A dandelion seed goes on a journey!

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A dandelion seed goes on a journey!
Text: Ursula Frey
Illustrations: Guido Eickhoff

Much has been written about the healing properties of dandelion. It not only helps you on a physical level by cleansing and strengthening your body from the inside. If you engage with dandelion, you can learn a lot from it.

The flower, like you, wakes up in the morning to greet the sun; it loves the sun. A meadow full of dandelion flowers, beaming with the sun, simply puts you in a good mood and invites you to play. It closes its flower to protect it from rain, or when it is time to go to sleep in the evening when it gets dark.

Have you ever noticed that the dandelion symbolizes the sun through its blossom, the moon through the dandelion clock and the stars through the individual seeds that are scattered?

Through its adaptability and resilience, it shows you the courage to go your own way. Not to give up, even when things get tough. To welcome change. The dandelion grows almost everywhere.
Its irrepressible strength even allows it to grow through asphalt.

But through its seeds, it also shows you the lightness of being. Playing, laughing, having fun, the desire to discover new things again and again. Here, nature is your best friend and teacher. It also stands for transformation. If you look closely at the individual stages of the dandelion, you can see it too.

When you blow away the seeds, you can also bring your ideas and wishes into the world.

But the dandelion is not only an important plant for humans. It also serves as an important food source for bees and many other insects.
Young earthworms like to nibble on the fresh shoots of its roots.

We should finally stop treating our medicinal plants as weeds and fighting them. I am convinced that if we engage with them, we will experience true miracles at all levels.

Ursula Frey