the plant world is an immense realm of support available to us humans by the extension of our mother earth’s deep unconditional love. from the vegetables and grains that grow to feed our bellies to the flowers that brighten our day, we rely on this support every single day. the support can be practical; a calendula salve healing a wound. the support can be spiritual as well. i want to lean into the vast spiritual realm of support that plants so generously offer us. there are a few reasons for this. anyone can complete a web search and end up with countless articles on a plant’s technical and practical properties, including recipes describing the various ways it can be used. this is wonderful…and there is so much more.

the way i was taught to engage with the plant world was one of communion. right brain first. this process is relatively effortless, the value is in the non-doing, in the being. mix empty presence with connection with the plant and voila, let communion to its thing. since we are living in a radically left brain dominated period of time, this process can require practice and patience. physically being with the plant is opportune for satiating all five senses with the full 3D reality of the plant. it is, however, not necessary every single time one communes with the plant. once there is a direct spiritual link between human and plant, the essence of the plant permeates the various fields/bodies of the human and therefore, does it’s healing magic. the sensitivity of the soul and evolutionary necessity plays a factor how deeply this is felt and integrated. different plants permeate the human field in their own way that is also unique to the soul communing with them. and its all perfect. each one of us feels and grows the capacity for communion exactly as our soul desires.

*note: i intentionally use various pronouns for self love/self heal and interchanged the order of her two names. the reason being to provide opportunity for you to feel into these various options and find what feels aligned for you. it may change depending on the occasion or circumstance.

the plant, self heal/self love, would love to introduce itself to you. the essence of self love/self heal is soooooooooooooooo very needed, which is why she is so abundant all over the planet. as the name clearly suggests, they support us in healing ourselves through self love…and loving ourselves through our self healing journey. this is done through a reclamation of the fragmented aspects of our self. when a part of our self is denied, suppressed or oppressed, there is a forgetting and a distortion of it that takes place. this is the basis of self-loathing/hate/scrutiny/fear. who on earth does not struggle with these themes in one way or another? linking this to evolutionary astrology, this dynamic can be observed through the relationship between mars and pluto in anyone’s birth chart.

let’s go deeper into this dynamic and examine the water trine in the zodiac. setting the stage: neptune correlates to wounding, the moon correlates to subjective consciousness and pluto correlates to the soul and its core desires for evolutionary purposes. a simple example: a child with natural intuitive and psychic abilities is born into a family who is rigid in their view of reality and every time the child expresses their intuitive/psychic nature, the family responds with something along the lines of ‘‘that isn’t real, don’t say things like that’’ and ignores the child until they stop with their “nonsense”. because children are dependent upon their family for survival and developmentally, they take everything personally; the child’s subjective consciousness internalizes a message that their natural intuitive/psychic abilities threaten their survival and security (moon). the child then abandons this natural part of their soul (pluto) and suppresses it (pluto/mars). the wound of fragmentation, having the unity destroyed, within the child’s self occurs (neptune). the child grows up consciously suppressing this part of themselves which creates a distorted view of themselves, perhaps any sign of their intuition seeping in is felt as if they are going ‘‘crazy’’ and fear of the self ensues. this will continue until the person feels safe enough to dismantle the known security of their subjective consciousness (moon/cancer), which was developed through the wound and remember/reclaim (neptune/pisces) their soul’s nature (pluto/scorpio). this is also a good example of how a trine is easily actualized and not necessarily easy in nature.

taking a look at the macro view of this dynamic, way back to before the beginning, natural law tells us that the creator projected itself into fragmented aspects of itself which we call life. we are all a fragmented aspect of the whole of oneness/creation. thus, we dance the curious dance of union and separation with oneness/creator. natural law also tells us that nature is fractal. zooming into our personal dances, the messy process of uncovering and reclaiming fragmented aspects of the self is a long spiraling journey continuing in a fractal manner, only completing when our soul’s evolutionary desire to reunite with oneness/creator/source fully integrates.

the medicine of self heal/self love spans lifetimes; past, present and future. parts of the self which were fragmented numerous lifetimes ago will have their cyclical phases of remembrance and reclamation (neptune) when the soul desires (pluto) and the subjective consciousness/ego is supported through the insecurity generated by this very act (moon).

“this communion or desire to know the very origin of all things, the origin of the soul itself, is intrinsic to the consciousness of the soul.” jeffrey wolf green from his book ‘‘neptune: whispers from eternity”. ultimately, there is no external thing necessary for this to occur. that being said, thanks to fractal nature, it is no accident that our dear mother earth provides plant allies for us to learn the very nature of communion. self love/self heal supports us on this journey of remembering and reclaiming the fragmented aspects of ourselves. when we commune with self heal/self love and his medicine is activated, shifts in our individual unconsciousness take place which furthermore ripples out into the collective unconscious. this is one way to looking at the phenomena of how healing the self simultaneously heals the collective. as jeffrey wolf green taught: the individual unconscious level correlates to the function of aquarius/uranus/11th house/nodes of uranus and the collective consciousness/unconsciousness realm correlates to neptune/pisces/12th house/nodes of neptune. observing these dynamics within the birth chart reveal how the medicine of self love/self heal works for each individual.

one of the greatest wounds of fragmentation collectively manifested is the separation between humans and nature/natural law. this is observed through the symbol of neptune’s south node in aquarius, for all souls. self love/self heal is here with us now to support us on the journey of reclaiming the wholeness of our soul, in its natural spontaneous radiance, and our oneness with nature/the earth/source through present communion.

a self heal/self love poem

spiralling spheres of remembrance

starting with me

licking my wounds of fragmentation

i discern my natural taste from my conditioned state

and i commune with this natural sense of self

each layer of safety in curiosity

lends me further along the spiral of remembrance

the wounds heal through unity reclaimed

the waves in my personal healing

ripple throughout the ocean of collective consciousness

a living communion

a sacred dance

with the one heart