Yes! Lemon Balm... dreamy enlivening consciousness awakening Lemon Balm. One of my deepest loves. I love hearing which plants my friends resonate with, it adds another layer of intimacy 🌿
Oooh Blue Flax! I will explore and see, thank you for the breadcrumb INTO a new connection. My favorites list is infinite haha! And very much seasonally expressed. Thank You for tuning IN and giving LOVE!
Oooh I love when embodied magic waves through my body!! Are you feeling dormant GIFTS of yours surfacing? Or fluent GIFTS leading you INTO a new expression of magic?
The embodied waves were so wonderful They brought about the sweet remembrance (yay for bringing that up twice in one day! 🤗) of the gifts of my connection with the ancestors.
Ill be posting the Plant Harmony's Calendula class next week AND I am brewing ideas about how to create LIVE classes diving DEEP into plant guidance with intimate circles of resonant plant lovers. Calendula is helping me find my confidence ALIVE in my solar plexus!
I am sitting here listening to your beautiful voice and invitation to blossom-to open myself up and feel full and in bloom. It is an interesting invitation, as I live in the Southern Hemisphere. We are officially still in Winter, and while the stirings of Spring have appeared I still feel that I have been "deep in my void" as you so beautifully expressed. I slowly come out of my void to embrace your words: "WHAT ARE THE LAYERS THAT LEAD TO BLOOMING?" "BLOSSOMING IN MY GIFTS IS NOT A FIXED MOMENT" "HOW DO MY GIFTS WISH TO BE EXPRESSED?"
So I sit with all of that as Winter slowly ends and Spring slowly comes and I invite the Darkness of the Winter Void to germinate what else it needs so that I can come out and feel the sun upon my face and begin to grow stronger and stronger.
And while there are Winter Flowers in bloom in my inner garden, they are there to remind me of colour and life-force as I go deep into the Void of this particular season.
You have, in your sharing, placed wholesome nutrients on my inner garden.
I love that you have described the Winter Garden blooming INSIDE of You!!! Wow, I have not ever thought of the internal garden blooming while deep IN my Void. But in truth, there IS life blooming in the winter too. It looks different, it FEELS different, but life is alive and happening in all seasons. Death is feeding life in all seasons. This share is urging me to always add the inverse medicine to every theme, to listen with the spectrum of learning so that all seasons apply!! Thank YOU!
Thank you Rhiannon, what a beautiful invitation. I love the part around the stages of becoming. Being with the whole process. From seed to blossom! And the initiations that our needed, the alchemy that removes the dross from the gold, making our gifts more possible and available.
The initiations feel like an emphasis of learning for me. As I lean into each stage of growth, or better said, the symphony of growth stages I experience as I am in many at once... I am learning that the initiations are a necessity. The ways my journey asks me to integrate, to literally alchemize IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. That is how becoming/blossoming happens. And it can be super uncomfortable!!!!
Yes they can be really uncomfortable! To remove dross from gold takes an extremely hot fire. I use this analogy a lot because I used to work with metals, in what seems like a lifetime ago I was a jeweler. Anyways, quite the experience to be in the beauty of the blossoming while also being in a very difficult and challenging rite of passage, trial by fire! One does not discount the other. Both happening. As the cycles do too. The Blossom calling for the bud to bloom... Loving your offerings!
Amy!!! I love how many plants you recognize :-) The Artichoke looking plant is actually a giant Marigold!! This is my garden from last year, and this little zone was a favorite due to all the interweaving plants! Some of which showed up on their own 🌿 This part of the garden helped me see and feel how much I love diverse wildness in my landscapes. Interplanting, companion planting, beneficial pairing.... Lots of beautiful learning with this!
Yes I love that look too...my husband not so much. I like the plants to make friends and then I become inspired by combinations for plant medicine products!
Oh your voice is so soothing, true balm for the heart and soul when I listen. I really loved the integration piece as I feel like this stage in my life is all about that... and I also find myself feeling wobbly and unsure of what my Gifts even are when I listen... I still wonder if I have fully excavated them and the clarity over them in this season in my life isn’t crystalline. Definitely contemplations to explore, thank you for sparking enquiry within xxx
This is such an honest truth about coming INTO clarity with our Gifts. Truly they are ever present medicine that is the constant of our Wholeness. Yet as we move through life, naming our Gifts takes on various melodies and shapes. I have always found it challenging to SAY what it is I do within my Gifts. People FEEL it when they engage with my magic, it's palpable and I KNOW that. But how do I explain and express this uniquely woven magic that is ME? I imagine YOU KNOW your Gifts in the ways you need to in this moment, and the journey INTO more clarity is the pathway of becoming that will lead your Wholeness into the next depth of integration.
Thank you! I was reflecting over it since I listened and really remembering my gifts as a feeling instead of trying to label them! You are right... people feel them... even if they aren’t a clearly ‘packaged’ item!!! And it does feel like life is a treasure hunt of unearthing them so there is no rush to know it all in one moment! Xx
Exactly!! The journey with our Gifts is Lifelong , maybe even Lifetimes long. It's really just about becoming ourselves over and over and over again through each season and layer of our being. And people 100% feel us, thats how resonance happens. When someone FEELS our field, they know if there is a synergy there for them to explore within. I get why the whole "branding" and "packaging" thing is so pushed, because we are trying to capture an Essence for people to FEEL a resonance through the interwebs. I think the issue is, we can't be put in a box. We need spaciousness and flexibility within how we express ourselves, we need the option to let it be dynamic and FULL with various threads of magic. The "niche" is ME, my Wholeness. And all my curiosities and skills and gifts and desires come together to weave the magic of my medicine. And how I steward that, changes as I change. We need to let that be normal, and encourage creatives to shapeshift and become. Listen less to the details of the brand and more to how we FEEL when we engage with someones magical field.
Absolutely! That’s exactly what I try to do with my design clients... unearth a visual identity that is flexible enough to evolve with them and gives them a sacred structure to create within... BUT feels like it’s a little way of transmitting that essence and wholeness! I love the idea of stewarding it all!!!! Xx
Do prefer it as a tincture, a tea, a flower essence? I've worked with St Johns primarily as an oil and I do always have the tincture in hand for those moments of needing the light of the sun to infuse into my emotional depths!
Vanessa!!! You are making my day :-)
I see my friend lemon balm in that lovely garden!
Yes! Lemon Balm... dreamy enlivening consciousness awakening Lemon Balm. One of my deepest loves. I love hearing which plants my friends resonate with, it adds another layer of intimacy 🌿
It really does. I'm curious to hear what others resonate with!
It looks like beautiful blue flax ❤️. My favourite always depends on the season. Love your photos and writing x
Oooh Blue Flax! I will explore and see, thank you for the breadcrumb INTO a new connection. My favorites list is infinite haha! And very much seasonally expressed. Thank You for tuning IN and giving LOVE!
Beautiful! Your voice is so nourishing!
Thank You!! 💞
So beautiful, I love this theme, it feels so right for August! Look forward to exploring 🌾✨
I would love to hear your reflections as they emerge and take shape!!
This gave me chills and grounded me so wonderfully this evening. Thank you! 💖
Oooh I love when embodied magic waves through my body!! Are you feeling dormant GIFTS of yours surfacing? Or fluent GIFTS leading you INTO a new expression of magic?
The embodied waves were so wonderful They brought about the sweet remembrance (yay for bringing that up twice in one day! 🤗) of the gifts of my connection with the ancestors.
Oooooh! A conduit for ancestral Wisdom. Love that!
Your voice is so soothing! Love the depth you invoke in these theme posts ✨️
Awwww shucks! Thank YOU 💞
When is the Calendula plant learning class?!
Ill be posting the Plant Harmony's Calendula class next week AND I am brewing ideas about how to create LIVE classes diving DEEP into plant guidance with intimate circles of resonant plant lovers. Calendula is helping me find my confidence ALIVE in my solar plexus!
Ooh yay for ALL the classes! Calendula loving you well!
Blue Flax!?
Yes! Inanna's Daughter identified the mystery flower!! I googled and there it was, a whole new friend to learn about!'
Fabulous Rhiannon, I can already feel it soothing my soul!
There is something incredibly soothing about becoming an embodied expression of our gifts. A liberation of sorts that my Soul is so grateful to FEEL.
I am sitting here listening to your beautiful voice and invitation to blossom-to open myself up and feel full and in bloom. It is an interesting invitation, as I live in the Southern Hemisphere. We are officially still in Winter, and while the stirings of Spring have appeared I still feel that I have been "deep in my void" as you so beautifully expressed. I slowly come out of my void to embrace your words: "WHAT ARE THE LAYERS THAT LEAD TO BLOOMING?" "BLOSSOMING IN MY GIFTS IS NOT A FIXED MOMENT" "HOW DO MY GIFTS WISH TO BE EXPRESSED?"
So I sit with all of that as Winter slowly ends and Spring slowly comes and I invite the Darkness of the Winter Void to germinate what else it needs so that I can come out and feel the sun upon my face and begin to grow stronger and stronger.
And while there are Winter Flowers in bloom in my inner garden, they are there to remind me of colour and life-force as I go deep into the Void of this particular season.
You have, in your sharing, placed wholesome nutrients on my inner garden.
Thank you.
I love that you have described the Winter Garden blooming INSIDE of You!!! Wow, I have not ever thought of the internal garden blooming while deep IN my Void. But in truth, there IS life blooming in the winter too. It looks different, it FEELS different, but life is alive and happening in all seasons. Death is feeding life in all seasons. This share is urging me to always add the inverse medicine to every theme, to listen with the spectrum of learning so that all seasons apply!! Thank YOU!
Many seeds to pollinate and share, cultivate and offer, germinate and tend to in this way of offering...bless you.
Thank you Rhiannon, what a beautiful invitation. I love the part around the stages of becoming. Being with the whole process. From seed to blossom! And the initiations that our needed, the alchemy that removes the dross from the gold, making our gifts more possible and available.
The initiations feel like an emphasis of learning for me. As I lean into each stage of growth, or better said, the symphony of growth stages I experience as I am in many at once... I am learning that the initiations are a necessity. The ways my journey asks me to integrate, to literally alchemize IN THE PRESENT MOMENT. That is how becoming/blossoming happens. And it can be super uncomfortable!!!!
Yes they can be really uncomfortable! To remove dross from gold takes an extremely hot fire. I use this analogy a lot because I used to work with metals, in what seems like a lifetime ago I was a jeweler. Anyways, quite the experience to be in the beauty of the blossoming while also being in a very difficult and challenging rite of passage, trial by fire! One does not discount the other. Both happening. As the cycles do too. The Blossom calling for the bud to bloom... Loving your offerings!
I see hollyhock, lemon balm, tulsi basil, a pepper plant and maybe an artichoke????
Amy!!! I love how many plants you recognize :-) The Artichoke looking plant is actually a giant Marigold!! This is my garden from last year, and this little zone was a favorite due to all the interweaving plants! Some of which showed up on their own 🌿 This part of the garden helped me see and feel how much I love diverse wildness in my landscapes. Interplanting, companion planting, beneficial pairing.... Lots of beautiful learning with this!
Yes I love that look too...my husband not so much. I like the plants to make friends and then I become inspired by combinations for plant medicine products!
Me too, the weaving life inspires me :-)
Oh your voice is so soothing, true balm for the heart and soul when I listen. I really loved the integration piece as I feel like this stage in my life is all about that... and I also find myself feeling wobbly and unsure of what my Gifts even are when I listen... I still wonder if I have fully excavated them and the clarity over them in this season in my life isn’t crystalline. Definitely contemplations to explore, thank you for sparking enquiry within xxx
This is such an honest truth about coming INTO clarity with our Gifts. Truly they are ever present medicine that is the constant of our Wholeness. Yet as we move through life, naming our Gifts takes on various melodies and shapes. I have always found it challenging to SAY what it is I do within my Gifts. People FEEL it when they engage with my magic, it's palpable and I KNOW that. But how do I explain and express this uniquely woven magic that is ME? I imagine YOU KNOW your Gifts in the ways you need to in this moment, and the journey INTO more clarity is the pathway of becoming that will lead your Wholeness into the next depth of integration.
Thank you! I was reflecting over it since I listened and really remembering my gifts as a feeling instead of trying to label them! You are right... people feel them... even if they aren’t a clearly ‘packaged’ item!!! And it does feel like life is a treasure hunt of unearthing them so there is no rush to know it all in one moment! Xx
Exactly!! The journey with our Gifts is Lifelong , maybe even Lifetimes long. It's really just about becoming ourselves over and over and over again through each season and layer of our being. And people 100% feel us, thats how resonance happens. When someone FEELS our field, they know if there is a synergy there for them to explore within. I get why the whole "branding" and "packaging" thing is so pushed, because we are trying to capture an Essence for people to FEEL a resonance through the interwebs. I think the issue is, we can't be put in a box. We need spaciousness and flexibility within how we express ourselves, we need the option to let it be dynamic and FULL with various threads of magic. The "niche" is ME, my Wholeness. And all my curiosities and skills and gifts and desires come together to weave the magic of my medicine. And how I steward that, changes as I change. We need to let that be normal, and encourage creatives to shapeshift and become. Listen less to the details of the brand and more to how we FEEL when we engage with someones magical field.
Absolutely! That’s exactly what I try to do with my design clients... unearth a visual identity that is flexible enough to evolve with them and gives them a sacred structure to create within... BUT feels like it’s a little way of transmitting that essence and wholeness! I love the idea of stewarding it all!!!! Xx
Beautifully described!!!
Hoping to explore this theme before the deadline. As life permits, hopefully the Muse will visit. Thank you for the invitation.
Your Voice is always welcome! Would love to hear your inner Muse reveal wisdom filled truth about Your Gifts!!
Great hibiscus photo (favorite tea)... highly recommend St John's Wort, beautiful magical flowers, easy to grow, cure for depression & anxiety.... 🌱 🌿 🌲
Do prefer it as a tincture, a tea, a flower essence? I've worked with St Johns primarily as an oil and I do always have the tincture in hand for those moments of needing the light of the sun to infuse into my emotional depths!
Just as tea, from the flower tips, steeped with hibiscus, cloves, cinnamon... really keeps the glum away
I love the sound of that blend! Very warming and expansive. Beautiful, thank you for sharing!!!
Tea is my favorite way to learn with plants, such gentle medicine that offers deep insight INTO the medicine through flavor and color and scent!