If we do not know the names of the plants around us, if we do not acknowledge the individualistic curl of a leaf or creep of a rhizome, they all run together and look like a wall of greenery. That’s where we start to generalize, lumping anything without a showy flower into the category of “Weed”. Nettle will have none of this. PAY ATTENTION! she admonishes. We’re all different all unique. Nettle says acknowledge your individuality treat yourself with respect and that is what you will attract. Nettle reminds us to see individuality and treat the world around us accordingly. If nettle is pricking you, pause and pay greater attention! Nettle asks you to see you the inner you. And acknowledge to be seen. Walk through the world with the presence of who you are, higher self and soul and be seen as such.
Nettle medicine is both vast and fundamental. She gifts us the building blocks needed for healthy soil. Because she is not showy or flashy, she’s not often grown in the garden and her sting pushes her to the outskirts of civilization. But once known she is beloved.
Nettle asks, have you become invisible to you? She reminds us of the gifts we are missing when we stop seeing individuality.
