Finding the sacred within plants..

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Bobinsana has been helping our hearts remain open. After some hard times I felt my sense of trust broken, and pulled away inside myself. The Bobinsana has been a heart tonic, rewiring my heart brain into sweet relaxation.

Just making a fresh tincture batch now from leaves 🍃

I have leaves available on my website for sale at the moment for tea

#bobinsana #calliandra #plantmedicine #herbalism #herbalmedicine #entheobotanica #rebelherbal

We’re at the centre of a cycle
And at the middle is a circle
⭕️
We are moving in a spiral
Just like water in a funnel we unravel

No one’s praying at the temple
It is silent in the counsel
A troubled tribesmen has called us forward
To the middle

He speaks..
There’s missing pieces to this puzzle
You are trapped inside the riddle
The dream is deluded
The truth corrupted
We now must speak in symbol
To protect the scared
Let hidden treasures be buried

So down we go to the below
When you find yourself in hell, Keep going

When I listen more than speak
Things are louder than they seem
It is simple in the deep
Listen
The suspension of disbelief
Allows me to speak what i see

I thank the great beneath
I will return to the surface complete

What kind of nicotiana am i? Ive planted too many seeds and too little labelling.

#tobacco #mapacho #pitchuri #nicotiana #entheobotanica #entheogen #rebelherbal

A fresh batch of Sananga is now available online
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#sananga #tabernaemontanaundulata #medicine #entheobotanica #rebelherbal

I am grateful for my craft and my sustenance. Being a midwife between the plant and person relationship is my kinda jam. #entheobotanica #rebelherbal

I've been asking myself why I do what I do. Why do I work with these plants, that sit at the edges of consciousness? That speak to us in our dreams, and bring up the dirt from the bottom of the lake, that help us to ask big questions, and help us to stop asking questions at all?

It's actually not just the plants that I'm really interested in. It's the transformative spaces they show up in to help us with. That's my spark.

i n i t i a t i o n

By the ceremonial fire, I was peeled back. It's warmth highlighting my own unbearable cold. Cold within my bones, unable to warm up. I was riddled with fear. It was buried so deep in my bones, that it animated the way I walked, held the fabric of my muscles together in my thighs. How had I never noticed these fears? Because I am an extra-ordinary being that has intelligently crafted a persona around my vulnerabilities to placate them. How did I even find myself here in the first person, face to face with the real me? Because I, like all people, yearn to be whole, and somewhere deep inside, I know who I really am.

And who I am not.. the deep, humbling fear. The fear was an inhale on pause, stuck in shock, never exhaling into the hands of the other. Filling my body with energy, eyes wide open, taking it all in - constantly. I had been holding the fear for so long that I couldn't remember a me without it. I could feel the female ancestors within me carrying it. This didn't begin with me...

Deep inherited feminine fear, asking to be purified by the fire.

I sang to myself. The music that comes through during initiation is completely pure. It's like singing to save my own life.

"You are welcome by this fire..
but only if you are willing to lay naked and be set alight"

#entheobotanica #rebelherbal

Here are some of my Winter creations. These are largely rarer herbs with deep medicine. You won’t find them just anywhere.

#entheobotanica #rebelherbal

-artwork by @verocoya

It’s an interesting dilemma to consider how to create ceremony and rites of passage for the current generation. Without it, we tend to not reach our full potential, and miss a vibrant and magickal unseen world where dreaming, connecting, being guided and returning happen.

How do we remember our ancestors ways, when they lived far away and the lineages broken. When they worked with herbs and resins from different lands.

We love creating sacred spaces for people to cleanse, renew, sing, connect, release, return home to themselves. The land here has been a generous host to us as we try to find ways to mark times of transition.

Basse

#entheobotanica #rebelherbal #plantspirit #ceremony #ritesofpassage

I have been busy making sunscreen, infused oils, hair oil, a new range of tinctures and capping up herbs. It has been a creative winter. I have also created a new website layout and a whole range of new labels. Everything is feeling fresh and renewed.

Here is some Victorian wyld crafted st. Johns wort for a herbal oil. Id like to make this into a balm for pain relief.
#entheobotanica #rebelherbal #herbalmedicine #wildcrafted

Watch out, it’s all plants round here.

#rebelherbal #herbalmedicine #entheobotanica

Working at this little haven of beauty brings so much love to my practice of herbalism.

Thanks @nimbinapothecary

#localmedicine #herbalism #herbs #entheobotanica

Life is easeful and compassionately taking care of me. My little family have entered the slow down and draw in. It’s the best! We are homesteading and homebound. I can feel Solstice around the corner ~ a time to plant seeds.

Sandalwood nuts have finally sprouted! Now to germinate some acuminata as a host tree eep! I have never had much luck with acuminata here.

#sandalwood #sandalwood #acacia #entheobotanica #tebelherbal

Today’s garden gifts. The tiny white flowers are native nicatiana amplexicaulis, which I have heard the flowers are lovely to smoke 💐 Thank you tobacco gods.

Check out the doctrine of signatures on these leaves. 🍃 the stem appears to be piercing through the leaves. Any guesses as to what it is communicating? My first feeling was intense, as if a spear through the chest.

#tobacco #mapacho #glosii #doctrineofsignatures #plantmedicine #entheogenic #entheobotanica #rebelherbal

The beautiful veins of Acacia phlebophylla

#acacia #plantmedicine #nativemedicine #phlebophylla #mountbuffaowattle #rebelherbal #entheobotanica

On a self care day I sunbake naked and steam to connect to my womb.

I used to think connecting to the wombspace was some new age enlightenment shakti goddess stuff. But I was judging it to protect myself from the reality that I was disconnected to my womb. Classic mind trick.

What does that even mean to be a woman disconnected from her womb?

It means I couldn’t feel my sexual energy fully, nor my own pleasure, nor the wisdom that connects me to my mother and grandmother. It means I was in my head and less in my body. And for good reason. As I have connected more through embodiment, there’s been what feels like a never ending void of grief available to me now. Yay.

Transpersonal grief as well as personal. Sometimes I feel the pain of Woman; persecuted, kept dependent, sold for her body to make sons for mankind, shamed, stoned, burnt, gas lighted as a crazy witch demon.

I have realised that Woman is a force to be feared and worshipped. She feels all, she deeply and intimately knows love and pain. She shape shifts. She lives inside a pleasure body. She speaks to the earth.

I think the ancient man feared her power, and created ways to keep her uneducated and of his husbandry. As we are coming home again, there is a lot of pain to feel. And I thank this modern man who holds her through it and adores her for it.

#yonisteam #herbawisdom #sexualhealing #entheobotanica #rebelherbal

These plants will ask you to come into a different mode of perception.

The answers you are seeking in your healing will not come from the top down. They will not trickle down from experts or from your mind. They are rising up in a truly shamanic way from the bottom up, from within each of us.

We are not the spiders in the web, we are just strands of the web.

I am asking you to re-imagine what health & sickness is. These plants are capable of moving you, and you are invited to let them move you.

When we are healing we are being asked to let go of something we have falsely identified ourselves with. Let yourself be movable, let your ideas be unfixed.

You are birthing your health every moment. What are you listening to? What are you feeding yourself?

~

I'm sharing this clip from my presentation on Entheogenic Herbalism at the @entheogenesisaustralis conference December 2022.

I am still feeling the thread of inspiration reach me here, a year or more on. It was an honour to share my way of seeing to many eager listeners and I hope to again one day.

#entheogenic #entheogen #ceremonialplants #plantmedicine #herbalism #herbs #entheobotanica #rebelherbal

I live a life of plants
They carry me through the dance
Awaken to the trance
The miracles never cease
The lessons don’t stack neat
The growth is real and messy
The pain weighs on us heavy
The love that rises through
Carries me back to you

#entheobotanica #plantmedicinewoman #plantmedicine #ceremony

As I’ve been reflecting on healing, of course I’ve been going through my own. If you ever think you’ve got it - you’re at the moment before you lose it.

Health to me is my baseline, my centre point, my true beingness. I’m constantly oscillating with it & through it. Sometimes I rest at the centre for a while, before another constellation around the sphere of myself returns me to motion. Call it the stars, the moon, the seasons or the Gods; this is actually the journey of Love.

This is what love feels like. At times it’s being held in the gaze of the sacred with such a gravity that one is rooted unmovable as if we were the Earth itself. More often than not it’s a river flowing through all the parts of us that we have abandoned along the way.

Those moments of shame & loneliness that we collect along the way are then refelt, and more than that they are reimagined into the present with new perpetrators, protagonists & usually the same victim (ourselves). It’s hard to digest; love. It bathes all of us, asks all of us, it does not discriminate. And when we are broken it becomes the golden joinery of the Kintsugi pottery, mosaics of shattered clay sealed with gold in the cracks of ourselves.

And the way love teaches can be just so awfully annoying and inconvenient. I ask, “Why must I love these parts of myself”, when I am caught in the grips of shame. Love highlights not just the shame but the avoidance, the blame and ultimately if we look long enough, love softly enough, the untruths we tell ourselves. Shame is more than doing something regretful, it’s being someone regrettable. It is the heavy anchor sinking in the middle of my chest preventing me from speaking to how I feel, believing I am the problem rather than facing the problem.

Thankfully with the right amount of Love, we can bit by bit begin to digest who we are & realise what we are made of. It’s important to bathe in the sunlight for those precious moments of stillness & perfection, before continuing on the Long Walk Home, for there will be many pieces we find abandoned along the way.

This is me, walking home, and remembering how very lost I’ve been.

#entheobotanica #rebelherbal #herbalmedicine

THE SAP ::: I have wisdom within

The sap/resin of a plant is the water canals that run through the entire organism, a force deep within the body that permeates all. These solid feeling structures that make up our bodies are animated by water. Without it we become dry & lifeless.

Water can put out fire, move earth, uproot wood, & wear metal. It has lunar qualities, embraces darkness, can sit in stillness like an ocean cave or motionless lake, can roar like a raging rapid or crash like a tsunami. It has a way of finding the deepest channel to run through whilst moving as one body that can segment into infinite bodies. It can take the form of solid, vapour or liquid. The water is a shapeshifter; the most mysterious of all.

The quality of water available will dictate our health. Like the sap of a tree or the blood of a body, if the water is clean, health will follow as water delivers nutrients to where it needs to go. Water also delivers toxicity to the organisms & landscapes that purify such as the ocean’s bottom feeders or the kidneys & bladder. In this way, water is a vessel of receptivity to be filled with life.

When life split from the origin of source the Monad became the Dyad. Yang is a primal & original expression of Fire, whereas Yin is Water, 2 elements forever entangled in a balancing act. Water is the container & river of blood itself, fire is the heat & warmth of energy pumping through that blood from the heart. Fire is the attraction of the sexual organs & the yearning for life to create, Water is the container of the womb that life grows in, the inherited Jing or genetic life force buried within our DNA.

In the I-Ching Water is the inverse of Fire, with hollow edges and a solid centre, called ‘The Abysmal’, characterised by the drawing of energy inward & downward.

There is a holographic aspect to the Water - it holds the vibration of the entirety within it. The health of the river IS that of the ecosystem. The health of the ocean IS that of the planet. The egg & sperm of a human hold these qualities as well.

When I look at the surface of the Water I see a reflection, but when I dive below the surface there is another story of whale song below.

#christopherbache #entheobotanica #rebelherbal

M A P A C H O

The jungle tobacco - not to be breathed in just to be breathed through. The roots are so deep and grounding. The rich brown leaves ages and cured. When worked with as smoke the space clears, the mind clears, the path forward presents and can be read like a book of knowing. Offerings are made to the elder trees and at the places we meet and sit for ceremony.

And everywhere we go, the tobacco smoke has been whisping through the airs. At which point were we human separate to our relationship with plants? It is not a thing.

Out breathe, I let go of there
In breathe, I arrive here

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#mapacho #tobacco #jungletobacco #plantmedicine #groundingplants #earthmedicine #herbalism #smoketherapy #herbs #entheogens #entheogenic #entheobotanica #rebelherbal

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