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MUGWORT
Digesting, travelling, dreaming; dream herb, moon plant, hunter, magician.
Ability to use experiences (digesting).
Food for the journey – refreshment, help, encouragement.
Lightening of mood and step. Stepping out, confidence.
Help is always near, guidance is there to be asked for.
Take more heed of the ‘normal’.
Unexpected solutions and directions arise from attention to the ordinary and the familiar.
Dreaming, travelling, internally and externally needs proper attention and assessment (digesting), if they are to be of benefit.
Pay attention to all your experiences. Make no distinction between outer happenings and inner visions and imaginings. One is not more real than the other when it concerns personal significance.
Dream is the Big World communicating with the little, personal consciousness. The power of the Moon.
Confidence, strength, support, the right direction, power to achieve, weaving the tangible from the intangible.
Skill: Moving on
Failing: Rationalisation
Lesson: Shadows
There is no other spirit world.
This is the spirit world.
Things are shadows.
Mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris), is a member of the Artemisia, or wormwood, Family (so named from the Moon goddess, Artemis and ‘wermut’ , German for ‘preserver of the mind’). Mugwort was revered as a powerful protection from illness and evil amongst Celts and Anglo-Saxons. It is a bitter, digestive tonic that treats depression, eliminates parasites and regulates menstruation. It also promotes the dream state when placed beneath the pillow, and refreshes the traveller who puts a sprig in his shoe. A tall, perennial with sturdy purple stems and aromatic pinnate, dark green leaves with dusty white undersides. Can be seen in hedgerows flowering around midsummer.