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Medicine Stories

89. The Magic of Mugwort: Unwritten Ways of Healing & Chambers of Ancient Memory (w/ special guest Kami McBride!)

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sacred to the goddesses of old, known to all ancestors who occupied the Northern Hemisphere, and beloved by wise folk and herbal healers from the Ice Age until today, mugwort is one of the most magical and practical medicinal plants in the world. May we come into relationship with this potent ally in order to widen sensory gating channels, ground into our center, and remember who we are.

With special guest appearance by Kami McBride!

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Check out Kami’s course Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils

TOPICS:

  • A knowing beyond knowing, ancient and ineffable

  • Mugwort is a door opener, a wayfinder, a welcoming bridge to the realms of consciousness needed to cultivate a deeper relationship with the natural world

  • How mugwort initiated me onto the plant path

  • The medicine of bitters & the necessity of assimilation

  • Mugwort’s affinity with the womb and pelvis, and how it healed me after a terrifying injury

  • Mugwort oil accesses the deepest tissues of the body and enhances the action of other plants

  • The vibration of enchantment

  • Mugwort’s place in kitchen herbalism

  • Menstruation is truth serum time and mugwort heps you love your blood

  • Solar and lunar herbs

  • Kami’s favorite plants to blend with mugwort

  • Herbs that help you to be alert and relaxed at the same time

  • The power of mugwort smoke

  • Beer, the moon, and the ancient goddess

  • The dreamspace and the opening of portals

  • Ritual, ceremony, and ancestral communion

  • As the witches teach- ancient plant healers and the suppression of knowledge

  • A little known effect of bringing mugwort into your life

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It opens up our like memory. I'm like, Oh, yeah, there is more to life than what is just right in front of me. Yeah.

0:10.7

Yeah, it's an invitation to other realms.

0:19.2

Magward opens up chambers of ancient memory within the brain, bringing to one's dream life

0:25.0

stirring visions of past and future that overflow with magical imagery.

0:30.8

The symbols that dance through your mugwort touched dreams pull out the cobwebs of our

0:36.1

forgetfulness and assist us in remembering old, unwritten ways of healing and living that

0:41.8

attend to the needs of spirit and soul. That's a quote from Judith Berger, author of my favorite

0:49.4

herb book of all time, herbal rituals, and my guest on episode 59 of this podcast, herbal

0:56.8

rituals, rhythms and remembrance. I don't know about you because it may be I kind of do because

1:02.6

you listen to this podcast, but remembering old, unwritten ways of healing and living the

1:08.0

attend to the needs of spirit and soul is one of the driving forces underlying my life.

1:14.0

It is a deep craving, a way of feeling whole and a fractured and seemingly ever fracturing world.

1:20.6

It's a homing in on your personal north star. I love that Judith uses the word unwritten.

1:26.9

She's talking about a knowing beyond knowing ancient and ineffable.

1:31.9

Such knowing and the states of mind needed to access it are not valued or practiced much by the

1:38.1

over culture. It's an invisible knowing outside the realm of ordinary consciousness and of what we

1:45.2

do impossible. Many people don't even know that it exists and most of us are brought up to not

1:50.8

even entertain the possibility. But those of us attracted to the healing powers of herbs start

1:56.8

to scent its existence as we begin more and more to get to know the medicine plants of the earth.

2:02.8

And this is why a mugwort is so beloved by herbalists. It's a door opener, a wayfinder,

2:09.2

a welcome bridge to the realms of consciousness needed to cultivate a deeper relationship with

2:14.0

the natural world. I am Amber Magnolia Hill and this is episode 89, a solo episode with a bonus 20

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