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Category: Most Beloved
Fall, Most Beloved, The Otherworld October 24, 2019October 16, 2020

Ten Ways To Celebrate Samhain

Samhain (pronounced sow-en) is the traditional Celtic holiday of death, endings, beginnings and visionary magic. Straddling the transition from

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Most Beloved, The Otherworld October 28, 2017October 16, 2020

Working with Elementals

  I feel like I need to get something clear right from the get go. I never believed in faeries as a kid. It just wasn’t a thing for

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Fall, Most Beloved, Seasonal Celebration October 31, 2016October 16, 2020

Walking with Ghosts

  Autumn has fallen here in the mountains. The trees are turning inwards, curling their leaves into colors of copper, ember and dusk. The

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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

  • Illuminations
  • Plant Stories
  • Words for Hard Times
  • Nourishment
  • The Otherworld
  • Mineral Medicine
  • Sacred Entrepreneurship 
  • Travelogues
  • Seasonal Celebration
    • Winter
    • Spring
    • Summer
    • Fall


Further streams

The seasonal magic shop is open ✨ (for the last The seasonal magic shop is open ✨ (for the last time)⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Eight years ago I put out my very first special edition holiday elixir. It was the start of a truly magical yearly tradition that has brought such joy to my heart— and cheer to folks around the world!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Like the fade of fall's ember into the white dawn of winter, however, all seasons have their natural endings. So it is with much tender mirth that I'm announcing...this will be the *last year* that the seasonal magic shop will be open.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you cherish these products, as I know many of you do, or have been hoping to give one a try, this is your final chance.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We've been working like elves over at the apothecary to make sure the shelves are fully stocked but we have limited editions of each medicine— so once they're gone, they will, unfortunately, be gone.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Visit the link in my profile to check out all the limited edition medicines before they make like reindeer and fly!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ PS. This photo is of our Holiday Magic Medicine Chest, which accompanies our seriously delightful online holiday class. We only have a handful left after our newsletter announcement yesterday, so be sure to nab one now if you’re interested!
With every question a set of twins are born. There With every question a set of twins are born. There is one choice that is comfortable, known; a way to grow that is both familiar and slow. And then there is the wild twin. The choice that is scary, uncharted and unknown. This choice is uncomfortable, but it is ultimately here to lead you quickly through the woods in which you’ve been lost so you can find the person you’ve been waiting to become. I recently heard intuitive astrologer @moxiemolly11 refer to today’s full moon eclipse in Gemini as the arrival of a choice point. Something about this rang so clear in my bones. The whole year has felt a bit like a prayer waiting to be answered. A question that has kept us on our knees, unable to move on until a reply is heard. But this eclipse seems to be whispering something else in our ears. Perhaps the answer doesn’t come first, but second. Maybe the answer will only be clear when you look at the choice point blooming within you and take a step in the direction of the vivid unknown. Today in our One Willow team meeting everyone picked two cards from a divination deck. The first card illuminated the comfortable choice, the known way. The other represented the new path; the one that is only visible by the far light of the stars. It was powerful. If this interpretation of today’s eclipse is calling you, try picking two cards of your own. What choice point have you come to in your life? Which way is calling to you?
Tender times There is something about the waning Tender times There is something about the waning of this season. The patina of silver-tipped grass and goldenrod gone to seed that leaves the heart as tender and open as a squash. It’s round softness revealed by the dying away of its own leaves. Like the first frost touching a bushel of rose hips, our hearts grow inexplicably sweeter and more tender on these newly cold nights. In the thin transition into winter’s possibilities, life’s monuments come and go and you miss the ones you miss- whether those who've passed on, or those who are sitting by some more distant hearth this year. In a time when our ancestors would have been gathering close together for storytelling and community warmth, there is a particular ache in the heart that asks: who are my loved ones? Where are those that are most precious to me? And how can I show them just how much they mean in these unprecedented times? It’s a good thing, this tenderness. It’s what opens us up to receive the stories held in winter. The ones that deal with creation and making. The ones we’ve forgotten, the ones who tell us who we are and who we were always meant to be. Such tenderness helps us to light the hearthfire, love even more deeply and reach out before the early dusk to say - “I love you. Come sit by me. Let’s warm our feet together and greet this winter.”
Gratitude and grief have a tendency to go hand in Gratitude and grief have a tendency to go hand in hand. One sharpens the other, like the dark sharpens the stars. The more of this life I live, the more I realize that our capacity for both is what makes the other so extraordinary. And that when we can embrace the way these two states swirl into one another, life becomes the numinous, heart-opening experience it was meant to be. Grief acknowledges just how deep the blessings of our life can go. Sharing gratitude that has been clarified by grief is a way of saying “I love the world, even if I don’t understand it.” Like the unknown cycles of birth and release, gratitude creates a circuit of continuance. One in which the preciousness of life is cupped with full song. When I touch grief, I remember the truth of thanks giving. That gratitude is perhaps the most potent technology of transcendence we have while we are here in form. When you can think upon your life with gratitude, especially in the darkest most grief touched moments, you open up whole new ways of seeing the world. When you can gaze into the darkness and still find stars, the entire landscape around you becomes illuminated, navigable, and even with all its hardships, still lit by magic.
Claiming your Sovereignty How does it feel to put Claiming your Sovereignty How does it feel to put on the crown of your own being? To know that you have the ability to claim the throne at the center of your own existence? That you can decide how to feel, or where you want to give your energy? That you are the ruler of your own destiny? This is self-sovereignty. As many of us prepare to spend the holiday season in greater solitude than in previous years, it is an energy that is rising to the surface of of our lives like a forgotten possibility- an invitation to learn how to listen to the terrain inside of our own being and recommit ourselves in a sacred marriage to our inner fields. Take this time before we enter into the holidays to ground, center, and become sovereign. Decide where your boundaries lie. Mark the corners of your fields, with time spent in quiet solace and warm solitude. Take time to listen to your deeper needs. Time in the bath or with your hands in well-kneaded dough. Time to brush out your hair or massage your feet with sesame oil. Time to realize what you truly crave, so that you can stand strong in your own crowning, and be at peace. Photo by @oceanmountainmedia
Each and every one of us is a lake unto ourselves. Each and every one of us is a lake unto ourselves. Complex, changing, part of everything, and yet self contained. And the journey of our lifetime is the one that begins when we step off the shores of the outer world and wander within. When we can meet the creatures that lurk in the deep and instead of turning away or paddling back, we embrace them and be transformed. Because you are not a lake that can be traversed in a leisurely day of kayaking. You are an inland ocean with its own deep mysteries and awe-inspiring waves. So be inside the country of your own self, and let curiosity move you as lusciously as the moon guides the waves
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