Plant for Protection: Wildfire Support and Resources

Ok, 2025. So far, you’re scary. No doubt about it.
Fat and the Moon is in northern California, watching with horror, and so much sadness at what is happening to our friends in LA. People’s lives, neighborhoods of lives, up in flames, and a staggering amount of destruction.
The feeling of overwhelm leading into 2025 just got supercharged- a wave turned into a tsunami.
Breath.
Let’s take a sip of air right before the moment the overwhelm crystallizes into paralysis.
Ok, we are here. We are reading these words.
When we are able to take a beat, and find our center, we are better able to see and listen- literally. Shutdown shields our receptivity.
If we are able to look more deeply into what’s happening in LA, we also get views into sublime beauty: people showing up for each other, the community net, the resilience and care that crisis also ignites in us.
Let’s keep our eye on those generative networks. We give power where we give our attention. That is magic.
Our intentions, when aligned with the energies of the world around us, can be magnified. This is the approach we take to Plant Magic. In constitutional medicine practices from around the world, the plant and the person is looked at through their energetics. Cold, damp, hot, dry, stagnant, stimulating, etc. These energetics get matched up to treat dysfunction, and to promote health.
The chemistry of plants coaxes the systems of our bodies back to balance.
Plants for Protection.
Humans have depended on the protective powers of plants as much as we have depended on them for medicine, food, shelter, fiber and fuel.
In folk practices around the world, protection plants are often medicinal plants.
In Slovenia, juniper, St John’s Wort, garlic, plantain, cannabis, and rosemary were traditionally used to protect against lighting, flood, fire, hail, curses and the evil eye. The ways in which these plants protect from these external forces is often related to their medicinal properties.
Protection, repair, healing, resilience exist on a spectrum, and the plants know this on a cellular level; this is how they have survived without the ability to run a way for millions and millions of years.
PROTECTOR PLANTS
The plants offer us protection because they offer us alternative ways of being. Ultimately, the best way we protect ourselves is to protect each other and our environment. The plants show us how to creatively thrive in all ecosystems, how to be symbiotic, how to get our power from the sun and how to regenerate.
PLANTS FOR PROTECTION HERBAL LIVE
Sending protection, repair, resilience, and regeneration to you all, especially to those affected by the LA fires. We love you deep, LA.
For more on this subject, check out our Plant for Protection Herbal Live below, where Rachel discusses this topic more!
RELIEF EFFORT AND RESOURCES
For those looking to support the efforts in LA, here are a few resources:
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