The Path of Poison: Between Shadow and Wisdom

[Pixi]

Excuse, I see I didn't formulate it clear enough. I wanted to ask how people entwine rose and taxus/yew in their praxis, or another flower and taxus/yew.I have plant spirit/ally methods (see my genie in the bottle topic) but I like to know how others entwine things when they work with several plants together.

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The taxus/yew growns here in the front garden because our beagle dog likes to eat everything that has the appearance of a berry while taxus/yew is deadly poisonous. One observation: since we've planted the yew overthere, another tree started dying. Every time the yew makes a sprint in growing, branches on the other tree die and start to rot.

This is such an interesting method. I've looked at and played a little with a method for creating a plant spagyric but creating the pure ash part did not work. I did not have enough heat for it to work. At any rate I've been looking at creating a plant spirit familiar container - and well here you have given me some really interesting ideas. Will be trying them out with the plants that are local to me. Thank you.

 

[Lucien6493]

This something I never thought of and both are in my garden. Can you elaborate a little bit how you work with it?

For me the Yew is like the Fire of Aries/Persephone (my horizontal axis) and the Rose is like the Universal Water of Pisces/Mary-Sophia (my vertical axis) blown by the Winds of my eighth house Aquarius across the Earth of my giving. It is a chord progression in colors; the rune Algiz cast over the waters at a crossing of the ways where Life is the flowering of death and Death is the rooting of life, as the rose rises through me, and the Yew roots through my body. I have them both together on my main altar in a bowl of crystal where I become the crossing itself. So, when I work with the plants it is mostly through using the green tongue to come into relation with them, not to define them. I let them speak to me through my words as shape and scent and form and chemistry but as feeling tones and direct perception.