Tulsi morning.
It's not the first time I have come to the holy basil bed for support. My insides churn with all the feelings, it still amazes me how uncomfortable it can be, the heart space. Even though I try to live from it, even though it radiates in an easy way in general...when the gates to it's deeper watery caverns are opened, when I sit in it's less stalwart and stable places in messy, raw, real vulnerability, it's actually physically painful for me.
Not a bad kind of pain, in some ways it's delicious. It's the kind that shows me how to soften and unexpect and just be without overshining it with fire or shutting it down with air. Just grounding it with Earth for enough of a balm to stay present with it and not run away.
Thanks ever be to the plants that hold us in such deep support. Holding me tenderly in my tenderness this morning, Mama Tulsi, Queen of Herbs.
#growingwildfarm
#plantmedicine
#holybasil
#daughterofgaia
#earthschool
Hazy picture of a near full moon. Plus Jupiter (I think).
Plus town lights. Plus, more than I can say in an Instagram post.
All this summer that is barely summer contains all the multitudes of all the things. I untangle slowly under such skies, all the things. Never, never, I pray, let me be tangled again.
#uponthisearth
#undertheseskies
#growingeverwilder
These babes have fully turned to berries at this point. In the blink of an eye it seems. My arms are marked by their thorns. An enemy so sweet, so rugged, tough, and fierce. I don't know about your heart, today, but I know mine is floundering in the waters. You know what water does to fire, right? With so much ignition, how do I let be the softer side of things. I want to put up my thorns. It's easy, powerful medicine. But there are floods around the very center of things right now.
How soft I can be feels like building a monument to being human. Scratched up because I am tender and alive. Why not?
#cancerseason
#uponthisearth
#undertheseskies
#earthschool
#growingeverwilder
#humanthroughandthrough
Wait until you see tomorrow! Every sunny day is a tease and a promise of spring/summer to come.