Aspen grow as a collective, rising from the same interconnected root system. While they appear to be individual trees, they are, in fact, a single organism. The same is true of all life on this planet. While each species and individual emerges as a distinct expression of nature, all are woven from and inextricably held within life’s tapestry.

We are bound to one another by our breath, our hunger and our love.

Flora Luna’s Aspen essence, made on October’s Harvest Moon in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Santa Fe, is a meditation on letting go. In letting go, we reveal more of ourselves: vulnerable, gnarled, beautiful. In so doing, we become increasingly bare, allowing the space for that which longs to meet us.

“To be big, we must be bare.” -Annutara Lakshmin Naht

Autumnal Aspen reminds us not to rush, and that the process of letting go requires patience, rest and trust. In stillness there is movement. Aspens’ Goliath strength remains underground and invisible to the naked eye. So too is untold capacity that flows through each of us. Like Aspen, we carry the ability to shift great winds within and without when we align with the whole of nature’s wisdom and share our most valuable of resources: our gifts.

// This is an essence for those who feel lost or disconnected. For those who feel stuck. For those who have forgotten how to still. And, for those who, together, want to remember how to move as one. //

DIRECTIONS: Ingest 3-5 drops, up to 5 x a day. Drop under the tongue or add to tea or water. This essence can also be used topically and applied directly on the body (typically at the pulse points), added to a bath or on a pillowcase.

INGREDIENTS: Filtered Water, Artisanal Mezcal (27%), Raw Wildflower Honey, Essence of Aspen.