Plant Totems: Identifying Our Most Personal Herbal Ally by Jesse Wolf Hardin

 

 

Questions to ask yourself about potential Plant totems:

•Does it feel especially familiar, allied, relevant, related?
 

•Or significant, communicative, essential, momentous?
 

•Is there anything about its form, shape, color etc. that reminds you of yourself?
 

•Do you act on the world – or contribute to it – in any ways similar to how the observed plant does?
 

•Or do you respond similarly to stimuli, threat, reward, isolation, exposure, stress, nourishment or care?
 

•Has it been in your life for a long time, appearing again and again like someone seeking your attention?
 

•Or has it only fairly recently become significant in your life, but in a very dramatic, vital, extreme or timely way?
 

•Has it proven to be particularly potent medicine for a chronic ailment or imbalance of yours?
 

•Or has it been medicine for your emotional balance, helping you deal with especially difficult traumas or situations, to calm you enough to function or arouse you sufficiently to accomplish what needs to be accomplished?
 

•Do you find yourself thinking about it for no obvious or urgent reason?
 

•Or did it come to you in a vision, or appear to you in dreams?
 

•Does it feel like you have somehow dishonored or trivialized it, when you speak of it loosely, to those who may not care?
 

•When you have avoided it or ignored the thought of it for awhile, do you feel out of sorts, neglectful, unassisted or unmoored?
 

•Do you feel unreasonably relieved when reunited after a physical absence, or after a long period of not giving it any mind?

 

•Does it seem to ask anything of you, require response, point to a mission or calling, excite significant acts?

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