UPCOMING

Silver Birch // UK // 6.7 - 6.15

Metasequoia // British Columbia // 8.2 - 8.10

Men's Tobacco Apprenticeship // 8.22 - 11.20

Metasequoia // Gold Coast, AU // 9.11 - 9.19

White Birch // Upstate NY // 10.27 - 11.4

Irish Oak // Ireland // 11.29 - 12.7

SILVER BIRCH

PURIFICATION // FAITH // RESTORATION // MATERNAL LINE

HEREFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND

JUNE 7TH - 15TH

DOOR TO THE MOTHER

"All life is created out of the Mother and is one with her." -Monica Sjöö, The Great Cosmic Mother

RETURN TO WHOLENESS

The Mother Archetype within world culture can represent many things, but is almost always considered "dual" in nature. This is perhaps because the Mother represents everything, the full spectrum, black to white, from alpha to omega.

The Dual nature of the Mother is something that most of us struggle with in some fashion and often creates what is called "the mother wound." As children, integrating both aspects of our mother—those which are both nurturing and those destructive—is a tall order.

This lack of integration leaves a residue on our psychic and physical lives as a wound that is shaped by our Mother's personality and behaviors, as well as the alternating experience of her love and her pain. This can play out in our lives in many ways from physical sickness, to psycho-emotional neuroses, to addictions.

A RECLAIMATION OF OPPOSITES

The Mother's dual nature teaches that healing involves integrating light and shadow aspects of the self. By embracing all parts of our being—even those we might consider painful or dark—we move toward psychological wholeness.

But the healing journey is not truly about recovery, but about rebirth, renewal, and the unfolding of one’s inner potential. Our mother wound is our greatest portal of creation, and as we restore unity we not only mend what is broken, but emerge complete and re-integrated—acknowledging both her nurturing light and her transformative darkness that lives within us, await the potential hand of the sculptor.

SILVER BIRCH

The Norse rune, Berkana, is a symbol of the Birch spirit and an emblem of The Great Mother, represented by the Goddesses Freja (life) and Hel (death). Likewise, the first letter in Celtic Ogham is Beith, the Birch, indicative of her position as an altar of the Divine Feminine Creator God, represented by beautiful Brigid who guards the Sacred Fire of knowledge.

Traditional cultures across Europe & Asia drew upon the White Birch for both her spiritual power and her medicinal gifts. People all over the world drink her tree water as a tonic for the kidneys, and she is still erected every Spring in communal rituals as a maypole.

White or Silver Birch comes from the ancient European word Bhereg, meaning to shine. Unequivocally known as a mother tree by nearly all cultures living within her stead, she is thought to be one of the first trees to sprout after the last ice age and is known to lead the regrowth of forests after fires. She purifies and regenerates ecosystems and is the exclusive host of the medicinal, chaga mushroom, as well as a common shade tree for the psychotropic, Aminta Muscaria mushroom.

Like the delicate balance of ecosystems she guards, White Birch has the capacity to help us harmonize mind, body, spirit and soul, guiding into the places where we resist surrender. Her soft touch moves our emotions and leads our awareness into the crevices of the unconscious, teaching us to sooth and nurture our core wounds, revealing the strength, beauty and power in healing.

WHO & WHAT IS THIS FOR?

Birch Diets are for those Ready to Heal.

Birch Diets are for Students of Mystery.

Birch Diets are for Seekers of Wisdom.

Birch Diets are for Walking Deeply & Gently.

Birch Diets are for Harmonizing The Physical Body.

Birch Diets are for Indo-European Ancestral Reclamation.

Birch Diets are for Growth.

Birch Diets are for Shedding a Layer.

Birch Diets are for Discovering More of Ourselves.

Birch Diets are for those cultivating Deeper Practice.

Birch Diets are for Surrender.

Birch Diets are for Breaking Through.

Birch Diets are for those ready for Radical Responsibility.

Birch Diets are for Transforming Difficult Aspects of The Self.

Birch Diets are for Learning.

Birch Diets are for Creativity.

Birch Diets are for Prayer.

Birch Diets are for Embodiment.

Birch Diets are for those Practicing Self-Mastery.

Birch Diets are for Empowerment.

Birch Diets are for Heart & Soul Medicine.

Birch Diets are for Transforming the Mind.

Birch Diets are for Energy.

RUTHLANDS FARM

Ruthlands Farm is a 22 acre working farm in the heart of rural Herefordshire, an English county alive with the magic of history, dotted with castles, megaliths and sites of Arthurian Lore. The stream with a seasonal waterfall feeds a swimming pond alongside a spring which still supplies the water for the 16th Century House & Cabin. There are numerous quiet places for camping through the spread out pockets of woodland. At the highest point of the farm are stunning views of the Herefordshire country, all the way to the Welsh Border: The Black Mountains.

The Silver Birch we will harvest and drink are living anchors on the land and in the Spring will be tapped for their sap, providing a life-giving drink consumed as a tonic by dozens of cultures, wherever in the world Birch grow.