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Category: Illuminations
Illuminations, Words For Hard Times July 17, 2019July 24, 2019

You Are Allowed To Cultivate Peace

  Every day I hike up the shady ridge above my home. A welcome respite from the sun, halfway up the steep gravel, a small spring comes

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Illuminations, Mineral Medicine June 28, 2019January 28, 2020

Finding Your Unique Destiny

  It’s in our DNA to wish to know our destiny. Just as we gaze up at the stars and wonder where they lead. Or stand on the edge of the ocean

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Illuminations, Summer June 13, 2019October 4, 2019

Gift Yourself A Rainy Day

  Normally, summertime in the mountains is marked by generous rainfall. With so much greenery, the earth here grows used to the daily drinks

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Illuminations, Plant Stories, Words For Hard Times May 30, 2019July 10, 2019

How Invasives Help Us to Love Ourselves

  It’s become a green wonderland here in the mountains. The basil is bunching out in the garden, weeding is now a daily activity, and last

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Illuminations, Words For Hard Times May 14, 2019

You’re doing it right

  It seems no matter where we look, we are bombarded with the same message—you’re doing it wrong. Whether it’s how you parent, use

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Illuminations, Sacred Entrepreneurship April 26, 2019January 15, 2021

You are an Earth healer

  We all know (or are coming to understand) that we can heal ourselves through the natural medicines of the Earth. But for those of us who

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Illuminations April 22, 2019

The Earth cares about you

  It might be one of the hardest things to earnestly trust. It most likely rubs up against one of your earliest beliefs, one you took on in

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Illuminations April 5, 2019

How to Recognize Magic

  Magic is like the wind in spring. It’s all around us, but normally we can’t see it. When I was little I believed in this magic innately.

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Illuminations, Winter March 14, 2019March 23, 2019

Lightning Storms In Late Winter

  A few weeks ago, we had a lightning storm here in the mountains. It was still February, but an eerie warm front had swept through, melting

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[wool-gath-er-ing] v.

daydreaming, the gathering of thoughts and dreams as one might collect fallen tufts of wool

[wild-craft-ing] v.

the harvesting of herb, root, flower or inspiration from the wilds



Asia Suler
is a writer, teacher, medicine maker and seeker who lives in the blue folds of the southern Appalachian mountains. Woolgathering and Wildcrafting is her grass-stained journal from the hillsides of the living world. It’s full of recipes, musings, plant monographs and poetics. So grab a cup of tea and come on in for a spell. Open up to a page in this shared tome to find a hand-pressed flower, words of comfort, or a small glen of inspiration for your day. Visit Asia’s online classes for more.

Paths through the Wood

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Over and over again in my life I've felt that same Over and over again in my life I've felt that same inner-thaw arrive every time I'm meant to step into something new. Maybe you’ve felt this too? A nudge from some spring-softened place inside of you, a tug like the smallest flower root, a flicker pushing you out of the box you’ve placed yourself in and out into the fresh air.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We all get nudges like this in our lives. A sense of something wholly mysterious pushing us to take a leap of faith, whether large or small. Like that moment we get an impulse to call a friend out of the blue or the day we start dreaming about creating own business. We all know those insistent inner instincts that say “now is the time…take the step… do not be afraid.” We often ignore them because they are so subtle, but when we respond to these quiet inner nudges, we become oracles for the world.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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An oracle is, by definition, a medium through which divine messages or advice are given. Growing up, I heard tales about the oracles of old— seers who sat over great cracks in the earth and saw visions, or shamans who stayed up all night with the moon and came back with wisdom for the community as a whole. But now I know— when we follow that sense of spring-time insistence inside us, we become oracles for each other.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Have you been dreaming about creating a business that carries the message your soul was meant to bring to the world? This post might be the sign you’ve been waiting for. This year I’m delighted to be opening enrollment for Business as a Spiritual Journey- a five-week course designed to help fellow empaths and highly sensitives flourish on the path of entrepreneurship.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The course is on sale until January 25th 🌿 Learn more through the link in my profile
When I was younger I’d fantasize about living a When I was younger I’d fantasize about living a “spiritual” life. I'd daydream about an idealized monkhood, where my only responsibilities were tending to the garden and meditating in stillness. I plugged away at school and jobs but secretly I was still waiting for the time when I would get the pardon to retreat to the quiet nunnery of my own inner garden.  Back then, I thought that choosing a spiritual life meant disconnecting from society— but life had something far different in store for me. For all my desires to walk into the mountains and spend my life meditating in a cave, the most profound spiritual path I’ve ever taken has been starting a business.

I was incredibly reluctant to start a business at first. I remember when the idea came in, I was like “oh, heck no!” I thought business was for Wall Street types who enshrined money as the bottom line. That wasn’t me. I wanted to live a spiritual, nature-based life where I could experience the meaningfulness of existence! Birthing a business seemed like the antithesis of this. What I didn't realize at the time was that business would never take me away from my soulful path, it *was* the spiritual journey I had been seeking.

It took me a while to realize just how spiritual the process of building a business could be. But once I did, I changed from a reluctant business owner into a full-on spiritual entrepreneur. From barely scraping by, to making six-figures and hiring a team of employees. But, most importantly to all, this realization initiated me into the true profundity of this journey.

This year I’m delighted to share with you my new course— Business as a Spiritual Journey, a program made to help all my fellow empaths flourish on the path to entrepreneurship. 

In celebration of its opening, the course is on sale until January 25th! Check out more details through the link in my profile.
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P.S. This is a very literal picture of me in the midst of my journey. Seven years ago when this photo was taken I had just quit my job and started working for myself full-time. One of the biggest, bravest, hardest things I’ve ever done!!
We are in a hard place in the world. But the answe We are in a hard place in the world. But the answers for how to move forward with healing already exist within us. Finding, and living, these answers is not about pressure, force or expectations— but softening into your own sources of nourishment, the particular genius that is your creative channel, and the offerings you were meant to bring to this world.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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If part of your visioning for the new year includes creating the business of your dreams— I would absolutely love to see you in my newly opened program: ✨ Business as a Spiritual Journey.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I’ve been in business now for nearly ten years. Over that decade, I've been amazed to find that business, rather than merely supporting my spiritual path, became my spiritual journey— one that taught me so much about myself, my gifts and my soul's mission.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Made specifically for my fellow empaths, highly sensitives and spiritually minded people, this course was designed to help you create a truly soul-led business, one that feeds you and the world, on all levels.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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After over six years of working one-on-one with folks doing business consultations, I’ve had the privilege of helping hundreds of heartfelt businesses get off the ground. Everything I’ve learned over my years of building my own business, and helping others to grow theirs, is embedded within this course.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Sign up before then and you’ll also get a special invitation to a one-time online event: Ask Asia Anything (about business) ✏️, where I answer all your business-related questions live! I can’t wait to see you there.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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A friend of mine told me recently that she celebra A friend of mine told me recently that she celebrates the new year in three stages. At the solstice, she acknowledges the collective spiritual beginning of the new year. On January 1st, she marks the start of a new cycle of work and finances. And on the first new moon in January she finally drops into her personal new beginning— including setting her intentions and goals for the coming year. I love the concept of such a gradual entrance into the new year. It feels like easing into a body of water, taking your time to acclimate to the waves until you are ready to swim.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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After a truly challenging beginning to this new year, many of us are letting go of hard resolutions in favor of softer ways of being with ourselves. If this past year has taught us anything, it is the incredible importance of self-gentleness— and that maybe we don’t need to go as fast or as far as we thought to find life’s meaning.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In the whirlwind of current events, and a global pandemic that is beyond our control, it can begin to feel like the very weft of our life is out of our hands. But we always have the ability to decide what our own personal relationship to life will be. You are a co-creator in your destiny. And you have the power to plant seeds for this new year that bear truly nourishing fruit for both your creativity and well-being.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Today’s new moon is, by all astrological accounts, an amazingly powerful one. It is a potent moment to set intentions and reground in the knowing that— no matter what is going on in the world around you— you can still take time to bless this beginning.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In my new video, How to Get Crystal Clear Visions, I walk you through four steps to find your north star in 2021. I also offer a stone elixir ritual to help make your intentions that much clearer. (Check out the link in my profile to watch)
A prayer for this day, these weeks, the coming yea A prayer for this day, these weeks, the coming year.

May we remember just how powerful our ability to bless, protect, direct and uplift truly is. Your dreams help to create a more beautiful future for us all.
The Survival Dance: the beauty of one foot in fron The Survival Dance: the beauty of one foot in front of the other

Our ancestors who lived in northern climes spent good portions of the year gathering resources to make sure their winters were marked by coziness and plenty. But no matter how well we plan, though sometimes the potatoes spoil in the root cellar. Grain stores get knocked over or ice locks up the lake. Sometimes, when we go through the winters of our lives, we just have to survive for a time.

Some days all anyone can really manage is one foot in front of the other. In those times the ability to dream big, or think deeply, create or transform can feel very far away. When others are seemingly gliding, and you are just here trying to walk, it can be easy to fall into self criticism. Am I just too heavy to fly?

And the answer is no... it’s just that you are meant to dance right now. If you are in a moment where all you can do is it put one foot in front of another, you are not lost. Nor are you slow, or uninventive, wingless or behind. You are dancing. One foot in front of the other is a creative act of deep fortitude and strength, and it is the building block of every tango, disco and waltz to come. This is the survival dance. And it looks like shuffling over the ground to bed down the grass and make a home. It looks like pacing the floor with a baby in your arms. It looks like crossing the threshold of your house in the a.m to get a few scant moments of sun before heading to work. It’s remembering that it is still a good thing to be alive. And agreeing to move forward. One step at a time.

Your survival, through the winter of it all, is a creation unto itself. It’s the dance that keeps all things together. It is worthy. And it is beautiful.
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