Sacred foraging is the art of receiving from the Earth with reverence. It’s an act of presence, stillness, reciprocity, and harmonic alignment with the land and the plants that grow upon it. In this little mini experience, the White clover, Trifolium repens, is the teacher here.
NOTE: A video version of this is below, if you prefer to watch it.
Reverence as the First Act of Foraging
A state of reverence is really what the land is seeking from the forager, from the harvester. Reverence to emotionally be put into the gratitude for such beauty. Breathing with the land and talking to the flowers, making sure to bring presence and alignment into the foraging process, because that is another component of what true alignment means with earth and with the plants.
The reverence that you hold is the giving back. It is the honor with the earth that you are not taking without giving. Because that is reciprocity and reciprocity is everything in this world. And that is actually what is returning in these times where we align with harmonic alignment and that return of reciprocity again is a part of this all. One day, it’ll be a natural state of being. Unsure if it’ll be in my life time that I see that grow, but I know what we lay down now is what brings that anchor into existence allowing for future incarnate souls to have that as a natural state of flow.
The land can feel that kind of presence and it is felt through the breath. It is as simple as that.
White Clover: The Plant Wisdom of Trifolium Repens
How was it ever seen as a weed?
There is nothing about this that is a weed, and if people are putting anything on this to get rid of it like chemicals and poison (herbicides/pesticides), that is a HUGE no, no, no.
I harvested some Trifolium repens as it was BURSTING all over our land and sat with this plant ally to learn from it. I am an herbalist as well as a flower essence alchemist and I make flower essences from scratch, the mother essences, and the plants teach me more than I could have imagined sometimes.
The smell is incredible of the White Clover, they are so fragrant. The smell wafts over the land, and that’s just one more piece of the magick they offer indeed.
The Trifolium repens is a beautiful plant. Everything about it is edible, the stem, the flower, and the leaves. You only want to harvest in a place like this, like our One Song Grove land, where there is no chance that a bunch of stuff has been sprayed on anything ever.
You can even eat the seeds. In the kitchen, you can add a pop of the flower to salads or other meals (they’re gorgeous!). I like to press the flowers, too.
Something to note about using them in this raw way, when you do cook them even slightly, it can aid in digestion. And of course you can dry them as well.
Identifying White Clover in the Field
The leaves are very distinct. It has a circular pattern around it, so that is one way to make sure that you are finding the correct clover. There are the red clovers as well.
When we think of what a clover, it has the triadic, the trio, the three. So, we can also look at this as representing the trinity, how this reflects the very creation that we are within from a triadic standpoint.
The Intelligence of the Land: What White Clover Does for the Earth
It can do a lot for the land. There is a lot of push to get more people to put clovers, not just white, but to plant clovers in their grass systems, because it is a pollinator and that is so vital today to help the bees, etc.
We did not even have to plant grass over this entire region in a big area in our land because it is all natural beautiful clover, white clovers all over. This is a sign that land is returning to coherence, so if you see them on your land, that’s a big thank you from Earth.
Drying, Herbal Use, and Terrain-Based Formulation
You can dry the flowers and the leaves and you can make a nourishing herbal remedy from it. A note on formulation: When I make advanced formulas, they’re customized for the body in a terrain perspective, because we have gotten into this allopathic way of looking at herbs, like this herb for that symptom, but that is not how it works. There are different systems in the body and each system reflects its own terrain.
This image has the varying terrains of Earth and meant to signify that the terrain within matches and mirrors the way the Earth moves through terrain experiences. You could have moist and dry happening in one part of your body. You can have hot and moist in another. There are typically a lot of different energetics that are going on in the body in different systems, etc. so it is really important to have a more custom formula to ensure to work with your unique situation going on in the moment…
White Clover as a Flower Essence: Harmonic Alignment in the Field
When we are looking at it from a flower essence perspective, but also what it holds in the land, is it stabilizes the coherence in a field, literally the field, but also an energetic field that the Earth has as well.
If you sit and meditate with this plant, which I definitely say is a divine thing that can be done, it will reflect the emotional and mental state back to whoever is sitting in front of this beautiful plant. When we look at the flower essence, this flower taps into this integration of mind, body, and spirit, as well as bringing more stability into the emotional field.
When I make a custom flower essence, this can be a balancer within that very formula because it grounds, it stabilizes the emotional field. It is especially great for those emotions when one is fragmenting and looping in specific emotions (like a looping pattern of grief, for example), so it brings a more even keel.
And then you can bring other flowers into the essence, in which I do in a custom way. I really like to tap into the vibration and ask:
What is that vibration that is happening from within the plant?
What is that magick that is happening, the energetic state?
So just like an herbal blend should be an advanced formulation for the terrain within the body, the flower essence should do the same thing for the state of emotional being as well.
Sacred Foraging and the Return of Reciprocity
I am feeling a deep desire for reciprocity to return, not only for us (humanity), but for the Earth in bigger and bigger ways. It’s happening. Slowly, very slowly, but it is happening.
These are some of the alignments that we bring into this work and into everything that we are doing here on our land. Soon, we’ll have a little educational hub and more, which is living under the umbrella of our Sacred Soul Health Ministry. The core is remembering how true restoration happens which is through the very presence of souls that REMEMBER. Remember through our very breath, connecting with the land. This is how the Earth receives its memories back, a time of creating beauty and wisdom, and it begins by sitting in stillness with these great plant allies.
Pick a white closer and just spend some time with it, believe me, you will receive beautiful wisdom indeed!
Have you explored working with flower essences? I invite you to feel into working directly with the flowers. I do private therapeutic sessions, which you can explore here.
Working with the power of the flowers!
Video below in case you’d like to connect to that content above in this format: