::Firsts:: Because Solstice is just around the corner
And summer has glided in on wind swirled evening oaks, landing so sweetly, so softly, this year.
A gift for my body, my heart, easing into the work.
And the first of our oh so many to come, late afternoon hop on down to the river cool downs. While the kids splashed, looking up at the cottonwood leaves dancing, I thought I spied up on a cliff some nettle, and wanted to go see about nibbling some of the seed if so. What I thought I saw was a different plant, unknown.
Who I found had called me up there instead, Hypericum. A lovely little patch 💛
Denizen of solstice, friend of my soul.
#livingunderthissky
#earthschool
#mayweallseewearethisheld
#growingwilder
SUMMER SOLSTICE PLANT + STORY MEDICINE OFFERING::
Another turn of the wheel approaches, the quizzical Midsummer's eve, when the sun has it's fullest day, and still, after this we start the move towards dark, but have what is actually Summer weather and energy upon us in earnest, nearly until equinox.
I'd like to say this turn is the easiest, most fluid. I feel so very well under the sun. But know that these are energetically stretching days in the complete opposite way winter solstice inner work is stretching. It's all a kind of growth, that's what the wheel is about. Longest sun feels as holy in depth as darkest night. Under both, we are seeing more, all, the most. Now, in an outward way. The mini-zine that comes with the bundle will talk mostly about this aspect of the next few months, plus tell the plants' tales, as they prefer 💚
The herbal goods will be:: Nettle, calendula, and heirloom rose tea. Deeply nourishing, building energy reserves for long days, soothing mucous membranes inside, invigorating and refreshing served cold on warm summer afternoon. Mildly helpful for seasonal allergies over the course of many weeks. Generally delicious.
Herbal Vinegar::Summer fiery cider (Lovage, Chives, Hot pepper) OR Wild Mustard Family (arugula, bittercress, broccoli flower). Both food medicine, delicious on salad, splashed on cooked greens, used in sauces, etc. Both great to clear sinuses, and bring warmth, which can seem counter-intuitive in the hot months, but is great for invigoration on long days.
Just Plantain Summer First Aid Salve::for summertime skin ouchies. I love plantain alone and I love these small tin sliding cases for keeping in my purse when I leave the farm or easily in pocket when outdoors 💚
Tansy+Feverfew smoke bundle OR home love hanging bundle. For keeping clear energy always, inscects out, and air fresh. These stronger aromatics serve as great threshold keepers. Practically and energetically.
Sweet woodruff ritual enjoyful bath salt.
Lovage+Calendula OR Chive+Cornflower Finishing Celtic Sea Salt. $50.
+$5 if shipped. Reserved by payment (square/paypal) Local delivery. I am running out of room, so please dm questions, to order!!
For you. For us 🌹💖🌹 If only I could hand it to all, this scent.
The smell of the roses in my house have so very literally been holding me through this particular tunnel of time. The way the full moon came in conjunct my neptune and knocked me off my feet, unmoored, and certainly unsure. The way I felt so much pain, the deep, seemingly inescapable pain, of this lost society we've built...not my own pain, really, luckily, with us mostly actively choosing to live outside of it all. But felt, emphatically, for the all. For all the humans, every single one, I love.
For my teenage sons, their community. For the reality I see beyond my immediate reality--which is honestly so beautiful, this earth, the plants, my personal circles, such cultural outsiders this whole time. These choices, protective, I see so clearly, now. But protecting self...it's still a losing game.
And are we only losing? Or are you flipping out about it all? Like me, this particular tunnel of time.
I wish I could be happy, to have secured happiness for myself...but, I can't.
We, can't. It's not how we are built.
That's why we all feel so miserable. Too many sacrifices.
We are freaking beautiful beings, like these roses, so ever on offer, and why? Because we are meant to. And, together.
May we ever be well?
May we ever be free?
May we ever be at least able to not suffer at the hands of those who care for nothing and take all and leave us hollow, spent, scared?
May it ever fucking be so. Prayers upon prayers, but not the kind that have sucked us dry.
#dohashtagshelp
#notfeelingittoday
My teenage boys as wees! Just us, the first four. Maybe 2-3-ish days into our Oregon lives.Before so very much. Mama 28, papa (always upset to get his picture taken) 26, Olorin 3, Luca 6 months.
The fierceness and purity of all of the love at this point ❤ It's amazing and hard and beautiful and hurting, to remember.
I loved this all::baby boys, wild creatures, cuddled and touching and in tune and so divine, nothingness and beingness, mothering ease. And our family still okay with not needing much more than adventure and life....not more money, better work, stiffling jobs, hard ass entrepreneurship, endless dinners and dishes and laundry. I guess that's how everything perfect and good and on purpose starts, a neptunisian bit removed from day to day reality.
And, I will not lie one bit, this time right now, these teen years, gah! I almost hate to hear--an emotional response I don't actually condone--the parents whose teens are somehow perfect and unchallenging and everyone not all the fuck around confused. In these times, how do you hold kids to anything, when the whole world feels crumbling down...and how do you let go of the hearts you've placed outside your body... when it's not all follow the straight line meditate and do service project activist good grades ready for amazingness stuff so perfect and so wonderful...rather just real and Real. And doing the best everyone can in this place in this time?
Not that these very hard for me (for my mama heart) times can't be seen through a larger lense, where I know how great these boys are! How, listen!
I would--rather do, emphatically!--trust them and all the youth, with the future over most anyone over 30. I honor their knowing and reality way beyond mine, because eldership doesn't really apply right now, and these kids are born into the shit well prepared to solve or deal with things realistically, unlike so many of us, optimism like a veil, or worse, real ignorance of what they live.
This photo gets me in all the ways. That optimism I was fueled on had me thinking we'd have the world done saved by the time their time came. But whatever, can we be as real as them? That's what I ask myself on the daily.
Not surprised at all at this pull from this morning. This full moon in Sagittarius has had a razor's edge of no room for bullshit. And this dear Queen--who I never would have pulled three years ago!--draws swift and protects, hearts and space and time, all that stuff you need to keep safe for yourself in this mad world, to do your duty here.
Under the dark and light, the Moon card 💖 I can't ever go for a reading of this being negative. That's only for those afraid of the limineal space we walk with the Moon, without our rational mind and uber-hyper modern control habits, and of the deeply intuitive strength we all carry within. It's a power card to me, it is a way I think is important to walk. It's not too scary, only in the right ways.
Go there, your Queen of Swords will guard your quest. (Just fullmooning over here. And harvesting/processing roses.) #fullmoondistillation
#growingwildfarm
#rosesandthequeenofswords
#tarotandthemoon
More wild rose porn.
For no good reason except just because.
I MEAN!
Look at those sweet buds 💞
And those righteous pokes 💖
Just a small part of what wild rose medicine is is sweet ease.
This very beginning taste of summer, that hasn't yet gotten us to the heights we go to of FULL ON EXPOSURE at the outermost point of the spiral....ah! Just thinking of it makes me, a summer born gal swoon with yes and let's get there!
But.
This season, wild rose season, it's all hints and gentle caresses. It's romancing ourselves with song and scent down country roads towards that extra-outward nakedness we get to indulge in--as well as push ourselves towards; courageous enough to be unafraid to feel, fully, open hearted and sure--that high summer good medicine--it's this that the roses coax us towards at this time of year.
Sensually seductive, fully secured.
Blooming in L.O.V.E. In balance of earth AND sun, but as a calling, to stir the soul more and into this sun time a coming.
Mmmmm 🌹💓🌹 ☀️💛☀️ #aroundthewheel
#wildroseseason
#rosemedicine
#onthecuspofsummer
#growingwild
#letitallin
#letitallout
Wait until you see tomorrow! Every sunny day is a tease and a promise of spring/summer to come.