...and healing the individual! As we have entered the threshold of a new year, it's in this darkest time that we are initiated into the world of the poison path with teacher Kathryn Solie of @persephonespath. My teacher in plant spirit communication and consciousness, two years ago she opened my heart to the depth of experience and healing that these often maligned plants can offer, as a mirror to our own inner wounds, or even shining a light in the darkness of our pains. 

In our conversation we talk about:

Kathryn Solie is an herbalist specializing in ‘poisonous’ plants & plant consciousness, a tarot reader, and a meditation enthusiast. She hopes to give voice to the almost forgotten medicine of ‘poisonous’ plants through her courses and other offerings. Creating communities where people can reconnect with the ancient human lineage of plant spirit communication is at the center of her work.

Her Patreon is a wealth of information with over 30 classes, monthly readings, plant journeys, and monthly herbal care packages. You can find her musings over on instagram at @persephonespath, where she announces all her classes throughout the year. Find all her work at https://www.kathrynsolie.com/

Original music by Steve Bada

This week I'm honored to invite Ashley Stinson for a conversation on embodiment here on Flora Gnosis. I wanted to have Ashley on as a guest to talk about the somatic part of experiencing deeper layers of this work and how it is a part of this practice. Her work with embodiment and the many-layered meanings of the body and what it holds is beyond fascinating! 

*CW* Birth Trauma

In this episode we discuss:

Ashley is the creatress of Energy Archaeology™ - an energy healing modality and personal discovery method that accesses the energetic wisdom in the body through the six realms of embodiment - bones, muscles, fluid body, organs, nervous system, and DNA. She is a teacher, a mentor, and a guide for embodied wisdom, energetic anatomy, and deep listening. Ashley will encourage you to explore the depth and breadth of your human experience through her innate gift to find patterns in what’s said, unsaid, seen, and unseen. She uses this in her work to support you one-on-one, in group healing programs, and through the Energy Archaeology Oracle Deck.

Ashley lives and works on unceded Monacan land, west of Charlottesville, Virginia.

@theashleystinson

https://ashleystinson.com/

Original Music composed by Steve Bada for Flora Gnosis

Hello and welcome all to Sagittarius Season with this brilliant and in depth conversation that two Sagittarians have about Jupiter! Today I have Brady Waller of @themythiclandscape to chat with me about everything that Jupiter has to offer, the entire spectrum of it, and oh my god do we cover ALOT.

Brady is an astrologer living on Lenape land in what is now called Pennsylvania. They have been a student of myth and philosophy their entire life and of astrology for the last 6 years. Their practice is one of blending the many different traditions and legacies of astrology together into an applicable and accessible format that helps people living today. At different times, Brady has been a tarot reader, author, teacher, and facilitator. For more of their work, head to TheMythicLandscape.com or @themythiclandscape on Instagram.

In this conversation we cover:

The books that are mentioned:

The Classical Seven Planets by Charlie Obert

Planetary Joys by Chris Brennan

Post-Colonial Astrology by Alice Sparkly Kat

Retrograde Planets: Traversing the Inner Landscape by Erin Sullivan

Housekeeping - I realized after that I said "Thetis" here when I meant to say "Metis." In reference to Zeus' first consort and mother of Athena.

In honor of Scorpio Season, and the Scorpio New Moon, I am honored to have Corinna Rosella (they/them) of Rise Up! Good Witch as a guest today dive deep into the realm of Pluto. I have long admired Corinna's work in astrology, herbalism, flower essence work, mutual aid, and anti-captialist work, and they dedicate a lot of their platform heal through Pluto issues, and this episode is both an introduction into what it's like working with Pluto, as well as a deep dive. 

In this episode we discuss:

Corinna makes amazing herbal potions and flower essences, is a deep well of information on astrology and a gifted tarot reader and zine maker. Their inspiring work holds space for others during crisis through a trauma-informed and liberatory perspective. They also have an AMAZING podcast called Rise Up! Good Witch: Self Care As Resistance, and I cannot recommend checking their work out enough!

I thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with Corinna and and honored to offer this conversation to you all! 

You can find Corinna's work at:

Website (book a reading or shop their apothecary): www.riseupgoodwitch.com/

Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/risen-witch

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/riseupgoodwitch/posts

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/riseupgoodwitch/

Original music for podcast by Steve Bada

This week I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with mystic Oilbhe Pepper, an eclectic magician practicing a variety of blended ancestral traditions as an uninvited guest on Northern Tiwa land. Their land practice and intimate engagement with plants has always inspired me for the last several years and I am thrilled to offer this beautiful conversation of re-envisioning our relationship with land.

In this episode we cover:

You can connect with Oilbhe via their instagram (@oliviapepper ) where announcements on future offerings are usually made alongside a curation of amazing memes.

Their website www.schoolforallages.com

Oilbhe's upcoming workshops are Ancestral Remediation, Rainbow Serpent Dreamwork, some pop-up plant illumination workshops on Datura and Purple Aster, and A Mars Workshop. Follow their instagram for enrollment info!

In this episode we welcome Vanessa LaMorte (vanessalamorte.com) a reiki master, sound healer, and flower essence practitioner living near Las Vegas, NV.  Vanessa shares her personal practice when it comes to engaging with the healing qualities of plants, AND how she works with the fae, or fairies. She sheds a lot of light on what it actually looks like to work with them, and alleviates some fears that we hear so often in approaching them.

In this interview we talk about:

Vanessa Lamorte, M.A. is the author of Soul Seeds: Remembering Light Language and the creationist behind Pyrolysis, Soul Seeds and Synesthesia, sound healing alchemy albums. She is a seer, dreamweaver and healer facilitating individual and group work in online and retreat settings on transpersonal dreamwork, mysticism, energy, sound and flower medicine. Vanessa is a Reiki Master, Flower Essence Holistic Practitioner, Magical Awakening Celtic Shamanism Facilitator and Yoga Nidra Healer. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University in Palo Alto, California.

www.vanessalamorte.com

IG: @vanessalamorte

Vanessa's podcast Eye Dream in Keys

Original music created for Flora Gnosis and produced by Steve Bada

Flora Gnosis is hosted by Kathleen Callahan of Daughter of Wands

Welcome to the initiatory episode of Flora Gnosis, wherein lies the overall core of what this podcast is, and what we will explore together through personal experience and meaning. As "Gnosis" is the Greek word for "awareness" or "knowledge" gained through direct, personal experience, so too will we be sharing our personal experience with what plants have taught us, and in this first episode I even share a few examples from audience submissions. 

Have a personal story about a plant you'd like to share? Submissions can be sent via email to [email protected] or as a voice message here.

Learn more about Kathleen's work at daughterofwands.com