This is juniper, one of the oldest plant allies we still walk beside. Long before modern systems of medicine, juniper was carried as smoke, as berry, as prayer. It has been used across cultures as a plant of protection, purification, and boundary. Burned to cleanse spaces. Hung in doorways. Brewed carefully when the body needed help letting go of what it was holding too tightly. The waxy, glaucous berries take years to mature. Nothing about juniper is rushed. Its medicine is slow, aromatic, pene