These two herbs are classified as weeds that are invasive to lawns. BUT they clean toxins from our soil and add much needed constituents or phytonutrients back into the ground. They spread all across the northern America areas in yards, grazing areas, and unattended territories. Both species can be cultivated to contain their spread or left to roam as willed.
Many flying pollinators hop about both plants throughout the day. Living in a happy natural community. Can weeds and humans too?
I’ve learned so much sitting at plant stands for the last year. As an online mentee to an out-of-state mentor one must self study a lot. After my graduation and separation, I have a ton of decisions to make, do I continue herbalism, skin care products and soaping or do I go back to school again?
Sitting at the plant stands reminded me that my advanced herbal knowledge and specific studies is still needed and its okay to take my time to finished the projects. The health care community needs wellness advocates, herbalist and more to continue though the rebuilding after a health trauma like the coronavirus times. The veterans STILL need transition support, so why stop now.
Nature stakeouts have helped me be come closer to my daughter who has also created a small business called Gnome Home Needs, unlocking a whole new adventure into the art of living I have created a lifestyle out of. I even brought back a tiny home collection from my twenties. Normally, the four kids painted the fairy homes from bird houses, creating imagination and bug hotels to play with. Our family elf needed company, you know.
It’s a pretty peaceful life.
Then on the other hand, I have the political violence spewed down my throat daily no matter which direction one spreads there energy, trash is online, outside and over produced. Causing me to create things from that can be reused, reread, and remembered, from things I’ve learned, earned or acquired. Its all one can on a seasonal livable wage.
Yet, still influencing slowly spreads positive content as the hate wars and witch hunters progresses towards their power seats and vote to disagree about what to do for you and me…
Remember self-care and health care is what you need.
Need a treasure box for your special lady friend? Maybe a shiny crystal tree to remember the occasion with she… I probably have one or three…
Oh its so pretty
Herbalist, tarot readers, astrologers, alike we might all have something to end this nasty political fight but well have to ask the fairy-garden community how climent change is affecting their little sprites.
Maybe they will feast with the Toads tonight while the fireflies take flight.
Have a nice weekend,
Janelle
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Notes on back: smile, violet moon, bev says blue moon. Saturns rings, 33 Dated: oct 30, 2020
Here is another Saturn vision I talked about a few posts ago. Something about all debts are returned, one should feel, safe, supported, balance.
I recently learned that saturn is moving into a different spot in the solar system and those who have accepted change will receive and those who haven’t may not. All tarot and playing cards have multiple meanings. The surrounded cards will pin point what the reciprocant is going to receive once this new alignment happens.
Those who read and have health concerns, you may experience dizziness, irritability, migraine tiredness. Vertigo like symptoms. An Herbalist can help this balance return with a non-invasive remedy, meaning we work around the prescriptions and offer tea and syrups, that are less harmful to your liver.
Dated: Oct 30, 2020.
Suggested mantra: Right at this moment I feel relief and free.
Journaling Prompt: have you been experiencing the vertigo symptoms approve? Journal about it.
I love me binder suggestion: Your family’s vaccine cards.
Reader activity: create an I love me book.
*This could be long haul symptoms though. See my disclamer page in the menu.
You should always reach out to the people you look up to as a child and adult in time of need when searching for advice. Talk through the tears. Allow your story to be heard, allow their advice. Taking there advice into consideration while pondering your way through is the best way to move forward after turmoil. Find the support system that will continue to allow you to be the me you were meant to be.
There is a flip side to this card though. Oftentimes family support isn’t available in times of need, sometimes they don’t trust you or say you’ve deserved it. Then you’re on your own, no matter how many times you’ve been a sounding board for them. Reaching out to a broken system and an abusive family often times creates a harder time recovering. Finding a support system as a adult can be as hard is finding an adult you can trust as a kid. Family abuse happens to adults just as it does children. Our world is full of abuse. When the Reach Out system fails you, look inward and keep up the hard work. A stronger support system is waiting for you, the keys will unlock. And your truth is the key.
Don’t lose hope to recovery from whatever has hindered your voice.
Journaling Prompt: what situation in life did you feel less then supported? How did you over come it?
Reader activity: this was a very difficult card for me to look at. It hits home. If you notice the female aspect is decapitated and purple from suffocation. It came out. 🤷🏽♀️ Is your shadow journey story larger than life? Revisit your support system and release which doesn’t serve you.
Elephants travel all around the globe. Zoos, circuses, and more. Dumbo suggests they are treated like clowns, and their loyalty for the survival of other beings creates a worshiped form a spiritual perspective in some cultures towards the animal. Over hunting and drought can cause the older heards to separate, the traumatic occasions of a lost elder within the family often causes the rest to lash out aggressively.
When I was studying Gotu kola I created a symbolic association with elephants and how to remember what the plant does for ones body. The leaves even look shaped as elephant ears. This plant helps the longevity of ones body with its adaptogenic ablities. It even enjoys well drained rocky top soil. Gotu kola spreads across the top of the soil and enjoys the gentle morning sun. It blooms Tiny bell shaped flowers in pastels. The whole plant can be used to improve early onset memory loss due to a build of up heavy toxins within the brain. And so much more but then you’d have to pay me.
Routine is often needed, just as the elephant migrates in a cycle, our regular routine created the keys to release anxiety.
Journaling Prompt: how’s is your most favorite name for your journal? Bullet journal, diary, planner, to-do list, tablet, notebook? Pinterest probably knows how to perfect is.
Reader Activity: how do you remember all the meanings of the different cards?
A king of cups would take care of and be there for, the environment and his loved ones. Kings make a way and set examples. The ideal king of cups is your everything that fits a perfect partner to you personally. I just drew a man in a boat recovering from hang overs.
Just trying to be chill in Florida with my mom. But isn’t that the best eay to perform self-love. This king is fishing in clean waters, maxing and relaxing.
Cups are water cards. Not just love.
Journaling Prompt: how does litter and abundance of trash make you feel?
Reader activity: its that time of month to declutter and smudge again. Adding this into the wheel of the year change will inturn give positive manifestations opposed to Willie-Nelly outcomes. The cleaner the home the cleaner the karmic energies within the family environment.
The past is always clear. The future is always tangled. The present is where we should live. Through DPT therapy I continued. My year and a day of sketching diary cards my therapist before hand approved of the journey. I figured it was a perfect way to proved my point that art therapy and herbalism pairs well together for PTSD survival thrivers. This is where I decided Saturn was fully in support of my journey ahead. The back is labeled smiley face, due to the DPT therapy reference, the I’m fully supported by saturned was part of my studies into Hinduism, Buddhism, and vedic practices. That’s my goal, to understand how to help war veterans deal with their shell shock. Still slowly marching my way to the veterans but until next time…
Suggested mantra: I feel fully supported by the universe.
Journaling Prompt: journal about who creates a fullest feeling of support within you.
Reader activity: which card gives you the most relief in the deck?
Year and a days. There’s an old tradition that if you do something large or small each day you have dedicated yourself to it. Like picking a word of a year. Normally found within spiritual and religious practices. Like picking up trash each day to end littering, now your dedicated to the litter bug team of planet earth.
Whatever it is, you’ve created a movement within Earth’s energy like the butterfly effect change. Law of attraction and stuff. Surrounding cards will clarify, or they, your clients will just talk about it in a one and one session. Trust me I’ve done that. A conversation with an Herbalist is a different conversation that having a tarot reading. We ask different questions then create the magic potions and spells to get ya there in secret formulas all in your client profile. That’s why one of the other reader activities was whats your favorite plant. An herbalist can understand you better asking a question like that. Manifesting a change within your psyche and physical body is then up to you. Just like taking the pill, the herbal remedies should stay consistently taken. Normally its just food additives and clutter changes needed to prolong someone’s life. Movement.
Journaling Prompt: Have you ever picked a year in a day? What would you want from a daily practice as simple as a photograph.
Reader Activity: Collect all your decks and shuffle them, pull the 7th card from each deck, there’s your new year reading. 🤟
The back of this card says: Janelle McCoy artist, Layla McCoy inked.
Here are my unedited notes from when I studies Durga. I recently had this vision again though. Everything below this to the Journaling Prompts was writen down and dated.
Tranist: Mars is in retrograde, mercury is in retrograde. After the new moon or dark moon of October.
Durga- green Durga if shes in warning-kali descent- celebrated Narvati October 9 days
Created to combat evil demon, Other names: mahshasura, mahakali- tara if she is innocence.
Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, when they came together to form a 10 armed female form Durga was formed. She emerged from Holy Ganga Spirit [all God] as a fierce form of the mother goddess who is unleashed for her divine wrath against the wicked. Durga was summoned to heal the world of the demons that threaten peace, prosperity and dharma to prove good prevails over evil.
Journaling Prompt: ever feel as though you have so much going on you need 10 arms?
Reader Activity: Pick a day each week to not even shuffle the deck. Schedule it in for a whole year. This would be white durga mentally. Shuffling and demanding from the decks bruses them. Be gentle or fading and lose can happen.
I drew the first version of this during a deployment travel time. I had a bunch of decisions to make that 10-12 months. This version is a carbon copy of the original then enhanced with colors.
Symbolically it talks about unsure travels or outcomes. Living in a dream state of being split from a companion. Alignment in needed. A decision needs to be made. It is not ever auspicious to walk through life feeling unconnected to self. Self is the most important thing to human survival. This is not to be practiced in a selfish manor across all cultures, spirituality and religious practices.
Talk and play therapy is an important step towards realignment. When one pairs physical health, mental health and mindful self-care routines even the most disconnected person can be reassociated with reality. Balancing all components of wellness in the natives life should be taught for the health of all citizens.
Journaling Prompt: what does being two-faced or hypocritical mean to you?
Reader activity: Pick your favorite deck and shuffle 5 times, count 16 cards in and pull the card. Does that card fit the Dream State card theme? OR. Does it help the disconnected feeling?
Janelle McCoy 