Resources for walking with herbs

These are journal posts about our herbal companions, exploring a relationship with a particular herb in depth.

The resources here build into a growing materia medica of herb profiles, but they are also more than this — an enquiry into our relationship with each of these healing, generous plants.

Putting us back together

Held in the heat

Pausing to see the light

Unclenching the heart

Softening into Spring

In sorrow and in grace

Clear vision, lucid speech, tender moments

A winter gift of cool blue clarity

Softening the year’s end

Navigating expansive arcs, thorny boundaries

Finding solace in times of devastation

To gentle the days that might overwhelm

The shape of a heart

Clear and bright and welcoming

Pausing for the scent of innocence

Shining light into darkness, restoring hope

Held and protected on the journey

Silver essence to soothe,clear, bring light

Held in the time of a compassionate healer

What we cleave to, what we wash away

In the company of a dispeller of sorrow

How will we tender our hearts?

Sitting with elder to kindle the vision

Nurtured by so many healing virtues

Soothed an unnettled in a challenging world

Whispers of magic mugwort: dreaming with the mother of herbs

Delighted by daisy

Mothered through May

Finding clarity with yarrow

Vervain, violet, sweet flag and life