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Category: Nature Inspired Writing
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Lilith: The First Movement of Awareness
For millennia, humans have tried to make meaning of creation through myth, story, and religion. Some of these stories became cultural fact; others were buried or distorted. But the archetypes remain. They are not male or female. They are movements of psyche that live in all of us. Yin, Yang, and the Lineage of the…
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Lilith and the Worm Moon: Archetypes, Poetry, and Essential Oils for Rest and Inner Awakening
This year, as late winter sulked and sank in its usual heavy, water‑logged way, I found myself embracing this inevitable seasonal threshold; the time when “stirring beneath the surface” begins, when deep‑Yin feminine energy wakes and generates the first impulse toward awareness. This is Worm Moon time: sap rising inside the trees, worms moving underground,…
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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 plant and the essential oil from its seeds catalyzed mid-summer musings on my recent Luna Aroma podcast. What do you think about Queen Anne’s Lace: a pesky roadside weed or an elevating harbinger of womanhood…
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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 the most volatile components able to come over the still carried by water in its gaseous state: steam. Water and distillation are essential (pun intended) for obtaining essential oils and hydrosols from the wonderful aromatic…
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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 or possessions? It may be a sign to start tending to the roots of your private garden, your root chakra. Some ways to support the root chakra is connecting with the Earth, which includes working…
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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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