Don’t block yourself from what needs to happen – we often make things overly complicated in our heads, thinking our dominoes have to fall a certain way. Life rarely goes according to plan, so loosen your grip and be flexible!
BURDOCK – Harvest, purification, and attachment
MEANING: If you have chosen this card, it may mean that enough is enough, and that you need to consider freeing yourself of an influence or a habit that is no longer serving you, and which has now become toxic. Treat this as a process of harvesting and separate the wheat from the chaff. Recognize that even the most negative experiences offer valuable learning, and see if you can extract this learning so that you can move on to a new phase of life.
The Burdock propagates widely, because its burrs easily attach themselves to the fur of passing animals and “hitch a ride” far from home. The ease and simplicity of their attachment offers the perfect image of the way in which we can sometimes, with minimum effort, be carried into new territory in our lives. If this occurs unconsciously, we can find ourselves in difficulty, but if we attach ourselves with awareness and with a light touch to ideas, projects, and people whom we trust, we can achieve far more than if we remain isolated.
THE CARD: The card shows Greater Burdock during the time between the two Druid festivals of Lughnasadh on Aug. 1, which marks the start of the harvest season, and Alban Elfed at the Autumn Equinox on Sept. 21-22, which marks its end. Beside it grows a Dandelion, a plant with and similar properties to Burdock which was once combined with it to create a popular soft drink and a potent wine. Dandelion was used by the Physicians of Myddvai and was almost certainly used by the ancient Druids as both food and medicine.
The Druid Plant Oracle by Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm, art by Will Worthington
Parting the Mists 
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