Flora Gnosis

Kathryn Solie On The Importance of Poisonous Plants in Healing the Collective

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...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:

  • How she arrived to this work, and how Hellebore was the first poisonous plant she met and how she began this path
  • Kathryn's background in Eastern philosophy and religion, how she sees "poisonous plants as the wrathful deities of the plant kingdom"
  • Working through blocks and resistance in beginning plant spirit communication
  • How plants talk to us individually, and collectively. Plants giving us different medicine at different points in our healing journey
  • “We’re going to keep repeating the patterns out in the world until we heal the pattern within ourselves,” and a discussion on how these plants heal the collective by healing ourselves first
  • Our personal stories with Monkshood and Datura
  • Plants that are needed now: Datura (imitation into shadow work), Giant Hogweed and Poison Ivy (protecting oneself from taking on too much from the collective), Belladonna (divine feminine and sexual wounds), and Amanita Muscaria (childhood wounds)

    • 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

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