A sacred Plant Spirit Medicine Journey with Hawthorn 🤍

Plant Spirit Medicine Journeys are deeply sacred and weave in the rich medicine and relationship we have with our plant spirit allies. We invite them into our lives, deepen our connection to the Spirits that walked with our ancestors. On one such journey, I invite the ancient and mystical medicine of Hawthorn into my field we share such a profound journey together that I felt compelled to share her wisdom.

What we give to others, we receive...

I prepared my beautiful Hawthorn tea ritual with reverence and intention, prepared my space, and invited her Spirit to journey with me.

After a few deep breaths, I immediately felt this glowing white presence. So gentle and soft, feminine, like the love and tenderness of a mother with her newborn baby.

An abundance of compassion, as vast as the ocean...

It started in my heart space and began to spread. The warmth of the purest white light, but a soft, muted glow, not harsh or blaring.

I felt tingling sensations as that white light flowed through my meridians, into every cell, down to the microscopic, atomic level, infusing every part of me. Slowly, gently, spreading from my heart centre.

And then she came into focus. A gentle, feminine face.

The warmth and tenderness emanating from this Being were simply beyond words. We embraced and stayed there.

No words.

Just the feeling of deep tenderness and giving. And all I had to do was be. Simply be, exist and receive.

There was nothing I had to do. No one I had to become.

My existence alone was reason enough to receive.

This bubble of deep tenderness felt like the gentle warmth and love of a mother holding her newborn child.

I felt myself, with her by my side, approach that great ice wall I had built as a child to separate myself from the overwhelming, all-consuming grief, sadness, loneliness, despair and confusion of my childhood. My mother passed away when I was just 18 months old.

Together, we touched it.

We weren't trying to make it go away. We weren't trying to make it better. Break it. Or even heal it.

We simply held it.

We held it with love, patience and tenderness.

I waited to see whether scenes from my childhood would surface. There were fleeting glimpses, too fast to really delve into, but the message was clear: I did not have to relive it in order to heal.

So we simply held it.

There was no rush. No purpose to fulfil. It could all unfold in the time and space it needed, at its own pace.

My beautiful Plant Spirit Medicine teacher, Rachel Deering from Wiseroots Women, reflected this wisdom back to me:

"That remembrance that you don't have to do anything or become anything in order to receive love and tenderness. That you simply are enough. That you are worthy of receiving simply because you are here.

... You have alchemised the pain, grief and loneliness of your childhood experience into the affection, patience, tenderness and unconditional love that you now pour into your own beautiful daughters. And in giving that love, you too are living within its frequency and receiving its medicine."

Such clarity.

And then Hawthorn presented a gift to me...

It was ME! 😂

I was the gift.

The blissful feeling of that deep tenderness was the gift.

And as I immersed myself in and received this deep tenderness, I realised that this was what I had not received as a child. And now, learning to receive it as an adult was the gift.

But the gift was not only that I could now allow myself to receive it.

It was also the realisation that I am the embodiment of it.

With my daughters!!

I give them what I didn't receive or have as a child. Affection, patience, unconditional love and tenderness.

And in doing so, I have also felt and given myself what I had not received.

The feeling of deep tenderness.

What we give to others, we receive.

Because when we embody and give, we are IN that vibration.

It doesn't matter whether you're the receiver or the giver. You're in that vibration. You have to be.

If you give hate, you're in the vibration of hate.

If you walk around loving every blade of grass, of course you're walking around in loving ecstasy!

What we give to others, we receive...

What a beautiful insight during my journey with Hawthorn. Feeling so very grateful.

Thank you, dear Hawthorn, for your medicine and wisdom.

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