Flower essences are a vibrational therapy that works on the auric field and subtle energy bodies. Flower essences assist in clearing the mental, emotional and spiritual imbalances in our lives that can lead to physical disturbances. A flower essence is the vibrational imprint, life force of the flower in an aqueous infusion, utilizing the elements…
Elderberry Syrup, and How to Make It!
Elderberry syrup is a popular remedy for the cold and flu season. While in today’s world it is readily available in most drug or even grocery stores, you can make it at home for a fraction of the price and with little labor. Elderberry medicine. Elderberries have a beautiful bluish-purple pigment which indicates that similar…
Aromatic Rituals: Finding Yourself and Your Sacred Space
With the winter solstice steadily approaching in the northern hemisphere, we find ourselves spending more time indoors. COVID and the unprecedented phenomenon of working and/or schooling from home has created the “perfect storm” for increased time indoors. Isolation may become a pain point with not being able to spend time with loved ones, and this…
Winter Solstice Aromatic Ritual
“So the shortest day came, and the year died, And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Come people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away.” Susan Cooper The Winter Solstice is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. It is also officially the first day of winter. Winter is…
Aromatic Inspiration for the New Year
“Plants mean nothing in isolation; they are a life-form rooted in and identified by their community, by their relationships to and interactions with all other life on Earth.” (Buhner) Like plants, humans also mean nothing in isolation. We are a life-form rooted in and identified by our community, by our relationships to and interactions with…
Reflecting on the loss of connection with plants
Stephen Harrod Buhner believes “that the loss of connection to plants, to the land, to Earth, leaves the holes with which we are naturally born unfilled. No matter how much Ritalin or Prozac is poured into those holes, synthetic pharmaceuticals can never fill them; merely human approaches can never heal them. Pathologies come from the…