The Tree Spirit Medicine of Ash is “The Sacred Pause.” The Tree Spirit Medicine of Ash is “The Sacred Pause.” The sacred pause is a temporary cessation of inner or outer movement towards any goal or outcome. It provides the necessary respite after periods of expanded growth and learning for reflection and integration, when the …
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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 Tree Spirit Medicine of Birch is “Empowered Presence.” Birch helps us to shed what is not needed so that we can enter into a place of Empowered Presence. This presence brings us to that liminal space, that threshold, between what has been and the Great Mystery where something incredible is waiting to be known. …
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The Tree Spirit Medicine of Sugar Maple is “Faith.” Faith is complete heart-trust in existence itself. It is the innate knowing that there is divinity in everything – in the trees, the animals, the oceans, the mountains, the weather, the sky, the people – everything. Faith is also a deep sense of trust in the …
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Awaken your natural capacity to speak with the spirits of plants and trees. Dream journeying is a simple and effective shamanic technique through which one can communicate with the spirit of plants and trees to learn directly from them their wisdom, blessings, messages, and medicines. We are all born with this capacity. Dream journeying to …
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 …
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The Tree Spirit Medicine of Willow is “Clarity – Knowing Your Path and Purpose.” Each of us has an inherent purpose and path that we are meant to live. To not do so is the cause of much confusion and suffering. The yearning to live our vision and truth may be postponed, avoided or stifled, …
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The Tree Spirit Medicine of Basswood is “Surrender.” Basswood gifts us the grounding energy of deep, wide roots which create a strong foundation and sense of security, stability, safety and trust. This place of deep rootedness anchors us that we may surrender wholeheartedly and courageously into the depths the Great Mother Mystery, the source of …
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