MIRRORS OF THE EARTH

Asia Suler (2022). Mirrors in the Earth: 

                              Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World.


Suler is a herbalist, founder of One Willow Apothecaries, and teacher. She draws on stories throughout her life and wisdom both ancient (indigenous) and new (research) to describe and explain how the earth (the natural world) mirrors and reflects our own lives, providing practical advice for living. Each chapter ends with a practice, meditation, or reflection that i found valuable. 

Some of the many insights/lessons:

your life is garden...you get to decide what to plant, how to tend...you will also need to decide your hard and soft boundaries, what to prune and what to weed...identifying what is your life and what needs to be released.

trauma is part of everyone's life, and learning to release and heal from trauma is everybody's life work...nature can help  with this...connecting with earth, trees, plants, animals, elementals...they are all here to assist us.


making flower essences for our well being is a simple and profound practice...a flower, some water, sunshine, and intention are ingredients for making and consuming the floweric energy to balance and heal our mind, body, and shen--choose a flower(s) that attracts you, ask permission to cut the flower at its peak bloom, place the flower in a bowl of clean water and set in sun for however long feels right, strain the water and compost the flower, dilute the water and consume with the intention of absorb the flower's energy (see p. 143+ for detailed instructions, and dosage).





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