tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238935945204503440.post1121728593470352630..comments2023-07-03T03:19:09.972-05:00Comments on Dancing in a Field of Tansy: finding a herbal allyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238935945204503440.post-14525199766850251782011-04-24T09:10:36.404-05:002011-04-24T09:10:36.404-05:00Last year in the late Summertime when I was gettin...Last year in the late Summertime when I was getting back to the 'basics' of my Spiritual Path in learning about Herbs -- like a flower that had blossomed and showed all its awesomeness during the hot and joyful weather of being outdoors loving the beauty, my 'Self' was beginning its transformation and the excitement in the air of learning about the plants and flowers was swirling like magick all around me, each new adventure like a growing petal revealing its essence. <br /><br />I was drinking in all the nourishing qualities that surrounded me in our yard of the greeneries, but something was missing from my life. I could feel the branches of the trees reaching down to me and pushing me towards something deeper, something more tangible that would help me in learning about my new Journey along the way to self-taught Herbalism...I did not 'know' all these little new friends that have grown and changed their looks and appearances and personalities throughout the seasons of the years I had spent living at Home -- and they were like friends of mine that I wanted to get to know better. <br /><br />The Autumn season fell upon me like a lone fallen tree in the middle of the woods -- the colors were fading and the leaves brown were falling to the ground, and the grass wasn't greener like on the other side of the fence. I felt a sense of 'emptiness' for a while, knowing that like a flower that dies after it has bloomed in the Fall, my Journey for finding out more on living Herbs was dying. Most all that were left unidentified were getting ready to rest for the long Winter's haul ahead -- and I had taken too long to work with them while I could, so I felt as if a part of me was dying, too. <br /><br />My colors went to black-and-white as I spent my time outdoors walking amongst the Shadows. All was quiet after the last of the Harvest season but the wind blowing across the strewn leaves on the ground and the rains that fell in replenishing the Earth before the cold season ahead.<br /><br />Figuring my life was on hold until next Spring, I walked out into the woods where I took our two dogs for a walk everyday -- and something bright jumped out to me, like the Sun shining through on a cloudy day. I saw small buds of yellow here, then there, and looked around, and they were everywhere! The weeds of Summer past were pushed up out of the ground about two feet, and their stagnant Yellow blossoms drew me to them instantly: but what were these precious plants that lifted my spirits in the moment? <br /><br />Awesomely wonderful GOLDENROD!!! I was swarmed with them, like bees once again around their honey hives. It was one of those warmer and lazy Fall days, the sun was shining above me -- and here I was surrounded by the wholeness of a brand new plant that reached out to me in learning about it! I learned in appreciating the beauty it shed in the Fall before dying and coming back to life again the following Fall -- which gave me great hopes of researching it for a year-and-a-day before it returned in its yellowness in the Fall of 2011. I was on a great mission of taking in this wonderful new friend of Goldenrod when I ran across Kristine's blog here in having an Herbal Ally and taking on its challenges for the next year.<br /><br />In gratitude of Goldenrod, I silently blessed the woods around me that contained the precious plant -- performed a small harvesting of a few big bunches of its blossoms, and made us an uplifting Apple Cider Goldenrod Vinegar to store and put away to add to our Winter salads.<br /><br />When I first put the two teaspoons of the Goldenrod Vinegar on a Spring Mix salad during one of our cold, Winter days -- I knew then that Goldenrod was most certain to make my Self 'Whole' again, and here I am.....<br /><br />)O( Shamanic Winds xoIndigenous Shamanic Windshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16901558439458130437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238935945204503440.post-91284809294407895912011-02-28T16:01:55.175-06:002011-02-28T16:01:55.175-06:00CREEPING CHARLIE USED TO FREAK ME OUT. THE NAME RE...CREEPING CHARLIE USED TO FREAK ME OUT. THE NAME REMINDED ME OF CHARLIE MANSON THE CULT LEADING SERIAL KILLER SANG ABOUT BY OZZY OSBORNE."WHEN CHARLIE CREEPS BEHIND" BUT HE'S FOLLOWED ME FOR 15 YEARS OR SO ALWAYS BEING WHEREVER MY FAMILY MOVED TO. NOW EVERY SPRING HE CREEPS UP THE STEPS OF MY FRONT PORCH AND I'VE NOT GOT THE HEART TO PRUNE HIS WILD LITTLLE HEART.HE'S TOO GORGEOUS AND HAS SOOOOOOOO SO SO SO GROWN ON ME. I CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO KNOW THIS MEMBER OF THE MINT FAMILY BETTER!!!! :0)Yzzy Croninhttp://yzabelcronin@yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238935945204503440.post-82033177557047416072011-02-07T11:56:12.671-06:002011-02-07T11:56:12.671-06:00I am in, Kristine.
http://plantainpatch.blogspot...I am in, Kristine. <br /><br />http://plantainpatch.blogspot.com/2011/02/herbal-ally-2011-violet.htmlPlantainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06334600479209314275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238935945204503440.post-84744132258261061172011-01-10T20:18:18.855-06:002011-01-10T20:18:18.855-06:00http://naturallysimple.org/living/2011/01/11/join-...http://naturallysimple.org/living/2011/01/11/join-the-herbal-ally-challenge/<br /><br />There you are I've blogged about it and added your pretty button to my sidebar. I haven't gotten my journal done, yet but at least I have a few pictures picked out. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238935945204503440.post-29477661644460050242011-01-09T19:18:33.018-06:002011-01-09T19:18:33.018-06:00When you first wrote about herbal ally I knew inst...When you first wrote about herbal ally I knew instantly mine was nettle. I wrote about why I chose nettle on my new blog for this study.<br /><br />http://nettlequeen.blogspot.comdizzijoihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15542763951432159793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6238935945204503440.post-44692309099907583392010-12-12T23:16:09.590-06:002010-12-12T23:16:09.590-06:00I thought for a moment on what you wrote and wonde...I thought for a moment on what you wrote and wondered if jasmine might be my ally. It is summer here and wherever i go the heady scent seems to follow me, it grows in nearly every front yard in my street and it tangles up my front stairs. <br /><br />I have been using the essential oil to help me sleep.<br />Then I googled other uses and found out that a tea made from the flowers is a traditional remedy for heat stroke. I have been having trouble working lately(i'm a gardener) due to the heat. I feel like I have heat stroke everyday, nausea, headaches, shakiness, grumpiness. I am so excited. Maybe I have been "self medicating" just being drawn to something my body needs subconciously.<br /><br />I'm going to go read that article.<br />Thankyou.Kella Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17946233729341814984noreply@blogger.com