5 – 10 Case Study hours
Plant Profile
(Parts: Personal, traditional/energetic, modern use + safety, ecology, research)
Safety Profiles
(for 5 plants)
5 Intentions
(Reflected on towards end of year)
Practical Alchemy
(5 preparations)
This page gives a simple way to track your journey through the Hearth year. We invite you to:
(1) Complete your first 5 case study hours (these have their own section as these first 5 hours often take the longest to complete!)
(2) Complete an additional 5-10 case study hours (and more if you can … link for logging this coming soon)
(3) Complete at least one longer plant profile,
(4) Complete 5 plant short safety profiles
(5) Reflected on your 5 intentions from the start of the year.
Intention - The doorway here is to form a clear, concisely formed intention. Perhaps you have some other way apart from words to crystallise intention (e.g. mark making or movement)? Where is your edge with this? Often people find that their first 'intention' is actual a compound intention made of many other intentions. The only problem with this is that the response will be a compound response and many be more challenging to navigate.
Ritual - Do you already have a ritual practice? What works for you? How might you deepen or grow this practice? Might your edge be about sharing this with others for instance?
Presence - What happens when you invite yourself to drop into presence? For many people the edge is the 'monkey mind', distraction or impatience. What does it mean to be present with your body, your heart and your seership? Sometimes self-judgement come up in this space – if so how do you navigate it? What does it mean be in recipocracy and gratitude with the plant?
Liminal - How do you consciously enter into a liminal / dream state? What works for you and how reliably can you access this? Can you bring clarity and intentionality to this? What are your tendancies in terms of projection? Click here for reflections on these four Foundations
Grief - What does your inner landscape of grief look like? How might old wounds have hardened the shield around your heart – and in so doing keep you seperate from intimacy and a deeper engagement with life? Might there be area's of grief you've cut yourself off from? Do you see grief as a friend or are you fearful of it? Are you able to be seen in your grief by others and are you comfortable staying present with others' grief? What happens when you take something you struggle with and sit with Primrose with this? Click here for reflections
