Nettle

Nettle, nettle, nettle, So many healing properties; dry hot heat, energising, balancing, restoring. Good for the kidneys, the blood, the liver, hormones, digestion, convalescence, and musculoskeletal issues. Packed full of vitamins and minerals, glorious green chlorophyll, and phytochemicals. And yet the sting puts you off, keeps you back, makes you defensive, makes you want to …

dragonfly on wood

Change

There is a new energy being birthed through me. I thought I was dying, and it felt like annihilation. An erasing of all I was meant to be and had planned to be. A slow and painful losing of myself into the melding forces of the changing world around me. I did what I thought …

woman holding shard of light

Anger is a funny thing

Anger is always the enemy, the deadly force that you must hide or tether to piety like a runaway horse. Hot flaming anger burns through your body like blazing coals. Seething rolling anger bubbles below the surface like a geyser of sulphurous hurt and frustration. But anger also signals that a boundary has been crossed, …

flame

Keepers of the Flame

It feels like there is an ancient knowledge, an ancient language, an understanding of the world that is seeking to be expressed through me. And I wonder given all that I think I am (or not), why me. I used to ignore it, and ignore it, and ignore the whispers. But it wouldn’t go away, …

hands forming heart around the sun

Healing

The energies are strong right now. The world seems to be doubled over hobbling from crisis to crisis. And the politicians, the media, and world leaders are serving up an intensifying diet of fear, uncertainty, and increasing control. Most people are responding by doing what they’re told, hiding away, keeping their head down, quietly watching …