Intuitive Herbalism
On the subject of herbalism, Intuitive Herbalism is part of an general religious apply.
It must be famous that if you find yourself studying herbalism for the medical properties, or for what to ingest, sticking to the normal knowledge is important – we don’t want folks consuming toxic vegetation or endangering their well being!!!
Intuitive Herbalism involves the fore with the Religious apply, when one is studying to contact the Plant Deva, or Plant Spirit.
The Webster dictionary definition of Instinct is as follows:
1a: the ability or college of accomplishing to direct information or cognition with out evident rational thought and inference
b: instant apprehension or cognition
c: information or conviction gained by instinct
2: fast and prepared perception
To intuit is a apply which is troublesome to clarify, however extensively understood. Much like when somebody asks how you’re in love – you merely know.
On the subject of Spirit communication, instinct performs a significant position, as a result of the communication normally happens exterior of standard channels, which may lead many to doubt their expertise.
With out the bodily vibration to reassure us, many people ponder whether or not an expertise is “actual.”
I personally really feel that making use of the primary six Airtight Ideas of the Universe may be useful right here, to deepen our private understanding of what Intuitive Herbalism is and the way it can have an effect on our magical apply.
The Precept of Mentalism
“The all is thoughts; the universe is psychological.”
“In a sure sense, the Universe is itself a residing thoughts; one that’s linked to all different minds. As such, each motion you’re taking and each thought you’re taking is an interplay between completely different points of the psychological.” – Source
This primary Precept highlights the significance and energy of our thoughts, one thing which is the inspiration of a lot of our spell casting inside Witchcraft. Additionally it is related to my private understanding of the Universe as a “Religious Ecosystem,” which I’ve, at many factors, in comparison with the neural community of the human thoughts.
The human thoughts is outlined because the exercise of the bodily mind, neurons firing inside it creating reactions that we understand and are very actual to us however utterly (not less than at the moment) singular within the expertise.
We can’t present another person our reminiscence as we expertise it. We are able to relate it to them, create one thing bodily or vibrational to cross alongside a message of it, however that’s the restrict of how we are able to specific it.
Instinct then, is a intestine feeling truly positioned throughout the aware thoughts. The Mind-Intestine if you’ll, and may be tapped into by the consciousness of different spirits, different minds, throughout the Religious Ecosystem – and pondering vegetation can’t have as excessive a stage of consciousness within the Ether as people – is just human hubris.
The Precept of Correspondence
“As above, so beneath, as beneath, so above. As inside, so with out, as with out, so inside.”
On the coronary heart of the Precept of Correspondence is the concept there are fixed hyperlinks between the psychological, bodily and religious planes. Consequently, if we need to perceive the patterns we see in our lives then we should take a look at all of those points.
Implicit on this Precept is the acceptance that we can’t entry all planes of existence. Nevertheless, Airtight practitioners are inclined to imagine {that a} keenly honed sense of instinct can assist us faucet into points of the upper and decrease planes. – Source
Instinct is implicit throughout the Precept of Correspondence, it’s the automobile by way of which we journey to different planes of existence.
It additionally may be useful in intuitive Herbalism once we think about correspondences of energetic vibration of vegetation that has been learnt over time by human beings, {that a} well-known side of a plant inside Herbalism may very well be telling of a vegetation’ spirit nature.
I’ve come to grasp that Crops and Bushes (in addition to all different types of life) are inclined to have each singular energies and personalities, and are linked to the “All” type of their sort.
So, for instance, there may be an “All” consciousness of Dandelions that one can faucet into that connects all Dandelions which hyperlinks their commonalities; that is the place I imagine the frequent threads or correspondences come from as learnt by Witches over the centuries, which can be linked to the sharing of this data by people.
This varieties an online of knowledge shared by Plant Spirit and Human Spirit alike by way of many alternative mediums; Religious contact, fixed use over time, reaffirming of those concepts by religious apply, the passing of knowledge by way of books and so on.
The thought of blowing on a Dandelion to grant a want is so entrenched in Folklore that it bypasses one heritage and is an extremely frequent expertise linked to childhood worldwide (not less than, to all climates wherein Dandelion grows).
That is extremely helpful to the Spirit of the Dandelion, making certain the continuation of its heritage, and is deeply rooted within the human expertise of childlike marvel that it connects us again to a state of believing which is essential for magical apply.
The Precept of Vibration
“Nothing rests; All the things strikes; All the things vibrates.”
Those that are skilled in working with the Regulation of Attraction will possible already be very aware of one thing just like the Precept of Vibration. To place it merely, all issues carry their very own distinctive vitality, on all planes of existence. Actually, even the smallest particle within the universe has a vibrational frequency that impacts on issues round it. Crucially, this Precept tells us that top vitality issues are magnetically drawn in direction of each other, and are attuned to them on a fundamental stage. – Source
Vibration is the important thing to attuning to and feeling the vitality of various spirits throughout the Religious Ecosystem.
To proceed with the Dandelion analogy, a singular Dandelion can have its personal persona and vibration however will even vibrate with the vitality of the ‘All,’ of Dandelions.
I discover that as people, we would intuitively ascribe emotions, colors, concepts and feelings to every specific vitality after which search to clarify these to others, which is why, for instance, we attribute its energies to Jupiter and the aspect of Air.
One magical property of Dandelion is given as Divination, particularly Religious messages – possible not less than one thread of this data being tied up within the concept of blowing on a Dandelion to make a want to affect the longer term.
Thus we come to grasp one thing concerning the energetic vibration of Dandelion because it has impacted on us as a species.
The Precept of Polarity
“All the things is dual, every little thing has poles and every little thing has its pair of opposites; Like and in contrast to are the identical; Opposites are an identical in nature, however completely different in diploma; Extremes meet; All truths, are however half-truths; All paradoxes could also be reconciled.”
The Airtight Precept of Polarity tells us that each one issues in our lives have an reverse and that the ensuing distinction is a part of what offers our narratives that means. For instance, with out understanding what lack appears like, it’s troublesome to concentrate on and respect abundance; the polarity of life’s experiences helps us to keep away from taking issues without any consideration.
This Precept can be usually taken to imply that every little thing has a twin nature. – Source
I really feel that the Precept of Polarity greatest explains why we wrestle in opposition to the concept of Intuitive Spirituality, and for our functions, Intuitive Herbalism.
The human must put issues into classes and perceive the world by way of duality is rampant, with folks eager to disregard the concept of all reality being half reality. If we perceive ourselves and the world round us against this, then we are able to simply fall into the lure of deciding what’s “actual or not,” based mostly on limiting situations.
If we reject our instinct, because the world usually teaches us to do, as a result of we now have determined it isn’t actual, then we are able to reject the spirits of the non-human beings.
We see them merely as meals, pests, gasoline or sources, and this will really result in travesty.
Assume once more of the noble Dandelion, with its unimaginable plethora of bodily, medicinal, natural and magical properties… decreased to the image of a backyard weed that may be a “blemish” on the human assemble of an ideal garden – a garden which serves little to no worth to the ecosystem as an entire.
The Precept of Rhythm
“All the things flows, in and out; All the things has its tides; All issues rise and fall.”
One of many main issues we are able to be taught from the Precept of Rhythm is that every little thing is in fixed movement. There’s a sample to the modifications we expertise. All the things goes by way of cycles that transfer from start to loss of life after which rebirth.
This Precept applies simply as a lot to the Earth’s seasons because it does to our our bodies. – Source
I’m positive that anybody aware of my work is overly aware of how I really feel about Demise cycles inside life at this level.
For Intuitive Herbalism the concept of our experiences altering and shifting in rhythm with the Earth is useful to connecting to the messages of Crops who’re ruled by these cycles.
That’s to say their messages, their drugs, and their magick can change relying on what the season is, the place of their life cycle they’re, their present organic mission – whether or not to develop, to unfold seeds, or to die off and decompose.
This modifications relying on the kind of plant or tree we’re studying about, and is usually neglected in favour of the ‘all’ correspondences that I discussed earlier.
The Precept of Trigger and Impact
“Each trigger has its impact; Each impact has its trigger.”
Generally simply known as the Precept of Causality, the Precept of Trigger and Impact describes the best way wherein all of our actions and experiences relate to different occasions. In different phrases, each motion instigates a response, and nothing must be considered in isolation. As well as, there isn’t any such factor as pure luck or likelihood; there’s a purpose for every little thing that occurs to you. Hermeticism usually encourages folks to change into extra lively brokers of their life. Basically, you change into the “trigger” extra usually than the “impact”. Determine what you need to do and be. The, plan out the exact steps it’s worthwhile to take to achieve these targets. – Source
There are two main ways in which Causality can impact on Intuitive Herbalism instantly – the impact that Human motion – as a collective – has on the understanding and vitality of plant spirits, and the modifications to the understanding of a selected plant based mostly on our personal private actions and interpretations.
Human collective behaviour can usually be destructive, and have a significant affect on the spirits of the ecosystem.
Would Dandelion at all times have been as rebellious an vitality as it’s with out human beings designating it a pest and attempting to eradicate it? I believe that the historical past of the Spirit of Dandelion has been formed by the essence of resistance.
Dandelion will fortunately work with Witches and people who recognise its brilliance and value, and pay it the correct respect, which isn’t at all times the case with different spirits.
I’ve encountered Tree Spirits that are enraged, and disrespected land spirits could cause human beings all kinds of issues. It is a direct consequence of ignoring the spirits of different creatures as a result of they don’t behave the identical approach as people of their sentience.
Assuming that we on a private stage search to be understanding and respectful of plant spirits, our understanding of their vitality remains to be impacted by our private selections and actions.
We could really feel drawn to a selected plant and domesticate a religious relationship with that vitality on function. Now we have chosen to exalt that specific vitality and search it out, for causes of our personal – preferences, related reminiscences, private agendas or requirements… and that impacts on our interpretation of the vitality we intuit.
All of those parts have to be remembered once we join with and search to grasp a spirit that’s different to us – they aren’t us, and but we interpret them by way of our specific lens.
This isn’t a common religious reality – it’s our reality, a half reality.
(I can’t be together with the Precept of Gender for plant spirits as a result of I really feel it is very important transfer exterior of this when participating with vegetation.)
Hopefully by way of the legal guidelines of Hermeticism we are able to start to grasp our instinct and its position in connecting with the Religious energies of vegetation – a relationship with whom helps our magic, our understanding of the world, and as such, with ourselves.
Many blessings, Starlet
Joey
The Starry Eyed Witch
