
Each plant has a story to share, a healing story to guide someone in trying times, a spirit medicine for the New Earth that is presently unfolding. Herbs are some of the most powerful allies humans have for these transitional times–one just needs to learn how to listen as the herbs share their knowledge. In Wisdom of the Plant Devas, Thea Summer Deer reveals a new dimension of herbal medicine, one where the plant’s spirit is consulted for guidance and healing beyond the physical. Examining the botany, modern and traditional uses, history, and folklore of thirteen special herbs, such as rosemary, uva ursi, and datura, she shares divinations and messages from their devas, or plant spirits, explaining how these stories carry the herbs into a person’s life, letting the herbs work their magic on them. Exploring herbal medicine from an energetic perspective, she reveals that by communing with the deva of a plant, humans can call on the plant’s physical, psychological, and spiritual medicine and guidance—without ingesting it or even being in its presence. Detailing the sacred space of a Medicine Wheel Garden, whether in a backyard or one’s imagination, she connects readers with the devas and empowers them to seek their own answers with much-needed spiritual guidance and divinatory advice. Creating a bridge between botanical medicine and plant spirit medicine, she shows how by coming into community with the devas and co-creating with the world of nature, humans can gain tremendous insights to help heal their hearts, minds, and spirits and consciously evolve as together they birth the New Earth.