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Our Ancestors did not have a relationship with Snowdrop

We look to the Snowdrop for the sign of the gentle shift from Winter to Early Spring, from weeding and reflecting in winter to planting and setting goals for spring, the threshold that our Celtic ancestors called Imbolc. Following the Celtic wheel of the year and earths natural rhythmic cycles.

 

But our ancestors would have cast their eyes on a different flower to that of the Snowdrop—a flower native to our lands.

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The Jays gifts of creation from all of their ‘mistakes’

Fear of making a mistake and how we praise the Jay for there's.

Oak trees and Jays have a special relationship that has been intertwined for thousands of years—it is thought that the only reason we have the famous Oak tree on the British Isles is the Jay. During the last ice age, the Oak tree, by acorn and gravity method, simply could not have moved up Europe quick enough before the English Channel formed. Something must have carried it over.

 This union goes so deep that Jay's scientific name translates to 'babbling acorns'—if you have heard the Jay. The babbling part is self-exploratory, but the acorn runs deeper.

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Dark past of the hedgerow and the caging of hawthorn 

Hawthorn is the reminder of love, Community and wild spirit but she has dark past. Hedgerows were planted, Using Hawthorn's beautiful, loving, and wild free spirit to twist and cage her into a natural barrier to the wildland. Cutting 6.5 million acres of land from our ancestors, forcing them to disconnect from Mother Earth and work for the Industrial Revolution.

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