Green Gold: A Plant Spirit Oracle: Ancestral Wisdom & Ethno-Botanical Healing

A sixty-eight card deck and guidebook to help reconnect you with the ancient wisdom of our oldest ancestors on earth―plants!In Afro-Indigenous traditions, nature is understood to be our original family―and Green Gold is the first system to unite the ancient systems of the Bakongo cosmogram and the Taino medicine wheel from a botanical lens.At the heart of indigenous traditions is a reverence for nature as our original family. Yet this experience of connection can be hard to access in the modern world without guidance. Green Gold: A Plant Spirit Oracle provides a portal for accessing divine ancestral knowledge, unlocking creative solutions for transforming your reality.The journey begins with a purpose-driven guidebook that grounds you in a sacred bond with Earth and each other. It explores ancestral archetypes, astrological rulers, lands of origin, place within the cosmic wheel, and ritual affirmation for cocreating with the cycles of nature. Each of the accompanying sixty-eight cards portrays a sacred plant ally for use with these traditions.The cosmic wheel places each botanical into one of four quadrants: seed, root, bloom, and leaf. Each of these growth phases is tied to personal spiritual growth and healing and ancestral wisdom that the author expands upon in the book. This framework is based on Taino medicine wheel as well as the Bakongo cosmogram, a four-quadrant symbol that depicts the physical world (upper two quadrants) and the spiritual/ancestral world (bottom two quadrants), as well as the four seasons of the sun and the four elements.For over a decade, Star Feliz has served as a healer in community organizing spaces in their native New York City, channeling the spirits of plants to help people reconnect with their ancestral roots and discover their personal power. Descended from the Afro-Taino cimarrónes of the Bahoruco Mountains in the Dominican Republic, Star carries the wisdom of generations, inherited from practices passed down by their mother and grandmother. Read more