I love the sunlight this time of year. Yesterday, I went on a hike as the sun was setting, and arrived back to my car as just as night fell.

Hiking, I dropped in to feel this shift, this time of the Fall Equinox - the balance point between light and dark.

What's opening in me? What's releasing?

I'm working with tumeric  - who is a great teacher of balancing inner and outer worlds. Of clearing out old patterns, and opening to discover what's true for me now. She brings a beautiful healing light that holds the space for the shadows to emerge and be returned back into light.

As part of a class I'm in right now, we went on a journey internally yesterday. In this journey, I entered a temple, one made of sandstone, somewhere out in the desert. It's a temple I've been to before many times, not in this life, but one I know in my heart. Incredible sunlight and shadows danced across the walls and floor. A large bowl of water sat on the altar, just below ancient carvings etched in the sandstone walls.

A divine presence channelled through the temple. My vessel graciously welcomed it. The presence filled the temple, offering warmth, love and grace. As I opened to receive it, it highlighted the places I'm still holding back, the energies that are still not allowing me to fully receive and embody. The places I don't trust myself, for fear of being seen and obliterated. The places I hold myself small, as not deserving of such beauty.

The energies which are being cleared now - are both personal in this life and ancient from lifetimes ago. It's takes an awareness to allow these to arise into my consciousess, often times in chaotic flashes, and gently untangle them, so they can release their grasp and influence on my present reality.

There's a light pushing through my cells, guiding the release. What is emerging is - a bright hope, a joy and a deep knowing that this path I'm on is exactly perfect. A deep trust of myself and the unfolding. A reclamation of what always was, but was forgotten.

No matter what, I can navigate. I am navigating it all perfectly. 

I embrace the fullness of life - the challenges as lessons, the struggles as paths of transformation. To become a vessel for more.

The immense beauty in all of it humbles me. My heart settles deeper. My heart's desires, my heart's knowing - they are threads pulling me through the illusions, keeping me on my true path.

Feeling gratitude for the opportunity to drop in deeply on this Equinox.

Gratitude for the support and guidance of tumeric, offering her effervescent healing light. 

Gratitude for those in my life near and far in time and space that are close in my heart, and my teachers.

And I welcome the shift that is taking us into winter, with gratitude, love and humility.

Fall is my favorite time of year. 

I love the warmth, the light and shadows, the colors, and nourishing times with friends and family.

There's a magic in the Fall Equinox, as we honor the season of harvest and begin our slow decent into the depths of winter.

A remembering of the beauty and essence of life, gratitude for all that we've been through & learned through the summer.

When we slow down to welcome this time of year, it rejuvenates us at the deepest levels of our heart and soul.

It connects us to what is truly important. And we release what we no longer need to carry with us.

I'm welcoming this beautiful plant teacher today. Opening a sacred container to honor this time of year, myself, and life.

Tumeric is an ancient medicine that has an incredible depth and transmission.

She purifies and harmonizes the energy field, so that it is balance, and we can harness our energy for what matters.

She brings renewal to the depths of our being - entering into our cells to detoxify and renew the body-mind-spirit.

This plant takes us on the journey of death and rebirth.

Composting the attachments, patterns, beliefs and emotions that are not serving us.

Offering nourishing light to heal our deepest wounds.

Reminding us to remember our vibrancy, our frequency, our own transmissions - above all.

We are nourished, whole, and bathed in gratitude and love.

From here everything changes.

We have a journey starting October 19 with this golden god/dess we call tumeric.

If you want to open an intimate relationship with this plant teacher and to meet yourself on deeper levels, join us.  Read more HERE, and message me with any questions.

Wishing you the most nourishing fall!

As a teenager, I mastered the look of being a "good" girl, but I had a rich inner world - and explored it in art, music, plant medicines and nature. But I was quickly taught that I had to choose a different path, something more practical, like math or science, to be "successful." So I kept my inner world quiet. Choosing instead to be "smart" and "nice."

But this rich inner world was where I was most alive.

I went on to work a normal job in the city, like people did. (As an engineer of all things! But with the intention of being in service to nature - as an environmental engineer.)

Until, the creative adventurous one inside couldn't take it anymore. She broke out.

I quit my job and landed in the Amazon - deep in the world of plant medicines.

The one I'd locked up, unconsciously, to fit into society, was beyond ECSTATIC. She was finally FREE. And she was having the time of her life adventuring in the jungle and travelling to the outer reaches of consciousness.

It was absolutely fantastic, and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. It also hit home, in that it connected me deeply to the Earth and her wisdom, the feminine, the mysterious, and the raw wild aliveness that the world seemed to tell me to shut down.

Eventually, I realized I couldn't live in the jungle forever and that I had to return. I had to leave the journey of a lifetime...to return to what exactly? And why?

Unbeknownst to me, my soul had a plan. I'd learned so much about who I was and who I was not. Six years of this deep dive was simply a drop in the bucket, and the human me would have kept going. (But honestly, I needed to ground and integrate at the deepest levels).

The time had come to return and bring who I was back into the world. My path was not to live out in the jungle the rest of my life.

A healer in India (another adventure that fed my heart and soul) kindly delivered the message to me - "You are not meant to be a 'shaman' in the jungle." At the time, I couldn't receive the message as I was completely immersed in the depths of the plant world. But in time, I discovered she was right. I had another place in this world.

Coming back, there was no way I could return to life as normal. I cringed to think the societal constructs I had left behind were still alive and thriving and waiting for me.

I was between worlds - the one I'd left behind and the one I'd been free and unchained.

How in the world am I going to do this?

"This is your path" the plants whispered.

"This is will never work" I said.

"Yes it will. Trust yourself. You have to bridge these worlds. Get creative. Bring what you learned back into this world" my soul answered back.

Thus, the journey of finding my own way back began. Like fumbling in the dark, stammering through the jungle. Not a light or a path in sight. 

I had learned to follow the plants, to deeply trust them and ultimately myself, into other dimensions, past traumas, and uncomfortable truths- so why not do so in this dimension too? Was it really that much different?

Thankfully a few mentors helped me navigate my own way...but none of them had the experiences I had just had. They were incredible support, but it was ultimately up to me to find the way.

The decisions, the choices, which direction to go. What to reject, what to embody. What do I need, what can I leave behind. How to listen to myself, the divine and my plant teachers. The lessons poured in.

Everything had to be aligned with my soul. My spirit. The Earth. The plants. There was no other way. In all this, I learned what TRUST YOURSELF really meant.

It meant discovering where the wisdom of the plants meets our modern world meets my own soul calling.

It meant tuning in and listening at the deepest levels.

It meant commitment and dedication.

And it meant owning my path, by choosing my own navigation system over and over again.

This deep soul-level journey is what Plant Spirit Calling is about. Plant Spirit Calling is a 6-month mentorship - combining the wisdom of the plants and developing your own energetic/shamanic awareness -  that guides you to TRUST YOURSELF undeniably in your unique medicine for this world.

Imagine that you get to:

࿓ Express your creativity in a way that nourishes the deepest parts of you.
࿓ Courageously follow the guidance of your soul and beloved plant teachers to align your life & work with your soul's unique path.
࿓ Integrate the wisdom of the plants into everything you do.
࿓ Feel confident in your ability to navigate anything that comes your way.
࿓ Feel confident to expand into unknown territory, creating a life that only you in your unique wisdom can create.

This is why you are here. Is it time to follow the call?

Schedule an Initial Consultation to find out!

I had a potent conversation with friend and energy healer Kate Powell about plant medicines, healing and shifting our personal and collective worlds!

Check out "Plant Teachers and Being More Human."

Listen HERE! Or Watch on Spotify or Youtube!

We dove into...
𓆸 How plant medicines bring us into our human alignment
𓆸 Our cultural disconnection with nature and ourselves
𓆸 How our consciousness, the setting, & our cultural worldview informs our experiences with plants
𓆸 How we re-orient ourselves back into the world in integration
𓆸 How plants continue working and teaching us in integration
𓆸 How the idea of needing "more and more" medicines is perpetuating our consumerist mindset
𓆸 Listening to our own internal navigation system
𓆸 The courage it takes to follow new pathways
𓆸 How to check our integrity and intentions for working with plants

I always stop here on the Arkansas River in Kansas. It's become a place that holds the energy of my paternal roots for me. My grandparents, my father as a little boy and his brother, lived here in the 1940-50s. I never got to know my grandparents fully, as they passed on when I was young.

Walking along this river, I allow time and space to open. In order to connect to my paternal lineage, to the water and the land. To tap deeper into the ancient stories held here for millenia. To feel my roots as if they were alive, growing in these soils. To feel my grandparents as if they too were walking along the river, or working on the farm. To call to them and to listen.

I offer gratitude and pray for guidance and strength. I tap into what I carry ancestrally that is ready to be released. That which they had carried, and I now carry, that is no longer needed.

We all carry the imprints of our ancestors, whether we feel them or not. They live in our blood, our bones, our DNA. Their memories, emotions, traumas, hardships and strengths are carried for generations and impact our lives. To tend to these roots is incredibly healing for our lives and emanates through time.

My lineages on both sides have appeared in ceremonies and dietas. They are there when I'm in prayer, or connecting to the land, always offering their kind and undying support, showing me my path of healing and growth.

We are not separate beings here in this life. Honoring our own lineages, we root ourselves in our unique place on Earth. Knowing that we carry something from beyond through time.

We are deeply nourished and grounded. And we build our present lives in alignment with our highest vision, by honoring and healing the past.

Ancestral work is a dimension of my private work with people. In both Shamanic Energy Healing and Plant Medicine Mentoring + Integration Sessions, we heal and reconnect to the past.

This is the last week to sign up before rates increase this fall.

May we all be supported by our roots. We are much stronger and more supported than we know.

I don't like talking about plant medicines so much publicly. It makes me uncomfortable, and I find myself holding back often.

Plant medicines are "the sh@!" in the Western world right now and have been for awhile. The thing is that we Westerners bring our worldview with us into the medicine work.

Most of us live enmeshed in the Western worldview, whether we like it or not.

We have been raised and taught that consumerism is the key to success and happiness. That more is always better. And that we need to extract as much as we can - whether it be from the Earth, from someone else or from an experience. Otherwise we may go home missing out, or not having gained more than our neighbor.

There are many of us are really trying to shed these ways of living from our consciousness. But it's impossible to do so completely right now. As we still live chained to the old system until the new system is online.

So where does that leave us with plant medicines?

Working with plant medicines, many of our Western worldviews don't hold up in the end. We are trying to make these sacred medicine fit into what we know - commoditizing them, using them to get something for '"me," and dismissing the ancient traditions holding the wisdom of the medicines.

And we see now the medicalization and legalization of these medicines underfoot, bringing a whole suite of challenges in our worldview that we are going to have to face.

Why am I talking about all this?

Because the plants and our Earth have given me my LIFE. My life outside all the societal expectations, my life without all the stories. My life as pure, my life as living in joy, my life as connected to the fabric of existence. They have taught me how to heal, shown me the truth, and stripped away my illusions.

My work with the plants has been so precious, so intimate, and so vulnerable. I respect the work and the depth of their transformative power. I honor the experiences beyond this world that cannot be condensed into language, nor should be.

It's a fine line to learn how much to share while keeping in alignment with my own integrity.

But here I am -  listening to the plants that are by my side, guiding me. They are pointing me back right into the mess we all want to move beyond. "Here's the work." They are guiding me to speak, to share, and to connect their wisdom. To ignore their guidance, would be to ignore a part of myself, my heart, and my soul.

And I trust them and this path of evolution more than anything.

The plants are moving through me, calling me to use my voice for them, for the Earth, for our lives. To connect people with the innate power and wisdom within everything and to learn to care for everything - themselves and the world around them.

And if you ask why this is the path I'm on...

Our Earth has been neglected, abused, and destroyed. She has been and continues to speak in her ways - through her rhythms, elements, climate change, ecosystem collapse, you name it. And many of us aren't paying attention. Or we feel at a loss of how to even begin to shift our collective reality.

The truth is the plants are rising in our collective consciousness for a reason. Their wisdom is moving through each of us, bringing to the surface all the sh@! that we need to see. All those worldviews that are ready to be dissolved, no longer serving the greater evolution underfoot.

It's a beautifully orchestrated transformation actually.

But only if we humans do our part too. We have to learn to walk the edge of consciousness- between our shadow and our light. We have to be courageous enough to sit in the fire and to face our shadows, our fears, our judgements, our criticisms, our egoistic desires. We have to alchemize the parts we really don't want to see and feel.

And choose something different.

The plants won't do that part for us. They can only point us in the right direction. And we have to show up and do the work.

(I also do not like posting pictures of my face so often. But social media algorithms and people prefer human faces..... So here I am doing the uncomfortable :)

You being here is purpose enough.

I remember a ceremony in the  jungle, during a dieta with a tree called bechuja (also known as chullachuqui). This dieta was profound for me, as it was the first time I'd ever felt my own energy field by itself. As a highly sensitive person, I was used to feeling everything around me... all of the time.

In a room filled with other people, after ceremony, I was sitting in the middle and realized I was alone within myself. I didn't feel everyone around me. Just me. A huge relief and wave of pure joy washed over me.

Tears welled up with the realization of how much in everyday life I was trying to manage and care for others energetically, and emotionally, all of the time. There was not a moment, where I had space to simply be myself.  Working with this magnificent tree, who is known for teaching protection and boundaries, I was able to let that burden go.

As I sat there, there was a whisper, "It is enough just to BE. Be YOU. You don't have to do anything else."

I took a breath. allowing my heart, my essence, my purest most precious being, to safely emerge from the depths. I knew, in that moment, that I needed to take care of this piece of me that had been hidden. Take care of it with all of my intention, to attune to and tend to what it needs. So that it is never extinguished or lost in the way that it had been ever again. And this was the gift of bechuja.

We each have an essence, which is like a precious diamond, a crystal, through which we are meant to shine into the world. And so many of us don't know what it feels like...until we do.

Once you get a taste of your deep heart and essence, aligning with it takes courage, and tending to. In our world, it's very easy for this to be obscured by our minds, our emotions, our conditioning, and our culture.

The beauty of plants (and trees) as teachers is that they can guide you to remember your essence in its purity. Show you that it's always been there, in all the challenges and the times it was seemingly be lost.

Reminding you that no matter what happens, you are here to be true to yourself.

And that is enough.

If you are called to working with plants as teachers, I'm opening a 1:1 Plant Spirit Calling mentorship this fall. I also have 1:1 sessions on special through September 5. Please reach out if the plants are calling you.

We all know plant medicines can be entirely life-changing.

Your world gets turned upside down. Everything seems to fall apart, or the reality you once knew dissolves into the illusion it always was.

Picking up the pieces, putting your life back together is a whole other journey. A journey of a life-time.

Most of us haven't been taught how to re-create our realities.

The beauty of plant medicines, is that they not only shatter our illusions, but they can  teach us how to truly create our lives from the inside out.

The trouble is people will join in for ceremony, or a trip down to the Amazon, but lose touch with the plants and the process once they return home.

The experience and the plants start to fade, in part because our culture doesn't hold the plants as real, as alive, as part of the fabric of reality.

What if you could tap into the wisdom of the plants every single day?

What if you could connect with them to help guide you to re-build your life, one that is aligned with your heart and vision?

What if this work isn't just about you, but about you bringing the deep inner transformation of the plant medicines out into the world? In ways that shift our collective reality? In ways where we are living in harmony with each other and the earth?

This is our vision.

And you can...IF you continue listening. To frequencies of the plant medicines, in a world inundated with other voices of how to be.

The truth is, they will guide you to your unique essence, your unique purpose in ways that will blow your mind. But you have to follow them on the journey.

It takes commitment, courage, and deep trust of the unknown.

Want to follow the plants as they move through you and guide you?

I have 3 spots open for my 1:1 Plant Spirit Calling mentorship. We go deep into your body, your energy, and your spirit to connect with the plants. We call on your highest vision, your hidden wisdom, and your soul purpose here and now. We give you rituals and practices to deepen into relationship. So that you are living your life from the inside out.

If you are wanting to bring the plants HOME, reach out.

Anyone else going through life-changing transitions and transformations right now?

It's been a 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙚!

Feeling your way through, guided by your intuition and inner guidance system is what this is all about.

But sometimes, you feel like you are so close, you are almost there, but you can't quite see or feel it yet.

I work with the Tarot every day. Sometimes multiple times a day. Especially when life is unexpected, or I have major decisions to make. The Tarot calls forth my intuition and my inner knowing that is always there, just below the surface.

We have a powerful group of women right now in the Altars of Wisdom, all calling in the Priestess energy for guidance and liberation. In the Tarot, the High Priestess represents intuition, divine wisdom, the subconscious, and the ultimate expression of the divine feminine.

Her realm is the mysterious; navigating between worlds. She is the guardian of the veil of the seen and the unseen.

Her appearance in a Tarot reading shows us that profound unseen forces or shifts are indeed happening. She calls you to bring what's below the surface into awareness, understanding and ultimately embodiment.

She guides you to sit with your intuition, look within for the answers, and 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜. 

If you want to consult the Tarot for guidance, I have a special on readings through September 5. Book one HERE.

Much love,
Jaime