Conversations with a Burnt Gorse Bush: Earth Medicine from the Alchemist Path
(An Alchemist Code teaching from the Spiral of the Dragon Rose)
I kept having this pull to walk to a part of the forest I hadn’t visited in years—one I used to wander when my children were babies. I realised it was a place where I had once walked every day, not just to get fresh air but to “get fit” and lose the baby weight—like so many of us are told to do.
I’d stopped coming here for a while because the deer roam this part of the woods freely, and when my dog was a pup, she would take off chasing them! But something about this path called me back, and so I returned.
That first walk, I noticed just how unfit I’d become and how far I’d drifted from my own care. First, my energy had gone into my children, then my work, and somewhere along the way… I’d forgotten about me. As I climbed the hill, I found myself stopping, completely drawn to a single, burnt gorse bush, blackened but not defeated. I felt it had a message for me. I stood quietly and received it.
I too felt a little burnt out.
The next day, I walked the same route again. My body was already moving easier, stronger… and I almost breezed right past the gorse. But just as I passed, my cardigan caught on a branch. So, I stopped again. The bush wasn’t done speaking.
I realised that my day had not started the best as this week my youngest was finishing junior school & along with this transition, there are so many commitments & demands from the school of places to be, watching end of year recitals, form filling, payments, returning books, presents, new school clothes etc etc, if you’re a mum, you know the drill. Stress levels seem to be raised getting your children out of the door in the mornings. You’re also often reacting from a lens of your own inner child & the memories you might have had during that same age, which can bring up another level of emotions to be felt, healed or integrated during such a busy period, that you just don’t have time to really think about.
What I also realised was that my son has a big transition & his emotions were up & down, but also my own emotions were up & down as I too was transitioning yet again from a mum of a young boy who is now transitioning to much more independence along with the fact that he is my youngest of 3 & I will never experience that transition again!
That hit hard & I realised the medicine this week from the burnt out gorse bush was to allow a period of renewal & rest, to allow time to grieve for what was, instead of rushing ahead to the next stage.
You are in transition too. Allow rest. Allow grief. Don’t rush your rebirth!
This is what the gorse bush is doing. It is not fully burnt out, it will rest & rejuvenate until it is ready to transform & regrow in all its splendour. Or even something else may grow in its place that will bring new memories.
The burnt serpent like pattern on the gorse reminds me of a fire dragon, transmuting & cleansing the old, to make room for the new. This is the shamanic cycle of death, rest & rebirth and the path of the Alchemist. This is the spiral path I now walk, and guide others through, in the Alchemist Codes within the Sophianic Spiral of the Dragon Rose.
When our awareness of the natural world is switched on, we are able to receive the medicine from our plant & animal allies.
These signs and whispers are not coincidences. They are teachings. This is why we work with 13 Celtic Trees and their fae allies within the Alchemist Spiral; each offering a portal into deeper soul remembrance.
The gorse reminded me that transformation doesn’t come from pushing. it comes from attuning. Listening. Trusting. Resting. Letting go. The land holds wisdom if we choose to receive it.
And so, I continue to walk. And to listen.
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