TNP208 {Special Class Recording} Connecting and Communicating with Plants

We’re doing something a bit different on the podcast today! I’m sharing a basically unedited recording of a recent class I led within The Numinous Network on connecting with and communicating with plants.

What are the steps to communicate with plants?

Do we need to know a lot about horticulture?

Do we have to ingest plants to really know them?

How do I know if I'm just making it all up?

We cover all of this and more.

I’m offering this sneak peek because it’s Free Week in the Numinous Network this month, from Sept 17 - 23 in this year of 2023.

This class includes several intuitive exercises including trancework which may not be appropriate for listening while driving or riding a bike or otherwise operating machinery - take due care, my friends!

Because it's a basically unedited recording of a live video class, some parts may not be as interesting as a normal podcast episode, but I hope you'll feel like you're right there with us in an intuition development class, learning and practicing alongside us. It feels really sweet to me to think of you there in the larger collective field of The Numinous School*.

Referenced in this episode:

Opening Poem: "In California: Morning, Evening, Late January", DENISE LEVERTOV

Entering Hekate's Garden: The Magic, Medicine and Mystery of Plant Spirit Witchcraft, Dr.Cyndi Brannen

Communicating with Plants: Heart-Based Practices for Connecting with Plant Spirits, Jen Frey

Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness, Pam Montgomery

TNP198 AstroMagic Miniseries: Eliza Robertson and The Sun

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer and the Young Adult version by my friend, Monique Gray Smith

The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive , Martín Prechtel

Edible and Medicinal Flora of the West Coast: The Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Collin Varner

Luschiim’s Plants: Traditional Indigenous Foods, Materials and Medicines, Dr Luschiim Arvid Charlie with Nancy J. Turner

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TNP202 AstroMagic Miniseries: Maeg Keane on Connecting with Jupiter

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask, Mary Siisip Geniusz

Closing Poem: The Tree Agreement, ELISE PASCHEN

*The Numinous School was a year-long intuition development program that ran from 2014-202, a precursor to The Numinous Network.

Now, assembled with nearly a dozen other courses within The Numinous Network, The Numinous School anchors our Spirituality section in the Courses area.

Homework for this Lesson Reciprocity

Ask your plant friend what they’d like. Maybe they want to be tended a certain way, maybe they want you to draw them. Stay with the question – at first they might say something like, I want you to take care of yourself, I want you to relax. That’s all good to know, but stay with this question of what you can do for them or offer to them until you get an answer that is truly something they want just for them. When you have the gift, present it to them. Spend time in this space, speaking aloud your gratitude. What do you notice in the days after?

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