Parting the Mists

Happy Monday! Today, we have a somewhat grounding card, as well as a healing one.

Comfrey (Meacan Dubh)

Structure, Ancestral Foundations, Fusion (also Surrender, Separateness, Individuality)

Meaning: Such is the power of Comfrey that it can at both upon the surface and deep within the body. It soothes and heals the skin, but also succeeds in reaching the skeleton to ease aching joints and to help fuse broken bones. If you have chosen this card, it may mean that you need to attend to both the outward manifestation of an issue and the deep structure or underlying cause. Bones and skeletons symbolize the basis and foundation of things, and they represent our link with the Ancestors too. It may be that the issue you are dealing with is ancestral in origin and that you need to research your family history, or perhaps take the skeleton out of the closet to heal an old wound and then rebury the bones, not in the closet but with proper ceremony in the ground outside.

Alternatively, the card may indicate fusion or union between two concepts, organizations, or people. Strength and healing can emerge out of union confirming the old adage that “the whole is great than the sum of its parts.”

This card might also be telling you that the goal of mysticism is to merge your identify with God – or Goddess – and the goal of romantic love is to merge with your lover, if you wish to live effectively in the world you also need to retain a sense of your individual identity. Romantic love and an intense pursuit of mystical experiences can make us temporarily “ill.” It is possible that you’re having diffilculty balancing the need for a strong sense of self with the need for letting go off our sense of self to merge with another person or a deity. Perhaps you sometimes feel so close to someone that your identities seem to merge, and you then have difficulty in feeling a complete person when you are on your own. To live happily and effectively in the world, we need to somehow treat the path of both surrendering to something greater than ourselves, whether than be a relationship, and ideal, or the Divine – and sensing ourselves as unique, separate, and responsible individuals.

The Druid Plant Oracle by Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm and artist Will Worthington