🍄Poisonous Plant Medicine🍄
Week 5 | Yew & Hellebore: Meeting The Crone

Meetings with the Crone are inevitable on the poison path. The Crone is a wise elder archetype who has wisdom she wants to pass down to us… but she does not allow for anything less than authenticity. Think Baba Yaga. I seem to meet her most often when I’m hanging around with hellebore or yew. Today we’ll talk about what to expect (the unexpected) when working with The Crone.

Last winter a fence fell on top of my yet to bloom hellebore plant and I wasn’t able to fix the fence for 6 weeks. I assumed it was a goner. But to my surprise when the fence was finally lifted, that little hellebore not only sprouted new leaves but had over 10 new flowers blooming - all whilst in near complete darkness! If that isn’t the most beautiful metaphor for the human experience, I don’t know what is.

The yew tree is thought to be the mythic Yggdrasil, or World Tree. They can live to be thousands of years old and are among the oldest of all living organisms on the planet. They are often found in old cemeteries where their roots intertwine with the skeletons of the dead.

I'll be teaching this class at @animamundiherbals this Thursday night, and online on March 17th and April 7th 🖤✨

I updated my shop yesterday with a few new medicines (see my stories today to get a peak at them all.)
This "Loving Boundaries" elixir is the one I am most excited about. My entire life seems to be a lesson in building strong yet permeable, loving yet firm boundaries that are compassionate to both myself and others. It has not been and is still not an easeful journey for me. I look at others who seem to have been born with their roots firmly planted in this earth, preventing them from experiencing the regular overstimulation/exhaustion I experience almost daily and I am truly envious. I’m grateful for the gifts that come with being so open but I know that I have arrived at a point in my life where I need to level up my energetic boundaries.

I am currently in the midst of unlearning some very young conditioning around things like - other peoples happiness is not my responsibility, people that love me will love me regardless of whether or not I can anticipate their needs, focusing on myself first is not selfish... facing these conditionings brings along with it many fears and these fears have had my nervous system in a quite a state.

These last few months I've been learning how supporting my nervous system is the most important thing I need to support my healthy psychic boundaries. That's why I've included a lot of nervous system support in this blend. It can be taken like an essence - a few drops on the tongue or in a glass of water, or more as a tincture - 1-2 dropperfuls. I'm really grateful to this medicine for its support and lessons at this time in my life.

Ingredients: Extracts of St. John’s Wort, Rosa Rugosa, and Yarrow in Vodka. Rosa Rugosa Glycerite. Essences of Pokeweed, Hellebore, Bleeding Hearts, Rose Rugosa, and Black Tourmaline.