Articles and musings by Monika Ghent, Nahua Traditional Healer, Educator, and Counsellor
This time of year (early July) there is a riot of plants to dream to. I just go out my back door and see who calls to me. Today it was Valerian. During my plant study* with Valerian, my attention keeps getting drawn away from him to everything around us. I am sensing that Valerian …
I am going down the waterfall that is my entrance to the dreamworld where I communicate with the plant spirits. But rather than swimming across the pond to the shore I keep going into a tunnel of light. Looping over and over, like the movement of spirals in Ox-Eye Daisy’s flower. I am going down …
The Winter Solstice is this Sunday, December 21, 2025, at 10:03 a.m. In the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice is the day with the shortest amount of daylight of the year. It marks the exact moment when half of Earth is tilted the farthest away from the sun. The word solstice comes from the Latin sol, …
When I’m preparing for a Tree Spirit Medicine workshop, I first get a “calling” from a tree that it has medicine it wishes to share with us. I then dream journey to its spirit to learn its medicine. After that, I deepen my understanding of the medicine through meditation, research, contemplation and dreaming. An important …
I harvested wild grapes off our land to make juice as a toast for our upcoming Harvest Ceremony. To make wild grape juice:
In the centre of the chest, about one finger-width’s distance from the body’s midline on the right side of the chest (where we point to when we refer to ‘I’) resides the Spiritual Heart – the luminous portal between the oneness of all existence and our sense of ‘I’. The Spiritual Heart is an organ …
I first met the spirit of American Elm on July 8, 2011 while doing a plant study for Plant Spirit Medicine. In PSM, you ‘enter the dream’ in the spirit world with a plant to gather its spirit medicine. In my dream with American Elm it told me that it is a vessel which receives …
Your dream journey experiences always contain transformational energy and power that will open and expand you. The Plant People don’t give advice, suggestions, information, platitudes, or “shoulds.” None of which have any depth or real power. If you receive what seems like advice from a plant such as, “You need to lighten up and play …
Read more “Excerpt from the Dream Journeying to the Plant People Manual”
