Cultivating Earth Intuition
I so often hear folks talk about intuition as something that helps us to “transcend” the physical, but the reality is that the earth we inhabit is a virtual garden of insight, guidance, and support. And if you want to be able to access the deepest, clearest springs of intuition and connect into an awareness of your unique life path, all you have to do is grow roots right here.
In this lesson you’ll learn how to harness the true power of intuition by letting it become embodied inside of you. And the plants are going to show you how.
I’d love to hear your thoughts. Let me know in the comments section whether this idea of “grounding” intuition in the earth is new to you. Do you have any earth practices you already engage in? Which plants showed up around your home?
I’m struck by the idea of ‘What can I give back to the earth?’ Very much trained as a steward/caretaker of the earth at the very least, but more likely a consumer of the earth’s resources, I have given much less thought to what I give or even can give to our wise, old earth. I think the earth doesn’t need me to be in charge of it more than to be in tune with it.
Thank you for bringing this depth of reflection here Michelle <3 I love that hunch you have about tuning in. If I'm understanding well, it reminds me of a message I have received from the Earth as well—that it can be a connection and relationship with us that is most desired by her first. From there, so much can unfold! (Including, maybe, another layer to our stewardship.) Thank you so much for being here and sharing some of your journey with us—we would love to hear where these breadcrumbs lead you!
I found this lesson very helpful with its idea that it is “grounding” intuition not just something ethereal. I am in a process now of shedding a negative influence that was deeply entrenched since childhood so I don’t think it was an accident that I came across Green Alkanet with its heavenly blue flowers growing on the wild verges where I live. The colour spoke of promise that I will succeed and the bristly hairs spoke to me of the need of firm boundaries to protect my emerging self that feels very vulnerable at the moment.
Thank you ☘️
Hey Sarah! What a beautiful, and profoundly intuitive, connection with Green Alkanet <3 I love that you found it growing in that wild edge space—that feels so resonant with that movement back towards the richness of the inner wild, and away from the influences of external gardeners. Thank you so much for sharing its meaningful message for you with us. Here's to that success, and protection for the tender growth ☘️
This lesson came at the most crucial time!! The morning before I opened my email, I went for a walk in my backyard after the rain. I live in Northern California in the Redwoods. I took a picture of what I thought might be Ghostpipe. To my surprise it was. I got so excited that I was actually going to email you. Then here was this lesson. WOW oh wow!!! What is the Universe trying to say to me ?? What is my intuition trying to say to me & the Ghostpipe ??? Thank You So Very Much. Monica.
Hi Monica, thank you for sharing this sweet synchronicity with us!! I know Asia will be so delighted for you that you’ve made this connection with Ghost Pipe—it’s such a special ally to her (as you might know). She writes a little about her experience with this being in our Herbs for the Otherworld course, in the description of its medicine as a flower essence, in our online apothecary, and her recent fall divination video. We would love to hear what medicine intuitively emerges through you in this connection. Many blessings for the journey ahead; we’re honored to be a part of it!
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We are meant to be here, with the earth
Yes! 🙌 Our paths are intertwined with the earth <3
Miss Asia words are meaningless to describe the love that flows from YOU! I’ve cried countless times reading an email and rereading them as well lol. Since awakening I’ve noticed a profound sense of being able to ground myself seemingly to move with the magnetic waves that travel through the ground. One particular day that was gloomy and wet I couldn’t get rid of this headache I had. It had just begun to rain again so I huddled under a low large leaf tree. While I had one hand on it already I just grabbed it with my other hand and asked the tree to help me take the pain away. I immediately felt 2 electric jolts run from my left shoulder as if my arm got cut off. I looked around and notice that 2 of its branches had been cut off. I accepted this and told the tree I was sorry and that I would take some of its pain if it would help me. I began to feel the tree bark swell between my fingers creating more space in-between the bark as well as grow taller as if it was becoming more nourished as I held on letting us become one till I realized it had stopped raining and I no longer had a headache.
It was the most AMAZING thing that I had ever done with nature!!! The strange looks I get for telling that experience to people NEVER GETS OLD lol especially when I always say I love you to ANYONE I meet at the conclusion of our conversations lol.
Thank you to ALL YOU BEA-YOUTIFUL HUMANS sharing this physical human experience with me! I love you to infinity & BEYOND
Thank you Miss Asia for YOU!! With tear’s of PURE LOVE I am deeply grateful to FEEL such a euphoric sense of understanding of MYSELF and Gaia (god’s all in all). I love you Miss Asia!
That *is* amazing Mikey! Thank you for sharing this beautiful story of connection and healing. We really are so much more a part of the Earth than we are taught to believe!
So glad to know you’re a part of this circle, and I know Asia will be touched that her newsletters reach you in this deep way. Thank you for being here, and for all of the love you share!
Thank you so much for this lesson, Asia! I do have some practices in nature, mainly walking, contemplating and trying to feel the energy of the places. But I had never had a practice like the one you proposed in class. It was really magical for me! While walking in search of plants to compose my “altar of intuition”, I had a very strong feeling that I couldn’t take anything that nature didn’t offer me. I passed some trees that I really like (I’ve had dreams about them a few times), known in my country as “castanheira” (Terminalia catappa), but there was no leaf, flower or fruit that I could pick from these trees. I walked a little further and found some “Ipê” trees (Handroanthus albus), full of flowers. Underneath them, it formed a beautiful “carpet” with the flowers that had fallen. So, I decided to collect some of these flowers that were on the ground. I found the plant that appeared for my altar to be the “Ipê” interesting, because, in the place where I lived as a child, there were many Ipês, and this tree is the symbol of the biome of this region where I live. So, I felt a meaning of ancestry and connection with the land, with the region I inhabit. Setting up my altar was a unique and relaxing experience, seeking a sense of harmony and balance between all the elements. Finally, I had the intuition to put some dried jasmine and artemisia leaves on the altar (which I had at home to make teas), which I think brought even more harmony to my composition.
Hi Clara. Wow, what a beautiful experience with this exercise! It sounds like you did a lovely job listening to the subtle guidance of your intuition, and in doing so connected with such a beautiful, personally significant medicine. I’m so excited for your journey with this special ally, and the medicine you’ve created with them at your altar <3
I love hiking and harvesting wild Herbs to make into salves, lip balms and dry for teas. I also feel a connection trees and grounding barefoot while hiking. There’s such a beautiful intuitive guidance we can receive from all nature around us.
Hey Jess, welcome!! Your connection with the earth sounds truly nourishing and grounding. And you’re so right that that guidance is all around us <3 Thank you for introducing yourself here, I'm delighted to know you're be joining us for this exploration!
I grow & harvest lavender, yarrow & other herbs. I turn them into salves, tinctures, lip balms & teas. Herbs ( as all plants) are a living life force for me.
Yes Michelle! And what lovely allies you work with <3 Your co-creations sound so grounding
I have always felt a really strong connection to our native Oak trees. I have a number of special Oak trees I have bonded with on various walks local to my home. I feel a positive calm and generous, kind energy from Oak trees. I look upon them as alters for me and I can go and see them in times of need or reflection.
I love this Emma <3 It sounds like you have a cultivated a beautiful familiarity and a relationship with the Oaks around you, and tree allies are so special! You might enjoy this article Asia wrote recently about some ways that we can deepen our interactions with them: Tree Rituals for a Rich Life.
For a few days, maybe a week, I didn’t see my animal– a red fox, which was the 2nd one I thought of, but I did see my 1st thought– a hummingbird, which came up to my window and was looking right at me. It had a red throat, and usually, the ones around here are drab gray and only interested in the flowers, so i thought maybe that was my sign after all. I had moved on from the exercise but was completely surprised when I was browsing an artist’s website looking a bear painting and saw another one with a red fox in the type of landscape I had seen in my mind https://www.etsy.com/listing/938226206/sale-limited-edition-giclee-print-titled?ref=user_profile.
Hey Beleszove, thank you so much for sharing this sweet experience! It is such a good reminder that we can often trust our “gut” intuition, as well communicate intentions have have them be heard! Beautiful signs and medicine <3