06/23/2020
I never believed in magic until I discovered herbalism. Ever since I first walked through that doorway 7 years ago, seeing magic has become a way of life for me. Oh, it was always there but now I can see it. 🌞
There are so many more opportunities to find magic all around us. Finding the portal paths to that reality feels now more important than ever. 🌞
One of the magical folk beliefs about herbal medicine is about how the medicine we need grows right outside our doors. I see this magic at the homes I visit, and near my own garden gate🌞
Living and working in an urban environment, it isn’t everyday one finds a swath of harvestable medicine. But today I did and it wasn’t 500ft from my front door! 🌿
Milky oats are a stage of the oat, avena sativa, plant’s growth that happens in a five day window before the seeds dry and become a bowl of our morning oatmeal. Nearby the oats, was growing an elder bush with flowers good for fever. I’ve walked this path many times and as the space has changed, or been changed by the city, medicine is appearing; magic is there. Harvesting these seeds, I cannot help but be struck by thoughts of the kind of world I want to live in. To live in a world full of abundance and sovereignty.
Milky oats are the people’s medicine and are essential in the revolution we currently find ourselves a part of, a part of history. No matter our role at this time, the need for this medicine is universal. The essence of milky oats is its ability to facilitate restoration, of the nervous system and tissues states. It replenishes what is depleted in body, in nature and in spirit. It restores us to warrior status, protecting our personal and collective futures. If this plant showing up from nowhere at this time now, if that isn’t magic, then I don’t know what is.🌿
