People often ask me, kindly and with understandable confusion:

Wait… what exactly do you do again?
I thought you did hypnosis.
Or tarot?
Or herbalism?
Now dreamwork?

The truth is, I have never fit neatly into a single box.

I am, and perhaps always have been, relentlessly curious—about consciousness, about the nature of reality, about the strange and subtle ways mind, energy, symbol, language, and intention shape human experience.

My interests have taken me in many directions. And yet, when I look back, there is a thread that has been quietly weaving through it all:

A lifelong fascination with dreaming.

Years ago, at a time when I felt deeply lost—unrooted, uncertain where I belonged—I asked my dreams a simple question:

Show me where I belong.

That night, I dreamed of a hillside.

A meadow sloping downward, crossed by stone walls. A forest behind me. An old oak tree nearby. The land rolling in soft, uneven hillocks toward distant mountains, with a bright eastern horizon beyond them.

The whole place held a feeling I can only describe as home.

When I woke, I was confused.

The landscape was unfamiliar. It didn’t match anywhere I knew, though something about it stirred a deep memory of belonging.

Months later, I stood on a hill in Vermont for the first time.

And everything in me went still.

The oak tree.
The mountains.
The shape of the land.
The light.

I had seen it before.

My dream had brought me there before my waking life did.

That experience changed the way I understood dreams.

Not as puzzles to decode—but as living, responsive oracles. Something we can enter into relationship with. Something that can guide us, if we learn how to listen.

Over the years, I’ve deepened that relationship through the practice of dream incubation—the art of asking dreams for guidance and receiving meaningful responses in return.

It’s not always easy. It takes time to build the habits of recall, and the patience to let meaning unfold.

But again and again, I’ve found:

It is worth the work.

Dreams have offered me insight, healing, direction. They have introduced me to guides, to symbolic languages, to ways of knowing that extend beyond the rational mind.

And sometimes, they change the course of a life.

This is just one story.

On my blog, I’ve begun sharing more about this path—about dream incubation, plant allies in dreamwork, and the deeper art of relating to dreams as a living practice.

If you’re curious to explore further, you can read more here:

→ www.botanicamystica.org/blog

Most dreamers know that intention is everything in the dreamworld.

When we are dreaming, our thoughts become reality. When we want to fly, we don’t strain our muscles—we simply think fly, intend it clearly and firmly, and our bodies lift. The dream responds.

It sounds simple.
But clarity is rarely simple.

Learning to shape intention, to make space and time for dreaming, and to train awareness without forcing it—these are the subtle disciplines. This is where many dreamers falter or give up. 

When I began dedicating myself to the practice of intentional dreaming, I knew I couldn’t do it alone. I turned to plants as allies to help quiet my mind, gather my focus, and bring healing, protection, elemental power, and green vitality into my dream life.

Plants know how to move between worlds. They know how to shift our state. 

This spell arose while I was writing Herbal Dream Magic—my new book that is being released this fall – as an incantation to open sacred dreaming space, to mark the beginning of a dream ritual, and to invite the wisdom of the living green earth into the dreamtime. It is meant to be spoken slowly, with intention, as a way of signaling to both body and spirit: the dream gate is opening now.

A seasonally inspired poem on the theme of the dark and light in these turbulent times. As the wheel turns, the plants die, but the magic persists.

All in all, rosehips are green witch treasures. They are potent little seed-bearing jewels of the meadow. They are trailsides gems, hidden in plain sight. They can empower you, beautify you, protect you and those you love, help you attract a beloved or gain a fortune, heal you and nourish your body, heart and soul.

Botanical dream incubation and lucid dream techniques with reishi mushroom. Medicinal benefits of ganoderma lucidum

wild foraged greens, nettles and spring flowers, tarot deck

When I was in college studying literature and poetry, I used to fantasize about being able to write openly and freely on the subjects I was really passionate about. But at that time, if you went around talking freely about speaking with trees or doing magic with plants, no one took you seriously, or worse: your credibility was pretty much shot.

Transmuting March madness into March magic and 8 simple ways to harness the power of the vernal Equinox.

A beginner’s look at the Celtic tree oracle system known as the Ogham.

The art of botanical divination, or botanomancy, across the ages and seasons. Learn to work with plants to tune into your intuition.

In the deep of winter, my favorite time of day to do divination is right after sunset, when the sky turns to silk and the clouds bedeck themselves in the gilded finery of twilight.