Common Milkweed

Flowers
Written By Paula R Winters

Milkweed appeared out of nowhere in my garden this year, blooming among the Bee Balm. Three strong, tall, beautiful stalks. A source of life and transformation for Monarch butterflies, hummingbirds and certain bees… yet poisonous to others. Toxic yet beautiful, milkweed embodies life’s graceful dance of duality.

I essenced milkweed on the first day of summer, as the days opened wide. And the stillness of summer heat settled in the air. The five-pointed petals drifting in my bowl shows me their grounding signature… a quiet belonging to the earth and a remembrance that all life is woven together. Their soft pink color carries innocence and gentle love, to wrap us in a tender, heartfelt vibration.

Milkweed holds an energy of faith around our becoming, guiding us through life’s initiations and sacred rites of passage. It steadies us in the inevitable transitions and in the tender, uncertain, sometimes painful spaces between.

Poisonous plants like milkweed move us forward. They ask us to step beyond comfort. There is a swirling motion that moves through us, touching all layers within us. Each layer wobbling and then catching up to the vibration as it integrates and stabilizes, allowing the unfolding of our lives into wholeness. And here, we find the rhythm in our life, dancing with its duality.

Milkweed invites us to open our hearts to the magic of connection and reciprocity and to life’s endless change. It helps us trust, have faith in the timing of our lives. In the seasons of change. And it awakens our quiet guidance, our inner knowing, moving us toward what feeds our soul. 

Paula R Winters

I came to energy work in 2001 at a time in my life where I was shattered. I had lost myself. There were too many endings and there was no clear path forward that I could see. But as doors closed all around me, I was guided onto a Reiki table. Here I found safety in my body, finally …and an amazing new reality in an unseen world. I worked hard to look at all parts of me as they were offered up. And… I went into total remission and off all meds after 30 years and 7 surgeries for Crohn’s Disease.

All forms of energy work then became my passion. I studied Reiki, flower essences, crystals, essential oils and tarot. I studied with Shaman here and in Peru and climbed high in the Andes mountains. I cleared houses and businesses of unwanted energies. I did Soul Retrievals for my clients. I sat with the dying, helping them in their last moments. I co-taught Medicine Wheel and Advanced Medicine Wheel. I officiated weddings. I had dogs and cats as clients. I studied with Gabrielle Roth, learning 5-rhythm dance. But most of all, this journey brought me to a place where I fell head over heels in love with the healing power of the flowers.

And now I invite you to remember the wisdom Mother Earth offers us.

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