Pashaca
The keeper of swift new beginnings
Nature of the tree
In Amazonia, pashaca or pashaco is the name given to several large trees of the legume family. They grow quickly towards the light, often where the forest has opened up after a storm. Their leaves are fine and bipinnate, their seeds ripen in long pods. In Amazonian plant medicine, the pashaca is counted among the trees one learns with.
Inner attitude
The pashaca does not hesitate. Where light falls in, it grows. It accepts the gap that life leaves it.
The essential qualities
- emerging
- light-seeking
- confident
- light
- courageous
It grows where something has opened up.
Meaning
The pashaca calls when something has collapsed and you do not know how to go on. It teaches you to see the opening that every loss also brings – and to grow towards the light.
Voice of the tree
«Where something has fallen, light falls in. Grow towards it.»
Encounter & working together
You meet it in clearings and at the edges of the forest, where young trees strive upwards close together. Find a place where a tree has fallen and look at what is growing there anew.
Pay attention to
- where something in your life is opening right now
- where you hesitate although the light is already there
- where an ending wants to become a beginning
The pashaca works when you are ready to see the gap as space.
Essence
I grow towards the light that falls through the opening.
