The North Within
Let the plants support you and guide you back to the wild nature inside of you, let them guide you to The North Within . . .
The North Within: a monthly subscription to learn about plants of the North through guidance and herbalism cards.
The North Within is available in Whitehorse!
We are so excited to be able to have our starter box available for purchase at the most magical shop in Whitehorse: Tagish Rocks in the Horwoods Mall. Make sure to stop by there next time you’re on Main Street and go on a treasure hunt!
If you have been curious about The North Within and wanting to see the cards and leaflets for yourself, come visit us at the following markets. We would absolutely love to see you 🙂
- 1-day Spruce Bog: Saturday, November 8th from 9:30am to 5pm at the Canada Games Centre in Whitehorse.
- Winterpine Market: Saturday, November 29th from 9:30am – 3:00pm at Dámbü Tän Kets’ádań Kų̀ — Cliff Trail Elementary School in Whistlebend in Whitehorse.
- Victoria Health Show: Saturday and Sunday, January 24-25 from 10am to 5pm at the Pearkes Rec Centre 3100 Tillicum Road in Victoria, BC.
If you have not had the chance to sign up for The North Within yet, follow this link:
“I love every part of my monthly package. Every detail is perfection. The art is exquisite. The guiding information resonates deeply. Even the quality of the cards makes them a sheer delight to hold! I’m grateful you both embarked on this journey and shared these gifts with the world!”
TNW Subscriber, Central Alberta
What is The North Within?
The North Within is a monthly invitation to deepen your connection to plants, nature, and the wild within you sent out to you in the form of beautiful collectible cards and guidance leaflets. Through them, you can learn about plants in an easy to digest way, focusing on one plant each month, taking the time to get to know them, learn from and about them, receive their medicine and wisdom, and deepen your connection with them in a meaningful and memorable way.
Each card depicts a plant of the northern wilderness we live in and is accompanied by a guidance leaflet with medicinal properties, plant spirit wisdom, and guidance, as well as associations. The cards can be used as oracle cards, to connect to the Plant Spirits through meditation or simply to learn about these plants and brighten your day with their inspiring beauty.
We are intending to create a monthly message from the wild for a total of four years and hope that you will stay on this magical journey with us!
To stay in the loop, we invite you to follow us on Facebook and Instagram and to sign up for The North Within Newsletter. We like it quiet, so we promise, we’ll only write when it matters 😉
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What The North Within is all about…
The web of life that surrounds us all and of which we humans are an integral part of, is always there to support us, to offer us guidance and wisdom, and to help us heal ourselves. Plants are the wise elders of this web and have much to share with us, through their physical, energetic, and spiritual beings. We are creating these cards to weave herbalism, plant spirit wisdom, and the healing beauty of nature together to help you connect to the wild within you and the loving plant elders of the northern realms.
The wild, whether it is found growing through a crack in the pavement, in a rugged northern landscape or at the core of our being, holds space for us to be who we are. It inspires us, gives us a sense of belonging to something greater, helps us trust in our true nature, and reminds us that we are supported. All we have to do is open our awareness and let our hearts feel it. And this is your monthly invitation to let the wild in.
In this fast-paced and overwhelming world, we are yearning for slowness, for quality time with ourselves and the healing beings of nature to create long-term connections. This mailer is made to help you slow down, spend quality time with your wild self and be part of a community of like minded souls and to bring you joy every month.
How It Works and What You Get
Once you are subscribed to The North Within, you will begin receiving monthly mailers from us for the length of your subscription. Each mailer will contain one Wild Guidance Card, one Wild Guidance Leaflet, and one Wild Herbalism Card. The first package you’ll receive will also contain boxes for the cards and introductory pages and binding for the Wild Guidance Leaflets to give you all you need to start collecting and working with the cards.
We are intending to create a monthly message from the wild for a total of four years, connecting deeply to 48 plant elders and leading to the creation of two 48 card decks on plants of the north. We hope that you will stay on this magical journey with us!
Wild Guidance Cards & Box
The pyrography artwork of these cards is created by the magical and talented Alida Asher. Her drawings are inspired by the plants she lives with, their personality and energy, and by what they chose to channel through. Every card depicts one plant and shows the common name and main meaning associated to the plant.
The cards are full-colour and printed on 350gsm 83mm x 121mm cards with matte soft touch lamination.
The box to collect the Wild Herbalism Cards in will be mailed out with the first month’s card. It is a tuck top box with a full-colour design made with coated 371gsm paperboard with matte soft touch lamination finish. The 89mm x 130mm x 44mm box will arrive flat in the first mailer, ready for you to assemble.
Wild Guidance Leaflets & Booklet
The writings of the guidance leaflets are composed by the wildly enchanted and ethereal Sylvie Gewehr, who merely puts to paper the wisdom shared by the plants through working and meditating with them. These will match the plants of the Wild Guidance Cards received each month. Some introductory pages will be sent out with the first mailer, to introduce the different elements of The North Within and give you some useful information on how to use the cards, meditate with plants, practice ethical wildcrafting, and make and use plant medicines.
The leaflets are double-sided and printed on off-white 120gsm 98mm x 121mm paper with a rough edge and two perforations to allow for binding with the two 9.5mm antique brass Chicago screw posts you will receive in the first mailer.
The front and back cover for the Guidance Booklet are full-colour prints on 284gsm 98mm x 121mm paper with two perforations and scoring so that the booklet opens easily. The introductory pages (12 in total) will also be printed on off-white 120gsm 98mm x 121mm paper with a rough edge and have two perforations.
Wild Herbalism Cards & Box
The front of these cards depicts the plant of the month in their natural habitat and can be used to visualize the plant for meditations without having to search for pictures of them on a screen or simply to be inspired by their beauty at any moment. The back gives you useful and ethical wildcrafting tips specific to this plant, a detailed medicine making recipe, as well as a list of their main medicinal properties and the body systems/organs they have affinities for. The contents of the Wild Herbalism Cards are curated to provide you with information that may not be easily found online.
The cards are full-colour and printed on 350gsm 83mm x 121mm cards with matte soft touch lamination.
The box to collect the Wild Herbalism Cards in will be mailed out with the first month’s card. It is a tuck top box with a full-colour design made with coated 371gsm paperboard with matte soft touch lamination finish. The 89mm x 130mm x 44mm box will arrive flat in the first mailer, ready for you to assemble.
What Our Subscribers Have to Say
“I love every part of my monthly package. Every detail is perfection. The art is exquisite. The guiding information resonates deeply. Even the quality of the cards makes them a sheer delight to hold! I’m grateful you both embarked on this journey and shared these gifts with the world!” – TNW Subscriber, Central Alberta
“I was out on a hike and I was able to share the uses and messages of five different plants that I didn’t know before! The fact that it is just one plant a month really makes the information stick and a whole new world is opening up to me just around my house now!” – TNW Subscriber, Scotland.
“Getting these every month reminds me that there is hope in the world. It lets me slow down for a moment and connect into the support that is right there around me.” – TNW Subscriber, Vancouver
Frequently Asked Questions
How many cards will there be in total?
Both your Wild Herbalism and your Wild Guidance deck will be complete at 48 cards/ months. Which comes to four years in total.
Why don’t you just offer the whole deck at once for sale?
In the year we sat with the creation of The North Within we realized that a big “why” for us is to help others slow down, to have some time and space and not contribute to the information overload so many of us are exposed to on a regular basis. We wanted people to have the space to learn about one plant at a time, knowing that then it was much more likely that the information and gifts from each plant would stay with them longer. We wanted people to actually walk away with more plant knowledge that would last. We aimed to support a slower form of consumerism and we also wanted our subscribers to have a gentle reminder and gift arrive to them every month that they could touch. That was uniquely curated with attention to every little detail. Yes, it takes more time and is more costly on our side, but staying true to what we really want people to be able to walk away with was key for us.
Can you find the whole decks anywhere else online?
No, both the Wild Herbalism deck and the Wild Guidance deck exist nowhere else in the world except for our wild plant subscriber community. We only order the cards 6 months in advance, so there is not even a digital version of the files existing yet. A lot of tarot and oracle decks have struggled with their decks being plagiarized. We will be able to protect these decks from that for at least 5 years. This model of distribution also helps us protect them that way. This is secret support just for you.
Who are we?
Alida grew up in the Yukon wilderness and has been blessed to spend a big portion of her life working as a remote wilderness guide all over northern Canada in a variety of settings, from extended horse-back trips and wilderness therapy to climbing and geology and forestry surveys. The wilderness is her home, her deepest love and her biggest source of joy and inspiration. She drags everyone she knows out there with her to try to help them touch and access the immense support and lightness she finds out there. This greatly inspires her work as a pyrography artist as she strives to create pieces that enable others bring a little piece of that wild magic and dynamic peace home with them.
Sylvie roamed European country sides in her childhood and there, had her first plant encounters and started down on the herbalism path. Over the years, she gradually wound her way to the Yukon and the Kluane mountain region she now calls home. Plants always remained an integral part of her life and she never stopped learning about, with, and from these beautiful beings. Amongst other things, human schools taught her biology, forest ecology, traditional herbalism, holistic healing, and sacred plant medicine. Most days, you’ll find her roaming the woods with twigs in her hair or meditating with a nice warm cup of herbal tea, when she isn’t trying to find ways to help people connect to the plant world.
