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Magnolia Essence: Plant Spirit Wisdom from the Grandmother of Flowers
Last week, I held a Magnolia Flower Immersion and essence making day in a stunning grove of Magnolia trees. While I had a rather grand article in mind, spanning patterns of beyond time, I’ve decided to split it into two articles for ease of reading. So today I’ll simply share a the plant spirit wisdom…
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Tea Tree Dreaming
Nature Wisdom for a World at War The smiling delight of coastal tea tree in bloom always fills my heart. For years, I’ve sporadically walked the coastal bush track in Brunswick Heads that is lined with tea trees of different varieties. Though blossoms may begin earlier, their full blossoming glory peaks at Spring Equinox in…
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The Language of Flowers: Unlocking Sacred Earth Consciousness through Plants
Imagine a world where simply the scent of a flower speaks to you. Not in words, but in a visceral, felt understanding. A communion. It isn’t hard to imagine because scents do speak to us, along with other subtle information plants share. It’s just that we have lost the art of understanding that language. Even as a…
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The Spirit of Place
The spirit of place is a layered being that contains countless stories of those who have walked upon it, plants and forests present or long gone, weather events and the unique energy of all the beings that make up the land.
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Conversations with Silky Oak
The majestic Silky or Silver Oak lights up like a giant candelabra of golden fire just after Spring Equinox each year. The synchronised blooming of Silky Oak trees spreads wide across the landscape, giving us a glimpse of the invisible interconnected grid the trees in this species form across time and space. Several years ago,…
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On Plants, Planets, Openness and Connection!
Paracelsus, the 14th century doctor, chemist, alchemist and founder of modern chemistry, used the doctrine of ‘like cures like’ (homeopathic principle) and the relationship between plants and planets to treat illness. “if an organ is sick, the doctor appeals to the corresponding organ in the macrocosm” As a simple explanation of this: So if you…
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Walking the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail
Having just hiked the trail (aka bvrt), passing numerous cyclists and a few people on horseback, other walkers were sparse. In fact I could count them on the fingers of one hand. So I thought I’d write this post in the hope of inspiring more walkers, especially given as to the ease of this trail…
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The Deep Magic of Mugwort
Before our herbal alchemy spagyric making course with Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), I asked if there was something the Mugwort deva would like as an offering. “Make mugwort beer” was the clear response and was shown a picture of the Mugwort I was to use. I’d been in a quandary as to which Mugwort to use…
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Herbs as Teachers: Awakening Ancestral Wisdom
Herbs make brilliant teachers. The more I learn directly from herbs through deep listening and plant communication, the more I’m noticing some repeating patterns. Firstly, all plants when you meet them at a core level – at the level of spirit (more on this below), will teach you about unity consciousness. Secondly, the deeper you…
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Boronia
The Australian Native Flower Codes are specific flowers that support healing and integration of those from different lands and heritages with the energies, spirits, custodians and guardians of this beautiful land that is now known as Australia. These flowers can help to heal the gap between what is within and what is outside, to help…
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Thyme is in our hands
Thyme is in our Hands… It’s Time for Thyme! …the gateway to eternity… In August, 2019, a small group of people joining the Co-creative Gardening Collective had a brief tune into Thyme. One of the messages received was that there was about to be a local epidemic and that Thyme would be specific for it…
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5 Keys to Plant Communication
Plants are living beings. While they may function and communicate differently to us, that doesn’t make them any less intelligent. In fact, there is growing evidence that plants communicate in much more sophisticated ways than was first imagined.* From my personal communications with the plant realm, I have realised that they have an awful lot…
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The Sacred Medicine of Tulsi
The Sacred Medicine of Tulsi Tulsi. Queen of Herbs. Holy Basil, Sacred Basil…. Kundalini awakener; Interrelationship builder; Teacher of All encompassing Love; Strengthener of the Light of Spirit/Divine consciousness; Master Way Keeper for plants and people alike….. It’s taken me awhile to sit down to write up some of the teachings received from Tulsi last…
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Patchouli Teachings
Patchouli – unassuming and earthy. While well known for its scent, as a moth repellant and hippie deodorant, there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. In fact, when a group of people coming to one of my plant journey evenings met with Patchouli, they were all surprised at her sweet, gentle energy. …
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Bushfires: Harnessing the Power of Wind. How you can help right now!
Last night I woke at 4am. Bushfires are out of control in beloved forest just 16km away. The wind has been quiet and still for a few hours, smoke hangs in the air. But I am awake. Something is going on. I hear the fire alert go off downstairs. Only yesterday I downloaded the Fires…
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The Voices of Intuition: Deep Listening
When you ask a question or are trying to make a decision, there are often a few voices that arise.. Invariably the first is right there, clearly stating a choice or an opinion. It’s fast and relatively easy to hear. It often is directing you to do something quickly. It can be persistent and demanding…
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Fringed Lily
Fringed Lily Thysanotus tuberosus Last December my nature buddy, Gigi (who has turned out to be my cousin but we didn’t know that back then and that’s a whole other story about the beauty of doing ancestral work!) and I decided to make a flower essence of the little Fringe Lily which was flowering at…
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An Alchemical Journey with Yarrow.
An Alchemical Journey with Yarrow. Making spagyrics is an enormous dive into experiencing a herb. Alchemy is a layered experience. The deeper you journey with a plant, the more layered the messages become. What may not make sense at the beginning, usually comes together at some point! In this article you’ll see the step by…
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Rosemary – Divine Mother
One of the first plant spagyrics I made close to 20 years ago along with a friend, was Rosemary. Sadly it was back in the days when I didn’t document (lesson learned!) and so much of what we experienced – alchemy is a lived experience of a plant – has been lost. Rosemary is for…
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The Lost Art of Embodied Herbalism
The Lost Art of Embodied Herbalism: Bringing the Feminine back into Herbalism As herbalism becomes increasingly about chemical constituents and actions, and the actual herb as a spirit being is not considered, we are losing connection with what herbs and plants are all about. The herbs are being taken out of herbalism! More and more…
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Calendula: Healing the Masculine Within
Calendula Officinalis I’ve always loved this little plant and used it often for surface wounds, grazes, tooth infections and tissue trauma. It’s antiseptic and heals tissue beautifully. It’s long been known as a remedy to bring cheer through a long winter (Seasonally Affective Disorder), and to bring a little dose of sunshine to any rotting…
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The Essence of Butterfly
Has anyone else felt like 2018 has been a big transition year? I’ve certainly noticed that Butterfly medicine has been strong. Over the last 13 years since I made the Blue Triangle Butterfly remedy, I’ve really noticed it has these waves of use. Mostly it gets active (orders or people needing it) in the summertime…
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Plant Allies
Plants as Allies: Deepening and Building Relationship with Plants for Power, Healing and Wisdom. Working with a plant ally is to open a doorway into another world. It may become a personal healing journey or a pathway into deeper learning and understanding about plants, herbs and the natural world in general.
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Conscious Gardening: 7 Simple Steps to working Co-creatively with Nature.
Ever wonder how you could make a difference to the planet on a personal level? Quietly, in your own garden you can be a personal activist for planetary change. She is known as Mother Earth or Mother Nature, as the relationship humans have with her is a motherly one. Like a Great Mother, the…
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Chamomile – Finding the Light Within.
A message from the Chamomile deva: Activate your light. Let it shine. Listen to the light of truth deep within. Don’t get distracted by the loud voices of the ego that can clutter your space and cloud your mind. Connect deeply to your real self, your own sun, your solar plexus, your centre. There is…
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Shepherd’s Purse Wisdom
Making plant remedies is a great opportunity to connect in deeper with the spirit of a plant and learn from it, whether it be a tincture, a flower essence, a tea, salve or homeopathic. In turn, this gives more potency to whatever you are making. Anyone can chop a herb and pour alcohol on it…
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Weeds…… maybe nature knows best
Today I had the experience of seeing myself as a weed. An incredibly fertile weed like a “Farmers Friend”, with the little seeds that attach to your clothing and are annoying and incredibly prolific! And I could see similarities to myself. I have a lot of ideas, always on the go creatively, and sometimes frustratingly…
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Singing the Land
Simple ways to reconnect with the earth and ourselves. What does it mean to sing the land? Most of us, at least in Australia, have heard of songlines – these apparently invisible tracks across the country that the Aboriginals sang as they travelled along. These songs are the music of the land, a…
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The Energy of Land
Do you ever wonder why you are drawn to certain places? Why you find yourself living somewhere at a certain point in your life? How the energy of that place affects you? For the last year I have lived and worked in Alice Springs as a midwife. The land there is so strong and powerful…
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A Yarrow Legend
and what it teaches us about the layers of healing The legend… Once upon a time there was a beautiful sea nymph called Thetis. So beautiful was she that the great God Zeus wanted to marry her. But then he learned that there was a prophecy that Thetis’ son would be far greater than his father. Of course Zeus couldn’t have that, so Thetis ended up marrying King Peleus. King Peleus…
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Eucalyptus – Plant Spirit Teachings
Eucalyptus is as common in Australia as water is in our bodies. What plant spirit medicine does it hold and what can we learn from it?
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Wild Rose Essence
A Sacred Journey to Ancient Scottish Springs and Stone Circles It is midsummers eve in the middle of Scotland. The eve is endless. Literally. Twilight lasts forever. Even in the darkest three short hours between midnight and 3am, it is but a deep dusk, a mere flicker of a shadow before the twilight begins again. …
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Birth & Harvest, Duality & Wholeness
It’s the 7th August. A new day, a new dawn. Today is the midpoint between the solstice and equinox (yes the traditional dates were earlier, but that is no longer the case). In the southern hemisphere it’s ‘Imbolc’ on the Celtic calendar marking the transition into Spring, and in the north its Lughnasadh, the entrance to Autumn. And…
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Water wisdom from the undines
And a wellspring invitation! On water elementals and their messages, wellsprings, what makes water sacred or holy and an invitation to waken the wellsprings within through a watery substack adventure. .. When you drink the water, remember the spring. Chinese proverb. Last year I found myself unwittingly on an adventure into the realm of water, sacred…
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