As Christmas approaches and homes fill with evergreen boughs, candlelight, and quiet anticipation, one plant appears again and again—often playful, sometimes overlooked, yet deeply ancient in spirit: mistletoe. Suspended between earth and sky, bearing white berries in the dead of winter, mistletoe has long been regarded as a plant of thresholds, peace, and sacred possibility. Unlike most plants, mistletoe does not root itself in the soil. It grows upon trees, drawing nourishm