When I am among the trees,
especially the willows and the honey locust,
equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,
they give off such hints of gladness.
I would almost say that they save me, and daily.
 
I am so distant from the hope of myself,
in which I have goodness, and discernment,
and never hurry through the world
but walk slowly, and bow often.
 
Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.
 
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
 
By Mary Oliver
 
This listing is for one 'Tree Whispers' Botanically Dyed Plant Paper Set, from The heART of Ritual.
 
This set of tree paper was created to ground (anchor, and therefore make manifest) written affirmations, intentions, prayer, thought forms, sacred art, and spell work. However you can work with these in whatever way you feel drawn to.
 
This set is a selection of large hand crafted plant papers, ecodyed with a selection of Celtic Tree pigments. These pigments were co-created with wind/snow fallen twigs, branches, leaves, berries and/or roots of trees that live within walking distance of my home. Please see images for colour references. As you can see, each set comes in its own Willow bast folder, and is decorated with dried pressed botanicals throughout. Each set is hermetically sealed with pyrite and beeswax, and embossed with my Celtic Wheel of the Year botanical prayer mandala.
 
Those of you that follow my work for a while may remember seeing photos of plant fibres, tree fibres and tree pigments that I co-created for this over the past while. This is the result! 
 
Just seven of these sets were created, and you will receive one of the seven pictured here.