Piri Piri
The keeper of patterns
Nature of the plant
Piri Piri is a sedge with narrow blades and small root tubers. The Shipibo tend it in their gardens and distinguish many different varieties. The women in particular are connected with it. It is said to help them receive the kené patterns in dreams and visions. It stands for beauty, creative power and the knowledge of the female ancestors.
Inner attitude
Piri Piri is inconspicuous and fine. It grows close to the ground and keeps its knowledge in the tuber. It gives what ripens in silence.
The essential qualities
- creative
- fine
- receptive
- preserving
- beautiful
It carries the patterns before they become visible.
Meaning
Piri Piri calls when your creative power is asleep or you have lost the thread to your roots. It teaches you to receive instead of forcing – and shows that beauty grows out of listening.
Voice of the plant
«Listen. The pattern is already within you.»
Encounter & working together
You meet it in the garden and in your dreams. Look at a pattern in nature – bark, leaf, water – and let your hand draw something without thinking.
Pay attention to
- where your creative power wants to awaken
- what your dreams show you
- where you are connected with your ancestors
Piri Piri works when you are ready to receive.
Essence
I receive what wants to become beauty within me.
