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Our Ancestors Want Us To Be Hawthorn

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Madison Murphy Barney
Oct 17, 2024
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Our Ancestors want us to be Hawthorn because of the way Hawthorn protects its tenderness with spikes. 

They want us to be Hawthorn because Hawthorn is a medicine of ease, of matters of the heart. 

In many traditions, Hawthorn stands at the threshold of the other world, just as we now stand at a threshold, tasked with building ourselves a new, liberated pl…

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