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Category: Poetry
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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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Atlas Cedar Essential Oil
Cedar’s Medicine for a Deep Winter Season Deep winter has a way of slowing everything down — the body, the mind, the pace of life. This year, I’ve been living inside that deep‑yin stillness more than usual. The death of our beloved dog Nikki, an urgent health diagnosis for someone close to my heart, and…
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Yarrow Essential Oil
Beloved Yarrow. Its history is intertwined with human civilizations and the Earth’s ecology. From “the old English “gearwe” (which morphed to “Yarrow”) to casting its dried stalks as part of I ‘Ching divination, it has been a protective green ally spanning physical and spiritual healing over centuries and across cultures and continents. This article highlights…
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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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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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Your Other | Wild Side
How does Jungian shadow work (your wild side) intersect with a poem mentioning Basil, Rue and Teasel? This aromatic meditation contemplates this question and includes an essential oil blend to help bring out your wild side.
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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 up garbage. All sorts of detritus. Shells. I don’t think of them as detritus. More like mysterious beauties shrouded in juxtapositions: seemingly solid yet often easily crushed. Hard minerals yet ephemeral. Light in weight but…
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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: wabi sabi. This joy is not euphoria, but a brightness that brings a calm evenness. Little things that stay with you and help keep you going. Like seeing a hawk soar, collecting beach glass or…
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