A tea ceremony is a practice to come into our bodies and the present moment. We pour the hot water over the herbs and activate them, while speaking what we want to pour over our own lives. Water, a powerful amplifier, magnifies every frequency given to it, while the specific properties of the plant act as a supportive vessel for the realities we are calling forth.

In a mugwort tea ceremony, we call upon the spirit of the elder plant mugwort (she truly loves to be called cronewort, indicative of her elder spirit) to open our second sight and receive the visions that are here to guide us. She is a plant of the Moon, making clear why she assists in vivid dreaming. The silvery hue of her leaves is one way she reveals her deep connection to the Moon, Dreamtime and emotions, as astrologically the Moon rules our emotional landscape. We will gather around the tea as she steeps and speak our intentions into the brew, breathing in the scent as it rises on the steam. Together we step into the sauna, representative of stepping over the threshold into the other world, and allow mugwort to take us on a journey.