As the time of flowers, it’s always great to make flower essences around Beltane. This morning I woke early to the sound of heavy rain: perfect timing to make the hawthorn flower essence I’ve been wanting to make while the bushes are in bloom. Hawthorn blossoms at the beginning of […]
Winter solstice, 21 June 2017
• A time to journey within • A time to cut away • When sunlight retreats we regain power and seek a better way • As the wheel of the seasons turns we find ourselves at the start of winter, known as Yule and marked in the Southern Hemisphere […]
The hawthorn wand springs to life
At a geomancy consult in Echuca during the springtime, a substantial number of underground water courses were dowsed to be flowing through the earth underneath the property. Wasps’ nests were being built under the verandah, directly in the line of the earth emanations – like nature’s radiation markers. Half of […]
Autumn harvesting
It was such a beautiful, still morning yesterday, a perfect day to harvest rosehips, hawthorn berries and wormwood. I was even given permission to take a hawthorn wand for earth acupuncture – my first hawthorn stave. There aren’t too many sunny days at the moment, so I’m going to try […]