Mugwort - Moon Matriarch
There are some who have always known they came here to dream more deeply, to hear and heed the language of the living land, and to see through into the unseen.
Some for whom the wild spirit still calls through the barren wasteland of a lost animate culture. Do you hear her?
She is calling you home, to the wild soul who still shimmers within.
This course is for you, wild one.
This is an immersive twelve-part journey into Mugwort as guide and memory-keeper, her magic and her medicine, her dreaming and her darkness, her long relationship with the women who have carried her knowledge and held it safe as their plant-medicine and earth-based rituals were taken from them. This is a slow descent, a journey, an uncovering of who you once were before your connections were severed.
Mugwort - A Plant Elder & Dream Keeper for Our Times
She is one of the oldest plant beings on Earth. Named for the moon goddess Artemisia, with her silvery undersides, her threshold crossings, and her dreaming medicine. For those who can hear her, she opens the doorways into a deeper understanding.
This journey is for you if…
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You feel the call to the old ways but don’t yet see a clear path. You feel drawn to plants, to dreaming, to the liminal spaces of the unseen but can’t quite find your way.
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You long to develop a real, living, reciprocal relationship with an ancient plant ally. A relationship which will grow, change, and deepen over time.
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You are ready to cross thresholds into a deeper knowing, into the wisdom of the body, into the dreaming places that Mugwort has presided over for so long.
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You are willing and ready to be changed by what you find on this journey.
Mugwort - Moon Matriarch
Known as the herb of dreams and visions, Mugwort invites us to remember and reconnect with the land, our ancestors, and the wild uncolonised depths of ourselves. This journey invites you to reclaim forgotten wisdom, connect with land and ancestors, and embody a new way of being rooted in the Earth.
What you will receive
Twelve teachings. Twelve guided audio journeys to meet Mugwort in spirit. Twelve questions and the unfolding of their answers. Creative practices, daily rituals, journalling prompts, and recipes for medicines, all woven together to support the relationship between you and Mugwort as guide, teacher, and kin.
The Journey
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Thresholds 1 & 2
Opening to the Medicine – We begin by honouring spirit, history, and ancestors while opening the doors to our dreaming.
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Thresholds 3 & 4
We meet Mugwort in her home, the hedgerow. Identification & Intuition – Deepen your understanding of Mugwort through knowledge and intuition.
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Thresholds 5 & 6
The Mother of Herbs – Uncover Mugwort’s power in earth and body medicine, exploring her healing and balancing influence.
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Thresholds 7 & 8
We descend into energy medicine, spirit & dreamwork. We journey into the dream and spirit realms to seek guidance.
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Thresholds 9 & 10
Mugwort as the guardian of the edges, between worlds, between selves, between states of being.
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Thresholds 11 & 12
We return, altered. Restoring what was severed, from land, from ancestors, from the body.
Mugwort will meet you at your thresholds.
This journey invites you to step in, fully, willingly; to remember the earth’s language, to venture to places where wisdom lives within soil, root, and stone, where dreaming and journeying become acts of reclaiming your wild, natural self.
Mugwort’s resonant voice calls to those ready to walk the old paths of freedom.
I am Bernadette Ashcroft, herbalist, forager, teacher, writer, and walker on the path of wisdom. I have spent many years apprenticed to the plants and the land, rooting here in Suffolk soil, learning the slow language of this ancient land. Mugwort was one of my earliest teachers, and my relationship with her remains one of my most precious. This course is a distillation of all she has shown me, offered outwards as a gift of reconnection.
If you would like to access pay-it-forward or exchange options, or simply wish to ask a question before enrolling, then write to me at bernadette@wildfolkapothecary.com
Are you ready?
This is a journey you return to, over and over, to deepen your relationship and expand your practice. All materials, audios, guided journeys, are yours forever, to revisit as the seasons shift and you are called back to the wisdom of Mugwort again, and again. This is a self-paced journey back into resonance.
Deepen your practice with Mugwort
Dreaming & Divination Salve
Potent but gentle, this ointment will hold your hand and softly guide you to a different state of being.
She embodies the Cailleach — the wise woman, she who sees beyond the veil and returns with messages from other worlds. Made with wild-foraged mugwort and yarrow infused into organic cold-pressed oils and set traditionally with beautifully fragrant beeswax, this is an ointment for those who are ready to go a little further than the ordinary allows.
Mugwort opens the pathways of perception and intuition, supports lucid dreaming and divination, soothes the nervous system, and relieves pain. Yarrow is an herb of air and of flight — feathery and fierce, she bestows courage on those who carry her, protects the traveller between worlds, and is a powerful healer in her own right.
Use in meditation, ceremony, journeying, divinatory practice, or before sleep with intention. Equally wonderful applied as a healing rub for pain relief and relaxation, and particularly supportive massaged over the wombspace and lower back during your bleed.
Apply to the soles of the feet, the heart space, and the palms of the hands before journeying. Anoint the temples and third eye before sleep or divination.
This dreamy blend of herbs helps you drift off into deep and nourishing sleep rich with lucid dreams and the potential for tapping in to higher wisdom from the dream world.
Mugwort opens the doorways of perception, yarrow is a deeply healing herb filled with air energy, and lavender has dreamy and otherworldly qualities of flight and fragrance. A delicious and dreamy blend which will help you to access deeper levels of wisdom and awareness.
The scent of these herbs together is fragrant and intoxicating.
All of the items within my shop are made within sacred space in deep reverence and connection. I give thanks to the herbs and communicate with them about what I am making and my intentions. I have built up a strong reciprocal relationship with my local flora over the years and find them supportive of my endeavours to share the mystery and magic of plant medicine with other seekers on the path.
My creations are now being used in therapeutic sessions by practitioners to help their clients tap into the deeper wisdom held within their bodies through the magic of wild plant medicine and connecting with the plant spirits. The feedback I have received is that my creations have an even deeper power, potency and resonance in a therapeutic environment when further combined with intentional healing. If you are a practitioner and would like to commission a specific balm or oil for use within your practice, or would like to order a personal batch please get in touch and we can discuss possibilities. I am always governed by seasonality, availability and intention. My offerings are not available for large scale commercial selling or businesses which do not align truly with nature.
CONSCIOUSNESS ESSENCE — Mugwort Flower & Plant Being
Mugwort is one of the most ancient plant-beings on Earth, honoured in ceremony and medicine wherever she grows. This essence is made in ceremony with wild-foraged mugwort flowers and sacred spring water, infused under moonlight in a garden tended with care, and preserved with vodka.
She is a bridge between worlds. Mugwort fosters a consciousness that is both deeply grounded and expansively dreamlike, helping to weave the learnings of the dream space and the unseen realms into the clarity of waking life. For those who feel overwhelmed by psychic forces, unmoored from the physical world, or lost in the spaces between — she is a steady, luminous guide.
This essence balances all transitions and cycles; day and night, movement and stillness, the practical and the spiritual. She opens the soul gently, harmonising all dimensions of experience without pulling you from your roots.
Reach for her in daily practice, in ceremony, or in acute moments of ungrounded expansion where balance needs to be swiftly restored.
Take 3 drops under the tongue three times daily, in ceremony, or with intention. May be combined with other flower essences and used as directed by spirit.
Held in a 30ml amber glass dropper bottle.