Plant Magic Circle with Carla

Our first Plant Magic Circle… dedicated to returning to our power, working with our ancient and wise plant allies.

An Evening with Magical Mugwort… the lucid dreamer, divination weaver and bridge to beyond!

Tickets include some Mugwort tea to take home and continue your journey.

Mugwort lives open armed reaching for the cosmos, with deep roots reaching into earth, providing that stable bridge so that we can dance between the cosmic realms.

Our Mugwort evening will bring us together as a collective, bring us home into our unique selves, and bring us to the plant as curious collaborators.

I invite you to meet Mugwort and bring the question.. What wisdom is here to bring me toward my wild truth, my power?

Our dreams are a place where our conscious meets our unconscious, spirit has centre stage, the body is quiet, mind released from chatter.

An altered state, as meditation, psychedelic experience, sleep or deep conscious awareness, is a place where we can tap into our own wisdom, our inner knowing, our intuition.

If we are able to surrender to the experience, observe with curiosity and without judgement, we have much to learn from ourselves.

In this evening we will:

Consider what it means to meet plants as cosmic beings, and to bring our intentions to them.

Allow intuitive movement to help us to arrive.

Meet Mugwort as physical plant in circle.

Share a tea ceremony.

Work with liminal meditation to deepen connection with Mugwort.

Share in groups, in circle, and have time to journal about our experiences.

This will be a small gathering of 12 people.

An introduction to Mugwort for those who are yet to meet…

A gentle oneironautic plant, Mugwort is a great plant to begin to dance in your dreams. A plant to cultivate a relationship with that you might deepen your dreamwork, and also notably one that grows right on our doorstep. The word Artemisia comes from name Artemis, the Greek Goddess of the moon.

“Herbalism was a blend of fantasy, fact, and superstition. People created their own remedies, invoking the gods for a blessing. If the remedy did not work, the ill person would invoke a different god and try another remedy.” -Judy Griffin, Mother Nature’s Herbal

Adventurers of old have tried and tested the plant rituals, those we still have now, that have survived erasure, are those that worked time and time again, and powerfully enough to be recored and shared across time. Mugwort’s reputation as a dream herb, and becoming one of the 9 Sacred herbs of the Anglo Saxons, invites us to believe and surrender to its gifts.

The nine herbs charm is part of the Lacnunga (remedies) text. An ancient 11th-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript written around 1000 AD.

These plants were thought to have been given to humans by Woden, the God of healing. Here is the piece of the charm dedicated to Mugwort:

"Remember, Mugwort, what you made known,
What you arranged at Regenmeld.
You were called Una, the oldest of herbs,
You have power against three and against thirty,
You have power against poison and against infection,
You have power against the loathsome foe roving through the land."

Being a moon plant signals to Mugwort’s affinity with the womb and reproduction / menstrual cycles.
The plant has especially powerful benefits in regulating the menstrual cycle and easing the transition to menopause.
Many cultures have used mugwort for this purpose throughout history.

Scientifically, α-thujone in herbal medicines is a rapid-acting and readily detoxified modulator of the GABA-gated chloride channel.
The cumulative neuronal inhibition caused by GABA’s binding to many neurons results in sedation and intoxication.

*Mugwort Contraindications:
Not recommended if breastfeeding or pregnant; Mugwort can stimulate menstruation so are not advisable early to mid-cycle, or during pregnancy.
It can increase the heartrate and cause intoxication which is why it isn’t recommended for breastfeeding people.
Not advisable if you take medication for epilepsy/seizures, or if you have severe kidney dysfunction.
Not advisable if you are allergic to ragweed and other plants in the Asteraceae/Compositae family.