Herbal Wisdom For Every Season of Life
She saw the devil in it. I see an old friend — this is grandmothers’ herbal wisdom, plain and simple. Welcome back to another dose of grandmothers’ herbal wisdom. Some…
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“In February, when the light is thin, you take down that red jar — and you are holding the third week of June in your two hands.”
“The rare moon is a doorway. And rare moons open onto rare possibilities. The things we have been carrying privately, year after year, deserve a doorway sometimes.”
“For those of us navigating intensity — planetary, personal, or simply the wild energy of early spring — they offer exactly what Aries fire sometimes forgets to give itself: steadiness, and release.”
“Dandelion is the plant that will not be erased. Every attempt to remove her simply disperses her further — her seeds carried on the wind, landing in new places, beginning again.”
“The moon is the anchor. The turning of the light is the medicine. The resurrection — whatever tradition names it, whatever language your heart speaks — is written into the sky.”
“You are not emptying yourself. You are making room. There is a difference, and it lives in the body.”
“You do not have to make noise to be ready. You do not have to announce your beginning. You can simply begin.”
“Trees don’t die from the present. They die from what happened in the past — slowly, quietly, underground, where no one was watching.” It is snowing outside my studio window…
“Not knowing is not the same as being lost.” In a week that feels mentally loud and energetically unsettled, this episode is an invitation to slow down and strengthen the…