Plant kinship circle

Most of us have been taught to distrust this. The knowing that comes before the explanation. The sense that registers something real before the mind can name it.

Plants speak in that register. Meeting them — really meeting them — means learning to trust what you’ve been trained to dismiss as primitive, irrational, unverifiable. It means recovering a way of knowing that was systematically severed, and that some of us are beginning to find our way back to.

We gather each month to meet one plant at a time — primrose, nettle, elderflower, mugwort — through sensory tea, the live plant, smudging, infused oil, hydrosol or another sensory doorway. Not studying them. Listening. Letting their presence shape what we notice in ourselves. Learning, slowly, to be kin again.

This is slow work. Foundational work. We are laying ground rather than harvesting it.