Jane's Medicine Tree

Welcome to The Medicine Tree — my Ecology Of Essences, a personal geography of sorts, and medicine bundle.

This first post is a Weave–a synchronicity of lore, story, and song.  The subject title, OwlsNest, comes from The Ecological Calendar 2009–A New Way To Experience Time.   Below, is the Weave itself.  In subsequent posts I’ll elaborate on the different Threads (essences) within the Weave.  Hopefully, at the end you’ll have experienced your own journey, as well as the beginnings of new threads or deepening of the colors of others in your own weave of story!

OWLSNEST

Nature

• Red Fox
• Owl

Story And Lore

• Boats
• The Medicine Tree

Song

• Fonn: Caim Agus Corrach

My Tale

I’d been frustrated, sad, and discouraged.  We’d relocated to N. E. Oregon after living ten years in one place, and–for myself–truly rooting there.  Many reasons led us to move, and though I could see clearly that this place is truly at this time the manifestation of our dreams, I couldn’t find my grounding.  I realized what I lacked was the central story to enable me resume my life in a joyful, meaningful way.  How could I find that missing story, that vital image?  That night I dreamed of the Boats.  The next morning, as I puzzled over the imagery, I listened to some red fox barks, yips, and yells on my iPOD, and then to an excerpt from Michael Meade’s CD, The Ends Of Time, The Roots Of Eternity;, regarding a South American tribal tale of the Medicine Tree.  Images and ideas coalesced in my mind, that central fire story emerged, and this blog birthed ….