Plant charming for the wild soul
I’ve spent so much time obsessing over plants,
about how to grow them, or how to connect with them, that I ended up not actually spending enough time with them. It’s been quite a few years since I started my path and I wouldn’t be where I am if it wasn’t for my extreme devotion to the plant realm. It runs deep in my blood, Italian Shamanic Healing is very centered around plants, and we don’t want to get me started in how much they are used in cooking. I remember being a young girl helping my mom in the garden, my mother taught me everything I know about plants and how to care for them. I would even spend my days at my baby sitters house playing “Witches” in her huge garden while picking blueberries right off the bush and eating them.
Every moment I spent in a garden or in the woods as a child was a Magical time for me, it opened up a whole new world for me. As I got older I cared less and less about the “Weird” side of myself, and focused on partying and hanging out with friends. In my teen years is when I was introduced to a whole new side of the Plant World. I had found a plant that literally washed all my problems away. That special magical plant took me all around the inner landscapes of my own mind! Spending time in my own head contemplating and judging everything. I think back at it now and I know my young mind was not able to comprehend the changes that where happening inside my very head, that being said I also know my experiences gave me an entire new outlook on life and how to live it.
Being older now and mother I look back and think about all my mistakes, but no matter how cringe worthy they are I would never take most of them back. One of my biggest mistakes was the day I stopped dancing. I was stuck in this mind set of “I’m too old to do things like dance and perform, I need to worry about being an adult, I need to let my never going to happen dreams fade!”. So that’s what I did, and let me just tell you I have never been so unhappy. The amount of loss I was feeling was something that couldn’t be named. I had no idea what I was searching for. I finally realized after a few horrible years of my life that I was searching for the Old Way, the way of my ancestors, the path of magic, mysticism, trance, ecstatic dance, healing, and spirit communication. Little did I realize that I had been practicing the Old Ways all along.
Being on this path that I am on is what really made my connection with plants “Zesty”, from talking and singing to plants to using them in every aspect of my Magick and Ancestral Healing, plants are apart of my everyday life. That is what led me to My Spiritual Break Through, why not bring two of my most Spiritual Practices together? Why not Dance With My Plants!
I feel like it was such and obvious concept, like this has to be something so Ancient, so Untamed, so Wild. All over the world, no matter what Spiritual Belief, all of our Ancestors communed with plants, they honored them, worked with them, and prayed to them. So someone some where must already do this.
The more I studied, the more I Danced, and practiced the more I realized that this concept is So much bigger then I thought! It was like a huge download of information was fluttering through my Body for almost 3 weeks straight. This is not just about Dancing with plants for their healing energy, or to raise a vibration, this is the Whole meaning of merging with a plants energy and Spirit. It was about being one with the Spirits from all around and being at one with the plants that you are connecting to. Your connecting so much so that your body’s are moving in sync.
I have noticed over my years of study in Witchcraft, The Occult, and Spirit Work, that when most people think of communicating with any Spirit it involves being very still, quiet, and calm, which is fine and it does work especially if you are learning to shift your energy focus and connect. But what if I told you that since the beginning of time people, especially Feminine Identified People, found Trance states in Breathe work and Movement. Over the past few decades more and more people are finally realizing that connection with spirit does not have to only be sitting still in a quiet room with 10 candles, incense, and waterfall recordings, which again is amazing and sounds so divine, but it’s not the only way. Finding connection to the Spirit Realm in Music and Dance has been something just about Every Culture has done at one point in time. When we really look into Shamanic practices from all over the world we can see the connection and how it relates to Dance and The Plant World.
How do you start Plant Charming
Let’s say your really feeling what I’m putting down, great! I thought you would. To answer your first question, No you do Not have to be a professional dancer to start Plant Charming. The most important part of this work is your love, dedication, and fiery untamed soul. Plants have an energy all their own and they are able to communicate with other plants, so all’s you have to do is open that bridge of communication. This may sound a little easier then it looks at first, to open up the true path of yourself and unlock everything that is holding you back. What does that mean exactly? This means you need to get weird, raw, and wild. The more we learn to let go of our self judgements, the easier it will be to open up the blockages in ourselves. We truly are the one thing that can hold us back. So we need to let loose, even if you have to take baby steps like putting on the loudest craziest music possible and shake like no one is watching, or hang out naked or in your underwear for a little bit before you get dressed in the morning, go skinny dipping, scream, howl, growl, and hiss while you practice breathing and being in your own body which will also bring you to an altered state of consciousness. Whatever you decide to do, know that every time you stop judging yourself, every time you don’t criticize yourself you are one step closer to healing your inner spirit and getting closer to the Spirit Realm.
After you’ve started to let loose then start thinking about having a Plant that heals you on or around you while your doing these wild letting go practices. You can pick any plant that resonates with you, gives you healing energy, empowers you, or a Plant that you just want to get to know better. A little more each day you will start to notice a difference, you will be building a connection. This practice does not necessarily need to be done every single day but the more you do it the more you get out of it.
When a connection is built between you and the Plant/Plants you will notice subtle ways your Plant Spirit Guides start to communicate with you, they will start guiding you in your life, your decisions, and teaching you things that you have never heard before. Plant guides can tend to be subtle at first, in my experience it seems as if they are making sure they can trust your intentions first for the amount of ancient wisdom they are going to share.
When Charming comes in
Having a relationship with your Plant Spirit Guides are no different then any other relationship, you care for them as they do you, you honor and respect them. Giving offerings and asking your Plant Spirit Guides what they like and want is always a good idea. They will answer you. The more time you spend with them and the more time spent practicing you will start finding out what ways you feel drawn to moving your body, and what type of music is calling you this will also help you decipher what type of healing you are in need of. Paying attention to how you feel in your body and where you’re the most reactive to the dance movements and music will show you a lot about yourself and the Plant Spirits. When we are “Charming” It’s to have done something as if by Magick. The word “Charm” originated from the Latin Word “Carmen” which translates to “Song, Verse, or Incantation”. We are literally Charming the Plant Spirits into Manifesting whatever healing and desires we need.
Charming a Plant is using Music and the Energy of Dance to Manifest changes in the Astral Realm. As we are Charming the Plant we are honing that energy to Manifest our desires as well as contacting the Plant Spirits and letting them know we are open to receiving what we are asking for. As Women and all People who have connected with their Divine Feminine side, we have this indispensable amount of Knowledge and Wisdom from our Ancestors and Lineage Bearers. Thousands of years ago, Women were the ones who kept everyone going, we knew how to find the healing and nourishing herbs in the forest and we knew how to gather them, while still appeasing the Spirits of the land. In today’s society Women have been knocked from The All Healing and Destructive Mother Earth to the companion or lover of a man. I truly know deep in my heart that we as Women and all Feminine Identified People, we have a choice to either Raise our Vibrations, connect with the Ancient Source of Knowledge and Wisdom, grow and learn from our shadows, and Manifest the best freaking life we deserve! Or live a lower vibrational life, not accepting our power or fulfilling our greatest desires. I know and believe fully that it is All Possible, growing and connecting with the most Ancient of Spirits of them all, the Plant Spirits and Mother Earth. I hope that this brief introduction to Plant Charming sits with you well and will spark and Ancient Primal Fire within you so deep, that’s never to be put out again. Blessings to a new Era of Wild and Charmers.
