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Category: Nature Inspired Writing
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A Poem for Queen Anne’s Lace
Welcome to musings and a poem inspired by the virtues of Queen Anne’s Lace and Carrot seed essential oil. Both
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Earth Day: On Plants and Their “USES”
What’s a plant “good for”? This brief article considers how plants exist for themselves and are beings to cherish and work with, not use.
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Finding Alchemical Gold
Alchemy is often referenced when discussing the Arts of Distillation, Herbalism and Aromatherapy. All of these practices involve practical transformation such as tincture making and distillation. They also embody the axiom that energy is neither created nor destroyed, where energy may be transmuted on practical (physical), conceptual and spiritual levels. This energy ebbs and flows…
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Distillation: Dancing with Plants and Water
The Poetically Elemental Essence of Distillation Working with aromatic plants and their distilled essences is poetry. We are in-touch with
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Hecate Illuminates Transitions and Darkness
Darkness and illumination. These words resonate with the Autumnal Equinox. That time of year when nights slowly become longer, plants shed their leaves and energy goes down to the roots. This time is under the auspice of the Hecate archetype, which has fascinated me for years. I finally took time to understand what this figure…
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Root Chakra Rituals
Have you ever felt “out of sorts,” like you’re “living in your head,” “ungrounded” or tightly clenching to concepts, ideas
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Aromatherapy For Transformation
Change. There are times it comes with warning. Other times with a sudden breathless strike. Regardless, how do we cope with the aftermath? Symbols may help us articulate and see. Tools such as Aromatherapy may help us manage how we cope with change and associated stress. This article explores these themes and offers aromatherapy blending…
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A Haiku: Laughing With Yarrow
Yarrow, the plant of “thousands of leaves” may bring an element of healing and protection to your life. This post includes an aromatherapy blend for a mood mist.
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Shells: A Haiku & Ruminations
Many things may be found along Earth’s shorelines, where rocks and sand meet the rolling waters edge. Shells, rocks, washed
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Broken Bits of Joy: A Haiku
It can be easy finding moments of clarity and joy. Not in big, expensive things but in small broken things:
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