🌸 BELTAINE HERBAL BUNDLE 🌸
In just shy of two weeks, it will be Beltaine. May Day. The gateway to summer, ushered in with the sun in Taurus vibes, Rose's right around the corner, the Hawthorne blossoms. Like its counterpart on the opposite side of the wheel--Samhain, Day of the Dead, All Hallow's Eve--this is a magical gate, a thinning of veils. Alive with Fae energy, ripe with the Earth rejoicing and inviting us into the luxurious space of warmer days.
It's also a busy time out here on the farm, and my daughter's birthday, so I am sending out the note for this earlier than usual, so that it's not squeezed in to a full schedule, but bottled and ready with the ease of time. Plus, I've been excited putting it together and am just all around ready for May ☀️ 😍🌹 It's focused on florals, because this time of year is about flowering, and these colorful delightful sexy parts of the plant world are particularly pleasing to the fae and Venus, the ruler of Taurus season. Yum 💖
INCLUDES:: DANDELION BLOSSOM VINEGAR:: Not at all sweet, but the energetics of dandelion are always playful as well as determined to THRIVE. This bitter vinegar is a great digestive stimulant and perfect for spring salads and greens.
SPRING FLOWER INFUSED HONEY + LEMON BALM SYRUP::This one is sweet and syrups are such a nice way to take in medicine. Local honey infused with violets and crab apple blossoms with lemon balm, preserved with a bit of brandy. Add to tea or make it the star of a cold beverage, top desserts or pancakes with it, or just sip with a spoon and ENJOY!
RITUAL BATH SALT:: With catnip, damiana, and crab apple blossoms, this salt is infused with herbs to draw you into the sensuality of this season. Full of prayers to Venus that we can be participants and cocreaters, in our own unique ways, with mama Earth as she does her May magic.
TULSI (HOLY BASIL) ELIXER:: Elixers are extractions into alcohol and honey. Made with fresh plant, this tastes divine much like Tulsi Herself. Such an amazing herb. I write on the side of the bottle, for all that ails you. It is deeply balancing, does wonder for the stress response, builds the whole you with steady strengthening. 👇👇👇
Spring power players 🌱💚🌱
(nettles, chickweed, and cleavers)
The explosion of color that all the blossoms are may call the spirit out of winter's quiet internal work, coaxing the child inside to remember bursting again, but it is these green wildlings that show up to help our bodies shake off its dust.
To ease the discomfort of such a massive transition this one is-- from the utter end, which is an almost nothingness, a blurry nondivision, one with waterallness, to a first breath topside on land, alive, fresh fire, beginagaining.
Use the plants. I hear this even in my own days, more and more and more connection. They mirror our journey, we are here together. Family. Mutually supportive, deeply instructive, all encompassing earth line.
Outside your door, your very own door, there is medicine beyond this symptom or that. The healing comes in the re-becoming a member of this wild home we share with each other.
#growingwilder
#animalofearth
#plantfriends
#relationshipmedicine
#aroundthewheel
#sidebyside
Trying to understand this quiet, in the midst of all of life unfurling. The dreaming thicker than the sprout. The lingering Pisces energy still sticking your tongue, despite the sun's shift to fiery Aries. All disorienting.
The end of the zodiac (Pisces) is so undone, disembodied, with it present, what can we learn while not so patiently waiting to ignite?
It's not a comfortable vibe, always, being that we are in bodies here, and meant to be. It's quite the heart tug, and not in a passionate way. There's a lot of ache in the ethereal right now, and we have buried the ache for millenniums at this point. It hurts to move it out of the ground through these physical expressions we are and let it release.
The thing is, that's just what the rest of what's here does, without making it look hard. Dead all winter, the buds transmute into blossoms which become luscious delicious blessed fruit. Resurrection may have been hijacked, but it is the most dependable earthly birthright. It just doesn't happen without the magic of death and compost and the limbo just before.
Remember?
#allthisastrology
#liketheearth
#transmutation
#theearthismagic
#wearemagic
#lessonsfromthewheel
#daughterofgaia
#growingwilder
Winter Sunsets over our Seasonal Wetland
Winter Plenty
Sweet Frosty Bird
Ducks in the Lower Field
Cold Chicken
Snowy Leeks
Buried Trike
Making Christmas Presents
“School”
A Citrusy Winter Treat
Beautiful pictures. I love the chicken picture and the kitchen still life. Oh, and the first one too. All really great.
Thanks Tonia!