Category: subtle body

botanical babe: Blue Cohosh

 

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Everything’s Unfurling // Blue Cohosh

This flower essence is for everyone but especially supportive for teens, peri-menopausal folks, and those of us who make queer magic. Blue cohosh flower essence supports us in sifting through the hesitancy or anxiety we might feel around sex and sexuality, particularly during times of transition, change, and growth, and encourages openness and acceptance of the sacred ways in which we are each made to contribute to the creative and sensual energies of the planet in this body and lifetime.

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botanical babe: Witch Hazel

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drawing upwards // Hamamelis spp.

 

When the first spring witch hazel flowers waves their soft fringes at you know maybe it’s going to be okay.

The physiological medicine of witch hazel’s astringency serves to draw lax or sagging tissues together, firming and supporting the structures of the body. In the subtle energetic body, the flower essence also acts in this drawing capacity. Whether pulling the soul upward from the darkness of winter or from a stuck or stagnant location where decision-making feels impossible, the flower essence of witch hazel encourages movement supported by grounded self-knowing and the cultivation of internal light which reaches for the external world. In this way, the flowers of Chinese witch hazel are applied to the subtle body for the purposes of composting, transforming, and releasing trauma and trauma-related stress from the cellular levels of the body.

 

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#herbsfortrauma #plantsgotyourback #queercare #resilience #plantmedicine #subtlebody #witchery

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botanical babe: Rosa rugosa


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rose dust // tending hearts since before our time



This Mercury retrograde of revisiting + rethinking has been a heart-wringer for all us resilient creatures.

Rose medicine brings warm comfort as we choose to return to our bodies each morning, as we stumble through navigating our own boundaries and one another’s. I’m learning to choose snow magic over fear of slipping on ice, an ongoing process for this lil Southerner, and I’m appreciating the tender rose thorns reminding me to stay open rather than succumbing to resentment from the heartache.

Bust & Mend Grief & Heartbreak Formula is going back up on the website asap, y’all, holler at us or visit the online apothecary for yours.

#rosarugosa #plantmedicine #queermagic #stayopen #goodboundaries #allies #witchery #takecare

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