31:52.390 experience of looking up with her eyes closed, 00:31:52.390 --> 00:31:58.230 and it felt really empowering. And she had this 00:31:58.230 --> 00:32:02.900 sense of, wow, what would it be like? and feel 00:32:02.900 --> 00:32:05.160 like in my body if I could meet the world in 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:09.640 this way and how different it would feel to meet 00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:14.160 the world in both this restful and strong empowered 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:19.299 place. And she could feel the light of lavender 00:32:19.299 --> 00:32:25.740 washing over her and the words rest, root, illuminate. 00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:30.119 She also described the experience as being heavenly. 00:32:30.410 --> 00:32:34.490 and subterranean at the same time, and also felt 00:32:34.490 --> 00:32:38.190 amethyst very present, so another crystalline 00:32:38.190 --> 00:32:42.369 being. This next person said she immediately 00:32:42.369 --> 00:32:47.029 felt so calm and a very potent, very deep, very 00:32:47.029 --> 00:32:51.750 rooted energy, but then simultaneously felt the 00:32:51.750 --> 00:32:56.150 sense of being uplifted. Like the smell and the 00:32:56.150 --> 00:32:59.410 scent was the rising energy, but then it was 00:32:59.410 --> 00:33:03.990 coupled with the calming energy in her body and 00:33:03.990 --> 00:33:09.329 understanding that lavender is very hearty and 00:33:09.329 --> 00:33:13.190 she's not showy, but she's very potent medicine. 00:33:14.849 --> 00:33:18.150 And in her vision, she was walking through a 00:33:18.150 --> 00:33:22.619 misty field of lavender and laid down and Lavender 00:33:22.619 --> 00:33:27.119 created a cocoon around her and tucked her in 00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:29.920 and her whole nervous system settled and she 00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:33.299 was just resting and rejuvenating herself and 00:33:33.299 --> 00:33:37.519 then she saw one of the flowers on the stalk 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:42.980 pop open and it became an oxygen mask and she 00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:47.059 felt it was deeply resuscitating and rejuvenating 00:33:47.059 --> 00:33:50.980 with this oxygen flowing into her. And in her 00:33:50.980 --> 00:33:54.079 journey, the altar at the center of our circle 00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:59.079 became a beautiful purple flame. And then she 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:02.660 felt called to make art with Lavender and received 00:34:02.660 --> 00:34:05.779 so many ideas for how to make art with Lavender. 00:34:06.180 --> 00:34:08.440 Lavender really wanted to partner with her in 00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:11.820 this, and she felt the connection to the fairy 00:34:11.820 --> 00:34:17.000 world. And at the end, Lavender wanted to show 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:20.420 her that the lavender essential oil she uses 00:34:20.420 --> 00:34:23.780 and many of the essential oils in general are 00:34:23.780 --> 00:34:28.019 not made lovingly like the plants are not harvested 00:34:28.019 --> 00:34:33.639 lovingly when making these essential oils and 00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:36.739 lavender invited her to seek out mindfully made 00:34:36.739 --> 00:34:40.659 essential oils and I just want to say a little 00:34:40.659 --> 00:34:43.579 aside here that if you work with essential oils 00:34:43.579 --> 00:34:50.039 just know that it takes So many plants, hundreds, 00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:53.780 sometimes thousands of plants in order to make 00:34:53.780 --> 00:34:59.059 one little bottle of essential oil. So use them 00:34:59.059 --> 00:35:03.820 so sparingly, like in very special sacred moments, 00:35:04.099 --> 00:35:08.599 because there's just so many living plants that 00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:12.300 go into one drop of the oil. I encourage everyone 00:35:12.300 --> 00:35:16.199 to go out and seek mindfully made essential oils. 00:35:17.500 --> 00:35:20.000 This next person was being rocked, like being 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.199 rocked on the ocean or in a cradle or a hammock 00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:29.400 and she heard Nora Jones's voice and was brought 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:33.820 into that kind of frequency of how Nora Jones's 00:35:33.820 --> 00:35:36.920 voice makes her feel that same kind of energy 00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:43.920 and brought into the subterranean landscape as 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:48.460 well. into a cave and she was watching a drop 00:35:48.460 --> 00:35:55.119 of water flow down a stalactite and slowly drop 00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:58.440 off. And Lavender was standing next to her as 00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:02.260 a wise guide telling her to just wait and watch 00:36:02.260 --> 00:36:07.340 and how slow it was to watch that water flowing 00:36:07.340 --> 00:36:11.300 down and slowly dropping off. And this person 00:36:11.300 --> 00:36:16.679 could feel the urgency in her body as it was 00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:21.300 waiting. And Lavender was encouraging her to 00:36:21.300 --> 00:36:25.960 drop into that slow time, that Earth time, that 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:27.960 ancient time, like I was talking about before. 00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:32.199 And this person was aware of the parts of her 00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:37.679 that felt anxious or in that urgency. And these 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:41.559 parts of her in that anxious or urgent state 00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:45.480 were invited to come into the cradle into the 00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:49.099 hammock with them. So this feeling of gathering 00:36:49.099 --> 00:36:53.300 all the parts of herself to be just rocked in 00:36:53.300 --> 00:36:56.820 this gentle cradle and it felt so good. And then 00:36:56.820 --> 00:36:59.539 she was thinking about and showing the Chinese 00:36:59.539 --> 00:37:05.199 finger trap and this idea of moving toward and 00:37:05.199 --> 00:37:08.900 softening into something instead of pulling away 00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:13.139 and the tension that it creates. It's like this 00:37:13.139 --> 00:37:16.559 idea that when we're resisting against something, 00:37:16.699 --> 00:37:19.980 it creates tension. And when we find acceptance 00:37:19.980 --> 00:37:23.179 with what is, then we can soften. And that softening 00:37:23.179 --> 00:37:27.079 of acceptance and presence then creates the change. 00:37:27.769 --> 00:37:30.730 and that image of the finger trap and the experience 00:37:30.730 --> 00:37:34.909 of softening towards, so a coming together, a 00:37:34.909 --> 00:37:39.530 unification, less of that resistance or battling 00:37:39.530 --> 00:37:44.630 of the self or life. And that same energy of 00:37:44.630 --> 00:37:48.989 the finger trap was moving through her body. 00:37:49.150 --> 00:37:50.829 It was something that she could sense throughout 00:37:50.829 --> 00:37:54.429 her body where there was tension and instead 00:37:54.429 --> 00:37:57.409 of forcing it or pulling apart there was this 00:37:57.409 --> 00:38:02.130 soft melting towards the softening towards the 00:38:02.130 --> 00:38:06.230 center and it was loosening all these areas of 00:38:06.230 --> 00:38:10.349 her body place by place. So Lavender really showing 00:38:10.349 --> 00:38:13.889 her how to find these places of resistance and 00:38:13.889 --> 00:38:17.619 tension inside of her body and bringing those 00:38:17.619 --> 00:38:21.440 parts that were battling something inside this 00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:26.960 finger trap, bringing them together, softening 00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:30.619 presence coming into that acceptance with what 00:38:30.619 --> 00:38:35.159 is and in that there is a softening and a unification 00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:38.139 that can happen. It was very healing and she 00:38:38.139 --> 00:38:40.880 felt like she was just being healed by Lavender 00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:45.480 and letting her work her slow magic. on her nervous 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:49.440 system. And Lavender told her very specifically, 00:38:49.980 --> 00:38:54.780 I'm not here to calm or relax you. I'm here to 00:38:54.780 --> 00:38:58.800 just bring you back to baseline. Let me be with 00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:01.679 you all the time where your nervous system is 00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:05.820 supposed to be. So again, this idea that Lavender 00:39:05.820 --> 00:39:10.539 is not gonna make us fall asleep, but bring our 00:39:10.539 --> 00:39:14.039 nervous system and the the urgency mindset the 00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:17.460 fast pace that we've entered into as a culture 00:39:17.460 --> 00:39:21.699 as the new norm and bring us back to baseline 00:39:21.699 --> 00:39:25.360 which often feels slow but in that space we're 00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:28.579 very clear that's where we have our clarity our 00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:33.820 center our home we're rooted back into that baseline 00:39:33.820 --> 00:39:39.699 of nervous system vitality this next person really 00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:43.739 Got brought into the the coolness of lavender 00:39:43.739 --> 00:39:47.400 she was brought into the coolness of the earth 00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:51.579 and then the coolness of a sailboat in the water 00:39:51.579 --> 00:39:55.260 and the breeze and then she slipped off the sailboat 00:39:55.260 --> 00:39:58.699 and into the water and Felt how good it felt 00:39:58.699 --> 00:40:05.960 to be with the ocean and Was feeling into the 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:10.409 variability of human connection, how human connection 00:40:10.409 --> 00:40:13.989 can feel so good and then it can feel so trying 00:40:13.989 --> 00:40:20.449 and hard and painful and scratchy and then loving 00:40:20.449 --> 00:40:27.010 and Lavender told her love is an ocean, so liquid, 00:40:27.269 --> 00:40:35.670 so vast and she can be held in a big fluid environment. 00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:43.300 that it could never be so simple or small. And 00:40:43.300 --> 00:40:48.599 she felt herself held in a big fluid environment 00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:52.719 and then felt like she herself could be in that 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.320 space. She was being invited into that kind of 00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.139 oceanic fluid space. And then she had a memory, 00:41:00.139 --> 00:41:05.539 a rise of watching turtles slowly swimming. floating 00:41:05.539 --> 00:41:11.280 through the water and their slowness and that 00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:17.760 memory bringing her into the nervous system state 00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:25.539 of that slow time that the turtles move in. And 00:41:25.539 --> 00:41:29.079 Lavender said, I am the ocean of tenderness. 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:33.219 This next person was showing her the interrelationship 00:41:33.219 --> 00:41:37.460 between grief and joy and that the deeper she 00:41:37.460 --> 00:41:42.460 goes into her grief the more capacity for joy 00:41:42.460 --> 00:41:47.300 she's carving and Lavender is there to help hold 00:41:47.300 --> 00:41:51.699 the grief and Lavender told this person to plant 00:41:51.699 --> 00:41:56.650 lots of her around and let the wind blow her 00:41:56.650 --> 00:41:59.929 seeds everywhere because we need so much holding 00:41:59.929 --> 00:42:03.349 of the grief right now and there's a lot more 00:42:03.349 --> 00:42:08.510 of that to come. This next person had a vision 00:42:08.510 --> 00:42:13.429 of her friends who lost their house in the fire 00:42:13.429 --> 00:42:17.809 in 2020 in the Napa Valley and how there's so 00:42:17.809 --> 00:42:21.070 much lavender there and she could feel the the 00:42:21.070 --> 00:42:25.199 tenderness of the loss. So Lavender brought her 00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:29.079 there and then she brought her into the caves 00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:31.719 of France. Like she felt like she was time traveling 00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:35.840 back in time to these ancient caves of France 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.760 and the French coast by the ocean and the rough 00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:46.019 seas and felt like there was something really 00:42:46.019 --> 00:42:50.239 ancient about her medicine. This next person 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:55.219 saw the many different lavender hues and she 00:42:55.219 --> 00:42:58.739 was floating in the ocean and rocking on the 00:42:58.739 --> 00:43:01.880 waves and felt like she was in the Mediterranean 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:06.260 and the south of France also and saw all the 00:43:06.260 --> 00:43:08.500 giant copper distillery containers that make 00:43:08.500 --> 00:43:11.800 perfume there and then she was in Morocco and 00:43:11.800 --> 00:43:15.940 North Africa and then Mesopotamia and could feel 00:43:15.940 --> 00:43:21.150 lavender all across the earth and how tied she 00:43:21.150 --> 00:43:25.369 was to all of these ancient cultures and this 00:43:25.369 --> 00:43:27.949 sense that lavender is ancient and she's been 00:43:27.949 --> 00:43:30.809 around a really long time and that the wisdom 00:43:30.809 --> 00:43:33.829 she brings is ancient but also so needed right 00:43:33.829 --> 00:43:37.769 now because it's timeless and transcends time. 00:43:38.309 --> 00:43:41.309 This next person started with a little tingling 00:43:41.309 --> 00:43:45.110 in the back of her neck and throat and then dropped 00:43:45.110 --> 00:43:49.210 down into the ocean and was a whale the whole 00:43:49.210 --> 00:43:52.690 time. Like she was living inside a whale's body 00:43:52.690 --> 00:43:55.829 and she could feel the slowness of the whale 00:43:55.829 --> 00:43:59.210 heartbeat in particular. That was what felt really 00:43:59.210 --> 00:44:02.429 potent for her. And then her thoughts would pick 00:44:02.429 --> 00:44:05.190 up again in her brain and then the whale nervous 00:44:05.190 --> 00:44:08.269 system would take over again and bring her back 00:44:08.269 --> 00:44:12.949 into that sense of really deep slowness and the 00:44:12.949 --> 00:44:17.329 slowness of that heartbeat and bringing her back 00:44:17.329 --> 00:44:22.019 into time. with that slower time. Like the heartbeat 00:44:22.019 --> 00:44:28.280 was a slower time keeper, a slower rhythm that 00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:32.500 she could orient to. And she could hear whale 00:44:32.500 --> 00:44:37.340 song in the water and the splashing and the whale 00:44:37.340 --> 00:44:42.400 love and was just in this really beautiful connection 00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:45.480 with the whales and that deep time. and every 00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:48.440 moment in her experience was so stretched out 00:44:48.440 --> 00:44:53.119 and so relaxed and she felt so held and then 00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:57.500 towards the end there was a tingling in her third 00:44:57.500 --> 00:45:04.360 eye and she heard it's okay to let go. This next 00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:07.739 person had Lavender affirm for her that she has 00:45:07.739 --> 00:45:10.940 everything that she needs and she could feel 00:45:10.940 --> 00:45:15.360 the wisdom of the plants as something ancestral, 00:45:15.980 --> 00:45:20.099 deep and old, and that there are so many resources 00:45:20.099 --> 00:45:23.260 in the forest. The plants are here that they 00:45:23.260 --> 00:45:25.199 provide everything she needs to be able to help 00:45:25.199 --> 00:45:28.699 her. And she's about to go on this backpacking 00:45:28.699 --> 00:45:31.119 trip, and Lavender was just reminding her that 00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:33.679 she has a team of support all around her all 00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:37.340 the time. The plants, the angels, the guides, 00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:41.679 the ancestors, and packing has felt kind of heavy 00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:43.960 for this person. She doesn't want to bring that 00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:50.019 heaviness with her. But when that does come up, 00:45:50.440 --> 00:45:54.039 she was shown that she can just ask for an ancestor 00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:57.519 or a plant or the earth to hold her and to just 00:45:57.519 --> 00:45:59.840 enjoy engaging with the medicine from the earth 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:03.360 and the sun, which is providing energy and medicine 00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:09.099 for her all the time. So my own experience this 00:46:09.099 --> 00:46:14.469 time. I was brought into a crystalline world 00:46:14.469 --> 00:46:17.909 that Lavender was showing me is always here. 00:46:18.530 --> 00:46:21.650 And it's like this world that overlays this world. 00:46:22.449 --> 00:46:24.630 And she was showing me that we are a conductor 00:46:24.630 --> 00:46:28.849 of that crystalline energy and also a program 00:46:28.849 --> 00:46:33.510 of that crystalline power. And there is a very 00:46:33.510 --> 00:46:38.610 steady, clear, strong presence that I was brought 00:46:38.610 --> 00:46:43.480 into. and a profound stillness and clarity and 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.099 this is again after moving a little bit in the 00:46:46.099 --> 00:46:49.820 earlier part like I mentioned before kind of 00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:54.000 when she helps clear the agitation like you're 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:55.840 aware of the agitation you're moving a little 00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:58.940 bit and then all of a sudden you're just in that 00:46:58.940 --> 00:47:02.420 clear place of aligned center and she showed 00:47:02.420 --> 00:47:06.739 me that she acts as a portal to that deep earth 00:47:06.739 --> 00:47:10.949 dimension that crystalline dimension and that 00:47:10.949 --> 00:47:13.869 through our connection here we encode the world 00:47:13.869 --> 00:47:16.929 so this kind of feels like an extension of my 00:47:16.929 --> 00:47:20.829 experience last time and she's just going deeper 00:47:20.829 --> 00:47:26.050 into it with me and the energy in my hands was 00:47:26.050 --> 00:47:29.110 so strong and so palpable it was like there was 00:47:29.110 --> 00:47:32.989 this buzzing in my hands and all around my body 00:47:32.989 --> 00:47:36.849 like i'm a vibrating Energy like i am a crystal 00:47:36.849 --> 00:47:40.050 vibrating and i was thinking about how crystals 00:47:40.050 --> 00:47:42.969 are often drawn with lines emitting from their 00:47:42.969 --> 00:47:46.610 body like their sparkling. And that's kind of 00:47:46.610 --> 00:47:49.070 how i felt like i was sparkling like a crystal 00:47:49.070 --> 00:47:54.449 and energy was emitting from me. And then she 00:47:54.449 --> 00:47:57.769 said i am a receiver and i receive information 00:47:57.769 --> 00:48:02.920 from the field. I am also a field of information 00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:06.400 I can always tap into and that my field of information 00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:09.519 is always linked to this wider field of information 00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:12.119 and I can receive the information from that field 00:48:12.119 --> 00:48:15.920 into mine and that I can always tap into it that 00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:18.960 I carry it in me and with me that we all do and 00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:22.000 she told me this new earth crystalline matrix 00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:27.829 that is so deeply ancient is coming and she She 00:48:27.829 --> 00:48:31.309 told me that we are all a transmitter of direct 00:48:31.309 --> 00:48:36.889 gnosis, that we all have access to this mystical 00:48:36.889 --> 00:48:41.869 gnosis that we can perceive and receive from 00:48:41.869 --> 00:48:44.650 the field, from this crystalline matrix, this 00:48:44.650 --> 00:48:49.230 crystalline field of the Earth body and of life. 00:48:49.949 --> 00:48:52.190 And she told me that she carries the archetype 00:48:52.190 --> 00:48:56.360 of the mystic and helps us anchor into our own 00:48:56.360 --> 00:49:01.260 mystical nature, our own direct spiritual embodied 00:49:01.260 --> 00:49:06.599 knowing, and to really trust this and to become 00:49:06.599 --> 00:49:10.300 channels and to do that to hone our attention, 00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:16.340 our presence. And then we can literally be the 00:49:16.340 --> 00:49:20.920 channels to manifest this energy on the earth. 00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:27.369 And I felt this call to action, this inspired 00:49:27.369 --> 00:49:31.969 action that comes from being embodied and clear. 00:49:32.750 --> 00:49:35.889 So when we embody this clear channel, when we're 00:49:35.889 --> 00:49:39.769 in full presence and connected to the spiritual 00:49:39.769 --> 00:49:43.469 quality of life, it allows our power and the 00:49:43.469 --> 00:49:45.570 power of earth and the power of life to move 00:49:45.570 --> 00:49:50.130 through us. And then the song by Ayla Nereo called 00:49:50.130 --> 00:49:53.789 From the Ground Up came into my head. If you 00:49:53.789 --> 00:49:55.710 don't know that song, I highly recommend you 00:49:55.710 --> 00:50:00.010 listen to it for some powerful motivation and 00:50:00.010 --> 00:50:04.250 inspiration. And it felt like Lavender was calling 00:50:04.250 --> 00:50:09.349 us into action. She is calling the spiritual 00:50:09.349 --> 00:50:12.809 warriors to help hone their skills for these 00:50:12.809 --> 00:50:16.820 times, skills for the quote unquote fight. which 00:50:16.820 --> 00:50:20.300 she said in jest, showing me that the fight involves 00:50:20.300 --> 00:50:23.119 things like programming giant quartz crystals 00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:27.619 and burying them. And she also told me that she 00:50:27.619 --> 00:50:30.800 links us to the fairy world and I could see and 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:33.599 feel and hear the fairy bells and twinkles and 00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:36.239 fairy sounds and instruments being played all 00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:39.380 around the group during our time together and 00:50:39.380 --> 00:50:43.179 it felt very linked to this crystalline world 00:50:43.179 --> 00:50:47.239 that we're all connected to and trying to build 00:50:47.239 --> 00:50:50.300 again in this harmonious way on earth again. 00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:55.500 So she's really calling us very strongly into 00:50:55.500 --> 00:51:00.260 claiming our responsibility as co -creators here, 00:51:00.440 --> 00:51:03.739 helping us steady our presence, our focus, our 00:51:03.739 --> 00:51:08.440 attention, so we can have clear access to our 00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:11.780 field of information, so we can gather insight 00:51:11.780 --> 00:51:16.460 from the field of consciousness. not from the 00:51:16.460 --> 00:51:19.340 programs that have been implanted in us from 00:51:19.340 --> 00:51:23.659 society, from growing up, from that urgency mindset, 00:51:24.019 --> 00:51:30.019 that unworthiness mindset, needing to prove ourselves 00:51:30.019 --> 00:51:34.980 or all the ways in which we've all been taught 00:51:34.980 --> 00:51:38.960 that we are separate from God, that we can't 00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:43.400 trust our deeply intuitive nature, that things 00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:46.980 have to be rational or proven in order to be 00:51:46.980 --> 00:51:52.119 real, that our bodies betray us and really reminding 00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:56.360 us that those programs are false and that we 00:51:56.360 --> 00:52:01.099 can gather that pure connection with source, 00:52:01.420 --> 00:52:04.559 with spirit, with God, with goddess, with nature, 00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:07.659 with great mystery, that we are that, that we 00:52:07.659 --> 00:52:10.940 carry the ancient crystal and earth within us. 00:52:11.210 --> 00:52:14.510 and she helps us communicate between those realms 00:52:14.510 --> 00:52:17.789 of form and formless. We are embodied and yet 00:52:17.789 --> 00:52:22.050 we are consciousness. We are the emergence of 00:52:22.050 --> 00:52:24.429 the two aspects of the world, the masculine and 00:52:24.429 --> 00:52:27.309 the feminine, bringing us into that sense of 00:52:27.309 --> 00:52:31.289 wholeness where we can manifest form from formless 00:52:31.289 --> 00:52:36.730 when we embody this power. It really is so amazing. 00:52:37.550 --> 00:52:40.829 When we think about it when we allow ourselves 00:52:40.829 --> 00:52:45.750 to Open up to all that we contain and all that 00:52:45.750 --> 00:52:51.150 we are So there you have it Lavender's weavings 00:52:51.150 --> 00:52:56.170 and visions and teachings and wisdom Take this 00:52:56.170 --> 00:53:00.449 moment to breathe it all in Feel lavender here 00:53:00.449 --> 00:53:03.869 with you feel into the healing frequency that 00:53:03.869 --> 00:53:10.199 she carries The deep calming waters the clarifying 00:53:10.199 --> 00:53:15.840 air the crystalline earth Feel into presence 00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:18.380 what is alive in this present moment when you 00:53:18.380 --> 00:53:23.639 focus your attention here now What power lies 00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:30.619 here? within you What visions can be made manifest 00:53:30.619 --> 00:53:35.139 through the power of your vessel your channel 00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:42.019 There's so much possibility So breathe that all 00:53:42.019 --> 00:53:45.980 in. Thank you so much lavender Thank you. Thank 00:53:45.980 --> 00:53:48.900 you. Thank you for all of these reminders and 00:53:48.900 --> 00:53:53.639 teachings we are so utterly grateful to you and 00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:57.820 as a reminder if you want to practice a tuning 00:53:57.820 --> 00:54:02.059 to your energy Excavating what's in the way of 00:54:02.059 --> 00:54:05.440 you stepping more fully into your power and anchoring 00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:10.639 into your own flavor of spiritual magic that's 00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:13.840 drawn from relationship with the living earth. 00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:16.800 Check the show notes below for a link to the 00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:19.840 Golden Stone Immersion. We begin at Fall Equinox 00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:23.440 and applications are open now. You'll also find 00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:25.980 a few free resources there to explore if you're 00:54:25.980 --> 00:54:30.239 not ready to dive into something deep right now. 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:35.920 Until next time, may you hone your presence and 00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:39.980 attention. May you feel the rhythm of your own 00:54:39.980 --> 00:54:44.800 deep, calming waters within. May you know your 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:48.800 crystalline power and the power you hold as a 00:54:48.800 --> 00:54:53.019 receiver, a perceiver, and a manifestor. May 00:54:53.019 --> 00:54:56.960 you know how ancient and powerful your wisdom 00:54:56.960 --> 00:55:01.599 and the vessel of your body truly is. Thank you 00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:04.590 for joining the Plant Wisdom Circle. May the 00:55:04.590 --> 00:55:06.750 teachings of the plants continue to ripple through 00:55:06.750 --> 00:55:09.530 your life, guiding you and nourishing you in 00:55:09.530 --> 00:55:12.250 the days to come. 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