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Welcome to the Plant Wisdom Circle. This is a

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space to share the wisdom of the plants, letting

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their voices ripple outward into ever -widening

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circles. Together, we honor the plants as medicine

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guides and living beings of healing consciousness.

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I'm your host, Amy Tarepka. All right, welcome

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back. I am going to be sharing the medicine of

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mugwort with you today. who is a plant that almost

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everyone has heard of. She has a reputation as

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a witchy herb, an herb for dreaming. And while

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she certainly lives up to these expectations,

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her medicine is so much more vast. And I'm really

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excited to dive a little deeper with you today

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and share my own experiences and those experiences

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from the plant wisdom circle. And as a reminder,

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local folks can attend these Plant Wisdom Circles

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here in Portland, Oregon on the second Friday

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of every month. And we'd just love to have you

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and welcome you into our really beautiful growing

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circle. There's also just a few spots left for

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the Golden Stone Immersion, which is my six -month

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school that runs from fall equinox to spring

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equinox. And this is a program specifically for

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the sensitives, the empaths, the plant people

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who are ready to claim their inner magic. It

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is a healing journey into the body to alchemize

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shadow, remember your power to weave relationship

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with the earth allies and gather your spirit

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team. We explore embodiment techniques, energy

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medicine, earth magic, and shamanic practices

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that will help you claim your sensitivity as

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your greatest gift and uncover your own personal

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flavor of spiritual magic. There's four plants

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that guide us, red cedar, rose, hawthorn, and

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yarrow. And I do have podcast episodes about

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each of them, except for hawthorn, who will come

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out probably in November. So if this immersion

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calls to you, you can find more details in the

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show notes. All right, let's get into it. Today,

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Mugwort. Wow. Mugwort has just been blowing my

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mind lately. Just such a psychedelic, powerful

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force. And I hope that... This podcast does justice

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and honor to her wild and so multi -dimensional

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medicine. And what's really interesting about

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this particular episode is that before the lavender

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plant was in circle, I was feeling into who wanted

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to be next. And I had already considered mugwort.

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on the docket basically for November or October

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in the liminal time of year and the witchy time

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of year when the worlds are already, when the

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veil is thin. I love working with her during

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that time. But she came in really strongly and

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was like, no, I'm next. And I was like, are you

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sure? August, really? Like, this is the time

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you want to work with us? And she was like, yes,

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just like firm and clear. I'm next. And so I

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have a few answers for why she came in and I'll

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share those later in the episode. We're going

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to talk about a couple logistical and practical

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and physical things first before we get into

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the psycho -spiritual qualities. So the most

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common mugwort is the Artemisia vulgaris. And

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that's the mugwort that most folks work with.

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The mugwort we worked with in the plant wisdom

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circle is Western mugwort, and that's Artemisia

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ludoviciana. And I believe the spiritual properties

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are very similar because I've worked with both

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and really very similar, but I'm sure there are

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some slight spiritual differences. So with mugwort,

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we work with the flowering tops. So the flowers

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and the leaves and the experiences that I share

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here from the plant wisdom circles are when we

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sit in ceremony with just a single drop or a

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couple drops of the tincture. And you don't need

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to ingest any of the medicine at all to sit with

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the plants, but it can help. So you can go sit

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outside with a plant without ingesting any medicine.

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You can call the spirit in. without ingesting

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any of the medicine. But it does add a layer

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of depth when you can have the flavor, the taste,

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the physical medicine inside your body. So mugwort

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has been a sacred herb cross -culturally everywhere

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she grows, from the Celtic lands in indigenous

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Europe to Asia to indigenous North America. For

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the Druids, she was one of their nine sacred

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herbs. In the medieval times, she was called

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Mother of Herbs or Mater Herbarum. I don't know

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if I'm saying that correctly, but that's how

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it's phonetically looking to me right now. And

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she is what traditional Chinese medicine practitioners

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burn in the practice of moxibustion or moxa.

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seen in purification rituals and hung in doorways

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for protection, which is also seen in the indigenous

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European traditions as well. She's burned in

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ceremony for prayer and protection, and I'm sure

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so much more in various North American indigenous

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traditions. And she's really known to be a very

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sacred medicine wherever she grows. Physically,

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mugwort is warming and drying to the system and

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acts as both a relaxant and a stimulant. And

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I feel like she is full of contradictions and

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opposites that we will explore a little bit because

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she just really doesn't like being fit into any

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sort of boxes. That's part of her medicine. She's

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very bitter. So as we see with most bitters,

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there's an affinity for the digestive system.

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And mugwort circulates warmth through the digestion

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and relaxes tension. And she calms and stimulates

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the nervous system. So again, two of those opposites

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that mugwort holds. But she stimulates the nerves

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where there has been... sluggish or slacking

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activity, especially in areas where there's been

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some level of trauma. And also, her medicine

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relieves anxiety and nervous tension in the system

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as a whole, so that relaxant effect as well.

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Mugwort has long been an ally for the womb. She

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helps bring on menstruation. She encourages blood

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flow, but she also balances out. similar to yarrow,

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I guess, both the scanty periods and the heavy

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periods. And she eases menstrual cramps. She's

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long been an ally of midwives and doulas to induce

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labor, to ease the pain of labor contractions.

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And I've read that some midwives work with her

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to support fertility by clearing the womb of

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stagnation. and revitalizing the whole pelvic

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area prior to conception and also postpartum.

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Just please don't consider taking mugwort during

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pregnancy. It's very contraindicated because

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of that stimulation to the womb and can be an

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abortifacient, which means can cause abortion

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or help support that process. So again, in Chinese

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medicine, mugwort... is used in the practice

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of moxibustion where the compressed and dried

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mugwort leaves are burned over specific acupuncture

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points in the body. And this helps bring warmth

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to the channels. It helps move stagnant qi and

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blood and dispel the cold or damp energies from

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the area. So mugwort is... really helping to

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clear and direct the flow of energy in the system

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and revitalize the pathways again. And finally,

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most notably, she is known to enhance dreams.

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She stimulates the unconscious mind and therefore

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stimulates the dream state and the quality of

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dreams. And just be aware that some people have

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a very hard time sleeping after taking mugwort

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because of this, but other people love working

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with her in the night and in their dreams. So

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this is probably a good transition into the psycho

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-spiritual themes that we find with mugwort as

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this sort of bridges that gap between the physical

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and the spiritual. So to get us started with

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this section, I want to read my journey with

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her in 2012, the first time I met her. And this

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was in another one of those blind tasting circles

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with Scott Close of the School of Forest Medicine,

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where I didn't know which plant we were going

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to be sitting with. And this is what I wrote

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about my experience before learning that the

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plant we sat with was mugwort. I feel a heavy,

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slow, dreamy state in my body, but also bringing

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me into clarity, clearing all of my thoughts,

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putting me in touch with the me behind the thoughts,

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and just waiting peacefully. I saw a beautiful,

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flowy -haired goddess by the sea and a strong

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maiden in the moonlight. The fairy realms felt

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near. I felt heightened awareness of the flickering

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firelight, my breath, the sounds outside, my

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nostrils and my airways became more clear. And

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I had this clarity in the non -thinking realm.

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This was 14 years ago, but what I think I meant

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by that is the clarity of that sensory perception.

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And I felt the alignment of my spine and my bones.

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And then this plant was showing me all the areas

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I am holding myself back or being held back from

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standing in my truest, strongest, most confident

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self. And to sum it up, I wrote wild femininity,

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white moonlight, and radiance. And then I'm going

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to read. this quote by Saja Popham in his article

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on mugwort, which I will link to in the show

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notes because this also is a beautiful summation

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of her medicine. Mugwort is the plant for dreamers.

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Its scientific name is Artemisia vulgaris, named

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after Artemis, Greek goddess of the moon and

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the hunt. As the name suggests, this herb ushers

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you into the lucid world and wakes up parts of

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your subconscious mind that have been left to

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settle and collect dust. In this way, it helps

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you process wounds past so you can experience

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greater closure and healing in your life again.

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So she's known to show us what's hidden beneath

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the surface a little more clearly so we can see

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it and heal it. and integrate it. And one of

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the ways she does this is through dreams. They

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are a clear doorway into the unconscious mind.

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I don't often work with mugwort in the night

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because Really, I never know if I'm going to

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sleep or not. I've had very intense nights of

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dreams where I'm waking up and processing dreams

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in the middle of the night when I've worked with

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her. So I don't choose to do that often. But

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I do want to share one experience I had just

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last week around the full moon eclipse. So the

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moon was bright and I thought of Magort and I

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had been wanting to reconnect with her as it

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had been a couple weeks since our... circle and

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I was starting to prepare for this podcast so

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I was already in bed with the lights off and

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I didn't want to get up and find the tincture

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so I called her I imagined the taste of the tincture

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on my tongue her smell being with her I called

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her spirit forward and when I could feel her

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presence I asked if she'd be willing to be with

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me in my dreams that night and The intention

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for me was to surface whatever I needed to see

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that was unhealed and lingering in my unconscious

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mind. And the first dream of the night was one

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of the most emotionally intense dreams I've ever

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experienced. And I'm not going to go into the

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details, but I woke up sobbing and I was able

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to feel and heal some really deep stuff that

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I did not know was in there. And it felt like

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it must have been from a past life. And the story

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was something so wild that, you know, it didn't

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feel relevant in my current life. But when I

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felt it and allowed myself to process it and

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cry and just be with myself when I woke up. So

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much lifted in my body. It was wild. And since

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then, I've been moving through the world really

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differently. I know it's only been like a week,

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but I am noticing this really subtle shift of

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being just more calm. And there's less urgency

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running through my system. So that is an example

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of mugworts. And what makes Mugwort so powerful,

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in addition to being this awakener and illuminator,

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like the full moon illuminating the dark night,

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illuminating that unconscious mind, she really

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helps us dissolve the boundaries or the blockages

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between us and what we haven't wanted to see.

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And I keep getting this image of her as like

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that ferryman or ferrywoman that transports souls

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between the worlds that allows passage where

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most things wouldn't be allowed to pass. It's

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like she's the key card or the passcode that

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allows us through or allows these things to move

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through barriers where they haven't been able

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to move in a long time. So we're able to... contact

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parts of ourself that have been in the shadow

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or connect with past lives or move into and through

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that very non -linear space -time reality. And

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she knows how to navigate this space so well

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and helps direct us through that. So she has

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this dissolving effect. And it's not just with

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the unconscious mind, but also with anything

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we've been rigid about in our lives. She helps

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us see ourselves beyond these stagnant roles

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or images or systems of belief that our egos

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have held onto, like scaffolding to keep us feeling

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safe and in the known and in control. And she's

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like, that's not really you. That's not real.

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The real you, the real reality is so much more

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fluid. and richer and expansive and full of possibility.

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And so working with her can sometimes be a wake

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up call and sometimes really relieving to see

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where you've been keeping yourself in a box or

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in an identity that's actually limiting to your

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soul. And so in this way, she's very supportive

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for deep rooted trauma where folks have become

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associated. with that trauma. And I would not

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recommend this for every person who has experienced

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trauma, because I feel like you need a pretty

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well -held container in order to work with mugwort

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specifically for this, because again, she can

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dissolve things. And if you're not ready for

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that dissolution to happen, it can be really

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intense. doesn't follow rules, especially rules

00:18:08.980 --> 00:18:15.180
that have been created by colonial Christian

00:18:15.180 --> 00:18:20.099
patriarchal rule, right? She's like, this is

00:18:20.099 --> 00:18:26.059
all not true and we need to dissolve those systems.

00:18:26.099 --> 00:18:29.039
So I think that she's a really powerful one to

00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:33.799
be working with currently as systems are crumbling.

00:18:35.089 --> 00:18:39.730
As we're dreaming into this new world of how

00:18:39.730 --> 00:18:42.690
things could be and how things could look, she

00:18:42.690 --> 00:18:46.470
is just one of the most powerful allies, I feel

00:18:46.470 --> 00:18:51.670
like, for this time. So this is one of the reasons

00:18:51.670 --> 00:18:54.329
I feel like she's stepping forward right now

00:18:54.329 --> 00:18:59.470
during this time of the great dismantling and

00:18:59.470 --> 00:19:02.569
crumbling and is like, no. You need me now. You

00:19:02.569 --> 00:19:06.349
need my support now. But there's also more reasons

00:19:06.349 --> 00:19:10.009
to come. But just keeping that in mind of her

00:19:10.009 --> 00:19:13.529
stepping forward right now to hold us through

00:19:13.529 --> 00:19:17.690
these dark times and the dissolution and to really

00:19:17.690 --> 00:19:20.650
see what we haven't wanted to see within ourselves,

00:19:20.849 --> 00:19:24.490
within society, so we can integrate and heal

00:19:24.490 --> 00:19:31.359
and dream this. next rendition of how we're showing

00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:34.099
up in relationship with the earth and with each

00:19:34.099 --> 00:19:39.359
other so going back to that ability to be with

00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:41.940
the unconscious to go into the shadow to dissolve

00:19:41.940 --> 00:19:46.859
to be with trauma and part of this another layer

00:19:46.859 --> 00:19:50.480
of why she's so powerful in this realm is her

00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:54.109
ability to work in the dark She's associated

00:19:54.109 --> 00:19:57.609
with the nighttime, also the moon, and the moon

00:19:57.609 --> 00:20:01.230
represents this illumination in the dark and

00:20:01.230 --> 00:20:05.710
the ability to see more clearly through the terrain

00:20:05.710 --> 00:20:09.829
of darkness. And that's exactly what she does

00:20:09.829 --> 00:20:14.250
for us. And I think that's why she's long been

00:20:14.250 --> 00:20:17.109
associated with the witches and the healers,

00:20:17.109 --> 00:20:20.930
because there's something about their ability.

00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.180
to see beyond linearity and rigidity in the waking

00:20:26.180 --> 00:20:29.759
world which is work with magic which is being

00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:32.420
in communication with the forces of the unseen

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and you know true healers operate inside and

00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:39.759
amongst many layers of reality in order to access

00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:45.079
the root of the dis ease in the system the energy

00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:47.539
layers the deep psychological layers the emotional

00:20:47.539 --> 00:20:50.589
layers all of that impacting the physical and

00:20:50.589 --> 00:20:53.690
how the physical is manifesting. So she really

00:20:53.690 --> 00:20:57.230
helps healers and witches see beyond the form

00:20:57.230 --> 00:21:01.950
and access other realms of wisdom and insight.

00:21:02.509 --> 00:21:08.789
And I'm just thinking now, like imagine how threatening

00:21:08.789 --> 00:21:13.329
people who worked with her medicine would be

00:21:13.329 --> 00:21:17.849
to the Roman Empire, to the colonial Christian

00:21:17.849 --> 00:21:21.950
patriarchal rule and order. The witches, the

00:21:21.950 --> 00:21:25.670
healers, the midwives who were tried and killed

00:21:25.670 --> 00:21:29.950
as witches. They were the ones who were around

00:21:29.950 --> 00:21:33.970
her and listening to her and with her in this

00:21:33.970 --> 00:21:39.430
between the worlds, wild, unruly place. And they

00:21:39.430 --> 00:21:45.980
were a huge threat. Because again, It's not the

00:21:45.980 --> 00:21:52.559
world of boxes or these rules that are imposed.

00:21:53.579 --> 00:21:57.579
So to me, it's just no wonder that she's associated

00:21:57.579 --> 00:22:01.339
with the healer archetype, bringing people onto

00:22:01.339 --> 00:22:04.759
the medicine path because it's not a straightforward

00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:07.900
path. And being a healer is so much about going

00:22:07.900 --> 00:22:10.980
between the worlds and undoing. Rigidity and

00:22:10.980 --> 00:22:14.200
walls that have been erected that are doing more

00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:17.160
harm than good and coming back to that true essence

00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:22.839
that's underneath all of it. So again, of course,

00:22:22.859 --> 00:22:26.700
mug war is associated with the healers in general.

00:22:27.059 --> 00:22:32.059
And of course, that would be incredibly threatening

00:22:32.059 --> 00:22:39.559
to that system of power. So it was said in folklore

00:22:39.559 --> 00:22:43.339
that when mugwort grows in your yard, it's a

00:22:43.339 --> 00:22:47.480
sign of a healer living there. Or if she starts

00:22:47.480 --> 00:22:49.579
growing in your yard, she appears in your yard,

00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:53.930
she is calling you on that path. And I've also

00:22:53.930 --> 00:22:56.549
heard that mugwort was intentionally placed in

00:22:56.549 --> 00:22:59.130
the doorways of local healers and midwives as

00:22:59.130 --> 00:23:02.190
an indication of their craft and their medicine

00:23:02.190 --> 00:23:05.109
so people could find them. And I want to share

00:23:05.109 --> 00:23:09.150
a story alongside this. And this was sometime

00:23:09.150 --> 00:23:13.369
in the realm of 2013 to 2015. I don't have an

00:23:13.369 --> 00:23:15.450
exact date, but I know where I was living at

00:23:15.450 --> 00:23:20.430
the time. So it was in that period. And I had...

00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:24.119
this really profound dream out of the blue where

00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:26.880
I was visited by a plant that I didn't immediately

00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:30.519
recognize. And the message in the dream was that

00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:34.140
I was a healer and it felt like it was sort of

00:23:34.140 --> 00:23:37.880
initiating me onto that path and into claiming

00:23:37.880 --> 00:23:41.000
that path. And I was already practicing body

00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:43.559
worker, but this was right around the time that

00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:47.680
quaking Aspen was also initiating me in her own

00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:51.000
way onto the medicine woman path. And you can

00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:53.700
listen to that episode, the Quaking Aspen episode

00:23:53.700 --> 00:23:58.539
for more details on that. But this was right

00:23:58.539 --> 00:24:01.619
in the heart of when I started apprenticing with

00:24:01.619 --> 00:24:03.920
Scott as a medicine guide leading plant ceremony

00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:08.900
in the forest. And interestingly enough, one

00:24:08.900 --> 00:24:11.519
of the ceremonies he had me and my friend lead

00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:14.519
in 2014 was with mugwort. And I'll share about

00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:18.950
that later. But in this dream, this plant. felt

00:24:18.950 --> 00:24:21.789
like she was going to be with me and help me

00:24:21.789 --> 00:24:25.769
on this path. And I woke up so moved and curious

00:24:25.769 --> 00:24:29.049
about who this plant was. And even though I'd

00:24:29.049 --> 00:24:31.990
met mugwort, I'd harvested her, I'd led ceremony

00:24:31.990 --> 00:24:35.329
with her, but she wasn't one of my main allies.

00:24:35.410 --> 00:24:40.450
And I didn't really know her that well. I'd really

00:24:40.450 --> 00:24:43.269
only connected with her twice in those early

00:24:43.269 --> 00:24:46.130
years. And she just wasn't in the forefront of

00:24:46.130 --> 00:24:49.779
my consciousness. After about one or two months

00:24:49.779 --> 00:24:53.500
of holding this dream kind of lightly in my mind

00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:56.839
and asking, getting curious about who this plant

00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.579
was, I was visiting my family on the East Coast

00:25:00.579 --> 00:25:05.559
and driving up to Maine on a long car trip. And

00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:08.839
I had to pee. And I sort of begged my dad to

00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:11.519
pull over because he doesn't love stopping when

00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:14.779
he doesn't have to. And I walked over towards

00:25:14.779 --> 00:25:18.099
the woods to relieve myself. And as I squatted

00:25:18.099 --> 00:25:22.579
down, right in front of me was mugwort. It was

00:25:22.579 --> 00:25:26.240
the plant for my dreams. She was looking exactly

00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:29.900
like she had in my dream. Almost like this nondescript.

00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:32.779
green herb growing like a weed. She didn't have

00:25:32.779 --> 00:25:36.500
flowers. So she was really sort of a generic

00:25:36.500 --> 00:25:39.339
looking green plant, which is why I didn't immediately

00:25:39.339 --> 00:25:42.059
recognize her. But I was obviously just like

00:25:42.059 --> 00:25:45.140
stunned and blown away. I got tears in my eyes.

00:25:45.299 --> 00:25:47.599
I was like, oh my gosh, thank you for finding

00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:50.759
me. Because it was me who wanted to pull over.

00:25:50.940 --> 00:25:53.140
And I just felt like this whole thing was orchestrated

00:25:53.140 --> 00:25:57.579
by her for me to find her. And that it all made

00:25:57.579 --> 00:26:01.430
sense. And I almost felt Ridiculous for not having

00:26:01.430 --> 00:26:05.049
realized or figured it out sooner because I'd

00:26:05.049 --> 00:26:08.369
heard of Mugwort calling people into this path

00:26:08.369 --> 00:26:11.470
before and I just hadn't put it together. So

00:26:11.470 --> 00:26:16.289
that was really just an affirming moment of this

00:26:16.289 --> 00:26:22.170
is real. That she claims people. She initiates

00:26:22.170 --> 00:26:26.849
people. She's one of the ones who stands at that

00:26:26.849 --> 00:26:30.579
threshold. often in healership, but there's also

00:26:30.579 --> 00:26:34.160
all of these other initiations and thresholds

00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:38.519
of our lives that she helps us cross over. And

00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:43.559
similar to Elder in this way, but she helps us

00:26:43.559 --> 00:26:46.440
dissolve the blocks keeping us from where we're

00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:49.019
meant to go and who we're meant to be and takes

00:26:49.019 --> 00:26:53.240
our hand and ferries us across the river. We

00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:57.700
also find themes of the divine feminine with

00:26:57.700 --> 00:27:02.500
mugwort womb tending birthing whether physical

00:27:02.500 --> 00:27:07.000
or metaphorical birth and also just being in

00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:09.740
that non -linear non -rational space that the

00:27:09.740 --> 00:27:13.180
feminine lives in the right brain that doesn't

00:27:13.180 --> 00:27:17.599
follow the clock or a straight line and maybe

00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:21.359
counter -intuitively she helps us be in our bodies

00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:26.640
too That clarity of the senses, feeling into

00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.319
the sensual nature of life awakens our senses

00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:33.180
to get us in relationship with the earth and

00:27:33.180 --> 00:27:37.200
this physical reality. So again, this full of

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:39.900
contradictions living in the between the worlds,

00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:43.599
but also bringing us more fully here and present

00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:47.700
in our bodies to experience the magic that lives

00:27:47.700 --> 00:27:54.349
in this realm. And this leads me into that ceremony

00:27:54.349 --> 00:28:03.470
that we led in 2014. And part of my job was to

00:28:03.470 --> 00:28:06.609
come up with the ceremony or listen for what

00:28:06.609 --> 00:28:09.029
wanted to come through Mugwort for the ceremony

00:28:09.029 --> 00:28:13.589
alongside a friend and colleague, Salihah. So

00:28:13.589 --> 00:28:18.000
I went off. to take a drop of the tincture, to

00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:20.299
align with mugwort, to ask what she wanted us

00:28:20.299 --> 00:28:25.400
to do. And immediately a simple song came pouring

00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:31.079
through. And I had received songs before, but

00:28:31.079 --> 00:28:35.500
this was like right away so strong. So I want

00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:49.829
to sing it for you. It's really simple. Moon

00:28:49.829 --> 00:28:53.509
magic, moon love, moon magic flowing from above.

00:28:54.190 --> 00:28:56.950
And there was a full moon, I think, that night.

00:28:57.069 --> 00:29:02.349
And she showed me us singing in the moonlight

00:29:02.349 --> 00:29:07.789
and dancing and the joy of being alive in these

00:29:07.789 --> 00:29:11.930
sensual bodies. And she wanted us to break out

00:29:11.930 --> 00:29:16.730
of this seriousness and celebrate. And it's so

00:29:16.730 --> 00:29:18.329
interesting because I feel like a lot of times

00:29:18.329 --> 00:29:22.049
when we're on our spiritual path or healing journey,

00:29:22.190 --> 00:29:24.829
there is so much seriousness about it. And she's

00:29:24.829 --> 00:29:27.730
like, come on, lighten up. It doesn't have to

00:29:27.730 --> 00:29:31.869
be so serious. And let's celebrate together under

00:29:31.869 --> 00:29:34.930
the stars. And so we did. And we journeyed with

00:29:34.930 --> 00:29:38.210
her spirit. We danced and we sang. And then we...

00:29:38.730 --> 00:29:43.250
Laid down together. And in that journey, she

00:29:43.250 --> 00:29:48.269
came to me first to sprinkle like this moon dust

00:29:48.269 --> 00:29:51.289
on us. That's how it felt like this magical moon

00:29:51.289 --> 00:29:54.890
dust being sprinkled on our group. And then I

00:29:54.890 --> 00:29:58.210
saw her as just like this primordial mother.

00:29:58.650 --> 00:30:02.990
And I was a baby and she brought out her huge

00:30:02.990 --> 00:30:07.809
voluptuous breast. for me to suckle on like mother

00:30:07.809 --> 00:30:11.950
earth giving and nourishing us and holding us

00:30:11.950 --> 00:30:16.789
and I felt so held and cared for and then I saw

00:30:16.789 --> 00:30:20.710
her pregnant belly that just felt larger than

00:30:20.710 --> 00:30:27.109
life and all the way down to her just naked feminine

00:30:27.109 --> 00:30:31.950
sensuality her sexuality and she was just showing

00:30:31.950 --> 00:30:37.349
me the beauty the sacredness of the female body

00:30:37.349 --> 00:30:42.650
and female sexuality. And it was very confronting

00:30:42.650 --> 00:30:45.529
to me at the time because it's not something

00:30:45.529 --> 00:30:50.450
that I had really celebrated in myself at that

00:30:50.450 --> 00:30:53.809
point in my life. But she was just kind of awakening

00:30:53.809 --> 00:30:58.750
that and showing me the, yeah, again, the sacredness,

00:30:58.750 --> 00:31:03.920
the beauty of the female form. And really it

00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:09.500
felt like a deep honor to like worship is the

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:12.279
word I want to use, like worship that form. And

00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:16.319
then her reflecting to me to worship that in

00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:19.799
myself. And it was very illuminating and awakening.

00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:22.779
I remember being very confronted by it because

00:31:22.779 --> 00:31:26.420
it was, I think, again, one of those things that

00:31:26.420 --> 00:31:32.700
I hadn't integrated in myself. That's what she

00:31:32.700 --> 00:31:37.279
loves to help us do is show us our shadow. So

00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:40.619
just two more points here before I start sharing

00:31:40.619 --> 00:31:44.839
about specific experiences. One other theme that

00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:48.319
comes through sometimes is alignment, like soul

00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.680
alignment or even body alignment. So in that

00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:55.039
first sit with her, I talked about like my bones

00:31:55.039 --> 00:31:58.019
aligning and feeling more aligned with the truth

00:31:58.019 --> 00:32:02.299
of what wanted to be lived through me. aligning

00:32:02.299 --> 00:32:06.240
our physical bodies to be that strong container

00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:11.700
to hold integrity so that the more true version

00:32:11.700 --> 00:32:15.799
of our soul can move through so that the energy

00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.460
that wants to move through us can move through.

00:32:18.819 --> 00:32:24.400
So that comes up sometimes as well as the elements.

00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:29.960
And I feel like she is one of those plants that

00:32:29.960 --> 00:32:33.579
really operates With all of the elements, some

00:32:33.579 --> 00:32:36.759
plants definitely have affinities for one or

00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:41.140
two elements. And I really see her holding the

00:32:41.140 --> 00:32:44.759
totality. Again, I think she's just like such

00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:50.880
a master plant and weaves that wholeness in us.

00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:58.490
So there's the air quality of her. the way she

00:32:58.490 --> 00:33:02.730
works with our mind and clarifying and visioning

00:33:02.730 --> 00:33:07.970
and seeing the seer archetype, her affinity for

00:33:07.970 --> 00:33:11.730
the nervous system. And then there's the water

00:33:11.730 --> 00:33:16.410
element, how she works with our unconscious mind

00:33:16.410 --> 00:33:21.009
and the emotional body and moving us into this.

00:33:22.109 --> 00:33:25.089
space between the worlds type feeling, which

00:33:25.089 --> 00:33:30.069
often feels very watery to me. And then her fire,

00:33:30.269 --> 00:33:34.710
her warmth, her moving energy, her celebration

00:33:34.710 --> 00:33:38.210
of life. She often comes in really forcefully,

00:33:38.250 --> 00:33:42.579
like a lot of people feel her fire. And then

00:33:42.579 --> 00:33:46.299
coming in with her element of earth and helping

00:33:46.299 --> 00:33:51.480
us love on our sensual body and awakening the

00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:55.960
physical senses in our body and loving up our

00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:00.440
body and our sexuality and also seen in her relationship

00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:03.680
with the digestive system. So she just really

00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:08.280
moves through all of the elements and contains

00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:13.159
all of the elements. from my perspective. Okay.

00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:16.159
So I'm going to share some of the plant wisdom

00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:20.039
circle experiences, and then I'll share more

00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:22.960
of my own experience from this plant wisdom circle

00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:28.619
and some final thoughts. So this first person

00:34:28.619 --> 00:34:32.159
decided to ask Mugwort a few questions. She'd

00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:34.780
been having some pretty impactful dreams in the

00:34:34.780 --> 00:34:37.159
last few weeks that were different than her normal

00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:41.340
ones. So she was like, Mugwort, were these due

00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:43.340
to your influence and mugwort was like oh yeah

00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:46.920
that was me and she had taken a nap the day of

00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:49.980
the plant circle and said it was wild like she

00:34:49.980 --> 00:34:53.059
was between the worlds the whole time and asked

00:34:53.059 --> 00:34:55.820
mugwort again if that was her influence and she

00:34:55.820 --> 00:35:01.260
was like yep that was me too and then she had

00:35:01.260 --> 00:35:05.539
multiple visions come through in different ways

00:35:05.539 --> 00:35:09.420
where mugwort was showing her that there is community

00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:13.219
and support around her and how essential and

00:35:13.219 --> 00:35:16.599
important those are right now and will continue

00:35:16.599 --> 00:35:20.599
to be in the coming months and years. Mugwart

00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:23.719
showing her images of volcanoes erupting and

00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:27.840
hurricanes blowing and fires blazing and saying

00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:30.900
this part is not over. There's so much more to

00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:35.099
come. But if we continue to gather in community,

00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:38.260
and listen to the land and listen to the earth,

00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:42.159
we'll be able to navigate safely through these

00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:45.219
changes and what's happening and what we're going

00:35:45.219 --> 00:35:50.860
through. So just a little aside to me, just seeing,

00:35:50.940 --> 00:35:58.059
again, Mugwort's deep comfort in change and the

00:35:58.059 --> 00:36:04.500
underworld and navigating times that feel so

00:36:04.500 --> 00:36:08.519
ungrounded. And she's giving us insight into

00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:12.980
how to move through them. And it's together,

00:36:13.179 --> 00:36:16.699
community, listening to the earth, listening

00:36:16.699 --> 00:36:22.420
to the land. She asked this person to walk barefoot

00:36:22.420 --> 00:36:27.619
more, to touch the earth more. And she also had

00:36:27.619 --> 00:36:30.159
a bunch of ancestors that came to support her.

00:36:30.780 --> 00:36:34.480
in this journey and one of the messages she received

00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:38.880
was that it's okay to die that it's not bad that

00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:42.780
we all have our time and that there's still this

00:36:42.780 --> 00:36:46.619
support that we provide once we're dead that's

00:36:46.619 --> 00:36:49.800
meaningful to the collective so that really lifted

00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:51.940
something for her and made her feel more at peace

00:36:51.940 --> 00:36:56.380
for this next person mugwort came in very physically

00:36:56.380 --> 00:37:00.389
strong high energy and was like, I'm here to

00:37:00.389 --> 00:37:04.869
work. And she started off in her chest and it

00:37:04.869 --> 00:37:08.309
got really warmed up and it felt like her work

00:37:08.309 --> 00:37:10.929
was healing. That's what she meant by I'm here

00:37:10.929 --> 00:37:17.070
to work is to help provide healing. And Mugwort

00:37:17.070 --> 00:37:20.630
felt like a really trusted and loyal friend or

00:37:20.630 --> 00:37:24.670
a right -hand woman who has a job to do and is

00:37:24.670 --> 00:37:27.050
going to execute it perfectly and just have your

00:37:27.050 --> 00:37:31.010
back. And for her, mugwort's medicine was very

00:37:31.010 --> 00:37:33.929
energizing and that stimulating aspect of her.

00:37:34.230 --> 00:37:36.889
And she was like, how is this going to work for

00:37:36.889 --> 00:37:41.329
dreams? Like, how would I ever sleep? And mugwort

00:37:41.329 --> 00:37:45.630
told her to drink her tea in the afternoon. For

00:37:45.630 --> 00:37:49.289
this next person, mugwort came as a grandmotherly

00:37:49.289 --> 00:37:53.090
figure who was picking plants on the side of

00:37:53.090 --> 00:37:56.610
the mountain. And she was present with a lot

00:37:56.610 --> 00:38:00.079
of pretty tough feelings that she's been going

00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:03.019
through lately. And Mugwort was sort of just

00:38:03.019 --> 00:38:05.739
holding the space, being really patient and present

00:38:05.739 --> 00:38:10.559
and telling her, I can see your true self through

00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:13.579
all of this, through all of these hard things

00:38:13.579 --> 00:38:18.980
and all of these hard feelings. And it felt really

00:38:18.980 --> 00:38:24.340
empowering and important for this person. to

00:38:24.340 --> 00:38:28.400
hear this she felt very seen by mugwort this

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:31.460
next person comes to these circles fairly often

00:38:31.460 --> 00:38:36.139
and said it's probably the most altered that

00:38:36.139 --> 00:38:39.860
she's ever felt and she dropped down into a really

00:38:39.860 --> 00:38:44.719
slow brain wave state she described it as that

00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:50.900
juicy yoga nidra type slowness and then the images

00:38:50.900 --> 00:38:54.750
she received were so clear So similar to my experience

00:38:54.750 --> 00:38:59.570
in 2012 that I shared in the beginning. The first

00:38:59.570 --> 00:39:03.510
image was her laying on the forest and the grass

00:39:03.510 --> 00:39:06.449
was lush up around her and it smelled like flowers

00:39:06.449 --> 00:39:12.150
and she could hear a creek. And she felt so connected

00:39:12.150 --> 00:39:16.690
to the earth and to the beauty of the earth and

00:39:16.690 --> 00:39:19.710
also to the grief of all that's been happening.

00:39:20.650 --> 00:39:24.730
With the fires and the climate change and all

00:39:24.730 --> 00:39:28.989
the ecological destruction. And Magort said,

00:39:29.130 --> 00:39:32.230
I'll hold you. This person has been having a

00:39:32.230 --> 00:39:35.829
hard time being a sensitive person who feels

00:39:35.829 --> 00:39:40.070
so much lately. And Magort said to her, I love

00:39:40.070 --> 00:39:43.929
all of you who feel so deeply and have such deep

00:39:43.929 --> 00:39:48.860
attention. You feel me so deeply. And you can

00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:53.739
channel me so deeply. And that made this person

00:39:53.739 --> 00:39:57.159
feel so much better again. And again, seen in

00:39:57.159 --> 00:40:00.619
this way and honored for who she is and the sensitive

00:40:00.619 --> 00:40:06.239
soul. And the second image, she was in the secret

00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:09.840
garden, like the children's book, and thinking

00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:14.579
about the secret garden and how they bring this

00:40:14.579 --> 00:40:18.360
sort of dead place back to life. how these kids

00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:24.880
have just one little place to work on. And this

00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:28.619
message that she received from these images around,

00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:33.039
again, that sensitivity and that it's okay to

00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:36.239
guard your attention. Like when we feel this

00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:39.000
deeply, we have to put some guardrails around

00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:43.599
what we're taking in and we can't fix everything

00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:46.960
and we can. hone our attention and work on one

00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:49.579
little plot of land and bring that back to life.

00:40:49.940 --> 00:40:53.639
And that's okay. It's not avoidant. Deep attention,

00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:57.340
deep energy. And for her, that felt like a really

00:40:57.340 --> 00:41:00.239
big relief because it's really hard to take it

00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:04.179
all in right now for most people, but especially

00:41:04.179 --> 00:41:08.239
for sensitives. So it was this permission to

00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:12.500
just really honor that sensitivity and work deep.

00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:21.760
guard that attention and the last image she saw

00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:26.659
was really energizing and she was seeing images

00:41:26.659 --> 00:41:31.679
of the world as it could be so what she said

00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:35.280
was buildings dripping with greenery and flowers

00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:37.900
and instead of parking lots there are community

00:41:37.900 --> 00:41:41.599
gardens and there are bike lanes and mugwort

00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:46.670
telling her to meditate on this So even as the

00:41:46.670 --> 00:41:50.110
world is breaking so much, there's so much we

00:41:50.110 --> 00:41:53.750
can plant. And it's the sensitive dreamer types

00:41:53.750 --> 00:41:55.730
that are going to be doing a lot of that. And

00:41:55.730 --> 00:42:00.150
we need that dreamer. We need that visioner.

00:42:00.210 --> 00:42:05.489
We need that heartfelt person to be meditating

00:42:05.489 --> 00:42:13.159
on this. So again, mugworts. expertise in working

00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.260
with the dream world and working with the nonlinear

00:42:15.260 --> 00:42:18.440
reality and all possibility and calling forth

00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:23.500
what we want to be dreaming into being in this

00:42:23.500 --> 00:42:29.539
world. This next person felt immediately a tension

00:42:29.539 --> 00:42:32.440
and pain on the whole right side of her body.

00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:35.699
And she could feel mugwort come in and just start

00:42:35.699 --> 00:42:40.510
to work on it with that healer energy. And She

00:42:40.510 --> 00:42:43.389
said the energy was moving around a fair amount,

00:42:43.590 --> 00:42:47.409
but at one point there is a feeling of expansion

00:42:47.409 --> 00:42:52.449
behind her eyes and her forehead and that third

00:42:52.449 --> 00:42:57.269
eye. And then with that expansiveness of the

00:42:57.269 --> 00:43:01.230
third eye, that feeling ended up moving down

00:43:01.230 --> 00:43:06.190
and through her entire body. And what ended up

00:43:06.190 --> 00:43:10.639
coming through for her was this quality. of peripheral

00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:13.420
vision, but with her entire body, not just with

00:43:13.420 --> 00:43:18.179
her eyes and settling into this widened perception

00:43:18.179 --> 00:43:22.179
with the whole body and mugwort showing her that

00:43:22.179 --> 00:43:27.559
this is how you see the magic of the world. You

00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:30.000
don't see it by looking for it or looking directly

00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:35.800
at it. You let yourself soften. And she was showing

00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:40.260
her that it's the same as night vision. So when

00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:42.320
you're walking down a path at night, if you look

00:43:42.320 --> 00:43:46.260
too hard or pointedly, you can't really see anything.

00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:49.679
But if you open your eyes up to the wider periphery,

00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:53.219
you can see more fully. And Maguire gave her

00:43:53.219 --> 00:43:55.699
this metaphor of someone coming along with a

00:43:55.699 --> 00:43:58.500
headlamp that blinds you, and then it takes you

00:43:58.500 --> 00:44:02.380
a second to get that night vision back. That's

00:44:02.380 --> 00:44:06.000
what she was saying for us sensitives. working

00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:09.199
on and with this magical vision, this night vision

00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:13.420
to stop looking directly at the fire, this world

00:44:13.420 --> 00:44:16.159
that's on fire, that's too bright. It's too much

00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:20.019
for most of us. And that's why we feel so overwhelmed

00:44:20.019 --> 00:44:22.360
all the time because we're trying to live in

00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:27.360
this softened receptive place, but inside blaring

00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:31.239
artificial lights. And so her message was very

00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:35.079
clear. If you want to see mugwort if you want

00:44:35.079 --> 00:44:37.039
to see a plant spirit if you want to see magic

00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:42.420
work on your night vision and she said throughout

00:44:42.420 --> 00:44:46.219
this whole experience there was very silvery

00:44:46.219 --> 00:44:49.420
moonlight vibes like that's what she was basking

00:44:49.420 --> 00:44:52.940
in as she was receiving these teachings so again

00:44:52.940 --> 00:44:56.940
mugwort working with us sensitives and really

00:44:56.940 --> 00:45:04.000
guiding us to be the seers the healers, the visionaries,

00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:08.019
the dreamers that we are for this collective.

00:45:08.380 --> 00:45:12.860
Magwork calling us to step into that healership,

00:45:12.860 --> 00:45:17.840
to that magic that we hold. But we can't operate

00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:23.480
inside the society like other people can. And

00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:27.340
we have to really guard ourselves from that blaring

00:45:27.340 --> 00:45:32.739
light in order to cultivate our night vision

00:45:32.739 --> 00:45:38.420
and these gifts that are being called forth from

00:45:38.420 --> 00:45:43.280
us right now, ultimately in service of the collective.

00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:46.619
But in order to do that, like the previous person

00:45:46.619 --> 00:45:49.400
was being taught, we have to guard our attention.

00:45:51.260 --> 00:45:54.780
This next person went into a past life that she'd

00:45:54.780 --> 00:45:59.519
visited before, and it was A life where there

00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:02.940
were witches gathering in a clearing in a nighttime

00:46:02.940 --> 00:46:06.639
forest and they got discovered. And what happened

00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:11.880
was awful and brutal. And so when Mugwort was

00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:15.019
taking her back there, she could feel herself

00:46:15.019 --> 00:46:17.980
going back to that past life and she was resistant.

00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:23.059
But Mugwort was like, no, go before. Go before

00:46:23.059 --> 00:46:26.860
this happened. And she had always gone back into

00:46:26.860 --> 00:46:30.059
this experience after the fact or during the

00:46:30.059 --> 00:46:33.400
pain of it and had never thought to go before.

00:46:33.960 --> 00:46:36.500
So it was really incredibly profound for this

00:46:36.500 --> 00:46:39.739
person because when she got there, it was all

00:46:39.739 --> 00:46:44.099
of this shimmery light and it felt so magical

00:46:44.099 --> 00:46:48.199
and connected and feelings of sisterhood and

00:46:48.199 --> 00:46:51.420
being with the earth and the forest. She just

00:46:51.420 --> 00:46:56.579
walked through that night forest with all of

00:46:56.579 --> 00:47:00.320
these twinkling lights and fairies and starlight.

00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:04.079
And she was crying because it was so healing.

00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:08.699
And this message about time and how it's not

00:47:08.699 --> 00:47:11.840
only going forward, but we can also go back.

00:47:12.019 --> 00:47:16.619
We can go before. these rifts and separations

00:47:16.619 --> 00:47:19.599
and that there's a lot of healing that we can

00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:24.019
receive when we go before. This person is a single

00:47:24.019 --> 00:47:27.699
mom and has to hold a lot and it becomes very

00:47:27.699 --> 00:47:31.139
heavy in many ways. And Mugwort was helping her

00:47:31.139 --> 00:47:35.099
break up all that heavy energy of always holding

00:47:35.099 --> 00:47:39.559
everything and being on. And what was happening

00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:42.579
in her experience was Mugwort helping her let

00:47:42.579 --> 00:47:47.469
go. of that motherhood role. And she could start

00:47:47.469 --> 00:47:51.190
to feel herself alive again. And this realization

00:47:51.190 --> 00:47:53.989
that she's been getting overrun by the roles

00:47:53.989 --> 00:47:57.449
in her life and had this beautiful clarity of

00:47:57.449 --> 00:48:00.949
seeing her daughters as who they are, not as

00:48:00.949 --> 00:48:04.510
her mom, but from that more objective perspective

00:48:04.510 --> 00:48:08.400
with more clarity. And seeing through the roles

00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:11.420
and projections, she could see their light and

00:48:11.420 --> 00:48:13.739
their power and uniqueness. And it was just a

00:48:13.739 --> 00:48:16.760
really cool experience for her. And then she

00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:21.340
experienced this breaking up of some generational

00:48:21.340 --> 00:48:26.179
anxiety and urgency and this stress bundle that

00:48:26.179 --> 00:48:30.099
goes way back in her lineage. And she realized

00:48:30.099 --> 00:48:34.039
all of that kind of worry or focus on trying

00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:39.260
to do the right thing. wasn't needed and mugwort's

00:48:39.260 --> 00:48:42.519
message was to lead with spacious connection

00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:46.179
and after that she had this sense of our whole

00:48:46.179 --> 00:48:50.420
circle lighting up and images of all the circles

00:48:50.420 --> 00:48:53.059
in her life lighting up and she started to get

00:48:53.059 --> 00:48:56.480
a sense of herself differently not as an individual

00:48:56.480 --> 00:49:03.340
entity but an I am us feeling and it really helped

00:49:03.340 --> 00:49:08.489
her expand out of this contracted I need to do

00:49:08.489 --> 00:49:11.449
the right thing as an individual kind of vibe.

00:49:12.469 --> 00:49:16.590
This next person saw an image pretty immediately

00:49:16.590 --> 00:49:22.510
of billions of moving cellular structures in

00:49:22.510 --> 00:49:26.309
this giant flower shape and she said it was a

00:49:26.309 --> 00:49:30.309
very psychedelic kind of prism and as she was

00:49:30.309 --> 00:49:34.360
staring at it for a while there became an empty

00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:38.659
space or a void right in the middle. And she

00:49:38.659 --> 00:49:42.119
eventually started to go towards that void. And

00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:45.840
what happened was she ended up time traveling

00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:49.719
through past lives. And she said they got more

00:49:49.719 --> 00:49:55.719
and more bizarre and indescribable. But one was

00:49:55.719 --> 00:50:00.710
this feeling of Being a witch, drinking cozy

00:50:00.710 --> 00:50:05.909
tea, very long ago. But in all of these past

00:50:05.909 --> 00:50:10.750
lives and images, she had magical powers. So

00:50:10.750 --> 00:50:12.889
Mugwort basically showing her, she's carried

00:50:12.889 --> 00:50:15.329
these magical powers with her for a very, very

00:50:15.329 --> 00:50:19.909
long time. And every time she would go into these

00:50:19.909 --> 00:50:25.170
very strange lives and images, she was like,

00:50:25.250 --> 00:50:28.829
is this real? And Mugwort was showing her how

00:50:28.829 --> 00:50:32.650
she has this block to believing these other spaces

00:50:32.650 --> 00:50:37.690
or other dimensions are not real. And that this

00:50:37.690 --> 00:50:41.409
reality, this embodied experience is the most

00:50:41.409 --> 00:50:45.170
real. And all of those others are less than or

00:50:45.170 --> 00:50:47.630
less real. And she didn't know that she believed

00:50:47.630 --> 00:50:50.730
that, but she started to really feel the realness

00:50:50.730 --> 00:50:55.659
of these other worlds and the other lives. feeling

00:50:55.659 --> 00:50:59.079
like these limitations of her mind were being

00:50:59.079 --> 00:51:01.940
removed. And there was another moment where she

00:51:01.940 --> 00:51:06.099
was hovering above our circle and looking down

00:51:06.099 --> 00:51:10.139
like an out -of -body experience. And Mugwort,

00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:17.039
again, showing her the possibility and pushing

00:51:17.039 --> 00:51:20.880
her own boundaries and limitations of what she

00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:25.409
believes is real or reality. and helping her

00:51:25.409 --> 00:51:30.210
feel into this very limitless nature of reality.

00:51:31.309 --> 00:51:34.269
And at one point she got scared, feeling like

00:51:34.269 --> 00:51:37.090
she might just lose her whole self out of her

00:51:37.090 --> 00:51:41.409
body. But overall, the message was, yes, this

00:51:41.409 --> 00:51:45.030
sort of out -of -body, dreamlike, astral travel,

00:51:45.329 --> 00:51:48.789
timeless and limitless nature of reality is very

00:51:48.789 --> 00:51:54.860
real. She was really actively dissolving the

00:51:54.860 --> 00:51:59.880
edges, the walls in her mind that are the beliefs

00:51:59.880 --> 00:52:03.820
stopping her from opening further to this world.

00:52:03.980 --> 00:52:07.820
So it was very, very psychedelic for her. All

00:52:07.820 --> 00:52:11.900
right, this next person noticed a lot of warmth

00:52:11.900 --> 00:52:15.260
all along her stomach area and pelvis, and then

00:52:15.260 --> 00:52:19.010
it went up and opened her ear. And it felt like

00:52:19.010 --> 00:52:22.429
this warm softness that was relaxing and melting.

00:52:23.130 --> 00:52:25.650
And it felt really good. And it felt like a deep,

00:52:25.690 --> 00:52:31.469
relaxed space. And for her, it related to the

00:52:31.469 --> 00:52:33.750
mother line that she connects to the left side,

00:52:33.809 --> 00:52:36.269
which was something that she's been working on

00:52:36.269 --> 00:52:38.550
a lot in her life and trying to heal and shake

00:52:38.550 --> 00:52:41.389
loose some of what's been held there. And she

00:52:41.389 --> 00:52:45.159
got the message that it's okay. It's not perfect

00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:47.199
where she's at, but that's okay. And to let it

00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:52.760
be okay. And to just listen. And she felt a lot

00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:59.179
of grace. This next person had her right side

00:52:59.179 --> 00:53:02.380
of her face start to twitch. And she pictured

00:53:02.380 --> 00:53:05.639
herself as a mouse running through a field. And

00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:09.059
her eyes were twitching. And then from the field,

00:53:09.059 --> 00:53:13.489
as she ran, what emerged was a... table with

00:53:13.489 --> 00:53:16.250
mugwort there and it felt like she was coming

00:53:16.250 --> 00:53:20.349
home to a best friend that she hadn't seen in

00:53:20.349 --> 00:53:24.849
a while mugwort felt so welcoming like a grandmother

00:53:24.849 --> 00:53:28.530
figure who was funny and patient and telling

00:53:28.530 --> 00:53:31.150
her yeah we've met what are you talking about

00:53:31.150 --> 00:53:33.730
because this person didn't think she knew mugwort

00:53:33.730 --> 00:53:37.889
and it was very emotional for her like this long

00:53:37.889 --> 00:53:43.480
lost friend and this epic reunion and she was

00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:46.619
crying from this feeling of returning home to

00:53:46.619 --> 00:53:49.519
someone that she's known for so long who means

00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:52.079
so much to her and who she's missed and she didn't

00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:54.659
even know she missed her and she didn't want

00:53:54.659 --> 00:53:59.019
to leave and inside her experience mugwort was

00:53:59.019 --> 00:54:04.099
imparting to her themes of nourishment and nurturing

00:54:04.099 --> 00:54:08.320
and food and earth and told her that they will

00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:12.000
meet again. This next person's body started to

00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:15.679
buzz pretty immediately, and everything in her

00:54:15.679 --> 00:54:20.559
experience was dark, black, earthy. She was taken

00:54:20.559 --> 00:54:23.380
on a journey first into the earth, burrowing

00:54:23.380 --> 00:54:26.079
through the earth like a little mouse, going

00:54:26.079 --> 00:54:29.820
into this little underground burrow. that had

00:54:29.820 --> 00:54:32.440
a little red pillow inside that she crawled up

00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:37.159
on. And then she was taken and went up into the

00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:41.019
night sky and then into the depths of the ocean.

00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:47.019
And eventually the buzzing calmed. And then the

00:54:47.019 --> 00:54:49.760
pain in her body started to get a little louder

00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:55.960
and more apparent. And she asked Mugwort if Mugwort

00:54:55.960 --> 00:54:59.440
could help with this. And Mugwort came with some

00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:01.940
obsidian and black tourmaline and put them on

00:55:01.940 --> 00:55:06.980
a spot on her body. And for her, the overall

00:55:06.980 --> 00:55:12.739
message was for what she's needing right now

00:55:12.739 --> 00:55:17.480
is to burrow and dig deep and to heal. And another

00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:21.780
message of discovering the deep and unknown parts

00:55:21.780 --> 00:55:27.030
of herself. This next person received the message

00:55:27.030 --> 00:55:34.329
of align and receive and had this image or felt

00:55:34.329 --> 00:55:37.489
sense of this crucifix type experience where

00:55:37.489 --> 00:55:40.369
she was splayed out, but in a really open and

00:55:40.369 --> 00:55:43.929
good way. And it felt really good to feel that

00:55:43.929 --> 00:55:48.949
open. And then that was contrasted with the word

00:55:48.949 --> 00:55:52.710
cradle. And she was feeling into that. cradle

00:55:52.710 --> 00:55:58.710
energy and then had an image of a waterfall with

00:55:58.710 --> 00:56:03.190
the message of alignment and softness and how

00:56:03.190 --> 00:56:07.789
exquisitely beautiful that contrast is the hard

00:56:07.789 --> 00:56:10.829
sturdy massive rock and the flowing water going

00:56:10.829 --> 00:56:16.849
over it and then mugwort asked her for attentiveness

00:56:16.849 --> 00:56:20.559
for paying attention staying connected to the

00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:25.619
earth and the plants right now and then she also

00:56:25.619 --> 00:56:30.800
saw herself dying but had this feeling that it

00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:33.099
was totally fine and there was a peace about

00:56:33.099 --> 00:56:36.400
it and she was saying to her kids carry it on

00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:42.500
and was receiving this feeling this message that

00:56:42.500 --> 00:56:47.059
she wasn't really alive so she's not really dying

00:56:47.059 --> 00:56:51.579
or dead like her spiritual body has been before

00:56:51.579 --> 00:56:54.599
this body and will continue on after this body

00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:58.980
so that timeless message again coming through

00:56:58.980 --> 00:57:05.360
and finally someone had a vision of an infinity

00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:09.099
symbol but it was also turned into more of a

00:57:09.099 --> 00:57:12.559
triangular shape and felt very connected to the

00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:17.679
uterus So the continuity and infinity and interconnectedness

00:57:17.679 --> 00:57:22.699
inside the female body parts. And now I'll share

00:57:22.699 --> 00:57:25.699
my experience, which was incredibly beautiful.

00:57:26.860 --> 00:57:32.420
Physically, I felt her rooting in my womb and

00:57:32.420 --> 00:57:36.440
then her stalk rising up through my body into

00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:39.980
my third eye. And it felt like an alignment of

00:57:39.980 --> 00:57:43.429
sorts. And I could feel how she was. activating

00:57:43.429 --> 00:57:46.909
and linking these two centers, these two very

00:57:46.909 --> 00:57:50.989
intuitive centers of the body. And I also very

00:57:50.989 --> 00:57:54.309
quickly felt like I had gone between the worlds

00:57:54.309 --> 00:57:59.989
in this very psychedelic space and my body felt

00:57:59.989 --> 00:58:03.670
very watery and fluid. I felt like my body was

00:58:03.670 --> 00:58:09.860
buzzing. There was images of fire smoke and the

00:58:09.860 --> 00:58:13.880
flames of the fire dancing and shape -shifting.

00:58:14.480 --> 00:58:18.099
And the imagery had a very ancient ancestral

00:58:18.099 --> 00:58:23.239
feel to it. And I had this deep sense that she

00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:27.400
could help us shape -shift to enter into different

00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:30.039
consciousnesses and become different aspects

00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:32.920
of life to learn from them, to see through their

00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:37.500
eyes. So this is a very powerful shamanic and

00:58:37.500 --> 00:58:44.170
witch. skill to have. And she is one that can

00:58:44.170 --> 00:58:49.849
teach us this skill. And then she asked me, what

00:58:49.849 --> 00:58:52.849
do you see in the flames as they were dancing

00:58:52.849 --> 00:58:56.329
in front of my face? And she was kind of showing

00:58:56.329 --> 00:58:59.530
me how to see beyond what was there. It's like

00:58:59.530 --> 00:59:02.070
the flames were there dancing, but she was asking

00:59:02.070 --> 00:59:05.530
me to see beyond the flames. And what do I see

00:59:05.530 --> 00:59:10.849
in in the beyond, beyond the physical and tangible

00:59:10.849 --> 00:59:14.969
world and into the possibility of the other world

00:59:14.969 --> 00:59:19.670
beyond our world of structure. And she was showing

00:59:19.670 --> 00:59:24.789
me that she was an ally for divination, for the

00:59:24.789 --> 00:59:30.309
archetype of the oracle or the seer and helping

00:59:30.309 --> 00:59:35.510
us look through the veil at potential timelines.

00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:39.519
And she was showing me how life was always changing.

00:59:39.800 --> 00:59:44.460
It's always malleable. There's not one perfect

00:59:44.460 --> 00:59:50.719
path or one set in stone timeline that we're

00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:53.980
constantly shapeshifting and creating worlds

00:59:53.980 --> 00:59:58.659
both in ourselves and externally. And that really

00:59:58.659 --> 01:00:02.639
the only constant is change. And she said, who

01:00:02.639 --> 01:00:06.130
do you want to be? And what is being dreamed

01:00:06.130 --> 01:00:09.070
through you and through your vision, I get to

01:00:09.070 --> 01:00:12.210
decide. It reminds me of the person who shared

01:00:12.210 --> 01:00:16.949
about dreaming into the possibility for this

01:00:16.949 --> 01:00:20.070
new earth and Magwart really saying how important

01:00:20.070 --> 01:00:22.789
that is, which is also what Lavender was telling

01:00:22.789 --> 01:00:28.409
us last time. back to my experience, I get to

01:00:28.409 --> 01:00:30.329
decide. I get to decide what's being dreamed

01:00:30.329 --> 01:00:32.150
through me. I get to decide who I want to be.

01:00:32.170 --> 01:00:36.190
There's no boxes or fixed outcomes. I get to

01:00:36.190 --> 01:00:38.809
choose. I get to change and dream and create.

01:00:39.349 --> 01:00:42.750
And I could feel her dissolving the boundaries

01:00:42.750 --> 01:00:47.829
in my body, in my mind, where I feel fixed. or

01:00:47.829 --> 01:00:51.269
rigid in my thinking and in my identity or my

01:00:51.269 --> 01:00:55.949
beliefs and moving me into a more fluid way of

01:00:55.949 --> 01:00:59.909
being, that watery sensation, the dancing flames,

01:01:00.170 --> 01:01:04.590
that fluidity and ever -changing nature of life

01:01:04.590 --> 01:01:07.750
with all possibility apparent and available.

01:01:09.489 --> 01:01:13.170
And she was showing me that she supports the

01:01:13.170 --> 01:01:20.320
portals between worlds. the womb, birth, dreams,

01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:25.000
anywhere we can access the other world, she's

01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:29.280
there. And then I asked her directly, why did

01:01:29.280 --> 01:01:32.639
you come now? Why did you need to be the next

01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:35.300
one we worked with at our plant, Wisdom Circle?

01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:39.940
And she immediately showed me the fire burning

01:01:39.940 --> 01:01:44.780
on Mount Hood. And this is a fire that I've been

01:01:44.780 --> 01:01:50.699
mourning because the fire swept through the entire

01:01:50.699 --> 01:01:57.119
mountainside of where I harvest mugwort and yarrow

01:01:57.119 --> 01:02:03.019
and this very sacred place to me that I go every

01:02:03.019 --> 01:02:10.940
year to. And she told me that burning her sends

01:02:10.940 --> 01:02:13.440
prayer into the world and into the spirit world

01:02:13.440 --> 01:02:16.800
and showed me people burning her bundles for

01:02:16.800 --> 01:02:20.880
ceremony for prayer all over the world. And then

01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:24.860
she flashed back to her field burning and the

01:02:24.860 --> 01:02:28.139
smoke rising and sending prayers into the air.

01:02:28.260 --> 01:02:31.380
And I just immediately started crying because

01:02:31.380 --> 01:02:35.719
this was such an unexpected reframe for me. And

01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:39.170
it doesn't take away any of the damage or the

01:02:39.170 --> 01:02:43.070
heartbreak, but it helped me feel so much better

01:02:43.070 --> 01:02:45.510
in a way about what was happening in a way that

01:02:45.510 --> 01:02:48.789
I could lean more into acceptance of this rather

01:02:48.789 --> 01:02:51.110
than trying to fight against what was happening

01:02:51.110 --> 01:02:55.170
or controlling. And she showed me this like beautiful

01:02:55.170 --> 01:02:59.670
devotion. She was having as she was burning and

01:02:59.670 --> 01:03:02.889
then it would shape shift into anguish and pain

01:03:02.889 --> 01:03:06.769
and then back into that spiritual devotion and

01:03:06.769 --> 01:03:10.530
showing me how both are true and it's not one

01:03:10.530 --> 01:03:15.210
storyline. There's always many. And again, this

01:03:15.210 --> 01:03:19.309
message that everything will change and always

01:03:19.309 --> 01:03:23.769
is changing. And she asked me specifically to

01:03:23.769 --> 01:03:28.010
join her. and infuse my own prayers and dreams

01:03:28.010 --> 01:03:32.489
into her smoke medicine and into the smoke medicine

01:03:32.489 --> 01:03:36.550
of all the plants and trees that are burning

01:03:36.550 --> 01:03:42.869
currently. And showing me that as we infuse our

01:03:42.869 --> 01:03:47.050
prayers into the smoke, it's blessing the land.

01:03:48.269 --> 01:03:51.269
And she is helping and the plants are helping

01:03:51.269 --> 01:03:54.510
to carry that prayer out into the land and into

01:03:54.510 --> 01:04:00.469
the wider world beyond. She is carrying the dreaming

01:04:00.469 --> 01:04:04.590
of the visions of what we're praying for and

01:04:04.590 --> 01:04:08.769
the power of the community and the collective

01:04:08.769 --> 01:04:14.289
in changing timelines. So it's not just about

01:04:14.289 --> 01:04:18.750
our individual. prayer but when we gather in

01:04:18.750 --> 01:04:22.750
community and circle and collective and are all

01:04:22.750 --> 01:04:28.889
dreaming the same dream that it's endlessly more

01:04:28.889 --> 01:04:34.389
powerful so her invitation to gather to dream

01:04:34.389 --> 01:04:39.789
to pray to intend together And then this song

01:04:39.789 --> 01:04:44.190
by Pia called Blessed We Are started playing

01:04:44.190 --> 01:04:48.309
in the background, which is an incredibly soulful

01:04:48.309 --> 01:04:52.130
song with this haunting voice as the fires were

01:04:52.130 --> 01:04:55.550
burning, as the smoke medicine filled the skies

01:04:55.550 --> 01:04:59.449
to be spread across the lands. And she was showing

01:04:59.449 --> 01:05:05.269
me how blessed we are to be here and showing

01:05:05.269 --> 01:05:10.289
me. That the earth is balancing herself with

01:05:10.289 --> 01:05:12.869
the fires, with the floods, all of it, even if

01:05:12.869 --> 01:05:16.789
it doesn't look like it. And that because things

01:05:16.789 --> 01:05:21.710
are so off balance right now, humans have contributed

01:05:21.710 --> 01:05:28.349
to a lot of disharmony and imbalance. But because

01:05:28.349 --> 01:05:31.409
of this, greater acts of intensity are needed

01:05:31.409 --> 01:05:35.469
to bring us back. like these immense wildfires

01:05:35.469 --> 01:05:38.969
burning. So all of these plants and trees are

01:05:38.969 --> 01:05:43.110
gathering together collectively in prayer and

01:05:43.110 --> 01:05:46.730
waking people up and feeding the spiritual fire

01:05:46.730 --> 01:05:50.550
that's been depleted. Now, again, this isn't

01:05:50.550 --> 01:05:55.949
something that I had considered before and I've

01:05:55.949 --> 01:05:58.949
been devastated by the fires and I still am and

01:05:58.949 --> 01:06:01.789
it doesn't take away. all the other layers of

01:06:01.789 --> 01:06:04.130
truth that live inside the wildfires and why

01:06:04.130 --> 01:06:06.070
they're burning and all the human reasons that

01:06:06.070 --> 01:06:10.369
have been causing them. But it's all true. And

01:06:10.369 --> 01:06:13.889
showing me this other overlay was incredibly

01:06:13.889 --> 01:06:18.449
powerful to see and to feel and to think of earth

01:06:18.449 --> 01:06:23.829
and the plants as collectively gathering together

01:06:23.829 --> 01:06:29.139
with the fire to pray and sending that. through

01:06:29.139 --> 01:06:33.860
the earth as a large act of waking us up and

01:06:33.860 --> 01:06:38.099
what can be dreamed differently. How can we be

01:06:38.099 --> 01:06:40.940
collectively dreaming something different and

01:06:40.940 --> 01:06:47.980
not continuing to agree to the collective dream

01:06:47.980 --> 01:06:50.039
that we've all been dreaming that has been so

01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:54.179
harmful? So it felt to me like she wanted to

01:06:54.179 --> 01:07:00.570
be next to help us reframe the wildfires that

01:07:00.570 --> 01:07:06.469
are currently burning and to have us all infuse

01:07:06.469 --> 01:07:10.030
our dreams and our prayers into what's burning.

01:07:10.909 --> 01:07:16.369
So please do this. Please connect with the fires

01:07:16.369 --> 01:07:21.369
that are burning all across the world and send

01:07:21.369 --> 01:07:24.949
your visions, send your dreams of possibility

01:07:24.949 --> 01:07:29.920
of what could be. And thinking of it like smoke

01:07:29.920 --> 01:07:32.860
medicine, like when we burn herbs to cleanse

01:07:32.860 --> 01:07:35.119
and purify ourselves. I had never thought of

01:07:35.119 --> 01:07:39.559
that before. And finally, when I asked her if

01:07:39.559 --> 01:07:41.559
there was anything else that she wanted me to

01:07:41.559 --> 01:07:45.280
share, she said, things were put into motion

01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:49.519
long before you were born. Like we're just one

01:07:49.519 --> 01:07:52.619
little piece of the story. And she told me to

01:07:52.619 --> 01:07:56.599
follow the story back in order to shift the timeline.

01:07:57.310 --> 01:08:01.349
like journeying back to when these things were

01:08:01.349 --> 01:08:05.530
put into motion long ago in order to place and

01:08:05.530 --> 01:08:09.389
plant our magic there. Because again, time is

01:08:09.389 --> 01:08:14.389
not linear. And this really was so similar and

01:08:14.389 --> 01:08:17.170
resonated with the message that she gave the

01:08:17.170 --> 01:08:20.810
other person in the circle to go back, to go

01:08:20.810 --> 01:08:26.659
before the harm in her past life. So, oh my gosh,

01:08:26.680 --> 01:08:31.880
Mugwort, thank you so much. Her teachings are

01:08:31.880 --> 01:08:35.819
so needed right now, and I feel incredibly honored

01:08:35.819 --> 01:08:39.560
to share them with you. So please spread this

01:08:39.560 --> 01:08:43.000
episode, spread this podcast, spread her message

01:08:43.000 --> 01:08:47.800
far and wide. Let's join together as a collective

01:08:47.800 --> 01:08:53.140
to shift these tides, to dissolve the rigidity.

01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:57.939
of the colonized story to be the rule breakers

01:08:57.939 --> 01:09:02.000
to soften the places in us that feel so rigid

01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:06.760
or where we feel that we're stuck inside to navigate

01:09:06.760 --> 01:09:10.800
into the more fluid way of being and perceiving

01:09:11.689 --> 01:09:14.850
the shape -shifting flame, being able to navigate

01:09:14.850 --> 01:09:18.090
the darkness by perceiving in a way that's not

01:09:18.090 --> 01:09:22.010
direct, awakening the oracles, the seers, the

01:09:22.010 --> 01:09:25.289
sensitives, the dreamers right now, so we can

01:09:25.289 --> 01:09:29.729
see beyond what's physically happening and into

01:09:29.729 --> 01:09:33.880
the vast possibility of what could be. I love

01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:36.960
you all. Thank you so much for being here with

01:09:36.960 --> 01:09:39.840
me and listening to the voices of the plants.

01:09:40.140 --> 01:09:43.100
I know you can spend your time a lot of different

01:09:43.100 --> 01:09:47.239
ways and the plants are just so honored to have

01:09:47.239 --> 01:09:51.130
their voices heard by you. If you want to learn

01:09:51.130 --> 01:09:54.449
from me again, there's applications open for

01:09:54.449 --> 01:09:56.750
the golden stone immersion six month program.

01:09:56.890 --> 01:09:59.970
And I also have a one hour masterclass on how

01:09:59.970 --> 01:10:03.390
to connect with plant consciousness without psychedelics.

01:10:03.390 --> 01:10:06.170
So check those both out in the show notes below

01:10:06.170 --> 01:10:10.930
alongside all sorts of other ways to jump into

01:10:10.930 --> 01:10:15.310
this world. So until next time, may you learn

01:10:15.310 --> 01:10:18.890
to see in the dark so we can navigate these times

01:10:18.890 --> 01:10:22.229
together. May you remember that you're so much

01:10:22.229 --> 01:10:26.010
more than any role or limiting belief that you

01:10:26.010 --> 01:10:29.189
have about yourself. May you remember that everything

01:10:29.189 --> 01:10:33.229
is always changing and we get to choose what

01:10:33.229 --> 01:10:36.590
we want and how we want to emerge in our next

01:10:36.590 --> 01:10:40.750
rendition. May we remember the times before.

01:10:41.580 --> 01:10:44.699
and dream into the possibility of what's to come.

01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:48.479
Thank you for joining the Plant Wisdom Circle.

01:10:49.060 --> 01:10:51.699
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01:10:51.699 --> 01:10:54.319
through your life, guiding you and nourishing

01:10:54.319 --> 01:10:57.079
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01:11:07.880 --> 01:11:10.189
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01:11:10.189 --> 01:11:12.750
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01:11:12.750 --> 01:11:15.750
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01:11:15.750 --> 01:11:18.789
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01:11:22.970 --> 01:11:25.170
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